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    Drawing Every Pokemon

    in Squidward's Art Show

    Posted

    Hey, I've actually been doing something. 

     

    I started this mini-project back in June, but I never bothered to make a thread until now. Why now and not sooner (or later)? Because I want to actually remain committed to this, and I've been slacking off quite a bit. My goal for now is to just draw the original 151, but maybe I'll get more ambitious later down the road. I hope I'm doing an okay job.

     

    Generally, I spent two days on a Pokemon, and either I redraw it a few times before I'm satisfied or I use an eraser. Today I was doing Dugtrio. This dude is not fun to draw. I'm gonna start with Meowth tomorrow since my art is pretty meh and I don't want to upload everything from before. Some "highlights" attached tho.

     

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    Least favorite season?

    in SpongeBob Episodes

    Posted

    7 hits the "sweet" spot between 6's shoehorned gross-out and 8's blandness, without having either 6's traces of energy or 8's relative consistency. So 7 is easily the winner. There's only a handful of episodes here worth salvaging, if that.

    SBC's Top 50 Worst Episodes Ever! (20 Years Edition)

    in SpongeBob Episodes

    Posted

    Waiting and House Sittin' for Sandy were both nigh unwatchable but Sittin' edges out Waiting because it's an entire 11 minute episode. Like seriously, these episodes are as sterile as piss. No Spongebob episode has the right to be this boring and mind-numbing (in the bad sense at least), but I guess that's an inevitability when the show's been running for this long and the writers' ideas are this stretched out.

    Stephen Hillenburg Passes Away at 57

    in Bikini Bottom

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    I could revel in the entire gamut of cliches to articulate what an impact this man has left, both in his creations and in his signature kindness. I could mention how this one television show has united every single member of this website: without it, we would never be bundled in a warm cozy community. I could throw in some anecdotes about the magnitude of influence the series imprinted on me in my formative years, how it shaped me and my personality in their explicit and more subtle aspects. But I'll eschew all conventions just to say this. Thank you, Hillenburg. Thank you for delivering your message of optimism and creativity through this cartoon. You have brought a profusion of joy to children around the world. Rich kid, poor kid, everyone is tethered to a web of intimacy through the exchange of SpongeBob quotes and moments. You have molded an entire generation in a way some claim is harmful to young attention spans, but I personally believe is a positive force in this universe. You were there when we laughed; you were there when we cried. But every time life brings the most buoyant souls down to hollow depths, we can always be assured a temporary escape into a colorful, vibrant world inhabited by an anthropomorphic sponge living in a pineapple under the sea who, at his best, is the embodiment of love.

    Perhaps I might be exaggerating. There may be bad episodes, bad seasons, bad eras of the show. Some would argue that it hasn't been good for over a decade.  But those fond memories that have been left by the best episodes will remain there forever. Thank you, Hillenburg, I don't know what my childhood would be without you.

    god i'm so pretentious

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    SBC's Top 50 Best Episodes Ever 2018!

    in SpongeBob Episodes

    Posted · Edited by Manco Capac

    Graveyard Shift portrays an excellent dynamic between SpongeBob and Squidward that is the lodestar of many of the show's best offerings. The episode progresses from the basic premise to a more creepy, sinister vibe gracefully, taking full advantage of the night-time setting. The smaller details, from the desolation to the mist, really allow the atmosphere to shine. Everything is established for Squidward's tale of the Hash-Slinging Slasher to flourish organically. There's been episodes where the plot goes from trivial to full-blown insanity, but here that progression is very subtle. Squidward getting wrapped up in his own narrative is hilarious, as is how Spongebob's paranoia rubs off on him. Like a lot of earlier episodes, there isn't much objective to really critique, just that it delivers the story in such a great, funny, and original way, that its simplicity is overshadowed by the quality of the duo's interactions. I wish I could talk in more detail but it's been a while since I've seen it. The newer episodes could really learn from this straightforward method of storytelling. Quintessential Spongebob.

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    SBC's Top 50 Worst Episodes Ever 2018 Edition

    in SpongeBob Episodes

    Posted · Edited by PatBack

    Here's my list if I had actually composed one :funny:

     


    25. Hide and then What Happens?
    24. Truth or Square
    23. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful
    22. A Flea in Her Dome
    21. Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy
    20. Rodeo Daze
    19. Yours, Mine, and Mine
    18. Fungus Among Us
    17. A Pal for Gary
    16. Smoothe Jazz in Bikini Bottom
    15. Good Neighbors
    14. Stuck in the Wringer
    13. Ink Lemonade
    12. To Love a Patty
    11. All That Glitters
    10. Boating Buddies
    09. Slide Whistle Stooges
    08. SpongeBob You're Fired
    07. One Coarse Meal
    06. Atlantis SquarePantis
    05. Squid Baby
    04. House Sittin' for Sandy
    03. The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom
    02. Summer Job
    01. Little Yellow Book

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    SBC's Top 50 Worst Episodes Ever 2018 Edition

    in SpongeBob Episodes

    Posted · Edited by PatBack
    dumb perfectionism

    Truth or Square is an episode whose much-hurled flak I could never wrap my head around. I never deplored it as much as Atlantis Squarepantis because, as pointless and ridiculous as the cutaways were, they weren't actively corrosive to my senses (and I do think those songs were ghastly in their cheesiness, and it doesn't help that boiling down the episode to their exclusion would amount to about ten minutes of substance). The flashbacks were tolerable, even though their preponderance was not warranted. My biggest gripe with the special is that, as everyone else has painstakingly mentioned and parsed, it's a bottle episode, which means any intrigue the episode delivers is predicated on the dynamics of the characters. Their interactions are okay, but so vapid and not fleshed out that they come across as dawdling. There wasn't any effort by the staff to spice up the formula. What follows is a bloated mess that operates like an 11 minute episode, yet is stretched out so thinly that you could tie a knot around the concept's grave. Or maybe do some parlor tricks.

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    And for something that was billed as a TV movie, there were absolutely no stakes anywhere, which is just pitiful for its caliber. I loath Atlantis Squarepantis, and The Clash of Triton, and all those other horrible specials, but there was some semblance of danger afoot. Truth or Square barely evokes anything, except boredom and mild amusement at a couple of sporadic gags. That, is sad. What little insight about the characters or the nature of the show is inundated by fluff that, while harmless on its own, cumulatively aggregate to my disappointed chagrin. After some reconsideration, I think it would have made my list, albeit on the lower scale.

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