so this guy, he was going through some serious shit at this exact moment. he was the lifeguard. but he was negligent. and he wasn’t able to save someone
you can see this is him coming to grips with the fact that he’s going to have to live with that guilt for the rest of his life. you’re watching a man at the exact moment his heart shattered like glass.
spongebob may have just been pranking him (which is fucked up we’re not gonna get into it) but this man was surely left with some debilitating mental scars from this event
ALT