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The Underworld refers to a series of SpongeBob SquarePants memes about the Underworld, a location in the upcoming film The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants, said to be the deepest, most dangerous part of the sea. The film's trailer was released on July 9th, 2025, and became the subject of memes over the following days, including edits that distort and alter the clip where Mr. Krabs talks about The Underworld. The memes have been compared to the memes based on A Minecraft Movie, many of which were based on quotes from the film.

Origin

On July 9th, 2025, the Paramount Pictures YouTube^[1] channel released the trailer for The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants, garnering over 3.5 million views in five days. Around the 00:35 timestamp, Mr. Krabs talks about taking SpongeBob to the "deepest, most dangerous part of the sea," called the Underworld.

As early as July 11th, 2025, TikTokers began posting edits of the trailer, many focusing on Mr. Krabs' delivery of the line "the Underworld." The exact origin is unclear, but one of the earliest notable examples was posted by TikToker^[2] @tophathorizon that day, ranking various quotes from the trailer, garnering over 550,000 views in three days.

Spread

Memes editing and referencing the scene became increasingly popularized on TikTok over the following days, drawing comparisons to memes about A Minecraft Movie.

For example, on July 12th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @squirtle025 posted a video edit of the clip, garnering over 250,000 views in two days.

That same day, TikToker^[4] @bigmeatyclaws3 posted an edit of the clip captioned, "Ts gonna be the Minecraft movie all over again," garnering over 2.1 million views in two days.

On July 14th, 2025, YouTuber^[5] Lessons In Meme Culture posted a video about the meme, garnering over 160,000 views in under a day.

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