295a. We Heart Hoops

[Jjs Goodman]

Premieres: Tuesday, November 21st at 4pm ET/PT

Plot: SpongeBob and Patrick discover that their favorite Kelpbed Kid is a familiar face.

[4EverGreen]

This episode is significant in a couple of ways. First, it firmly establishes in "Spongebob Squarepants" canon from "The Patrick Star Show", that "The Kelpbed Kids" (which Grandpat Star and Grandma Tentacles were a part of) IS an in universe, old movie reel shorts from the 1930's (including their OWN reference to "Hooky")! Second, it gives a long awaited day in the limelight to Old Man HOOPS Walker! Both in "The Kelpbed Kids" (and even out of it), Hoops Walker was the Gadget Genius of the group, coming up with ways (usually involving hoops) to help get his fellow friend kids out of trouble. When Spongebob and Patrick go to visit him, they find out that Hoops' in-universe kid bully, has now grown up into an old man bully, who has NOT matured beyond his petty means of bullying, so Spongebob and Patrick decide to help Hoops teach that bully a lesson! While this episode segment was good, I'd really like to see ANOTHER episode of Grandpat and Hoops interacting together, and maybe see MORE of "The Kelpbed Kids"! I'd give this episode a 9.9 out of 10.

[Old Man Jenkins]

You’d think an Old Man Walker lore bomb episode would be enough to get me hype. It was nice to see the triumphant return of SpongeBob’s garage tho.

i give this episode an oopsie hoops out of SpongeBob’s garage