Someone has dug up and published a rare raw audio recording of a classic SpongeBob SquarePants episode, which includes SpongeBob swearing, lots of goofy gags, and the fun origins of one of the best-known SpongeBob memes.

What seems to be a clip of raw voice-recorded audio from SpongeBob SquarePants episode 33a, Shanghaied, appeared on YouTube and Archive.org last week. As far as anyone can tell, the audio is legit — the recording is an hour and fourteen minutes long and includes all of SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and the Flying Dutchman's lines. That includes loads of outtakes, fun conversation between takes, and even some lines and gags that were changed slightly in the final version.

Shanghaied sees SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward stumble upon the Flying Dutchman's ghostly ship, where they get up to some ghost pirate hyjinks while trying to keep the Dutchman from eating them. The original episode was a special airing featuring two alternative endings that audiences were encouraged to vote for, each one different depending on which character received a "wish" from the Dutchman. Shanghaied includes a number of well known SpongeBob gags that have achieved meme status over the years, including Patrick yodeling "LEEDLE EEDLE EEDLE" and a frantic sprint through "the perfume department."

The original audio is a delight to listen to. There are some slight differences from what aired, most notably in the first part of the episode when SpongeBob declares "The sky had a baby!" and Squidward suggests he climb up the "umbilical chord" — this was changed to the less scientific "anchor rope" in the final episode. There's also an entire cut line, where Patrick says, "I knew our oufits weren't skimpy enough," in response to the Dutchman deciding to eat the trio rather than keep them on his ghostly crew. The censors probably wouldn't have gone for that one!

Throughout, you can hear actors Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), and Brian Doyle-Murray (The Flying Dutchman) getting up to all sorts of laugh-inducing shenanigans between takes. There's a lot of joy, too, from the late show creator Stephen Hillenburg, who you can hear directing and who appears to be directly responsible for approving Fagerbakke's "LEEDLE" yell amidst Fagerbakke's various takes.

Toward the end, Kenny even does the unthinkable: he makes SpongeBob drop an F-bomb at the prospect of being eaten by the Dutchman. Kenny's being goofy — the crew has to do several takes on this one, because the directors don't want the screaming to be too graphic. They're told not long after they can't tell the Dutchman not to be "such a jerk," and Kenny adjusts it to "so mean" instead.

The whole file is a really enjoyable listen for anyone who likes SpongeBob, but fans seem nervous that it won't be available for long. The file seems to have already been torn down from its original spot on archive.org, so it's only a matter of time before it vanishes from other places too. Enjoy SpongeBob saying [dolphin noises] while you can!

We interviewed Fagerbakke a few years ago upon the debut of The Patrick Star Show, and chatted with him and Kenny again the following year to learn how to talk like their characters. SpongeBob SquarePants itself is currently in the midst of season 14, but has been renewed for a 15th season.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.

Is the new Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, too difficult? Opinions are mixed, but fortunately, there are many options to make the DLC more doable if you're struggling. One of them that's particularly beloved by the community right now is one of the new weapons introduced in said DLC: thrusting shields.

The Elden Ring community has reached a consensus: these shields are good. Real good. There are dozens of threads on the Elden Ring subreddit praising them over the last few weeks, with one thread in particular shooting to the top of the subreddit in recent days with the following subject: "New Thrusting shields are the strongest weapons in the entire game and it's not even close. NG+ DLC was absolutely obliterated. Thrusting shields can be enchanted with any affinity/damage type that makes them extremely versatile. And it's just so much fun to slap the grace out of every single boss!"

A community of dedicated Nintendo 3DS Street Pass fans has finally found the rarest puzzle in Puzzle Swap, ANAでDS, after weeks of searching. This means StreetPass Mii Plaza: Puzzle Swap has officially been 100% completed for the first time since its release 13 years ago.

We covered the group's hunt last week, as for months a small community of Puzzle Swap-lovers has been hunting down every puzzle ever made available for the Street Pass app. That includes several time and region limited puzzles that over the years have become quite rare.

As of June they had found every single puzzle bar one: a rare airplane-themed puzzle that was only available at select airports in Japan for a few months. The group was exhausting every connection they could to find just one person who obtained the puzzle back in the day, at which point a simple file upload would allow the group to share it with the world.

Yesterday, July 3, 2024, someone finally came through. Community leader Benny received an email from an individual containing a friend code and a zip file with the text, "I hope the following information is exactly what you're looking for." The community immediately got to work. While the file itself looked promising, they needed the person who sent it to accept a friend request first for the transfer to work. The data also needed to be decrypted and put into a usable format, a process which multiple Discord community members helped with.

Then, at 4:45pm Pacific time, a post:

And moments later:

The Discord erupted. The stranger who had reached out with their puzzle had come through, and at last all 63 Puzzle Swap puzzles had been found and archived. In the following hours, the group worked together to share the puzzle with everyone in the Discord who wanted it, before discussing plans to bundle all 63 puzzles together in one file so that anyone in the future who wants access to them can enjoy.

Here it is, in all its glory:

Well, it was bound to happen eventually: the Catholic Church is preparing to canonize the first-ever gamer saint.

Earlier today, the Vatican announced it would canonize Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who will be the first millenial saint of the Catholic Church. Acutis died from leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15.

Acutis was born in 1991 in London, and moved to Milan, Italy with his family not long after. He grew up in the Catholic faith, frequently volunteering with homeless individuals, cleaning up litter in his neighborhood, working at his local church, and otherwise performing acts of kindness.

Alongside other hobbies and interests, Acutis apparently enjoyed video games and was known to play Halo, Mario, and Pokemon. His mother claims that while he purchased a PlayStation when he was eight, he limited himself to just one hour of gaming a week due to concerns about addiction. Acutis was adept with technology, and has been referred to as "God's influencer" due to his work documenting various Catholic miracles on a website he designed.

The Elden Ring community's favorite folk hero, Let Me Solo Her, has finally completed the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, after a streaming marathon spanning multiple days during which he struggled repeatedly against the DLC's final boss.

Warning: Spoilers for the ending of Shadow of the Erdtree follow below!

The Final boss is kicking my butt rn pic.twitter.com/nf4htyip9T

— Let me solo her (@TsuboiKlein) June 29, 2024

Tsuboi Klein, also known as Let Me Solo Her, has been steadily working his way through the new Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree with the rest of us. Just yesterday, he finally crossed the finish line, defeating Promised Consort Radahn live on stream after something in the vicinity of 74 attempts. Despite being thought of as something of an Elden Ring expert, Let Me Solo Her really struggled with the second coming of Radahn, only defeating him after several hours of attempts spaced out over two days.

"Holy crap, my fingers are actually trembling right now," he said upon victory. "I'm shaking."

Let Me Solo Her rose to notoriety by offering his summon sign to players struggling to beat the most difficult boss in the base game, Malenia. Wearing nothing more than a pot on his head, Let Me Solo Her has defeated Malenia hundreds of times now on behalf of others. While it might be natural to expect him to breeze through the DLC with skills like that, it's worth noting that Let Me Solo Her got so good at Malenia by practicing her fight a lot. It took him over 200 attempts just to beat her the first time. So it's only natural he'd get good at Radahn with practice, too.

So is Let Me Solo Her going to master Radahn and help others defeat him now? Probably not just yet. Let Me Solo Her acknowledged at the end of his stream that he had somewhat beelined his way to Radahn and hadn't finished a lot of the other DLC boss fights, so he wants to go back and wrap things up first. He also wants to enjoy the DLC a bit off-stream, too, just for himself. Additionally, he's already been spending his time helping others beat Messmer, another story-required boss fight that many are struggling with. He's even technically rebranded as "Let Me Solo Him" just for that fight. Let Me Solo Her will continue to assist other players with Messmer for a bit longer, he says, before moving on to helping people with Radahn.

I BEAT THE FINAL BOSS LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/XUxVmAUitB

— Let me solo her (@TsuboiKlein) June 29, 2024

We interviewed Let Me Solo Her two years ago during the height of his fame, and can confirm that he's delightful not just in battle against Malenia and Radahn, but also to speak with. And we caught up with him again ahead of the release of Shadow of the Erdtree to hear his plans for exploring the Land of Shadow. Sounds like that's going great for him.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.