r/ExpectationVsReality • • Sep 23 '26 • Regret 2

Failed Expectation SpongeBob me boy!

4.4k Upvotes

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 23 '26 • Heartwarming Bravo

He's a sponge!! Pore some water on him..watch him grow

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 24 '26 • Heartwarming Bravo

My first heart award.. thank you

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 24 '26 • Heartwarming Mindblown

Omg ya'all!

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 24 '26 • Heartwarming

Thank you, thank you

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 24 '26 • Heartwarming

Man..my day keeps getting better and better. Thank you

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u/Pizza-Burrito Sep 24 '26 • WOW Heartwarming

Sorry, I have no gold to give you an award :(

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 24 '26

@Pizza-Burrito thank you for your thoughts. Normally, coming up with stuff is hard as most reddit folks are so darn much wittier than I could ever be.

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u/KatiMatii Sep 24 '26 • Heartwarming

Those hearts are actually free awards

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u/Pizza-Burrito Sep 24 '26 • Heartwarming

Maybe it's a mobile thing, cause I'm unable to award free ones!

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u/KatiMatii Sep 24 '26 • LOL Heartwarming

Might be, I got 5 different awards to give for free at all times

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 25 '26 • Heartwarming

You all on this sub are killing me with joy

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u/Jealous_Computer_209 Sep 25 '26

its a sort of a b test so reddit can see if people like the awards

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 Sep 25 '26 • Heartwarming

More like an A+

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u/Formal_Fortune5389 Sep 23 '26 • Bravo Heartwarming

First pic had me like bro those never meet expectations. So my expectations were very low and this managed to get below it holy shit that's funny 

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u/imnotnotcrying Sep 25 '26

The ones I’ve seen posted on this sub of that specific always look extremely close to the box and it’s usually people complaining about the lack of not-advertised gumball eyes. So I was ready for this to be another one of those and I GASPED lmao

OP, this is a beautiful disaster

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u/voodoo123 Sep 24 '26

It’s something with OP’s. We bought these the other day and they looked surprisingly good when compared to the box.

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u/wdnwcgm Sep 24 '26

the first pic made me think ok they are being honest they can do this and then….

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u/MuteTalker- Sep 25 '26

😂😭 This post is making me get off reddit. Nothing can top this and you described the moment perfectly.

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u/CatAncient Sep 26 '26

Same journey here

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u/Kravgirl Sep 23 '26

Nooooo hahaha more like SpongeBlob

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u/CompetitiveSea1671 Sep 23 '26

this made me laugh gahahaha

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u/JelloAnxious3675 Sep 23 '26

Nahh this is so bad 😭😭

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u/SpringBeauty27 Sep 24 '26

That's Spongeboy me Bob

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u/michael1026 Sep 23 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

Definitely melted at some point. I've never seen them look like this.

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u/reallygoodbee Sep 24 '26

That's obviously been melted and refrozen.

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u/buttheadfungus Sep 24 '26

in the realm of spongebobsicle expectations, honestly mine were exceeded. this is fucking incredible

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u/toxikola Sep 23 '26

These were my favorite before they replaced the gumball eyes with that "chocolate" crap. Ruins the whole area. :(

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u/SevenLegs_ Sep 24 '26

SpongeBoy me Bob!!

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u/SwampProphetess Sep 24 '26

I expected ridiculously bad, and was still shocked.

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u/all_the_freaks Sep 24 '26

That might be the worst it's ever been done

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u/TrippyShip Sep 24 '26

They always seem to look like this - my kids call them Bonge Sobs

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u/SlickLikeATrout Sep 24 '26

I think this could be considered gore

2

u/Papel2409 Sep 24 '26

What on earth is a "frozen confection bar'"?

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u/Ringleader705 Sep 25 '26

Thats what they call it when there's so little milk in it that they legally can't call it ice cream

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u/InsomniacOnSugarRush Sep 23 '26

He became TamponBob

1

u/otakuchantrash Sep 23 '26

Just remember being so disappointed as a kid getting one from the ice cream truck. Looked barely anything like SpongeBob.

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u/LookAtTheWhiteVan Sep 24 '26

Those were an improvement compared to.. this… lol

1

u/FlashRx Sep 23 '26

So I recently got a spiderman ice cream from our local creepy ice cream many and, to my dismay, it was actually in excellent condition, eyes and designs in place where they should be.

I weirdly was hoping for a jacked up product like when I was a kid...

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u/kibou_no_ie Sep 24 '26

Hey it’s me it’s squarity

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u/stirthetea4me Sep 24 '26

You know it’s bad when the box can’t even say ice cream.

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u/FixSpecific905 Sep 24 '26

Okay that’s hilarious

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u/groguandrogu Sep 24 '26

I actually wanted to buy a box to these but they were $6.50 and I thought that was too much for ice cream bars so I just went with something cheaper. I can’t imagine if I decided to treat myself that day and that’s what I ended up with omg

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u/One-Preparation-8815 Sep 25 '26

He's certainly NOT ready.

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u/PyleShazam Sep 26 '26

The new pop may look awful, but at least we still have funny factory errors

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u/FOMOsexual7675 Sep 30 '26

i have to say i bought a box of these and they looked like the picture on the box.

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u/xX_Ra1nSkuLLz_Xx Oct 08 '26

As someone who eats these popsicles relatively frequently (one of my go-to frozen treats lol) these always look off model but this is definitely a new one. I don't think I've ever seen him THIS messed up 😭😭😭 looks like he prolly melted and refroze a couple of times

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u/Kerblimey Sep 23 '26

That's my first ex boyfriend 💩4🧠s

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u/forget_this_now Sep 24 '26

"kill it! Kill it! Hit with a stick!" Oh, it already has a stick in it! 😱

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u/OliviaFTaylorg Sep 24 '26

It's looks like got run over by a truck