YMMV / Sponge Bob Square Pants S 14 E 2 We Heart Hoops Sponge Chovy

• Captain Obvious Reveal: SpongeBob and Patrick are fans of a show where the protagonists have grown up into established characters: Mr. Krabs, Mrs. Puff, GrandPat, and Granny Tentacles. But there's one, Hoops, who they can't figure out. Not only is it pretty obvious through Hoops' design (being a relatively short kid who wears glasses), but "The Lil' Patscals" outright revealed Old Man Walker to be Hoops when GrandPat meets back up with his friends in the present day. Even then, "We Heart Hoops" extensively hints at it (Walker lives in Hoops' address, has pictures of the characters on the walls, has the same gimmick and catchphrase) before SpongeBob and Patrick finally realize who he is; and it's not played as a joke. It confirms Hoops' identity for the viewers by showing a split screen of Hoops and Walker.
• Sequelitis: "We Heart Hoops" is widely considered inferior to "The Lil' Patscals". "Patscals" immerses itself in its unique atmosphere, has some fun action scenes, good jokes throughout, and a genuinely heartwarming ending. "Hoops", in turn, is incredibly slow-paced, with much of the jokes being dragged out and not even that funny. Decent portions of the story are dedicated to characters repeating what the others have already said or restating a plot twist the audience has already figured out, and the action scene at the end is slow and uninteresting, plus it lacks the wholesome ending in favor of a weak joke. Tellingly, Andy Gonsalves (the original writer of "Patscals") had no involvement with "Hoops" and it was made without his permission.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The other Kelpbed Kids are either Patrick Show fan-favorites (Granny Tentacles, GrandPat) who would be cool to see on the main series, or people SpongeBob knows personally (Mr. Krabs, Mrs. Puff) who could potentially give him information about Hoops. None of them appear in person, only being seen on TV in the first minute, and the episode instead opts to focus on the least interesting of them.