So 3/4 of this review is just flat out wrong then? You said 'The problem with it is that they hand it to a one off, someone we know nothing about', and that's wrong. So the premise actually works then. Also the Peter Lorre fish isn't a one-off either, he's been showing up since S11. S
Slappy Lazslo(The Peter Lorre Fish) and Nosferatu aren't one-offs either, they've been appearing on and off since S11 too as a duo for horror jokes or old references. Really, this whole review kind of fell flat for me because you got a lot of things wrong...though I agree on the Sandy segment. ew. (SpongeBob started bringing back old characters as early as S8, that's when Bubble Bass got his first appearence since S1 and Bubble Buddy got a sequel episode, and S9 introduced Spot who's been a recurring character recently, but S11 was really the major one with characters like Lazslo or Rube. It's an effort to flesh out the world and create new plot opportunitys)
SpongeBob feels like it lived a good life, died a horrible death , temporarily became a zombie , fell into a Lazarus pit and became healthy , and then slowly began dieing of old age
What happened is they lost Hillenburg again. And the new generation of writers understand WHY people hated the middle seasons, and so avoid that, but they DON'T understand why people liked S1-4. Also Rube isn't a one-off
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is the first time Rube's name is mentioned out loud during an episode, while in the past episodes he appears in ("No Pictures Please," "The Ballad of Filthy Muck," and "Pineapple RV") having no indication of his name, except for being listed in the end credits.
@@carst0128 I think it was because Doug Lawrence had a blast voicing him for a while, next to Plankton and Larry. (I don’t want anyone to go after him, Doug Lawrence did nothing wrong, I’m just stating the obvious), but still a pretty silly reason for Rube to be a main or technically supporting character
Is Paul Tibbett still a part of the show? I want to think if even he had a say in the matter, the show would still be good. (And yes, I know he's not entirely innocent, either. He wrote Restraining SpongeBob and was the head honcho during SpongeBob's seasonal rot, but he also co-wrote Sponge Out of Water.)
@@nascarfanatic2425 Paul Tibbit no longer works as the showrunner nor being part of Nickelodeon anymore. He is currently at Dreamworks Animation. If you ask him, he already knows the soul of SpongeBob is dead and corporate greed cannot be stopped unless it’s JUDGEMENT DAY.
@@The0320Angela Paul Tibbitt left after "The Whole Tooth" at the end of season 9. I know they give DoodleBob some speaking roles in "Doodle Dimension," "Captain Pipsqueak," and "Squidiot Box," but even those episodes just lazily reuse the same exact gibberish dialogue from "Frankendoodle" as Paul Tibbitt himself was not called back to provide the voice again or record new audio.
Not really. Nickelodeon just expects viewers to eat their shit like candy regardless of what it is or what they make. They literally play on the stupidity of the human race.
"hey, I'm gonna reference a show that has suffered an even more worse seasonal rot than the show I'm attacking, that'll prove that I have the moral high ground!"
As a longtime SpongeBob, even I can definitely say,…. Sad, but true. 🥲 I still love SpongeBob to this day, but even a longtime fan like me can even acknowledge when the flaws are present.
That’s what I said when I saw it - it felt like what my stepmom thinks older Spongebob was and I’m all, “Is this why kid cartoons now are either imported ala Bluey or loud and obnoxiously simple?”
In the episode chocolate with nuts, that old lady stated "I remember when they first invented chocolate". That was thousands of years ago. They ruined that joke by giving her an age and that was one of my favorite nuances of any joke.
If she was alive to see and remember the invention of chocolate, she would have been born before 1900 BC, making her at least 3,924 years old, as of 2024. However it’s possible she might be referring to the invention of the chocolate bar which was invented in 1847 which would make her at least 177 years old. However, this is contradicted in "Biddy Sitting" with a birthday card in the bathroom revealing Baby Prunes to be at least 137 years old and in "FUN-Believable," she claims to be 116. I know the lack of continuity in SpongeBob, but they seam to be making Baby Prunes' exact age younger and younger as her appearances go on.
Seriously, that’s what made her and Mary so iconically memorable! Mary was already potentially in death’s doorstep, but she still had to take care of her much-older mother who looked like a zombie worm or something. And then these boys come along with a metaphorical fountain of youth, and we laugh at her prolonged suffering despite her wanting her mother to die already. Then it’s made better that these two hags were our heroes’ chosen dates!😂
My name is Patrick Star And I am proud to be On my own TV show Right here on Nick, you see. There's talk shows And relatives And even an urchin. Through bad times And good times The viewers will be lurchin'! Since Stephen H. is gone, The writing sure does blow, But still my show is on, This is The Patrick Show!
Spongebob should've ended in 2019. The show had the perfect opportunity with its 20th anniversary special, which I think was one of the last episodes Hillenburg worked on before he died.
@jaxsterminator8634 Are you saying this as a blind, optimistic fan or a nihilist? Edit: Nevermind, I read your other comments. You're an idiotic fanboy who never grew up out of his childhood shows and would probably eat a week-old burger out of the garbage if the wrapper was labeled "Krabby Patty".
@jaxsterminator8634 No, you're an unhinged manchild who can't think critically about your favorite show. Spongebob isn't perfect and no TV series should last forever. And way to prove me right by deleting my reply.
I’ve been saying this for a while. The current era has a gem in it every now then but the vast majority is just randomness, wacky faces, referencing classic episodes, and whatever this episode is. SpongeBob feels more like a mascot than a character.
@@cordyceps7531 Meanwhile we have "BassWard" which is the first episode where SpongeBob DOESN'T appear in any way, shape, or form. I don't know why it took them this long to do it, but honestly we need more episodes that. Give mascot SpongeBob some more breaks and don't have him appear for the entire duration of an episode.
Spongebob, himself, feels like 3 different characters to me. First you have season 1-3/4 Spongebob, season 4/5-9 Spongebob, and season 10-current Spongebob. You can really see his character change as the show goes on (It kinda looked like he changed along with the kind of show that appeared to be successful w/the target audience at the time).
Same. This feels like one of those cases where a show tends to be alot stronger when it's original creator is at the wheel. As soon as that is taken out, it tends to drive the Quality into the ground, at least in alot of cases anyway.
Actually Rube Goldfish was in a couple of episodes before this, SpongeBobs Big Birthday Blowout, where he was a tour guide, and another episode (that’s a parody of The Twilight Zone because IDGAF), where Patrick becomes a tour guide and tours Rube around Bikini Bottom. So I guess he’s here because he’s related to touring.
A parody of the Twilight Zone can work in Spongebob, but it requires deliberate pacing and setup. Every episode of the old Twilight Zone was cerebral. The only way the chaos Spongebob could work is if it were done in an era when normalcy was the established standard and you entered into this new world devoid of reason.
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is the first time Rube's name is mentioned out loud during an episode, while in the past episodes he appears in having no indication of his name, except for being listed in the end credits.
This is the 4th distinct era (I guess Post-Hillenburg?), and you can tell the writers here grew up with both the series and it's critics. They're almost deliberately avoiding ANY mean or gross humor(even stuff that the early seasons would do) because they know about how S6 and S7 failed. And they're including a lot of call backs, partially for fan service and partially because people used to complain about bad continuity in the middle seasons like Patrick's sister not existing ,then existing, then being a different person. It's not good, but at the very least you can tell they know what failed a decade ago and aren't going to repeat mistakes. That's something. Plus the continuity stuff has made a couple of good episodes like Doodle Dimension or most of the Bubble Bass episodes. It actually reminds me a lot of how Simpsons eventually moved past the 'Jerkas Homer' problem era. The show still sucked, but the mean spirited issues of Seasons 10-15 mostly left after the movie and other issues cropped up instead.
Post Hillenburg sounds a lot better. Where things went down in a steep cliff. We got spinoffs, 2 to be exact, breaking Stephen's rule for Spongebob. We got characters canon to the spinoffs in season 13 and 14 episodes like Something Narwhal This Way Comes and A Skin Wrinkle in Time. Minor thing is Spongebob no longer being the focus of HIS OWN SHOW! Which is now the norm in this era because we got Shell Games, Lockdown for Love, and of course Bassward.
I’ve always wanted characters from older episodes to come back. One character I really wanted to come back was Flats The Flounder. I really liked the idea of SpongeBob having his own rival. But it seems like it’s too late now.
Now SpongeBob is definitely the Sonic of television. Goes up and down like a rollercoaster in quality, and sometimes it goes down for fixing problems people had with a previous bad era way too much.
“A jar of mayonnaise is this episode now” Now that I think about it, I would unironically watch a show about a jar of mayonnaise trying to figure out how to be an instrument. That would make for a better plot than this. Edit: Patrick would watch that show to prove his theory is correct, and Squidward would look at it and say, “I was wrong”.
For a while now it’s been seeing like they’re trying to “Mickey mouse-ify” the SpongeBob cast. Meaning, they just throw them into random situations. But everything you said is right, you still need a plot even in episodic shows. I also think the SpongeBob writers/animators don’t understand why “animation humor” like exaggerated facial expressions work - they’re funny in something like Ren and Stimpy because they exaggerate real emotions and/or raise the tension/stakes. Maybe it’s a product of the OG SpongeBob writers being raised on actual real life comedies, and the modern writers being raised on animated comedies. You lose the thread when you forget that all art has to be based on the human experience to hit home.
They first made Mickey Mouse cartoons continuously from 1928 to 1953 with a break during World War II. After that, it was 30 years before he made another one. By next year, SpongeBob will have gone on longer.
I know it’s hard to keep coming up with original stories, but the early seasons worked so well because they picked a super simple idea and made it funny. Even if the idea was absurd, it was still a simple plot summary. SpongeBob opens a bubble stand. The boys take squidward jelly fishing. The boys go to the moon. You can’t really summarize these newer episodes in a single sentence.
Mr. Enter 2 years ago: If an episode comes out that’s worse than anything on this list, I’ll give it a full review, and then I’ll eat my hat. Fun believable: eat your hat.
@@bartholomew_41He said if he found a SpongeBob episode worse than his #1 pick on his Top 10 Worst SpongeBob episodes list, he’d give it a solo review and then eat his hat.
@@avalasialoveHard to be worse than Pet Sitter Pat and One Coarse Meal, but it can be done. Though Demolition Doofus arguably has the worst plot in terms of what it does with the characters.
Seasons 13 onwards, it feels like several episodes are doing nothing but “nostalgic pandering”. As in bring back things from the golden years as a way of them saying, “hey, remember this?” as a way to make up for the episode’s lack of quality and to recapture the original pre-movie magic. But it just comes off as both lazy and desperate, AND IT’S GETTING OLD!
It’s like the show knows it’s been going on forever but can’t do shit about it. Honestly when I heard they dragged Nosferatu back my brain immediately went, “Why did they take a one-off gag, a vampire that was literally made as a counterpoint to Dracula, *to the point where Bram Stoker’s wife threatened to burn copies of it* - and make him Dracula?! That not only kills the joke, but also disrespects why the film exists in the first place!” Not to mention, what’s the point of the Patrick Star Show if they’re just going to use the main show to air out goofiness?
I dont think the show really got good again in the first place, it more so just fixed a lot of problems to make it go from a hellish show to an average show. There were a couple banger episodes and i thought mayyyybeeee the show was gonna be good again but then it kinda of just went back to a S5 territory of things.
The reference I *think* they are going for with Rube Goldfish is Huell Howser. He hosted a local PBS show in California called California’s Gold (1991-2012). He would go up and down California to towns both big and small and highlighted what made them unique. It is an insanely deep cut but if you have seen the show you’d understand that the host had a lot of potential for comedic parody. Idk if this helps but there ya go
yeah the 20th anniversary was basically the show's unofficial finale like Channel Chasers was for Fairly Odd Parents (I mean by how both feel grand and such)
One easy way I would rewrite this episode is Have Squidward do his TV show but he adds funny yet sarcastic commentary to Rube's TV segment, bashing it every second he gets; Classic Squidward stuff. This goes on for a while and eventually, Rube finds out that Squidward was being negative on his show. These string of events could cause Squidward's show to have higher ratings, this will end up making Squidward happy as his show is gaining attention he craves for. Rube will end up doing the same thing to Squidward. You can have this be a constant back and forth during the episode. Squidward is doing this because he dislikes Rube and how random he is. Rube is doing this because he wants his show to have high ratings. You could also have Rube critique Squidward's show, only difference would be the random factor. Have him do it in a way that is random but he does it in such a manner that sounds like he is making fun of Squid. (I tired to give a good reason for the random humor and this was a solution I thought of.)
I said this to my friend a few years ago, it's trying to be Rockos Modern Life in approach to storyboard and randomness It worked there because they were humorous background gags or actually were tied directly with the plot itself
I heard C.H. Greenblatt does NOT want to return to SpongeBob after the way Nickelodeon treated Harvey Beaks. C.H. Greeenblatt also has some negative feelings on Nickelodeon and a series of angry rants which were later deleted because unfortunately trashing on companies and networks is not going to get you very far in the entertainment industry.
They did not even attempt to hide it being one of the writer's fetishes lol. It is like multiple all rolled up into one and no justifiable context for it even happening. Crazy stuff.
Rube Goldfish ISN'T a one-off, he's a new recurring character they introduced in S12 and he's also been in The Patrick Star Show a couple times. Neither are Slappy Lazslo(Peter Lorre Fish) or Nosferatu, they're a recurring duo.
Same goes for the Peter Lorre fish, he first appeared in the 20th anniversary special, and has made quite a lot of appearances since then, in both the main series and The Patrick Star Show. So as you may guess, something unique about this new era of Spongebob is that they have actually been trying to create new characters instead of just using anyone who appeared in the first 3 seasons more than once.
Even Spongebob was baffled and traumatized by the horror of witnessing inflated Sandy, I guess it's confirmed what his opinion on the fanart of her would be lol
The same happens whith every old gag character they introduce as a regular character now. For example if they also give the Crazy Chocolate with nuts fish its own character they have to explain why he likes chocolate so much or why he bought so much chocolate. Maybe he has a secret Willy Wonka type of factory when he needs the most amount of chocolate imaginable or something like that. (I can see the current SpongeBob staff doing something like that) but it fundamentally ruins what made the old gag special. Kinda like they did with Nosferatu, Fred, and now the Old Ladies
Yeah that segment with Sandy has FOUR fetishes that do tend to overlap namely feeding, vore, inflation/weight-gain, and fat fetishes. My source is sharing hobby interests like Star Wars/Trek, Mech/Mecha games/shows/anime, history, science, Warhammer 40k, etc. with folks I've met on the internet in various places that have their own interests in that type of stuff.
Man, Tom Kenny's voice sounds like it's been through the ringer. Was he sick when he recorded this episode? I get that he's been doing this voice for over 20 years, but that was rough.
I heard Tom Kenny is starting to show his age while doing the SpongeBob voice lately. The recent video games SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 have the same issue if you listen really closely.
This might be a hot take but, I would honestly rather have the torture and gross out of season 6 and 7 than the random slop we have now. At least episodes like The Splinter are interesting to talk about.
Even Uncle Grandpa despite being a surreal nonsense of a Cartoon, at least it has something that this episode and The Patrick Star Show don't have A Coherent Plot for each episode
Nothing wrong with referencing something from the past like the Nosferatu gag from Graveyard Shift but the problem with current era SB is it does this almost every other episode, like a desperate attempt for viewers but not in a good way. It forces it too much instead of trying to be subtle (like how the gags were meant to be). Adding all this randomness with no consistency or structure and stretching them thin just defeats the purpose of the joke. Even in some of the worst episodes like Little Yellow Book, at least there are some nice one-liners at the Krusty Krab and some quick rapid jokes mixed in between before it gets actually bad. It would still feel like SpongeBob. These newest seasons don’t even feel like SpongeBob at all, at least in the structure, which is why I might rate them lower than seasons 6 and 7
The Writers have this mentality that Nostalgia automatically equals success and because of it, they are prioritizing it more over the actual story of the episodes. Funnily enough, this isn't even the worst episode of the season.
@@andykishore Even a SpongeBob fan like me thought that episode was AWFUL. Like not infuriating, but bad to the point of being uncomfortable, I mean like Nutcracker in 3D Awful- No, I can’t go there, but you get what I mean. It was hard to swallow on how they turned SpongeBob into a straight up STALKER in that episode. At least Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2 was more faithful to SpongeBob and his friends.
It seems like Modern SpongeBob is just bring back classic characters for the sake of Member Berries (South Park Reference) and are hoping that will be enough ti get the viewers invested in their lackluster plots.
I think Nosferatu the film is old enough to be Public Domain now, I think it was released in 1922. 'Checks Wikipedia.' Yeah as of now, that film is 102 years old.
I feel sad about current SpongeBob being as nonsensical as it is. I wish I wouldn’t call it bad nowadays, but what it does is just weird. I don’t really think it’s as bad as Seasons 6 & 7, those seasons were just gross, but season 12 onwards just feels obnoxious. I love this show, but I don’t like where it is now. I vividly remember seeing it during it during Seasons 7 & 8. Bad times I know, but I still knew it was SpongeBob, now I can’t even tell if it’s SpongeBob or a hallucination of wacky faces. I feel bad for how the show is now. It saddens me.
The nostalgia bait is what pisses me off the most tbh. The fact that they can't even try to do something new and just play it safe by parroting a premise or extra from Seasons 1 - 3 word for word. They're not even successfully pandering since the majority of Gen Z doesn't seem to care about the latest seasons, they're feeding nostalgia bait to kids who don't even have nostalgia for it lmao.
With the team also working on Camp Coral and The Patrick Star Show at this time, it's possible the writing team might have a bit too much to work on! I mean, I can't imagine having to write multiple episodes of 3 very similar shows within a time limit!
Thing is going to be a weird thing to say since its off topic, but i'm glad to see you still making reviews. I feel really bad because years ago, I jumped on the hate bandwagon that was picking on you. You've grown and i'm glad nothing detered you. I also want to say, i'm sad that spongebob fell off a cliff again. It seemed like it was FINALLY starting to become fun and interesting. Now it looks like its gone insane and just doesnt seem to understand anything that happened in the golden era of spongebob.
Modern SpongeBob feels like it aims more to adults who are fan of the show instead of kids nowadays really, the humor and jokes still feel really 90's with the Ren & Stimpy-esque slapstick and are very different of what 2020's cartoons aim.
To me, it feels like it's trying to appeal to kids who are growing up on stuff like skibidi toilet. If it is trying to appeal to adults, they really missed the mark
@@ScooterCat64 I feel like their trying to be more Loony Tone esque. I mean the artstyle and general higher slapstick humor clearly has Ren & Stimpy vibes. (it should be noted Cabel television is nowadays shifted towards an older audiance, to the point even Networks like CN have been shifting more adult (they literally have Adult Swim at 4 or 5 PM now plus have more older cartoons) I think this is what their appealing now)
Yeah... no. It is too chaotic to appeal to the adults of the 90s. The chaos of the 90s was channeled-this is just unadulterated nonsense. The old show basically took the premise of the Simpsons and translated it to be more universal and family oriented. (I am well aware that old Simpsons were watched by the whole family, as the writers deliberately utilized intelligent innuendos and altered some scenes-it is a consequence of it being a primetime show during the late 20th century when television was a family affair.)
It's interesting we went from boring slow paced trash as being the issue with this show to the modern issue being random self referential nonsense. Who would've guessed the show would progress to this point?
Alright! back to mr enters bread and butter. Bad Spongebob episodes. I do think that episodes that are bad are not the result of lacking creativity but running out of ideas for a long running series.
The show should have ended after the first movie, like it originally was supposed to. That would be the storybook ending, with the show going down as one of the greatest and most loved show in history.
Fun fact, thanks to the Perch Perkins great-grandma character appearing in this episode, it is now confirmed that the Patrick Star show takes place 3 years before the main series. The fact that everything changed in just the 3 year time skip is incredible.
@@CosmicSponge2004Well if it was the case, a few episodes from the main series still referenced the spin off (Same with Kamp Koral). So I guess it's 3 years before those episodes. But besides that, I do believe that the spin offs aren't in the same universe as the main one. And I don't care what they made me believe. I think the crossover episodes pretty much established them being alternate timelines.
Imma be real, there's more Squidward torture porn in the recent seasons than the dark ages of spongebob where the concept was introduced. Seems the new writers have a hate boner for squidward than the former writers itself.
2:16 I like the pictures of obscure locations seen during the intro to Rube's show. Also, I do remember finding "FUN-Believable" pretty decent in my opinion. But I do agree that new SpongeBob in general right now is not the greatest.
Wait…SpongeBob is still airing new episodes? Yeah that makes sense. I just realized how this could have been salvage. Make this the SpongeBob version of 22 Short Films About Springfield. Where we focus on characters like Larry the Lobster and other background characters.
That I would actually really like to see. More slice of life episodes about the citizens of Bikini Bottom is what this show needs to stay fresh and relevant.
While I don’t think the current seasons are AS bad as seasons 6 and 7, I kinda agree that it turned more of a "Find the Easter Eggs" children’s book than an actual show. I think they took the continuity thing to an extreme degree. Come on, SpongeBob can have continuity AND have its good ol' charm. It’s not that hard.
I do still think season 13 has some creative episodes with "Welcome to Binary Bottom," "Arbor Day Disarray," "SpongeBob on Parade," and "Spatula of the Heavens."
It went bad again the moment they started with the "zany" art style change and the addition of exaggerated expresions on every character, even on the ones that don't needed it.
shitsons is boomer. It was always overrated and it just got worse and worse once Greg Daniels left for an actually adult-centric animated sitcom, *King of the Hill.*
Not surprised, it's mostly just slapstick nowadays. It's missing a lot of the charm that the first 4 seasons had in my opinion. Sure there are some great episodes from the modern era, but said era still pales in comparison.
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Correction: Rube Goldfish has appeared in several episodes prior to Fun-Believable, first debuting in the season 11 episode "No Pictures Please."
Does that overall change your view on the episode in anyway? It was your single biggest complaint as to why the episode didn't work conceptually
@@kalkuttadrop6371You gotta a point. 🤔
So 3/4 of this review is just flat out wrong then? You said 'The problem with it is that they hand it to a one off, someone we know nothing about', and that's wrong. So the premise actually works then.
Also the Peter Lorre fish isn't a one-off either, he's been showing up since S11. S
Slappy Lazslo(The Peter Lorre Fish) and Nosferatu aren't one-offs either, they've been appearing on and off since S11 too as a duo for horror jokes or old references.
Really, this whole review kind of fell flat for me because you got a lot of things wrong...though I agree on the Sandy segment. ew.
(SpongeBob started bringing back old characters as early as S8, that's when Bubble Bass got his first appearence since S1 and Bubble Buddy got a sequel episode, and S9 introduced Spot who's been a recurring character recently, but S11 was really the major one with characters like Lazslo or Rube. It's an effort to flesh out the world and create new plot opportunitys)
Slappy also showed up in some prior episodes
SpongeBob feels like it lived a good life, died a horrible death , temporarily became a zombie , fell into a Lazarus pit and became healthy , and then slowly began dieing of old age
Yeah that's the long and short of it
Its more like the show kept using the Lazarus pit to the point it looked like ras al ghul in arkam knight
Or Bane from Batman Beyond 😬
Never
The Two Lives of SpongeBob.
What happened is they lost Hillenburg again. And the new generation of writers understand WHY people hated the middle seasons, and so avoid that, but they DON'T understand why people liked S1-4.
Also Rube isn't a one-off
Is Hillenburg the reason why this show booms in it's good eras?
@@mooseman3027 It's likely a large factor, different showrunners want to take Spongebob in their own direction that's different from Hillenburg
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is the first time Rube's name is mentioned out loud during an episode, while in the past episodes he appears in ("No Pictures Please," "The Ballad of Filthy Muck," and "Pineapple RV") having no indication of his name, except for being listed in the end credits.
He was originally, but then they decided to make him a main character for no reason
@@carst0128 I think it was because Doug Lawrence had a blast voicing him for a while, next to Plankton and Larry. (I don’t want anyone to go after him, Doug Lawrence did nothing wrong, I’m just stating the obvious), but still a pretty silly reason for Rube to be a main or technically supporting character
They took if”Nautical Nonsense be something you wish” literally
…aw, fuck, they did.
Too literally.
To quote AniMat from his review of Sponge Out of Water, I think they took the Nautical Nonsense up to the MAX
we didn’t exactly wish
@@shedingleonmyberryBut Disney Did
With The Goat Saying My Butt Found It
Laugh Track XD
Nickelodeon doesn’t know what to do with this show without Stephen Hillenberg.
Is Paul Tibbett still a part of the show? I want to think if even he had a say in the matter, the show would still be good. (And yes, I know he's not entirely innocent, either. He wrote Restraining SpongeBob and was the head honcho during SpongeBob's seasonal rot, but he also co-wrote Sponge Out of Water.)
Plus the show has gone on for too long
@@nascarfanatic2425 Paul Tibbit no longer works as the showrunner nor being part of Nickelodeon anymore. He is currently at Dreamworks Animation.
If you ask him, he already knows the soul of SpongeBob is dead and corporate greed cannot be stopped unless it’s JUDGEMENT DAY.
@@The0320Angela Paul Tibbitt left after "The Whole Tooth" at the end of season 9. I know they give DoodleBob some speaking roles in "Doodle Dimension," "Captain Pipsqueak," and "Squidiot Box," but even those episodes just lazily reuse the same exact gibberish dialogue from "Frankendoodle" as Paul Tibbitt himself was not called back to provide the voice again or record new audio.
@@The0320Angela Oh, I see.
Mr Enter's going back to his roots with SpongeBob.
Yeah, but not necessarily with synopses of episodes.
It's tradition.
Oh no........... 😱
yeah. no more ideas
Just no attacking the writers this time.
Spongebob can only peak for 3-5 seasons at a time
Yeah just let them recharge there batteries it’ll get better
season 8 was good in my opinion, 6 and 7 weren't as much
Just like Disney.
@@jytvrealwho asked?
Oh, well. Guess we'll just have to wait another 7 or 8 years ago to see it get good again. We'll hit that third golden age eventually.
Considering Nick’s poor quality control and greedy attitude regarding its IPs, should we really be surprised that SpongeBob got bad again?
Not really. Nickelodeon just expects viewers to eat their shit like candy regardless of what it is or what they make. They literally play on the stupidity of the human race.
Not really.
Yeah; The Show just Got BAD after Hillenburg Died!!
@@New3DSLuigi364started seasonal rot in good neighbours after he left back in season 4 and its gone up and down in terms of quality since
we're not surprised, just disappointed
Are we not going to mention the fact that Tom Kenny's Spongebob voice is clearly starting to give out?
@@peterhanson3472 Throw South Park onto that pile and I agree.
The SpongeBob laugh is so insufferable now it was actually tolerable in the much earlier seasons
It's probably from how obnoxious they make Spongebob nowadays with how Spongebob just screams all the time poor Tom Kenny
@@andrewtuell1991As long as politics are ridiculous, South Park will exist. Or until the bros get tired making it and end it on their terms.
@@fuzzybuzzy3159 Is there anything in the contact saying South Park *has* to be an unfunny SNL wannabe that never comes off its soapbox?
I think it’s safe to say SpongeBob in terms of eras is a roller coaster going up or down in terms of quality and right now the coaster is down
Theyre relying on nostalgia on a sequel to idiot box and they ruin the surprise of the original
But, that hopefully means if the show keeps going, we'll eventually hit another peak
@@Thomasmemoryscentral they can only do so much with SpongeBob.
Kinda like the Sonic franchise, now that I think on it.
Not surprised that the quality of SpongeBob fluctuates.
literally this entire episode:
"MEMBA DIS? MEMBA DAT?"
""OH YEAH I MEMBA"
Oh no...
Memorberries...
this was unironically funnier than the whole episode
Basically the best way to describe Nu-Bob period
Seasons 13 and 14 in a nutshell
"hey, I'm gonna reference a show that has suffered an even more worse seasonal rot than the show I'm attacking, that'll prove that I have the moral high ground!"
Newer Spongebob kinda feels like what our parents thought older Spongebob was
As a longtime SpongeBob, even I can definitely say,…. Sad, but true. 🥲
I still love SpongeBob to this day, but even a longtime fan like me can even acknowledge when the flaws are present.
Hi Ceroba
holey shirt ceroba?
That’s what I said when I saw it - it felt like what my stepmom thinks older Spongebob was and I’m all, “Is this why kid cartoons now are either imported ala Bluey or loud and obnoxiously simple?”
It's because you're not a kid anymore. It wasn't any better when we were kids, our parents then are you now.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become Family Guy
Oh, GOD, I hope it never actually gets that bad.
@@RealSirMikay I mean after episodes like The Splinter, House Fancy and Pineapple Fever, we are pretty much already there
@@SpikeShooter92Pineapple Fever is hilarious, what are you on
At least it’s not compared to Ren and Stimpy APC
Okay, wow, that's an exaggeration. The Simpsons is a better example.
In the episode chocolate with nuts, that old lady stated "I remember when they first invented chocolate". That was thousands of years ago. They ruined that joke by giving her an age and that was one of my favorite nuances of any joke.
If she was alive to see and remember the invention of chocolate, she would have been born before 1900 BC, making her at least 3,924 years old, as of 2024. However it’s possible she might be referring to the invention of the chocolate bar which was invented in 1847 which would make her at least 177 years old. However, this is contradicted in "Biddy Sitting" with a birthday card in the bathroom revealing Baby Prunes to be at least 137 years old and in "FUN-Believable," she claims to be 116. I know the lack of continuity in SpongeBob, but they seam to be making Baby Prunes' exact age younger and younger as her appearances go on.
@@andykishoreI kind of like that actually. Gives the impression she lies about her age to seem younger lol
@@violetstickit might be in character for her
Seriously, that’s what made her and Mary so iconically memorable! Mary was already potentially in death’s doorstep, but she still had to take care of her much-older mother who looked like a zombie worm or something. And then these boys come along with a metaphorical fountain of youth, and we laugh at her prolonged suffering despite her wanting her mother to die already. Then it’s made better that these two hags were our heroes’ chosen dates!😂
I think the joke is implying when chocolate was first mass produced, which is the second half of the 1800s.
"Fun-believable feels like a sub-par episode of the Patrick Star show."
Savage.
My name is Patrick Star
And I am proud to be
On my own TV show
Right here on Nick, you see.
There's talk shows
And relatives
And even an urchin.
Through bad times
And good times
The viewers will be lurchin'!
Since Stephen H. is gone,
The writing sure does blow,
But still my show is on,
This is The Patrick Show!
Enter’s reaction to Sandy voring Rube Goldfish is up there with Vinny accidentally finding the shitty Dinosaur Train vore art. I live for this shit!
Wait that exists?
Oh dear god...
Why did you bring that up?!
@@MrYoshiNL you know what really bugs me is that Rube Goldfish isn’t a goldfish.
Thanks for reminding me of that. It gave a whole new meaning to "eat the dario"
Spongebob should've ended in 2019. The show had the perfect opportunity with its 20th anniversary special, which I think was one of the last episodes Hillenburg worked on before he died.
SPONGEBOB WILL NEVER END
@jaxsterminator8634 Are you saying this as a blind, optimistic fan or a nihilist? Edit: Nevermind, I read your other comments. You're an idiotic fanboy who never grew up out of his childhood shows and would probably eat a week-old burger out of the garbage if the wrapper was labeled "Krabby Patty".
@@jlev1028 I’m not an idiot. I’m the only smart one here.
@jaxsterminator8634 No, you're an unhinged manchild who can't think critically about your favorite show. Spongebob isn't perfect and no TV series should last forever. And way to prove me right by deleting my reply.
his last episode was pineapple rv
I don’t know which is worse.
Episodes of people getting hurt for no reason or randomness for randomness.
Randomness for randomness
People getting hurt that junk looks grooossss.
Hurt for no reason. Random Event Plots can actually be pretty funny
hurt
Randomness is boring, unnecessary pain is irritating
I’ve been saying this for a while. The current era has a gem in it every now then but the vast majority is just randomness, wacky faces, referencing classic episodes, and whatever this episode is. SpongeBob feels more like a mascot than a character.
SB is kind of like Mario: he is a brand, not a character.
@@wallyhackenslacker wasn’t always the case, just as of recently he’s just been this one note happy go lucky character
@@cordyceps7531 Meanwhile we have "BassWard" which is the first episode where SpongeBob DOESN'T appear in any way, shape, or form. I don't know why it took them this long to do it, but honestly we need more episodes that. Give mascot SpongeBob some more breaks and don't have him appear for the entire duration of an episode.
Randomness and wacky faces are HILARIOUS.
@@jaxsterminator8634 in moderation, not as the whole deal
Spongebob, himself, feels like 3 different characters to me. First you have season 1-3/4 Spongebob, season 4/5-9 Spongebob, and season 10-current Spongebob.
You can really see his character change as the show goes on (It kinda looked like he changed along with the kind of show that appeared to be successful w/the target audience at the time).
It’s the same problem Ben 10 has
I think it’s the Fairly Oddparents all over again.
Modern SpongeBob isn't made to be watched as a TV show like original and even "dark era" seasons.
It's made to be clips and memes for internet.
That's putting the cart before the seahorse.
Honestly I think I saw this coming the day Steve Hillenberg died. Him coming back to the show is what saved it from Seasons 6 & 7 the last time.
Same. This feels like one of those cases where a show tends to be alot stronger when it's original creator is at the wheel. As soon as that is taken out, it tends to drive the Quality into the ground, at least in alot of cases anyway.
"You just can't wait for me to die, can't you?"
-Spongebob, 2024 probably
Actually Rube Goldfish was in a couple of episodes before this, SpongeBobs Big Birthday Blowout, where he was a tour guide, and another episode (that’s a parody of The Twilight Zone because IDGAF), where Patrick becomes a tour guide and tours Rube around Bikini Bottom. So I guess he’s here because he’s related to touring.
A parody of the Twilight Zone can work in Spongebob, but it requires deliberate pacing and setup. Every episode of the old Twilight Zone was cerebral. The only way the chaos Spongebob could work is if it were done in an era when normalcy was the established standard and you entered into this new world devoid of reason.
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is the first time Rube's name is mentioned out loud during an episode, while in the past episodes he appears in having no indication of his name, except for being listed in the end credits.
When your characters entire joke is saying “Amazing”
This is why *The Scary Door* is one of the best parts of *Futurama.*
This is the 4th distinct era (I guess Post-Hillenburg?), and you can tell the writers here grew up with both the series and it's critics.
They're almost deliberately avoiding ANY mean or gross humor(even stuff that the early seasons would do) because they know about how S6 and S7 failed. And they're including a lot of call backs, partially for fan service and partially because people used to complain about bad continuity in the middle seasons like Patrick's sister not existing ,then existing, then being a different person.
It's not good, but at the very least you can tell they know what failed a decade ago and aren't going to repeat mistakes. That's something. Plus the continuity stuff has made a couple of good episodes like Doodle Dimension or most of the Bubble Bass episodes.
It actually reminds me a lot of how Simpsons eventually moved past the 'Jerkas Homer' problem era. The show still sucked, but the mean spirited issues of Seasons 10-15 mostly left after the movie and other issues cropped up instead.
Haven't caught up with Spongebob in a while, but Bubble Bass has been great with each recent appearance
I think it's called Post Trilogy Era
Post Hillenburg sounds a lot better. Where things went down in a steep cliff. We got spinoffs, 2 to be exact, breaking Stephen's rule for Spongebob. We got characters canon to the spinoffs in season 13 and 14 episodes like Something Narwhal This Way Comes and A Skin Wrinkle in Time. Minor thing is Spongebob no longer being the focus of HIS OWN SHOW! Which is now the norm in this era because we got Shell Games, Lockdown for Love, and of course Bassward.
I’ve always wanted characters from older episodes to come back. One character I really wanted to come back was Flats The Flounder. I really liked the idea of SpongeBob having his own rival. But it seems like it’s too late now.
@@lucasmatthiessen1570 What a wasted potential really. If they're overdoing callbacks, why didnt he come back as a major character in the new seasons?
My own dreams have more coherent plot than this.
real
Do tell.
Now SpongeBob is definitely the Sonic of television. Goes up and down like a rollercoaster in quality, and sometimes it goes down for fixing problems people had with a previous bad era way too much.
It never went down in quality
as someone who grew up with both of these and knows the fan reactions of them throughout their existence, this is so true it’s crazy
Damn… who knew that aside from that common, they also have YTP longevity in that common too
“A jar of mayonnaise is this episode now”
Now that I think about it, I would unironically watch a show about a jar of mayonnaise trying to figure out how to be an instrument. That would make for a better plot than this.
Edit: Patrick would watch that show to prove his theory is correct, and Squidward would look at it and say, “I was wrong”.
What about an episode about a jar of horseradish?
Mayonnaise: Behind the Music
For a while now it’s been seeing like they’re trying to “Mickey mouse-ify” the SpongeBob cast. Meaning, they just throw them into random situations. But everything you said is right, you still need a plot even in episodic shows.
I also think the SpongeBob writers/animators don’t understand why “animation humor” like exaggerated facial expressions work - they’re funny in something like Ren and Stimpy because they exaggerate real emotions and/or raise the tension/stakes.
Maybe it’s a product of the OG SpongeBob writers being raised on actual real life comedies, and the modern writers being raised on animated comedies. You lose the thread when you forget that all art has to be based on the human experience to hit home.
They first made Mickey Mouse cartoons continuously from 1928 to 1953 with a break during World War II. After that, it was 30 years before he made another one. By next year, SpongeBob will have gone on longer.
I know it’s hard to keep coming up with original stories, but the early seasons worked so well because they picked a super simple idea and made it funny. Even if the idea was absurd, it was still a simple plot summary. SpongeBob opens a bubble stand. The boys take squidward jelly fishing. The boys go to the moon. You can’t really summarize these newer episodes in a single sentence.
Mr. Enter 2 years ago: If an episode comes out that’s worse than anything on this list, I’ll give it a full review, and then I’ll eat my hat.
Fun believable: eat your hat.
He didn't say this episode was worse, he just said it was bad for its own reasons
At least the other bad episodes had a plot and were not relying on other episodes
It's like the post-Hillenburg showrunners are keeping SpongeBob going, with no freaking clue what to do with it.
At least the security system didn’t take control of Squidward’s house this time…
6:05 “Feels like a broken AI.”
You hit the nail on the head.
Aight Enter stick to your word, eat your hat
I remember him saying that. 😂
I forget, what did he say lol
@@bartholomew_41He said if he found a SpongeBob episode worse than his #1 pick on his Top 10 Worst SpongeBob episodes list, he’d give it a solo review and then eat his hat.
I think I remember that now.
@@avalasialoveHard to be worse than Pet Sitter Pat and One Coarse Meal, but it can be done.
Though Demolition Doofus arguably has the worst plot in terms of what it does with the characters.
Seasons 13 onwards, it feels like several episodes are doing nothing but “nostalgic pandering”. As in bring back things from the golden years as a way of them saying, “hey, remember this?” as a way to make up for the episode’s lack of quality and to recapture the original pre-movie magic. But it just comes off as both lazy and desperate, AND IT’S GETTING OLD!
The Veggietales AI generated weedeater joke skit has been actualized into reality. Veggietales tried to warn us.
In the future, entertainment will be randomly generated!
@@OptimusPhillipAnd it is garbage! Nothing about it is interesting in the slightest.
@@sonicmastersword8080aah!!
It’s like the show knows it’s been going on forever but can’t do shit about it.
Honestly when I heard they dragged Nosferatu back my brain immediately went, “Why did they take a one-off gag, a vampire that was literally made as a counterpoint to Dracula, *to the point where Bram Stoker’s wife threatened to burn copies of it* - and make him Dracula?! That not only kills the joke, but also disrespects why the film exists in the first place!” Not to mention, what’s the point of the Patrick Star Show if they’re just going to use the main show to air out goofiness?
I dont think the show really got good again in the first place, it more so just fixed a lot of problems to make it go from a hellish show to an average show. There were a couple banger episodes and i thought mayyyybeeee the show was gonna be good again but then it kinda of just went back to a S5 territory of things.
This show has become Nickelodeon's cash cow at this point.
@@Smile200-z4y Exactly. It’s obnoxious.
I swear the damn ocean waves have les ups and downs than the quality of SpongeBob
The reference I *think* they are going for with Rube Goldfish is Huell Howser. He hosted a local PBS show in California called California’s Gold (1991-2012). He would go up and down California to towns both big and small and highlighted what made them unique. It is an insanely deep cut but if you have seen the show you’d understand that the host had a lot of potential for comedic parody. Idk if this helps but there ya go
Yep, that’s the exact parody. I’ve seen a few crew-members mention it.
Rube Goldfish's voice and mannerisms are based on Huell Howser, who hosted California's Gold.
Season 1 to Season 3 are by far the best series for SpongeBob.
Just as a friendly reminder: we are approaching the show’s 25th anniversary…
And The Simpsons turns 35.
I heard they might be doing something special for that.
Isn't that why they made sequel episodes like Squidiot Box?
also, Raven Software's fantasy FPS game from 1994, Heretic, turns 30 this year
I don't know why im bringing this up on a spongebob video
"I think I have a nut ache" mmwaa goodnight everybody
I stopped caring about SpongeBob after the 20th anniversary episode
Same. Either the blowout episode, the musical, the movie, or the 10th anniversary. Pick an ending and stick to it.
I stopped caring after the 10th annivesary
Even as a kid, I saw how completely r*tarded the series got
yeah the 20th anniversary was basically the show's unofficial finale like Channel Chasers was for Fairly Odd Parents (I mean by how both feel grand and such)
@@board-qu9iu agreed
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" at least had respect for Stephen Hillenburg at the very end.
One easy way I would rewrite this episode is Have Squidward do his TV show but he adds funny yet sarcastic commentary to Rube's TV segment, bashing it every second he gets; Classic Squidward stuff. This goes on for a while and eventually, Rube finds out that Squidward was being negative on his show. These string of events could cause Squidward's show to have higher ratings, this will end up making Squidward happy as his show is gaining attention he craves for. Rube will end up doing the same thing to Squidward. You can have this be a constant back and forth during the episode. Squidward is doing this because he dislikes Rube and how random he is. Rube is doing this because he wants his show to have high ratings.
You could also have Rube critique Squidward's show, only difference would be the random factor. Have him do it in a way that is random but he does it in such a manner that sounds like he is making fun of Squid. (I tired to give a good reason for the random humor and this was a solution I thought of.)
I said this to my friend a few years ago, it's trying to be Rockos Modern Life in approach to storyboard and randomness
It worked there because they were humorous background gags or actually were tied directly with the plot itself
Rocko's Modern Life was also satire about 20th century American life.
Rocko's Modern Life actually knew how to make those be relevant to the plot.
@@andykishore Exactly
Hey now. Mr. Enter.
You promised that if you reviewed another Bad SpongeBob episode you'd eat your hat. Better hold up your end of the bargain.
SpongeBob is a roller coaster of a show for sure
If the rollercoaster was always super high and never dipped then sure
It started on the moon and is now under hell
Yep, critical and audience ratings go up and down and up and down like there's no tomorrow.
This was sadly going to happen with Stephen Hillenburg now gone forever
Humans didn't make this episode. AI did. I could honestly believe this.
It's not soul-crushingly freakish enough to be AI.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the plot was actually made by AI.
C. H. Greenblatt needs to run Spongebob and get his crew to join along. He’d mitigate some of the problems the show currently has
I heard C.H. Greenblatt does NOT want to return to SpongeBob after the way Nickelodeon treated Harvey Beaks. C.H. Greeenblatt also has some negative feelings on Nickelodeon and a series of angry rants which were later deleted because unfortunately trashing on companies and networks is not going to get you very far in the entertainment industry.
@@andykishore Makes sense though. Nick did him pretty dirty, so him not returning is fair.
They deserve it, though, for the levels of cringe they enabled.
It’s gone on too long. I love good SpongeBob and I love the characters but I think it’s time to give a finale then let the show live in peace.
It had one!
Is that why you think the show is bad?
Or use to be good.
@@andykishore I meant why you believe it’s bad now.
@louisholmes6961 It's been bad for the last few years.
Sandy segment: Nothing weird will go wrong:
Sandy eats and lot of acorns and unintentionally eats a fish man.
Me: Nevermind...
Yep...
They did not even attempt to hide it being one of the writer's fetishes lol. It is like multiple all rolled up into one and no justifiable context for it even happening. Crazy stuff.
So SpongeBob has become what the Simpsons was a few years ago.
Yep.
Rube Goldfish ISN'T a one-off, he's a new recurring character they introduced in S12 and he's also been in The Patrick Star Show a couple times.
Neither are Slappy Lazslo(Peter Lorre Fish) or Nosferatu, they're a recurring duo.
(specifically he was introduced in the 20th aniversary special)
@@danvsclips8326 Pretty sure he goes back even farther than that. I believe he first appeared in an episode from 2017, "No Pictures, Please".
S11*
Same goes for the Peter Lorre fish, he first appeared in the 20th anniversary special, and has made quite a lot of appearances since then, in both the main series and The Patrick Star Show.
So as you may guess, something unique about this new era of Spongebob is that they have actually been trying to create new characters instead of just using anyone who appeared in the first 3 seasons more than once.
The Peter Lorre Fish looks more like a Character from Courage The Cowardly Dog.@@cianroe3233
Even Spongebob was baffled and traumatized by the horror of witnessing inflated Sandy, I guess it's confirmed what his opinion on the fanart of her would be lol
The same happens whith every old gag character they introduce as a regular character now.
For example if they also give the Crazy Chocolate with nuts fish its own character they have to explain why he likes chocolate so much or why he bought so much chocolate. Maybe he has a secret Willy Wonka type of factory when he needs the most amount of chocolate imaginable or something like that. (I can see the current SpongeBob staff doing something like that) but it fundamentally ruins what made the old gag special.
Kinda like they did with Nosferatu, Fred, and now the Old Ladies
Can’t wait for the Captain Bart episode.
This is just a collection of random gags hoping to become a meme.
When they don't understand why OG SpongeBob became a meme. TIME.
They saw it happen naturally, and they thought they could force it by trying to make it happen. You can't do that. That's not how it works.
Yeah that segment with Sandy has FOUR fetishes that do tend to overlap namely feeding, vore, inflation/weight-gain, and fat fetishes.
My source is sharing hobby interests like Star Wars/Trek, Mech/Mecha games/shows/anime, history, science, Warhammer 40k, etc. with folks I've met on the internet in various places that have their own interests in that type of stuff.
Whoever wrote that must be a Rule 34 or Deviantart user.
There was a method to the madness, but it feels as though the method itself is gone
Man, Tom Kenny's voice sounds like it's been through the ringer. Was he sick when he recorded this episode? I get that he's been doing this voice for over 20 years, but that was rough.
Similar to Julie Kavner straining her voice for Marge, wish Spongebob and The Simpsons ended before they lose their voices
I heard Tom Kenny is starting to show his age while doing the SpongeBob voice lately. The recent video games SpongeBob The Cosmic Shake and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 have the same issue if you listen really closely.
@@Thomasmemoryscentralit’s not like their actors are always sick, you know. I still love both shows.
@@andykishore but is your source (from where you heard that) 100% correct?
@@louisholmes6961 Tom Kenny is 61 years old so consider that.
Most shows go from good to bad but spongebob went from good to bad to good to bad again.
SpongeBob never went bad
Like what I said earlier, it’s like flipping an hourglass once the bottom part is full of sand and the top is just empty.
This might be a hot take but, I would honestly rather have the torture and gross out of season 6 and 7 than the random slop we have now. At least episodes like The Splinter are interesting to talk about.
same
@@jytvreal yeah. Imo. Abysmally bad things will always be more interesting than boring things
yeah and i noticed Spongebob started having fetishism jokes placed in, its weird@@Maxxieuguu
@@MaxxieuguuTHEY ARENT BAD OR BORING
@@jaxsterminator8634 tbf. I haven't seen any of the newer episodes
Even Uncle Grandpa despite being a surreal nonsense of a Cartoon, at least it has something that this episode and The Patrick Star Show don't have
A Coherent Plot for each episode
Nothing wrong with referencing something from the past like the Nosferatu gag from Graveyard Shift but the problem with current era SB is it does this almost every other episode, like a desperate attempt for viewers but not in a good way.
It forces it too much instead of trying to be subtle (like how the gags were meant to be). Adding all this randomness with no consistency or structure and stretching them thin just defeats the purpose of the joke.
Even in some of the worst episodes like Little Yellow Book, at least there are some nice one-liners at the Krusty Krab and some quick rapid jokes mixed in between before it gets actually bad. It would still feel like SpongeBob. These newest seasons don’t even feel like SpongeBob at all, at least in the structure, which is why I might rate them lower than seasons 6 and 7
They’re perfect seasons though. The way it is now is PERFECT.
The Writers have this mentality that Nostalgia automatically equals success and because of it, they are prioritizing it more over the actual story of the episodes.
Funnily enough, this isn't even the worst episode of the season.
"Friendiversary" took nostalgia to the extreme.
@@andykishoreGod Damn Friendavesary was hard to get through
@@andykishoreAnd it was a great episode, your point?
No they don’t??? It’s still a perfect episode.
@@andykishore Even a SpongeBob fan like me thought that episode was AWFUL. Like not infuriating, but bad to the point of being uncomfortable, I mean like Nutcracker in 3D Awful- No, I can’t go there, but you get what I mean. It was hard to swallow on how they turned SpongeBob into a straight up STALKER in that episode. At least Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2 was more faithful to SpongeBob and his friends.
It seems like Modern SpongeBob is just bring back classic characters for the sake of Member Berries (South Park Reference) and are hoping that will be enough ti get the viewers invested in their lackluster plots.
The plots are basically now glorified Easter egg baskets at this point.
AI wrote this episode. Dont try to convince me otherwise.
I think Nosferatu the film is old enough to be Public Domain now, I think it was released in 1922.
'Checks Wikipedia.'
Yeah as of now, that film is 102 years old.
I feel sad about current SpongeBob being as nonsensical as it is. I wish I wouldn’t call it bad nowadays, but what it does is just weird. I don’t really think it’s as bad as Seasons 6 & 7, those seasons were just gross, but season 12 onwards just feels obnoxious. I love this show, but I don’t like where it is now. I vividly remember seeing it during it during Seasons 7 & 8. Bad times I know, but I still knew it was SpongeBob, now I can’t even tell if it’s SpongeBob or a hallucination of wacky faces. I feel bad for how the show is now. It saddens me.
This video actually made me want to rewatch first three seasons of SpongeBob
to be fair:
-he's a rube goldberg reference.
-for a prolonged scene, a head flies around like a rube goldberg machine.
That's, almost a joke.
The nostalgia fanservice that began upon Hillenburg's return always annoyed me too.
That's why it always backfires when they say "bring back original writers" and you just get rehashes of what they already wrote before.
The nostalgia bait is what pisses me off the most tbh. The fact that they can't even try to do something new and just play it safe by parroting a premise or extra from Seasons 1 - 3 word for word. They're not even successfully pandering since the majority of Gen Z doesn't seem to care about the latest seasons, they're feeding nostalgia bait to kids who don't even have nostalgia for it lmao.
With the team also working on Camp Coral and The Patrick Star Show at this time, it's possible the writing team might have a bit too much to work on! I mean, I can't imagine having to write multiple episodes of 3 very similar shows within a time limit!
Which is all the more reason to stop making spin-offs!
How do we go from seeing Squidward saying that Bubble Bass is disgusting to the old chocolate nut girls fighting in a helicopter?
I don’t know.
I think one of the scripts for The Patrick Star Show wound up in the wrong writers room.
Modern SpongeBob really makes me wish that PieGuyRulz would come back!!
I miss him, too.
Lol please god no.
@@VidyaBros1
Yeah imagine if his Every SpongeBob Episode Reviewed series was still going
why not? he was a good reviewer@@Thelxinoe
PieGuyRulz is awful
There's making references, and then there's reveling in them.
We got vore and inflation. Lovely.
And overfeeding/force feeding and weight gain as well yeah...
Today I learned a new word I wish I didn't know.
@@Attmay Vore ?
Thing is going to be a weird thing to say since its off topic, but i'm glad to see you still making reviews. I feel really bad because years ago, I jumped on the hate bandwagon that was picking on you. You've grown and i'm glad nothing detered you.
I also want to say, i'm sad that spongebob fell off a cliff again. It seemed like it was FINALLY starting to become fun and interesting. Now it looks like its gone insane and just doesnt seem to understand anything that happened in the golden era of spongebob.
Modern SpongeBob feels like it aims more to adults who are fan of the show instead of kids nowadays really, the humor and jokes still feel really 90's with the Ren & Stimpy-esque slapstick and are very different of what 2020's cartoons aim.
To me, it feels like it's trying to appeal to kids who are growing up on stuff like skibidi toilet. If it is trying to appeal to adults, they really missed the mark
@@ScooterCat64 maybe there trying to do both but dont understand what both sides like
@@ScooterCat64 I feel like their trying to be more Loony Tone esque. I mean the artstyle and general higher slapstick humor clearly has Ren & Stimpy vibes. (it should be noted Cabel television is nowadays shifted towards an older audiance, to the point even Networks like CN have been shifting more adult (they literally have Adult Swim at 4 or 5 PM now plus have more older cartoons) I think this is what their appealing now)
@@saiyanscaris6530yeah, it feels like that
Yeah... no. It is too chaotic to appeal to the adults of the 90s. The chaos of the 90s was channeled-this is just unadulterated nonsense.
The old show basically took the premise of the Simpsons and translated it to be more universal and family oriented. (I am well aware that old Simpsons were watched by the whole family, as the writers deliberately utilized intelligent innuendos and altered some scenes-it is a consequence of it being a primetime show during the late 20th century when television was a family affair.)
It's interesting we went from boring slow paced trash as being the issue with this show to the modern issue being random self referential nonsense. Who would've guessed the show would progress to this point?
Alright! back to mr enters bread and butter. Bad Spongebob episodes. I do think that episodes that are bad are not the result of lacking creativity but running out of ideas for a long running series.
Bread and butter indeed.
They never lack creativity
SpongeBob is officially the Nickelodeon version of Family Guy
It's always been kinda like that.
The show should have ended after the first movie, like it originally was supposed to. That would be the storybook ending, with the show going down as one of the greatest and most loved show in history.
Fun fact, thanks to the Perch Perkins great-grandma character appearing in this episode, it is now confirmed that the Patrick Star show takes place 3 years before the main series. The fact that everything changed in just the 3 year time skip is incredible.
Didn't the SpongeBob TH-cam channel establish that The Patrick Show is in an alternate universe past?
@@CosmicSponge2004Well if it was the case, a few episodes from the main series still referenced the spin off (Same with Kamp Koral). So I guess it's 3 years before those episodes.
But besides that, I do believe that the spin offs aren't in the same universe as the main one. And I don't care what they made me believe. I think the crossover episodes pretty much established them being alternate timelines.
Imma be real, there's more Squidward torture porn in the recent seasons than the dark ages of spongebob where the concept was introduced. Seems the new writers have a hate boner for squidward than the former writers itself.
2:16 I like the pictures of obscure locations seen during the intro to Rube's show. Also, I do remember finding "FUN-Believable" pretty decent in my opinion. But I do agree that new SpongeBob in general right now is not the greatest.
Wait…SpongeBob is still airing new episodes?
Yeah that makes sense.
I just realized how this could have been salvage. Make this the SpongeBob version of 22 Short Films About Springfield. Where we focus on characters like Larry the Lobster and other background characters.
And make it 22 minutes at least.
Agreed. @@andykishore
That I would actually really like to see. More slice of life episodes about the citizens of Bikini Bottom is what this show needs to stay fresh and relevant.
The biggest part of the episode was Sandy Vore. Deviantart would've been really proud.
While I don’t think the current seasons are AS bad as seasons 6 and 7, I kinda agree that it turned more of a "Find the Easter Eggs" children’s book than an actual show. I think they took the continuity thing to an extreme degree. Come on, SpongeBob can have continuity AND have its good ol' charm. It’s not that hard.
I do still think season 13 has some creative episodes with "Welcome to Binary Bottom," "Arbor Day Disarray," "SpongeBob on Parade," and "Spatula of the Heavens."
Yeah, I suppose. I mean, even SpongeBob's absolute worst seasons (again, 6 and 7) have their better episodes.@@andykishore
What they need to do is rehire the old writers. You know, like Merriwether Williams, Kent Osborne, Jay Lender, and Sam Henderson.
@@mooseman3027 …here’s the problem with that, though. They’d just be rehashing what they wrote before.
Spatula of the Heavens is All that glitters 3.0
It went bad again the moment they started with the "zany" art style change and the addition of exaggerated expresions on every character, even on the ones that don't needed it.
It’s almost like the same problem that modern Simpsons where it just references older Simpsons without understanding how or why it works
shitsons is boomer. It was always overrated and it just got worse and worse once Greg Daniels left for an actually adult-centric animated sitcom, *King of the Hill.*
Spongbob got bad because the creator left
Definitely a rollercoaster of a show
If there isn’t a single dip in the coaster then sure
Not surprised, it's mostly just slapstick nowadays. It's missing a lot of the charm that the first 4 seasons had in my opinion. Sure there are some great episodes from the modern era, but said era still pales in comparison.
This episode is exactly what people who bashed Uncle Grandpa thought that show was.
To be honest I expected this to happen with how milked out the show is
I expected that too.