2 SpongeBob Episodes Pulled From Streaming

Two episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants have been deemed inappropriate and pulled from streaming services Paramount+ and Amazon. You may be able to guess why "Kwarantined Crab" got the boot: The 12th-season episode deals with a virus plotline (in the show, it's the "clam flu") that make it incompatible with "sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic," a Nickelodeon spokesperson tells CNN. As for "Mid-Life Crustacean," which involves characters stealing a woman's underwear, "we determined some story elements were not kid-appropriate," the rep says. As IGN and ScreenGeek explain, that 2003 episode has been "out of rotation" on television since 2018, but had previously still been available to stream.