An archive scrub was recently done of the failed video sharing website Storyfire, which aimed to be a competitor to YouTube and Vimeo, looking through it for interesting videos and potential lost media. One video of note was found called "FullSizeRender SERVED.mp4." A quick look at the video revealed it to be the ending of the long-rumored but assumed fake SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Plankton Got Served," a rough cut of the episode "One Coarse Meal" that never made it past storyboard stage. However, this was counter to previous assumptions, as it was professionally made and animated, although much more roughly and with Stephen Hillenburg doing impressions for most of the voices.
The following is the transcript for the episode as directly taken from the video.
The video begins on the shot of Plankton lying despondent on the road.
PLANKTON: That's it, I'm done. The 4:15 bus should be along any time now.
SpongeBob approaches.
SPONGEBOB: Hiya, Plankton! (He kneels down.) Whatcha doin' lyin' in the middle of the road?
PLANKTON: Go away, cheese-head! Can't you see I'm tryin' to get run over? Go on back to the Krusty Krab and ENJOY yourself.
SPONGEBOB: (shrugging) Okay!
Spongebob walks off. Plankton closes his eye and smiles, a revving sound audible in the distance, then cut to black with a loud crash with a "squelch" kind of sound, glass and metal shattering.
The camera fades from black and pans out to reveal a teal-and-red splat on the ground, with a bloodshot yellow eyeball visible inside it. The bus drives off into the distance.
Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob enter the frame.
KRABS: I know Plankton, me boy, he's all talk! He would never-
He cuts himself off mid-sentence. When he speaks again, it is in a tiny, tearful voice.
KRABS: Sheldon?
Cut to Plankton in a black void, atop a ionic pillar. A Shepherd's Tone plays as Plankton rubs his head, then opens his eye.
PLANKTON: Wh--wh--where am I?
No answer. Plankton looks around, then suddenly panics.
PLANKTON: [mouths words but none are heard]
Plankton looks up and sees large blue fishlike shapes swimming around in the sky- almost appearing to be primitive 3D renders. One turns its eyes towards him and the video cuts to white for 3 seconds, then cut back to Plankton, lying down and peering downwards into the abyss.
He looks down and sees a large swarming green mass, screaming and pulsating. A choral recording of "Amazing Grace" plays as Plankton observes the mass; it's his relatives, all looking up at him. The pulsating stops as soon as it zooms in, the music growing louder and more harsh as it reveals each and every one of his relatives are entirely faceless. Their mouth areas are quietly vibrating, almost as if the sound is coming from their mouths.
DISEMBODIED VOICES (resembling Plankton's relatives): JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!
Plankton, terrified, looks up but can only see an image of himself in the void- one with a grimacing human face. He screams in shrill agony as the music begins to decrease in pitch and he hurls himself from the pillar, a loud and high-pitched sound playing as he falls into the blackness. As he falls, for a period of around a minute, the screen degrades in quality, similar to that of a VHS tape being copied multiple times, and various "sad" or "scary" music stings from the show play over each other, but never quite overlap Amazing Grace. A large, whale-shaped blob swims in front of the camera quickly, and the video footage cuts when it overlaps Plankton's falling body, playing an extremely loud and harsh buzzer sound.
The credits sequence plays in silence, but the video glitches halfway through, the flower background becoming the stone background from the episode SpongeBob B.C as the credits disappear. Instead of the United Plankton logo appearing, a single graphic of Plankton, clearly scratchily drawn on a piece of paper (presumably by Stephen Hillenburg) appears, with the same grimacing face as earlier. Chicken-scratch text appears below Plankton, reading, "HE'LL BE BACK TOMORROW. I WISH I WOULD BE TOO."
Stephen Hillenburg was later asked about this episode in an interview, and downplayed implications that he was suicidal at the time of the draft's creation from the final text. Rather, at that time, he was reflecting on the concept of death, and had become rather despondent over the permanence of it all. Thus, he drafted the script and had it animated and voiced as a way to vent, before scrapping it and going with the ending that was shown on TV. However, curiously, he says he doesn't remember 3D modeling any whales.
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Author's Notes:
This is an older one- one of my first "retakes," I believe (Dead Fred being the first).
Originally this was part of a whole series of retakes in an alternate universe where SpongeBob was a summoning ritual for a Cthulhu-style demon and Stephen Hillenburg was ushering in some kind of era of gods or something but that one analog horror got absolutely firebombed for using Stephen as an antagonist so I cut all parts of that out entirely, just to be safe- do you guys think I could still work with that concept if I make it clear it's not our universe?
A lot of the material here was taken shamelessly from VibingLeaf's version- mainly Mr. Krabs seeing Plankton's remains and the 3D whales. The note at the end of the episode was also heavily inspired by Resignation Incident, which I have a retake of in the pipeline too.
Formatting's experimental too- a lot of these are formatted strangely but I think I enjoyed writing them quite deeply, so whatevs.
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