Hi all, I hope that this is the right subforum to post this on, and that the information that I've provided is relevant and interesting enough. This is just something that has been bugging me for as long as I can remember and I want to see if anyone here would have any information on this, as I've been looking for ages to find info myself and came up with nothing.
I was at a charity shop in Ireland with my parents around 2007 and we picked up this Spongebob DVD, the DVD had the usual professional packaging and nothing about it seemed off, I don't believe it could've been someone's bootleg. Pretty sure it was in PAL format as I wouldn't have been able to play it otherwise. I don't remember the packaging too well but if I saw a picture of it it'd probably come back to me. This DVD had about three episodes on it, I always thought that it was maybe some kind of promotional thing because of that. One thing that stood out to me when I watched the DVD is how "new" these episodes felt to me, like I've never seen them before, and I had a lot of Spongebob DVDs at the time. However I seriously doubt there were any episodes that were exclusive to this DVD. The episodes were all in English.
One of them was 100% a mermaid man and barnacle boy episode, but I don't remember any of the other episodes well enough to describe them without making far out guesses.
In between episodes, there were a few of these "Astrology with Squidward" shorts, like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITrkymDqbzk (I don't remember if this was one of the signs featured)
I'm afraid I'm not in possession of the DVD anymore, I've looked for it before and couldn't find it. We moved houses a lot growing up so it probably just got lost in the mix.
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Are you thinking of "2 Secret Episodes"? It was released in McDonald's Happy Meals in 2007, and had two episodes on it. Neither of them are a MM&BB one, though, nor are there any Astrology wraparounds. spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/2_Secret_Episodes!
Are you thinking of "2 Secret Episodes"? It was released in McDonald's Happy Meals in 2007, and had two episodes on it. Neither of them are a MM&BB one, though, nor are there any Astrology wraparounds. spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/2_Secret_Episodes!
Hmm, that's a really good possible match. I guess that unless someone comes up with a different answer, I'm going to have to say that it was probably this, thank you. Timeline matches up, the DVD could've looked like that, though honestly I can't say for sure.
What's really throwing me off is the fact that there aren't any Astrology shorts on 2 Secret Episodes, I remember those so vividly. They were what stuck out in my memory about the DVD, and I would've probably forgotten about it if it wasn't for them. I'm willing to put past the fact that there aren't any mermaid man & barnacle boy on 2 Secret Episodes as I could've misremembered Smelly from "The Thing" as one of them.