Now that I think about it, old spongebob honestly felt like a cartoon for grown ups, while the new stuff is without question a cartoon for kids.
Remember how much they used to use those creepy super detailed close-up shots like Ren & Stimpy did? Plus the dialogue was just more complex - things being referenced that kids probably wouldn't get these days.
It used to be a family cartoon, the kind that kids love and parents can chuckle at.
Kind of like Pixar's mild adult references. Toy Story's full of em.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;39037834]Now that I think about it, old spongebob honestly felt like a cartoon for grown ups, while the new stuff is without question a cartoon for kids.
Remember how much they used to use those creepy super detailed close-up shots like Ren & Stimpy did? Plus the dialogue was just more complex - things being referenced that kids probably wouldn't get these days.[/QUOTE]
Suicide Squidward could save the show.
Part of the reason I believe is because they're trying to fit too much into one episode.
I find the plot moves much quicker, resulting in less jokes, and more filler.
Instead of a joke they can build up, the joke happens and then is over.
The same thing is happening to the simpsons.
[QUOTE=Untouch;39129470]Part of the reason I believe is because they're trying to fit too much into one episode.
I find the plot moves much quicker, resulting in less jokes, and more filler.
Instead of a joke they can build up, the joke happens and then is over.
The same thing is happening to the simpsons.[/QUOTE]
You mean like beats?
I feel as though the newer episodes go against some of the older ones. In the old episode where Spongebob and Patrick ate the sundae and got bad breath Patrick was ranting and he said he didn't have a sister. And one of the newer episodes is an episode about his sister visiting.
Should have stopped at the movie for sure.
For me, Spongebob started going downhill around the episode where Mr. Krabs built a hotel. I enjoyed most of the post-movie episodes up to that point. Once they hit the hotel episode, though, it was just a slow descent into misery from there.
Also, has anyone noticed that, like, 50% of the new episodes focus on Plankton more than any other character? Most of "his" episodes are spent with him devising and executing some worthless plan that inevitably fails at the hands of an equally incompetent Spongebob. It's the same unfunny formula being rehashed again and again. I swear, there's a 50/50 chance of watching a Plankton episode whenever you turn on Spongebob nowadays.
Come on. I (at least used to) tune into Spongebob to see a yellow sponge and a pink sea star carry out wacky antics under the sea. I don't want to see some miniscule cyclops vainly attempt to be an effective villain. Nor do I want to only see Spongebob two minutes out of a half-hour show that is NAMED AFTER HIM.
to be fair, this show premiered in 1999. assuming the average age of facepunch is still 16 as it was last time we had a census poll (iirc), most of you were around 3 or 4. I think it's perfectly fair to assume nostalgia may have a hand here
the show isn't getting worse, you're just getting older
[QUOTE=Judas;39215489]the show isn't getting worse, you're just getting older[/QUOTE]
Nope, the humor in the old episodes were more clever, characters weren't [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization]Flanderized (Warning: TVTropes)[/url] and all the old episodes were unique. A lot of the old episodes also had some adult humor, so when I watch the old episodes sometimes I finally get what one of the characters meant.
I agree that nostalgia does play somewhat of a factor, but the show is without doubt getting worse.
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
Wait, I just repeated what everyone said, whatever
Well, you can have a show that gets cancelled or ended for being a memorable good series or run long enough to become utterly bad show.
Remember when people were outrage when Nick tried to cancel Spongebob after only 3 seasons? I can see they regretting asking Nick to keep Spongebob on air
[QUOTE=BCell;39262380]Well, you can have a show that gets cancelled or ended for being a memorable good series or run long enough to become utterly bad show.
Remember when people were outrage when Nick tried to cancel Spongebob after only 3 seasons? I can see they regretting asking Nick to keep Spongebob on air[/QUOTE]
Why would they try to cancel it at season 3? That was the start of the peak of the series, literally the worst time to try to cancel it.
[QUOTE=Yogkog;39262896]Why would they try to cancel it at season 3? That was the start of the peak of the series, literally the worst time to try to cancel it.[/QUOTE]
They probably had all the episodes of season 3 written already and decided that they couldn't come up with anything that would keep up with that, and it would just go downhill from there in terms of writing quality.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;23103449]Why do they suck? [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExecutiveMeddling]Executive meddling.[/url]
(Warning: Link leads to TVTropes)[/QUOTE]
Opened the trope page, went to videogame.
EA has it's own subsection!
Hahahahaha.
[QUOTE=BCell;39262380]Well, you can have a show that gets cancelled or ended for being a memorable good series or run long enough to become utterly bad show.[/QUOTE]
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
Or, in Spongebob's case, live long enough to see yourself become a show about the villain.
[QUOTE=Yogkog;39233159]Nope, the humor in the old episodes were more clever, characters weren't [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization]Flanderized (Warning: TVTropes)[/url] and all the old episodes were unique. A lot of the old episodes also had some adult humor, so when I watch the old episodes sometimes I finally get what one of the characters meant.
I agree that nostalgia does play somewhat of a factor, but the show is without doubt getting worse.
[editline]15th January 2013[/editline]
Wait, I just repeated what everyone said, whatever[/QUOTE]
I am currently trying to escape TVTropes. I'm an expert at this, so don't worry.
I'm out!
Alright some of y'all know what's up but I need to have my input in here, I just have to.
I, personally watched spongebob frequently in its older days and man were they creative! I used to love the facial expressions and clever, original things spongebob would say! This show DESERVED its title as number 1 cartoon at that time, and no one can disagree on this.
I'm very, very sad to even admit this but... The show we all knew, has transformed into two brainless, retarded, gay kids that really just sit at home and giggle and eat each others crap. This is not even exagguration, there's litterally an episode where Patrick pulls out some green fuming piece of SH*T out of spongebob ear and EATS it. It wasn't funny, it was DISGUSTING! Nickelodeon is trying to feed us garbage because they're too stubborn to end the show. All the characters have lost their, well, CHARACTER, and they really don't show any... Entertainment. I'm glad they still show the old ones, but when they keep dishing out more garbage, the old gets crowded out. They think showing brains and internal organs is FUNNY. If I had 3 words to say to them, I'd say, "END THE SHOW!" The show is like that gay Steven Universe cartoon network is trying to sell. They even went ahead and replaced all the voices. Spongebobs FACE is darker than his sides for crying out loud!
Oh well. Enough... Nothing we can do about it. I still love the classics. Favorite episode: Ripped Pants...
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