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If Patchy suffocated while buried in the sand, and then his body was taken by sea dwellers to be used as a display, then the statements that "he was buried" and also that "he was never laid to rest" are actually both true...

Holy shit, that last scene with Patchy and Potty in the sand convulsing is legit Creepypasta territory. That is uncanny as fuck.

i think his name is interesting too. he died being shot out of a cannon, then his name is the flying dutchman. that really added to the credibility for me.

Patchy really said “ain’t no way imma deal with this damn parrot in the after life too”😂

The fact this guy sneaks his great filmmaking skills into each theory after people called him out for making bad horror films just shows how adaptive and creative he can be. Respect.

The closest we ever got to spongebob acknowledging patchy before the animation was him getting the strangest feeling that a pirate and parrot were arguing about him

Here's my theory, Alex Bale was a pretty normal guy until he started his SpongeBob theories, and the more he made the more obsessed he became until he became patchy the pirate

I genuinely thought that disturbing "patchy with potty's head having a seizure" thing must've been something Alex Bale made up for the theory because it just looks so goddamn out of place and terrifying, but nope that's actually in the episode. What. the. hell.

This is the second time Alex has ended the 8th episode of his web series with a surprise twist involving a character who shouldn't be there saying "Well done".

That scene with patchy suffocating is some "don't hug me i'm scared" level stuff, can't believe that's in a spongebob episode

What makes this extra cool is that if this is true, Patchy probably doesn't even realize that he is the Flying Dutchman and just thinks he's a fun character, so he adds to the story of his own descent into madness and obsession

Patchy's death is actually the darkest thing the crew has actually shown on camera, him convulsing on the beach actually scared tf out of me

At first I’m always shocked that Alex notices these small details… and then I’m even more shocked by the fact that these hints are planted by the creators over literally YEARS

Alex is an actual genius, he found a way to satisfy all the people who want to see Spongebob theories while also hooking them on his films which he actually likes making. 11/10 content.

The scene with Patchy dying is horrifying. They even stopped the singing for a few seconds so the scene is even more creepy.. xD They want you to know there is something weird in this scene

This one was actually the most terrifying and disturbing one to me, purely because of the death part of the theory

I'm looking forward to this bc the Dutchman's backstory has some weird continuity issues. He's a pirate, we all know that, but in ‘Your Shoe's Untied’, he says he hasn't tied a shoe in over 5000 years. Ntm in Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost, there's a comic book about his backstory explaining that his body was used as a mannequin. (Sorry for the long comment but this has been BOTHERING me)

There’s also another part to Patchy time traveling. For the episode “Shanghaied”, it was actually an interactive episode where fans could choose the ending(The fruit ending had the most votes). And the person who told fans to vote was literally Patchy himself. So when Patchy time traveled, he probably remembered what fans chose.

ive barely started the video but talking about how patchy "dedicates his life to spongebob" and "grows more resentful" seems like incredible foreshadowing and i think its really well done

"THAT MOTHER**CKER ATE HIM"Got me off gaurd😂😂

As crazy as the flying dutchman's backstory is, I have seen the flying dutchman wearing shoes, before. In Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost, SpongeBob and Patrick find an old magazine saying, when the flying dutchman died, his body was used as a window display, and if we look at his feet, we can see him clearly wearing shoes. Maybe this is what the flying dutchman was talking about when he said he hasn't worn shoes in 5000 years. He must've meant since he's dead, he has no use for shoes, anymore.

When I was little I always thought Patchy and The Flying Dutchman were the same. All my friends thought I was stupid but you finally proved me right. I sent this video to the one I’m still in touch with

That patchy suffering on the beach scene was insane

I've never seen that episode where Patchy hallucinates singing with Spongebob and his friends, and that shot of him and potty on the beach convulsing is absolutely horrifying. I know Spongebob has done some creepy things before, but that scene and the implications of it.... holy fishpaste

I think Alex may have been projecting a bit of his own insanity onto Patchy in this one lol. I don't know how purposeful it was for everything to kinda line up, but it was still spectacular to watch anyway. Even the sponsored segment made it feel like Alex was mentally breaking down, lashing out at his viewers in an uncontrollable moment of anger

I think the muses repopulate by infecting someone, just like one did to Alex. Alex went on a huge eating frenzy and even ate raw meat, just like the muses do, as if he was feeding one. I think that when infected, a person is under some sort of mild mind control that gives them the urge to feed the muse inside them and seek someone to give the new muse to. Another reason I think that the muse uses mind control is because it spoke through Alex to Wesley just before it left his body.

"THE MF ATE HIM" pretty much got me on the floor laughing 😂😂😂

Damn I had no idea the show had such a creepy moment confirming Patchy's death. That really is on creepypasta levels. I'm surprised more fans especially people in the lost episode community, didn't talk about that more./ Also kind of gives more validity to the Plankton Gets Served creepypasta.

That bit about Patchy drowning in sand and the creepy representation was terrifying. That's what this theory series is for; you're practicing film-making techniques in exposition, immersion and fear, and you're succeeding at it. But you don't have to push yourself to make these theories, be it for popularity, your arg or your practicing of techniques. If you're tired of the theories, take a break if necessary.

I sat through Saw at 11 pm as a 12 year old and I considered that scene with the convulsing patchy to be absolutely fucking terrifying.

26:46 to lighten the mood after the past scene just remember that otters hold hands when they sleep

I started dying laughing when he said” this mother f**ker ate him!!!!”🤣🤣🤣

Also in the episode "Your shoes untied", SpongeBob goes to see the flying Dutchman, but after showing him different types of knots, SpongeBob asks if he can teach him how to tie his shoes. And then The Dutchman says he hasn't wore shoes for thousands of years. This proves it even more that The Dutchman is time traveling.

Ok that part with Patchy violently convulsing on the sand legitimately made my skin crawl. I didn’t really believe that was actually in the show, but I looked up a clip of the ending and holy shit it was there

Alex I know this is late but another really strange piece of evidence that you missed was in that same scene where you find the picture of pearls mother in his house, that same scene you can find a picture of a pirate that has deep resemblance to Patchy, having the skull on the hat and the same look as in the game card.

yo that one shot of patchy with potty’s head genuinely scared me like wth

I love how Patchy knows SpongeBob lives underwater, yet doesn't think to use waterproof paper and waterproof ink to send an Invite to the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea

Fun fact : IRL pirates don’t necessarily have to loose one their eyes to get an eye patch, it’s used to keep one eye adjusted to the dark for when they have to go below deck. that evidence isn’t necessarily right or wrong…

I love how this man uses all spectrums of his talent of filmmaking. He’s able to incorporate his own cinematic talent while he breaks down other cinematic legacies like SpongeBob. It’s simply genius.

The fact that you used Higurashi soundtracks makes it more terrifying and just a tad bit special to me.

Fun fact, the eyepatch that pirates and sailors wore, wasn't to cover missing or injured eyes, it was so that one eye was always adjusted to the darkness for when they were under the deck.

This has to be one of the most terrifying SpongeBob theories ever

I love how dark, depressing yet intriguing ur theories are. Makes you realize all childhood universies are just secretly, depressing, dark universes.

I cannot lie that scene with patchy dying was scary as hell.

I found another piece of evidence that the Dutchman is experiencing time differently. "Scaredy Pants" has the Dutchman getting scared by Spongebobs's exposed brain. which seem kind of odd for him, since he himself has done a lot worse than expose his brain. However, in the episode "The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom" The Dutchman goes inside SpongeBob's Brain only to get scared by all the overly cute, happy stuff. Maybe the reason the Dutchman got scared of SpongeBob's brain in "scaredy Pants" was because he has already seen all the "horrors" that's inside.

You took me out when you yelled “THE MOTHER F ATE HIM” 🤣. This was probably my favorite theory, thank you for spending so much time making these videos.

Patchy being buried in the sand legit traumatized me and i found out by this

You know if you look at this theory as a metaphor for Alex becoming the SpongeBob guy, it probably is supposed to parallel Alex starting off liking and maybe even appreciating SpongeBob until his muse forces it to become his whole life, making him resentful to the franchise.

The shot of Patchy suffocating under his parrot's head is actually gonna haunt me for weeks

Imagine if the flying dutchman is the pirate in the intro of every spongebob episode.

So, watching this I also noticed, 16:57 when you see the back of Patchy, the hair braid is the same as The Flying Dutchmans that are going off to the sides. Except Patchy has one while the Dutchman has two.

The ending about how patchy was still there gave me chills

It should be mentioned that whenPatchy recovers from his anger in The Sponge That Could Fly, he does so by re-enacting his rage in reverse; in so doing putting everything back in place. This, if taken literally in stead of as an delusion, is also a form of time manipulation.

That part with Patchy violently convulsing in the sand left me legitimately speechless and gave me goosebumps for almost the entire video after the fact. Great stuff, man!

"The motherfucker ate him" 😭😭😂 THAT IS SO GOOD! You're amazing i hope you make more and we love the short films too!

25:56 This bit always give me freaking chills for some reason... Like if I were to see this as a kid this probably would have traumatized me...

This is your best theory yet, I really didn’t think Patchy wanting to eat Potty would come full circle. You are an amazing filmmaker and storyteller, keep up the good work Alex!!

One thing I've been wondering is, how exactly did Patchy/Dutchman become a real pirate in the afterlife? Like how did he get his own ship and gain such a terrifying reputation in the afterlife? Also what's up with the whole stealing souls and Davy Jones Locker thing? That got me thinking for a moment, and I think I have my own additional theory to this... After Patchy died on that tiny island above Bikini Bottom, it's possible that Patchy met Davy Jones himself, and Davy was about to either steal Patchy's soul or send him to Davy Jones' Locker (TBH I'm not sure if Davy Jones' Locker is a gateway to purgatory or just Hell for pirates in the Spongebob universe), but then Patchy begged Davy to spare him, and he did. In fact Davy Jones allowed Patchy to live on after death as a ghost under the sea so he could finally be with Spongebob, but in return Patchy has become a slave to Davy Jones, and must carry out his deeds. In other words, Patchy has essentially met the same fate as Bootstrap Bill Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. This would explain a lot about Patchy when he obtains his new identity as the Flying Dutchman. It would explain how he got his own pirate ship and was granted official pirate status by Davy Jones himself, as well as how he gained such a reputation and is feared by all of Bikini Bottom after all the souls he stole. But not many Bikini Bottom citizens know that stealing souls and sending sinners to Davy Jones' Locker is simply just the Dutchman's job, cause Davy Jones told him to. So it's not like the Dutchman wants to do those things, he has no choice. In fact if the Dutchman fails to carry out one of Davy Jones' deeds, Davy punishes him by temporarily trapping him inside his Locker, as shown in the episode "Spongebob Vs The Big One", where Davy Jones makes his first official appearance in Spongebob, and you can see Davy tormenting the Dutchman while enjoying/laughing at his suffering. (Just look it up on UKposts and you'll see what I mean) Now some people may be thinking, well if the Dutchman's job is a curse and he only steals souls and sends people to Davy Jones Locker because he has to, how come he seems to enjoy tormenting people while doing it? Well, he's been doing this for a very long time, so not only has he likely developed a sense of pride in his work overtime, but considering that he's been stuck in ghostly purgatory for literally thousands of years (while under Davy Jones' eternal enslavement), it'd be no surprise if Patchy had gradually forgotten who he once was, and was eventually fully consumed by his new identity. You can see how much his personality has changed, as he has become much more hostile and mentally unstable, he's developed an obsession with scaring people (as he wants everybody to fear him just like they fear Davy Jones) that's excessive enough to rival his obsession with Spongebob (you can even see these 2 obsessions clashing together in Ghost Host), and he seems to have forgotten just about everything from his past life. It also kinda makes sense why he ate Potty, who was once Patchy's best friend he knew and grew up with since childhood, as Patchy no longer remembers Potty, who is but a mere snack to him now. The only thing Patchy/Dutchman vaguely remembers is Spongebob obviously, and while Patchy is mostly gone and has become the Flying Dutchman, there's still at least a little bit of Spongebob's #1 Fan left in him (like Alex Bale said), buried deep down somewhere within his embodied soul... Well, at least Patchy technically did get to meet his lifelong idol, even if it wasn't in the way he expected to.

33:04 Ok, can we pause to appreciate how Alex deliberately combines lighting and wardrobe in these scenes to make it look like his head has been completely swallowed by darkness, whenever his back is turned? It happens a few times throughout the video, and greatly enhances the eeriness of his character.

PATCHY IS BASICALLY THIS GROWN ASS MAN WHO IS OBSESSED WITH A CARTOON BUT WONT MEET HIM LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE ON EARTH

The horrifying image of patchy suffocating in sand and twitching in pain will give me nightmares. Clip: 26:22. I am not an easy person to scare, and it still gave me chills. Good job, Alex. Now I will have to suffer with nightmares for a week.

Okay I think I get it now, Alex doesn't understand how the muse works, allowing it to manipulate him. But this only goes so far as he's clearly not happy killing animals for it. The Cynical Critic has a muse too, which forced him to destroy things he loves. An allegory for this would be his scathing review of the Dark Knight, a movie which its shown he previously loved. Something he loved that he was forced to destroy, just for the attention of others. There was something about his mother too, maybe he did something to his mother that was a plot point. Edit: Since finishing the video i've concluded that the muse is an alien creature intent on spreading itself to willing human hosts through mental inspiration. Maybe Happy Meat Farms is in there too I dunno

I actually seeing that Alex wants people to watch his films by putting clips of them in his theories. It’s pretty much a win win, people get their SpongeBob theories and Alex gets people to watch his films. Genius

Sir, I would have to declare you the biggest fan and best reader of Spongebob Squarepants alive. Your dedication is absolute and your incredible thoroughness is evident. You are actually a fine cinematic talent as well. Congrats on your both gifts.

don’t you think the flying dutchman’s origin story sound like a metaphor toward patchy? “they put his body on display in a shop window” meaning how they used patchy as a mascot for spongebob and “and he was never put to rest meaning he never got to meet spongebob and now he haunts him or just me?

Man Alex never ceases to impress with these. I can’t imagine how he comes up with them. It’s a shame he doesn’t actually have a tentacle monster in his house feeding these to him. Right guys?

25:51 roses are red, cactuses are prickly Holy fuck that escalated quickly

What a way to end the series man. This was Incredible

If this turns out to be the last SpongeBob theory, make more on different cartoons. It’d be great to hear what you have to say on others

This theory actually makes "Arrgh!" Way funnier because I always thought is why TF did the flying Dutchman need help finding his own treasure, but it makes sense because he's patchy. He was never a real pirate, he was just some guy that dressed as a pirate around the house watching TV his whole life, of course he doesn't know WTF he's doing

Patchy convulsing in the sand with potty’s head is literally the sort of thing to show up in my nightmares. that shouldn’t had been allowed, it’s extremely disturbing for a child.

spongebob: "Water is making the ink all runny" also spongebob: *burns it in an underwater fire*

Alex Bale is a truly great channel. He manages to make great Spongebob theory videos and simultaneously have mysterious lore to his videos.

Pachy dieing in the sand both fuflills the comic saying he was never layer to rest while also making sence the line "this was the jacket i was buerried in" since he was technicly buerried. And the comic saying that his boddy was put to show after his Death in a store front could be seen as a telaphone version of his backstory, where the show creators pupitierd his likness after Death for monatary gain.

The convulsing scene genuinely scared me jesus

But Patchy has survived much worse than that, including being chased by a polar bear, eaten by a dinosaur, eaten by a whale, blown up, and even sent flying through numerous buildings by a large sound wave! Also, the scene with Potty’s head on Patchy’s body. That’s just there to fit the line “Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish”. Switching body parts due to weird circumstances (e.g. landing headfirst in sand after a large fall) is a pretty old trope as well.

10:55 This whole segment gave me chills, you gave me some real Backrooms vibes with your editing there

Matpat: prepare to have your childhood ruined. Alex Bale: hold my SpongeBob theories and tentacle monster.

I love this one cause it's A : very dark but also lighthearted at the same time B: it actually makes sense when you think about it cause the flying dutchman targets spongebob specifically and those close to him so even if sponge bob might have something better to do but makes him get involved

Whenever Alex says "right?"or " or is it?"It means whatever he said before can happen lol

It’s really cool to see the lore developing as you make these, and you obviously put so much time and energy into every video you make. We love it!

I feel like alex is the only person who can make an intertwined ARG, aswell as make amazing theories, its awesome

Patchy really went and found out what ghost parrot tasted like. Can't even blame him; imagine being stuck with someone as annoying as Potty your whole afterlife.

At the end of the SpongeBob Musical, Patchy actually does meet SpongeBob.

the patchy suffocating in the sand part actually scared me and gave me chils.

30:50 this shot with the door opening and wesley seeing his own face in the mirror is so beautiful. just the atmosphere it creates sent shivers down my spine. kudos to you, alex, you continue to outdo yourself with your content.

haha, what a nice theory! I sure hope the person who made it isn't an evil alien/mutant doppelganger!

Bro, you are one crazy ass Producer. This shits fire as hell. Let nobody Tell you different. Probs that all this Hard Work is just free on UKposts. Keep it up 🔥

As much as I enjoy this series, the rest of your horror content deserves so much more appreciation. I binge watched it all in about a day, I’m pretty sure, when I first found your channel and I loved every second of it

Gotta say I’m loving the horror elements of this series and the story you’re developing is really investing. While I’d honestly prefer it to be just a series on its own, separate from the theories, I understand that not only does it bring in more views for it; but than in and of itself is integral to the idea of the series. It’s a really genius idea and I love how much attention you’ve gotten from this.

I actually have something that contradicts this theory, in The SpongeBob Musical, Patchy does actually meet SpongeBob in person in the end, and there's nothing in the musical which shows this could be a hallucination or a replacement patchy (while Patchy is played by a different actor in most performances, in the TV special, he is played by Tom Kenny)

Imagine if Alex did a theory on misadventures of flapjack my childhood is done by then

Can we all agree that this man deserves both an Oscar and severe therapy?

That shot of patchy's body actually triggered my fight or flight. Idk how something so eerie got past their management.

34:51 Notice the little mouth tic Victoria does, where the right side of her mouth twists down a little? She does it a few times in this scene whenever she's pretending to smile. If that's an intentional display of her quiet nervousness, it's a truly brilliant piece of subtle acting!

Hi Alex, an excellent theory, as always! I have one question. Patchy/Dutchman got along with Spongebob in the episode "Ghost Host" towards the end, but he still shows hostility towards Spongebob episodes in the early seasons. Why could that be?

At this point, the suspense is NOT about the SpongeBob theories, it's about what is gonna happen next with the muse and Alex. Great work dude!

Is nobody going to talk about how good Alex’s skits are? I mean, yeah, the theories are creative and amazing. But his horror videos are so interesting. Like Jesus their well written

i didn’t even know they were separate people in the first place😭😭😭 i thought they were the same.