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In Spongebob Squarepants a pencil from an artist falls into Bikini Bottom. Spongebob finds the pencil with his friend Patrick and starts drawing. They realize that it’s a magical pencil that brings the drawing to life. Spongebob then draws himself then the drawing becomes Frankendoodle, he steals the magical pencil and escapes hurting Squidward in the process. Spongebob and Patrick find him in a drawn pineapple house and try to ambush him. Frankendoodle quickly draws a hole on the ground and they fall inside. Frankendoodle then draws a bowling ball and throws it at them for a strike then run away towards the fields. When they finally get the magical pencil back, Spongbob goes insane with it and quickly erases Frankendoodle. Spongebob goes home to bed with the magical pencil then Frankendoodle’s arm reappears and draws him back to life. They have a fight over the pencil but then Frankendoodle’s leg gets trapped on a sheet of paper. Spongebob then closes a book on him and hangs the paper on his wall. In the end Spongebob and Patrick return the pencil to the surface and the artist gets his pencil back.



In the novel Frankenstein, Victor creates the Monster with human science but in Spongbob Squarepants, a magical pencil creates Frankendoodle. Frankendoodle is aggressive and violent but can’t be considered as a monster because he doesn’t have horrible characteristics like the Monster. In Spongebob Squarepants, they use humour and child like behaviour to make it suitable for young audiences that would be watching the show. Although it has been manipulated a lot, the main plot of the story didn’t change as much. To create something funny, something terrible was created and the creation was violent towards people. Although in the novel it wasn’t so direct as to Frankendoodle’s version in Spongbob Squarepants, but the Monster was created to be something great but started to murder people afterwards. Frankendoodle is smart just like the Monster and Spongbob Squarepants wants to get rid of the potentially dangerous drawing. When Spongbob almost erased Frankendoodle, he seeks revenge and attacks him at his house. In the novel it was Elizabeth’s death not Victor’s, in a big picture the story is very similar to each other. In the end Spongbob pins the picture of the captured Frankendoodle and is a happy ending and everyone is happy but in the novel, the ending is very tragic. So the main story’s idea is a like but the ending is different, I didn’t realize that the doodle was called Frankendoodle up until now. If you don’t know Frankenstein then I think it’ll be a bit iffy to figure out that it is because of the way it’s drawn and told in the animation.