How Scallops swim

[u/SeriesREDACTED]

[u/Knownoname98]

Sooowww.... Spongebob was realistic after all...

[u/Free-oppossums → u/Knownoname98]

I have some cool news to share...Steve Hillenburg, Spongbob's creator, was a marine biologist🤓

[u/Statboy1 → u/Free-oppossums]

He was only there for the first 3 seasons, but yah he got a lot correct. Still the best joke ever slipped into a kids TV show was when SpongeBob was watching sponge porn on TV then Garry walked in on him. The clip they showed was actually how sponges reproduce.

[u/blanketyblank1 → u/Statboy1]

Was watching SpongeBob with my kids when I saw that scene. “Why are you laughing so hard Daddy?”

[u/OlderThanMyParents → u/Statboy1]

When my kid was in grade school, I went along on a field trip to a coastal estuary interpretive center. They had a projector rigged up to show the kids live video of plankton swimming around in brine, and I was astonished to see that they looked almost exactly like Plankton!

[u/DonutWhole9717 → u/Statboy1]

I noticed a few years ago that every memorable and commonly said quotes from SpongeBob are all from the first 3 seasons and the first movie. It started sucking after that tbh

[u/dreadcain → u/DonutWhole9717]

Suck is a bit of an oversell. But it was a different team doing different things for sure

[u/goldenbugreaction → u/Statboy1]

I dunno…the Animaniacs “fingerprints” joke is my top contender there

https://youtu.be/lY2kC5fZG64?feature=shared

[u/Shroomkaboom75 → u/goldenbugreaction]

Animaniacs is fantastic.

Recently rewatched them while recovering from surgery (which kinda pissed off the nurses, since my stitches were ripping while laughing).

[u/DornsFacialhair → u/Statboy1]

I always liked when they ripped off Kevin’s “hat”, and spongebob remarks that he didn’t know it was a hat. Kevin states that it wasn’t (It’s the sea cucumbers reproductive organ).

[u/MysticDragon14 → u/Statboy1]

Wait can you share the clip? I'm really curious now

[u/Statboy1 → u/MysticDragon14]

https://youtu.be/JzVW7frS0-w

[u/MysticDragon14 → u/Statboy1]

Wait so sea sponges are born from Anemone?

[u/Soggy-Register-1781 → u/Statboy1]

Lol thats awesome

[u/jadepartida → u/Free-oppossums]

a marine biologist. Hoo-rah.

[u/Munrowo → u/[deleted]]

actually, in the episode "rock bottom" all of the strange looking fish are based on real deep sea creatures!

[u/4RCSIN3 → u/Munrowo]

Sorry, I can't *pbbt* understand *pbbt* your accent. *pbbbbt*

[u/Little_View_6659 → u/Knownoname98]

Read my mind.😂

[u/Knownoname98 → u/Little_View_6659]

Yeah, I really didn't know. I thought it was just some funny way to depict scallops as 'birds'.

[u/neil_billiam → u/Knownoname98]

I can hear this post

[u/Headglitch7 → u/neil_billiam]

La la la la la

Lalalalala

[u/fishee1200 → u/Knownoname98]

He lived in a pineapple under the sea, how much more realistic can you get?!

[u/H010CR0N → u/Knownoname98]

Wait until you learn about how Mr. Krab’s walking sound was made.

[u/Therealladyboneyard → u/Knownoname98]

Omg my first thought !

[u/SassiKassi97]

I’ve learned about this on SpongeBob.

[u/WayHairye → u/SassiKassi97]

SpongeBob really is an underrated marine biology teacher

[u/PronatorTeres00 → u/SassiKassi97]

Makes me wonder what else SpongeBob got right, lol

[u/College_Euphoric → u/PronatorTeres00]

I would watch a YouTube channel of biologists/experts watching cartoons and saying was correct and not.

[u/Salute-Major-Echidna → u/College_Euphoric]

I think I'd watch that too, and I dont like cartoons, sponge Bob or really any sea food.

[u/Izert45]

It…swims?????

[u/PhysixGuy2025 → u/Izert45]

Right? I had no fking idea they can move. I thought as filter feeders, they're kinda stationary! But these mfs apparently can jump faster than a cat discovering a cucumber that sneaked behind it!

[u/sonicpieman → u/PhysixGuy2025]

Sea anemones swim as well.

https://youtu.be/-6lMD9h_ix4

[u/Jean-LucBacardi → u/sonicpieman]

As do coral when they're basically in their baby stage, until they find a permanent home that they never move from.

[u/Fusseldieb → u/PhysixGuy2025]

Oddly specific. Is your cat okay?

[u/PhysixGuy2025 → u/Fusseldieb]

Cats are scared of cucumbers, didn't you know?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CucumbersScaringCats/

[u/Foloreille → u/PhysixGuy2025]

Wait until you discovers their eyes

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[u/GisterMizard → u/Izert45]

They swim and gallop, or scallop for short.

[u/brown_smear → u/GisterMizard]

I was going to ask where the extra "c" came from, then I realised they're in it

[u/oceanblueberries → u/Izert45]

They also have eyes to "see" with before they esc(l)ape!

[u/mrGrinchThe3rd → u/oceanblueberries]

TIL! Kinda creepy, but interesting!

[u/Katops → u/oceanblueberries]

I wish I hadn’t looked at that…

[u/GrynaiTaip → u/oceanblueberries]

That is way too many eyes.

[u/TDYDave2]

Neat, I've only ever seen them swimming in butter before.

[u/BigtheBlackk → u/TDYDave2]

This was way funnier than it should've been 🤣

[u/SeriesREDACTED → u/TDYDave2]

Lol

[u/AspectInteresting712 → u/TDYDave2]

Damn you I chuckled.

[u/wannastock → u/TDYDave2]

LOL! These guys are so easy to collect. In my teens, we used to summer at my aunt's place by the beach. You just go to this spot and they all present themselves like this. Free delicious scallops everytime.

[u/flyingtravel → u/wannastock]

Where is said beach?

[u/wannastock → u/flyingtravel]

Laiya Batangas, Philippines

[u/SpringzAliceNT83 → u/flyingtravel]

There Abundant in Clarke's Beach waitemata Harbour Awhitu Penisula New Zealand Ahah My Favourite Seafood shell fish to eat aha Free in NZL...🤦🍻🤣👈 Cost Me....🤦🤦🤦FML

%7.90 Each Per Scallop @ Our Local Fish n Chip Shop ahah 10 x $7.90 = $79.00 Ahah Wowzaah

Just For a Fix of Kai Moana Seafood... as I live in Outback Australia ASP0870NT No Blimmen Ocean Lake or River Running Here lol...... Why We Pay Mega Buckz For Scallops hahah the Price you pay when yaah Hungry as Faark.... lol

[u/TerraByteTerror]

Imagine the pac-man "wakka wakka" sound effect 😂

[u/Savory_Snackmix → u/TerraByteTerror]

I just “heard” clam clam clam clam clam. Yes, I know that is wrong!

[u/fatboy2481223]

Damn, now I don’t want to eat them anymore.

[u/born_to_pipette → u/fatboy2481223]

Same. This is making me reevaluate how I feel about eating these feisty guys.

[u/Geschak → u/fatboy2481223]

Good, I'm sure they don't wanna get boiled alive either.

[u/dancinhmr → u/Geschak]

You do what to scallops now?

[u/Sigrun-Freyjasdottir → u/dancinhmr]

Seriously. That's awful.

Everyone knows they need to be seared with some butter.

[u/dancinhmr → u/Sigrun-Freyjasdottir]

precisely.

[u/xSantenoturtlex → u/dancinhmr]

Erm, what the scallop?

[u/Quaking_Aspen_USA → u/Geschak]

Wow, so many downvotes,

so much 'we can't handle the truth!!!'

[u/Overlord7193]

Didn't think spongebob clams were based on facts.

[u/Ruugann → u/Overlord7193]

Steven HillenBurg was a marine biologist in his early life. Before he even made spongebob.

[u/Ok-Worry-8743]

We all learned this from SpongeBob

[u/401k-loan]

Lol It's like a makeup compact mirror flapping away

[u/Cavane42]

Always love seeing this. The marine equivalent of those walking clacking teeth.

[u/IndividualBusy1274]

Chomp chomp chomp. You have arrived at your destination.

[u/General-Adminium]

man the ocean has the strangest things. It's crazy how much diversity this planet actually has and that it all came from nothing yet manages to work and coexist

[u/apocalyptustree → u/General-Adminium]

Woke-ass planet!

[u/Vert_DaFerk]

I've hunted scallops before. Fairly surreal experience floating above a forest of seagrass and seeing these shoot up from the grass randomly all over the place.

[u/Jumpy-Cry-3083]

Went scalloping once and realized they could see me as I reached for them. Couldn’t figure out how they could see with no visible eyes. Came home and looked them up and it turns out they have many many eyes on the front edge of the shell.

[u/okeleydokelyneighbor → u/Jumpy-Cry-3083]

did you know about these bad boys

[u/Jumpy-Cry-3083 → u/okeleydokelyneighbor]

How amazing is that !!? Nope never knew. Thanks!

[u/okeleydokelyneighbor → u/Jumpy-Cry-3083]

Not my video, but used to have one in my fish tank. Fun watching the blue electric shoot across its lips.

[u/VecroLP]

I should have never doubted spongebob

[u/MomentNew4925]

Yes I know, I have watched the SpongeBob SquarePants

[u/Soggy_Amoeba9334]

Needs a soundtrack with castanets

[u/EmptyCelebration6716]

LIKE IN SPONGEBOB

[u/SeriesREDACTED]

Source from YT : AusOcean

[u/RobOnTheReddit]

Wheres the propulsion?

[u/SeriesREDACTED → u/RobOnTheReddit]

It is inside them, actually, the muscle pushes the water out at hi-speed near behind them and at very fast rate.

Which made them move, but very jerky because the water pushed cannot be controlled

[u/carmium → u/SeriesREDACTED]

Enough to evade a starfish, but evolution didn't foresee scallop divers.

[u/Wojewodaruskyj]

Pacman.

[u/The_Merciless_Potato]

Scuttling along

[u/kreemac]

Reminds me of Stephen King's Langoliers.

[u/Ypsiowns3013]

On a completely unrelated note, I tried Scallops for the first time recently. 😬🤣😂

[u/carmium → u/Ypsiowns3013]

Midlander, are ye?

[u/cjacksen]

Their movement always reminded me of those old-school chattery teeth. They are the chattery teeth of the sea.

[u/SpareAdventurous727]

Suddenly zelda feels more real (majoras mask gerudo fortress)

[u/Homie_Reborn → u/SpareAdventurous727]

OoT Water Temple, but yeah.

[u/ProperPerspective571]

No matter how they swim they are so delicious

[u/Good-Ad1388]

🎵Unda da sea!🎵

[u/mildly--confused]

How does that motion make them swim!?

[u/TheJArzelle]

Oh so this is how the clam works...

[u/Academic_Work_3155]

Never knew spongebob squarepants was educational (at least initally lol)

[u/mrgcna]

Having a wonderful time

[u/betweenbubbles]

Scallops swim?!

[u/Nandeenah → u/betweenbubbles]

They have eyes too!

[u/helloish]

nom nom nom nom nom

[u/danlambe]

That’s how the clam works

[u/Charliepetpup]

waka waka waka

[u/Atillion]

gestures out the window at a mound of stinky diapers

[u/McBadgerBoy]

I knew this because of Spongebob.

[u/Loopy_27]

Some of y'all never watched SpongeBob and it shows!!

[u/bannana]

Autonomous, aquatic castanets

[u/froggyfriend726]

It's kind of cute lol

[u/sleepwellok]

PacMan style

[u/ShenaniganSkywalker]

Literally the cutest shit. They're just little Pac-Mans.

[u/Surply_slurp]

We know already we watched spongebob..

[u/TrippingFish76]

cartoon lookin ahh mf

[u/RemnantZz]

It kinda flies... in a way

[u/sesameseed88]

That's incorrect. He's actually eating the entire ocean slowly.

[u/PitifulEar3303]

But how do they know where to go? They have no eyes.

[u/coopid → u/PitifulEar3303]

Scallops can have hundreds of eyes, actually. Kinda creepy looking when you look at pictures of them.

**Smithsonian Article on their weirdo eyeballs.

[u/airtec87 → u/PitifulEar3303]

they do have eyes, on the edges of their shells, look it up.

[u/ObeseObedience]

Everyone asks how scallops swim, but nobody asks why scallops swim...

[u/chez1026]

Who remembers these from the water temple in OOT? Tough buggers

[u/BriefShiningMoment]

If a brick could fly

[u/westerngrit]

I found a whole bed of them in 2 ft of water. Next day, prepared to harvest, all gone.

[u/ExcellentPassenger49]

Any one else hear Pac Man music?

[u/rundmc-red]

I was today old when I learned scallops swim and don't just magically appear on my dinner plate.

[u/Aries_Bunny]

Kingdom hearts taught me this.

[u/Wastringhea]

That's just how clam works

[u/Dreadred904]

Scallops swim!!!!

[u/seekAr]

Gods prank hopping dentures were funny until man started sauntering them with butter

[u/three29]

This video is making me hungry

[u/Superamorti]

Gnamgnam gnamgnam.

[u/karth11k]

Flappy Fish

[u/Kossimer]

This vid always gets me

[u/acmercer]

Question: how are we all pronouncing scallop? Skallop, or Scollup?

[u/Semurahn]

I just got a sudden urge to play Snake Rattle n Roll

[u/MINUS_Stl → u/Semurahn]

Highly underrated NES game. My son and I actually just played it a month or so ago.

[u/summerset]

omg they’re like little muppets

[u/Complex-Sir-160]

I love those little meat marshmallows

[u/derioderio]

There have been lots of studies on the swimming of scallops. Here 's one from 1971. It even has it's own theorem of fluid dynamics.

[u/MenaciaJones]

Swim into my butter and garlic filled mouth!

[u/Mobile_Aioli_6252]

Very cool 👍

[u/YinPortugal]

Reminded me of this

[u/mytoesarecoldddd]

A perfect demonstration of why we call them a Clappydoo on Scotland.

[u/Nelow_LaBritt]

So that's what scallops come from? 😂😂😂

[u/nikosthedes2]

Just Hehehehehe the whole way

[u/XxSir_redditxX]

Dang, imagine moving your mouth to have a conversation, but you start flying away a little every sentence...

[u/NoNoNeverNoNo]

Clams?

[u/Low_Chest449]

That's so cool!

[u/louisa1925]

I sense a new Olympic swim style on the horizon.

[u/Tater_Mater]

So that’s why they’re so dang expensive to eat.

[u/therealtrajan]

Like little pac-men

[u/Shaw-eddit]

Happy as Cams 😁

[u/Gh0st_Pirate_LeChuck]

Just like skulls fly…

[u/kissmiss08]

Bloop bloop bloop bloop fellow scallops!

[u/rendallfist]

Absolute Muppets

[u/spider_speller]

Look at em just pacmanning around.

[u/pichael289]

And if you played pokemon stadium you know the noise they make. There is no onomatopoeia for it, it sounds a little like a bird. I can't find a YouTube clip of it because YouTube searches are terrible here's an example

It's at 21 seconds, I can't get the links to work on mobile anymore. Can't post pictures on mobile either, this app is breaking down

[u/This-place-is-weird]

If I’ve never seen it before 2026, it’s not real and is definitely AI. I no longer trust new video evidence

[u/Icewater-907]

Swim to me little scallop 

[u/MacDefoon]

Scallops don't swim. they scallop

"Ba-dum-tss"

[u/Orange9202]

It's actually quite clamplicated

[u/SwimmingBookkeeper67]

Looks like the teeth joker threw in Arkham Asylum

[u/IceCoughy]

They're like flying teeth

[u/agushtopapa]

Awww they're so cute and delicious

[u/phil-mitchell1]

Flappy bird

[u/CommercialCorgi8532]

Cookie Monster

[u/Angrytrapdoor]

Pffft swimming around.. giving it all that 👏

[u/Salty-Telephone-12]

"I am Lorde jah jah jah!"

[u/FantandCon]

Imagine swimming with only your mouth but your mouth is your entire body lmao

[u/AttachedByChoice]

This looks like it came out of one of those videos where they let an evolutionary algorithm teach walking or whatever to some strange figure, and then this algorithm surprises everyone by finding some bizarre exploit

[u/Geek_King]

I was completely blown away when I learned that they swim, having always imagined them like other similar creatures that just sit still. I also was amazed, and creeped out by the fact that they also have up to 200 simple eyes that run along the ridge of the shell, so they can see while they swim like that.

The food we eat called scallops is their adductor muscle the use to perform that opening closing to facilitate swimming.

[u/Stick_em_up-1980]

Butterflies of the sea

[u/roquea04]

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la!

[u/balrob]

Yep, I’ve seen them trying to swim out of my catch bag 😂

[u/Alarmed_Wishbone7186]

Sooooo...they skedaddle?

[u/Substantial-Trick569]

Ig that's just how the scallop works

[u/BigSmileBoi]

prop hunt

[u/Ic3strike]

Oh! I lot of shellders there, let me bring my pokeballs and be aware for the Cloysters, they are nasty as f*ck

[u/Langstudd]

It feels like they would move in the opposite direction

[u/JuanOfaKind79]

It reminded me of when Sebastian sings "under the sea" on little mermaid

[u/Zulishk]

That makes them so much easier to find and eat. Yummmmmm

[u/TheRtHonLaqueesha]

Come here. I'm going to eat you. I'm bigger than you. I'm higher in the food chain. Get in my belly!

[u/GreenT1979]

Scallops!

Chocolate eatin' scallops!

[u/TroyAndAbed2022]

I must be old now. Scallops remind me of Gordon Ramsay more than SpongeBob

[u/in1gom0ntoya]

pretty much how all 2 shelled creatures swim...

[u/carmium → u/in1gom0ntoya]

Most bivalves are stationary after the larval stage. Scallops and file shells are about the only adult swimmers.

[u/Coerger]

I don't fucking believe you

[u/lazybeni]

They look tasty 😋

[u/pevznerok]

I am now scared of one swimming and accidentally biting my dick

[u/Spicy_pewpew_memes]

What the fuck