The Real Bikini Bottom
Super adults (also known as historians) might recognize Bikini Bottom as a reference to Bikini Atoll, a real world place that the US army once nuked to test their atomic weapons. Alas, the area surrounding Bikini Atoll was inhabited by Pacific Islanders, who had to be forcibly relocated and were never allowed to return home. “SpongeBob SquarePants” takes place in an irradiated No Man’s Land at the bottom of the sea near a nuclear test site.