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ITT: The moment you decided it was time to stop watching SpongeBob
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>>150122488
probably when I aged out of it
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Context so I could stop watching even earlier
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>>150122488
The first movie
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Sometime around the tenth anniversary
It was a long enough ride, I just remember them talking about best day ever like it was more than a nothing burger
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>>150122533
Spongebob gets a disease
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>>150122533
Spongebob gets aids
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Spongebob is unwatchable after Season 5
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>>150122488
The first movie was so bad I never watched Spongebob after that
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>>150122599
Season 7 was my drop off point.
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This moment right here
https://youtu.be/snoVIFSlMEQ
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The wig episode. That shit was so painfully stupid and unfunny.
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>>150122488
this was the first episode i remember actively hating
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>>150122601
Shit taste
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>>150122808
who's fursona is that
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>>150122488
Season 5

SpongeBob got better around season 11, arguably the best season made after the golden age, but then around season 13 it got bad again, it’s better than the Tibbitt seasons, but it just doesn’t feel much like SpongeBob anymore
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All that Glitters
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>>150122488
Around midway through season 4 is when I stopped watching it regularly, the show started to feel really off. For some reason I'd still tune into the specials though because they generally still had ok writing.

Now this piece of shit? Holy fuck. All that buildup for what was being billed as a new Spongebob movie and it was fucking rancid dogshit.
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I'm a zoomer so I grew up with the worst era of Bob anyways but I stopped watching nickelodeon entirely after the episode where they acted like babies and Squidward had a shit filled diaper. I couldn't fucking believe what I was watching
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>>150122488
The last episode I watched was with goo on the beach
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>>150122488
Weren't they eating the fungus in this episode?
Also, my answer is probably Patrick the game
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>>150123782
it's so funny that everyone in this special sings at one point except the character voiced by David fucking Bowie
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>>150122488
I don't care to get the images, but the big one was that episode where Spongebob got the monster pet that tried to kill Gary and was constantly defending it even as it was trying to kill him two.
It was solidified when I saw the episode where Mr Krabs crossdressed as a pregnant woman with Gary as his belly.
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>>150122488
Truth or Square.
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>>150122808
>>150123809
>>150123819
>>150123824
>it took you until season 8-9 to realize the show was bad now
I can't blame you if you were a dumb kid but damn I'm getting old, I remember people here bitching about these episodes on the internet when they were first airing
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>>150122808
I quit watching Spongebob wayyyyy the fuck before this episode aired but I remember first seeing screencaps of it and thinking it was some autistic furry drawing himself into the more recent episodes. Like holy fuck this is so fucking jarringly out of place.
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>>150122488
I've seen bits and pieces here and there like the 3D movie but you can tell the soul was gone in Season 4
That said, every clip I watch of modern Bobsponge seems to be some humiliation ritual like the MY LEG guy getting his own episode or Pearl watching some abomination eat used gum with her feet. I can't tell if I just seem to catch the show at its most bottom-of-the-barrel. or if bottom-of-the-barrel is simply the status quo.
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It wasn't really the splinter but A Pal for Gary where I could feel myself getting tired of it.
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>>150124406
Yeah, the Tibbit era character designs were terrible. They didn't even try to make the new characters blend in with the other designs.
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>>150122488
The Squidward baby episode
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>>150124597
As flawed as Waller era is, at least it has a pretty great art direction, the Ren & Stimpy-like animation looks pretty good for a modern cartoon, and if you think they make faces to "make the next SpongeBob meme" you’re a retard who doesn’t know shit about cartooning.

You can tell how artistically experimental it is, "A Fish Called Sandy" was made to look like a season one episode, and "Delivery of Doom" does have some pretty neat looking visuals and layouts.

You can in no way convince me that the Tibbitt era looked better.
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>>150124724
I don't even particularly care for the Waller era but anyone claiming it's worse than the Tibbit era is just flat out wrong lmao. The Tibbit era sucked fucking dog dick visually, everything just looks gross and uncanny.
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>>150124768
Krusty Towers is kino.
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>>150124807
A single unusually good episode does not an era make. Trilogy of Error is an unusually good Simpsons episode from Season 12, it doesn't mean the Al Jean era is good.
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>>150124860
Skill Crane
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>>150124371
I'll admit it, I was one of those kids who thought squidward torture was funny
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>>150122488
Season 4 has barely started and there's already an episode with Mr. Krabs losing his shell, it's always disgusted me.
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>>150124597
I mean, look at this guy.
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>>150122488
toenail
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haven't seen an episode since the monkey episode
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>>150122488
>The moment you decided it was time to stop watching SpongeBob
The one where everyone turns into zombie burgers in Bikini Bottom except SpongeBob has disgusted me ever since. Even Squidward does, even though he primarily hates Krabby Patties, which makes no sense to me. A literally stupid episode where SpongeBob is the hero once again.
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>>150124724
Waller also ruined SpongeBob completely beyond recognition. I'm not saying Tibbit was better and he made a lot of mistakes, but at least Tibbit didn't force us with those heel fetishes that Waller does. Waller went to a new level of disgusting. Besides, Plankton Movie is definitive proof that it worked better than Waller's episodes, because there weren't those fetishes and that rip-off Ren and Stimpy shit and the heavy repetition of characters.
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>>150125945
I fucking hate how after the movie all of the fish characters just have regular hands all of a sudden. In the original seasons characters only had those if they were absolutely necessary for a scene or for comedic effect. It looks so fucking off.
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>>150124807
Seasons 4-5 weren’t that bad because they basically consisted of holdover ideas from the first two seasons, that and Paul Tibbitt probably tried harder while producing those cause he was a new showrunner at the time. Kinda like how seasons 11-12 were pretty good when Waller was a new showrunner.
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>>150126250
>because they basically consisted of holdover ideas from the first two seasons
This is a myth, the second half of season 4 is extremely forgettable, and season 5 is just straight up ass.
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>>150123878
He refused to compose a song because Viacom insisted on owning it.
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>>150122488
When Truth or Square lied to me about it's entire marketing
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>>150126280
I'd heard that he joined the production too late to because he jumped on last second since his kids liked spongebob and they literally didn't have time for him to write a song.
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>>150126137
NuBob doesn’t include fetish shit, you’re just a brainrotted dumbfuck. Gross out stuff like what you provided is just Ren & Stimpy type humor, Waller literally got his start working on R&S. Deviantart ruined a generation cause now tards like you see every form of cartoonish or gross out humor as a fetish.

You’re also acting as if the Tibbitt era didn’t have episodes that gave off fetish vibes like Squid Baby. Also modern SpongeBobs movies suck, I will give you that, probably cause Waller ain’t involved with them.
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>>150126337
>NuBob doesn’t include fetish shit, you’re just a brainrotted dumbfuck. Gross out stuff like what you provided is just Ren & Stimpy type humor, Waller literally got his start working on R&S. Deviantart ruined a generation cause now tards like you see every form of cartoonish or gross out humor as a fetish.
>You’re also acting as if the Tibbitt era didn’t have episodes that gave off fetish vibes like Squid Baby. Also modern SpongeBobs movies suck, I will give you that, probably cause Waller ain’t involved with th
Brainrot moment.
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>>150126137
>>150126365

There’s this ongoing joke in the Spumtwitter community that Waller has a diaper/scat fetish and they often nickname him "Mr. Huggies"

If Waller really was inserting his fetishes into the show we’d see hundreds of scat episodes
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>>150126496
Gross!
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>>150124406
>I remember first seeing screencaps of it and thinking it was some autistic furry drawing himself into the more recent episodes. Like holy fuck this is so fucking jarringly out of place.
it's even worse now
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>>150126987
I can't believe she's voiced by Sakura Haruno.
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>>150126337
>>150126496
The difference between Ren and Stimpy and SpongeBob is that Ren and Stimpy was a parody of the modern and postmodern world and was intentionally shown to be horrible, while SpongeBob is not. Yes, there are moments when they show certain things up close that are like "disgusting", but that was it, since Wallet came after Hillenburg left then SpongeBob turned into a rip-off of Ren and Stimpy, especially when Tibbit left. It's just not SpongeBob anymore and it's not funny. Although I admit that the second half of season 9 was better than the first half, but from season 10 that decline began and it's no longer the SpongeBob I know. There are always some fetish references in almost every episode.

When you defend those abominations that are being promoted, I can only think whose madhouse you came from. Especially from fans of John K. and his successors. Disgusting in itself!
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>>150122559
Same
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>The Spongebob movie was 21 years ago
>Hillenberg's been dead for almost a decade
>Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy will be frozen forever
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>>150122488
My interest definitely waned around the fifth season and I completely have up on the seventh. Came back to it with Sponge Out of Water but since The Nitwitting, I stopped regularly watching.
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The 4th season immediately felt off and I jumped ship somewhere around the middle of that.
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>>150127120
Hillenburg
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>>150126337
Every SpongeBob era always felt heavily derived from what the showrunner previously worked on:

Seasons 1-3 felt derived from Rocko cause that’s what Hillenburg previously worked on

Seasons 4-9 felt derived from CatDog cause that’s what Tibbitt previously worked on

Seasons 11-now feel derived from Ren & Stimpy/Spumco cause that’s what Waller previously worked on
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>>150127120
>Hillenburg will have been dead for seven years come November
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>>150122808
i was long since stopped watching when I happened to catch this and was like what the fuck and first really noticed it looking so far different from what it had
the atlantis one was when I stopped watching primarily
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>>150122533
Like season 5 around that ballpark.
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>>150128152
Having never seen past season 3, I've been going through the series and just got about halfway into season 4 and you are absolutely right. Season 3 has some off episodes (I'm not crazy about Nasty Patty or the invisible paint ep) but 4 is pretty meh so far. A lot of it is in the timing, there's no chance to breathe and let jokes settle because they're already onto the next thing happening. Not to mention Tom Kenny is fully into the high pitched "excited" voice for everything now and not just to punctuate excited moments. Krusty Towers is probably the best one so far but I'd say it would be a middle of the road Season 2 episode
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I stopped watching it after the movie, pretty much just because I was getting older and doing other shit and also because the newer episodes weren't as good.
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>>150128152
>>150128333
I tried giving season 4 another chance after years earlier this year because of that upsurge of "season 4 was fine actually" posting, watched it all the way through. The first part feels off but is mostly just kind of dull, and yeah Krusty Towers is a clear standout but it's just a sort of middling episode compared to the golden age. The second half of season 4 is fucking BORING and full of episodes I forgot even existed.
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>>150122783
I could have sworn that was like season 8, but no, that was the same season as the claw machine episode.
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>>150122488
S1
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>It all started when I was born...
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>>150129592
what was the point of this?
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Can anyone articulate how it is that the original episodes of Spongebob, despite often having outlandish and wacky plots like Doodlebob or the Alaskan Bull Worm, still somehow felt grounded compared to the post-movie episodes? Because I'm struggling to properly figure out why it is that those kinds of plots worked in the older seasons but feel so fucking weird in the newer ones. Like I'm convinced that if Doodlebob came out in the Tibbit era it would have fucking sucked even if it used the same general premise.
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>>150129760
cheap shock horror out of ren & stimpy or billy & mandy
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>>150122488
Krusty Towers ep that came out after KCA (2006 so I was 9 at the time). Just realized the writing was a lot more obnoxious and spazzy and stopped watching from then on.
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>>150129820
that was a post movie season
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>>150129760
The actual situations aren't nearly as clever and they tend to rely too much on visual humor rather than clever dialogue or unexpected punchlines, and also the timing across the board is just off. That scene where Patrick turned into a bunch of bowling pins and scored two strikes just wouldn't have happened in the Tibbit era, it would have been Patrick getting brutally hit in the face with the bowling ball before falling over. And he wouldn't have shouted "Finland!" after being asked if he was ok, it would have just been a grossout shot of his bruised face where he says either yes or no.
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>>150123782
Holy shit, this is exactly the same point I dropped Sponge. The post-movie seasons were hit or miss but Dunces and Dragons was a one of the biggest highlights of that time period so I always at least expected the writers to lock-in for the specials. This really cemented that nobody working on that show gave a fuck anymore.
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>>150130047
>Every song is shit and most of the cast doesn't even try to sing
>Plot runs at a thousand miles a second even if there's nothing really happening
>David fucking Bowie is a guest VA and he never even sings
>Every single joke lands flat on its fucking face because the pacing ruins the timing, if it was even a funny concept in the first place
What a dumpster fire.
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>>150129760
It's how the characters acted. Everything just had a more natural flow to it.

Keep in mind that the scene on the right was considered dangerously hyperactive for its time, and that parents forbade their children from watching this show for that reason.
What we have now is REALLY unnatural in feel.
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>>150122559
>>150122601
The first movie is literally peak spongebob fucking kill yourselves
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>>150130356
I've discussed this a lot in regards to futurama but something that was lost in the transition from the fox seasons to cc and beyond and somewhat relevant in this case is the sort of reigned in pacing and timing and subtlety
like in fox futurama you'd have much slower paced jokes and moments with silence and shit
give things a chance to breath
spongebob always handled it a bit differently than that by virtue of being a kids cartoon, but I think it's somewhat similar there
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>>150130356
Its like jiggling a set of keys in front of an IPad kid, a pathetic attempt to get their attention.
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I know that Season 4 isn't generally considered the worst, but Best Day Ever was the conclusive point when the series lost its classic zany Nicktoons vibe and became a generic vehicle to sell backpacks and CDs at Walmart. The marketing around this episode was massive, unbearably annoying, and totally embarrassing. Even as a kid, I remember thinking "OK, that's enough of this show" when I first heard the fucking song.
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>>150128235
It's because of things like this that I can't take seriously people who associate Season 4 with the classic era. Hillenburg said in an interview that he left the show to Tibbitt in part because he believed the show, over time, needed new blood.
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Desu season 4 is basically the point where the show stopped feeling like something that was made for everyone even if it was focused on kids. Like I used to watch the original three seasons with my fucking parents and they found them hysterical, season 4 has like no real adult appeal and after that it just got even worse.
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>>150131035
Spongebob had a lot of nothingburger, shitty specials advertised as something spectacular and a must-see. Truth or Square, Atlantis Squarepantis, Best Day Ever, Spongebob's Last Stand, Spongebob vs The Big One, ect.
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>>150131115
Stuff like Atlantis Squarepantis, Pest of the West, and Truth or Square at least had grand, different takes on the typical Spongebob formula which could theoretically warrant a special episode. Stuff like Best Day Ever and Whobob Whatpants are absolutely no different from any other Spongebob plot and basically just exist to shill DVDs.
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>>150131115
I remember there was one episode about him getting fired that was hyped to no end. They ended up talking about spongebob getting fired on fucking cable news as if it was going to be a permanent thing going forwards. Even as a kid I thought that was absolutely pathetic.
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>>150131291
Yeah even the Patchy specials did something different with them, those specials really have no reason to be specials at all.
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>>150131103
They don't seem to realize that season 4 got its reputation for a reason.
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>>150122488
I think its the same thing with Simpsons and Pokemon to me: The movie was the finale.
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>>150131035
IMO, The Best Day Ever is SpongeBobs equivalent to The Principal and The Pauper in the sense that it’s not an awful episode, but along with the reasons you mentioned, every episode after it gradually felt less and less like SpongeBob, the show gradually began to lose it’s classic charm.

Sure the series had picked itself up a few times, seasons 10-11 and Sponge Out Of Water were enjoyable, The Patrick Star Show could be funny, but the point is less about the quality and more about how it just doesn’t feel like SpongeBob anymore. Even the best Waller era episodes are missing that classic flare that made the golden age episodes so enjoyable in the first place.
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God I wish that was me.
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>>150129714
Tibbitt era was weirdly disgusting for no reason.
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>>150126496
quick question are eatmyfum and the artist from /co/llection named smoke the same person they draw the same
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Around the time when SpongeBob’s voice changed.
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>>150126137
>that picture
What's the point of that episode, anyway, with that horrible taste of language?! Disgusting!
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>brother blackjack
>stanley
>cheesehead brownpants
Ugh. I don't know who made New Kelp City but whoever it was loved forcing their ugly incidental designs into a lot of scenes in Bikini Bottom.
I can't believe you have to wait until season 6 for the toenail scene.

>>150122531
This.
No matter how sloppy it got I simply had to stop sitting in front of the TV to stop watching.

Though I didn't see it going worse.

>>150122533
Fungus Amongus. Season 5.
It's a bit like the "Spongebob gets sick" episodes. It's fine for a season 5 episode... season 5 is bad.

>>150122808
Which season? Never saw it, always thought it was some Graggle edit.

>>150125922
That episode was weird.
As a child I couldn't understand why all these new characters were telling me they were frauds or why they weren't actually a part of the episode as characters.

>>150129883
>it would have just been a grossout shot of his bruised face where he says either yes or no.
And all his teeth fall out and shatter on the sand. Or tooth. Is that the era where he has one tooth?
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>>150131115
>ongebob had a lot of nothingburger, shitty specials advertised as something spectacular and a must-see.
The Sponge who could Fly/Lost Episode has this feeling.
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>>150130356
>>150131032
I don’t think ultraexpressive animation is a bad thing, newer SpongeBob is ran by Spumco members Bob Camp and Vincent Waller, it’s clear how derived the newer seasons animation style is from Ren & Stimpy, and I’ll admit the animations timing can be hit or miss but it’s probably the best-looking cartoon on right now desu.

The issue I feel is moreso at times it can feel like they prioritize the animation over the writing, sure the animation looks great and you can tell the animators have fun working on it but being style over substance is what alienates fans of the show, John K even said himself that substance is just as important as style.
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>>150132825
>but it’s probably the best-looking cartoon on right now desu.
grim
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>>150122488
Somewhere in Season 7. Not sure which episode, but probably the first half of seven because episodes like A Pal for Gary, Inside Job, One Course Meal, etc rubbed me the wrong way and were just really stupid. And that was even before the annoying internet reviewers started bashing it. All I knew was that I was getting bored. There were bad episodes before that but they were at least trying. Around Season 7 they all start kind of blending together in a horrendous way. Last episode I kinda remember watching live was the Tiki Dreams one, which was actually not a bad episode.

Although I will say I have continued to peek in and out of the show every now and then over the years. There were a couple of good patches in Season 8/9 and 13/14, but there are so many sloppy or lazy episodes It's not fun to watch full-on.
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>>150132938
>Tiki Dreams one
It was the best episode of season seven along with the episodes surrounding Squidward's new neighbor and Squidward's new girlfriend.
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>>150125955
I fucking hated that toenail scene. What were they THINKING? How did that get past the censors? The show was rated Y7!
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>>150128395
"New Leaf" is maybe the most boring episode of a cartoon I've ever seen. That dumb episode went out of its way to be NOT funny or entertaining.
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>>150126987
Nah. That's not as bad as >>150122808. At least, not visually. I'm not going to speculate on the writing aspect.
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>fall off around season 7 when it became clear the show was hopeless
>come back for season 9b when the animation stops being stiff and the writing substantially improved
>still stick around after season 10 started to make things more 'ren and stimpy' because it was interesting enough and i like spumco-esque animation
>fall off again around season 13 because the show started to feel too style over substance; expressive animation can only carry you so far
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All the grossout scenes in nu Spongebob would be fine if they were funny, 90% of those scenes are however extremely unfunny.
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>>150134699
Blame Robertryan Cory.
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>>150134699
We call them Scumbob episodes
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>>150137060
I miss Pieguy. I didn't always agree with him, and his takes weren't always good. but he was the most well spoken of all the SpongeBob critics.
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>>150126987
>>150131687
This isn't real right? This is looks like some severely autistic sex pests OC that he poorly photoshops into screencaps of the show on deviantart
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>>150137498
It's real and seems to be loosely based on Lil' Abner, which is weird because most people under 40 have no idea what that is anymore.
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>>150122488
I think that this is the first and maybe only episode that makes no attempts at jokes and humor, it's just nonstop gross out
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>>150129760
Because OldBob was kinda slow paced, especially Season 1. The NuBob episodes jump from one joke to the next with zero pauses in between, while also being unfunny.
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>>150122488
>The moment you decided it was time to stop watching SpongeBob
This felt like such a fitting and enjoyable finale that watching anything past it seemed pointless to me. I never even found out the turn the show took for several years.
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>>150124597
>>150124724
>>150124768
>>150136010
Funnily enough, as much as people hate on the gore from the Tibbitt seasons, I feel like Robertryan Corys art was one of the few visual highlights from them. These works would honestly look great as tattoos or t-shirts.

Honestly though his artwork looks a lot better in sketches, the Tibbitt era had an incredibly stiff artstyle and these drawings weren’t executed that well into the final show with their great linework being lost in translation.

His drawings probably would look better in the newer seasons since they have a more exaggerated and expressive artstyle.
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>hey anon, the Ren n' Stimpy vibe was actually good
Yeah.....for Ren & Stimpy, not for fucking Spongebob. Everything post-1st movie sucks ass, even my dumbass teenage mind (14y at the time) knew as much and stopped watching it right there
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>>150123809
I'm a filthy zoom too but even as a kid I noticed that the newest episodes after the movie weren't as enjoyable as the older ones. It's the same with the Simpsons. I still watched the newer episodes at the time, but I always preferred watching the older ones I had on dvd.
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Remember when they recast Mama Krabs?
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I think I stopped watching around middle school, so probably season 5 or 6.
Whichever was airing in 2007.
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>>150137498
She's a character from Camp Coral who's now a regular on the main show.
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>>150122488
I can't remember the specific episode. It was around the time ATLA ended.
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>>150130436
Yes and:
>it was clearly the peak, thus what came next would probably be worse
>staffing changes after the movie basically confirmed this
It's reasonable that someone who's not a kid or a superfan would assume it's not worth watching unless told otherwise by someone trusted.
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Reminder that "Best Day Ever" song wasn't even created for that S4 episode. It was created for the movie, since it plays in the credits.
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>>150123782
Yep, this one.
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>>150130356
soulless style over substance slop vs SOVLful comfy kino
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>>150139895
Ok
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>>150122488
When I turned 13
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>>150130356
i remember there was a few weeks ago complain that one of the latest episode of spongebob they were all static and twitter all blamed on the people who were complaining about the overanimation while ignoring that all the complain was like this same example where it didn't need to overdo it while the right side of this vid is what they meant with toning down the oversued animation and le whacky meme faces
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>>150142533
Post it
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I was born when the show first aired and only remember seasons 1-4 from my childhood. If I saw later episodes I don't remember them.
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>>150122488
More like Scumbob
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>>150140600
There's no possible way you think the clip on the left looks better than the clip on the right
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>>150122488
The Splinter
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The Tibbet artstyle was so fucking ugly, you could always instantly tell when a character was made for that season. There wouldn't even be an attempt to make them blend in with the main cast. I have no idea what was on their minds.

In contrast, the recently released "A Fish Called Sandy" is one of the best Spongebob episodes visually. Damn heartbreaking they can't make that the standard. Anyone reading who hasn't seen it, the episode is worth watching for the visuals alone, and screenshots don't do it justice.

The episode was probably the best 2D animation visually on air this year.
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>>150122808
You must have been barely watching the show
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>>150146135
It felt like a very strange attempt at recreating the old style from out of nowhere, while still adhering to traits of the modern writing and visual humor.
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>>150146745
>while still adhering to traits of the modern writing and visual humor.
Really? The episode felt much more toned down and relaxed than other episodes. The faces in this scene would've been far more exaggerated.
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>>150146135
>patrick without the ugly one-teeth smile after almost 20 years
kino
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>>150122808
Was just about to post that. I hated other episodes before, but Kenny The Cat just pissed me off beyond belief and I genuinely don't know why.
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>>150122488
LOL
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>>150148650
for me it was because the premise and plot were so fundamentally retarded that the episode simply being canon makes the show's universe worse
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>>150122488
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>>150123782
Nick started to do this annoying thing where they would hype the fuck out of a new spongebob ep like something big was going to happen, only for it to just be a nothingburger ep, just to trick dumb kids into watching it. It's when the creativity and excitement from episode ideas and dynamics was replaced by, basically, clickbait (Spongebob and sandy are...GETTING MARRIED?)
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>>150122601
YOU TAKE THAT FUCKING BACK RIGHT NOW THE FIRST SPONGEBOB MOVIE IS A MASTERPIECE!!!!!!
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>>150146135
Yeh it looked pretty good, and had some decent jokes. I just can't stand the pacing of those episodes, it's too fast and lacks a lot of substance
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>>150132825
>sure the animation looks great
it looks like an aborted fetus trying to breath
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>>150150937
Trying too hard
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Tibbitt himself admitted his run wasn't good.
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The Thing was the worst Squidward torture episode.
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>>150150620
The Spongebob getting married episode, which was actually a dumb ass clip show featuring real life celebs.
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>>150131530
This, underrated post, much like TPATP, Best Day Ever was also hit with tons of backlash from fans and I’m pretty sure that episode marked the exact moment where many fans began to notice SpongeBobs seasonal rot.
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>>150131115
i remember the advertising for the shit episode where they're having false memories in the krusty crab vents being especially outlandish
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I’ve literally never watched a single episode of Spongebob Squarepants in my life.

First three seasons and the movie were the ones to watch right?
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>>150153788
Yup, season 1's slow and comfy and has sort of its own vibe while seasons 2 and 3 are more about fast-paced witty dialogue and bizarre situational humor.
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>>150129760
outside of just having better execution in general, i'd say that it's because old spongebob has this inherently laidback atmosphere to it. it would come up with all this goofy shit but present it through more earthly colours, slower pacing, the hawaiian music, calmer character interactions etc
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>>150153763
>SPONGEBOBS TRUTH OR SQUARE IS THE BEST THING YOU'LL EVER SEE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU HAVE TO SEE IT YOU JUST HAVE TO, WATCH OUR SHOW NOW
https://youtu.be/cpx5AmhGhsM
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>>150153971
god, no wonder i was dissapointed as shit back then. borderline misadvertising
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I never watched spongebob because it came out when I was in high school.
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>>150142533
Please learn English
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The movie is where SpongeBob ended. Everything after is just parading around a corpse.
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>>150154039
English is pretty hard, senpai.
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>>150150136
Patrick being a dick really did become a big problem
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>>150154567
Wasn't it implied in one episode that he only pretends to be stupid to get what he wants?
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>>150126337
>NuBob doesn’t include fetish shit

Yes it does, particularly muscle and feet. Doesn't help they hired actual muscle and foot fetish artists as well (Ian Vazquez and Kyle Morrison).
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>>150154710
Kind of? That might've the card episode.
>You can't expect my usual brand of stupidity. Sometimes I gotta mix it up.
Spent the whole episode fucking with Spongebob
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>>150154710
When?
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Personally I didn't hate season 4 as much as most people did, heck even Season 5 was watchable. Season 6 tho is when I officially jumped ship with the gross out humor and it just didn't feel like a show I wanted to watch anymore
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>>150155140
No offense but you fags on the internet are just too internet poisoned and look too deep into things, stinky feet is just standard cartoonish gross out humor. Autists getting aroused by it is just an unfortunate side affect that most of the people behind the shows ignore.

Not saying people inserting their fetishes into shows has never happened before, that Total Dramarama fart episode felt very blatant, but sometimes it’s okay to not to overanalyze, cause Deviantart fetishists basically jerk off to everything, if we excluded all shit that just so happened to be fetishes to them cartoons would be completely neutered.
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Last I remember was Atlantis Squarepantis.
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h
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Really hope Mindy gets some lines.
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>>150126137
God I wish this were me.
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>>150155446
Those other female mermaids look so off compared to her.
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>>150132825
the only thing modern spongebob has going for it imo is that its the only western kids cartoon that doesn't look like calarts/troon slop. I still think its way too overanimated for Spongebob of all things, but i'll give credit where its due. It's nice seeing lines of gesture being used in a 2025 kids show.
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>>150129714
Shock value
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>>150137795
This is an objectively incorrect and you deserved to get raped in the ass by Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen for this generic and dime-a-dozen ass take
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>>150155140
tbf ugly feet have always been a gag in kids shows since the 90s. Also remember that scene in the Salty Spitoon ep where Spongebob broke his fingers and it was pretty grotesque?
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>>150155530
Queen Amphitrite has appeared before.
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>>150155624
The CGI lets it down. She looks much better 2D.
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>>150137795
correct
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>>150129820
Krusty towers is the one episode from the post movie era everyone unanimously agrees is kino and yet that's the one you decided to shit on for no reason I hate you you contrarian piece of shit
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>>150137795
Ren and stimpy sucks ass
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>>150155677
nope
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>>150137273
You miss the man who did irreparable damage to the spongebob community and also called Have You Seen This Snail mediocre?
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I was six when season 4 was first airing and I immediately could tell something was off with the episodes compared to before. I stuck around for a while but tuned out after season 6.
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>>150155677
Die zoomer
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>>150155446
>They're making Mindy daughter of Show-Neptune
Movie Neptune wasn't a bad character, they just needed to give him a different name than Neptune and I don't get why they didn't. The show even gives a decent excuse to call him Neptune if they have to since Krusty Towers introduced the idea of "King Neptune the XXth".
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>>150155723
stop baiting zoomer.
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>>150155847
Die of chemo cancer you fat boomer
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I had a dream today and my brain made up a new season 1 episode.
>everything was hand drawn
>plot was that spongebob and patrick were getting their houses renovated and they had to find a new place to live
>they bombed all of their roommate interviews
>they make up a plan to crossdress and pretend to be women
>their interviews succeed
>flying dutchman shows up and calls them out
>everyone in the apartment complex chases them
>episode ends
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>>150155865
You're also retarded because pieguy is a hack who caused nothing but collateral damage to the spongebob community
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>>150155939
Was there a side plot about Spongebob getting ipad
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>>150155953
No, He was around since 2008, Kamp Koral shit was 2021. He was more good than bad.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_6p51ARsnk&t=1041s
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>>150155984
>that thumbnail
cringe, good grief
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>>150155722
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFosEocbVEs
Nuh uh it's true because this guy said so
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>>150131035
I was in fourth grade when this aired. Even as dumb 9 year olds me and my friends knew this was an awful episode.
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>>150155996
He also pauses his review somewhere aroun dthe 15 minute mark to dicksuck Adventure time and ramble about it's non-existent qualities
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>>150155997
Benthelooney went back to ranting? I thought he quit and starting drawing porn.
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>>150122488
I'm old enough that I stopped watching spongeBob right around the third season. To me, the first three seasons ARE spongebob, and those are now recognized as the best and true seasons.
This show is getting the simpsons treatment.
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>>150146135
I've seen it before as the episode was leaked before it was released and boy it felt like classic SpongeBob had a minor comeback.

Screw AWE for saying this is nostalgia bait.
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>>150156221
Awe is so fucking retarded and I'm glad that most people on this board hate him
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>>150156344
"most" people on /co/ don't know him, retarded zoomer.
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>>150156356
this
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>>150156221
>This is nostalgia bait

Or maybe the show was trying to be artistically experimental and the crew wanted to have fun drawing them in the classic style you fucking retard

Honestly the only that would’ve made the episodes animation better is if they given the characters drop shadows to make it look like they’re cel animated
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>>150156356
You're also a massive drooling retard with special needs because that guy gets mentioned in practically every spongebob thread now so I don't buy the "/co/ doesnt know him" crap
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>>150156369
i'm the person who made this post and im trans btw
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>>150122533
spongebob got covid and gave it to everyone in bikini bottom and then gary ate the covid and saved the day thanks gary
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>>150156624
>>150156634
kek screech more, impotent bitch
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>>150156640
and then bubble bass came in and shat on squidward's face and everyone all lived happily ever gay after
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>>150156356
>>150156369
>>150156650
it's bad enough that you're a inadequate whore who's shitting himself and refusing the accept that you're wrong you need to stop sucking your own dick pronto
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>>150156650
>>150156688
You Both Are Freaking Retarded Please Shut Up
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>>150122531
I kind of forgot about it after a point.

Even as a kid, before I knew what the seasons/timeline of production were, the pizza episode struck me as a little try-hard and I realized I'd outgrown that style of humor to a degree. I was watching non-shonen anime and R-rated movies by then.
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this is the worst thread on /co/ right now
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>>150156650
if larry the lobster was real he'd call you a weakling which you are
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>>150122488
season 3 and the movie (I liked both)
never watched season 4 until years later, and thank god I decided to stop watching
season 1 is still peak spongebob
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>>150124597
Die out
https://derp.ibooru.org/images/2460184
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2020/10/6/2460184__safe_artist-colon-tjxendlue_edit_edited+screencap_screencap_applejack_fluttershy_pinkie+pie_rainbow+dash_rarity_sci-dash-twi_sunset+shimmer_twilight+sp.jpg
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>>150157668
The thread is saved
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>>150122531
fpbp
the only adults I see referencing it are terminally online gay manchildren from america
at some point even as a kid you know it becomes mindless filler
>>150124371
consider that sometimes people would only watch whatever was airing on tv once in a while, resulting in many skipped episodes
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>>150156716
>the pizza episode
This is literally from season 1
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>>150157807
I dunno mate, I saw it in 2001-2. The show started in '99. Maybe it was a rerun
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>>150156344
I like the guy
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>>150156356
Explain then this you fag
>>150158375
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVC_ZEm_i4Q
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Zoomer thread
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>>150159137
at least its not old fucks talking politics and philosophy again
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>Thread is almost entirely on-topic
>Suddenly people start talking about ecelebs
>Instantly goes off the rails
Season 4 by the way, I can't remember the exact episode but it really rubbed me wrong after the movie.
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>>150157668
Easily the best post in the thread
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>>150159374
yeah we should start getting mad at commies and unions like a good thread
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>>150122531
I remember watching it when I was in 7th grade. Every morning I'd ask my friend "Did you see Spongebob this morning?" and we'd recite lines from it. I was done with it by the 8th grade. It wasn't intentional, either; I don't remember stopping liking it, I just stopped watching it, probably in favor of other programs.

The last one I can remember seeing was the one where they are in medieval times. I think this was around Season 4. I had Seasons 1 through 3 and the first half of Season 4 on DVD.
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Even as someone who's an avid season 4 fan I can't help but agree with the consensus that things definitely start feeling off around that point especially towards the end with episodes like "The Thing" and "Squid Wood"
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>>150159570
I can kind of understand people defending season 4 if they're talking about the first half, it's off-feeling and a notable step down but not outright bad. The second half is just downright bad though and feels like it was basically setting up the show for how bad it was going to become.
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>>150159570
Hocus Pocus is another shitty episode that deserves more hate. Not only is it painfully unfunny, but the whole episode is pointless since we know Squidward isn't in any danger.
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oh yeah, Patrick had a sister.
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>>150159668
Patrick doesn't have a sister, he has a bank
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>>150159688
a bank?



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