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

[4EverGreen]

To be honest, I don't really get the hate for "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful"!  I mean, it's certainly not the level of stupidity or outright grossness as some OTHER episodes out there! It's another one of those episodes that are just, "There", in my personal opinion. "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy" definitely made MY personal list! Plankton has his STUPIDEST plan for stealing the Krabby Patty yet, and it STILL works with Spongebob, because he's apparently THAT stupid in this episode, even though he's KNOWN Sandy for years, and should KNOW better!  And POOR Sandy, having to go through all THAT humiliation, manages to EXPOSE Plankton, and STILL gets taken to jail anyways, for having to run around Bikini Bottom in only her undergarments, even though Spongebob, Squidward, and Plankton have done MORE than that, and nobody even batted an EYE about that!

 25. ? 24. ? 23. "The Cent of Money" (#26) 22. ? 21. ? 20. "Demolition Doofus" (#31) 19. "Face Freeze" (#40) 18. ? 17. ? 16. ? 15. "One Coarse Meal" (#15) 14. "Little Yellow Book" (#20) 13. "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy" (#11) 12. ? 11. ? 10. "The Splinter" (#18) 9. ? 8. ? 7. ? 6. ? 5. ? 4. "Atlantis Squarepantis" (#34) 3. "Boating Buddies" (#17) 2. ? 1. ?

Enough said, true believers! 

[President Squidward]

Trenchbillies: A very stupid episode only funny because of BenPaz’s iconic inside jokes 

Big Sister Sam: I remember when I first got the Season 7 DVD for Christmas in 2011, this was the episode I’d watch the most out of it.

Long story short I always loved it. Entertains me somehow. Damn you Post-Movie you got me again 

Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful: This ep is very irritating and dull. Always hated that ticket running gag. An episode that wastes my time, and is paired with another bad episode, and a possible contender for the worst pair of episodes of the series

Someone’s in the Kitchen With Sandy: Poor Sandy, being belittled and harassed for having no fur when she still has her damn bikini on. God the bottomites are such awful extras, and this episode just proves my point.

Perhaps the Post-Movie writers should’ve TRIED AGAIN on writing a great episode 

25.

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23. One Coarse Meal (#15)

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21. Trench-Billies (#14)

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18.

17. Sponge-Cano (#28)

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15. Squidward's School For Grown-Ups (#47)

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12. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful (#12, what are the odds?)

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7. Little Yellow Book (#20)

6. Sportz? (#33)

5. The Googly Artiste (#46)

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1. Slide Whistle Stooges (#16)

 

[OWM]

let's go

10. "Neptune said this was all because of me!"

The Clash of Triton, 333 points

24 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank 3 #3's @SICKO MORE @Loopers @AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH) (-3)

Klu: Clash of Triton is one little miserable special. Season 6 in general has not the best track-record in terms of specials and this episode, unfortunately, is no exception. Dull comedy, awful visuals, terrible plot, this is the recipe for disaster.

Probably the biggest problem of this episode that it’s too ambitious for it’s own good. It’s not even season 5 anymore, it’s season 6, where all good ideas and potential come to die. This episode tries to expand on show’s lore and tackle more serious issues like generational problems of father and son, but since this is:

a)      SpongeBob

b)      Season 6

c)       Special in season 6

This idea flopped. I remember reading interview where writers were saying that they were inspired by Greek tragedies. Only tragedy here is this episode’s existence.

I don’t mind when show tries out new things or when it’s ambitious (hell, I love post-sequel for that), but this episode forgot that SpongeBob just isn’t the right show to tackle such issues. But even if we give this idea a fair shot, because what the heck, it has other problems like characterization of Neptune. He is really unlikable and hypocritical, you can’t connect to him or root for him. You are more sympathetic towards Triton, who is MAIN ANTAGONIST of the episode. And even if this sounds like “grey”, more nuanced conflict, resolution of the conflict between Neptune and Triton is just laughable.  Instead of Neptune realizing his mistake, he congratulates his son for his evil deeds and destruction. I know that this is supposed to be a joke, but episode tries to take itself more or less seriously before, so why all of the sudden it doesn’t take itself seriously NOW? It’s like if “Have you seen this snail” was all normal until the very ending where SpongeBob neglected Gary again, rendering entire episode pointless with no character progression, just for the sake of dumb joke. The scariest thing that I imagine that if “Have you seen this snail” came out in season 6 it would’ve ended just like I described.

And of course SpongeBob and Patrick are chased by Bikini-bottomites because of course we also need badly written townspeople in the episode as cherry on the top.

 I can’t blame Nickelodeon for advertising this episode as an epic adventure, because in retrospect, that’s what this episode SHOULD’VE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE.  Epic adventure in style of “Dunces and Dragons”.  Instead it tries to be “Greek tragedy” resulting in badly written slog that is hard to get through. This episode has few decent jokes, like this puzzle opening the cage and Patrick being only one able to solve it, but this isn’t enough to save this trainwreck.

G4ry: If I’m going to be honest, my distaste of this episode largely stems from my expectations as a child. It may be me misremembering, but I remember this episode getting lots of promotion on Nickelodeon, moreso than any other special I remember. It was lauded as this fantastic battle in all the promos, but jack shit happened in the actual episode. My friends and I were hyped for what felt like weeks leading up to the episode. And it just fell flat. The worst part of the episode in my eyes is Triton himself. He’s just a grade A douche. He’s not compelling enough or relatable enough to be a good villain. In my eyes, he’s the worst one-off character in the show’s history. Worse than Big Sister Sam, Puffy Fluffy, Stanley, etc. Seeing him destroy Bikini Bottom with no repercussions annoys me to no end. And I know its not really a fault of the episode, but Triton’s voice annoys me. I truly do believe had the episode been less hyped up, I wouldn’t hate it this much. But it was; And I do.

9. "We'll find a way out and then we'll have the best eleventy-seventh anniversary ever. All we have to do is stick together."

Truth or Square, 401 points

20 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank 4 #1's @RDSP @Captain TJ @The Helpful Mexican @hippythehippo) (+8)

Slug: Truth or Square, where to begin? For most of the infamous episodes, there is one thing that defines them. In A Pal for Gary it was Gary’s treatment by SpongeBob, in One Coarse Meal it was Plankton’s suicide attempt, in Squid Baby it’s basically the premise, but with Truth or Square, the episode is so full of badness from so many angles that it’s difficult to decipher. The episode just keeps throwing terrible moment after terrible moment at you at such a rapid pace that it’s difficult to keep up with it. However I will try my best to thoroughly tackle every single failure in this absolutely pathetic excuse of an anniversary special.

So the episode begins with a Patchy sequence. I like Patchy, well I sometimes like Patchy. In a lot of episodes where the story needs more than 11 minutes but might not be able to fill 22, Patchy could help add something to the episode. The writers seemed to realize this and decided instead of making an actually interesting storyline that would warrant being labeled a TV movie, they could just fill it up with as much Patchy as possible to stretch out the episode to grueling lengths. Even in episodes where Patchy is fun, it’s always very short, and that’s how it should be. Patchy segments were always meant to be small extras on top of an episode, but when you make them an actual substantial part of an episode, that charm goes away. It just reeks of cheapness since they take up a substantial part of the episode. With so much Patchy it feels less like a fun extra and more like I’m watching a lazy kids sitcom tacked onto a SpongeBob episode. I’ve actually seen people who don’t hate Truth or Square entirely, but hate the Patchy segments, and some people say they prefer to judge the SpongeBob parts separately. Even without Patchy, the SpongeBob segments are still extremely flawed, but even if you think the SpongeBob portions are fine, the simple fact of the matter is that without Patchy, this isn’t a TV movie. If your supposed TV movie needs Patchy in order to be a TV movie, I’m going to judge Patchy along with the rest of the episode. To say that you just need to ignore Patchy to like Truth or Square is the equivalent of saying you need to skip all of The Phantom Menace except the Darth Maul lightsaber fight to enjoy it. If an episode is going to waste so much of my time with extraneous Patchy scenes, I’m going to critique them as if they are a part of the episode, because, you know, they are a part of the episode.

Anyways, within the very first scene we can see just how awful these Patchy scenes are going to be firsthand. Most notably, we can see just how lazy they are. Now I know exactly how some of you are going to respond. Some will say that the entire point of Patchy was to resemble a cheap kids’ show. But here’s the thing, they were intentionally lazy, and actually crafted jokes around their laziness. Take for example how in Christmas Who, Patchy just cuts off Potty’s strings, and in Ugh when he’s riding a dinosaur, he just falls over and needs a crew to help pick him back up, with an intermission that follows. They knew that they were making a parody of cheap kids’ shows, and that’s the key word here, parody. They actually made jokes out of this, there’s a difference between making fun of how cheap something is, and just being cheap, which is clearly the case with Truth or Square. Bad camerawork is not a joke, and when you have to watch so much of this, it becomes extremely grating and impossible to enjoy in any capacity.

Now Patchy segments tend to have very little of a story, often just revolving around a silly argument between Patchy and Potty, since Truth or Square’s segments are longer, they had to mix It up, which they did… in the worst possible way imaginable. The way they tried to tie this into the SpongeBob segments was to have Patchy trying to create an anniversary special for SpongeBob. Not exactly a bad synopsis, fits in pretty well with what they were going for in the SpongeBob portions of the episode. However, after having some really unfunny banter with some person at Nick, which feels like unscripted small talk, pretty much half of these segments is just celebrity cameos. What point do these cameos have? Nothing. Are there any jokes in them? Not really, the very few they do try are horrendously executed. Hey, Patchy’s breath smells, hilarious! So we’re left with a significant portion of this episode just having Patchy interact with celebrities, no jokes and no reason to be there. Nickelodeon or someone in the creative staff decided that in order to really qualify as a celebration they needed to shoehorn in as many famous people as possible to get some kid to say “Hey, I recognize LeBron James!” and hope that somehow makes up for the lack of any comedy. That is if you can recognize such iconic beacons of entertainment such as the Triumph Insult Dog, if you can’t, you really are the fool here. They truly waste so much time on this only for Patchy to give up on his special. They could’ve had Patchy come to this realization in different ways. Maybe lower it to like 3 recognizable celebrities or have them appear in a terrible anniversary special so that way the interviews actually mattered in the end and it didn’t feel like a complete waste of time.

After these interviews the episode takes an odd direction. We get a music number by Pink, and it’s quite bad. Like a lot of the songs around this period of the show, it doesn’t stick out at all and is full of generic and repetitive lyrics, it also doesn’t need to be here and isn’t important to the story at all, they’re even self-aware of it in the episode. They’re just like screw it, if Patchy isn’t doing this special, then we’re going to do something! Where is Patchy at? Well he’s taken a grand journey to meet SpongeBob, only to get eaten by a whale. I really hate this whale section. It might seem odd because the material here isn’t that bad in a vacuum. If you just saw they old-styled cartoon with SpongeBob on YouTube, you’d probably enjoy it. However, why is it here? It just feels so shoe-horned in. It’s as if you’re watching Dunces and Dragons, and then there’s this random intermission where Patchy shows up and says “Hey kids, what if SpongeBob was an anime?” and they showed a random scene of SpongeBob in anime style that has no impact on anything. Like ok, great, you’re able to draw SpongeBob as an old-style cartoon, but why? It really shows this episode has so little substance they had to stuff in what amounts to DVD extras to pad its length. There is also this alternate intros portion which is an interesting idea but isn’t actually that funny, it’s done better in Unreal Estate where the intros actually have a joke with a punchline and tie into the story. Hey look, it’s the SpongeBob intro, except it’s Patrick! I did like the part where Squid’s pants get removed, but that’s the one clever subversion here, they rest is just watching the SpongeBob intro with different characters. Not enough to make up for the lack of meaning.

When Patchy nears his end, the only thing that I can appreciate at all is “Hallucination SpongeBob” having his own wiki page, this whole thing just completely worthless dreck made so that the episode could be as long as possible to rack up more ad-space and make people think they’re going to be watching a TV movie. Sorry but I can never accept anyone thinking these aren’t the worst Patchy segments, what is there to defend here? How can anyone actually tell me Friend or Foe, Atlantis or Feral Friends are worse than this? By comparison, Truth or Square’s segments are far longer, much more poorly made, and don’t even attempt any funny antics. At least Atlantis had the Encino bit, at least Friend or Foe’s segments were short and actually had banter between Patchy and Potty rather than celebrities and random people who bounce off him terribly, and at least Feral Patchy is barely in the episode at all. For me Truth or Square’s Patchy segments are downright insulting. They don’t need to exist at all, it’s completely jumbled, and when it isn’t jumbled it’s boring with countless scenes of Patchy just… talking to celebrities, with next to no actual humor at all. They really could’ve just had focused on Patchy crafting his anniversary special, having Patchy search for SpongeBob or Patchy showing random things like the alternate intros. For the anniversary special, they really just slapped together the cheapest and half-assed script, if they had one at all, and hoped people would still accept it. For a show as treasured as SpongeBob, I find this downright disgraceful. This is hands down the worst thing the show has ever done, no contest. Nothing has had as little thought or effort as much as this. Even in episodes like Choir Boys, I’m sure there was still some sort of creative process, even if it was poorly done, but this feels cynical to the core with no heart or soul to be seen.

Things don’t get much better when we get to the meat of the special. Despite being in HD, the episode still feels remarkably bland. It’s probably the best animated season 6 episode, but season 6 was hideous as sin, and considering this was their first foray into HD for the show, I’d say it’s quite the spectacular failure. They really do nothing to take advantage of the widescreen. It’s like any other season 6 episode if you gave it a new code of paint. The animation is still stiff, the character designs are often ugly and really they do nothing impressive for the entire runtime. It all takes place in the Krusty Krab and occasionally some other often seen Bikini Bottom setpiece in flashbacks. Season 6 animation doesn’t suddenly become appealing when you up the number of pixels. I didn’t know this episode was HD when I first saw it, I had to look it up myself, and when reviewing this again I can see why.

The actual story though? It’s, of course, horrible, and very scarce in actual substance. It makes SpongeBob, You’re Fired look like an endearing adventure. It should go without saying that there’s no good jokes to make up for that. I have to admit I don’t despise “A Day like This” but it’s about the only thing I can get a modicum of enjoyment out of. We now have to admire the comedic genius this episode has to offer. SpongeBob jumping on people’s heads to get to work. Complete comedy gold. There’s so many scenes in this episode where I’m just confused on how I’m supposed to find them funny. Is SpongeBob jumping on people’s heads supposed to be the laugh riot they cooked up for a 10 year anniversary special? Speaking of bad jokes there is this odd scene in the beginning where SpongeBob gets his first Krabby Patty as a baby. It’s just this awkward scene that is weird and unfunny. If you wanted to see baby SpongeBob eat Krabby Patties in the womb then I guess Truth or Square has you covered?

The episode doesn’t get much better once the Krusty crew assembles, and the very beginning of when they enter the Krusty Krab has such a confusing moment, pardon me but I really need to dissect this. Mr. Krabs suspects that given the special day, Plankton must be cooking up a special plan, and shows via hologram a secret network of tunnels. Now, as will be discussed later, the majority of this episode is made up of characters crawling through vents. So why does this scene exist at all? These tunnels never amount to anything in the episode. I genuinely think they might’ve made some kind of error here and got vents confused with tunnels. This scene would work as foreshadowing for when they get stuck in the vents later on, but as is we never see these tunnels, and the tunnels are never brought up again in the story. Considering how this scene has nothing to do with anything else in the episode, I think they made a mistake in the writing process and forgot where the characters actually end up later on.

Moving on from that, more about the humor in this episode. They’ve really got two forms of jokes in this episode, flashbacks and montages, those are what make up the bulk of what I suppose are supposed to be humorous in this episode. We see a montage of SpongeBob decorating the Krusty Krab and we’ve got a montage of Krabs owning Plankotn with facts and logic sporting equipment. These montages I think are supposed to be humorous but they aren’t funny. All the changes SpongeBob makes to the Krusty Krab are pretty typical and have been made before. Compare that to a joke in Krusty Towers where the ways Squidward paints Patrick’s room get really silly, but here there’s barely a punchline at all, SpongeBob is just decorating the Krusty Krab and some of the designs are just different locations. There is really zero punchline here. The montage with Krabs is even worse. It’s the same joke repeated over and over again. It isn’t mixed up at all, showing the same gag over and over again isn’t what I’d call a great use of time. What makes it worse is that it’s the same awful slapstick as the rest of the episode. SpongeBob can do some great slapstick, look at seasons 1-4 and post-sequel, but it only works there because the animation has energy, without it. There is zero punch to these scenes, it’s all extremely stiff, what this means is that you’ve got very poorly done visual humor that fails to inspire a single laugh. This is the same for the rest of the visual humor seen in the episode. Patrick becomes the Krusty Krab guard beats up Squidward, yet instead of having stretchy animation it’s just the typical awful season 6 animation we’re all used to (And you bet there’s more dumb Patrick humor, lol Patrick breaks the walkie talkies cuz he’s dumb XD).

This episode also has a lot of flashbacks, there’s a lot more of them in the vents but I want to talk about the flashback where Squidward sleeps. Now this episode is supposed to be a parody of clipshows, but how do they parody it at all? What we have here is material that’s just as boring as what we’d get in a clipshow, and it isn’t even clips from previous episodes. The joke here is supposed to be that Squidward has consistently slept on the job, but it’s so poorly delivered in a clipshow format like this. It’s a long, drawn-out punchline that would be much better off with a snappy execution. Now maybe it’d be funnier if Squidward was sleeping in odd places, like what if Squidward was sleeping when the Krusty Krab was on fire? However as is, it’s just scenes of Squidward sleeping like all the other scenes of the show we’ve seen were Squidward sleeps at work, no humor at all.

Believe it or not, Plankton is also in this episode. You would be forgiven for not knowing that, because I think even the writers forgot halfway through. Plankton has zero purpose in this episode. It’s almost a parody of how these post-movie seasons kept shoe-horning Plankton in. For his grand plan on the anniversary, Plankton just walks in. He does absolutely nothing the entire episode otherwise, he makes a cameo in the vents for an unfunny joke revolving around the secret formula, and then he fails to get the formula. There’s zero reason for him to be here. I understand they probably wanted Plankton in for this, but at least give him a role. Give him an actual plan and have him actually impact the story. This just feels super lame. This is the exact same problem that Atlantis had where Plankton was put in for no reason besides the fact that it’s a post-movie SpongeBob episode so it’s somehow got to be about Plankton trying to get that secret formula.

After a series of unfortunate events, the Krusty crew gets themselves stuck in the freezer, and have to roam through the vents figure out a way to get out. This is the bulk of the episode. That’s right, the best idea they had for the anniversary special was for characters to squabble around in vents. It’s like the writers saw into the future and witnessed The Main Drain, then figured that it was a model episode to be inspired by, and tried their best to replicate the dull boringness of that episode for Truth or Square. Now an episode doesn’t have to be a huge event, it’s SpongeBob after all, but if you’re going to use up so much of my time, then I expect something better than this! The characters just go around in vents, they do nothing, and they randomly solve the conflict when the plot demands the conflict needs to be solved. They just randomly bust out, it’s no realization they discovered, they didn’t have to learn anything, they just break out when they need to. I just cannot fathom how this was the idea that they thought warranted TV movie status. Big One wasn’t a good episode, but it could’ve really used an extra 20 minutes to feel more epic and fleshed out. Clash of Triton is a shitty ass episode but there’s the possibility that more time could’ve greatly improved it, but of all these specials Truth or Square was the one that warranted this? It’s easily the one least deserving of its runtime. Characters crawling through vents is the big celebration for SpongeBob being 10 years on the air we deserved? That’s just… lame.

The only thing that happens at all in these vents are flashbacks. These flashbacks provide us with much epic material. What if SpongeBob and Sandy had a fake wedding? Hey, did you know Squidward hates SpongeBob? Let’s look at how great his life was without SpongeBob! We get an epic MCU origin story for SpongeBob’s pineapple too! Want to see a commercial for the Krusty Krab styled in an old timey way? Do you know that Mr. Krabs is going full George W. Bush and spy on everyone in Bikini Bottom? All of this definitely makes up for there being nothing else to this episode, right? These flashbacks have the same problem as the whale scene, except worse. They are all just random scenes that aren’t funny and don’t actually relate to the plot. It’s just really apparent how messy this episode is. There is nothing here for me to enjoy at all. The laughs I can’t even say are bad, because I didn’t laugh at all, and there’s no good story to back it up. Just shoe-horning random crap in doesn’t make up for any of this. It’s not a revelation if it doesn’t reveal anything, and none of them are funny either. Not that I expected them to reveal anything, because of course they don’t.

If you are a fan of genius tunes such as “The Rodeo Song” and “The Road Song”. Oh Krusty Krab is another great addition. I mean it’s shorter than those and not as bad but it’s still another lame song. So what did Nickelodeon give us for sticking with the show for 10 years? A ton of horrible Patchy scenes, a long tedious sequence where characters talk in vents and flashbacks that don’t land at all. This is the worst episode of the series for the sheer volume of things wrong with it. No other episode insults me as much as this one, no other episode wastes this much of my time with complete boring and poorly made dreck. I can’t stand this episode, it has absolutely nothing to offer, there’s no laughs, no originality, and it’s not even an interesting kind of bad episode. There are some bad episodes where I can say, hey, they tried something. Sure it was awful, but they had an idea and committed to it. Truth or Square has no ideas. I don’t even know what they were attempting to do here. It’s a vapid, cheap and boring excuse for a TV movie that wastes as much time as possible without having any entertainment value.

[Sweat]

Ah, 2 of the four horsemen of overblown specials (one other being Atlantis and the other being... well, you'll see.)

The Clash of Triton is just meh. I don't see any huge deal in it or see it as worthy of hate beyond it just being rushed and mediocre. Whatever.

Truth or Square has a lot of things going for it that are awful, but at the end of the day, I kept it off my bottom 25 only because I certainly hate the context more than the content. I feel there's a difference there.

[Steel Sponge]

Man, those four #1's for ToS, ouch. It already hurts me enough to see it in the bottom 10, though. But at the very least, this didn't make bottom 5. I've already said my long piece defending Truth or Square on last year's countdown, so I would direct to that. While I've joked that I would be defending the special in the form of a video essay, keep in mind that if I had the audacity to do it now, I would still be writing out a long defense for the special. And that's just one of few reasons as to why it's not only one of my favorite episodes, but it's on my personal top 25.

I've read Slug's whole long piece on the special, and I'll have to admit that his commentary is very on-point. I still can't see ToS being objectively worse than something as immorally broken as my bottom 25's #1, but now I can understand why anyone would find it subjectively worse than any other SB episode.

Also, just a fair warning to all that have brought ToS to its newest high, Winter is coming. (And perhaps 4EG is also coming to probably lecture us all about how the ghost of Robin Williams is going to haunt those for judging ToS so poorly or something like that.)

[WhoBibbles]

Yes! Fuck The Clash of Triton

Such a pathetic waste of a huge potential that could have been one of the best episodes ever. Triton is a shitty character that commits genocide havoc to Bikini Bottom, Neptune is one gigantic asshole that isn't even remotely funny like Neptune's Spatula and SpongeBob and Patrick get undeserving karma. This entire special is so boring and lame that I'm happy it's on bottom 10.

Hot take but I didn't mind Truth or Square as much as others. I knew what I was getting and I actually didn't mind it, in fact I liked it at first half but second half was definitely boring and tedious. Patchy segment is so horrible but I tend to see it as a different beast. This episode definitely deserves to be on the list and slug's commentary was solid but I still can't bring myself to hate it.

[SI-LLY]

12. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful, this is currently my least favorite episode of the show... yeah its fucking utter garbage and I'm happy to see it to make a such a huge increase, but lets talk about it
So while this episode actually feels focused and coherent unlike FarmerBob and Don't Feed the Clowns, its insufferable. One of Squidward's character traits is that he is egotistical, which is present in this episode, it is his motive, but I do not know if the episode is trying to make you feel bad for him or not, his suffering makes sense but just feels forced and annoying, plus is what most of this episode is. The cop and his tickets is ironically funny (beat that season 11!), but unironically its baaaaaaaad, its more if I should feel bad for Squid and the joke is just annoying, padding out the episode. -1/10.

So this episode feels more focused but insufferable, maybe it'll drop someday but for now its the worst episode.

11. Someone's in the Kitchen in Sandy, another horrible episode, its boring and goes nowhere, -1/10.

Edited June 2, 2019 by SI-LLY

[WinterArcanine]

Clash of Triton: This ep is just meh. Like the plot is bad, as is the characters in the royalty family, but it still feels kinda entertaining and has good atmosphere and good jokes so eh. I had this lower on my bottom 50 then it should have been.

Truth or Square: This episode is absymal and mde it very far into my list. It has so many horrendeus flaws, here’s a whole list of them:

This episode has almost nothing good too. All it has is amazing memories shown that are really cool and entertaining and a greay way to celebrate the anniversary, the amazing scene inside the whale that shows a cool old cartoon version of Spongebob and hilarious and really cool alternate theme songs and is the best scene of the whole show, many funny jokes, two amazing songs and another good one, and so on, and is truly an amazing special and an amazing way to celebrate the anniversary of the show and a very fun episode to watch.

Because of this, this episode made my list at #464.

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50. :thinkegg:

 49. :thinkegg:

48. :thinkegg:

47. WhoBob WhatPants (#27)

46. Waiting (#46)

45. The Googly Artiste (#46)

44. :thinkegg:

43. :thinkegg:

42. The Fish Bowl (#50)

  41. The Play’s The Thing (#44)

40. :thinkegg:

 39. :thinkegg:

 38. The Nitwitting (#30)

37. House Sittin for Sandy (#35)

36. :thinkegg:

35. :thinkegg:

 34. :thinkegg:

33. :thinkegg:

 32. :thinkegg:

 31. Squid's Visit (#25)

30. :thinkegg:

 29. Sportz? (#33)

28. :lennythink:

27.  Fungus Among Us (#24)

26. Clash of Triton (#10)

  25. You Don’t Know Sponge (#45)

24. The Main Drain (#21)

23. :thinkegg:

 22. Someone’s in the Kitchen with Sandy (#11)

  21. Face Freeze (#40)

 20. :thinkegg:

19. Summer Job (#29)

18. :thinkegg:

 17. To Love a Patty (#32)

16. The Splinter (#18)

15. One Coarse Meal (#15)

14. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful (#12)

 13. Cephalopod Lodge (#39)

 12. Shuffleboarding (#37)

11. Trenchbillies (#14)

 10. Big Sister Sam (#13)

 9. :thinkegg:

8. :thinkegg:

7. Slide Whistle Stooges (#16)

 6. :thinkegg:

5. :thinkegg:

4. Yours, Mine and Mine (#22)

3. :lennythink:

 2. :thinkegg:

     1. :thinkegg:

   14/25 26/50

 

[Clappy]

And here I thought my post and Nugs post in previous years about why Truth or Square is fucking terrible were golden, but Jesus.  Slug’s post just nailed it on a whole other level.  Fucking great.  There is not a damn thing that’s redeemable about this “10 year anniversary” special.  Even the things I like about it like “the different animation styles”...they served no purpose whatsoever in this special.  They could have been added on to anything.  It’s that insignificant to the story.

If you love this special, great.  Not everyone has the same opinion. But this is the worst special to me because nothing of value was gained from it for me.  At least all the other specials told a story, even if they were weak ones and didn’t exactly have strong focus towards them.  Truth or Square didn’t have anything worthy of being told for over a hour.

[4EverGreen]

While "Clash of Triton" made my personal list this year, it didn't make the list as high as it did in past years. I guess my hate for it has died done a little. That STILL doesn't make this episode any better. To be fair, the episode HAD a lot of ambition AND a lot of potential, it just didn't utilize it well. I mean, who's the antagonist? Neptune for wanting Triton to be like him? Or, Triton, for messing around with other people just to spite him? And Spongebob and Patrick get mixed up in the middle of all of this, only for their involvement to the plot to be irrelevant and practically meaningless! "A Shaggy Dog Story", made in the WORST way possible!  Thank goodness we haven't seen or heard a PEEP out of Triton since then! I will NEVER understand why there are so many people out there who HATE on "Truth or Square"! And here's my argument to END the hatred of it once and for all: Spongebob Marries Sandy, CANON!!!! Mic drop, BOOM!!!!  Here's what my personal list looks like so far!

  25. ? 24. ? 23. "The Cent of Money" (#26) 22. ? 21. ? 20. "Demolition Doofus" (#31) 19. "Face Freeze" (#40) 18. "The Clash of Triton" (#10) 17. ? 16. ? 15. "One Coarse Meal" (#15) 14. "Little Yellow Book" (#20) 13. "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy" (#11) 12. ? 11. ? 10. "The Splinter" (#18) 9. ? 8. ? 7. ? 6. ? 5. ? 4. "Atlantis Squarepantis" (#34) 3. "Boating Buddies" (#17) 2. ? 1. ?

Enough said, true believers!

[WhoBibbles]

20 minutes ago, 4EverGreen said:

While "Clash of Triton" made my personal list this year, it didn't make the list as high as it did in past years. I guess my hate for it has died done a little. That STILL doesn't make this episode any better. To be fair, the episode HAD a lot of ambition AND a lot of potential, it just didn't utilize it well. I mean, who's the antagonist? Neptune for wanting Triton to be like him? Or, Triton, for messing around with other people just to spite him? And Spongebob and Patrick get mixed up in the middle of all of this, only for their involvement to the plot to be irrelevant and practically meaningless! "A Shaggy Dog Story", made in the WORST way possible!  Thank goodness we haven't seen or heard a PEEP out of Triton since then! I will NEVER understand why there are so many people out there who HATE on "Truth or Square"! And here's my argument to END the hatred of it once and for all: Spongebob Marries Sandy, CANON!!!! Mic drop, BOOM!!!!  Here's what my personal list looks like so far!

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  25. ? 24. ? 23. "The Cent of Money" (#26) 22. ? 21. ? 20. "Demolition Doofus" (#31) 19. "Face Freeze" (#40) 18. "The Clash of Triton" (#10) 17. ? 16. ? 15. "One Coarse Meal" (#15) 14. "Little Yellow Book" (#20) 13. "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy" (#11) 12. ? 11. ? 10. "The Splinter" (#18) 9. ? 8. ? 7. ? 6. ? 5. ? 4. "Atlantis Squarepantis" (#34) 3. "Boating Buddies" (#17) 2. ? 1. ?

Enough said, true believers!

Did we watch the same episode? That SpongeBob and Sandy wedding was a fake theater show.

Also Spandy ship sucks, so I'm happy with the scene.

[Klu]

8 minutes ago, WhoBob said:

Did we watch the same episode? That SpongeBob and Sandy wedding was a fake theater show.

Also Spandy ship sucks, so I'm happy with the scene.

Wedding was fake but preist didn't knew that.

[BeachBob95]

Interesting but lazy written specials, unfortunately..

[President Squidward]

Clash of Triton: 

Truth Or Square: Not sure what to feel about this one. On one hand, in the past I thought it was a little tolerable, but on the other I think I’ve grown to dislike it more. Very boring and unremarkable for a tenth anniversary special. It sucks too since everything outside of this episode for the tenth anniversary was awesome, such as the merchandise and maybe even the video game that came out (heard it was good but I never played it).

also making patchys stuff into a high budget star-studded extravaganza and not some silly low quality stuff kind of kills the charm of the patchy segments and makes them very boring. That different theme song scene was kind of funny though 

25.

24.

23. One Coarse Meal (#15)

22.

21. Trench-Billies (#14)

20. 

19.

18.

17. Sponge-Cano (#28)

16.

15. Squidward's School For Grown-Ups (#47)

14.

13.

12. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful (#12)

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10.

9.

8.

7. Little Yellow Book (#20)

6. Sportz? (#33)

5. The Googly Artiste (#46)

4. The Clash of Triton (#10)

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2.

1. Slide Whistle Stooges (#16)

[OWM]

8. "Tonight's ruined. A complete disaster. And I didn't even meet Kelpy G."

Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom, 416 points

29 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank 2 #3's @dmandamanAndKnuckles @Matt0417) (0)

Melon: Well, this episode made my bottom 10. As I sorta mentioned in my Cephalopod Lodge commentary, to me, something bad happening to a character isn’t automatically a goodreason to hate an episode, and I think many episodes get too much hate for it. However, there IS a point where this can be a reason to hate an episode. There needs to be enough good to make an episode involving a lot of bad things happening to a character. Whether it be good humor or a great plot or so on, if there is good, then it doesn’t matter what bad things happen to a character. Squidward goes through a lot of bad things in Club Spongebob for example, but that episode is hilarious, so who cares? Another factor that can effect this is the amount it’s justified. If a character did something awful, like murder innocent people, then anything that happens to them would be justified. This episode, however, is not an episode about bad things happening to a character that works. It’s just a frustrating, annoying, and unfunny episode, and this makes everything Squidward goes through annoying or frustrating to watch. 

The reason why its so frustrating and annoying, is because this episode isn’t funny nor has a great plot or anything else to justify what is happening. This means theres nothing to make the bad things happening to Squidward entertaining, and so this episode gets annoying because its just bad things happening to Squidward when he didn’t deserve it. First, I’ll start with going through the beginning of the episode. The episode doesn’t start too terribly, but isn’t all that entertaining anyway. However, it’s still ok. Squidward loses his tickets to the concert, which sucks, but isn’t enough to make this episode bad. Squidward has to go to the concert with Spongebob since Spongebob wins the tickets for him, but again, its ok, that doesn’t make the episode bad or anything. Spongebob harms Squidward’s ability to talk to the other people at the concert because the other squids don’t like Spongebob, but again, not too bad. This isn’t a problem unless it gets REALLY bad for Squidward without enough entertainment. Once it gets to the concert, however, so many bad things happen to Squidward that was never deserved and goes too far for the low amount of actual entertainment.

Squidward is there listening to the music, and Patrick shows up literally out of nowhere to go eat Squidward’s backstage pass, ruining Squidward’s chance of getting to meet a clarinet player he really likes. It’s ok though, Spongebob is willing to give Squidward his backstage pass...... and then Patrick eats that for no reason too. Just.... this appearance of Patrick is so awful. In this whole episode, Patrick just appears out of nowhere to go eat stuff for no reason. And then Patrick just goes up to the stadium and asks for some food with the microphone, interrupting the concert for something so stupid, which should annoy the crowd because they don’t seem like the kind of person who would be ok with the concert being interrupted for this stupidity, and also should result in the security kicking Patrick out for this, but instead the security and kelpy g don’t care and the crowd cheers Patrick for this for literally no reason and carry him to the end of the stadium....... what??? This doesn’t even make any sense why they would want to do this. There’s no reason why the crowd would like this and cheer this and why security would be ok with this, espicially when these squids in the crowd were shown earlier to be fairly similar to Squidward. And then of course Squidward and Spongebob can’t get back to Patrick because the secruity isn’t ok with them leaving even though Patrick just did just fine..... and then both of them go back to find out that their seats were taken by two random people and refuse to leave even though Spongebob and Squidward fairly got those seats. So, deservingly, Squidward gets mad at this person, and suddenly THIS bothers the crowd and stops the show. No, not Patrick stupidily ordering food on the stage, that’s great and deserves to be cheered, but Squidward getting mad at someone for justified reasons unacceptable and gets him kicked out instead of the people who stole their seats. All of this is just so annoying and not enjoyable to me at all.

After this, Squidward then breaks into the backstage without the passes because the door is opened by Patrick who was allowed to go backstage for whatever reason. Squidward is of course caught by someone, and to get the guy to not kick him out, Squidward plays his clarinet to show how “good” he is, and Spongebob plays his ukulele. Kelpy G shows up and ignores Squidward’s awful clarinet performance but likes Spongebob’s ukulele and allows Spongebob to play with him in the concert, whereas Squidward goes up to the stage only to have be kicked out and have his clarinet taken away. While this stuff is justified since Squidward snuck in without permission and was playing awfully, him being ignored while Spongebob gets to play with Kelpy G feels so frustrating after all the other stuff Squidward goes through. It just makes the episode have an annoying ending on top of being annoying throughout the rest of the episode. In conclusion, the episode is very annoying and frustrating with awful Patrick, is nonsensical and stupid, and has Squidward go through so many bad things for wanting to enjoy a concert without making the episode actually funny or entertaining otherwise to make it ok.

7. "Gary! Shame on you! Puffy Fluffy is perfectly harmless."

A Pal for Gary, 428 points

24 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank 3 #1's @Patty Rose @EmployeeAMillion @kev) (-5)

OWM: As you can see, this episode took a hell of a fall this year. I guess that's sort of good, because I don't really hate this episode. Hell, there are even some funny parts. I like the way Gary uses his leash as a lasso when he’s inspired by the Western movies, and him coming to the rescue at the end is genuinely awesome. SpongeBob also has a few stray funny lines about “enchiladas” and “You making meatballs Grandma? Time for dinner already.” However, I never said this was good, because it is not by all means. SpongeBob’s sassy, ignorant, bitchy self he transforms into in the second half of the episode is completely unjustified and infuriating. It makes no sense at all he would accuse Gary, his closest companion, of somehow sabotaging Puffy Fluffy at all. His conclusion that Gary “is just jealous” doesn’t make any sense at all, especially when viewing this obvious destruction a snail could not have caused. The chase scene is also really boring and weightless, by the way. Overall this episode excels better at being incredibly boring than doing anything offensive or mean-spirited. Does it belong in the top 10? Sure. But I would never put it anywhere near mine.

[Sweat]

Both of these are absolutely horrible episode that both made it pretty high on my bottom 25. I'm glad they both stayed in the top 10, even though I'm, needless to say, shocked that A Pal for Gary took the fall it did.

[Klu]

Smoothe more than deserved  being so low, terrible episode, but I have no string feelings for APFG. Episode is bad, but isn't awful besides one SpongeBob line we all know and loathe. Otherwise it's just mediocre or jarring but there are episodes that are way worse than that, imo.

[WhoBibbles]

Both episodes made my list and both are very stinky as hell episodes.

Smoothe Jazz in Bikini Bottom aged worse and worse over the time. Once, it was actually a liked episode is hated now for all the right reasons. The premise was actually good and it could have been fun and interesting to see SpongeBob and Squidward hang out in a concert but all of it is ruined by ONE OF THE WORST PLOT FORCES I HAVE EVER SEEN. The episode thought it'd be wise to see Patrick as a force of nature to give Squidward the hell, except it doesn't work. He's shoehorned in to punish Squidward undeservedly and the fact that SpongeBob left Squidward all alone in the end made things worse. This is such a cruel and unfunny episode that I'm glad it's low on this list.

I'm partly shocked at A Pal for Gary getting the lower spot than usual since it was just #2 last year but I have to admit that the hatred is toned down for me as well. I still hate it but it did have a good beginning and a few okay jokes but SpongeBob's ignorance here was the worst and Gary went through hell for no reason whatsoever. Not the mention, I hate Puffy Fluffy's design. It's so ugly and disgusting that doesn't fit in SpongeBob, albeit ironically a good meme. I stand by that the episode still deserves to be considered as one of the worst episodes ever but I'm ok with it falling off to #7 spot this year.

[4EverGreen]

For me, "Smooth Jazz At Bikini Bottom" is another one of those "Meh", episodes. Not really that bad, but not that good either. But Bottom TEN material?!  It didn't even make my personal list, so I personally wouldn't call it horrible!  I think the only reason why "A Pal for Gary" isn't the highest ranked anymore, is because we have, unfortunately, gotten other episodes made SINCE then, which are even WORSE than that one! It still made my personal list, though. The episode IS slightly amusing for SOME jokes, but Spongebob is STILL written WAY too out of character for me to ignore, and that's why I still don't think this episode is good!

 25. ? 24. ? 23. "The Cent of Money" (#26) 22. ? 21. ? 20. "Demolition Doofus" (#31) 19. "Face Freeze" (#40) 18. "The Clash of Triton" (#10) 17. ? 16. ? 15. "One Coarse Meal" (#15) 14. "Little Yellow Book" (#20) 13. "Someone's In the Kitchen With Sandy" (#11) 12. ? 11. ? 10. "The Splinter" (#18) 9. ? 8. ? 7. ? 6. "A Pal For Gary" (#7) 5. ? 4. "Atlantis Squarepantis" (#34) 3. "Boating Buddies" (#17) 2. ? 1. ?

Enough said, true believers! 

[President Squidward]

Smoothe Jazz in Bikini Bottom: I have never seen an episode go to shit in just around the same time it starts. Yikes.

havent seen in a while but I remember how awful everything was. Poor guy

A Pal For Gary: Great, now my ...enchiladas... are cold...

25.

24.

23. One Coarse Meal (#15)

22. A Pal For Gary (#7)

21. Trench-Billies (#14)

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19.

18.

17. Sponge-Cano (#28)

16.

15. Squidward's School For Grown-Ups (#47)

14.

13.

12. Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful (#12)

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10.

9.

8. Smoothe Jazz in Bikini Bottom (#8)

7. Little Yellow Book (#20)

6. Sportz? (#33)

5. The Googly Artiste (#46)

4. The Clash of Triton (#10)

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2.

1. Slide Whistle Stooges (#16)