This is an overreaction, and a mistargeted one.
The ‘Kwarantined Crab’ centers on a virus storyline, so we have decided to not air it due to sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic. One of them, “Kwarantined Crab,” I have not seen (I stopped watching later episodes of the show for reasons I’ll explain below), but a Nickelodeon representative explained the yanking thus: But whether or not nautical nonsense be something you wish, you should be at least somewhat unsettled by the recent decision of Paramount+, the streaming service for SpongeBob episodes, and Amazon Prime to remove two episodes of the show from circulation.Īccording to IGN, the two episodes have a fig leaf of controversy that serves as the apparent justification for the decision. That’s right: SpongeBob Squarepants, the title character of the long-running Nickelodeon children’s television show, for those of you who somehow managed to avoid ever hearing the theme song of this nigh-omnipresent piece of programming. The latest victim of this worrying trend lives in a pineapple under the sea, absorbent and yellow and porous is he. It is a trend that has touched things large and small, from historical figures and events to Dr.
In recent years, we have seen an increasingly distressing trend in culture: Namely, once it is decided that certain things are “problematic” or flawed in some way, they are simply obliterated from history.
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