Hey everyone, my name’s tomatoanus, also
known as the one pump chump, and this is a
segmented 100% speedrun of SpongeBob SquarePants:
Battle for Bikini Bottom for the original Xbox.
This run is performed by SHiFT, the current
world record holder for this category, who
also helped me write the script to make sure
it’s all as accurate as possible.
If you would like to watch either this segmented
run without commentary, or SHiFT’s current
100% world record, there are links in the
description below.
Also, as I said earlier, this run is done
on the Xbox version of the game.
There were three different releases of this
game, the home console version, the PC version,
and the Game Boy Advance version.
All three are different games with different
plots and even gameplay styles.
This is the home console version, which is
a 3D platformer, action-adventure.
If you’re unfamiliar with the game and the
category, here’s a quick rundown of everything
you should know going into this run.
The general story of the game is that local
business owner, Sheldon J. Plankton, has accidentally
set a horde of robots loose upon Bikini Bottom.
We play as SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick
Star, and Sandy Cheeks, as we attempt to defeat
the robots and make everything normal again.
This is done by playing through 13 different
levels, and the game ends upon completion
of the final level, the Chum Bucket Lab.
In order to access most the levels, you have
to have a certain amount of an in-game collectible
called a Golden Spatula.
The amount of Golden Spatulas required to
enter a level ranges from none, up to 75 for
the final level.
As I said earlier, this is a 100% run, which
is defined as collecting all unique Golden
Spatulas in the game, which there are 100
of, as well as collecting any other source
items that are required to obtain the necessary
Golden Spatulas.
Source items include the game’s most common
currency, which is called a Shiny Object,
as well as 80 of Patrick’s socks, and a
few other miscellaneous collectibles that
are unique to certain levels.
By collecting all unique Golden Spatulas,
all the other collectibles required to obtain
the spatulas, and completing the game, we
will have completed a 100% run.
With that being said, let’s get into the
run.
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The run starts in the Bikini Bottom level
with us having received a fax from Mr. Krabs
letting us know that he’ll give us Golden
Spatulas in exchange for Shiny Objects.
Our immediate goal though is to collect the
50 Shiny Objects inside the pineapple so that
we can grab the Golden Spatula that the sponge
keeps hidden in his closet.
After we collect the Golden Spatula and come
out of the closet, we’re going to open the
front door and exit to the hub world proper,
Bikini Bottom.
Normally when you go out-of-bounds in this
game, you get brought back in-bounds by Hans,
the big hand that comes onto the screen.
What SHiFT is going to do is lay down out-of-bounds
next to the entrance to Jellyfish Fields.
Hans will grab us and pull us off the screen
and into the taxi pad, which gives us a button
prompt to enter Jellyfish Fields.
We say yes which respawns us like normal,
but because our demise interrupted the taxi
call, the loading zone for Jellyfish Fields
that spawned during the taxi call stays spawned.
By doing this exact thing again, we get dragged
into the spawned load zone, bringing us to
Jellyfish Fields while the hand was still
on the screen.
Leaving a level at any time with Hans on the
screen causes a glitch called ‘Hand Disable,’
but I’ll explain the effects of this in
a minute.
This excursion to Jellyfish Fields is going
to be kept pretty brief because seeing the
squid guy scream when we first loaded in was
pretty terror inducing.
Our trip to here is mainly done so we set
up Hand Disable and unlock the level for warping
back later, but while we’re here we’ll
quickly grab one of Patrick’s socks, along
with a spatula.
After we cosplay as a fishing bobber and gain
control again, SHiFT will quickly menu to
take a taxi back to Bikini Bottom outside
of the pineapple.
Here we’re going to quickly climb up the
Easter Island statue to grab a pair of golden
underwear, which permanently increase our
health by one point, and then we’ll leap
on top of some balloons to make it on top
of the pineapple to grab another Golden Spatula.
A minute ago I explained the setup for something
called ‘Hand Disable.’
In short, it lets us go out-of-bounds here
to skip around the Bikini Bottom hub to go
to the treedome first, which is a part of
the second area in the hub, normally gated
behind the first boss and a minimum spatula
count of 15.
Normally there are two types of trigger zones
in the out-of-bounds area: one is the sand
you walk on and the other is all area in the
air.
If you stay in either zone for too long, then
Hans will grab you.
Hand Disable made it so that Hans won’t
grab us for the zone in the air.
He can still grab us if we run on the ground
for too long, but as long as we continually
jump, we can traverse through out-of-bounds
to the treedome.
Inside the treedome, we have to destroy all
the Duplicatotrons for Sandy.
SHiFT aims to take out all three Duplicatotrons
first before focusing on any other robots,
that way the Duplicatotrons will produce fewer
robots we have to clean up later.
Once we get rid of the Duplicatotrons, we
sweep back and take care of any remaining robots.
When we go to collect the spatula, we’re
going to perform a skip called ‘Treedome
Spatula Celebration Skip.’
By jumping onto the door, sliding off, and
leaving the treedome at the same time, Sandy
will talk and interrupt the door opening.
This gives us control of SpongeBob for just
long enough before the door finishes opening,
that we can collect the spatula right before
the loading screen starts, skipping the celebration.
Back outside we collect a SpongeBall power-up
and continually double jump without walking
on the ground.
This delays the power-up from starting and
lets us climb onto a platform where we unleash
the sponge to ramp on top of the Chum Bucket
to grab a spatula.
This is called ‘SpongeBall Storage.’
After we collect the spatula, we can then
make a leap from the roof and enter the building
before we would have realistically shattered
our kneecaps by hitting the ground.
Inside the Chum Bucket, we get ambushed by
a TV where the newscaster informs us of robots
running amok, which we ignore to leap up and
snag a spatula that’s floating in the corner.
By the way, our jump onto the roof of the
Chum Bucket also put us in the third hub area
of the Bikini Bottom, normally gated behind
the second boss and a 40 spatula requirement.
So right now we’re pretty much outside the
doors of the end of the game with only six spatulas.
Back outside, we talk with Mr. Krabs, which
unlocks the ability to warp back to the Krusty Krab later.
After our movement gets commandeered by Bubble
Buddy, we can then enter SpongeBob’s Dream,
which leads to the first big difficulty spike
in the run.
This is intended to be the last level in the
game aside from the final boss fights, but
thanks to sequence breaks we’re here in
the first five minutes of the run.
After sliding on our normally proportioned
tongue, SHiFT jumps onto the ledge of a box
where he has only a few frames to jump onto
some spikes and then a trampoline, which rockets
us onto Squidward’s house to snag a spatula.
This was the first of three major tricks in this visit to
the dreams, which is named ‘Super Bounce Skip.'
From the roof, we drop down and turn Battle
for Bikini Bottom into a Christopher Nolan
piece by entering Squidward’s dream.
We won’t be here for long as we’re only
here to get the warp point for later, because
now we’re going to perform one of the single
hardest pieces of tech in the entire run, a 'sliding bash.'
SHiFT will line himself up in a precise location
and direction, and then jump as high as he
can as an oil bubble gets to him and pops,
then slam down to the ground.
This damages us and boosts us forward with
incredible speed, which we utilize to reach
a platform that has a Golden Spatula on it.
This specific use of a sliding bash is referred
to as ‘Oil Skip.’
Things in the dream segment get a little bit
easier from here, with us Christopher Nolan-ing
again by entering Patrick’s dream and bullying
him into giving us a Golden Spatula.
As you may have already been able to tell,
we’re going to be entering the dreams of
several different characters, but they all
count as being a part of the SpongeBob’s Dream level.
We then warped to a specific spatula in SpongeBob’s
Dream, which put us right in front of the
entrance to Sandy’s dream.
When we enter the Texan’s dream, we have
control of her and perform another skip called
‘Sandy’s Dream Skip.’
After hanging ten for a moment, we lasso our
way over to the big brown nut that Sandy is dreaming of.
There we leap up the side of it and jam Sandy’s
head into the underside of the nut, which
hits a checkpoint trigger.
We then lasso over to a nearby manure truck
that for some reason Sandy is also dreaming
of, which we stand on top of to take damage.
Once we lose all our health, we respawn at
the checkpoint trigger we hit on the big,
brown nut which is conveniently where a Golden
Spatula is located.
We needed to lose all of our health to respawn
because if you remember we disabled Hans the
hand a little bit ago, so falling out-of-bounds
doesn’t respawn us.
With that spatula in tote, we’re not entirely
done with Sandy’s dream because there are
two socks to collect before we leave.
While SHiFT makes like Johnny Utah, I want
to take the time to explain a couple things real quick.
One is that at the start of the video I mentioned
that we play the game on the original Xbox.
This is because the original Xbox has the
fastest loads over any other console we can
play this game on, including playing the game
on the 360 using backwards compatibility.
Another thing that’s worth mentioning is
pivot turning, which is the term used by the
community for the fact the sponge has a turn radius, so he pivots around an axis when he changes directions.
This means that throughout the run, whenever
we set up tricks in precise locations, SHiFT
will often jump to turn himself around without
losing the specific line he set up, or will
spin-attack to be able to slightly change
positioning without pivoting too much.
Back in Bikini Bottom, we immediately enter
Squidward’s house because Squidward has
a Golden Spatula, but he won’t hand it over
until we annoy him sufficiently.
This is done by jumping at least ten times
inside his house, but SHiFT goes the extra
mile and commits the crime of destruction
of private property to also spawn a sock.
SHiFT timed his rampage to destroy the last
piece of furniture as he collected the spatula,
making the sock spawn animation and spatula
get animation play at the same time.
After being a nuisance, we head back outside
and walk on over to Dirty Dan, who’s put
a sock out on display for us to take, and
we talk to him to be able to warp back to him later.
We then head over to the taxi pad to the Goo
Lagoon and jump around the back of it to use
the taxi, which skips a short cutscene, saving
about a second or so, which we’ll be doing
at taxi pads all throughout the run.
In this first trip to the Goo Lagoon, we’re
going to be performing three major tricks.
After we cut a corner by going out-of-bounds
and then talk to my boy Larry to get the warp
point, we’re going to damage boost over
to an island where we’ll perform the first
trick, called ‘Early Towers Glide.’
SHiFT is going to position himself in a precise
spot, and then jump towards the goo to do
a damage boost himself back towards the tower.
He jumps into the goo to boost himself back
to where he was standing, and also to avoid
running, which would pivot the sponge and
throw off SHiFT’s alignment as I spoke about earlier.
After a frame perfect jump to collect the
sock, we damage boost back towards the tower,
then jump and Bubble Bounce, which will get
us stuck on the wall, and cause us to float
over the lagoon to another island, surely scaring any beachgoers on the shore who’re witnessing this.
When we make it to the second island, we’ll
destroy a robot, otherwise my boy Larry won’t
give us a spatula later.
We then will perform the next trick called
‘Early Towers Bash.’
This is done by positioning ourselves in another
exact location, jumping into the goo to damage
boost ourselves back where we were, and Bubble
Bashing to launch ourselves upwards and make
it to the final island.
At this island we perform another glide like
we did for Early Towers Glide, and while we’re
gliding, we hover out over the lagoon and
hit the loading zone to go to the Goo Lagoon
Pier, which is actually intended to be the
final area in Goo Lagoon.
At the pier, we’re immediately going to
enter the teleporting box that’s fueled
by *imagination* and walk over to the bus
stop to swap characters to Patrick.
We have to be sure to talk to Mr. Krabs to
get the warp point, after which we’re going
to walk over and grab a thunder tiki head,
which explode when thrown or jumped on.
Normally you have to destroy the ticket booth
here and sit through a cutscene, however,
by throwing the tiki head to destroy the ticket
booth and falling into the goo, we respawn on the pier.
This skips the cutscene after demolishing the booth, which is a major trick called ‘Pier Cutscene Skip.'
So in the Goo Lagoon level, the pier is actually
supposed to be the last area we go to, so
when we enter the Goo Lagoon Sea Caves here,
we’re actually entering through the intended exit.
This means that upon entering, we can immediately
collect the Golden Spatula that’s intended
to be collected when you finish the caves.
We then have three socks to collect, which
we’ll do so in a pretty direct manner by
throwing an item called a Freezy Fruit into
the goo to turn it to ice, and then Naruto
running to the first two socks, and then platforming
to the third.
Now, it’s by this point in the run some of you may be asking “why speedrun a SpongeBob game?"
The answer to that is that a game’s subject
matter or tone has little to nothing at all
to do with its quality as a speedrun.
Battle for Bikini Bottom is one of the most
technically demanding and competitive speedruns
out there, and actually has one of the biggest
speedrunning communities there is.
If you want an in-depth look at how the game
got to this point as a speedrun, I recommend
you check out part one of the Any% World Record
History series that’s up on SHiFT’s channel,
link is in the description.
After collecting the socks and warping to
the start of the cave, we exit the cave as
SpongeBob through the intended entrance to
the caves, putting us at the end of the area
before the caves, letting us collect the spatula
intended for completing this area.
After a brief giggling celebration, SHiFT
launches himself off of a canopy to fly high
and snag a sock before landing on top of a
thunder tiki head, activating the tiki to
self-destruct before dropping down to collect
one more sock and warp back to Larry.
LareBear gives us a spatula for defeating
that robot on the out-of-bounds island when
we were doing the glides a while ago and just
look how happy he is for us.
We currently have 11 socks in our back pocket,
so we can warp back to Patrick to exchange
ten of them for a spatula.
After the sponge’s pure elation, we’ll
walk over to a tollgate and use our 15 spatulas
to unlock the Poseidome.
This is the location of the first major boss
of the game, Robo-Sandy.
Completing this fight gives you the Bubble
Bowl ability, which is required for a lot
of tricks throughout the rest of the speedrun
This fight is broken up into three phases,
with each phase requiring us to deal three
instances of damage.
The first phase of the fight has us first
waiting for the robit to do The People’s Elbow.
Once it does that, we approach it in center
stage to make it jump early.
When we get the robot airborne, we’re going
to use the Bubble Bounce ability to jump and
slam to pop its head up into the scoreboard
to deal damage.
After we deal damage, SHiFT circles around
the center of the stage to keep Robo-Sandy
centered as well so it jumps early again.
After the third hit, we stand by the underwear
pick-up and King Neptune to set up our tag-team
partner for the second phase of the fight.
In phase two, first we walk to the nearby
underwear, and then go to the corner.
This is followed by dodging the robot’s
People’s Elbow, and jumping towards the underwear.
We then walk back to the corner, which should
bait Robo-Sandy towards the ropes, where it
will then do a clothesline with its Go Go
Gadget Extendo-arms, which surely can’t
be legal in a sanctioned fight like this one.
After waiting for the robot to jump, we belly
flop in center stage once the robot’s vulnerable,
popping the head off in the direction of the
scoreboard, so we can then grab and heave
the head into the board to deal damage.
This entire process is something called ‘Clothesline
Manipulation.’
The manipulation saves time because it brings
the robot closer to the ropes so that it doesn’t
have to run a far distance to do the clothesline
move.
“SPLING, the old clothesline move!”
Couldn’t have put it better myself, fish
guy.
There are some smaller nuances to this manipulation
as well.
One is that while the robot recovers, SHiFT
stands in a specific spot in center stage,
which is what allows us to just rinse and
repeat the process once the robot is back
up and operational again.
Also, after each clothesline, when we walk
up to center stage, we stand just in front
of the logo on the ground while waiting for
the robot to jump.
This is what actually causes the positioning
of the robot so that the head pops off in
the direction of the scoreboard.
After a round full of taunting by Dirty Dan,
with waving at the camera and doing a celebratory
belly flop, Dirty Dan tags out, and the sponge
will tag back in for the third and final phase.
Phase 
three is almost the same as phase two, but
there are a couple small differences.
Once Robo-Sandy jumps, we’ll walk back to
avoid the attack and do another Bubble Bounce
like we did in the first phase.
However, instead of the robot’s head going
flying off, the robot actually catches its
head and holds onto it.
We can just Bubble Bash the head though to
hit a button on the bottom side of it, because
Robo-Sandy is a chump and holds the head out,
just begging to get hit.
Another difference is that when we were Patrick
and baiting the robot to jump to a specific
spot, we stood just outside of the logo in
the center of the ring.
As SpongeBob though, we instead stand inside
of the logo in the center of the ring.
It’s a small difference, I know, but these
things really do matter when manipulating
the AI of the robot.
And also, don’t let SpongeBob’s brute
strength fool you in this fight.
He’s still nimble on his feet, tip-toeing
back to the corner at times, just wowing the
crowd with his incredible footwork.
Like, seriously, Lomachenko would be proud.
Once we deal damage three times, the fight
will end with Robo-Sandy flipping its lid,
and we’ll be rewarded with a Golden Spatula,
completing the Poseidome.
Once we’re out of the dome, we’re going
to immediately warp back to the Goo Lagoon
Pier to take advantage of the fact we have
the Bubble Bowl ability now, and hop into
the nearby box to teleport across the stage.
As the pink star, we’re going to make quick
work of all the robots in the bumper boats
area so that we can claim a Golden Spatula
from Mr. Krabs later.
We’ll follow this up with some platforming
to climb on top of a food stand to grab one
of our own socks, and then walking by the
Wack-A-Tiki game to hit an invisible checkpoint
for later, which I’ll indicate visually
on screen when we hit it.
We want to keep this as our current checkpoint,
so SHiFT is going to avoid hitting any checkpoints
for the next couple minutes.
SHiFT is then going to start setting up one
of the headlining glitches of the run, ‘Skee-Ball Abuse,'
or SBA for short.
The pier is full of carnival games you can
play, including a game of skee-ball that you
can play with our newly acquired ability,
Bubble Bowl, which is where we throw a bubble
like a bowling ball.
If we make one of our bubbles into one of
the skee-ball holes, we get rewarded with
some Shiny Objects.
We have to be SpongeBob to use the Bubble
Bowl ability, but we first have to grab two
stone tiki heads as Patrick and take them
to the skee-ball ramp.
Along the way we get interrupted by a nearby
robot, but SHiFT is an absolute unit and just
bounces it out of the way.
Once we get both tiki heads near the ramp,
SHiFT will throw them with great precision
to get them into the center hole.
The first throw is more precise than the second,
because it not only goes in the center hole,
but it has to get caught on the hole and float
above the ground.
The second throw is much easier because it
will auto-target to the top of the first tiki head.
SHiFT will then use the nearby bus stop to
swap over to SpongeBob
As the sponge, SHiFT is going to climb onto
the machine, which normally you can’t do,
but we can because we disabled Hans.
While standing right on the ledge of the ring
below the hole, SHiFT will use Bubble Bowl
to throw a bubble into the hole.
When SHiFT throws the bubble, it’ll get
stuck so perfectly that we continually will
hit the bullseye and rake in the Shiny Objects.
We’ll use this to get enough Shiny Objects
to last us the rest of the speedrun as we
purchase things like spatulas from Mr. Krabs,
and open some areas of levels.
This glitch, which again is called SBA, will
continue on if we walk away, so we can use
this time to explore the level and complete
some other objectives, because we have a short
laundry list to knock out.
The first thing that we’re going to do is
make like Chazz Michael Michaels and skate
on this slippery platform, where SHiFT will
destroy a Duplicatotron to get a sock.
And yeah, that obnoxious sound in the background
is SBA.
Blessing and a curse I guess.
Just be thankful that I was able to turn the
volume of it way down in post.
Next, SHiFT has to act like Joseph Gordon-Levitt to walk along some banners in order to climb up a tower.
The point of interest at the top of this tower is a fishing hook that we’re going to use to bungee jump.
Or I guess this game’s version of bungee jumping, which seems more like a punishment for SpongeBob.
Once we dive off the platform we can collect
the Golden Spatula that’s hovering over the water.
After we collect this spatula, there’s one
more spatula in the pier area that’s laying
around that we’re going to collect right
now, and it usually requires us to play as Patrick.
What we’re supposed to do is use a Freezy
Fruit to freeze the goo under the pier, and
then walk on the ice to get to the spatula.
Instead of that, we’re going to lick a slide
to build up some speed and jump off at a specific
point to fly to underneath the pier and land
on the platform with the spatula.
Being on this platform will put us far enough
away from the skee-ball machine that SBA will
stop due to objects despawning, and hop into
the goo to end ourselves and spawn back on
the pier at that invisible Wack-A-Tiki checkpoint
we hit earlier as Patrick.
Respawing stops SBA as a whole, even if we
get back into range of it.
Sponges are bottom feeders, so once we spawn
we’re going to immediately go back underneath the pier.
There we’ll destroy 16 tiki heads that are
part of the Whack-A-Tiki game, which will
reward us with a sock, which is a fair compromise
for us just vanishing from existence in the
goo when the camera pans back to us.
Once we collect the sock, we’ll immediately
warp back to Mr. Krabs to claim our spatula
for clearing out the bumper boats area earlier.
SHiFT is then going to warp again to go back
to Sandy’s dream inside of SpongeBob’s Dream.
Here we’ll immediately leap into a box to
teleport across the stage, and then make things
totally tubular by riding our shell across
the level to go to the little Alamo.
As we surf along, SHiFT will jump to cut corners
as much as possible to save small bits of
a second here and there.
When we arrive at the little Alamo we’re
going to speak with the little local business
owner, after speaking to whom we’ll spend
2,800 Shiny Objects to open up a pathway composed
of a bunch of Texan doorknobs.
SHiFT will then Spider-Man his way on over
to a big Alamo, utilizing a damage boost along
the way to speed up his swinging,
This skips one prolonged part where we’d
have to use our lasso as helicopter blades.
We still have to helicopter at the end though
to reach the floating Alamo island.
There, we’re going to skate around on the
grounds of a former BP worksite, destroying
all the robots that are here.
When moseying about this area, SHiFT will
be jumping on top of the thunder tikis to
ignite them and clear out any robots near
him without having to focus on them.
Once SHiFT clears out the final robot, the
Golden Spatula will appear out of nowhere,
but rumor has it that it was stashed away
in the basement of the Alamo.
This is a dumb rumor though because everyone
knows that there is no basement at the Alamo.
After grabbing this spatula, we’ll quickly
helicopter to behind the Alamo and grab one
of Patrick’s socks, and honestly I’m really
starting to wonder just how he scattered his
socks to such extreme places.
We’re then going to go back to SpongeBob’s
Dream proper, where we’re going to damage
boost to grab another spatula, using the Bubble
Bowl ability to move ourselves onto the spike.
All the spikes on the boxes have individual
hitboxes, and we have to damage boost off
of a specific one to launch up to the platform
to grab the spatula.
We only had 1/60th of a second to input the
jump after taking damage.
At the very beginning of the game, we received
a fax from Mr. Krabs saying he would give
us Golden Spatulas in exchange for Shiny Objects,
which we’ll now do a total of eight times
to spend the majority of our Shiny Objects.
If you listen closely, you can tell that the
voice actor for Mr. Krabs in the game is different
than the voice actor for Mr. Krabs in the
show.
Anyways, here’s three quick facts about
the run and some of the movement fundamentals
that are utilized.
A super basic one, but the longer you hold
down the jump button, the higher you jump.
This is fairly common in platformers, but
it bears mentioning that it exists in this game too.
Second is that you’re able to jump for up
to 15 frames after you walk off of a ledge.
This is referred to by the community as ‘coyote
jumping,’ and it lets you increase the distance
you jump off of a platform by walking a bit
farther before you jump, and was actually
also part of the Sekiro run we covered a few
months ago.
Lastly is ‘spin stalling,’ where if you
spin attack while you’re in air, it will
slightly extend your jump by temporarily stalling
your descent.
Utilizing these three mechanics, as well as
some others to extend your jumps and span
gaps is usually called ‘jump spacing.’
Once we finish buying all of the spatulas
from Impostor Krabs, we hit a button to spawn
a bunch of boxes that we’re supposed to
climb on.
We’re instead going to head over to a nearby
fountain and double jump to get on top of
it, smacking it with our attack on the way
up to spawn a sock.
For the floating boxes, we largely skip them
by just jumping onto the lip of one of them,
and then using the Bubble Bounce ability to
keep our footing and leap up to a higher one.
From this one we’re able to easily reach
the top of a building that has a spatula on it.
We follow this up with a textbook example
of jump spacing to land on the nearby taxi
pad to take us to Sand Mountain.
To start Sand Mountain, SpongeBob tells Squidward
he needs to borrow his toothbrush again (yes,
really), and we’re off to grab our first
sock of the level by mercilessly destroying
a finely constructed snow... I mean, uh, a
sandman.
So Sand Mountain is structured a bit differently
than other levels.
Pretty much there are three different mountains
for us to snowboard down, if snowboarding
is even the right word for it.
Whatever you want to call it, it does sound like SpongeBob is really enjoying licking this much sand.
Aaaanyways, at each of the three mountains
there’s a time trial, and if you beat the
goal time then you get a Golden Spatula.
On this mountain track, the Guppy Mound, there
are several socks to collect, and right here,
SHiFT does a skip by jumping through several
rocks.
This skip is only possible due to the fact
that we disabled Hans, the hand, near the
beginning of the run by way of the hand disable
glitch.
If we hadn’t done that, then we’d be yoinked out of air and brought back to the track by Hans himself.
Also, whenever we need to begin a slide, like
at the top of the track or after collecting
this final sock, SHiFT uses Bubble Bowl as
soon as he steps onto the track.
You’ll see that right here after we collect
this sock.
The reason for this is that sliding in the
Bubble Bowl animation accelerates the sponge
faster than the normal sliding animation.
Once we reach the bottom of the Guppy Mound,
we’ll then be in a combat arena that we
need to clear to get another Golden Spatula.
Clearing the area consists of destroying both
Duplicatotrons and hitting the buttons behind
them to destroy a nearby fence with a snow…
I mean a sandball.
With the fence destroyed, we can collect the
Golden Spatula, and then use our *imagination*
again to use a box to warp back to the top
of the mountain.
There we’ll speak with Mrs. Puff who will
give us a Golden Spatula for beating her elite
time on the Guppy Mound.
For now we’re done with Sand Mountain, so
we’re gonna hop back to Bikini Bottom near
Impostor Krabs, and enter Shady Shoals Rest
Home, where Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy reside.
Inside, we’re going to hit the TV to change
the channel, which will reward us with a sock
on a nearby checkerboard, after which we’ll
interact with Mermaid Man to enter the Mermalair.
Also, true fact and lore deep dive, Mermaid
Man gets cold easily so he uses a seashell
bikini to hide his cold, hard nips that are
weirdly far apart.
In the Mermalair, we’re going to be performing
a few big skips.
First though, we’re going to be entering
a cutscene in a moment so as we enter it,
SHiFT is going to use the Bubble Bowl ability
since it has forward movement to it, letting
us move a bit farther forward even when we
aren’t in control.
SHiFT will then perform something called ‘Lobby Skip.’
This skips most of the lobby area by doing
two full jumps to grab the ledge of a nearby
platform in a specific spot, which lets us
grab the Golden Spatula here a lot earlier than intended.
After this, SHiFT is going to interact with
a tollgate to enter a new area, using the
Bubble Bowl ability again to move us forward
faster for a moment.
This brings us to the Mermalair Main Chamber,
which doesn’t really have the most efficiently
designed layout for a workspace.
By the way, you can also use the Bubble Bowl
animation to boost yourself off of platforms
like here, which is something called ‘bowl
boosting.’
After damage boosting and Bubble Bashing to
grab a sock, we’ll then use a bus stop to
switch from the sponge to Dirty Dan.
In this next part, Mermaid Man’s TV is broken,
so we’re going to fix it for him.
The way we do this is by activating three 
 nearby funnel machines with watermelons, common sense stuff really.
This segment is actually pretty realistic,
where a strange looking repairman comes into
your home and does some really weird things
that you don’t quite understand, and in
the end they make a mess.
The only inaccuracies here compared to my
real life experience is that the repairman
in this game is wearing his pants too high
on his waist.
While we have a moment, if you’ve played
the game before, you may be curious how SHiFT
and other speedrunners are able to menu so
quickly.
Normally you just use the left analog stick
to move up and down in the menu when selecting
spatulas, but it turns out though, that the right analog stick can also be used to move around in the menu.
By pressing both sticks in an alternating
fashion, you can menu twice as quickly.
After spending some Shiny Objects on a clam,
which is one of Patrick’s favorite pastimes,
we collect the spatula, and then launch ourselves
on the see-saw springboard we unlocked via the clam.
This is going to bring us to Barnacle Boy,
who has a task for us where we have to activate
all the cylinders to generate some power.
This task is a pretty simple one compared
to the others as we just go around in a circle
body slamming all the switches in order, which gives us a bit of time to explain something else real quick.
So whenever we collect a spatula, we have
to be sure to not double jump and land on
top of the spatula, because it’ll delay
the animation of collecting the spatula.
This is similar to the trick we did earlier
called SpongeBall Storage, where double jumping
delayed the animation of the powerup.
Also, Bubble Bowling into a spatula loses
time as well.
Back to the run, when we grab this spatula
and watch Patrick do a faceplant, we hit a
button for a spatula later on, and we’re then going to perform a trick called ‘Main Chamber Skip.’
By walking into the corner of the slide at
a specific angle, Patrick will get stuck in
the corner and build up speed.
When we release from the corner, we jump off
of the edge of the slide, performing two full
jumps to hit a trigger to enter the Villain Containment System, skipping to the final boss of the Mermalair.
As soon as we enter the Villain Containment System we obtain the warp for here, and just turn around and exit.
We’re going to come back to the boss at a
later time once we have a
new ability that will help us finish it faster.
This puts us at the intended exit of the Main Chamber,
where we just quickly enter the Mermalair Security Tunnel.
We’re going to be performing a series of
tricks that make up ‘Security Tunnel Skip,’
which begins with jumping onto a texture in the wall to let us jump again to reach the ledge above us.
We then Bubble Bash up to get hit by electricity, letting us double jump on the turret to reach the top floor.
Here we bowl once to hit a button in a pet
carrying crate, and then avoid the Burt Reynolds
bot to grab a Golden Spatula.
From here, we can progress to the Rolling
Ball Area, where Impostor Krabs will be waiting for us.
Getting ahead of what’s on screen for a
bit, SHiFT will speak to Krabs quickly to
get the warp for later, and then hit the third
of four buttons for an upcoming spatula.
After that, SHiFT is then going to go get
a hidden sock in the area, and while he does
that, it’s worth mentioning that most of
the levels in this game have a total of eight
Golden Spatulas, although you may have already
noticed that.
The only ones that don’t are the Poseidome
and Industrial Park which both are boss fight
levels and only have one spatula, as well
as the Chum Bucket Lab, which is the final
level and has two spatulas.
The number of socks in each level though varies
greatly.
Anyways, once we’re done here, we make our
way back to the Main Chamber where we’ll
grab a spatula that’s just sittin’ there
ripe for the pickin’.
After the celebration, we’ll turn around
and hit the fourth and final button to shut
down the security system, for which the Mermalair
Computer will reward us with a spatula.
This gives us six of the eight spatulas in
the Mermalair, but we’ll be back later for
the other two once we have an ability which
will let us get them quickly.
For now, we’re going to return to Bikini
Bottom and speak with Patrick to exchange
another ten socks for a Golden Spatula.
After we’ve made the black market trade,
we’ll then enter Patrick’s Rock.
Here we perform some more casual destruction
of private property to get another sock before
then dipping out of this musty cave that probably
smells like a teenager’s room.
The odor isn’t much of a surprise though,
I mean we’ve all seen how these socks pretty
much stand up straight on their own.
Our next immediate goal is to clear out the
Krusty Krab, which will give us the eighth
and final Golden Spatula in the Bikini Bottom
hub area that’s obtainable via objectives.
Now there’s a lot going on during this fight,
including manipulating enemy AI to make them
miss their missile throws, tiki heads getting
pushed up to the upper level before blowing
up, and triggering tiki heads by bowling on
narrow platforms.
Pretty much this the SpongeBob equivalent
of the nightclub scene in John Wick.
Also, what I meant a moment ago when I said
this is the final spatula in the Bikini Bottom
hub, I meant it’s the final spatula in this
area that we collect rather than buy from
Impostor Krabs or Patrick,
since if we counted
those there would be way more than
eight to collect in this area.
Once every robot has been cleared out, SHiFT
causes a bit more destruction inside on his
way to collect another sock, and follows that
up by warping outside to grab the final Bikini
Bottom hub world spatula.
From here we’re going to activate the tollgate
which will bring us to Industrial Park, the
location of the next big boss fight, Robo-Patrick.
Because of how we sequence broke the hub,
we actually enter the tollgate from behind,
which I highly advise you don’t try to do
in real life on the highway.
This fight is much more of an underground
street fight than the big budget, kayfabe-filled
affair that was the Poseidome fight against
Robo-Sandy.
Like the Robo-Sandy fight though, this fight
has three phases to it.
During the first phase, we play as SpongeBob
and it’s incredibly straightforward.
We have to deal damage to the robot three
times by using the Bubble Bowl ability to
hit its rump after it performs a spin attack.
Pretty much phase one is just SHiFT killing
time waiting for the Oogie Boogie lookalike
to begin the spin attack.
Once the attack starts though, we just count
to ten because the attack lasts exactly ten
seconds, and then wind up a bubble to hit
its rear when it stops.
Once we do that three times, we’ll move
on to phase two where we play as the nut lover.
Oh and by the way, the green goo in the perimeter
of this area doesn’t deal any damage to
us, it only boosts us back to where we were
standing when we jumped in, so that’s why
SHiFT can just jump on it repeatedly to practice
his frame perfect jumps in the meantime.
So if you look above us right now, you see
those flying Texas doorknobs above the stage
that we swung on earlier in Sandy’s dream?
They’re technically called ‘swing-hooks,’
but most people just refer to them as ‘Texas Swingers.’
When we play as Sandy, we’re going to utilize
them in a new piece of tech called ‘swing-stalling.’
Whenever we lasso the Texas Swingers here, it causes boxes to fall into the center of  the arena by the robot.
This comes in handy because Robo-Patrick will
eventually spawn goo in the center of the
arena so we can’t walk on the ground there,
but we can jump on the boxes since they float.
By continually lassoing the Texas Swingers,
it will continually spawn boxes in the arena,
making it safer for us later, and it will also keep us off the ground and safe from the robot’s attacks.
We’re going to be performing this a lot
throughout this phase.
When Robo-Patrick performs its spin attack again, we have a window to kick its back to deal damage.
Once we do that, then the robot will begin to perform a vomit attack, which normally lasts a few seconds.
If we instead take damage from it immediately,
then Oogie Boogie will stop attacking almost
immediately and move on to its next series
of actions.
This is called ‘vomit skip,’ and the next
instance of it is coming up in a second.
After we damage the robot for a third time,
it’s going to raise the goo level even further,
and bring us to phase three where we play
as the sponge again.
While phase two finishes playing out though,
I’d just like to say thank you to those
of you who continue to support the channel,
and I hope you’re all doing well and staying
healthy during these crazy times.
If you’re having a hard time, just remember
that no feeling is final
No matter how overwhelmed you may feel, you’ll
still be here tomorrow and you can get through this.
Back to the fight, right at the start of phase
three, Robo-Patrick will go for another vomit
so SHiFT will vomit skip again by practically
shoving the sponge down its throat.
Phase three is pretty much one big manipulation
of the robot’s AI.
The robot has a pattern of blowing frost breath
that we have to jump over, licking its ice
cream and spitting goo at us, and then doing
its ten second long spin attack.
The location where the robot ends up at when
it finishes the spin attack depends on where
you are when it begins the attack.
By standing in a back corner when the robot
starts to spin, then the robot will finish
spinning and be open to our attack from either
the main platform in the level that we spawn
on, or a conveyor belt on the far side from the corner we originally stood in when it started spinning.
After SHiFT stands in a corner during the
spin startup, he begins running to the general
location of where the robot will end up
As the robot’s attack winds down, SHiFT
is able to gauge where in the possible area
it’ll be attackable from and will bravely
bowl a bubble at the bot’s back.
This whole AI manipulation process is done
a total of three times to end phase three
and the fight as a whole.
Once we deliver the third and final hit, the
fight will come to an end and we’ll be given
the Golden Spatula for the fight, even though
we don’t get to see the spatula.
The big thing that we get from this fight
though isn't the Golden Spatula, it’s a
new ability called Cruise Bubble, where we
launch a bubble torpedo that we can steer
around and blow up.
The reason why this is big is because it lets
us perform what’s probably the most important
speedtech of the entire run.
Cruise boosting.
After we do some Bubble Bowl boosting shenanigans
to enter the sponge’s library quickly, watch
how SHiFT throws out some Cruise Bubbles into
the wall, and then has a ton of forward momentum
when he jumps off the trampoline to grab the
floating sock.
This is cruise boosting.
I’ll explain it in a moment, but it’ll
take a while because there’s a lot to it.
In the meantime, we’re going to be returning
to Sand Mountain to obtain the remaining spatulas
and socks there, which will contain a lot
of insane movement thanks to cruise boosting.
Now what exactly is cruise boosting, other
than a glitch that takes an already insane
platforming speedrun and cranks it up to 11?
I’m going to try and be succinct because there’s
a lot in Sand Mountain that needs explaining as well.
First off, when you walk forward normally in this game, you have a movement speed of about 5 units.
The Bubble Bowl ability also has forward movement
to it as we’ve seen before in bowl boosting.
That bowling movement speed is about the same
as whatever your walking speed was when you
used the ability, albeit fractions faster,
but for now we’ll just ballpark it at peaking
at around 5 units as well.
On the first frame of using the Bubble Bowl
ability, you have both your walking speed
and your bowling speed, which stack and will
top out at around 10 units.
This only lasts one frame though.
Pretty much your total movespeed at any point
is your walking speed plus your bowling speed,
but the bowling speed is zero unless you’re
using the ability.
However, if you use the bowling ability and
a Cruise Bubble at the same time, then your
bowling speed gets locked in at whatever value
it was on the frame you used the abilities.
So if we do it when we’re walking at full
speed, then it’ll get locked in at 5 units,
and we’ll have a permanent walking speed
bonus of 5 units.
That’s the basics of cruise boosting.
Whenever we cruise boost though, we have to
be facing a wall to set it up.
This is because we can’t use a Cruise Bubble if we’re moving and have to face a wall to negate our movement.
This may sound contradictory because we want
to be moving to have our bowling speed be
equal to our max walking speed, but we can
actually move sideways while against the wall
and the cruise boost will convert our horizontal
movement to cruise boost speed.
There’s really a lot to it, and SHiFT has
an Any% tutorial on his YouTube channel that
has an entire section dedicated to explaining
cruise boosting that you should check out
if you’re interested, link is in the description.
In short, what you need to know is that cruise
boosting makes it so that we will always have
a set value of speed added on in addition
to our movement, meaning if we walk at a speed
of 5 units normally, that will increase to
5 plus whatever our cruise boost speed is.
This also applies to when we’re standing
still, and also using other abilities like Bubble Bounce.
This means that platforming just got a lot
more complex because we now have the ability
to extend our jumps even farther with our
increased speed and our abilities
that now have forward momentum to them.
Also the Bubble Bash ability (the one where
we jump up with the viking helmet) now is
pretty much a super jump and lets us reach
places that we aren’t supposed to be able to climb to.
The effects of cruise boosting can be removed
by either using the Bubble Bowl ability again,
taking damage, touching goo, losing all our
health, or switching characters.
Losing the effects isn’t necessarily a bad
thing though, and we’ll do it on purpose at times.
Anyways, I think that’s enough for explaining
cruise boosting for now.
We’ve already seen SHiFT perform cruise
boosting a lot during this explanation, but
I’ll put a countdown on screen the next
time he’s about to perform another normal one.
I said normal one because at this second slide,
SHiFT is going to perform a variation on cruise
boosting, which is referred to as a ‘ledge
cruise boost.’
This is performed by sliding off of a rock
and performing a cruise boost on the same
frame as initially falling off.
This converts SHiFT’s vertical momentum
from falling into his cruise boosted speed,
letting him tear up the tracks.
This isn’t the first variation on cruise
boosting we’ve performed at Sand Mountain though.
You may have noticed that the cruise boost
we did in this level on the track where we
were destroying the sandmen was insanely fast
compared to normal as well.
That one was a cruise boost variation called
a ‘displacement cruise boost.’
SHiFT used the Bubble Bowl ability to ramp
a bubble off of a rock, and then positioned
himself where the bubble landed.
By then cruise boosting on the exact frame
the bubble hit him and displaced him to the
side, the speed from the displacement was
captured and transferred into cruise boost speed.
This is how our sandman rampage was both incredibly
fast and visceral.
Both displacement cruise boosting and ledge
cruise boosting are incredibly hard tricks,
and while possible in many places, they’re
typically overkill.
Both variations are really tough tricks that
require perfect timing, but the rewards are
enormous.
For cruise boosting in general, I just want
to emphasize that part of the end result is
that our base movement speed is no longer
zero, so even if we aren’t touching the
analog stick at all, we’re still going to
move forward.
You’ll see this a lot throughout the run
from here on out, but especially whenever
we collect a spatula.
The big upside to it though, as I mentioned
earlier, is that our other abilities now have
forward movement to them.
That means that you’ll be seeing us use
the Bubble Bounce ability, the one where we
have big bubble feet, used a lot throughout
the rest of the run to extend our jump spacing,
as well as using the Bubble Bash ability in
a similar fashion.
Back to the run, with seven of the eight spatulas
here collected, we use our *imagination* to
go to the top of the slopes and talk with
my boy Larry to collect a spatula, and man,
he’s just so happy for us again.
Having finished up Sand Mountain, we’ll
now be warping to the Mermalair to get the
final two spatulas and socks.
Right away SHiFT is going to perform a cruise
boost to build up his speed, and then do some
platforming off of a stalagmite to make a
jump to a tunnel where we’ll collect a sock.
Immediately after collecting the sock, SHiFT
is going to warp to another location in the
Mermalair and perform another cruise boost.
There are both fast and slow cruise boosts,
and we want a fast one here but SHiFT got
a slow one, which is why he threw out a Bubble
Bowl since it cancels cruise boosting, allowing
him to then perform it again to get the fast
version of it.
We then use a box to go across the stage and
do a Bubble Bash to jump up and grab a sock.
We’re now going to take care of the Mermalair
boss that we left hanging a long time ago
by use of a tech called ‘L-Clipping.’
By pressing the left trigger while cruise
boosting, we initiate frames with no collision
during the Cruise Bubble animation, which
makes it so we can clip through the wall in tight spaces.
Here we jumped above the boss arena and activated
the fight’s final cutscene via a developer
debug trigger left in the out-of-bounds area.
The final spatula in the Mermalair involves
a tech called ‘L-Bowling’ where SHiFT
will wedge himself between the glass case
the spatula is in and nearby pillar and perform
the cruise boost inputs, and the sponge’s
model doesn’t have enough space to perform
the Cruise Bubble animation so it instead
does the Bubble Bowl animation.
This still gives us frames with no collision
from the Cruise Bubble animation and let us
clip through the glass case.
This skip alone saves almost two minutes compared
to collecting the spatula as intended, and
was one of the most technically complex skips
in the entire run due to requiring two inputs
on the same exact frame, but not just any
frame, but the exact frame that SHiFT got
pushed out of the tight space between the
case and the pillar, and it also required
precise analog stick angles.
Oh, and by the way, this game runs at 60 frames
per second.
Anyways, here at Goo Lagoon, the first of
the two spatulas we need to get here is obtained
by making sure that Mrs. Puff doesn’t get
hit with any child endangerment charges by
saving the five children who are floating
away with balloons.
It makes sense that we would wait until after
we can cruise boost to rescue the kids since
it requires us to cover a large amount of
ground, so it’s better to do that when we’re faster.
When we warp back to where we started at Goo
Lagoon this visit, we’ll immediately cruise
boost and Bubble Bash to grab the final sock,
but then make our way to a nearby gate.
Similar to the Mermalair boss fight, we’re
going to clip out-of-bounds using L-clipping,
but this time it’ll be done in combination
with a trick where we jump and Cruise Bubble
on the same frame, which is what lets pop
out-of-bonds after L-clipping here.
This is jump and Cruise Bubble tech is called
‘L-Jumping.’
Normally this spatula requires us to play
as Patrick, where we’ll spend some Shiny
Objects to spawn trampolines for us to jump
on to reach the spatula, but this is much faster.
With the spatula collected, the sponge performs
a Red Bull leap, blowing kisses to his fans
along the way, after which we’ll warp to
Jellyfish Fields, closing the book on Goo Lagoon.
We’ve only been to Jellyfish Fields once
so far this run at the very beginning to grab
one sock and one spatula, so we have a lot
of ground to cover here and we’re be here awhile.
After performing some cruise boosts, SHiFT
performs some difficult Bubble Bashes to climb
up some rocks, and on top of a huge stone
jellyfish to collect a sock.
We then use some weird tree trampoline things
to get across the level quickly to grab another
sock, and let me just say that these trampolines
do not do any wonders for my acrophobia.
We aren’t going to let this sock stop us,
because we’re on a sock spree and we’ll
immediately turn around and use the trampolines
again to grab another nearby sock that’s
floating above a bowling mini-game.
For the final sock in this spree, we make
a super tightly spaced jump to reach an island,
being sure to not hit any checkpoints along
the way on the islands we took to get here.
That’s because we immediately hop into the
goo to spawn back on the mainland.
After getting our cruise boost back up and
running, SHiFT will make his way on over to
a Duplicatotron where he’ll jump towards
the corner and spin
This both destroys the Duplicatotron and opens
the gate simultaneously.
We then activate the tollgate and glide into
the spatula thanks to cruise boosting, letting
us collect the spatula and skip the celebration
animation by entering the next area.
We then absolutely blast Mermaid Man in the
face to start a cruise boost
and begin a short tongue sliding section?
I really am still not sure what else to call
it still.
Anyways, whenever we tongue slide and are
cruise boosted, we try to be in the air as
much as possible because the cruise boost
doesn’t affect our speed when we’re sliding.
This is simply because sliding on a surface
supersedes the cruise boost effect, so we
just jump a ton to be off the surface and have our cruise boost speed add on to our movement speed.
Now off the slide, we platform around an invisible
cutscene trigger and reunite with Dirty Dan
real quick to transfer our consciousnesses
and claim another Golden Spatula.
This is intended to be the first area you
play as Dirty Dan in, but we kinda did things out of order.
Just by a little bit though.
Our time as the star will be short lived,
because after booty bumping a switch and dismissing
some tutorial pop-ups, we’ll immediately
switch back to the sponge and get back our
fast movement speed with cruise boosting.
We’re going to Bubble Bash to get on top
of a barrier and then just tightrope walk
on top of it to skip needing to open it.
We then Bubble Bounce to open up a different
gate, where we’re going to start spelunking,
and the sponge just can’t wait as he shoves himself into the gate and then enters immediately on his own.
Inside we’re going to use the Bubble Bowl
ability to hit a button that we’re supposed
to throw watermelons at as Patrick, and then
spin to hit the other button before performing
a ledge cruise boost here by sliding off of
the ledge of a rock, and converting the speed
of sliding off into cruise boost speed.
Remember we did a ledge cruise boost earlier
in Sand Mountain.
As we absolutely kareen through the cave,
we’re going to grab one sock that’s up
on a ledge that requires us to turn around
for a moment.
This leads into a brief tongue sliding section
where we’re going to jump a lot to utilize
our cruise boost speed, and once we make it
to the end of the tongue sliding section we’ll
Bubble Bounce straight into the goo to collect a sock and spawn back at a checkpoint we hit moments before.
After we spawn and gain control again, we’ll
get our cruise boost going, and SHiFT will
make some precise jumps onto and off of some
stalagmite to grab a Golden Spatula.
This jump to the spatula skips having to hit
a button to lower the gate to let us jump to it.
Once we collect the spatula, we treat the
camera like we’re Joaquin Phoenix signing
off of a late night talk show.
When we make it back to the main platform
and exit to outside, SHiFT is going to blast
Impostor Krabs in the face to build up our
speed again, and then make his way to perform
a skip called Drain the Lake Clip, which utilizes
a piece of tech called ‘Lag Clipping.’
A property of cruise boosting is that landing
after falling from a height doesn’t reset
your vertical velocity to zero and it instead
stays a downward value.
After Bubble Bashing off of the fountain and
landing, we then have a downward velocity
while on the ground, and by angling the camera
in a specific way to load in enough objects
on screen and rhythmically mashing the left
trigger, start button, and select button,
we clip into the ground and go under the map.
After quickly maneuvering around some invisible
barriers to grab a spatula, we then warp around
the map a bit, having only five socks and
three spatulas left to collect.
Try to remember the fact I just mentioned
about cruise boosting not resetting your vertical
velocity because it’ll come in handy again
soon.
We warped to a spatula where we’re Patrick,
but that’s just because the location is
ideal and we swapped straight back to SpongeBob.
Once we’re moving fast again, SHiFT performs
a Bubble Bash to reach a high up ledge, and
will throw a Bubble Bowl to destroy a nearby
robit so it doesn’t mess us up.
After stepping onto the button with huge feet
on it, five flying tiki heads spawn that we
have to destroy with the Cruise Bubble to
spawn a sock.
This part is pretty straight forward, and
once we’re done, because we did the Bubble
Bowl a moment ago to destroy the robot, it
cancelled our cruise boost so we have to set
it up again once we grab the sock after destroying
all the tikis.
Once boosted, we’ll navigate around the
corner of the rocky mountain and then thwack
some robots to get them out of our way.
We’ll then climb up some rocks, perform
a Bubble Bash, and then Bubble Bounce to extend
our jump to make it to a bouncy-tree-trampoline-mushroom-thing,
and this jump is actually really difficult.
This puts us next to another sweaty sock,
and we’ll then make our way to another sock,
followed by one of the remaining spatulas.
Now when we collect this spatula, SHiFT is
going to make sure he’s lined himself up
correctly going into it, so that’s why we
take a moment to approach from a specific
angle and turn the camera a specific way.
The reason for this is that close to the spatula
is the entrance to Spork Mountain, which is
a location we need to go to.
By facing the direction of the entrance, once
we collect the spatula our cruise boost speed
will slowly glide the sponge towards the entrance,
and we’ll be able to enter Spork Mountain
the moment we gain control.
At Spork Mountain, we’ll walk past Bubble
Buddy, and there’s a moment where the sponge
throws his hands up with the ‘whoo’ of
the song.
I love that.
At the top of Spork Mountain, there’s actually
a boss fight against the King Jellyfish.
This boss fight is super straightforward now
that we have the Cruise Bubble, and all we
need to do is blast it three times.
The CEO of the studio developing the upcoming
remake of this game is actually a fan of speedrunning
and is aware of this exploit with how strong
the Cruise Bubble is in this fight, so it’s
patched in the remake.
The fight gave us the King Jellyfish jelly
which we can bring to Squidward to soothe
his wounds because he got attacked by robots
and jellyfish all the way at the start of the run.
We took a shortcut here by hopping off of
the tongue track and landing on the track
as it passes underneath us to get a sock, but for the most part this tongue section is pretty simple.
At the end of the track, SHiFT makes a leap
to a pillar directly in front of us to collect
the seventh spatula in Jellyfish Fields, leaving
just one more spatula and one more sock.
To get the spatula, all we have to do is warp
back to the squid guy and give him King Jellyfish’s
jelly and he’ll spork up the spatula, butnot before we add injury to injury by cruise  boosting in his face.
The final sock in Jellyfish Fields isn’t
too far.
All we have to do is jump space off of a ledge
and spin to be able to reach the sock, which
wraps up Jellyfish Fields and we’ll warp
back to Bikini Bottom where we already have
all the spatulas, but still have one sock
remaining to collect.
And I bet you thought that we were going to
collect it now?
Nope, instead we’re going to jump right
into a taxi to take us to Kelp Forest, a new
level for us in this run.
Right away when we load in, we’re going
to cruise boost, and then use our speed to
reach a ledge that’s supposed to be the
very end of the level, and Bubble Bash to
maneuver out-of-bounds briefly to get on some
pillars.
When we jump up to this ledge, we hit a trigger
that spawns a trampoline back below, unlocking
a shortcut to this ledge for later.
Now remember a while ago when we saved Mrs.
Puff’s job, and probably freedom by saving
a bunch of kids floating away on balloons?
Well the menace that is Puff is at it again,
and has lost six campers in the Kelp Forest
and if we find them all then we get a Golden
Spatula.
After talking to to Mrs. Puff to get the warp
for this area, and because we’re just over
50 minutes into the run, SHiFT enters the
nearby Port-O-Head to take a quick potty break.
SHiFT is then going to do some platforming
to get to the third camper, followed by dropping
off a ledge to grab a sock.
You’ll notice he falls super fast into the
sock, and that’s because like with lag clipping,
we have stored downward vertical velocity
from SHiFT jumping and landing once shortly
before falling off of the ledge.
It’s pretty straightforward, and once he
spawns back on the platform he’s going to
drop off again to grab a spatula and warp
back to the start of the area.
By start of the area, I mean the very start
of the level, which is where that ledge is
that we jumped up to earlier where we hit
a trigger to spawn a Dark Souls-esque trampoline
shortcut, and went out-of-bounds briefly,
and we’re going to use the tollgate to enter
the intended final area of the level, the
Kelp Vine Slide.
We’re actually at the bottom of the slide,
so before even collecting the nearby spatula,
we’re going to hop in the box to go to the
top and talk with Mermaid Man, who challenges
us to beat his time in sliding down to the
bottom of the slide, which spawns a timer
in the top right corner of the screen.
The timer will start once we hop onto the
slide and start sliding, however, SHiFT Bubble
Bashes the moment he gets on the slide.
This starts the timer but still lets SHiFT
get off the slide and take the box back to
the bottom, which counts as actually taking
the slide down and beating Mermaid Man’s time.
Here we collected the spatula that was sitting
there earlier, and hit the trigger for completing
the race before hopping back in the box to
claim our prize for absolutely bodying the
octogenarian in his paltry race.
SHiFT angled the sponge to glide off the ledge
as he celebrated, so we drop onto the slide
for a huge shortcut while we collect a sock
that’s still on the slide.
We’ll continue on the Kelp Vine Slide until
we get the sock, and then immediately warp
back to Mermaid Man at the top of the slide
and use the nearby tollgate to enter to the next area.
When we first entered the vine slide area
which is intended to be the final area, we
began the process of what’s referred to
as ‘Kelp Forest Backward.’
Pretty much we’re going through the areas
backwards, so when we enter a new area, we’re
technically entering it through the exit.
So we keep entering right next to the spatulas at the end of the areas, so we can collect them all quickly.
Once we collect the spatula here at the end
of the Kelp Caves, SHiFT will throw a bubble
with an exact power level, angle, and position,
and get hit with it while standing in a different
exact position which launches us through the
gate.
When he got hit by the ball, SHiFT had to
perform a Cruise Bubble and Bubble Bowl on
an exact frame so we had our frames with no
collision to let us clip through the wall.
Through the gate, SHiFT then discovers the
fourth of the six campers, as well as finds
the first of several energy crystals that
we have to give to Barnacle Boy.
Barnacle Boy is the holistic type and has
six crystals that we need to collect and bring
to him to get another spatula.
Once we’ve warped to the start of Kelp Caves,
we’re on our quest to journey deep into
the depths of the dark and perilous cave and
find all the precious rocks… I mean minerals.
This whole interior cave section normally
requires us to play as Patrick a lot, but
we have different plans.
After we collected crystals two and three,
SHiFT does a pretty cool jump off of the cage
around a button to jump up onto a ledge with
a sock, which sequence breaks the cave itself
and brings us to a different region of the
cave.
Now in this tall room, we’re supposed to
do some stuff with a button and all that’s
boring and slow, so instead SHiFT Spider-Mans
up the walls by landing on specific parts
of the texture, which let him continually
Bubble Bash up to the top where another crystal awaits.
This is a skip called Crystal Climb, and is
definitely one of the more difficult skips.
In the next room, instead of hitting even
more buttons, we instead climb up some more
walls, which leads us to the penultimate crystal.
We’ll then get on the walls again and L-clip
and L-jump to go out-of-bounds, where we’ll
drop beneath the final crystal and jump up
to bonk it with our head and collect it.
With all of the crystals in hand, we warp
back to Barnacle Boy and hand them over, and
then thwack him in the gut before collecting
our spatula.
The actual lore reason why he needs the crystals
is he uses them to trim his nose hairs at
super speed, and this is like, legit lore,
and not some bull about far apart nips.
SHiFT will then exit the Kelp Caves through
the entrance, which thanks to Kelp Forest
Backward, puts us at the end of the Kelp Swamp.
After we collect the spatula intended at the
end of the area, SHiFT is going to drop down
to go to a spatula that’s inside of a cage,
being sure to double jump on his way down
to build up downward vertical velocity that
gets stored thanks to cruise boosting.
Normally you have to activate a button that’s
across the swamp to lift the cage, but by
instead wedging himself between a rock and
the cage and lag clipping, SpongeBob will
clip through the cage just enough to interact
with the spatula.
This collects the spatula, even though we
also end up touching the goo underneath the
ground and spawns us back to where we started
the area.
This lag clip is stupid precise.
Right now we still have one spatula, three
socks, and two campers to find.
That one final spatula is for finding the
final two campers, so those go hand-in-hand.
The first camper is guarded by a big spooky
robot, so SHiFT aligns himself on the clam
first so that when he bashes over the clam,
he’ll be perfectly set up to destroy the robot.
The remainder of the swamp area though is
pretty straightforward, with us mostly just
bouncing around on the leaves to get to the
sixth sock and camper, and skirting past a
Burt Reynolds bot to find the last camper.
Once we save the final camper, we’ll then
warp back to Mrs. Puff and talk with her to
get our spatula in exchange for never telling
anyone about the fact she lost six additional kids.
The final sock is a bowling challenge with
us having to align our bowling shot to destroy
every tiki head in one go.
It’s a pretty easy task for SHiFT since
he’s an accomplished bowler in real life
and has bowled six USBC-sanctioned perfect
300 games.
Once we’re awarded the sock, we’re done
with the Kelp Forest and warp back to the
Bikini Bottom hub area.
In the hub we spawn right in front of the
impostor who we cruise boost off of, and then
hit up the dumpster behind the Krusty Krab
for the final sock in Bikini Bottom, which
finishes off the collectibles in Bikini Bottom, outside of the remaining spatulas at Patrick’s sock exchange.
This taxi pad takes us to the Flying Dutchman’s Graveyard, which is gated behind
a 60 spatula requirement.
Right at the start of the Graveyard Lake area,
SHiFT cruise boosts and then completely disrespects
the intended path by performing two extended
jump sequences to make it to the first sock of the level.
Back on land, SHiFT then fires a Cruise Bubble
up to one big ole hatch that will then close
and shut off the flow of the ectoplasmic goo
that’s filling up the lake.
This causes the goo level in the lake to lower
a bit, exposing some pathways, platforms, and spatulas.
We then immediately drop down to one of these
spatulas that’s sitting on top of a ship.
After the sponge blows us some kisses, we’re
going to hop onto a trampoline and it’s
worth mentioning that jumping on certain trampolines
with cruise boosting is actually really weird.
Some trampolines in this game have a scripted
direction you’re supposed to bounce in,
but cruise boosting overwrites that whichallows us to just jump into whatever direction we’re facing.
After walking on some walls like we’re playing
NFL Street 2, we make a couple more long jumps
and run along the hull of a ship to make it
to our second Golden Spatula of the level.
After we spin in celebration for a moment,
we’re going to hop along the crow’s nests
of a ship and interact with the tollgate to
go to the Graveyard of Ships.
Right away we’re going to blast squid guy
in the face to cruise boost, and then collect
a sock by bumping our head on the bottom of
some wreckage.
This is followed by jumping into the nearby
Lazarus Pit to grab a spatula that you’re
supposed to bungee jump to get, but because
we disabled Hans the hand at the start of
the run, we can just leap in and grab it.
This gives us our 69th spatula of the run,
leaving only 31 to go.
SHiFT then warps to the spatula we just collected,
which brings us to the crow’s nest that
we were supposed to bungee jump from.
Here we’re going to do what we did in the
caves at Jellyfish Fields, and repeatedly
Bubble Bash to climb up the side of a building,
which makes up a skip called Boat Bash.
This will bring us all the way to the top
of the area where another spatula is waiting
for us, which we collect while having a precise
camera angle so we don’t fall off of the cliff.
Atop the stack of ships, we’ll hop into
a floating dinghy, bringing us to a combat
set piece where we’re normally supposed to play as Sandy a lot for her superior vertical movement.
Because we’re cruise boosting though, we’re
way more mobile as SpongeBob.
There are two spatulas and one sock to collect
here.
One of the spatulas requires us to aim all
four cannons on our ship to fire at the enemy
ship, and to aim each of the cannons SHiFT
has to go around pressing the button next to each one.
Once he aims the fourth and final cannon,
a chest with a button will open and a spatula
will appear, but we hold off on interacting
with either for now.
Instead, SHiFT uses a trampoline the moment
it spawns to soar up to the crow’s nest
to grab a different spatula.
On his way down from the mast, SHiFT will
bounce off of the button in the chest to fire
the cannons, activating a cutscene, all while
gliding into the spatula that spawned a moment
ago so we collect it while the cutscene is
playing, more efficiently utilizing our time.
Collecting this spatula is also really precise
and feel-based, and a lot harder than it looks.
As you can see in this cutscene, our volley
gets destroyed by the enemy defenses, but that’s fine.
The purpose of this fight is to unlock the
ability to warp to the final boss fight against
the Flying Dutchman, but you actually only
need to fire at the enemy ship to unlock the
warp and not necessarily destroy the enemy
ship.
After hopping over to the enemy ship to collect
the final sock of the level, we warp to the
typically terribly slow boss fight.
Instead of doing the Flying Dutchman Fight,
we’re going to perform ‘Dutchman Skip,’
a skip that’s similar to the skip we did
earlier to avoid the fight in the Mermalair.
By Bubble Bashing with precise alignments
and movement, we get up high enough on the
shipwreck where when we jump off we hit a
developer debug trigger that automatically
ends the fight and spawns a spatula as a reward.
The climbing area was wholly out-of-bounds,
and we actually can’t even access it as Sandy.
With the seven of the eight spatulas in hand, we hop into a nearby dinghy to head back to the Graveyard Lake.
When we spawn in, we’re going to collect
the spatula in a cage we saw in a cutscene
after we lowered the goo by hopping on top
of the cage and lag clipping.
With everything collected in the Flying Dutchman’s
Graveyard, we can cross it off of our list
and travel back to the Bikini Bottom.
We won’t be staying in Bikini Bottom long,
because we’ll immediately jump onto a nearby
taxi pad to go to Downtown Bikini Bottom.
This is supposed to be one of the first places
we go to, being gated behind a requirement
of only five spatulas.
Typically it requires you to play as Sandy
a lot and serves as a bit of an introduction
to her as a character, but with cruise boosting
we completely cut her out of the picture like
an ex after a bad breakup.
The first objective we’re going to complete
is getting rid of the cannon that’s throwing
the kitchen sink at us.
Normally you’d bait the cannon into firing
at the tiki pillars to destroy them, but with
cruise boosting, we can Bubble Bash up on
top of the pillars to activate the thunder
tikis, and by going around the whole circle, we’ll have destroyed all the towers and revealed all the buttons.
Once all the buttons are pressed, a totally
not random anvil will drop from the sky and
onto the cannon, spawning a spatula on top
of the nearby statue.
You’ll notice that Hans the hand grabs us
at this point, and you may be asking how that’s
possible if we disabled him earlier.
Well if you think back to the start of the
run when we first went out-of-bounds but had
to keep jumping, Hans is only disabled with the out-of-bounds in air triggers, not the ones on the sand.
So by gliding out-of-bounds due to cruise
boosting after pressing the final button,
we were on the sand for long enough to trigger
Hans which actually re-enables him as a whole.
After collecting our 75th spatula, we then
make our way over to a submarine-looking building
to grab a sock, because every boot has a sock
in it.
SHiFT then skirts around the robot to get
its positioning right, and Bubble Bashes to
get up onto the building before leaping to
a tiki and then a ledge of a building for another sock.
Anyways, Mrs. Puff has continued her bad habit
of losing things, as she has somehow misplaced
11 steering wheels all around Downtown Bikini
Bottom, and we have to do her dirty work again
before she gets busted for trying to sell
them to a chop shop.
After collecting our second spatula, we’re
going to immediately enter the Downtown Rooftops.
Up here we’re going to bounce on a button
to spawn a trampoline that was installed onto
the building when being built, and use it
to bounce all the way up to the top of the
building to grab a Golden Spatula.
We’re going to make good use of this trampoline
though and use it again almost right after
we gain control to get on top of a propeller to grab a conveniently placed sock.
Now there are a lot of collectibles on the
rooftops, and luckily if we fall off of the
rooftops, Hans will grab us since we re-enabled
him a bit ago.
This is lucky because it allows for us to
hit checkpoints like we do here, collect objects,
and then make our leap of faith before Hans catches us, which lets us quickly backtrack across the level.
After we spawn back in here, we’ll be collecting
our third and fourth steering wheel, and another sock.
After the sock, SHiFT will run off a building
to be caught by Hans.
When spawning back in, SHiFT will then manually
bowl on the first frame of respawning.
When you spawn in this game, you spawn at
the start of the level, and then in one frame
you get moved to your most recent checkpoint
location.
During this one frame, we have a ton of velocity,
so by using Bubble Bowl on this frame, this
velocity gets transferred to our bowling shot,
and we go shooting across the map.
It’s at our destination that we set up our
cruise boost again and grab another sock,
and then hop to a nearby building to grab
a spatula.
When we grab the spatula, SHiFT tries his
hardest to keep us from falling by zooming
and angling the camera precisely so we don’t
lose both our cruise boost and our positioning.
We then hop to the neighboring building to
enter a lighthouse.
Rather than feuding with Willem Dafoe, inside
we’re going to collect a sock and then destroy
a series of Duplicatotrons.
Each time after we destroy one, the floor
beneath us will break, dropping us to the next floor.
SHiFT has done this segment once or twice
in the past, so he knows exactly where the
next Duplicatotron is on the floor below him.
On the bottom floor, we collect a steering
wheel through some electric beams by just
standing close enough to the electric beams
that the wheel gets sucked into us thanks
to our magnetically charming good looks.
Across the room, some small robots push us
into the electric beams while we Cruise Bubble,
which gives us frames with no collision for
long enough for the robots to push us through
the electric beams to collect the spatula.
This is our fifth of eight spatulas in the
level, and we also have five of eleven steering
wheels and six of the nine socks collected.
After warping to outside, SHiFT is going to
blast his teach in the face to get the cruise
boost back up and running, and then collect
two nearby steering wheels real quick before
leaping over a fence.
This brings us to the steaming hot sauce area,
where we’re just going to collect a handful
of additional steering wheels and a couple
of socks, and there really isn’t too much
more to this spot outside of the fact that
by jumping over the fences we’re skipping
tutorials for using SpongeBob and Sandy.
Just some casual hopping around to grab the
objects in what’s really supposed to be
an area that’s supposed to get you used to the SpongeBall mechanics and
timer challenges in the game.
Once we’ve collected all we need to here,
SHiFT opens up a gate and travels to the Sea Needle.
I know it’s only for a tenth of a second,
but just listen to how off Impostor Krabs
sounds when we load in, and it really is a
shame, because up top on the Sea Needle, we’re
actually going to be doing a favor for the
impostor.
According to the impostor, someone’s “broken”
the Sea Needle, and if we destroy all the
tiki heads outside of the windows by bungee
jumping, the impostor will give us a spatula.
In total, there are three windows that we
need to bungee jump out of to dive down and
destroy the tikis, and the act of bungee jumping
here and destroying this series of tikis is
called ‘cruise boost needle,’ CB-Needle
for short.
While doing this all we’re on a cycle of
the tiki heads moving, so trying to not mess
up anywhere along the way is added pressure,
otherwise we get thrown off of the cycle.
This also means that our cruise boost needs to be hit first try, otherwise all the timing gets messed up.
Similar to scripted trampolines, getting off
of bungee hooks has a scripted direction and
movement to it that cruise boosting overwrites.
This means that if we’re still facing away
from the needle when we get off a hook, we’re
going to continue moving that way instead
of automatically getting brought back inside.
Because of this, we have to turn inward before
getting off of the bungee, otherwise we’ll
fall and can lose over a minute.
The first two windows have a pretty small
amount of tikis to destroy, but the third
has a few extra that requires some additional
dives and a bit more aiming on SHiFT’s part.
Additionally, the final two steering wheels
are up here in the Sea Needle, so we collect
those along the way.
Once we’ve finished up the three bungee
jumps and collected the wheels, the Golden
Spatula will spawn up here for us to collect.
If you thought that was all for the Sea Needle
though, you must be a real pinhead.
There’s actually one more spatula up here,
as well as the final sock of Downtown Bikini Bottom.
SHiFT opens this door by blasting a switch
through a wall with a frame perfect input.
After collecting the sock, we then use our
Cruise Bubble to hit a switch that spawns
the final spatula up here.
When SHiFT goes to grab the spatula, he’s
going to Bubble Bounce to fall down faster
so we get brought back in-bounds by Hans earlier.
After we load back in, we’re then going
to warp back to Mrs. Puff, having collected
all the steering wheels, all the socks, and
seven of the eight spatulas.
When we speak with the felon, we’ll be given
the final collectible in Downtown Bikini Bottom
and then immediately warp back to the Bikini Bottom hub, where we’ll take a taxi to go to Rock Bottom.
When entering the taxi pad, we’re going
to jump off of the trampoline because remember
by accessing the taxi pad from closer to the
rear, it partly skips the taxi cutscene.
When we load into Rock Bottom, we’ll see
none other than Mrs. Puff, who this time needs
us to collect… *sound of pages turning*
*sigh* Are you freaking serious?
Stolen artwork.
After we collect the first of six pieces of
art, we’re going to fire a Cruise Bubble
to hit a button across the level that starts
a race down a slide.
You’re supposed to hit this button when
you’re actually at the top of the slide,
but an oversight in development left the button
available to being hit by Cruise Bubbles if
you’re standing in earlier parts of the
level.
Hitting the button spawned the reward spatula
and brought up a timer that won’t start
since we aren’t actually hopping on the
slide.
On our way to the spatula, SHiFT talks with
Bubble Buddy real quick to get a warp point
for later, and also collects two of the nine
socks that are in Rock Bottom.
Also it’s just dawned on me that the art
they show in the bottom left corner whenever
we collect a piece is a picture of SpongeBob
and Patrick, which is a bit weird in universe
that we have to collect six pieces of the
same image that have been stolen from the
nearby museum and they’re all of those two.
After we’ve collected the slide spatula,
we warp back to Bubble Buddy and set up our
cruise boost again, before then hopping on
top of a nearby rock and collecting our second
piece of art.
SHiFT then hops onto a trampoline to leap
on over to a nearby spatula, giving us two
of the eight in this level.
This spatula is actually only supposed to
be obtainable as Sandy, and look at the shadow
of it as it spins, pretty suggestive, huh?
So a lot of this level actually takes place
inside of the museum that the art has been
stolen from, so SHiFT will make his way on
over to there now, collecting a sock along the way.
There’s actually a spatula on top of the
museum next to the vent we’re going to enter
through, and SHiFT will press the button to enter the museum the exact frame he touches the spatula.
This has us both enter the museum, and collect
the spatula without actually having to go
through the animation of collecting it.
This is called ‘R-Cancelling.’
Inside the museum, there’s a wall of lasers
that you normally have to disable, but by
grabbing onto the ledge of the swinging tires
we can pass through the wall, taking a bit
of damage along the way.
Once we’re through the laser wall, rather
than recreating the scene from the Resident
Evil movie, we can still move around and collect
everything inside the museum.
In total, there’s three socks, two pieces
of art, and one spatula.
We only collect two of the socks initially
though because the third is underneath the
platform we spawned on where we entered, and
we didn’t collect it then for positioning
and health reasons.
I also want to just acknowledge real quick
that we’re in Rock Bottom and I’ve yet
to make an accent joke, but I think my current
accent is bad enough that I won’t torture
you with the one from the show.
Once we yoink the second piece of art, we’ll
have everything on this side of the laser
wall so SHiFT will warp back to the entrance
and hop underneath the platform to grab the
third sock in the museum.
He then immediately warps to the slide spatula
that we collected, putting us at the top of
the slide by Impostor Krabs.
We aren’t here long though because we’re
immediately going to head on over to the tollgate
to take us to the Trench of Advanced Darkness.
This is actually the exit of the Trench of
Advanced Darkness though, so that means that
when we load in, we’re going to be at the
end of the area and immediately collect the
spatula you get for conquering the trench.
SHiFT then warps to the spatula we just collected
which puts us at the start of the trench.
The platforming we do here is minimal so we
don’t cruise boost at all because it’d
be a waste of time.
Instead we hop onto a ledge to collect the
fifth piece of art, and then take damage to
perform Sleepy Skip, which is a sliding bash
used to make the jump to the spatula, giving
us six of eight collected.
SHiFT is then going to start up his cruise
boost again, standing on a ledge made by the
texture of the wall to seemingly float in
mid-air while doing so.
After getting back on solid land and collecting
a sock, we make our way over to a clam to
spawn a bungee jumping hook so we can get
a sock in a moment.
SHiFT also cancels his cruise boost so we
don’t fall off the ledge while firing a
Cruise Bubble over to hit a button to activate
a laser.
In total there are three lasers that we have
to activate in this area and we’re supposed
to activate them as Sandy.
Instead SHiFT just uses our sponge abilities,
but the timing on it is actually incredibly tight.
Just watch the timer in the bottom right corner
and see how close it gets to zero when we
hit the button on the second shot in about
20 seconds.
Also, I’m super embarrassed to admit this,
but due to an error in recording and editing,
a sock we’re supposed to collect on the
upcoming platform with the trampoline is absent
from the gameplay, but trust me, it’s supposed
to be there but we already have it collected.
My bad on that one everyone.
Also right here is the second Cruise Bubble
shot, so watch the timer in the bottom right
corner to see how close it is.
For the final laser, SHiFT is going to align
himself on a nearby pipe or bubble stream
or whatever it is, and hit it with a bubble
instead of hitting it with his wand.
This is because it gives him time to then
throw another bubble right afterwards to fall
off the ledge and get caught by Hans right
as a cutscene starts, skipping the cutscene
of the final laser powering up.
After spawning back in, we switch to Sandy
real quick so that we can talk to Plankton
to claim our spatula reward for powering on
the lasers.
Not entirely sure how I feel accepting this
blood spatula from the creature that is directly
responsible for all the robots being everywhere,
but I guess without him, we wouldn’t have
experienced the adventure we went on today.
After this spatula, SHiFT will warp back to
Mrs. Puff to claim our final reward of the
run from the shady teacher, which also marks
the final collectible in Rock Bottom, finishing
the area as a whole.
We’re getting super close to the end of
the run, but before we finish it off we have
a bit of unfinished business in the SpongeBob’s
Dream level.
We still have two spatulas and two socks to
get here, and the first sock and spatula combo
are in Squidward’s part of the dream level.
Instead of grooving out on the sheet music
all the way up, we utilize our increased jump
distance to use drum trampolines to jump from
one section of sheet music to passing-by sections
above us that normally we can’t skip to.
In total, we skip up three floors of sheet
music, collecting a sock after the second skip.
Once we make it to the top floor, we hop on
top of the schnoz and collect the spatula,
leaving just one sock and spatula in SpongeBob’s
Dream, with that last sock being the last
one in the entire run.
Remember we still have to exchange the ones
on our person with Patrick for spatulas though.
Speaking of Patrick, we then warp to Patrick’s
dream inside of SpongeBob’s Dream.
The only reason we visit dream Patrick is
because his house is near to the final sock
and spatula, so we just exit immediately.
The location of the final sock and spatula
is inside of the Impostor Krabs’s dream
area, and when we load in, we hold down pause
while skipping squid guy’s text to buffer
pulling up the menu where we reload the level.
Upon reloading, SHiFT holds the control stick
in the northeast direction and presses the
button to skip text followed by the button
to Bubble Bowl on the frame immediately after.
This caused us to fall off the ledge and skip
a cutscene, and also started an invincibility timer.
We then used Cruise Bubble immediately after,
which paused the invincibility timer, giving
us a bunch of invincibility frames so we can
just cheese the combat area by firing Cruise
Bubbles to destroy the Dupliactotrons.
Once all the Duplicatotrons are out of the
way, we slowly make our way all the way across
the grill because there’s a sock on a floating
tiki head off the far edge that we grab once
we clear out all the robits.
After the final robot is destroyed, the spatula
spawns and SHiFT collects the sock before
warping back to the spatula to grab it quickly.
This marks the last sock in SpongeBob’s
Dream, the last Golden Spatula in SpongeBob’s
Dream, and the last sock in the game.
We’re then going to warp back to Patrick
in the beginning area of the game and trade
all of our socks for spatulas with Patrick.
This will bring us up to 98 total spatulas,
leaving two remaining in the whole game, which
are both inside of the Chum Bucket Lab.
There’s still a few minutes left in the
run, but we have a brief moment here so I’d
just like to say thank you to all of you who
continue to support the channel on Patreon.
It’s totally not necessary, especially with
what’s going on in the world, but I really
do appreciate it.
If you want to support the channel, this is
definitely one of the best ways to do it,
and also grants you early access to videos,
updates on videos as they’re being made,
and the occasional ‘Fan-Fiction Friday’
video.
Like I said before, it’s totally not necessary,
but to those of you who choose to support
the channel in this way, it really means a
lot.
Back to the run, once we’re done getting
these socks off of our hands, we’re going
to warp to the Chum Bucket and use our excessive
amount of spatulas to enter the door to the
lab which is gated behind a 75 spatula requirement.
The Chum Bucket Lab consists of two big set
pieces, the first of which is a boss fight
against a Robo-SpongeBob.
This fight has three phases but we're not even going to finish the first phase in this fight.
After we hit Robo-SpongeBob with two Cruise
Bubbles and a robot Plankton with one, the
robo-sponge adds a vertical karate chop to
its arsenal.
SHiFT baits the metallic sponge to karate
chop the left side of the platform we spawned
on, and utilizes the spinning of the platform
to jump up and hit a debug trigger above us
to skip the fight.
Once the fight “ends,” we’ll be brought
inside of the giant robot, and are tasked
with destroying its brain.
This consists of destroying three fuses in
tunnels that you have to fire Cruise Bubbles down.
SHiFT utilized his cruise boosted speed to
bounce on the far edge of a scripted trampoline
to launch ourselves up onto the edge of the
robot brain.
Normally you’re not supposed to be able
to run down the pathways to the fuses, however,
SHiFT can L-clip, L-jump and grab clip into
each of the three tunnels to destroy each
of the three fuses and finish out the run.
Once we destroy the third and final fuse,
the boss fight is over, we’re awarded our
100th spatula, and the run officially ends.
If you somehow made it to the end of the video,
I’d like to say thank you on behalf of both
myself and SHiFT.
This run really just has so much to it, and
the original script for this video was well
beyond the length of any script I’ve ever
written before, even longer my video covering
the Fallout Anthology speedrun just because
there’s so much to talk about in this game.
If you’re interested in learning about this
game as a speedrun even further, I highly
recommend you watch the recent and first installment
of the Any% World Record History series that’s
over on SHiFT’s channel.
That’s about all for this video though.
Let me know your thoughts on it by either
leaving a comment below, or joining my Discord
server and leaving feedback in the video discussion
channel, link is in the description.
This was a 100% speedrun of SpongeBob SquarePants:
Battle for Bikini Bottom, I’ve been tomatoanus,
and I hope you have an above average day.
