You are now leaving Bikini Bottom! SpongeBob's stressful night in Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom is the 35th episode of the first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants and originally aired on March 15th, 2000. Wow! that's practically 18 years ago. It's crazy how fast time goes where the years now suddenly end within a blink of an eye. I used to think the years were slow when I was ten years old, boy was I wrong

Now back to the subject at hand. Rock Bottom is the first episode to place our happy go, lucky friend, SpongeBob, into a town he has never heard or seen before. A town that is believed to be within the deepest area of the sea known as the Abyssal Zone or Abyssopelagic Zone, where no light reaches it and always remaining in darkness

It all started when SpongeBob and his best friend Patrick Star were boarding a bus after spending a fun-filled amusement park known as Glove World. SpongeBob was allowed to board the bus without having to pay any money after he accidentally kept smacking the Bus Driver with his Glove balloon every time he turned around while finishing for cash inside his pockets. Patrick soon notices a sign reading " You Are Now Leaving Bikini Bottom", which takes them down a 90-degree cliff and entering a dark eerie town only known as Rock Bottom

 The episode doesn't reveal much about this mysterious town, except for signs such as the town's sign written in a distorted version of the English language, the bus station which becomes an integral part of the story for our heroes. It also included a strange bathroom where you can't tell which is the men's and women's based on the simple fact it had two question marks with one facing the right way up and the other faced upside down

It also showed strange looking deep sea animals residing in Rock Bottom with their language is only spoken in raspberry, where before they would begin a sentence they would blow raspberries, this followed in a middle and at the end of a sentence

SpongeBob decided to go to the bus station to find out when the next bus will be arriving, but unfortunately for him, he misses the bus that managed to take Patrick back to Bikini Bottom. Stranded in this dark town and desperate to return home, SpongeBob stands at the bus stop for several hours with several incidents leading to his balloon being blown away with an angler fish chasing it and going over to a Kandy machine to get some food, the bus always passes him by

 Angry at his failed attempts, SpongeBob headed over to the Bus Station to demand when the next bus will be arriving and that he'll be going first in line before the Rock Bottom residents. But as SpongeBob saw the bizarre creatures standing in line, he easily gives in and headed straight to the back of the line

After spending many hours inline, SpongeBob finally made it over to the ticket booth and asked the Ticketmaster when the next bus to Bikini Bottom will be arriving. Unfortunately for SpongeBob, the last bus left after only waiting for five seconds at the stop sign, leaving our friend to fend for himself for the remainder of the evening. Despite the fact, Rock Bottom is always constantly dark and you can't even tell when it's morning over there 

SpongeBob attempted to use his glow in the dark glove light in order to help him see in the dark after the Ticketmaster turned off the power in the bus station, but the glove light easily uses up all of its power and leaving SpongeBob in the dark

And if that wasn't enough, SpongeBob heard raspberry sounds within the darkness of Rock Bottom, which caused Spongebob to flee the station in terror and making his way back to the 90-degree angle road. The raspberry sounds continued to grow louder and louder, which caused us to think a monstrous creature was about to devour our beloved Sponge. Fortunately, the sounds turned out to be the same angler fish who met SpongeBob

  earlier in the night and went after his balloon. 

The anglerfish ties the balloon around Spongebob's arm and blew more air into it, while SpongeBob was grateful he failed to see the purpose of the anglerfish blowing into his balloon until Spongebob found himself  drifting into the air and allowing him to return to Bikini Bottom in one piece 

The episode ended with Spongebob landed outside his pineapple home, he sees Patrick on a bus heading back to Rock Bottom vowing to rescue his best friend and not realizing SpongeBob has already left

This is, without doubt, my favorite episode of SpongeBob, just because it was set in a different setting and how dark it was with the ominous music accompanying it