WTF
>>155258829The best vampire episode ever!
>>155258829Squilliam's scope is pretty limited to just competing with squidward. Nosferatu is a random gag character that can just be briefly referenced in a 2 second joke.
>>155258829ibuprofen
>Fun fact: as of last Friday, Squilliam has raped more women than Nosferatu
because modern spongebob writers are hacks and they keep bringing him back for millennial 'memberberries
>>155259473Spongebob is a Gen Z show tho
>>155259484It came out when I was 14. In 1999.
>>155259473millennials don't watch post-movie shit
>using an antisemitic caricature as a recurring character umm yikes this didn't age well
>>155258977Why can't they just make new gag characters instead of recycling ones from the first 3 seasons?
>>155258829Doesn't Sqiudward's VA hate Squilliam anyway?
>>155260117Dee Bradley Baker really thinks he’s too good for him
>>155258829Bubble Bass has probably appeared more than even Nosferatu.
>>155260049they added some characters from camp coral to the main show and they are absolutely awful. they're not good at making new characters.
>>155260117No thats vincent waller who hates him and thats why hes banned from appearing on the show anymore
>>155258977>Nosferatu is a random gag character that can just be briefly referenced in a 2 second joke.The ice cube in the salty spittoon was referenced in a 2 second joke.Spongebob massaging Dennis's head was a 2 second joke.And then Movie Dennis showed up for a 2 second joke I think at the same time as Nosferatu.You can reference Squilliam in a 2 second joke.>>155260049I would ask if they started setting it underwater again at some point or toned down the hyperactivity but I'll probably be disappointed on both counts.I remember when the (ugly) incidentals from the city in Whobob Whatpants started showing up all over bikini bottom, then I think were forgotten about when their designer presumably left.
Nosferatu appearing again completely ruins the jokeThe entire point is that Nosferatu of all people appears out of nowhere and everyone's just>Oh, You!
Nah fuck off how is that possible? Its a one off joke. You may as well bring back the talking gorilla or the 3 biggest losers at the beach.
>>155259508Yeah Spongebob's target audience was children, not teenagers.
>>155262647>You may as well bring back the talking gorillaAnon, I hate to break this to you, but...
>>155262781Fuck off
>>155262647you think that's bad, kid nosferatu has a recurring role in kamp koral. he even talks and has plot relevance.
>>155258829wut
>>155258977squilliam was also the rich snob character, i think he has a lot of potential for gags centering around rich people, especially if there was a scenario where mr krabs finds out about said wealth
>>155262647>the 3 biggest losers at the beachat this point any character who has appeared in a seasons 1-3 episode has a huge chance of already having reappeared in a recent episode
>>155262781this is awful
>>155262973Bubble bass has become a recurring character even though he was primed to only be a one off. He even appears in the patrick star show as an internet reviewer loser who talks about children's cartoons.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQQtv1xbqZ8
>>155262781holy fuck this show is so embarrassing
>>155263071I wouldn't say he was prined to be a one off. He seemed to be set up to be Spongebob's archenemy. The same way Squilliam is for Squidward. >>155262973Jeez. Okay what about Plankton's lab
>>155262973Nope! My waifu is still MIA
>>155263138
>>155263113not in the show proper but he was in the littlebigplanet 3 dlc when you play the chum bucket level
>>155263138>>155263149think again, she actually appears multiple times
>>155263181>>155262973>>155262781Please be A.I.
>>155263225It's not A.I, it's a real-ass episode.
>>155262973Okay I know you said episodes but there's no way the Biker, Sneed and Chuck, the Diver, or the monsters from the movie have reappeared. I inow Mindy and Neptune have
This show was more enjoyable when they had Tom Kenny running around in a cheap Pirate costume as a buffer between episodes. They should have kept that going sort of like the Mario Bros. Super show.
>>155263243dennis doessneed and chuck are in spongebob tower defense
>>155263308That was never a thing outside of specials.
>>155263243>>155263318the cyclops is an iffy one, because while it's not the same character (as far as i know) they gave the french narrator a physical appearance and he just looks like the cyclops
>>155263320he actually does show up in this one random non-special episode alongside the narrator
I was going to ask if the "so long shrimp" shrimp has any other appearances but when i searched for him this was like the second image to show up, are the usual incidentals just not enough these days?
>>155258829Zombie Spongebob doesn't count. They also brought back Bubblebass as a series regular after like 20 years as well.
>>155263399desu I never really liked how most of the incidentals are just fish, though I guess it does serve to set them apart from the main cast. I always wondered why there weren't other random background crabs or squids, because when they do that, those characters tend to stick out like a sore thumb, like this random squid girl in squirrel jokes
why did so many shows become forever shows
>>155263473because when a show becomes culturally relevant, a network tends to bank on them being constant income streams. part of the reason why nickelodeon will give a show two seasons at most and cancel it if it isn't as immediately popular as spongebob. problem is, you can't have a show on regular rotation if it only has 13 episodes, so they don't get the viewership the network wants.
>>155263149>>155263181She is cute
>>155262820I can't even fucking believe that
>>155263071There are also fans dedicated to analyzing if the show has a fetish for his bulbous, gassy ass. Quite the journalism.https://gonzobrigadoon.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/article-the-frequent-appearance-of-bubble-bass/
Why does it matter if spongebob can't drive when for the most part nobody else in the show actually drives?
>>155263071Bubble Bass works as an obvious archetype, and him being a NC ripoff is actually pretty hilarious and creative. Much better than just "hey remember this guy?"
>>155259473why not since the film properly entered the public domain in 2019
>>155263318How do you not just put a bullet in the show's head? Its a meme to say "creator is rolling in his grave" but Hillenburg would lay an egg if he saw what this shit has become. This is an atrocity because it's not done for kids it's entirely done for people in their late 20's to early 30's who gree up with this show. But even they dont care. What's next? Wormy the fucking Butterfly? The Alaskan Bull Worm? Krab borg? How many classic episodes can we roll out for the most shit half assed episodes?
>>155263181I don't feel like that should be on Mr Krabs' expression sheet and the square fish on the right doesn't look like he's in the same art styleAnd Spongebob has... what do anons say in /v/? Facial labia?I guess the art style isn't any worse than when Johnny Depp showed up
>>155263742>Alaskan Bull Wormhe shows up multiple times
>>155263399Are these women from a specific episode or did they randomly get horny when drawing?
>>155263805the fred episode is one of the only "new" episodes I've seen and the idea is so contrived. I don't hate the idea necessarily but they did not execute it in a good way. does spongebob even know fred? what business does he have trying to help him
>>155263805Does Patrick's brain coral ever show up again?
>>155263823Yes, they're in As Seen on TV, when they make the Krusty Krab commercial. One of the classic episodes.
>>155263838oddly enough they choose to reference it in spongebob big guy
>>155263860the one in as seen on tv was a different fish
>>155263860Also Buff for Puff where this volleyball scene is from
>>155263882they do reappear in this big crowd shot though
>>155263893what the fuck is happening in this scene
>H-H-Hey, Incidental 70's back!
>>155262670In 1999, Those children were younger millennials. The oldest zoomers were four years old, literally junior kindergarten when SpongeBob started, they weren’t the original target audience. Same with Ed Edd N eddy. Its core audience was younger millennials.
>>155263860Huh.>>155263882Pretty much the same honestly.>>155263893This kind of mess should simply be for a Where's Wally Spongebob book. I'd not ask to do that because I'd want the animators to draw fun scenes and not stress over getting weird and different characters that will be on screen for 3 seconds 100% accurate.Honestly surprised Patrick doesn't have his baby tooth and a puffy cheek in this shot. Did they stop doing that (I know you're just looking at wiki images)?
>>155263941Where's his tan line?I wonder what the sky is supposed to look like. Maybe someone drained the sea again.
>>155263969>Maybe someone drained the sea again.Actually they're covered in Patrick's drool...
>>155262973If they had the "I am only an eel" lady show up again I will eat my whole fucking house
>>155264028uhh>>155263181>>155263893I mean it's not like she had prominent roles but she's appeared several times
>>155263473Pop culture has sorta stagnated in the past 20 years. It used to be that people wanted new things and had to expect that old things would come to an end. People used to not want sequels to things because they were seen as tacky. People used to have an expectation that new shows would replace old shows. There was an expectation that any IP had a shelf-life of about 10 years at best, and would not be coming back. Now, thanks in part to “geek culture” becoming so mainstream, nothing EVER ends and things are constantly being brought back. You can expect every popular movie to have half a dozen sequels in development. Nothing is a one-off, it’s all a “universe” that can be expanded. Cartoons go for decades because people got too comfortable and refuse to try new things. There’s no big race to find a “new profitable IP” because nerds keep fucking paying to see the old ones.
>>155262670You're telling me a kid would understand the 'free form jazz' joke?
>>155264115They're full of shit. Spongebob was just a show that was appropriate for children, not necessarily a kid show. Retards are unable to understand the difference. People think of looney tunes as kid shows, but they were made to air in movie theaters before the film started. A lot of them featured smoking and drinking.
What are anon's thoughts on Suzie Groove? I think she's cool.
>>155264170I mean even in her episode, Karen...
>>155264190Yeah of all the changes Nu-Bob made, I'm glad they fleshed out Karen's personality.
>>155263979Haha, you almost got me.
>>155260049>why make new thing instead of use old thing again
>>155264375Meant why no make, me stupid.
>>155258977Nosferatu is a character of public domain and he never speak.
>>155264190Oh my fucking- Its the fucking legs. ITS THE FUCKING LEGSIt's just constant member berries. This is fucking wretched. To the anon who's pulling this stuff up tell me they bought back the nemotoads as well.
>>155264028Is your house a pineapple under the sea?
>>155259709Is squidward Jewish? Is that why he hates Christmas?
>>155264633>Grommit ITS THE WRONG LEGS GROMMIT
>>155264661Well none of them knew what christmas even was. Squidward just hates happiness and cheer. I don't know if that alone makes him jewish, but it was more because he was grumpy and not because he considered everyone else goycattle.
>>155264706>Squidward just hates happiness and cheer. I don't know if that alone makes him jewishit does
Eat shit squigger
>>155263071Watching this clip while I'm currently going through Season 1 of SpongeBob is really uncomfortable.
>>155258829>>155260117>>155262383Actually, they also replaced Squilliam with Lady Upturn and that Vincent Waller doesn't like Squilliam and anything related to Squidward. And no, Squidward's voice actor loves Squilliam but has forgotten his name since he hasn't appeared in over 15 years, unless you count the video game.
>>155260662>>155263071>>155263579Didn't some guy here once made a post wishing for him to come back?
>>155258829Does anyone even still watch this? I mean aside from shills obviously.
>>155258829Can you horror film nerds fill me in on the OTHER references Nosferatu is in besides the Night Shift episode?
>>155265738Nosferatu the film from 1922 is just based on Dracula the book but with some changes, like Dracula being renamed to Orlok. The term "nosferatu" itself is a romanian term synonymous with "vampire." I don't know if there's a lot of comedic references to the 1922 movie outside of Spongebob but there's probably a few direct references to it in vampire related stuff, beyond just using "nosferatu" as a synonym for vampire or just having ugly looking vampires. The first one that comes to mind for me is the Nosferatu clan in Vampire: the Masquerade, which are deformed by their curse to look like Count Orlok instead of looking more human like the other clans.
>>155265828Dude...I'm talking about the Spongebob episodes he's shown at. Not the lore... I want to BTFO that Shitter post OP posted.
>>155265842I don't give enough of a shit about modern spongebob to check the wiki and clearly neither do you.
Lady Upturn is the replacement for squilliam. Im not sure why the writers did this but I'm sure it's for a valid reason.
>>155264661>>155264706>>155264725Squidward is not a Jew, he is an Aryan.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8NkntEAq8
>>155264190When did they start giving Karen facial features?
>>155265893She's always had them but they appear more now in the modern episodes than the earlier seasons.
>>155263893>>155263911>what the fuck is happening in this scenei never seen or heard of this ep, but let me guess.they're trapped in a whale, that's the uvula and they piled up to let spongebob hit it so that they get blown out of the blowhole.how close am i?
>>155258829Peter Sardine
>>155265948They're trapped inside a robot chicken made by Plankton that eats people who say aw to it and it turns into a giant monster and swallow them
Does the Tattletale Strangler come back?
>>155266864
>>155265738he first reappears in The Night Patty where his role is expanded to being the boss of the Krusty Krab when it's staffed by the deep sea creatures at night but it turns out to be a hallucination Spongebob has
>>155258829It’s hard to describe why, but the callbacks to older episodes felt more natural in seasons 11, like they were appealing to the fans in a non-nostalgia baity way that didn’t feel forced.I would assume the reason they don’t feel as natural now is because many of the crew members that made the early Waller era episodes enjoyable have left the show.
>>155267395That, and Hillenburg isn't left to supervise Waller and Cecerreli anymore.
>>155263830Well Spongebob knows everyone in Bikini Bottom but at the same time focusing on a background character for an entire episode is so fucking lame. And each time they said "my leg" it was so forced and unnatural sounding. Modern Spongebob feels like an apology for the Truth or Square episode where they couldn't be assed to reference any previous episodes or characters and just made shit up. Even the unspeakable Horse Show had more respect for fan service for its 100th episode
>>155262492Not even. The joke is that the Hash Slinging Slasher was set up as this horror but ultimately turned out to be nothing. Then Nosferatu (an actual monster) shows up and everyone is nonchalant.
>>155267309For fuck sake
They recently did an episode about that shriveled old lady from "Chocolate with Nuts" just to explain why she hates chocolate.
>>155268194Baby Prunes? (Yes, that is her canonical name.)
>>155262781>>155263318>>155267309Alright if we're talking about random old characters coming back, I got one. Did that purple nuclear waste kaiju ever show up again? As a kid I always thought he had a sick design
>>155268327Surprisingly Rrarrg only appeared in a single episode.
>>155258977>a 2 second joke.If only.
>>155265274well just remember that the patrick show is a prequel to spongebob
>>155267363Thank you for answering but...>The Band Geeks episode>The fancy restaurant episode>The episode where Squidward trains Spongebob for the talent show> The episode with Squidward's toenailThose are the episodes Squilliam's shown. Still not BTFOing that stupid Shitter post though...
So, casually skimming through the thread. All nuSpongebob can be summed up as "Iconic one off character shows up after years while Spongebob makes over the top expressions"
>>155263181>>155263800The square fish is from a season 9 episode called "License to Milkshake"
full episode about the Hoopla fish when?
>>155270095He could totally be the Glep of SpongeBob.
>>155258829This reminds me that eventually the mock darth vader became a main recurring side character in fairly odd parents
>>155267395Not at all to me. I would say that the second half of season nine and the whole of season ten felt much more natural than season 11 and later. The last special that was really interesting was about SpongeBob's 20th birthday, but that was in season 12. Although I honestly hate how nu-SpongeBob has become just a pale copy of Ren and Stimpy. This can often be seen in the animation and some unnatural things, characters and moments.
>>155270830And Johnny Test
Although it's hard to admit, the Tibbet era was much better than the entire Waller era from the tenth season until now. Despite some inappropriate moments that were really terrible, but at least they used the characters properly and not the one-gag characters they often use.
Literally Glub Glubshitto's
>>155269735Plus constant displays of fetishes, especially with heels and feet. And in the first seasons of SpongeBob it was often made fun of (Dirty Dan joke if anyone remembers).
>>155263947Zoomers begin in 1996-1997 so they were only two-three years old. Spongebob is firmly a late millennial show.
Whatever happened to that nigga who tried to kill Spongebob when his pants inflated? He came back for the swearing episode but that was it
>>155271190Isn't that also the fish who the townies beat up? >how many times do we need to teach you this lesson old man?
>>155263830The idea has been done twice before >if character does this too much they'll lose this thing foreverSo its the Iron Butt episode and the Laugh Box episode all over again.
>>155271291Three times. If Mr Krabs is greedy one more time he goes to Davy Jones Locker
>>155262926This, you can make him be a dick to anyone lower on the financial totem pole, it's just with Squidward it's more personal.
>>155258829Honestly, while annoying, the one modern SB episode that legit pisses me off is them bringing back the Imagination Box. Remember how the box in the OG episode was JUST SB and Pat's imaginations, their acting selling it so well Squid thought he actually killed them at one point?Yeah, an episode from last year(?) brought the box back, and made it so the imaginations were really REAL, and the box "broke" so SB had to take to an Imagination store to fix it. Like... come on.
>>155262926>especially if there was a scenario where mr krabs finds out about said wealthhe knows
I wonder if the new writers know they shouldn't tell the Krabby Patty Formula?
>>155271650They skirted around it a few times, but it's usually been something consistently bullshit like "love."
>>155271650New Spongebob revealed that Mr. Krabs likes eating Chum
>>155271689He literally was going to give the formula to Plankton in exchange for a lifetime supply of chum before Spongebob stopped him. Mr. Krabs is an addict.
>>155271650there was an episode where spongebob lost the secret formuler IE the scroll in the bottle and for some reason couldn't make krabby patties anymore. which does not make sense.
>>155271689Nubob has Eugene and Sheldon as best friends growing up.
>>155271735That's from the middle era (season 4-8). Nu-Spongebob is generally considered to begin in season 9 when it went HD.
>>155271748Wait, it gets WORSE?!
>>155271770It actually got slightly better. Season 7 was the absolute lowest point of Spongebob. Season 8 was a slight improvement and then seasons 9 onward are bad, but not as bad as season 7.
>>155262926They already have a nu-Spongebob character for this though, Lady Upturn. I don't know she replaced Squilliam but she gets all the rich people jokes, or what passes for them in modern Spongebob
>>155259566The thing is the kids who grew up watching Spongebob are writing it now. Same as Simpsons. So they reference the good parts of pre-movie Spongebob and they don't GET why the episode works. So Nosferatu, the live action gorilla, the Chocolate Lady. All good gags but not worth making into characters. Meanwhile someone like Squilliam was created and hyped up to be Squidward's rival and they chose to not do anything with him. The best parts of older Spongebob episodes is that you can just watch any of them without having ever watched the show. But Nu Spongebob brings these characters back that you would have had to have seen in the original to get.
>>155271791Season 7 was the Family Guy season 8 of Spongebob. The creepy and dark season that everyone hates. Coincidentally it was the same year too (mid 2009 to mid 2010).
>>155271650Give it time. They'll have an episode where everyone BUT Plankton knows the formuler and they all get memory erased.
All these reference episodes and they still haven't revealed what happened to the mother of Pearl
>>155271817Maybe Squilliam realized that trying to antagonize squidward wasn’t worth his time
>>155271932I think the assumption is that that fan comic is canon.
>>155271955So I just looked this up, and apparently, Krabs LITERALLY fucked a whale.
>>155271944Hey you get back here squigga
>>155258829I feel like this is less indicative of the current SpongeBob writers overusing the Nosferatu gag and more indicative of how much smaller of a presence Squilliam has in the show than many of us have been convinced he has.
In a Q&A with Spongebob fans, former writer showrunner of Spongebob Paul Tibbitt (seasons 4-9) stated that he hasn't seen the show since he left and thinks that the new team and showrunner are doing a better job than him, indicating that he is aware that post-movie Spongebob wasn’t good.
Narlene is unironically the best of the nuSpongeBob characters. That's not saying much though.
>>155272182Die you degenerate footfaggot
>>155258829Don't worry, we've got better things happening now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAqex3TmepY
>>155272208this is odd
>>155267309This frame really does sum up current SpongeBob.
>>155271735>>155271748>>155271770Plankton Movie retconed Krabs & Plankton being childhood friends, and now the current story is that Plankton arrived at the Krusty Krab like some random customer.
>>155272208Is this fan art from the new mcdonalds shit?
>>155272624Plankton movie?
>>155271650Jot only will they reveal the formuler they'll eventually let Spongebob get his liscense
>>155268194I don't know why Nick keeps doing this shit. >Jimmy Neutron starts waning post movie>starts doing crossovers with FOP>Fairly Oddparents starts waning>adds a bunch of new characters no one cares about>Spongebob Squarepants starts waning>just brings back a bunch of background gags with no clue how these gags were funny
>>155274331Yes, last year, only on netflix though.
>>155274335They wouldn't fucking dare.
>>155264633The nematodes reappeared in season 4
>>155274535who the fuck asked for this
>>155263561Situations like Rock Bottom wouldn't happen if he had his own boat.
>>155274555Jeez Mrs Puff is canonically dating Mr. Krabs apparrently. The bottom of the barrel is already being scraped.
>>155264130Hell Spongebob got away with a plot about stealing girl panties before it got cancelled a few years ago.
>>155271932Hillenburg said not to do that but they rejected his wish to not have any SpongeBob spinoffs so who knows
>>155275749Makes me not wanna finish that novel I've been working on if people are just going to tarnish my work.
>>155275734In an alternate universe we'd have a show called Squarepants and Son and it would be a slice of life where Spongebob married Sandy and had three kids and they'd get up to schenanigans
>>155275792What would the kids look like?
>>155275734That's been a thing for like 20 years
I don't understand how nubob had so many defendersThe show has had all the sould squeezed out of it. It manages to feel even more tryhard than the tibbit era and that also fucking sucked
>>155275807Two Girl Squirrels and a Boy Sponge with a Squirrel Tail and ears
>>155275404Uhhh, the millions and millions of people still watching and talking about and drawing fanart for SpongeBob?
>>155277051Oh so the YTP guys?
I mean I missed the early season continuity. Help Wanted, Plankton, Shanghai, and Sandy are classics and the characters from those episodes have been a mainstay. However... the fucking chocolate lady? The Imagination Box? These aren't characters. One is sight gag and the other is a plot of an episode.
>>155263911Immigrants from the future have arrived to steal everyone's jobs so to prevent the future from happening they're getting in a gay sex pile so no kids can be born.
>>155263308>the one where he falls over and the stage hands rush in to help him upPatchy segments were more funny as time went on.
>>155279807>i have a feeling a pirate and a parrot are arguing over me... and the parrot is winning!
I mean naturally they could have him live in Squidville. Instead they wasted him on that shit House Fancy episode
>>155259508>I was 14. In 1999.And you are still using 4chan?
>>155275952Johnny Test style. It'll die after four seasons
>>155268194But the joke with the old lady chocolate fish is that Spongebob and Patrick weren't expecting an elderly fish's mother to still be alive when she wheels in as a skeleton in a wheelchair. That's the gag.
>>155274535...Is it any good...?
>>155281115is decent
