Petah, the horse is here.

Like, what do you mean he can't watch TV or touch a fridge? Bro can't eat in his own house? He can't touch anything at all? What the??? Not to mention he was sent to another town in a box like fucking anthrax spores. I know he's explosive in a literal sense and also a grown ass man who technically doesn't need parent's support or control anymore, but I can't help thinking that there's something much more sinister here.

Upon rewatching Krab Borg I noticed that Uncle Sherm is mentioned among people that SpongeBob speculates could be robots. His name is right next to Mrs. Squarepants and Gary, so seems like SpongeBob has positive feelings about him. However, Uncle Sherm sends Stanley away, which demonstrates how little he cares not only about Stanley, but also about SpongeBob and the whole Bikini Bottom frankly speaking. It could be a case of a good man who genially tried finally snapping, but his strict rules paint a different picture.

To be pedant, Stanley's destructive nature is obviously a cartoonish exaggeration, in real world things don't go nuke all of the sudden. Thematically, it represents how Stanley screws up all the time and makes a mess that others have to clean up. Uncle Sherm wants to control it by restricting his autonomy, which could be a viable strategy but it isn't. We know it isn't. It is not working because eventually he got fed up with Stanley and got rid of him.

There's also this one thing. The episode makes a a big point out of Stanley and SpongeBob's similarity, but at the same time they are different, Stanley being the more destructive one. Notably, it's not just something all Squarepants are like, not even all Squarepants cousins, as BlackJack was introduced in that same season and he is as unlike those two as possible. What is different about them though is the fact we never see SpongeBob's parents actively neglecting him or something like that. They are very supportive as far as we know, they don't mind their son's whimsy. And SpongeBob is a functioning adult, while Stanley can't function for the life of his.

You know what I'm going to say now: my theory (fanfic more like) is that Stanley turned out like that because of his upbringing, because his quirks were suppressed instead of working around them, so they intensified over the years and made him completely incompetent.

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