Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3542887-20170709003930/@comment-1705775-20170713201446

also these "chased with bulldozers" etc elements are ridiculous.. you are as well saying Tom and Jerry are serial killers, it is called cartoon violence and is deliberately exaggerated for comedy.. these acts can never kill anyone in setting.. heck, Squidward regularly gets mutilated on-screen and returns next episode or even a few scenes later perfectly fine.

it's a cartoon, they act like "toons".. most cartoon characters are horrendously violent - it is done for comedy.. over-thinking these actions is foolish because they are literally just jokes.

Squidward chasing them with bulldozers or mallets or other cartoon antics is nothing.. Krabs and Plankton are here because they do far worse and it is treated more "serious" than a joke.

for example Plankton's brand of cartoon violence is often seen as an actual threat rather than a gag and Krabs has downright horrible actions that involve psychological abuse and proven criminal records (which are admitted to in-universe and not just as joke references).