Is SpongeBob SquarePants Secretly About Mental Illness?

Given its overly cheerful tone, SpongeBob SquarePants has made way for a variety of theories about its characters, and some claim the real meaning of the show deals with different Spongebob mental illness themes. SpongeBob SquarePants has become the most successful Nicktoon to date. SpongeBob SquarePants has a unique sense of humor that hasn’t been everyone’s cup of tea, prompting all types of interpretations about their characters that go from all of them being on different drugs or even being the representation of different mental illnesses. The characters’ personalities are extreme and very different from each other, with the purpose of making way for comedic and even absurd moments.