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22. But Patrick, how are we gonna get to the center of the ocean? The Main Drain - 70 points 4 of 21 lists (Highest ranking #2, @Coffee_lover) (-7) Season: 7 Writers: Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, Doug Lawrence Plot: SpongeBob and Patrick search for the main drain on the ocean floor that once destroyed Bikini Bottom. First of all, I'm always surprised this legends episode always makes it to the bottom 25. While I think legends episodes mostly suck, this one is bad but I've never thought it was bottom tier. However, this episode suffers from boring writing like 90% of season 7 and it's a mess like...Mr Krabs made us believe two kids pulled the lever but then he confesses he and Plankton did it? How did they survive? This part was never explained. Also, there is another epic twist, it was actually a bedtime story SpongeBob was reading to Patrick. Again, I think the concept was interesting but it was very poorly executed and the twists were very lazy. 21. SO, are you enjoying your stay at Chez Spongéeeee?? Squid's Visit - 70 points 4 of 21 lists (Highest ranking #2, @Clappy) (-9) Season: 6 Writers: Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Derek Iversen Plot: SpongeBob makes his house a replica of Squidward's house as he's desperate to have Squidward visit his home. This is the first episode (and probably only) on this list that I will almost defend I used to hate it years ago but now I realized it has a few funny jokes that don't allow me to hate it anymore, so I'm glad it dropped 9 places compared to the last list. Overall I think it's pretty much a mixed bag though. I still hate the beginning where a crying SpongeBob begs Squidward to visit him and follows him everywhere. The ending is pretty weird and out of place as well. However, from the moment SpongeBob sends him a letter that he borrowed his vacuum cleaner (when in reality he just did it so that Squidward visits him), there are a few laugh-worthy moments like the whole phone call scene or the quote I just used above for this episode which kills me every time.

Here's mine. / 1. "Smooth Criminal" by Alien Ant Farm. 2. "Hero" by Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott. 3. "This Love" by Maroon 5. 4. "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5. "Really Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5. 6. "By The Way" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 7. "The Zephyr Song" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 8. "Dani California" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. 9. "Saving Grace" by Tom Petty. / I hope you enjoy my choices as much as I did coming up with them!

I recently bought some NEW (old) stuff! A Bonnie Raitt CD collection, with FIVE CD's for the price of about two; mostly music she's made that I've never heard before, but so far; it's really solid stuff! I've gotten through the first two CD's in the collection, 1974's "Streetlights", and 1975's "Home Plate". Still need to listen to "Sweet Forgiveness", "The Glow", and "Green Light". I am also working through Night Ranger's 1989 "Greatest Hits" CD album; "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" might be one of the best ANTI-Love Songs ever written, and "Sister Christian" might just be the BEST Power Ballad ever written! Enough said, true believers!

Let's see, since the last time I posted; the major games I have beaten are the "Super Mario RPG" remake for the Switch; the "Arcade Archives" version of "King Of The Monsters 2", and "Turrican" for the Amiga via "Turrican Flashback" for the Nintendo Switch. I am currently working on the other "Turrican" games within that collection.

"Fungus Among Us" made my list at number 7; I honestly thought "Rodeo Daze" was too forgettable (which from my standpoint, is better than being outright bad, so it didn't make my list). I have a...complicated outlook with "Little Yellow Book". On the one hand, I feel like it was the writer's way of TRYING to throw Squidward a bone for all the times he has been HORRIBLY treated throughout the series (justified or otherwise), but the writers could've just as EASILY done the plot with Squilliam, a character who actually DESERVES to be mocked. "Little Yellow Book" probably would've made my list with more choices available. And I'm honestly surprised that I'm the one who ranked "A Pal For Gary" the highest! Than again...we HAVE never seen Spongebob act THAT stupid or ignorant towards anything ELSE since that episode has aired, so if anything GOOD can be said to have come from THAT episode airing, it's that! Can't wait to see which episode scores the highest (by being the lowest!) Enough said, true believers!

Honestly I really like Little Yellow Book. I find it really funny. The stupid things Spongebob has in his diary (his obliviousness to Squidward hating him, stripping to his underwear whenever he hears the anthem, and clucking like a chicken when he sees plaid) are very funny, and the second half of the episode is even funnier. The fact that Squidward's house terms is violated by reading a diary, and then has to be flown away, is fucking hilarious, and the police officer's line "I had a diary once. My brother read it! I had a brother once" is the best joke in all of 9a. I also don't mind the townspeople's behavior or Squidward's (except maybe the ending). The only thing they heavily failed at IMO is the customer's change of behavior upon "finding out " it was Spongebob's diary. I actually think it makes sense; once Spongebob finds out and cries about it, the townspeople no longer want to seem like they were part of the reason for it, so they become hypocrites to put the blame entirely on Squidward. The problem is, the episode doesn't make it clear that this is what happened, so it just looks like bad writing (and I mean....maybe it was, and that wasn't even the intention, who knows). I think having Squidward call them out on this right when they turn on him would have helped the episode a lot, as it would be more clear that this is what happened. Still, I like this episode and it's a shame it made it here. A Pal for Gary is an episode I want to like. For season 7 standards, it's actually really good in a lot of ways. Puffy Fluffy is a really good idea with an awesome design. The stuff he does is also really cool. And Spongebob initially seems like a good and caring pet owner, being worried about Gary being alone by himself and deciding to get him a friend (Gary actually enjoyed being alone, but he wouldn't have known this). And it also has great action scenes during it; Gary fighting Puffy Fluffy and driving him off with the cowboy skills that he got from the cowboy movies he's shown to watch earlier in the episode is great. The animation is also shockingly good for being in season 7. But, in typical season 7 fashion, the writing is terrible. Spongebob thinking Gary is the one being mean to Puffy Fluffy and not the other way around is frustrating, but as he isn't seeing what's happening, I can let that slide. Spongebob will figure it out eventually, and then it'll be nice. Seeing damage to his house and automatically assuming its Gary and not the pet he just introduced to the house sucks, but I can let it slide..... then he sees Puffy Fluffy literally eating Gary and somehow thinks Gary is the one harrassing Puffy Fluffy? huh??? There's a reason you never see anyone, even defenders of the episode like me, defend this moment, and its because it makes zero sense. Its one of the worst scenes in the show, and one of the worst written scenes. This scene deserves all the hate it gets and I've never really seen anyone say otherwise. What people don't bring up enough compared to this scene, however, is that even after Spongebob is saved from being eaten too by Gary, he STILL thinks Gary was the one at fault, which makes just as little sense. Then he forced Gary to be with him at the krusty krab for now on, which ruins all his fun time alone. It's just both frustrating and sad, and also horribly written and shows Spongebob as a terrible pet owner, which is OOC. I also hate how him buying the pet was protrayed; Spongebob would care about making sure the pet he gets to be Gary's friend is someone who Gary would like and would be nice to Gary. The fact that he just ignores the store owner saying they are dangerous is really dumb, and it would've been a lot better if the store owner was lying to Spongebob, making him think Puffy Fluffy is perfect when its actually a monster. Honestly, I always considered season 6 the worst season, but over time, I've come to realize that no, season 7 is the worst season and it isn't even close. The writing is absurdly terrible in this season, even compared to the other infamous post movie seasons surrounding it. And while a lot of season 6 episodes become better to me over time, season 7 episodes just get worse. The writing did so much damage to this season and this episode shows this perfectly; with even half-competent writing, this episode would easily be one of, if not the best episode, of season 7. But they managed to make the writing so terrible, that it caused the episode to become the most infamous episode of the series. While this episode is not in my bottom 50 because of its good aspects, I 100% get why people hate it, and I don't blame anyone for putting it on their list. "You put Puffy Fluffy down right now" deserves its place as the most hated scene in the entire series.

"Electric Eye" - Judas Priest

I see these two episodes are having a mid-off. Little Yellow Book is incredibly boring and, as stated in the main post, confusingly written. To this day it is still uncertain why exactly the Bikini Bottomites decide laughing at Spongebob's diary is wrong -- just moments before they were having a blast mocking him for its contents. I can't bring myself to feel much for this one anymore, but I certainly can't vouch for it being any good. If you knew me years ago, you may have known A Pal for Gary to be my least favourite episode of the show. It holds this spot no longer; in fact, I don't feel too strongly one way or another anymore. This doesn't excuse it, however, from being a poorly-written mess with few redeeming qualities. I think the plot could have worked if Spongebob weren't written to be so dense and oblivious to Gary's fear, especially in the climax where Puffy Fluffy has morphed into a horrific monster. That design is really fucking rad tbh, I feel like it would have been killer anywhere other than Spongebob lol. There are breaks in the poor writing that prevent me from putting this lower, but it's certainly not a favourite either way. I heard the network screwed with this one a lot, so I can't really fault the writers for some of this episode's slip-ups (looking at you Mr. Enter).

24. Reading somebody else's diary...that's terrible! Tell me more! Little Yellow Book - 68 points 4 of 21 lists (Highest ranking #6, @Bob Carotte) (-6) Season: 9 Writers: Luke Brookshier, Marc Ceccarelli, Derek Iversen Plot: During their working shift, Squidward finds SpongeBob's diary and starts reading it out loud in the Krusty Krab. Yes, as you can see this is another episode where I'm one of its biggest haters, it never left my bottom 10 since 2013. So...where can I start? This is one of the most unfunny episodes I've ever seen, like it's basically Squidward reading things on SpongeBob's diary out loud to the customers in the Krusty Krab and everyone laughing at him for half the episode which it quickly turns boring. This doesn't seem like a big deal because I still haven't mentioned the worst part. After SpongeBob runs out crying after finding out, the customers pretend they didn't know it was SpongeBob's diary and get offended??? They KNEW it was SpongeBob's and they were clearly enjoying it...hypocrisy at its finest. Then in the second half they treat Squidward like he committed a genocide for reading SpongeBob's diary. All of this sequence is such a writing mess that doesn't make sense. It later turns out that that "diary" was meant to be published but then Squidward gets the real one out of nowhere like bruh??? The ending is probably the worst "here we go again" ending I've seen in the show. 23. Now eat up, I'm gonna go make some enchiladas A Pal for Gary - 68 points 4 of 21 lists (Highest ranking #5, @Dragonball Z) (+6) Season: 7 Writers: Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Richard Pursel Plot: SpongeBob feels guilty for not hanging out with Gary, so he brings him a new playmate which soon starts tormenting Gary. Same amount of points, same amount of lists than LYB, but AFPG is worse because its highest ranking is higher (goddammit i should have put lyb higher , rant on discord incoming ). Seriously though, I'm surprised this episode is in a worse place than in 2021 considering the hate for this episode is lower every year. It was on my list for the longest time but this year I removed it. Despite this I still consider it a pretty bad episode mostly because SpongeBob is fucking dumb and blind. I feel for Gary because he was trying so hard to explain to SpongeBob that Puffy Fluffy is very aggressive to him but he never knew because Puffy transformed back into cute mode very quickly before SB sees his evil self. Honestly, I could tolerate this (I even like the enchiladas joke)... until the you know what scene which I still hate because monster Puffy is right on his face trying to eat Gary and SB still blames Gary????? Everyone was so badly written in S7 but SpongeBob here is just...something else it's unbelievable.

Xenogears, something I've picked up and put off for far too long and need to actually finish lol. Goddamn this game is long

Fungus is yet another episode that barely missed my bottom 15. Not only is it pretty "ick"-y (*laugh track*), it's just devoid of anything interesting or funny. I wouldn't say that it's as revolting as Pet or Pests or The Splinter, but the scene where SpongeBob was in a bubble at the Krusty Krab made me seriously uncomfortable. The foreshadowing at the beginning was nice, but other than that, I can't say anything good about this one. Rodeo Daze is such a snorefest of an episode. The rodeo song was okay, but the rest of the episode felt like the equivalent of cramming a major school project the night before it's due. For an episode called "Rodeo Daze", we only got mere seconds of an actual rodeo, and a terribly animated one at that. Again, the vast majority of the episode consists of nothingness, which is a recurring theme in season 7.

Moved Trenchbillies off of my list from 2019 or whenever it was for the record. It could have been higher if I kept it on but I didn't. other notable entries here on my list were Rodeo Daze which is just a dreadful episode. SquarePants Family Vacation also made my bottom 10 it's an episode with just a complete lack of energy. It's not funny in the slightest besides remembering remarks about underwater atmosphere by members of the SpongeBob fandom. That's all I have to say for now I suppose.

Fuck I forgot about Silverstein and early Paramore

Imma be real: the emo pop-punk scene was one that I totally missed the boat on as a kid, given that most of my middle school peers were more into classic rock or even Lady Gaga at the time (this was the latter half of the aughts), so I'm pretty out of my element when it comes to this genre. That would also explain why some of these songs are gonna be more emo-adjacent than pure, stereotypical scene kid stuff (see the tracks from The Postal Service and Plain White T's). It's also really telling that I only really know two of these songs through iCarly lmao

Honestly, (No) Fungus Among Us isn't a very fun achievement to get. Not using a single mushroom in a nighttime level is extremely hard even on the easier nighttime levels, since Puff Shrooms are so good and having to plant a Potato Mine for every early zombie makes it super hard to save enough sun to even get a second Sunflower. I don't really enjoy this one at all. I'm not really sure why a Plants vs Zombies achievement is even on this ranking, but I can't say I disagree with it being here. Rodeo Daze is honestly....overhated? Like, the first half sucks (besides the Plankton part which is really funny), the song is bad and most of the scenes with Spongebob asking people to help him save Sandy is boring, but I honestly kinda like the second half. Spongebob forcing everyone to help save Sandy by forcing them into bubbles is actually pretty neat, and its funny to see Spongebob do something like this. The music used during that scene gives it a really nice vibe as well. Then Spongebob and everyone else making it to the rodeo, and then Sandy having to save Spongebob, was also pretty cool. But, all of the Texas stuff happens in like 1-2 minutes. They really could've paced this episode better; if they had focused more on the Texas stuff, and less on Spongebob trying to convince people to help him save Sandy, it would've been a lot better. Overall, I think this episode is mid.

Oh no, now I have to give my opinion on Fungus Among Us I'm going to be honest, I actually like this episode; I can understand why people wouldn't, though. It's got this weird atmosphere, and a lot of the comedy hinges on grossout (which I can't feel too grossed out by, seeing as how it looks more cartoonish than, take for instance, half the grossout in Seasons 6 and 7). It's right up my alley in terms of comedy, and I think my enjoyment of this one is very subjective on that account. There's another episode I'm sure will show up down the line that I hold similar sentiments to, get ready for that scorching-hot take. AS FOR Rodeo Daze though, this one absolutely made my bottom 15. I debated whether it would fit on here, but upon introspection, yeah, this deserves a bottom spot for sure. Talk about a slog -- absolutely nothing happens for most of the episode's runtime. The plot is incredibly stupid too; I don't get why Spongebob decides he has to gather the entire town together to "save" Sandy from something she surely can handle herself. I think the plot would be funnier if it didn't take so long meandering and were written by the not-dead-inside (no shade to the writers though, I suspect they were all burnt out by this period of the show). It's really just a stupid, vapid episode. Also the animation suuuuuuuucks. The screenshot of the "Poor CGI" is just one example, but it gets worse when they actually go to Texas and everyone becomes flat stock images. Reeks of low budget to me, but I can't verify one way or another. Bad episode.

26. Let us apprehend that careless contaminator! Fungus Among Us - 67 points 3 of 21 lists (Highest ranking #1, @Clappy) (+2) Season: 5 Writers: Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Richard Pursel Plot: SpongeBob develops a case of Ick, the nasty itchy sea fungus that grows over everything it comes in contact with. Well, what can I say? This is one of the most gross episodes the show has ever done. Fungus wouldn't make my bottom 15 but I would definitely include it if I were asked to do a bottom 25 list. I'm not a fan of gross-out stuff in general but this is actually not my main problem with this episode. This is another example where the Bikini Bottomites are pretty much assholes and attack SpongeBob just because he is the one who spread the ick. SpongeBob's bubble is popped twice, first by Patrick's stupidity which I guess I can take, but the customers had absolutely no reason to pop the bubble. Weren't they aware that this would make things worse? I guess what saves this episode from being a 0/10 is the ending where Gary, who is a bottom feeder, cures everyone and cleans the Krusty Krab by eating the ick. 25. Did we save Sandy? Rodeo Daze - 67 points 4 of 21 lists (Highest ranking #2, @Shark Tale) (+5) Season: 7 Writers: Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, Richard Pursel Plot: SpongeBob takes Bikini Bottomites to Texas to save Sandy from a squirrel rodeo, but his attempt to save Sandy backfires. I see Rodeo Daze ended up tied with Fungus in points, but it's higher on the list because more people included it on their lists. Anyways, this episode is so boring and lazy but I don't think it's awful enough to make my list. I even think the concept is pretty nice that could have been more trippy like most of the episode focusing on SpongeBob and company travelling to Texas but nope we got boring scenes of SpongeBob asking everyone to help and people always refusing to the point of SpongeBob insisting and kidnapping everyone in a big bubble with his pineapple inside, oh and the trip to Texas began around the 9th minute and this caused the ending to be rushed. We joke about "The Poor CGI" but this is one of the laziest attempts to animate CGI as you could see in the cows singing the awful Rodeo song and the ending in Texas.

I kinda took it from you on discord cuz you were right

What do we want? We want songs! How do we want them? In the form of the SBC Community Mixtape, for its 18th edition! As this project is now officially legal, maybe it's just a little ironic that, this time, we're going to be going with our most stereotypically adolescent theme yet. Get your best eyeshadow and black clothes ready, as we're going back to the 2000s to join... THE BLACK PARADE Yes, after 17 iterations of the Community Mixtape, it's time that we finally dig into the world of emo, post-hardcore, and more - the sounds that ruled the rock world in the early and mid-2000s, at least, as far as every emo and scene kid was concerned. MCR, The Used, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Underoath, and so many more were the soundtrack to a lot of childhoods, including here, and it's now been long enough that we can call it nostalgic. Bring it on! The rules: There's no set length limits per submission, but try not to go too overboard. Try to post your submissions using a Spotify playlist. If this is not possible for you, at least make sure that all of your submissions are available on Spotify. Joke/troll entries can and most likely will be excluded. No repeat entries (can't submit the same thing as somebody else). The deadline for submissions will be next Saturday, May 18th. Until then, I have a Hot Topic run to make.

Fashionably late as always.

"Demolition Doofus" actually made my list at #12, due to how OOC Mrs. Puff is. "Trenchbillies" probably would've gotten on my list with 25 choices. "A Squarepants Family Vacation" is SO unmemorable, I didn't even THINK of it as a choice; and "Slide Whistle Stooges"...I personally don't consider it a BAD episode segment; certainly a LOT better than some episode segments I could MENTION! It will be interesting to see how what the other episode segments are!

Dammit that's exactly what I was gonna say xD