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    Season 6 Discussion

    in Season 6

    Posted

    Might as well say my thoughts on this Season

    It's an absolute pile of crap.

    This Season. It almost made me give up on Spongebob, right here. It was meant to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the show. So, what do we get for sticking with a show -that's quality had been wavering for about three years- for a decade? Crap. This Season introduced a new writer and a new storyboard director to the team: Derek Iversen and Sean Charmatz. They were actually okay writers, but that's beside the point.

    This season seemed to take the show in a new direction. It began moving away from the roots the show had planted in Rocko's Modern Life, and pushing towards the elements of Ren And Stimpy that it had used in the past. Now, instead of humorous character interaction, and hilarious situations Spongebob would get himself into, we get Spongebob trying to rip a Splinter out of his thumb for 11 minutes and him getting kidnapped by Vikings.

    Gross-out was used a lot this Season. Squidward's toenail. The Splinter. Pets Or Pests. Squidward tearing off his eyebrow skin in Pineapple Fever. And, it was sprinkled throughout the other S6 episodes. Here, many character's personalities were exaggerated. Spongebob went from a moderately irritating and well meaning guy with OCD tendencies, to a complete stalker that was overtly happy and borderline creepy at times. He became incredibly annoying at every chance he got.

    Squidward progressed from a character that was lazy and sarcastic and artsy and irritable and vain/snobbish to one that was easily irritated, overtly artsy, and incredibly snobby. His relationship with Spongebob transformed from "He's like a little bro. You wanna kill him half the time, but deep down, you like him" to "Get away from me or I will kill you so hard, not even joking, I hate you with every fiber in my being". His character gained something else, though, and this is probably the best thing to happen to him Post-Movie. When an episode doesn't particularly focus on Squidward heavily, (And especially in Aaron Springer's episodes) Squidward turns into a sarcastic jerk with great lines.

    Spongebob: Squidward, do you hear that? What is that noise?

    Squidward:....Excruciating.

    Mr. Krabs: This promotion is designed to save us money, boy! All our loyal customers-

    Squidward: What loyal customers? You have none.

    Mr. Krabs: Don't you know when you're not being listened to?

    Squidward: You're the only one talking.

    Patrick became more child-like, as opposed to dumber. Moments of his past intelligence show in episodes like Porous Pockets. Sandy.... I don't know. No Karate. No Texas, "I'm a Texas, Hoe-Down action Squirrel" stuff anymore. Just Science. Whatever. And, Mr. Krabs became a jerk obsessed with money to the point that he wasted almost a week of his life stalking Spongebob for a freaking penny.

    I guess it was here that Aaron Springer thought that continuity errors were funny. He seemed to adopt a habit that characters who had interacted in the past didn't know each other. From Spongebob Squarepants V.S The Big One:

    *Sandy walks over*

    Squidward: Who are you?

    Pets Or Pests:

    Spongebob: That voice.... Could it be?

    *Larry the Lobster turns around*

    Spongebob: Larry The Lobster!

    Larry: Do I know you?

    Spongebob: Probably not.

    Why? WHY? Things like this just seem to say "Hey, isn't it funny to spit in the face of everything we've previously worked on? It's hilarious to kill pre-existing character relationships? Yeah, it's great." Ugh. While, yes, there were a few bright spots (Truth Or Square is one of my favorite episodes, period) there's too much badness too overlook. It doesn't work. Something went terribly wrong here.

    And, while Season Five seemed as if it was struggling very hard to be as Pre-Movie as it could (see Atlantis SquarePantis for a prime example), this Season seems to say, "Screw it. We don't care anymore." The worst part is that the writers immediately got their crap together the next Season. So something bad happened here, and the writers knew it. Sad to see a show, that, three Seasons ago, was a thriving hilarious labor of love, and, then, three Seasons later, turned into this.

    The writers got their game up for the next two Seasons. But that doesn't excuse what happened here. It's just..... Why. Why did this happen. The writers didn't run out of ideas. Seasons 7 and 8 prove that. I guess it was just a new direction they were trying that didn't work out. Still, very sad. THis show has proved that it can be good. The fact that Season 6 was anywhere near this bad is just sad.

    3/10. Inexcusable badness. The three comes from the two good specials we got. And a few fresh episodes we got throughout S6. Just bad. Worst Season, as far as I'm concerned.

    SO AGREED. 

    105a. The Splinter

    in Season 6

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    this episode had one problem to me, when the splinter explodes and all the juice comes out, that part made the humor go up to the ren and stimpy gross humor limit. 

     

    Overall ranking: 3.1/10.0

    EEk That part made me never eat food for hours. O_O

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