cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41722004
Never having watched SpongeBob, I hear Popeye laughing and think that's the joke. Am I right?
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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The laugh is a play on nucleobases of DNA; adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine, and cytosine (C), and thymine (T, not featured in the meme.)
Oh I definitely got the genetic reference already, just wanted to know if I was reading it appropriately as a laugh.
Yes
Similar, the character to read it as is Mr. Krabs.
Woah, you got it... I never noticed how similar their laughs are
I actually saw a minute or two of SpongeBob and was surprised/annoyed they didn't seem to be moving underwater.
I think I expected the show to be more sophisticated in a useless way.
Heh, there actually is space between the surface and ocean floor where the show does act like they are underwater, but yeah it's a silly cartoon that often doesn't subscribe to rules of reality.
I do love that it's set in Bikini Bottom.
We nuked the hell out of the Bikini Islands for nuclear tests.
SpongeBob and his friends are all mutants.
I also heard Popeye
That’s pretty good