But as for cosmology, the "real world" that Patchy is
not affected by the things that happen in the cartoon and accompany what happens in the
episodes our
movies despite
the time when some of them occur or
lack of continuity and
illogic between them
It is worth
remembering that even in this world SpongeBob is
considered fiction. (Patchy even quotes a fan club of his)
In addition, the people of this
world have control over the world of the cartoon (,
since Patchy makes a vote with the fans where they can decide who the flying Dutchman will choose which will cause the end of an episode and the pirate mentions that in the first versions of the drawing were completely
different with even the animation being different and they had so much control t
hat it was deciding the protagonist
Patchy was also able t
o interrupt the cartoon to divert the audience's attention.
The case of the pirate of the Brush is a great example since he was in charge of
finishing a story of the same (The entire story focuses on him manipulating the world to create comic book history.)
The way he had found to deal with a problem was to bring Bikini Bottom with the characters into the "real world" by drawing them in the world they are in to help,
but it's worth remembering that they don't need that kind of thing to go to the "real world"(
The characters even tear the cover of the comic)
And while it looks like they're part of the same world, it's just Patchy invading the cartoon to find SpongeBob,
as he's been underwater before and it was completely different from what we see in the cartoon.
In addition to the fact that the brush pirate is the one who writes the comics, in them we have facts and stories of real creatures from our world with him writing what he has knowledge and what he has seen, while in SpongeBob the creatures of the "real world" are
versions primitive sea beings, which makes it impossible for them to be from the same world, the cases where they affect this pirate or go to Patchy's world doing simple things would be just dimensional manipulation or 4 wall breaking
Something to add is that the characters themselves, which in this case are all,
know that they are in a cartoon,
with the secondary characters leaving the scene to give more space to the main characters (Since in that case they should have known they weren't important to the situation),
they know the things that the scriptwriters do with them and even complain about it.
In addition to
the fact that apparently the characters knew they were in a movie, this even matches the previous quotes from the same characters
And due to this awareness of the 4 wall, SpongeBob is aware that
he has fans (He for example mentions that his biggest fan is Patchy the Pirate in "road to christmas" and on his birthday he recognizes Patchy) and people who see his adventures, so he tries to please, for example by
guiding other characters to make certain stories happen and interacting with the public.
Because as everything is a story he acts according to a character to generate plot for the story, in this case patrick was confused where to start the story so he guided him.
this even explains scenes like one where he demonstrates t
hat he knows that Squidward was disguised as Santa Claus in one of his memories to please him, but in the same episode he acts like he is Santa Claus even calling the whole town to see him,
Something to support the idea of acting is that although we see him in despair at losing his spatula in exchange for a new one, he duplicates himself to tell the audience a lesson just like the name of the episode says
By the way let's
not forget the Krusty krab orientation video, an episode where the characters are dedicated to showing the public what working at the Krusty krab is like and they act according to the episode to please those who are watching
Something to add is that we can apply the issue of inconsistencies and creative freedom of the screenwriters in this medium,
since in addition to the studio in which the stories are created existing in the show, the changes that occur in the timeline must occur on account of the screenwriters (There was even a quote from one of
the twitter writers who mentions that Bikini Bottom is a foggy place subject to frequent changes)
To support these variations is also that they are recognized in the show, with Patrick saying that his intelligence varies when asked about how dumb he was because it depends on the joke, the same goes for SpongeBob since in addition to seeing this happening
in the show the official channel recognizes that it is inconsistent
By the way, as the media in general of the series are canon, the same would be true for the musical that supports the idea that size is constantly contradicted, an interesting thing is that
Patchy appears in the musical and he does not seem bigger than the other characters that appeared later .
Must support Vincent's speech
Another thing about cosmology in general is that the laws that rule Patchy's world and SpongeBob's world are different, In the episode where SpongeBob has a party Patchy from his world sends a letter inviting SpongeBob to his party, but he says the following "This being is unaware of the physical limitations of underwater life, well let's throw that in the fire." That's when he saw that the letter was blurred, but when Patchy sent a letter to the characters being inside their universe the letter was readable occurred in episode "Birthday Party"
Now some characters manage to invade this "real world" and beat the beings there through dimensional manipulation