Patrick wants a hat like the one that SpongeBob wears to work, and Mr. Krabs wants to attract tourists to his restaurant, so he gives Patrick a job holding a sign to catch the attention of tourists’, promising him a hat in return. Of course Patrick messes everything up, but Krabs gives him a hat anyway because he’s so anxious for one. Apparently Patrick forgets how to stand when he gets nervous, so he keeps falling on his face. Kay. The Bikini Bottomites actually find it entertaining to watch Patrick continuously fall, though, so Krabs starts using Patrick to entertain customers… by falling. Over and over again. Whatever. SpongeBob begins to worry about Patrick being hurt after falling so much, but Patrick begs him not to say anything to Mr. Krabs. SpongeBob reluctantly agrees, but the next day Krabs is making Patrick fall into a bucket of spiky sea urchins from high up. SpongeBob tries to stop it from happening, but Krabs won’t hear any of it. Meanwhile, Patrick asks Squidward to give him a push, which Squidward gladly agrees to, but they both end up falling. Squidward falls into the bucket first and Patrick lands on top of him, completely unharmed. Oh, so now Squidward is being punished? Where was that attitude at the end of Gullible Pants, writers? Anyway, the Bikini Bottomites demand their money back and Mr. Krabs fires Patrick.
This episode reminds me of Big Pink Loser, only instead of trying to get an award Patrick is trying to get a hat. And it’s not as good as Big Pink Loser. I’m not even much of a fan of Big Pink Loser, I think it’s just decent, but compared to No Hat for Pat it’s a god.
Okay, I’m exaggerating. No Hat for Pat isn’t that bad, it’s watchable, but it’s a bit like Grooming Gary in the sense that there’s another episode a lot like it but better that you could be watching instead. I didn’t really get any laughs out of No Hat for Pat, the story is awkwardly paced and it’s kind of a stupid idea to begin with.
Rating: 4/10
SpongeBob and Patrick are bored one day, so they decide to go to the new toy store that has just opened in Bikini Bottom. They stay there all day, and when closing time comes neither of them wants to leave. Patrick convinces SpongeBob to hide until the guards leave so that they can stay in the toy store all night. SpongeBob agrees, but once they’re alone in the dark toy store, they start to get paranoid. Even the toys suddenly look scary. SpongeBob and Patrick wage war on the toys until morning, when they’re let out.
Well, this episode was funny and the plot is decent, but there is one major flaw with the episode that stops it from being as great as it could have been: the pacing is terrible. It takes way too long to get to the actual plot, which is SpongeBob and Patrick being locked in a toy store, and by the time they do get to that part there’s only a few minutes left. So we basically get seven minutes of set-up and about three minutes of the actual plot. The set-up is funny, but I can’t help feeling a bit cheated.
I do still like this episode, but I would have liked it a lot more if they’d paced it better.
There’s a dirty joke in this episode: “This isn’t a tu-tu, it’s a man-tu. You can tell because it has extra support.”
Okay, so the teams are still in the forest and they’re apparently searching for “relics”, though no one knows what the relics even look like. Was that part of their assignment? I really should rewatch all of the previous episodes to refresh my memory, it shouldn’t be this hard to keep up. Ruby and Weiss have an argument, Yang and Blake find chess pieces that they think are the relics, and Jaune and Pyrrha run into a giant scorpion monster that sends Jaune flying. The episode ends with Ruby falling from the sky. Uh, am I missing something? That’ll probably be explained in the next episode.
I’m really starting to think that the shortness of the episodes is really detrimental to the series. For the first couple of episode it didn’t matter so much, because they were more about setting up character dynamics and things like that, but now there’s too much going on for the episodes to be this short. It makes everything feel really disjointed and awkward.
The next episode is sure to be action-packed. I know I said that about the last episode, but this time I really am sure of it. If we do see some action in the next episode, I hope that Jaune is part of it. So far, Jaune has mostly been a goofy comic relief character, and though I do really like him, he’s starting to seem a tad pathetic next to the other characters who are all kinds of bad ass. Jaune earned his place at the academy, he must be a bit of a bad ass deep down, too. I’d like him to show it.
Mr. Krabs breaks a nail – wait, what? He has nails? Well, I guess if Squidward can somehow have toenails, I shouldn’t be too surprised about Mr. Krabs having nails. Anyway, Krabs breaks a nail and has to go to the salon to get it fixed, but he doesn’t want anyone to know that he gets his nails done. He tries to sneak out of the Krusty Krab but is caught by SpongeBob. Krabs tells SpongeBob that he has to leave to do something secret, and he puts SpongeBob in charge while he’s gone. Ecstatic, SpongeBob runs to tell Squidward, who as usual is sleeping on the job, that he’s in charge for the next fifteen minutes. Squidward’s reply to this is “Wake me up when I care.” Ha! I’m going to be quoting that a lot. Squidward goes back to sleep, but SpongeBob wakes him up again and tells him to work. Knowing how naive SpongeBob is, Squidward tells him that his naps are an important part of his job, and that Mr. Krabs never wakes him up during them. SpongeBob believes this, so Squidward starts giving him all kinds of bad advice about running the Krusty Krab just for fun. Krabs returns and the Krusty Krab is a mess. He asks SpongeBob what happened and SpongeBob tells him he was following Squidward’s advice and that Squidward told him all of Mr. Krabs’ secrets. Krabs has no idea what these secrets are, but the thought makes him paranoid, so he lets SpongeBob stay in charge for a while longer. SpongeBob orders him to clean the Krusty Krab, I guess? I don’t know, honestly, the ending is a little confusing.
Why do post-movie episodes have a habit of not punishing characters who deserve it and instead punishing the characters who are innocent? Squidward was the one who deserved the punishment at the end of this episode, not Mr. Krabs. Funny how the writers seem so fond of torturing Squidward when he hasn’t done anything, but now that he has done something wrong they let him off the hook. Meanwhile Mr. Krabs, who’s nearly always let off the hook when he does something wrong, is being punished for doing nothing. Seems backwards, doesn’t it?
Well, besides that, this episode is okay, but it’s a bit of a mess, especially toward the end. I’m still not entirely sure what even happened at the end.
Rating: 4.5/10
Sandy calls SpongeBob and asks him to be her test subject when she presents her new invention that night. SpongeBob agrees, but then Mr. Krabs orders SpongeBob to help him assemble a telescope that same night, which SpongeBob is forced to agree to as well. Then Patrick reminds SpongeBob that it’s his birthday party that night and that SpongeBob needs to bring the cake. Well, we all know what this means. SpongeBob keeps having to run from place to place and ends up disappointing everyone. He tells Sandy, Krabs and Patrick that he couldn’t keep up with everything that they’d wanted him to do. They apologize for putting so much pressure on him. Sandy then reveals that the machine she had wanted to use on SpongeBob was actually a cloning machine that could have helped him be in three places at once.
Plots like this have been done to death, and I’m usually not a huge fan of them, but they can be okay. That’s basically how I feel about this one: it’s okay. The ending is kind of sweet, I guess. It reminds me a little of the ending of Best Day Ever.
SpongeBob finds a disgusting worm and decides to bring it home with him. Of course Gary and the worm don’t get along, so SpongeBob keeps the two away from each other. The worm gives birth to a litter of baby worms and SpongeBob calls Gary in to see them. Gary and the worm begin to fight and eventually Gary manages to chase the worm away.
SpongeBob is left with the equally disgusting babies. Since Gary has made it quite clear that he won’t put up with any worms, SpongeBob must find a new home for the worms. He tries giving some to Squidward, Mrs. Puff, Larry and Mr. Krabs, but no one seems to want them, probably because the babies keep spraying green slime in their fces.
SpongeBob is ready to give up when he finds out that the worms are actually an extremely rare breed that is worth a lot of money. He and Mr. Krabs sell the worms for $5.99 and suddenly everyone wants them.
This is yet another one of the “worst episode ever” episodes. Season 6 has a lot of those, which is probably why it’s considered the worst season.
So, why do people hate Pet or Pests? Well, it’s gross. Really gross. I’m not a huge fan of gross-out humor to begin with, and this is definitely excessive. There are a few funny parts, like Mrs. Puff’s bit and… well, that’s pretty much it. The gross-out humor actually isn’t what I dislike most about this episode (although I do dislike it), what I really don’t like is the fact that it’s boring.
Rating: 2/10
That’s one of my favorite title card designs ever.
Tired of Karen’s criticisms, Plankton decides to design some new robots to show her that he doesn’t need her. The robots he designs are awful, but when Karen tells him so Plankton tells her that she’s been holding him back for years and that his failures are her fault. Karen doesn’t appreciate being blamed for Plankton’s failure, so she leaves him. Plankton is positive that he can get along fine without Karen, so he attacks the Krusty Krab with his new robots. The plan fails because the robots’ plug falls out. Uh, they weren’t plugged in before, what gives? Plankton begins to cry because he failed once again and this time he’s alone. Karen shows up wanting to get her keyboard and Plankton is delighted to see her. He apologizes for what he’d said before and asks her to take him back. Karen agrees and the oddly adorable couple is reunited.
I loved this episode, but there are a few minor problems with it, so lets get those out of the way so I can end the review on a positive note.
Plankton comes off as stupid in this episode. He’s supposed to be incompetent, yes, but I’m pretty sure he can remember to blink without Karen having to remind him. For God’s sake, he’s not Patrick.
The way Plankton’s plan fails at the end is rather anti-climactic and doesn’t make sense considering that the robots had no plug before.
Those are the only flaws I can find with this episode. Other than that, I thought this one was great. The banter between Plankton and Karen was as funny as ever, and the ending was surprisingly heart-warming. Plus, it’s always nice to have a Plankton episode that doesn’t revolve around him getting the formula. I mean, he does try to get the formula near the end of the episode, but it’s a very short scene and it’s not the main point of the episode.
As always, I need to point out the weird out-of-context lines: “Once again, you’ve left me covered in the sticky goo of my own folly.”
Tee hee.
There’s also this one, which sounds weird even in context: “Hey, Squidward look! I figured out how to get my mop wet without dipping it in the bucket.”
SpongeBob and Patrick get Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy hospitalized, don’t ask how. MM and BB are supposed to participate in a shuffleboarding tournament but are now unable to go, so they send SpongeBob and Patrick to the tournament instead, disguised as MM and BB. They win the tournament and are about to return the costumes, but first they decide to arrest some “criminals”. They arrest most of the people in Bikini Bottom for stupid reasons, until the jail literally bursts. SpongeBob and Patrick return the costumes to MM and BB, who are then chased by an angry mob who thinks that they’re the ones who arrested everyone.
The title of this episode is misleading. I thought it was going to be about a shuffleboarding tournament, but we don’t even see the tournament and it’s only mentioned once or twice.
Anyway, I did chuckle at a few of the random arrests that SpongeBob and Patrick were doing, like when they arrested one guy for chewing too loudly and another for having an untied shoe, but mostly those two got on my nerves.
Also, this episode does something that I always hate: it punishes innocent characters (Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy) while the characters who are actually at fault (SpongeBob and Patrick) get off scot-free.
I kind of wish this episode had just been about shuffleboarding.
Rating: 3/10
Squidward for some reason attends a concert performed by his boyfriend rival, Squilliam. He storms out of the concert and is mistaken for Squilliam and is offered a chance to teach a music class at a prestigious college. Squidward poses as Squilliam so that he can teach the class. Somehow SpongeBob and Patrick end up in the class too. Most of the episode is just those two disrupting Squidward’s class and being annoying. At the end of the episode, the headmistress of the college realizes that Squidward isn’t really Squilliam because he doesn’t have a unibrow. Uh, how did she not notice this before? Anyway, Squidward is arrested for impersonating Squilliam and that’s the end of that.
This episode doesn’t seem to be very popular. In fact, most people despise it. To be honest, I liked it. Why do I feel like I should be apologizing the way Todd in the Shadows did when he put California Gurls on his Best of 2010 list?
I liked the plot of this episode, though I do think they could have done more with it, and I found myself giggling a lot. SpongeBob and Patrick were being incredibly annoying, though. For SpongeBob in particular, it seemed out of character. He never acts that way in boating school. Even when he took Squidward’s art class in Artist Unknown, he wasn’t this annoying. Oh well, it wasn’t enough to ruin the episode for me.
I would have liked for Squilliam to be in the episode more, since we only see him very briefly at the beginning of the episode and again at the end. It’s unfortunate that Squilliam appears so rarely, he’s one of the better minor character on the show and I feel like there’s so much the writers could do with him, yet they don’t take advantage of it. Come on, writers, I don’t ask for much, make some more Squilliam episodes.
What? This has nothing to do with Squidiam. Okay maybe it does a little bit.
SpongeBob invites Squidward over for a visit, and Squidward refuses the invitation. SpongeBob is desperate to have Squidward over for some reason, so he follows him around all day, crying and begging for him to visit. Dude, chill. Why do you want Squidward over so badly anyway? The next day, SpongeBob is about to invite Squidward over again when Squidward interrupts him, saying, “Before you ask me that question, ask yourself this: why would I want to leave the comfort of my home for your dirty little hovel?” This gives SpongeBob the idea to decorate his house exactly like Squidward’s. He “borrows” Squidward’s vacuum cleaner so that Squidward is forced to go over to SpongeBob’s to get it. When he walks in, he see that the inside of SpongeBob’s house now looks exactly like his own, down to the every minute detail. Squidward is extremely creepped out and just wants to get his vacuum cleaner and leave. SpongeBob won’t let Squidward leave and keeps trying to make Squidward comfortable in his home. Pretty sure this is how most horror movies start. Anyway, Squidward eventually makes it out of SpongeBob’s house with his vacuum cleaner only to discover that his house has burned down (he had left something in the oven before going to SpongeBob’s). SpongeBob tells Squidward that he’s welcome to stay at his house until Squidward’s is rebuilt.
Oh boy. This episode. I… I don’t even know what to say.
So, I’ve mentioned before that SpongeBob is weirdly stalker-like in a lot of post-movie episodes and it’s really creepy. This is the pinnacle of SpongeBob’s stalker-like behavior. Honestly, this episode is so creepy it’s kind of nauseating. Any moment I was expecting SpongeBob to say, “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.” I really don’t know why they thought this episode would be a good idea. Why are they turning SpongeBob into a psycho stalker? It’s bad enough that they made him as stupid as Patrick and ridiculously oblivious, now he’s Buffalo Bill?
Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating, but SpongeBob is really creepy in this episode.
Creepiness aside, there were quite a few lines that made me laugh, so I can’t really bring myself dislike Squid’s Visit.
Rating: 6/10
SpongeBob shrinks his last pair of pants in the wash, and there won’t be another shipment of square pants coming to Bikini Bottom for months. In the meantime, SpongeBob buys a pair of round pants. Patrick and Sandy are unable to recognize him with round pants, and Squidward pretends not to recognize him either. This causes SpongeBob to have an identity crisis. Thinking that he needs to start his life over as SpongeBob RoundPants, he reapplies for a job at the Krusty Krab, which is unnecessary because Mr. Krabs can recognize him (so can Squidward, though he pretends otherwise). SpongeBob, pretending that this is all new to him, asks Squidward to show him the ropes. SpongeBob takes notes on everything that Squidward does at work and mimics him. Remember, SpongeBob, no employee wants to be a Squidward. Anyway, Mr. Krabs comes out to see what the two of them are up to. He scolds SpongeBob for not being a better employee, and tells SpongeBob to take off his round pants so that he can feel like himself again. SpongeBob does so, which probably means he’ll be walking around in his underpants until he can get more square pants? Whatever, he’s done weirder stuff than that.
The beginning of this episode annoyed me a little, I thought it was strange that Patrick and Sandy wouldn’t recognize SpongeBob without his square pants. I know square pants are a big part of SpongeBob’s identity, it’s even his last name, but those two have known SpongeBob for a long time. I’m not too surprised about Patrick not being able to recognize. I mean, it’s Patrick. Stupidity is his specialty. But Sandy is smart, how could she not have recognized SpongeBob?
I liked the second half of the episode, where SpongeBob is mimicking Squidward’s terrible work ethic and the two of them actually start to bond a little bit. Look, I like it when those two bond, okay? I’m kind of a sucker for it.
Mr. Krabs gets a letter from his grandpa (who I’ll be referring to as Grandpappy because it’s easier). Grandpappy is a pirate, like everyone in Krabs’ family was, and Grandpappy is under the impression that Krabs is carrying on the family tradition and is a pirate as well. Is it me or is the “Krabs family tradition” always changing? lol what’s a continuity? Anyway, Grandpappy’s letter says he’s coming to see Mr. Krabs’ ship, so Krabs, SpongeBob, Squidward and Patrick turn the Krusty Krab into a pirate ship to fool Grandpappy. They manage to keep the charade up for a while, but things fall apart and Grandpappy starts to suspect something is up. Krabs confesses that he went into the restaurant business instead of becoming a pirate, but Grandpappy is actually impressed when he sees how overpriced everything on Krabs’ menu is. That’s true piracy, he says. Then he steals Krabs’ cash register.
I can’t say this episode made me laugh that much, but it did keep me entertained. I like the plot, but I think they could have done more with it. It could have been funny to see more of SpongeBob, Squidward and Patrick trying (and failing) to act like pirates. Then again, that might have made the episode too similar to Shanghaied.
The ending was surprisingly sweet. I kind of like that instead of chasing after Grandpappy when he stole the cash register, Krabs just let him go. That really doesn’t sound very sweet, but it was, trust me.
Rating: 6.5/10
SpongeBob notices that Squidward is always in a strangely cheerful mood on the third Wednesday of every month. He and Patrick decide to stalk follow him to see where he goes on those nights. They see Squidward go to something called the Cephalopod Lodge. SpongeBob and Patrick sneak into the club to see what it’s about. When they are discovered, the blame is on Squidward and he’s banished from the club. He’s being banished for having two morons that stalk follow him? All right then. Wanting to cheer Squidward up, SpongeBob and Patrick invite him to join their club, but Squidward of course refuses. SpongeBob realizes how much Cephalopod Lodge meant to Squidward, so he comes up with a plan to get Squidward back in. SpongeBob and Patrick hide in a giant sock and pretend to be an albino eel (the CL members are afraid of eels), and then Squidward comes in to “save” the CL members. The plan works, but then SpongeBob and Patrick remove the disguise too soon, and once again the three of them are kicked out of the lodge.
Most people seem to think of this episode as the worst of the Squid Abuse episodes, so I bet everyone is expecting a big Squid Abuse rant from me. Well, you’re not going to get one, because I actually don’t hate this episode. I… I kind of like it.
Yeah, I know.
To be clear, I do have some problems with the episode. One of them is the mean-spiritedness, the other is how flanderized the characters are, and I’m not just talking about SpongeBob and Patrick here. Squidward is flanderized in this episode too. Post-movie episodes tend to put a lot of emphasis on how miserable Squidward is and what a pathetic life he has, and it makes me a little uncomfortable when they go too far with it. This episode goes pretty far with it. Listening to some of his lines in this episode, you’d almost think he was suicidal. (I know what you’re thinking and trust me when I get to that episode it’s going to be a long rant.)
Yet despite all of that, I enjoyed Cephalopod Lodge. How can that be, you ask? Well, this episode actually had a lot of jokes that made me laugh, and as I’ve mentioned before, I can forgive a lot as long as it makes me laugh. It’s like how I can still enjoy Club SpongeBob, The Camping Episode and Squidtastic Voyage, all three of which have things that I normally hate in an episode (namely character abuse). I can’t say I love those episodes, but I at least still like them because they’re able to make me laugh, so I can forgive their flaws to an extent. (I know my review of Squidtastic Voyage wasn’t very positive, but it’s really grown on me since then.)
Besides, the character abuse in this episode really isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. It’s nowhere near the torture-fests that Good Neighbors or Squid Wood were, and SpongeBob at least realizes his mistake in Cephalopod Lodge and tries to make up for it, which is more than you can say about most episodes like this.
Mr. Krabs is introducing new cup sizes at the Krusty Krab: regular, large and viking-sized. All of them are the same size. SpongeBob asks Krabs what a viking is, and Krabs, wanting to get rid of SpongeBob, tells him to ask Squidward instead because “he’s the smart one”. That’s not saying much, Krabby. Anyway, SpongeBob asks Squidward, who gives him a totally fabricated explanation of what the vikings were. SpongeBob is fascinated and writes a letter to the vikings to learn more about their culture. The letter somehow reaches some vikings, who attack the Krusty Krab and take SpongeBob and Squidward on board their ship. After that, not much happens. They just kind of stand around. Then Squidward manages to piss off the vikings thanks to his sassiness, and they tie him up and put him in a catapult. SpongeBob stops them before they launch it. SpongeBob tells the vikings he’ll do anything to protect his friend (aaaww), so the vikings challenge him to a fight. Then they crash into an ice berg. What is this, the Titanic? Or should I say, the Vi-tanic? Get it? Because they’re vikings? Okay, I’m sorry, that was a horrible pun, I just couldn’t resist. Where was I? Right, they crash into an ice berg and the boat floods with water. As usual, let’s just ignore the fact that they’re already underwater. SpongeBob absorbs the water and saves the ship. The vikings cheer and SpongeBob says, “That’s what I call a viking-sized adventure!” and then the episode ends. Wait, what? That’s the ending? You’re kidding, right?
This is another one of those episodes that people always say is one of the worst episodes ever. It’s easy to see why, but I cant honestly say I hate this episode. I definitely don’t like it all, but “hate” seems like a strong word because, well, this episode just isn’t worth hating.
Dear Vikings isn’t exactly horrible, it just doesn’t have a purpose. It doesn’t have a story. Nothing really happens after SpongeBob and Squidward get shanghaied, or at least nothing that could form a coherent story. It’s more like random pieces of a story that the writers throw at you and say, “Fuck it, you figure it out.” It doesn’t have much humor. Most of the jokes are so bland it’s hard to tell if they were even supposed to be jokes at all. It doesn’t really have a conclusion, or even one of those open conclusions that let the viewer imagine for themselves what happens next (I usually like these types of endings), it just ends abruptly. It’s like the writers got bored with the episode and left it unfinished, then when they realized they forgot to finish it, they stuck in that “viking-sized adventure” line to make it seem like an ending. The episode isn’t bad per se, it’s nonexistent. It offers nothing, resulting in a very bland, forgettable episode. Yet it was nominated for an Emmy. I’ll never understand this world.
There’s a part where SpongeBob kisses Squidward on the head, and apparently this bothers a lot of people. Uh, why? What’s the big deal? It’s no worse than when SpongeBob kissed Squidward on the nose in Can You Spare a Dime?… people are bothered by that too? Oh, give me a break. People need to get over this kind of stuff.
I did like the first two or three minutes of Dear Vikings. The banter between SpongeBob, Squidward and Mr. Krabs was amusing, but ultimately even that is kind of forgettable.
If you want to see a good episode where SpongeBob and his friends get shanghaied, just watch the Season 2 episode, Shanghaied.
Rating: 0/10
Patrick convinces SpongeBob to skip boating class to go to a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy comic book signing. SpongeBob wants to return to class as soon as that is done, but gets carried away jellyfishing, eating ice cream, and playing badminton at Goo Lagoon with Sandy. Eventually, SpongeBob returns to boating class, where Mrs. Puff is being arrested for ditching jury duty. The moral: never ditch.
This episode is a little boring, but it did have a couple of good jokes. I liked the scene where SpongeBob and Sandy are playing badminton, but I think that’s only because Sandy has appeared so little this season and I was just happy to see her at all.
Really, there’s only one thing I can say about this episode…
Well, as I expected, this episode was action-packed… sort of. Half of it was action, the other half was Pyrrha explaining to Jaune what Aura is. Aura is the manifestation of a person’s soul. Everyone has the ability to project their Aura, it’s like a force field that protects them. Monster’s are soulless, so they don’t have Auras. It all sounds a lot more beautiful and poetic when Pyrrha says it.
Ruby and Weiss fight monsters for, like, five seconds in this episode and then Weiss accidentally sets the forest on fire, so they’re forced to run away. How anti-climactic.
Yang meets up with a couple of monsters too and defeats them quickly enough with Blake’s help. Well, now we know who those two are teamed up with. Not that it was a hard guess.
The highlight of this episode really is Pyrrha’s explanation of Aura, as well as Ren’s fight with the snake monster. I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of Monty Oum’s action sequences, but he has made a few that I like, and this is one of them. The pacing of this fight is perfect, not so fast-paced that I can’t tell what’s going on but fast-paced enough to be exciting. More importantly, the snake monster actually looks like it’s challenging Ren. My main problem with Monty’s action scenes is that his character’s always seem too relaxed and the fighting is effortless for them. There’s no sense of danger or intensity. If the character’s don’t have any fucks to give about what happens to them, why should I? Ren’s fight with the snake monster still has some elements of not-caring, but the snake monster does put up a good fight and seems to give Ren a hard time, which makes the fight much more enjoyable to watch.
Oh, and Ren is paired with Nora, by the way.
Overall, this episode felt slightly anti-climactic after the cliffhanger in Episode 5, but it does have its strong points.
Mr. Krabs is at a wrestling tournament where the prize is one million dollars. Of course Krabs wants the prize, but he doesn’t want to go up against the terrifying wrestling champions, so he gets SpongeBob and Patrick to go into the ring instead. After being tortured for a while by the two champions, SpongeBob and Patrick manage to defeat them thanks to Patrick’s “iron buns” (don’t even ask). They win the prize money, which Krabs is extremely happy about, but then they are told that they can also choose the second prize, which is a week at wrestling camp. SpongeBob and Patrick choose the second prize, so Krabs loses all of his money.
This was a decent episode. There are some funny jokes and I liked the plot, but it probably could have been executed better. Some parts dragged a little bit, and the parts with Patrick’s bun workout were disturbing to say the least.
Something note-worthy about this episode is that it’s the return of the “My leg!” gag. I missed that gag.
Rating: 6.5/10
SpongeBob buys a pack of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy cards. He is told by the store clerk that the most valuable card is the Number 54 Card, of which there are only five in existence. SpongeBob wants to get the card, so he buys pack after pack of cards until he runs out of money, trying to find No. 54. Patrick buys the last pack of cards, and No. 54 is in there. Patrick isn’t careful with the card, and SpongeBob keeps trying to protect it. Patrick realizes how much the card means to SpongeBob, so he offers to give it to him, but first he wants to hold on to it until the end of the day. SpongeBob agrees, but Patrick continues treating the card with very little care, and the card ends up being destroyed. SpongeBob starts crying until Patrick reveals that the pack he bought was full of No. 54 cards, and he gives all of them to SpongeBob.
I feel the same way about this episode as I do about Krusty Krushers: it’s decent, but nothing special. There are some funny jokes but also a few boring parts, and it’s mostly forgettable.
However, I can relate to SpongeBob in this episode, because the way he’s so protective of the card reminds me of how over-protective I am of my books. I know that feel, SpongeBob.
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