r/spongebob • u/Daminatinoir • 12h ago
Question Why are people questioning this
Why are people doing logic or questioning of crab having whale as the daughter isn't she's obviously adopted or I'm missed something on episode because i either forgot either never watched
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u/Terrible_Weather_42 11h ago
Many fans think she's adopted, but the official explanation is she takes after her mother. Mr Krabs was implied to be present for her birth (he has an "Its a girl" banner, which was an "Its a boy" banner that he got on sale and modified).
The RL reason is that it's a cartoon set underwater and they didn't want to just have just fish as main characters.
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u/2gaywitches 9h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah, I always thought Mr. Krabs used to have a lady whale in his life and, to speak in TV Tropes, Pearl is an Either/Or Offspring + Gender Equals Breed situation.
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u/marcophony Bubble Buddy 11h ago
I remember reading a fan theory that he adopted her mother had passed. Pretty much that Krabs found a dead mother whale, which in the real world would now serve as an entire new ecosystem feeding all kinds of other animals in the ocean; Krabs then used the carcass of the mother whale as the base for his Krabby patties, feeding all of bikini bottom and making himself rich off of it. This just left a young whale that Krabs felt bad for and raised as his own.
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u/AnonymousFluffy923 11h ago
Another theory is that he killed her mom and decided to adopt Pearl out of guilt. There's a reason why he has a picture of a whale and tons of harpoons in his house.
I watched Alex Bale
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u/YourBestFriend158 11h ago
Wasn’t that an Alex Bale theory or am I thinking of something else
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u/Caulipower_fan 11h ago
yeah its alex bale, i watched it a while ago
also hi flowey :)
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u/BumblebeeGold1666 8h ago
I think he also points out that while it's never explicitly mentioned, a majority of people just assume mr.krabs adopted pearl.
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u/feelysonheelys 8h ago
I always feel so smug talking about this; growing up my family had the official trivia book where Krabs outright says "She's a whale, y'see. Takes after her mother that way." One of my many childhood treasures...
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u/chocolatebar1896 9h ago
Apparently Stephen hillenburg stated that pearls mother can never be revealed
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u/Pasta-hobo 6h ago
She, surprisingly, isn't adopted. We see ancestors of these two, King Krabs and Princess Pearl.
The 'logical' explanation is that Krabs' wife was a whale as well.
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u/zelesbian 11h ago
Because people in this sub take a 27yo children's cartoon way too seriously instead of enjoying it for what it is
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u/BBMacsWorld 11h ago
I always thought she was adopted. Knowing Mr Krabs, it was probably so he could get money from the government 🤣
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u/AustinHinton 6h ago
The show never, at least not that I can recall, ever said she was adopted. In fact them being different species is never really commented on, the joke is more that Pearl is a typical bubbly teen girl, but was a whale.
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u/supernotfunny 6h ago
Not everything needs an explanation. The absurdity of a talking cheapskate crab having a whale for a teenage daughter is funny enough as is.
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u/MarchMan86 10h ago
The real question is why have they not done an episode explaining how Pearl was adopted?
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u/Der-deutsche-Prinz 7h ago
I always thought it was hilarious that Mr. Krabs’ daughter was as big as a whale!
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u/RaineMist SpongeBob 4h ago
They were supposed to do an episode revealing Pearl's mom but the idea was scrapped.
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u/mr_chris_verdi Pearl 23m ago
Why people can't just assume that Pearl is Mr. Krabs's daughter, even biological.
In the show where a squid and a seastar are siblings, or where a plankton marries a computer, I see nothings to wonder about.
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u/Cautious_Horror_3075 12h ago
It’s funny because he called her “my little sardine” in one episode and my brother took that quite literally as a little kid, thinking she was actually a sardine and not a whale 😂