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

[Steel Sponge]

38. This is the first episode on this year's list that appears on my bottom 25 at this point, so I'm happy enough to see this still here. While a lot of you are talking about how the episode is actually not that bad like most other S4 episodes, the only one thing I have at least one thing to say tojustify it being on my personal bottom 25: "WAAAAAH HUUUUUH (repeat for a little over a minute*)"

37. Certainly one of the worst MM&BB episode, if not actually my worst. Consider it one of my dishonorable mentions.

36. And here's another episode that's on my bottom 25. Because it's a shorter episode, it's merely above my bottom 10, but the episode is still nothing short of terrible. SpongeBob's character was poorly written, a lot of the jokes fall flat, and all in all, it's just a complete waste of my time.

35. While I've had a problem with its really slow pace and the kinda predictable plot, this is just another one that I find to be fairly mediocre.

34. It will probably hurt Melon for me to say it, and although I still don't hate the special, Atlantis Squarepantis has soured on me. When it comes down to the fact that Nickelodeon has meddled with the series' creative team to stretch the episode's length into that of an hour-long special, the problems can tend to show. Outside of the "Back in Encino" musical number, Patchy's segment was incredibly pointless. The songs on the actual episode, while not all THAT bad, were clearly there to fill in the special's time. While David Bowie is a singer himself, he doesn't apparently get a song of his own. Lastly, it ended on an anti-climatic note.

What stops me from finding this episode as terrible like most others is that I never really felt disappointed in it and I could still at least come up with a few positives that I have for it. I wouldn't even consider this as the worst special, especially when compared to the likes of "Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?", "SpongeBob, You're Fired!", and "The Sponge Who Could Fly."

While I still have a soft spot for the special, I can very much understand why it's still on the list. I also want to say that I'm just glad we've all moved on from just simply analyzing "Atlantis SquarePantis" like where it's only something along the lines of "ALL THE SONGS ARE TERRIBLE!," "IT RIPS OFF WILLY WONKA!," and/or "THE BUS RUNS ON SONG??????"

33. I'm legitimately surprised to see this still being caught in the middle given how very vocal the hate towards "Sportz?" has been. I've rewatched episode months ago to see if my thoughts on it would worsen and it has...only by a slight amount. It's excessively wacky in some places and it relies a lot on physical humor, but I've at least seen worse examples of an episode that tried my patience (*COUGH* Krusty Katering *COUGH*).

[President Squidward]

my commentary was controversial and I’m happy 

also I always loved Atlantis, even though the patchy stuff I was kind of disturbed by as a child. Not anymore tho. Underrated special tbh

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[4EverGreen]

You've already seen my commentary on "Atlantis Squarepantis", nothing more to add to that one. I'm STILL legitimately surprised that "Sportz?" gets so much HATE directed towards it, even though I personally find it to be funny in SPITE (or maybe even BECAUSE) of it's utter stupidity, and it's nice to see a Squidward 'Abuse' episode where Squidward actually DESERVES the abuse he gets for a change, instead of a number of other episodes that I could POTENTIALLY mention! /

25. ? 24. ? 23. ? 22. ? 21. ? 20. ? 19. "Face Freeze!" (#40) 18. 17. ? 16. ? 15. ? 14. ? 13. ? 12. ? 11. ? 10. ? 9. ? 8. ? 7. ? 6. ? 5. ? 4. "Atlantis Squarepantis" (#34) 3. ? 2. ? 1. ?

Enough said, true believers! 

[dmandagiraffe]

Waiting: boring.

House Sittin' for Sandy: pointless.

Atlantis Squarepantis: ok. (don't fight me)

Sportz: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

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[EmployeeAMillion]

Huh, besides Waiting, I’d honestly disagree with these three spots. I’m completely fine with Sportz?, and find House Sittin’ and Atlantis to be bad but harmless.

[So Sejima]

16 hours ago, Steel Sponge said:

33. I'm legitimately surprised to see this still being caught in the middle given how very vocal the hate towards "Sportz?" has been. I've rewatched episode months ago to see if my thoughts on it would worsen and it has...only by a slight amount. It's excessively wacky in some places and it relies a lot on physical humor, but I've at least seen worse examples of an episode that tried my patience (*COUGH* Krusty Katering *COUGH*).

A ton of episodes feel like they're dropping so far due to list inflation, this would've been good for 20th last year point wise (right where Rodeo Daze was as the first one with two number one placements, while Sportz is this year's first instance of that coincidentally) so I'd say it's increased a bit, just a ton of wild cards this year though. Even some hated eps like Grownups which have only picked up steam recently dropped more spots than Sportz has this year so I'd still say it's pretty strong and am content with it placing this low despite it being my personal worst. Sometimes that's just how it goes.

[OWM]

32. "I've been replaced by a sandwich!"

To Love a Patty, 149 points

15 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank #7 @CakeCup) (-5)

OWM: I didn't ask for commentary here because everyone was busy. That's fine I guess because I actually have something to say about this episode. To me this episode has a sort of ironic enjoyment I can’t place my finger on. This plot is so fucking bad and ridiculous that I seriously cannot hate it. The song actually makes me laugh for this reason. Seeing SpongeBob obsess over a fucking sandwich is far funnier than it should be. Him massacring an entire group of innocent scallops, even brutally tearing one apart with his fingers, is so horrible and in such poor taste that it wraps around to becoming funny again.

There is some genuinely bad stuff here, of course. SpongeBob drops all reason and logic in order to screw this patty. He abandons his famous philosophy of satisfying customers and it just feels wrong. He actually brings out the “fry cook oath” and displays actual common sense for a few moments, until it gets completely derailed! From there, the rest of the episode is just straight delusion. He casually professes love for a patty that’s already starting to mold after six hours and abandons his beloved and trusted friends for the damn thing. There’s absolutely no humor during any of this besides laughing at just how bad this episode is. The closest thing available is the moldy closeups, which are obviously in poor taste. Even the ending feels really gross and inconclusive. Mr. Krabs literally convinces SpongeBob to eat Patty knowing just how rotten and disease-filled it is. 

So is this episode bad? Yes. Do I hate it? No. Something about it is just so preposterous and ridiculous I feel like the writers were fucking with us this time around.

31. "If you want someone demolished, I guess you have to demolish them yourself!"

Demolition Doofus, 150 points

12 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank #1 @Cha) (-8)

Dman: Demolition Doofus is bad. Shocker, I know. Every typical SpongeBob hater remembers the episode for that one infamous moment, but surprise! There are other problems with this episode as well! It begins with SpongeBob inadvertently helping Squidward out with his gardening (that’s as good as this episode’s gonna get) and heads to take another boating test. Remember the oral part of the test? That’s long gone at this point. Anyway, SpongeBob gets right into it and makes the same mistake three times, causing Mrs. Puff to inflate more than she ever has and she crashes into a tower, horribly deforming her for life. At the hospital SpongeBob goes on to make a joke about Mrs. Puff’s condition, which doesn’t help as she’s already pretty pissed. While Mrs. Puff is in the hospital, we also get a look at the newest casualties of the recent demolition derby; apparently it’s “quite entertaining” to look at. Mrs. Puff then figures out that if she can get SpongeBob to risk his life in a demolition derby, she may be able get rid of him… forever.

Yeah… even after 7 years, Mrs. Puff’s desires to kill SpongeBob are pretty uncomfortable for viewing eyes. She convinces him to join the derby for extra credit, and he obliges. The next few minutes are just SpongeBob miraculously avoiding the threats of the other derby contestants, and Puff yelling and wanting SpongeBob to just die already. When all seems said and done, Puff takes matters into her own hands and joins the derby herself. SpongeBob somehow figures out how to drive and avoids all of Puff’s attacks, leading them back to the boating school. Funny thing is, she causes more damage to others and her own school rather than causing damage to SpongeBob. The episode ends with the two derby cars crashing into each other, causing Mrs. Puff to inflate, and SpongeBob remarks that everything is back to normal. So much for the deformity. The doctor literally said she ruptured her inflation sack. It was popped wide open. How can she even inflate? We all know continuity doesn’t exist in the SpongeBob universe, but within the same episode? I’m not joking when I say that part makes me hate the episode more compared to the death threats. It’s a good thing sure, and it brings things back to the status quo, but there is no logical way I can see that she could reinflate with the parameters that the episode set up. I would say that they could have done it so many different ways that it could’ve been possible for Mrs. Puff to get better, but no. There’s no way. If she was deformed for good she’d have the excuse to kill SpongeBob (which is a terrible thing to do as is), but the show wouldn’t return to normal. If she could get better over time on the other hand, the show could go back to normal in one episode but her drive to kill SpongeBob would be even more jarring than before. There is no way that this episode can logically work while keeping the show’s standards and that is mainly why it’s so bad to me.

Carotte: Ooh boy, this is one of the episodes I always hated to death since the first time I watched it. WARNING: long rant coming. The episode starts with SpongeBob falling his boating test in a very stupid way. I know he is usually reckless at driving but here the writers didn't even try to add comedy. Compare No Free Rides' beginning with this beginning. In both scenes, SpongeBob can't drive correctly but which one is generally the funniest? I would say the former by a distance that is almost as long as the Earth-Moon distance. Anyways, the hospital scene is bad in every way. Why would SpongeBob laugh at someone who is injured? That is so out of character. Not to mention, Mrs. Puff's reaction is pretty harsh over a joke. Sure, it was offensive but if I was her, I wouldn't try to kill SpongeBob by holding his nose. After a few scenes I don't like, the Demolition Derby is introduced. Mrs Puff wants SpongeBob to join it JUST BECAUSE SHE WANTS HIM TO DIE KNOWING THAT HE IS TOO WEAK FOR THAT (Sorry for the yelling but this episode really pisses me off). After all these crashes, SpongeBob is surprisingly winning...ok. BUT, Mrs Puff gets mad and joins in attempt to kill SpongeBob until the end of the episode where she inflates again...wtf. "Now everything is back to normal!" says SB. I think nothing is normal in that episode. The ending feels so rushed, it's like the writers wanted to do more attempts to hurt SpongeBob but thet just realized they already made 11 minutes so they decided to immediately inflate Mrs Puff and boom, the episode ends. In conclusion, Demolition Doofus is a frustrating, awful and annoying episode that is unbearable to watch. Enough said (true believers ).

Edited May 21, 2019 by jjsthekid

[WhoBibbles]

To Love a Patty will always be a shit episode for me, even when I was a kid, I felt uncomfortable watching it. SpongeBob's behavior is so nonsensical, obsessive and out of character and this is one of the first episodes to truly use gross out to fullest and it's nothing but a vomit. I will always hate this whatever piece of shit is.

I'm not gonna lie that I feel kind of fascinated by Demolotion Doofus to hate it. It's just an episode that has interesting situations about Mrs. Puff's character and while it's so terrible for her to do that, I do think it makes sense for her to be enough of SpongeBob's reckless accidents and this was the final blow (literally) for her to wish SpongeBob would die. This type of episode could have worked for some other show, so that's kind of why I don't hate it (oddly enough I hate some other episode for same reasons but more on that later I hope) and I enjoyed derby sequences. However I definitely hated SpongeBob's joke because that was so out of character for him to say.

Btw "Mrs. Puff's reaction is pretty harsh over a joke. Sure, it was offensive but if I was her, I wouldn't try to kill SpongeBob by holding his nose", well he did cause the accident, so him saying that makes the whole situation totally unbearable for her, so anyone with same position would at least be angry at the joke. Not that Mrs. Puff is justified over the attack but it makes sense for me. 

[So Sejima]

To Love a Patty was bottom 5 in 2016 and it genuinely disappoints me with how it's dropped, it's one of the very few episodes to have ever actually physically disgusted me and I feel we're letting it off far too easily.

Doofus....was always just there to me, it actually has far more life in it than the typical season 8 episode so it stands out somewhat positively there. I can get the characterization being rough for some people though and do understand why it gets here, slightly glad it's a bit lower though.

[RD Rockruff]

To Love a Patty: I have a shameful opinion on this one that I shall not share here.

Demolition Doofus: Admittedly, this is probably in the top half of Season 8 for me. Like a lot of the rest of Season 8, this episode elicits little to no reaction from me, but at least they keep it kind of interesting, a far cry from the bland, uninteresting other sub-good episodes of the season. Neither Mrs. Puff nor Spongebob were in the right here, and that may be why I didn't really care about Mrs. Puff's characterization. Overall, it's just another Season 8 episode. 6/10

[Coffee_lover]

HA HA NITWITTING AND THE MAIN DRAIN ARE BOTH RUNNED UP INTO BOTTOM 30 WE DID IT REDDIT 

Edited May 22, 2019 by jjsthekid

[WinterArcanine]

Atlantis: This episode is actually very far on my BEST list. Amazing episode with an amazing location and atmosphere, great songs, great plot, great animation, etc. and is very fun to watch. Love this episode.

Sportz?: Bad episode. It’s mostly just one joke of Spongebob and Patrick getting hurt the whole time, and isn’t funny. Its plot is also poorly structured due to the whole box thing and Squidward was a bit ooc.

To Love a Patty: This episode was on my list. I actually don’t hate most of the episode, but the problem is the grossout. It gets REALLY gross, and it’s not like the rest of the episode was that good anyway, so it gets it on my list. Those scenes I close my eyes for, bcause it’s so gross

Demolition Doofus: This is in a weird zone ehere on one hand, Mrs Puff wanting to  kill Spongebob is bad, as is the jokes Spongebob makes and some other things like the cop-out ending said in the commentary, but on the other hand I enjoy this episode. idk what to think of it. But it’s not bottom 50.

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[dmandagiraffe]

To Love a Patty: Grossout doesn't really affect me too much, so for me TLaP isn't as bad of an episode as everyone else says. Don't get me wrong, I still don't like it, but I've seen a lot worse to the point where I've been desensitized to groussout jokes. Actually, there's only one episode in the "grossout" genre I put on my list. But I'm certain we'll get there...

Demolition Doofus: reeeee

 

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[Honest Slug]

To Love a Patty didn't make my bottom 25, heck it might not even be bottom 50. It's dumb but still more entertaining than lots of 6-9a episodes with its so bad it's good premise.

Demolition Doofus didn't make my list, but it does deserve to be on here. Another really boring and awful season 8 episode with terrible characterization.

Sportz is well... you all know how I feel about this one.

[4EverGreen]

"To Love a Patty" is another one of those episodes that I honestly can't BELIEVE that I forgot existed! It probably would've been at LEAST my #24 instead of the segment I did pick! In any case, I think this episode segment is probably the episode segment that is LARGELY responsible for the HORRIBLE atrocity of an episode segment that is BOUND to appear on this list later, but I won't tell you what it is just yet! "Demolition Doofus" definitely made my personal list, though probably not as high as it has in past lists. I mean, I know that Mrs. Puff is really FRUSTRATED that Spongebob hasn't got his boating license yet, but I feel that trying to get him KILLED in a demolition derby is a bridge too far, EVEN for her, all things considered! Here's my list so far. /

25. ? 24. ? 23. ? 22. ? 21. ? 20. "Demolition Doofus" (#31) 19. "Face Freeze" (#40) 18. ? 17. ? 16. ? 15. ? 14. ? 13. ? 12. ? 11. ? 10. ? 9. ? 8. ? 7. ? 6. ? 5. ? 4. "Atlantis Squarepantis" (#34) 3. ? 2. ? 1. ?

Enough said, true believers!

[EmployeeAMillion]

The fact that these two (Love Patty/Demolition) are hardly near the Bottom 20 is, let’s just say,

 

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Edited May 21, 2019 by EmployeeAMillion

[Clappy]

Got to say I’m proud to see how much activity the Worst List has gotten year over year.  Feels like just yesterday when I had 23 members participating the last time I hosted in 2015.  And now we have 41 members participating and I can definitely tell with how many episodes are dropping that were higher on these countdowns from previous years.  Varieties of opinions can always be a good thing.  Excited to see where more of these episodes end up.  Hell I’m even more excited to see what happens to Fungus Among Us this year.

[Klu]

To Love a Patty is episode I loathe. I can understand if someone was entertained by it's "so bad it's good" nature, but this episode was just bad to me in general. Terrible gross-out, terrible storyline and terrible characterization. You can say that SpongeBob is going downhill if they had to bend character's personality to make one-note gag plot work.

Demolition Doofus is episode I have no hard feelings for. It's somewhat fascinating, like Whobob said, but also kinda uncomfortable to watch. At the very least this episode is memorable, quality that not many season 8 episodes have. But terrible characterization and contrived plot-resolution make this episode more than worthy being on the list, even if I'd had it a bit lower.

9 hours ago, EmployeeAMillion said:

The fact that these two (Love Patty/Demolition) are hardly near the Bottom 20 is, let’s just say,

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problematic.

Only problematic thing is Plankton Paranoia's plot-holes and this is fine.

[WinterArcanine]

10 hours ago, EmployeeAMillion said:

The fact that these two (Love Patty/Demolition) are hardly near the Bottom 20 is, let’s just say,

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I don’t see how TLAP and DD not being bottom 20 is a plot hole

[OWM]

30. "Has anyone seen my socks?"

The Nitwitting, 152 points

11 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank #1 @BeachBob95) (NEW)

Coffee: Pretty much anyone who aware on those premises know one simple take:Patrick’s based episodes from the last years suck.While post-sequel seasons as a whole love balanced characters and make some new interesting interactions with them,something specifically with Patrick went out of trials that hands down disappointing,if not low-key insulting.His random and childish behavior at times can be amusing at short cameos(even then at times he can be really annoying as well like in Clam Whisperer or Drive Happy)but it’s just can’t be the main entertainment for an 11 minutes,because it’s isn’t for what I’m love and appreciate comedy on this show in the first place.And possibly the worst part of this,is that levels of Patrick’s badness with every upcoming episode is unpredictable,you can have just an messy mediocrity like Old Man Patrick,and then have..this thing.I’m gonna be honest,pretty much since the announcement of the premise,my expectations for episode were even lower than a zero,in fact,I worried that Nitwitting ended up begin even worse than some other really inky post sequel episode that doesn’t need any introduction.Fortunately,it’s not as bad,but oh boy it’s still suck a lot.

On the surface,I honestly can’t even tell what is this episode even about.Other Patrick’s episodes from recent times at least had an basic plot and conflict,even if they suck.But Nitwitting didn’t bothered with making any real goal or focus for at least first 6 minutes,and even after that those attempts failed apart.But don’t worry,episode still found something for full out the space:dumb jokes.This is one of the dumbest episodes I’ve ever seen in any show and I wish I exaggerated right now,I don’t dislike visual presentation or overall style of new seasons by any means(in fact,I really like it)but in this episode,all of attempts at any humor is a another level of juvenile nonsense.If any other average mediocre Patrick ep,at worst,can bring one or two gross or super stupid gag on the table,Nitwitting blasts with stuff like Tongue Handshake and Spit Jar Drinking with every single,yes,every single second ratio.And not to mention that this time Patrick isn’t the only one who been an intolerable donkey,now it’s the whole community,and honestly they don’t have absolutely any differences from what Patrick portrayed here,witch made episode for 10 times more painful than it already was.

And only after 6 minutes of that,episode finally bother to moving on the next plot point,but don’t become positive this fast,with that Nitwitting became somehow even worse.The whole civic duty thing not only feels like an diet Good Neighbors(an episode that isn’t one of the greatest to begin with),the way society executed that is beyond obnoxious.Remember episodes like original Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy?Here Spongebob and Patrick also tried to help but due of their silliness,made situations more complicated,but this episode made conflict felt more natural,reasonable,and characters had an understanding of when they need to stop.But in Season 12’s episode the whole sequence is about characters smashing and destroyed property of Bikini Bottom without any reason,the only defense that episode managed to find is saying "We have no idea" with is a failure of an excuse even for the joke.Heck,why townspeople didn’t prepared or simply arrested them already?Since episode said that empty head society doing that every month.If in first half dumb things at least been just a random clips,context of the second half made that much worse and despicable at how badly episode treat stupidity,and even for the last minute,where Sandy cleaned all of Bikini Bottom’s damage.Not only she just appear out of nowhere at the last scene.The whole point of her doing that didn’t made any value because Patrick’s Brainless Society just destroyed everything right after and episode just ended on another idiotic gag.

This episode is not just dumb,it’s an 11 minutes of ultimate stupidity.Even other "dumb" episodes for the most part try to have a set-up and punchlines for their jokes,or have a tame ratio of its delivery of bad humor,but Nitwitting had no mercy for your intelligence and treatment whatsoever.Even without awful sense of humor,it’s one of the worst structured episodes I’ve ever meet on this show.And yes,nobody really expected something redeemable at new Patrick episode,but it’s just a compete deadline for me and a lot of other people that cared for this show.Even previous ones like Pat the Horse or Library Cards has a few decent,if not great jokes,I doubt that there’s anything that even remotely close to begin enjoyable in Nitwitting.I really do hope that we not going to see another Patrick episode with THIS level of execution for awhile,because thanks Neptune that there’s barely anything related to Patrick in new premises.

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.

29. "I get to show you the ropes, Mrs. Puff! Hey, it's kind of like I'm the teacher!"

Summer Job, 152 points

12 out of 41 lists (Highest Rank #1 @Charles Manson) (-3)

jjs: Summer Job is quite frankly, an obnoxious, tedious and annoying episode. That doesn't mean it had to be on my list, because there certainly are a lot of contenders in the show's history meeting all three of that criteria. However, this one stands out to me in more ways than one because good lord, is SpongeBob absolutely awful in this episode. When you don't like the main character of the episode, you're in for a ride. It also wastes a potentially promising premise with a role reversal between the teacher and student, but of course in Season 7 fashion, it gets executed in one of the most grating and dull ways. Throughout the whole episode, I sat there going to myself "yeah, this isn't funny, can I have literally anything else?" As time goes by, you really start to feel bad for Mrs. Puff and wish she'd just get away from SpongeBob, but alas. Maybe if anything SpongeBob did in the episode was slightly amusing, I'd forgive the nautical nonsense Puff endures, but shocker, it isn't! Where are the actual jokes in this episode? Where is the actual fun? I'm not annoyed by the Kruff tease scene anymore because of post-sequel sort of making up for it, but it was still kind of stupid the way it was presented here. This episode has literally nothing to offer outside of some cheap slapstick near the end. This was #15 on my list this year, and honestly, I don't think I made the right call with that position. If I had the opportunity, I'd probably either swap this with Fish Bowl's spot on my list or put it a bit higher, because I still cannot stand this episode and find it downright irritable the more the years pass by. At this point in the series I was getting really sick of the format of Boating School episodes (if you want to call this one that at all) thanks to this one, and I'm glad they decided to shake them up in future seasons (for better or worse) if it means I don't have to get Summer Job 2.