History DethroningMoment / SpongeBobSquarePants

* Grotadmorv: I really can't stand "Sportz?" [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find a box of Sandy's sports equipment and don't notice that her name is written on the front of the box, so they just take it for themselves. After some dumb jokes about them not knowing what the equipment does, Squidward starts showing them how to play sports wrong so they'll injure themselves. What follows is a sequence of very graphic violence, such as [=SpongeBob=] getting sliced in half by Patrick's roller skates or Patrick getting a horseshoe [[EyeScream thrown in his eyes]]. It's not funny, it's just pointless and depressing. There's also an awful, out-of-nowhere joke about how sports fans don't actually play sports, which feels unnessecarily mean to the episode's target audience and makes absolutely no logical sense. This feels like a joke from a bad episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' more than anything. Even by the end of the episode, when Sandy gets involved and beats Squidward, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are still severely injured. There's nothing funny or amusing about this episode, it just puts me in a bad mood.

** ''Tropers/{{svagegenius}}'': All true. Like, this is even worse then A Pal For Gary and One Coarse Meal. And when the worst episode of the entire show is in season 11, to the point where Squidward's voice actor hates the episode, that's saying something. But for me, my DMOS had to be the ending. After everything Squidward went through, [=Spongebob=] and Patrick deliberately feed him cookies made out of-you won't believe this-spider eggs. And then the episode just ends with Squidward squirting out the last of his bodily fluids while spiders shoot out of his mouth. Just, wow.

* Tropers/CapriciousSalmon: Pre-movie [=Spongebob=] is and will always be my favorite show of all time. But that doesn't mean the series was perfect. My least favorite episode has to be "Wormy." In the episode, [=Spongebob=] and Patrick have to care for Sandy's pet caterpillar, the titular Wormy, while she's away. Overnight, Wormy undergoes metamorphosis and becomes a butterfly. Since [=Spongebob=] and Patrick have never seen a butterfly, they assume it's a monster that ate Wormy and it'll eat them, their friends and basically the whole Bikini Bottom. Ok, this was a hilarious premise and it's paired with the equally hilarious "Patty Hype", but "Wormy" is my DMOS because of one reason: the closeup. Three times in the episode, we get a scary, live-action closeup of Wormy, complete with a creepy buzzing noise, to show how Wormy looks to the rest of the Bikini Bottom. One time is kind of pushing it, but three times? It freaks me out as an adult, so I can only imagine how uncomfortable it makes kids. If they wanted to show that Wormy was harmless and everybody is getting scared over nothing, why include a legitimately scary JumpScare? It isn't funny. And FYI, they don't even use a closeup of a butterfly, they use a horsefly. The episode is hilarious, but I always either try to skip over the closeup or skip the episode.

* MarioAndSpongeBobFan: For me personally, I think "Can You Spare a Dime?" featured pre-movie Squidward at his most ungrateful. First, he singlehandedly quits his job over a RantInducingSlight from Mr. Krabs and as a result ends up homeless, but that's not what gets me about this episode. [=SpongeBob=] lets Squidward stay at his house and [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave he practically milks it for all it's worth]], forcing [=SpongeBob=] to pamper him and refusing to get a job even when [=SpongeBob=] screams in his face to do it. On top of that, [[KarmaHoudini Squidward receives no comeuppance for his outrageous behavior]], and resumes arguing with Mr. Krabs like at the start of the episode. As much as I love Squidward, this episode made me want to punch him in the face!

'''Fred:''' [[RunningGag MY LEG!]]

* ''Tropers/{{ShinyRaikou}}'': Not the entire episode, but "Pressure" definitely has a Dethroning Moment of Suck. Sandy takes off her helmet and suit, throwing them on the ground. Note for a moment that she needs those to fucking breathe. What do her 'friends' do? They laugh at her. You can see her lungs shrivel up and they just laugh. She finds a pickle jar and puts it on just in time. And her friends continue to mock her for it! Dude, not funny! It doesn't even have the defense of being made after Season 3!

* ''Tropers/{{ZehMonsieur}}'': It's not a bad episode altogether, but "Krabby Land" has a particular moment that I cannot stomach at all. In the episode, Krabs opens up an "amusement park" next to the Krusty Krab made out of junk in the hope that children will play there and purchase his food during summer vacation. To make sure they don't leave early, he has [=SpongeBob=] entertain the kids to stall for time until Krabby the Clown arrives, when he's really just counting the children's money. Spongy puts himself through physical hell keeping the kids occupied, going from pouring bubble mixture into his eyes, to being run over by a truck, to being ripped in half. The real low for the episode comes in when [=SpongeBob=], already given much of himself, rushes into Krabs' office, clearly bruised and missing his limbs, simply telling Krabs he doesn't know if he can stall them for much longer. Krabs' response to his hardest-working employee amounts to little more than "piss off and stop thinking of yourself;" and when Krabs finds out the kids are playing with [=SpongeBob=]'s arms and legs, he's concerned not for the yellow guy's safety, but that the children will break his windows. In the past, Krabs has been shown to be caring of [=SpongeBob=]'s well-being (giving him time off to get his mind back in order in "Pickles;" sending him back home when he's clearly ill in "Suds;" etc.), so seeing him act so callously and disregard [=SpongeBob=]'s physical health in favor of money would not seem out of place in a post-movie episode. Even if he does get what's coming by the end of the episode, it's still quite jarring to see the normally affable and friendly Krabs behave like the money-grubber he'd be Flanderized into.

* Tropers/Vexer: For me it was definitely "The Paper", i'm glad this episode rarely ever airs(due to being paired with "Valentine's Day")as it has a pretty thin and contrived plot. The DMOS is Squidward being foolish enough to give away all his possessions just for a piece of paper(instead of ya know getting another piece of paper from his own house and trying to have fun with that, which would've made far more sense and been more interesting)it just felt very much like an OutOfCharacter moment to me and I felt like "The Idiot Box" did this kind of premise much better.

** [=SenorCornholio=]: Well, looks like it's finally time to pop my [=SpongeBob DMoS=] cherry. And I found a moment from ''Sponge on the Run'' that truly qualifies for me. The movie by itself is okay; it had some funny moments, a few neat little gags, and a few cute character moments where the rest of the main cast comes to save [=SpongeBob=] from being executed by Poseidon. But the whole thing comes crashing down when, in the middle of the movie's climax, the characters all take a break from the plot to explain how they all met at Camp Coral. This is where Nickelodeon's ExecutiveMeddling rears its ugly head in the worst way possible, as it's explicitly clear that this is supposed to promote their then upcoming spinoff of the same name. Now, I could go on about how the late Stephen Hillenburg specifically mentioned that he didn't want a spinoff, but that would be beating a dead horse at this point, so let's go into the three big reasons why this moment sucks on its own merits. First off is obvious: it retcons everyone's backstories for this as [=SpongeBob=], Gary, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward ''and'' Mr. Krabs conveniently all met each other at this specific location. I can get [=SpongeBob=] meeting Gary there, and ''maybe'' him meeting Patrick and Squidward for the first time would have been nice. That said, retconning [=SpongeBob=]'s first meeting with Sandy (i.e. the second episode of the entire series) and Mr. Krabs' backstory episode with Plankton felt nothing short of insulting. Secondly, the flashbacks aren't even fun. They feel distinctly un-[=SpongeBob=] in how cutesy and diabetes-inducing they are, with the only remotely funny gags turning up during the talent show in Squidward's flashback. Outside of that, it's just uninteresting shlock that doesn't match the spirit of the series in its golden age, revival era, or even its DorkAge. But the third and absolute biggest sin of this scene isn't either of those very glaring issues; it's that it deliberately puts the movie to a screeching halt just so it can have a series of back-to-back flashbacks to a spinoff show that people are already on the fence about. This blatant act of self-promotion is something that films like ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' get criticized for, except in those movies you could argue that the plot is still moving forward to some tiny extent. Here, you could remove every flashback and cut to the chase [[JustForPun (literally)]] and nothing of value would be lost. This is the part that actually sucked any and all good will I had for this movie out of my being; at least with my other listed moments, they never tarnished my enjoyment of a work and could still be seen as fun in their own right, even if I didn't enjoy the product. But something about this just felt dirty to me; it not only tramples on a dead man's over two decade-long legacy, but it actively breaks its own story to do so, while making you feel sympathy for the movie's staff and cast and mourn WhatCouldHaveBeen. A bad episode can be discounted enitrely as it's just one out of hundreds, but a stunt like this shows just how little Nickelodeon truly cares for its own beloved franchise outside of its brand. [[ThisIsUnforgivable And that, in my eyes, can never be forgiven.]] "In memory of Stephen Hillenburg" my [[SoundEffectBleep *dolphin noise*]] tailfin.

* ''Tropers/{{SuperEquality07}}'': So initially I had "Fungus Among Us" here, but after several re-watches, I really don't find the episode to be as bad (though it's still not good.) Instead, I am now choosing "20,000 Patties Under the Sea." The reused animation from "Jellyfishing" at the beginning really sticks out like a sore thumb to me, and it's the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this episode. Not to mention the reused animation of the telescope from "Krabs a La Mode" later on. The laziness here is staggering, and screams quantity-over-quality. This was around the time seasons were extended from 20 to 26 episodes and thus production had to speed up on episodes, and it's quite a sad that they had to abandon greatness in favor of getting episodes out quicker. I'm glad things have changed. The show is in a much better place now.

* ''Tropers/{{SuperEquality07}}'': Fungus Among Us is the absolute worst of Season 5. Seeing that fungus spread everywhere was disgusting. This episode is perfect to prepare viewers for the gross-out filled next season. Yuck.

* Tropers/{{VulgarProboscidean}}: The episode "A Day Without Tears" is an insult to [=SpongeBob=] during the pre-movie era, the takes [=SpongeBob=]'s {{Flanderization}} UpToEleven in which he cries about practically everything, he cries about ripping his pants, he cries about having to throw away a Krabby Patty, and he cries about Squidward yelling at him, despite those things happening to [=SpongeBob=] in previous episodes (Ripped Pants, Born Again Krabs, and every episode where [=SpongeBob=] and/or Patrick annoy Squidward). I don't know who that crybaby was in this episode because it's not [=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=].

* ''Tropers/{{MosquitoMan}}'': "Hide and Then What Happens?". It was an okay episode actually but the dethroning moment comes at the very beginning. Patrick [[TooDumbToLive doesn't even remember SpongeBob's name]]. This goes [[UpToEleven beyond]] {{Flanderization}}. It's a new low for the writers in my book. However, it gets worse. Patrick thinks that hide and seek, a game pre-schoolers can figure out right off the bat, is [[IdiotBall too complicated for him to understand.]] By now I'm convinced the writers are just directly insulting the viewer's intelligence.

** RedTheHedgehog: This is actually the episode that made me take off my rose-tinted glasses, and realize the show has [[SeasonalRot gone down hill.]] Even as a kid I was mad at Patrick for the [[{{Jerkass}} way he treated Squidward]]. It's not funny dumbness, it's just plain cruel. And Patrick gets let in backstage, for what reason? It's just so Squidward could be kicked in the [[StealthPun tennis balls]] more. [[AssPull How did he even get the backstage pass out of his stomach in the first place?]] Well, [[{{Squick}} I really don't wanna think too deep about that.]] And Squidward was pushed into begging to let him see Kelpy G, and what does Kelpy do? He chooses [=SpongeBob=] to come in and play with him. Look, I know Squidward is the show's ButtMonkey, but this isn't just [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]], it's [[UpToEleven shooting it with a gun]].

* [=BobSaget9=]: I really do not like the shift into a more "cartoony" presentation [=SpongeBob=] took, and there are several episodes from this season alone I could mention. But since I can only pick one, "Snooze You Lose". The plot starts out simple: Squidward is trying to sleep for his Bikini Bottom Philharmonic audition the next day, but [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick keep him up with a loud burping contest ([[UncannyValley complete with "Face Freeze"-level facial animations]]) and just general loud, screaming annoyance for so long that (after going for a walk to try and tire himself out), he passes out at [=SpongeBob=]'s house. [[ThisIsGoingToSuck This is the last semi-tolerable part of the episode.]] From there, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to wake him up with various methods (including loudly playing some electrical guitars that [=SpongeBob=] now has for some reason), but Squidward's still asleep. Then they decide "Fuck it", and make a clone of Squidward in [=SpongeBob=]'s lab that spontaneously becomes giant and escapes to rampage across Bikini Bottom. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer By the way, [=SpongeBob=] now has a laboratory in his house. Because.]] [[MindScrew And it's forgotten about just as quickly. Because.]] [[FromBadToWorse And then we get to the "highlight" of the episode:]] Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] proceed to [[{{Squick}} climb inside Squidward]] and control him like a puppet. If you ever wondered how one would go about making [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime the Jake Suit]] fucked up, there you go. What follows is a parade of asinine annoyances as Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] try to find the Bikini Bottom Philharmonic, with such highlights as a "No dancing" zone, [=SpongeBob=] [[{{Squick}} mangling and chomping on Squidward's brain]], Squidward's clarinet winding up in his [[{{Squick}} ass]], and Squidward waking up mid-audition and regaining enough control of his body to [[{{Squick}} puke [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick up]]. Overall, the overtly exaggerated facial expressions are overdone, the lack of any rational thinking is annoying, the clear lack of any sense of a fuck in the story structure is grating, and it's painfully clear that at this point, the writers of [=SpongeBob=] flat out gave up.

* Tropers/Ryanruff13: I never minded the ending of "Squid on Strike" for a while, but the more that I thought about it, the more that I realized how contrived that it was in order to make Squidward unhappy. In it, Squidward manages to negotiate for better working conditions at the Krusty Krab while still on strike, with Mr. Krabs actually seeming to be willing to comply with Squidward's requests. What happens next? [=SpongeBob=] taking Squidward's analogies during his protest speech literally and...[[IdiotBall destroying the Krusty Krab]] in order to get their jobs back, making Squidward have to work the rest of his life to pay off the restaurant's [[{{Understatement}} damages]]. This wouldn't even be something that he would do in the post-movie episodes. It's uncharacteristic enough to reach GainaxEnding levels of absurdity, and it manages to surpass some of the post-movie episodes with regard to making Squidward suffer for no reason.

* Tropers/{{prettycoolguy}}: My moment is a brief scene in "Summer Job". When Mrs. Puff tries to [[ContinuityNod bring up]] the events of "Krusty Love"[[note]]In which Krabs is lovestuck by Puff and would go any lengths to male her happy.[[/note]] by asking Mr. Krabs if he'd like to go on a date, he cruelly shoots her down like a jackass. Wow, Krabs. This is a new low, even for you.

* Tropers/{{prettycoolguy}}: There's a DMOS for "Summer Job". When Mrs. Puff tries to [[ContinuityNod bring up]] Krusty Love's date plotline again by asking if he'd like to go on a date, he cruelly shoots her down like a jackass. Wow, Krabs. This is a new low, even for you.

* Tropers/MightyMewtron: I appreciate "Squirrel Jokes" for teaching kids the harm of racist jokes and how they can affect people. The execution is a little wonky (The Krusty Krab being a comedy club for pretty much no reason, Spongebob being [[TookALevelInJerkass sort of inconsiderate and selfish,]] and what it takes for Spongebob to learn the jokes are bad suggests that he doesn't care about Sandy being hurt, just when she takes it out on him), but it works well enough under RuleOfFunny. What gets me is the ending. Spongebob telling jokes at his own expense is fine and funny, and if they just ended the episode there, it would have made a nice moral that it's okay to laugh at yourself, just not at other people. Even him making fun of the fish could have been fine under the excuse of punching up. But for him to make fun of the other species sort of muddles the moral altogether. Sure, the underwater species don't seem to have as much FantasticRacism as the mammals do, but that's not clear enough. He never even checks with his friends to make sure these jokes won't hurt them the same way. It sort of twists the aesop into "If somebody is offended at the jokes you make about them, make jokes about everyone else and just hope they don't get offended."

* Tropers/CapriciousSalmon: Pre-movie Spongebob is and will always be my favorite show of all time. But that doesn't mean the series was perfect. My least favorite episode has to be "Wormy." In the episode, Spongebob and Patrick have to care for Sandy's pet caterpillar, the titular Wormy, while she's away. Overnight, Wormy undergoes metamorphosis and becomes a butterfly. Since Spongebob and Patrick have never seen a butterfly, they assume it's a monster that ate Wormy and it'll eat them, their friends and basically the whole Bikini Bottom. Ok, this was a hilarious premise and it's paired with the equally hilarious "Patty Hype", but "Wormy" is my DMOS because of one reason: the closeup. Three times in the episode, we get a scary, live-action closeup of Wormy, complete with a creepy buzzing noise, to show how Wormy looks to the rest of the Bikini Bottom. One time is kind of pushing it, but three times? It freaks me out as an adult, so I can only imagine how uncomfortable it makes kids. If they wanted to show that Wormy was harmless and everybody is getting scared over nothing, why include a legitimately scary JumpScare? It isn't funny. And FYI, they don't even use a closeup of a butterfly, they use a horsefly. The episode is hilarious, but I always either try to skip over the closeup or skip the episode.
* Papaga: I'm sad to realize that the older I get, the harder it gets to tolerate the more nonsensical episodes. Especially "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" (the one with the shrink ray). Despite all its memorable quotes, the entire plot is just an overload of stupidity and shock humor that, while not as gratuitous as the reviled newer episodes, feels like ground zero for most of their problems (Squidward gets viciously mutilated by pointless magic powers for 30 seconds straight; sound familiar?). It's about Spongebob being uncharacteristically hateable, as he refuses to take any of the responsibility he's usually known for and goes on a panic-induced rampage, not caring what happens to anyone except himself - crying "You don't understand!" to an entire town he just crushed into a jar, essentially saying that his emotions are more important than all of them combined. He doesn't end up having to confront his fears either, since Mermaid Man is already right in front of him and clearly too old to care about what he did. And Spongebob's solution to the problem is shortsighted, yet accepted just to have a "no continuity" style ending, which isn't anything new in this show but is only made more annoying by the absolute black hole of logic everywhere else. It's a predictable ending, too, which is usually far from the case.

* Tropers/KoopaKid17: "All That Glitters" ruined [=SpongeBob=] forever for me. I could go on forever about why I hated this episode from [=SpongeBob's=] {{Wangst}} to him spending half the episode naked (because {{naked people are funny}}? [[SarcasmMode Right]]). Since I can only choose one moment that still makes my blood boil to this day, it would be the part where the replacement spatula [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tells off SpongeBob]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution making it flip Krabby Patties]], hands down. The thing suddenly [[TookALevelInJerkass talks down to SpongeBob]] [[RichBitch because it feels the job is too menial for its status]]. It then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away when [=SpongeBob=] tries to get it back]], [[KickTheDog though not before continuing to give jab after jab at him]]. Easily a candidate for the most mean-spirited scene in the show's history considering the sacrifice poor [=SpongeBob=] was willing to make for it.

** ''Tropers/JaredTropes'': Dear god was this episode [[OhCrap embarrassing to watch]]. This was the first episode of Spongebob I’ve ever hated, and it really showed that [[{{Flanderization}} that yellow sponge is slowing dying of intoxication]], thanks to a terrible plot and the most insulting TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ever. Although this episode was terrible, the reason why this is a DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck because it was at this point the show not only started going downhill, but it took [[DeaderThanDead a head-first dive into the earth’s core]]. As a result, the episodes continued to get worse and worse, all culminating in the worst episode ever, SpongebobYoureFired. Thankfully, the show is now [[WinBackTheCrowd back to it’s roots]], but it doesn’t save this episode from being really a complete case of wasted potential. In the true sprit of DMOS, all the other episodes, whenever criticized or not, is a lot better than this disaster.

* [=BobSaget9=]: I really do not like the shift into a more "cartoony" presentation [=SpongeBob=] took, and there are several episodes from this season alone I could mention. But since I can only pick one, "Snooze You Lose". The plot starts out simple: Squidward is trying to sleep for his Bikini Bottom Philharmonic audition the next day, but [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick keep him up with a loud burping contest ([[UncannyValley complete with "Face Freeze"-level facial animations]]) and just general loud, screaming annoyance for so long that (after going for a walk to try and tire himself out), he passes out at [=SpongeBob=]'s house. [[ThisIsGoingToSuck This is the last semi-tolerable part of the episode.]] From there, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to wake him up with various methods (including loudly playing some electrical guitars that [=SpongeBob=] now has for some reason), but Squidward's still asleep. Then they decide "Fuck it", and make a clone of Squidward in [=SpongeBob=]'s lab that spontaneously becomes giant and escapes to rampage across Bikini Bottom. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer By the way, [=SpongeBob=] now has a laboratory in his house. Because.]] [[MindScrew And it's forgotten about just as quickly. Because.]] [[FromBadToWorse And then we get to the "highlight" of the episode:]] Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] proceed to [[{{Squick}} climb inside Squidward]] and control him like a puppet. If you ever wondered how one would go about making [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime the Jake Suit]] fucked up, there you go. What follows is a parade of asinine annoyances as Patrick and [=SpongeBob=] try to find the Bikini Bottom Philharmonic, with such highlights as a "No dancing" zone, [=SpongeBob=] [[{{Squick}} mangling and chomping on Squidward's brain]], Squidward's clarinet winding up in his [[{{Squick}} ass]], and Squidward waking up mid-audition and regaining enough control of his body to [[{{Squick}} puke SpongeBob and Patrick up]]. Overall, the overtly exaggerated facial expressions are overdone, the lack of any rational thinking is annoying, the clear lack of any sense of a fuck in the story structure is grating, and it's painfully clear that at this point, the writers of [=SpongeBob=] flat out gave up.

* cartoonfanman: I could name a billion of reasons why "Ink Lemonade" sucks. Hell, I would probably consider it to be as bad, if not as worse, as any of the worst episodes from Seasons 6 and 7. So the plot is that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are selling lemonade to people (if you couldn't tell, they [[NoIndoorVoice scream it through megaphones at a deafening volume]] throughout the episode) but it comes with no success until they discover that Squidward can squirt out ink (or black lemonade, as they call it) whenever he gets scared. So Patrick takes advantage of this by frightening Squidward so that he'll squirt out "black lemonade" for their stand, with SpongeBob going along withd it. He even goes as far as to terrorize Squidward by feigning [[NightmareFuel what's basically a nightmare house]]. What. The. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck.]] This feels like if "One Coarse Meal" was remade for Season 11, but replace Mr. Krabs with Patrick and replace Plankton with Squidward. If I was Squidward and found out that [=SpongeBob=]s and Patrick were purposely scaring me and making me live out my worst nightmares just to milk out ink they're feeding to people, I would brutally murder them, no questions asked. At the very best, they never scared him into committing suicide unlike the episode I mentioned above but that still doesn't make this episode less horrifying to watch. I don't like using the term "Squidward torture porn" on a lot of episodes but this episode is definitely deserving of me using that term. Hell, I'll even use "Patprick" too because he's what I think is the whole problem with this episode. And no, "He's stupid, he doesn't know any better." isn't a good excuse to justify his actions in this episode. It's clear that his motive was to scare Squidward and milk all the ink out of his body just to sell lemonade (which apparently is tasty to the Bikini Bottomites until they find out where it comes from). He's not [[TooDumbToLive dumb]]. He's not [[IdiotBall stupid]]. He's a fucking psychopath.

** ''Tropers/{{svagegenius}}'': All true. Like, this is even worse then A Pal For Gary and One Coarse Meal. And when the worst episode of the entire show is in season 11, to the point where Squidward's voice actor hates the episode, that's saying something. But for me, my DMOS had to be the ending. After everything Squidward went through, Spongebob and Patrick deliberately feed him cookies made out of-you won't believe this-spider eggs. And then the episode just ends with Squidward squirting out the last of his bodily fluids while spiders shoot out of his mouth. Just, wow.

* cartoonfanman: I could name a billion of reasons why "Ink Lemonade" sucks. Hell, I would probably consider it to be as bad, if not as worse, as any of the worst episodes from Seasons 6 and 7. So the plot is that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are selling lemonade to people (if you couldn't tell, they [[NoIndoorVoice scream it through megaphones at a deafening volume]] throughout the episode) but it comes with no success until they discover that Squidward can squirt out ink (or black lemonade, as they call it) whenever he gets scared. So they take advantage of this by frightening Squidward so that he'll squirt out "black lemonade" for their stand. They even go as far as to terrorize Squidward by feigning [[NightmareFuel what's basically a nightmare house]]. What. The. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck.]] This feels like if "One Coarse Meal" was remade for Season 11, but replace Mr. Krabs with Patrick and replace Plankton with Squidward. If I was Squidward and found out that [=SpongeBob=]s and Patrick were purposely scaring me and making me live out my worst nightmares just to milk out ink they're feeding to people, I would brutally murder them, no questions asked. At the very best, they never scared him into committing suicide unlike the episode I mentioned above but that still doesn't make this episode less horrifying to watch. I don't like using the term "Squidward torture porn" on a lot of episodes but this episode is definitely deserving of me using that term. Hell, I'll even use "Patprick" too because he's what I think is the whole problem with this episode. And no, "He's stupid, he doesn't know any better." isn't a good excuse to justify his actions in this episode. It's clear that his motive was to scare Squidward and milk all the ink out of his body just to sell lemonade (which apparently is tasty to the Bikini Bottomites until they find out where it comes from). He's not [[TooDumbToLive dumb]]. He's not [[IdiotBall stupid]]. He's a fucking psychopath.

** ''Tropers/{{svagegenius}}'': All true. Like, this is even worse then A Pal For Gary and One Coarse Meal. And when the worst episode of the entire show is in season 11, to the point where Squidward's voice actor hates the episode, that's saying something. But for me, my DMOS had to be the ending. After everything Squidward went through, Spongebob and Patrick deliberately feed him cookies made out of-you won't believe this-spider eggs. And then the episode just ends with Squidward squirting out the last of his bodily fluids while spiders shoot out of his mouth.

Just, wow.

* Papaga: I'm sad to realize that the older I get, the harder it gets to tolerate the more nonsensical episodes. Especially "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" (the one with the shrink ray). Despite all its memorable quotes, the entire plot is just an overload of stupidity and shock humor that wouldn't be out of place next to some of the reviled newer episodes (Squidward gets viciously mutilated by pointless magic powers for 30 seconds straight; sound familiar?). It's about Spongebob being uncharacteristically hateable, as he refuses to take any of the responsibility he's usually known for and goes on a panicked rampage, not caring what happens to anyone except himself. Predictably, he only learns his lesson because Mermaid Man is extremely forgiving, and his solution to the problem is shortsighted, yet accepted just to have a "no continuity" style ending, which isn't anything new in this show but is only made more annoying by the absolute black hole of logic everywhere else. When the whole town got nuked in 'Dying for Pie', or 'I was a Teenage Gary' ended with everyone becoming a snail mutant, it worked because it was a big, crazy event that you were anticipating as soon as the episode title appeared; but this episode is about starting a conflict, giving up on answering it, then shrugging and saying "whatever, funny ha ha".

** Papaga: It was a very common formula since the beginning to write episodes like "Squidward sees Spongebob and Patrick doing something, acts annoyed, but then joins them out of spite and/or curiosity, ends up having fun, but still gets punished for it". Here it's just that premise stretched as thin as the paper itself.

* Moments only, no "just everything he said", "The entire show," or "This entire series," entries.

* Tropers/{{PlasmaPower}}: I'd say that the first part of "Whatever Happened To {{SpongeBob}}" was the moment for me that made it apparent the rot started kicking in. It basically consists of {{SpongeBob}}'s friends suddenly becoming [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] and bullying the sponge because he happened to accidently mess something up for them. Like seriously, you put up with his idiocy throughout countless episodes and yet this is the episode where you had enough? He wasn't even that much of an idiot in the episode, despite the fact we're supposed to agree with the assessment that he's an idiot. There's also Patrick calling him "idiot boy" despite not being too bright himself. The hypocrisy just makes me mad.

* ''Tropers/{{Woodsman}}'': While "Overbooked" was by no means a great episode, one moment in particular really stood out. [=SpongeBob=] has to go get a cake for Patrick's birthday party, but didn't reserve one in advance. He goes to the bakery and finds there's only one cake with a message already written on it. The message? "Sorry about the scabies." This isn't [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar getting crap past the radar]], this is nuking it. I was appalled that such a thing could be aired in a kid's show with no apparent outcry. This was the final nail in the coffin for me; I knew [=SpongeBob=] was past its former glory if it had to resort to this kind of adult joke.

Given that it has been on the air for a [[LongRunner over two decades]] by this point, the undersea creature ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and his Bikini Bottom friends are bound to have moments we will always remember, moments we can't remember, and [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck moments that we wish we'd forget and belong in]] '''''[[LargeHam DAVY JONES' LOCKER!!!]]'''''

* ''Tropers/{{Anonymous}}'': To prove that not everything pre-season 4 was an outstanding classic, "Sleepy Time" shows that all the characters' {{Jerkass}} tendencies went as far as the first season, where after [=SpongeBob=] visits the character's dreams and ruins them, and Sandy, showing that she's a SmallNameBigEgo, even in the first season said to him: "Do us all a favor and stay out of our dreams", accompanied by Squidward's "Don't we get enough of you during the day, [=SpongeBob=]?!" and everyone, including [[WithFriendsLikeThese his so-called "friends"]] yells at him for getting into their dreams. Alright, how did they possibly know that [=SpongeBob=] snuck into their dreams where he could've just happened to be in them?! I can understand Squidward and all, but the rest of the characters, including Mr Krabs (who back then, cared about [=SpongeBob=], despite his [[MoneyFetish obsession with money]]) and Sandy?! Even Gary and Pearl show up despite the fact that their dreams were the only two that [=SpongeBob=] didn't ruin! That is just the lowest of the low and one of the weaker bunch of the first three seasons!

* ''Tropers/{{ZehMonsieur}}'': It's not a bad episode altogether, but "Krabby Land" has a particular moment that I cannot stomach at all. In the episode, Mr. Krabs opens up an "amusement park" next to the Krusty Krab made out of junk in the hope that children will play there and purchase his food during summer vacation. To make sure they don't leave early, he has [=SpongeBob=] entertain the kids to stall for time until Krabby the Clown arrives, when he's really just counting the children's money. Spongy puts himself through physical hell keeping the kids occupied, going from pouring bubble mixture into his eyes, to being run over by a truck, to being ripped in half. The real low for the episode comes in when [=SpongeBob=], already given much of himself, rushes into Krabs' office, clearly bruised and missing his limbs, simply telling Krabs he doesn't know if he can stall them for much longer. Krabs' response to his hardest-working employee amounts to little more than "piss off and stop thinking of yourself;" and when Krabs finds out the kids are playing with [=SpongeBob=]'s arms and legs, he's concerned not for the yellow guy's safety, but that the children will break his windows. In the past, Krabs has been shown to be caring of [=SpongeBob=]'s well-being (giving him time off to get his mind back in order in "Pickles;" sending him back home when he's clearly ill in "Suds;" etc.), so seeing him act so callously and disregard [=SpongeBob=]'s physical health in favor of money would not seem out of place in a post-movie episode. Even if he does get what's coming by the end of the episode, it's still quite jarring to see the normally affable and friendly Krabs behave like the money-grubber he'd be Flanderized into.
* megatroper123456: This is the first episode (chronologically) that I really didn't like, "Valentine's Day". Not only is it kind of random for [=SpongeBob=] to be doing a special that counters the main character's asexuality, but Patrick is pretty a much a bratty, childish jerk, throughout the whole thing. Him getting so unhappy, after his best friend gives him, what he considered, his Valentine's gift (a friendly hand shake), it completely killed the mood as he just gloomily went around the Valentine's Day Carnival, unusally pissed with what [=SpongeBob=] had done. Not to mention, at the end, he goes batshit insane, completely destroying the carnival, and oh, that part where the whole crowd is trying to get Patrick to look around to Sandy and Patrick is like "No, I'm just practicing my prick-ishness for the Post-Movie episodes!" is pretty grating. So yeah, Patrick constantly pestering [=SpongeBob=] for his gift, acting like a 5-year old when it appears to be underwhelming, wrecking everything in sight (also inadvertedly at the end when the chocolate bubble bursts) and [[KarmaHoudini getting no punishment of any kind]] make this one of my least favourite episodes, and definitely my least-favourite Pre-Movie episode.

** [=SenorCornholio=]: Well, looks like it's finally time to pop my [=SpongeBob DMoS=] cherry. And I found a moment from ''Sponge on the Run'' that truly qualifies for me. The movie by itself is okay; it had some funny moments, a few neat little gags, and a few cute character moments where the rest of the main cast comes to save [=SpongeBob=] from being executed by Poseidon. But the whole thing comes crashing down when, in the middle of the movie's climax, the characters all take a break from the plot to explain how they all met at Camp Coral. This is where Nickelodeon's ExecutiveMeddling rears its ugly head in the worst way possible, as it's explicitly clear that this is supposed to promote their then upcoming spinoff of the same name. Now, I could go on about how the late Stephen Hillenburg specifically mentioned that he didn't want a spinoff, but that would be beating a dead horse at this point, so let's go into the three big reasons why this moment sucks on its own merits. First off is obvious: it retcons everyone's backstories for this as [=SpongeBob=], Gary, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward ''and'' Mr. Krabs conveniently all met each other at this specific location. I can get [=SpongeBob=] meeting Gary there, and ''maybe'' him meeting Patrick and Squidward for the first time would have been nice. That said, retconning [=SpongeBob=]'s first meeting with Sandy (i.e. the second episode of the entire series) and Mr. Krabs' backstory episode with Plankton felt nothing short of insulting. Secondly, the flashbacks aren't even fun. They feel distinctly un-[=SpongeBob=] in how cutesy and [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes-inducing]] they are, with the only remotely funny gags turning up during the talent show in Squidward's flashback. Outside of that, it's just uninteresting shlock that doesn't match the spirit of the series in its golden age, revival era, or even its DorkAge. But the third and absolute biggest sin of this scene isn't either of those very glaring issues; it's that it deliberately puts the movie to a screeching halt just so it can have a series of back-to-back flashbacks to a spinoff show that people are already on the fence about. This blatant act of self-promotion is something that films like ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' get criticized for, except in those movies you could argue that the plot is still moving forward to some tiny extent. Here, you could remove every flashback and cut to the chase [[JustForPun (literally)]] and nothing of value would be lost. This is the part that actually sucked any and all good will I had for this movie out of my being; at least with my other listed moments, they never tarnished my enjoyment of a work and could still be seen as fun in their own right, even if I didn't enjoy the product. But something about this just felt dirty to me; it not only tramples on a dead man's over two decade-long legacy, but it actively breaks its own story to do so, while making you feel sympathy for the movie's staff and cast and mourn WhatCouldHaveBeen. A bad episode can be discounted enitrely as it's just one out of hundreds, but a stunt like this shows just how little Nickelodeon truly cares for its own beloved franchise outside of its brand. [[ThisIsUnforgivable And that, in my eyes, can never be forgiven.]] "In memory of Stephen Hillenburg" my [[SoundEffectBleep *dolphin noise*]] tailfin.

Given that it has been on the air for a [[LongRunner a very long time]], the undersea creature ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and his Bikini Bottom friends are bound to have moments we will always remember, moments we can't remember, and [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck moments that we wish we'd forget and belong in]] '''''[[LargeHam DAVY JONES' LOCKER!!!]]'''''

** [=SenorCornholio=]: Well, looks like it's finally time to pop my [=SpongeBob DMoS=] cherry. And I found a moment from ''Sponge on the Run'' that truly qualifies for me. The movie by itself is okay; it had some funny moments, a few neat little gags, and a few cute character moments where the rest of the main cast comes to save [=SpongeBob=] from being executed by Poseidon. But the whole thing comes crashing down when, in the middle of the movie's climax, the characters all take a break from the plot to explain how they all met at Camp Coral. This is where Nickelodeon's ExecutiveMeddling rears its ugly head in the worst way possible, as it's explicitly clear that this is supposed to promote their then upcoming spinoff of the same name. Now, I could go on about how the late Stephen Hillenburg specifically mentioned that he didn't want a spinoff, but that would be beating a dead horse at this point, so let's go into the three big reasons why this moment sucks on its own merits. First off is obvious: it retcons everyone's backstories for this as [=SpongeBob=], Gary, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward ''and'' Mr. Krabs conveniently all met each other at this specific location. I can get [=SpongeBob=] meeting Gary there, and ''maybe'' him meeting Patrick and Squidward for the first time would have been nice. That said, retconning [=SpongeBob=]'s first meeting with Sandy (i.e. the second episode of the entire series) and Mr. Krabs' backstory episode with Plankton felt nothing short of insulting. Secondly, the flashbacks aren't even fun. They feel distinctly un-[=SpongeBob=] in how cutesy and diabetes-inducing they are, with the only remotely funny gags turning up during the talent show in Squidward's flashback. Outside of that, it's just uninteresting shlock that doesn't match the spirit of the series in its golden age, revival era, or even its DorkAge. But the third and absolute biggest sin of this scene isn't either of those very glaring issues; it's that it deliberately puts the movie to a screeching halt just so it can have a series of back-to-back flashbacks to a spinoff show that people are already on the fence about. This blatant act of self-promotion is something that films like ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' get criticized for, except in those movies you could argue that the plot is still moving forward to some tiny extent. Here, you could remove every flashback and cut to the chase [[JustForPun (literally)]] and nothing of value would be lost. This is the part that actually sucked any and all good will I had for this movie out of my being; at least with my other listed moments, they never tarnished my enjoyment of a work and could still be seen as fun in their own right, even if I didn't enjoy the product. But something about this just felt dirty to me; it not only tramples on a dead man's over two decade-long legacy, but it actively breaks its own story to do so, while making you feel sympathy for the movie's staff and cast and mourn WhatCouldHaveBeen. A bad episode can be discounted enitrely as it's just one out of hundreds, but a stunt like this shows just how little Nickelodeon truly cares for its own beloved franchise outside of its brand. [[ThisIsUnforgivable And that, in my eyes, can never be forgiven.]] "In memory of Stephen Hillenburg" my [[SoundEffectBleep *dolphin noise*]] tailfin.