SpongeBob Reviews: Season 8 (Restraining SpongeBob/Fiasco!)

The episode starts with SpongeBob annoying Squidward. What else is new? At some point SpongeBob inadvertently causes an accident that I won’t bother explaining (but it makes the toenail scene look like child’s play) and Squidward loses his shit. Later, he returns from…. somewhere seeming surprisingly calm. Somehow a calm Squidward is more ominous than a crazy Squidward. The reason he’s so calm is because he’s filed a restraining order against SpongeBob, and he must now stay fifteen feet away from Squidward at all times and isn’t allowed to talk to him. This makes work difficult, so Mr. Krabs hires Patrick to pick up the slack. Patrick annoys Squidward even more than SpongeBob did, and the episode ends with Squidward removing SpongeBob from the restraining order and placing it on Patrick instead.

This plot has been begging to be done for years. It’s one of those episodes that make me wonder why it took this long for it to exist, it just seems like such an obvious plot. I didn’t like it as much as I was hoping I would, unfortunately. I don’t dislike it exactly, but I thought it was lacking.

That little montage with Patrick following Squidward around was hilarious, but Patrick was acting rather oddly in this episode. Calling him out of character might be going a bit far, but he was definitely… strange. And rather creepy.

I also got some laughs out of the scene where SpongeBob is trying to get the food to Squidward without violating the restraining order and it fails spectacularly. Though I did find it weird that SpongeBob wasn’t more upset about the restraining order. He surprisingly seemed okay with it. This is the same guy who cried when Squidward refused to visit his house, right? Okay, comparing it to that is probably not a good idea considering how flanderized and creepy SpongeBob was in Squid’s Visit, but it still surprised me that he didn’t care about the restraining order at all. I mean, someone that he considers one his best friends is making it illegal for him to talk to him, and he just shrugs it off? I guess it’s good that he took it so well, but I was expecting a bigger reaction from him.

Overall, this episode is pretty amusing, but something about it seemed really off to me, and I can’t shake off the feeling. Maybe it was that the story took a backseat to the humor in this episode, but it felt like it should have been the other way around. This episode feels like it should be more story-based, but it was more based around gags. It just doesn’t fit.

Rating: 6/10

A strange customer at the Krusty Krab is making a mess of his meal. When he leaves, Squidward looks at his left behind plate and recognizes the mess on it as a work of art by a famous artist known as “Fiasco”. The Krusty Krab becomes the display site for the work of art and Plankton, unaware that the messy plate is art, sees it as a perfect sample of the Krabby Patty formula. He steals the plate and is chased all over Bikini Bottom by the police, which confuses him because the police usually don’t get involved in his formula theft attempts. Eventually he loses the cops and makes his way to SpongeBob’s house. He breaks in, holds SpongeBob and Gary hostage with a spoon for some reason, and demands that SpongeBob help him escape the cops. SpongeBob explains to him that the plate he stole was a work of art and that is why the cops are chasing him. Patrick comes in complaining about all of the noise, and he eats the art. Apparently Patrick eating things is a plot-device now. Then Squidward comes in to complain about the noise, and he brings the cops with him. The cops arrest Plankton, and they also arrest Squidward for some reason. I don’t get it either.

Well, at least this episode has some creativity to it, and it was pretty funny. I liked the chase scene and I really loved the scene where Plankton is holding SpongeBob and Gary hostage. I just love it when Plankton tries to be threatening. It’s like watching a Chihuahua try to stand up to a dog that’s so much bigger than it, I can’t help finding it really funny and cute, especially when the attempts at being threatening somehow work.

There’s a pointless scene at the beginning where SpongeBob is presenting an idea for a Krusty Krab commercial to Mr. Krabs that seems like filler, but it’s actually really funny and charming so I can’t take much issue with it. It’s filler, but it’s good filler. Showing the storyboards after the commercial was kind of a nice bit of meta humor too.

The pacing was a bit awkward and Season 7-esque, and the ending is pretty dumb, but I liked the episode overall. I thought it was fun and fairly creative, but it’s not very memorable.

Rating: 7/10

SpongeBob Reviews: Season 8 (The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom/Bubble Buddy Returns)

Mr. Krabs spots a giant bean growing in Sandy’s treedome and is curious about it, so he asks for a tour of her treedome. During the tour, Sandy tells him that she enlarged the bean with some growth serum, and Mr. Krabs wants to use the serum on a Krabby Patty to make an unlimited supply. He calls SpongeBob and asks him to bring a Patty, and with Sandy’s guidance they pour a few drops of the serum onto the Patty. Nothing appears to happen, so while Sandy goes to the little squirrel’s room (her words, not mine, gotta love puns) Krabs pours the whole bottle on the patty. It still doesn’t seem to work, but on their way back to the Krusty Krab the Patty starts to grow. It keeps growing in the restaurant, eventually consuming it and then going on to consume the rest of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Patrick run to Sandy’s house, thinking that she must have a solution, and of course she does. She tells SpongeBob that her artificial intelligence cube told her her he needs to “make direct contact” with the Krabby Patty, which basically means he needs to absorb it. Yeah… we’ll get to that cube. Anyway, SpongeBob absorbs the Patty and Bikini Bottom is saved. But… would the Patty just keep growing inside him? Or was it done growing by the time he absorbed it? Whatever.

This episode reminds me a lot of Whelk Attack. It’s another parody of old, cheesy monster movies, specifically The Blob in this case. This one is weaker than Whelk Attack, though. The story isn’t put together as well, and it’s perhaps a bit too similar to Whelk Attack, particularly the second half. But I do want more episodes like this, where some sort of epidemic comes to Bikini Bottom, so I do appreciate this episode for that fact.

I was rather pleased at the beginning of this episode, when it seemed like this was going to be a Sandy-Krabs episode, which we’ve never seen before. Unfortunately that got forgotten pretty quickly and the episode returns to the usual dynamics. In fact, Krab just disappeared during the second half, which I found odd. Since he was the cause of the giant Krabby Patty, I kind of thought he would be more involved in the solution. Okay, fine, he didn’t just disappear for no reason, he got consumed by the Patty, but I still found it strange that he wasn’t at least mentioned in the second half. We see him again at the very end, but it doesn’t amount to anything. Am I the only one who finds it weird that Krabs isn’t more involved in the story?

And Sandy’s cube thing. Just… what. What was the point? When Sandy showed Krabs the cube at the beginning of the episode, I thought it was just a throwaway joke and forgot about it until it was brought up again. She describes it as a Rubik’s Cube that can solve itself, it sounded like a joke. Turns out it was a plot point, but… why? Couldn’t the characters have figured out what to do without the cube? Sandy figures things out all the time. Why add in the cube? It’s really baffling.

Anyway, this episode does have a few funny and entertaining bits, and I liked the idea, but it’s too weirdly put-together and it comes off as somewhat of a poor man’s Whelk Attack.

Rating: 6/10

SpongeBob gets a letter from Bubble Buddy (yes, that Bubble Buddy) asking him if he can watch Bubble Buddy’s son, Shiny, for the day. Well, “ask” isn’t the right word, as it implies that SpongeBob had a choice. Bubble Buddy sends the letter to SpongeBob’s house with Shiny, so it’s not like SpongeBob can say no. It doesn’t matter anyway because SpongeBob is perfectly happy to watch Shiny, but personally I’d be pissed if someone ambushed me into watching their kid. Anyway, SpongeBob needs to keep Shiny away from sharp/pointy objects that could potentially pop him, but Shiny keeps wandering off to dangerous areas and ruining people’s day (like father like son?). And people wonder why I don’t like kids. Anyway, that’s basically the whole episode. Shiny wanders off, SpongeBob rescues him and scolds him, rinse and repeat until Bubble Buddy shows up at the end to pick up Shiny.

So, this is the first episode to directly reference a previous episode and can be considered a “sequel” of sorts to said episode. The closest thing we’ve ever had to this before was Prehibernation Week and Survival of the Idiots, which are sort of related but not directly. Bubble Buddy Returns actually is directly related to a previous episode (it even references the fact that Bubble Buddy owes Mr. Krabs money!), though why it’s called “Bubble Buddy Returns” when it mostly features his son is beyond me. Bubble Buddy is only in the episode for, like, two minutes total.

I was really skeptical about this episode at first. Not because I thought it would ruin a “classic” or anything like that (I don’t even like the original Bubble Buddy episode that much, honestly), but because the idea of a direct sequel to an episode was off-putting for me. This show has never had continuity (besides small, indirect references to other episodes that would probably fly over the casual fan’s head) and I actually like that. It gives the writers more freedom, and it’s a lot easier to pretend episodes that I don’t like don’t exist when they don’t have any lasting effect on the show or characters. It’s also nice for newcomers to the show. They don’t have to start from the beginning of the show to understand what’s going on. I like that each episode is its own separate entity.

So, I had reservations about this episode the moment I saw the title of it. I didn’t like the idea of a direct sequel to an episode, I kept wondering what it meant for the show, whether there was some weird timeline to it after all. Now that I think about it, I have wished for one-time characters to reappear before (though Bubble Buddy would not have been one of choices), which would require some reference to previous episodes, and Friend or Foe actually did provide some continuity to the show. Krabs and Plankton’s relationship had been hinted about before then, so it wasn’t exactly a new addition, just expanding on something that was already there, but still, that episode did have a lasting effect on the Krabs-Plankton dynamic, it wasn’t just a one-shot thing. So, I suppose a little bit of continuity is okay to an extent, but I still wouldn’t want a concrete timeline to the show. This episode actually doesn’t do much for continuity anyway. It’s a sequel, sure, but it could also exist on its own. You wouldn’t need to watch the original episode to understand this one.

All that being said, good God this episode is boring. It was easy to forget my hang-ups about direct sequels to episodes when the sequel in question was putting me to sleep. It’s way too repetitive, the only interesting thing to happen in the episode was the ending when SpongeBob accidentally popped Shiny. Is it bad that I was kind of relieved when he got popped? It probably is.

I just thought of something. If Bubble Buddy has a son… does that mean Bubble Buddy has had sex? How can bubbles have sex anyway? Can they… can they pop each other when they put it in? Ugh, why am I thinking about bubble sex this much?! I’m too dirty-minded for my own good.  Shiny was probably the result of bubble-blowing, just like Bubble Buddy was. Though that also raises some questions. Was Bubble Buddy “born” when SpongeBob blew him? Oh dear, I shouldn’t use the word “blow” or participles of it when I’ve just been talking about bubble sex. I don’t even know where I’m going with this anymore. Never mind.

To sum up, I’m still on the fence about direct sequels to episodes, and this episode is a bore. Luckily I’m not a big fan of the original episode, so I’m not too disappointed by this one.

Rating: 2.5/10

SpongeBob Reviews: Season 8 (The Way of the Sponge/Bubble Troubles)

SpongeBob goes to visit Sandy and sees a… something in her Treedome. That thing is “Fuzzy Acorns”, Sandy’s Karate sensei who has come to test her abilities and see whether or not she is worthy of the “blacker” belt, which is apparently a rank above the black belt that she already has. What kind of animal is Fuzzy Acorns supposed to be? I can’t figure it out and I can’t find the information anywhere. Eh, it doesn’t matter I guess. SpongeBob wants to earn a belt too, so Fuzzy (who came up with such a cute name like that for a bad ass Karate master, Hagrid?) puts him through a series of tests, all of which SpongeBob fails. Unimpressed, Fuzzy schedules a fight between Sandy and SpongeBob to take place the next day. SpongeBob spends the rest of the day and night training, and the next day is too exhausted to fight. Sandy beats him easily, and Fuzzy tells SpongeBob he isn’t worthy of a Karate belt. To make matters worse, he takes Sandy’s black belt as well for wasting his time with an unworthy student. Dejected, SpongeBob leaves to go to work, and Sandy berates Fuzzy for being so mean to SpongeBob.  Fuzzy dismisses her words and says that he’s hungry. Sandy takes him to the Krusty Krab, hoping that he’ll be impressed with SpongeBob’s skills there. After watching SpongeBob prepare and serve food like some kind of ninja chef (I know it sounds silly but I really don’t know how else to describe it, also it is pretty silly), Fuzzy starts to think that he may have judged SpongeBob too quickly. He tries to attack SpongeBob to see him in action, and SpongeBob unknowingly defeats him through sheer luck. Fuzzy decides that SpongeBob does deserve a black belt after all, and that Sandy deserves her blacker belt.

For some reason Fuzzy’s (that name still sounds far too cute) voice really bothered me. Every time he opened his mouth to say something, it took me out of the episode. I think it’s because the voice didn’t seem to match how the character was designed or his personality, or maybe the voice actor just isn’t that good. Whatever it was, it was really distracting.  I don’t even dislike Fuzzy as a character, I actually think he’s one of the better one-time characters that we’ve seen post-movie, and perhaps pre-movie as well, but his voice was so off-putting. I’m probably the only one who feels this way, though.

Getting past his voice, I do think Fuzzy is a fairly good character. He’s not great, but he serves his purpose well. He’s dignified and imposing but can also get in some moments of humor that don’t feel forced. His arrogance and bullying nature make him hard to like as a person, but easy to like as a character since he’s supposed to be antagonistic (yes, there is a big difference between liking someone as a character and liking someone as a person). What I find kind of cool about Fuzzy is that he actually learns his lesson at the end of the episode and apologizes for his behavior. I can’t think of any other one-time antagonists on the show who have done this, usually they’re pretty one-note (though admittedly in an entertaining way) and don’t really learn anything in the end, Fuzzy actually has something resembling a character arc, and once again it doesn’t feel forced. Hm, the more I think about it, Fuzzy is a pretty great one-time character. I actually could see him appearing in more episodes, unlike most one-time characters. Too bad about that voice.

I also really loved Sandy in this episode. I will never understand why so many people in this fandom hate Sandy. Next to SpongeBob, I think she’s the most likable character on the show, as well as one of the best overall. This episode demonstrates why she’s so likable. She’s extremely kind and she believes in SpongeBob so much, despite all of his failures. She encourages him and stands up for him when Fuzzy treats him badly. I also like that she was hesitant to fight SpongeBob when she saw how exhausted SpongeBob was. I mean, it only lasts a second because she’s under pressure from Fuzzy (and it would disrupt the pace of the episode if they dwelled on this too much), but I liked that they slipped that line in. It shows that she cares about her friend’s well-being and values fair play.

SpongeBob was pretty good too, though there isn’t as much to say about him. You definitely feel for him when he’s denied his Karate belt and his tenacity is admirable, but besides that he’s just kind of there. Funny, since I think he is supposed to be the focus of the episode, but since Fuzzy is the one with the arc the focus shifts to him.

The humor is the weakest part of the episode, but it’s not even that weak. None of the jokes are really worth writing home about, but they are amusing and I got a giggle here and there. I especially liked that bit of meta humor where Sandy is monologue-ing her plan to bringing Fuzzy to the Krusty Krab and Fuzzy asks her who she’s talking to.

If it’s not clear yet, I loved this episode. I thought it was pretty fantastic. It’s entertaining, it’s well-paced, it’s a decent story with really good execution, and the character were great.

Rating: 8.5/10

That title card looks very much like a scene from Pre-hibernation Week.

The first three minutes of this episode are dull and drag for way too long. Plus there’s a weird part with a bonsai tree that makes me pretty certain Squidward is taking drugs. All you need to know is that SpongeBob and Patrick get bored of blowing regular bubbles and instead start blowing hot sauce bubbles. They go to visit Sandy and find her fixing the oxygen tank connected to her treedome. Apparently she’s running low on oxygen. SpongeBob blows some hot sauce bubbles at the tank and as we all know hot sauce is equivalent to acid in the world of cartoons, so the oxygen tank melts. Sandy only has a few minutes of oxygen left in her suit, so she must go to the surface in her submarine and replenish her air supply. SpongeBob opens the door of the submarine and water rushes in. Nice going, genius. The lack of oxygen is making Sandy woozy, so she tells SpongeBob that he has to drive the submarine to the surface for her. Um, have you seen SpongeBob drive? Actually, SpongeBob drives it quite well until Sandy, who is basically drunk from the lack of oxygen, grabs the wheel from SpongeBob and crashes the submarine into the Krusty Krab. Now the gang must find air for Sandy (who has removed her helmet and smashed it on the ground) before she dies. They give her some air bubbles and have Pearl, who technically is also an air-breather, share her air with Sandy. However, SpongeBob knows he has to get Sandy more air from the surface, so using an oxygen tank (seriously?) as a jetpack, he reaches the surface, blows a bubble full of air, and brings it back down to Sandy’s treedome.

The beginning of this episode really does drag for too long. It shouldn’t take three minutes to tell me that SpongeBob and Patrick are blowing hot sauce bubbles.

Things do start to pick up once they get to Sandy’s house, though. I was a little disappointed that the episode didn’t take place on the surface as I had expected it to, but it was amusing nonetheless. Weird, but amusing. The methods they found of giving Sandy air were actually pretty creative, and I liked how they acknowledged that Pearl is actually a mammal and needs to breathe air too. Kind of a random, trivial thing to like, I know, but I just like it when they acknowledge little facts like that. It makes me wonder what side Pearl would have been on if she’d been part of the land vs water debate in Pressure. Also, I kind of want to see an episode where Sandy and Pearl bond over being air-breathers now. What.

Seeing Sandy drunk from the lack of air was actually pretty funny and weirdly adorable (I don’t know I have a weird definition of adorable okay), and it’s rare that we see her in a vulnerable position like this, so it was kind of refreshing. I mean, I love my tough, bad ass, heroic Sandy, but I also like to see something different now and then, and Sandy in a vulnerable position is different. She spends so much time saving everyone else, it’s nice to see them return the favor for once.

Patrick was also really funny in this episode. It feels weird to say that since my last review included a rant on how Patrick isn’t as funny as he used to be and I definitely still stand by that rant. But… he was funny in this one. I hope this isn’t just a fluke.

The story-telling and pacing are a bit shaky, but I thought it was a fairly entertaining episode. It’s really strange, but also fun and an interesting idea for an episode.

Rating: 7/10

SpongeBob Reviews: Season 8 (House Sittin’ For Sandy/Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom)

Sandy asks SpongeBob to house sit for her and gives him a bunch of strict instructions to follow. While Sandy is gone, Patrick shows up and SpongeBob agrees to let him help as long as he promises not to screw anything up. However, SpongeBob accidentally activates Sandy’s robots (she has a warehouse full of them) and they destroy her treedome. Sandy comes home and they think she’s about to vaporize them with her laser, but it turns out the laser reverses rubble and fixes things? Kay. So she fixes everything easily and tells SpongeBob that she wanted him to destroy her house all along so she could test her invention. I…. I don’t… what. After that the robots are accidentally activated again and this time they break Sandy’s laser as well so she can’t fix anything. Yeah, because that was necessary.

If I could describe this episode in one word, it would be pointless. It’s sort like the Dear Vikings of Season 8, it doesn’t feel like an episode, it feels like eleven minutes of filler.

This isn’t even a bad idea for an episode necessarily, it’s just crappy execution. Lazy and lethargic. And kind of stupid, especially the ending. What was the point in having the robots destroy Sandy’s house twice? What was the point of her laser that fixes everything if the episode is going to end with her house destroyed anyway? The laser isn’t even a clever idea.

Also, SpongeBob isn’t wearing his water helmet for half of the episode because… because why? Why is he not wearing his water helmet? And why does he not realize this until Patrick points it out to him? How is that even possible? I know it’s a joke, but it’s a stupid, nonsensical joke.

I did enjoy that little Spandy hint, and I remember laughing a couple of times, but I can’t remember what I laughed at. Like I said, this is basically the Dear Vikings of Season 8 for me. It’s just a boring, empty, nonsensical episode, but not worth expending hatred on. Hatred takes energy, and I’m not going to waste energy on an episode that the writers clearly didn’t put any energy into themselves.

Rating: 2/10

That title seems wrong. Shouldn’t it be Smoothe Jazz in Bikini Bottom, or am I mistaken?

Squidward has a ticket to go see his favorite clarinetist, Kelpy G (nice pun, writers) in concert. Unfortunately, Patrick eats his ticket because Squidward kind of shoves it into his mouth accidentally. Well, that was a forced plot-point. Anyway, SpongeBob wins a pair of tickets to the concert as well as backstage passes and invites Squidward along. So, they go to the concert together and SpongeBob keeps embarrassing Squidward because he has the audacity to be happy and excited and cephalopods obviously hate joy or something so how dare he. Okay, I’m kidding, SpongeBob actually was a bit obnoxious, and it’s expected for the cephalopods to be snooty, but I guess I can’t help finding SpongeBob’s enthusiasm endearing, even if it was a tad inappropriate. Anyway, the concert starts and Patrick is somehow there even though the concert was said to be sold-out before. And he’s there for nachos, because apparently he can’t get nachos anywhere else? And then he eats Squidward’s backstage pass, through no fault of Squidward’s this time, he just eats it. SpongeBob offers Squidward his backstage pass, which is really sweet of him, but Patrick eats that too. Well, shit. And then for some reason Patrick gets on stage and tries to order nachos there? What is even happening in this episode. Anyway, security tries to get him off stage, but Patrick escapes by stage diving, and the other cephalopods are apparently fine with this even though they hated SpongeBob’s behavior earlier. Squidward and SpongeBob chase after Patrick hoping to get their passes back (good luck with that) and they end up getting told to go back to their seats. But their seats have been taken by someone else, so they get kicked out. What. They find a way to sneak back stage, but get caught by Kelpy G’s manager. Squidward tries to impress Kelpy’s manager by playing his clarinet while SpongeBob plays his ukulele. Kelpy hears them playing during his intermission and is impressed by SpongeBob’s ukulele playing. He pushes Squidward to the ground (!!!!!) and invites SpongeBob to play on stage with him. SpongeBob does so and Squidward gets thrown out of the concert.

I like this episode. No seriously, I do. I know it seemed like I was really taking the piss out of this episode, and there is a lot of stupidity in it, but I just can’t dislike it for some reason. I guess you could count this episode as somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me.

But yeah, it’s undeniable that this episode has problems. One of them is Patrick.

You know, I watched some pre-movie episodes for the first time in months a few days ago, and I was startled to realize how much I like Patrick. I know it sounds silly, but I’d forgotten. He’s actually quite endearing in most pre-movie episodes. It’s probably because back then his stupidity was usually harmless. If anything his stupidity was more detrimental to himself than to the people around him, so he can even be a bit sympathetic. Plus, there was actual wit behind his stupidity. Yes, that is possible. I don’t think a lot of people realize this, but doing stupid humor well is actually really hard. There needs to be some sort of cleverness behind it for it to work, it can’t just be pure, abstract randomness. Sometimes Patrick in post-movie reminds me of those annoying people in high school who would run around yelling things like “CHEESE” and think that they were funny because ~*omg so random lel*~. Ugh, no.

The problem I have with Patrick in post-movie is not just that his humor is (usually) not utilized as well in post-movie, it’s that Patrick himself has become rather unlikable. His stupidity is harmful to other characters the majority of the time and he’s often around just to screw things up for other characters. And he always gets away with it. He’s never punished for his actions, it’s always other characters who get punished instead. I hate that. And have you ever noticed that Patrick never gets abused? I can’t think of a single episode that would qualify as “Patrick Abuse”. I’m not saying I want Patrick Abuse to happen, not at all, I just think it’s noteworthy that he’s the only character who has never gotten it.

Anyway, in Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom, Patrick is basically only used to cause trouble for Squidward and gets off scot-free. It’s really quite irritating, as he had no purpose in this episode besides that. It would bother me less if he was actually being funny, but he wasn’t. He was just an annoyance.

I was also really bothered by the ending of this episode, particularly the part where Kelpy pushes Squidward over while Squidward is trying to speak to him. Dude, that is just mean. Kelpy will let a guy come on stage and order nachos in the middle of the concert, but he won’t take a few seconds to talk to a fan that has something to say to him? In I’m Your Biggest Fanatic, Kevin the sea cucumber was being incredibly mean to his fan, SpongeBob, but at least in that episode Kevin was clearly the antagonist and got what he deserved. Plus, that episode served as a moral about hero-worship. In Smoothe Jazz at Bikini Bottom, it’s just mean-spiritedness. You could argue that Squidward had it coming for sneaking backstage where he wasn’t supposed to be, but SpongeBob did that too and he didn’t get the same treatment, so the argument is moot in my opinion.

All that being said, I don’t dislike this episode. Maybe it’s due to low expectations after everything I’d heard about it, or maybe it’s because I watched it immediately after I watched the borefest that is House Sittin’ For Sandy and anything is enjoyable after that as long as it’s interesting. SJABB is a mess, but at least it’s not boring. I don’t think I’d go out of my way to watch SJABB again, but I really did enjoy it, even with all of the forced plot-points, stupidity and the meanness of the ending. It was entertaining, occasionally kind of funny, and SpongeBob was actually really sweet in this episode, though I do wonder why he didn’t at least try to stand up for Squidward at the end. Considering how hard he was trying to make Squidward happy earlier in the episode, it seems a bit strange that he would just forget about him. Oh well, he was still sweet and endearing for most of it, and he’s mainly what I enjoyed about this episode.

Rating: 6/10