243a. The Nitwitting

[WinterArcanine]

On 1/12/2019 at 7:12 PM, BeachBob95 said:

Looks so rediculous that it could be funny

Well, this aged well..........

 

[poowoo hiswoman]

I get the complaints behind this episode, but it had some pretty specific intentions. Not typical for SB, but hard to avoid currently.

 

And I'll bet there's more political parodying to come! *winkwink

[Clappy]

This is the dumbest episode of SpongeBob I’ve ever sat through.

No joke.  I’ve practically outgrown the show since I don’t watch new episodes anymore nor do I really want to.  But I’ve seen plenty of talk on Discord about this episode in particular.  Not like Ink Lemonade levels of hatred or anything, but pretty freaking bad word of mouth.

Then Jjs mentioned about a hour ago that he wished that I saw it so he can know how I feel.  Well how thoughtful.  I’m on vacation this past week so why not give it a shot.  I tried a few other episodes as of late due to word of mouth and some of them were pretty good actually.

This was not.  The one thing I will give modern SpongeBob.  The animation does look good.  What they do with said animation leaves a lot to be desired, but that’s another thing entirely.

But yeah, back to that first sentence.  I’ve watched plenty of dumb and stupid episodes of SpongeBob back in 2013 and 2015 for the Worst Episode countdowns of said years.  Hell I remember watching Whirly Brains on a wim not too long after and thinking that these guys are seriously running out of ideas for this show.  Think about that for a second.  An episode where SpongeBob and Patrick take out their brains to play them like drones is not nearly as  stupid as this episode.  

But you know what really pissed me off about this episode in particular?  What makes me think this is one of the worst episodes of the entire series more so than other infamous semi-recent episode Ink Lemonade?  The smug levels of self-awareness about how stupid this episode is:

-The irritatingly annoying club song

-Having SpongeBob drink everybody’s drool (the joke that followed about them actually meaning drink the lemonade was even worse...THERE WAS NO BUILD TO THERE BEING A SECOND OPTION)

-The knowingly self destructive behavior of the nitwitting.  They know that this event was going to take place like clockwork and they happily ablige to destroy the entire town.

-Literally how SpongeBob was as a character.  You can’t suddenly make him brainless for the back half of the episode without him acting semi-normal a minute after removing his brain.  It’s like the plot just wants to show up whenever the hell it wants to.  Oh and that out of nowhere drama of jealousy with Patrick’s friendship with the club leader.  Get out of here with that forced subplot.

-Time to bring up the animation because it may be nice, but what these guys choose to do with the animation just pisses me off.  The intentional amounts of gross out they go for here bothers me way more than it did with Ink Lemonade.  At least Ink Lemonade provided some things I’ve never seen from SpongeBob before.  I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen them make intentionally stupid characters on this show with none of them standing out.  And they might as well have ripped off Face Freeze with how many weird faces nitwit SpongeBob goes for in this episode.

-The out of nowhere political commentary with Sandy being a part of FEMA.   WHAT!?  And then having Patrick and his club come back and destroy everything FEMA rebuilt...are they implying The Nitwitting is a natural disaster that costs the town tons of money?  Are they aiming at our president and calling him a nitwit (they aren’t wrong)?  Why the fuck was that tacked on and why did it end with the nitwits winning!?  Why is an episode titled The Nitwitting actually making me this far in depth about possible political commentary?

I hate it.  I hate how smugly stupid this episode is.  I hate how they play off Patrick’s destructive stupidity for laughs.  I hate how the plot is practically nonexistent.  And most of all, I hate that idiotic jukebox number that played throughout the episode.  That only tacks onto the arrogance that what the characters are doing is dumb but they will do it anyway behavior I get from this episode.

I know it’s too late to change my Worst List for the 2019 edition, but this is Top 10...hell Top 5 at this rate.  I actively felt myself getting dumber by watching this inane awfulness.

[Josh the trash]

As someone who's already stupid as fcuk, I was gonna say I like this episode, because I found it to be a bit funny and heartwarming(except the drool sence), but I changed my mind 20 second after, cause I found this episode's story to be...well UNBEARABLE(yeah, I can't describe it with other word,  considering I only know less then 3000 English words) but even someone as stupid as me can tell just how krappy the story is, like, spongebob joining Patrick's club and then do bounch of random kraps then spongebob realized that his just too smart to join the club dispited his brain being pooled out....like , how the fcuk dose that make sense? and Patrick giving his brain back, then he gonna clean the town but Sandy cleaned it then the episode ends.I know it's a spongebob episode, but come on, this is just well....bad story telling, at least I can still see some redeemable quality here, like everyting after the sequence of Patrick trying to get spongebob smart again and I do like some stupid jokes they told , probably because I am already stupid as fcuk(again expect for the FCUKING DROOL SENCE) and yeah...I like the nitwittings doing the community severs(I guess?)it is pretty amusing to me, I mean they aren't particularly great but the rest of the episode is just terrible on so many levels, so yeah, I don't like this episode anymore, ironicaly the reason why I don't like it, is because I used my brain......will I sugesce anyone to watch this? Hell no, but would I watch it again? I probably will.....cause even I dislike this siht, I can still enjoy episodes like this by throwing my brain away, but usually, I can still get through other ones with brain, but this one, this episode is just an insult to anyone who brought their intelligence to here.

2/10

Edited May 30, 2019 by Josh the trash

[Matt0417]

I'm probably gonna get hammered for this, but this episode was alright.

To be fair, I personally am much more of a sucker for stupid/random humor, and while it didn't work all the time, I certainly chuckled in a few places.

7/10

[Jelly Lelly]

8/10 Good