Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Political Economy of Sponge Bob Square Pants

Thus Spake Plankton:

"Now get up there and show him how the common man prepares his frozen dairy treats."
-spoken as he orders Patrick to dive into a vat of chocolate.

You SpongeBob fans know that Patrick is competing against SpongeBob to win the fry cook games in Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob has just completed a jump into the vat of chocolate but then jumped into a bowl of chopped almonds. Plankton, though he respects the choice, calls it too high brow for the crowd.

Like any tyrant worth his salt, he sees his support coming from the mass public. The elites are a threat to his ambition. He knows that if he can turn the people away from SpongeBob by having Patrick prepare a desert more to their liking, his dream of turning Bikini Bottom into Planktopolis which he could then rule by force of will could become a reality.

Genius.