User blog comment:Darkshadow9735/does else think squidward's suicide is overrated?/@comment-25458443-20161114113603

Because it was dark, pervasice, disturbing, unexpected at the time, and the contrast between childhood memories of spongebob and horrific imagery creates a mental rift that sticks with you. It basically created a new form of "Lost Episode" pastas that still haunts us to this day, and even after all the copy-cats it still sticks out from the mold it invented.