SpongeBob SquarePants Cleanup

I can't even find the words to describe what I think of that entry.

This was added to Sponge Bob Square Pants S 6 E 13 Krusty Krushers The Card:

• What An Idiot: SpongeBob and Patrick have zero excuses to not fight the championship wrestlers and let them maul them in various ways just for the sake of having fun with it, aside from Patrick's iron bun last-minute. Also, Mr. Krabs should've entered the match himself instead of hiring someone else.

I only saw that episode once (maybe twice?) and don't remember the exact details, but here's my feedback anyway; SpongeBob and Patrick shouldn't be able to count because they are supposed to be idiots, and Mr. Krabs has a good reason to not fight the wrestlers because they're much stronger than him. Cut.

As someone who remembers that episode, it's a cut. Mr. Krabs doesn't enter because he sees the two wresters beat up a huge line of fighters, and SpongeBob and Patrick do try to back out because they realize how dangerous their opponents are upon first glance, but Mr. Krabs lies that they are only pretend wrestlers and Amusing Injuries means that they have fun rather than get put through intense torment.

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Found this on Irony.Western Animation:

• In "A Pal For Gary", Mr. Krabs seems oddly kinder than usual and acts as a Reasonable Authority Figure, compared to his depictions in later seasons, while SpongeBob takes several levels in both jerkass and dumbass.

Edited by fragglelover on Mar 26th 2021 at 2:09:08 PM

I found the same thing on the episode's recap page... And I cut it because it's just stealth complaining.

Any consensus on all those YMMV entries I mentioned a while back? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16152291830A49393600&page=1#comment-24

Big axe on all of them.

MB Pending | MB Drafts | MB Dates

Consider it done.

Also, I noticed The Problem with Licensed Games is commented out on the YMMV page for the show - any particular reason why?

I think it's because it's a huge ZCE that forces you to read another entry to see what games don't count instead of talking about the ones that do.

Good point.

Should I copy-paste the series' entry from the main The Problem with Licensed Games or would it be better to just leave it and just have the write-ups on the individual games' pages?

This is on SpongeBob SquarePants:

"Overbooked" focuses on Sponge Bob overbooking himself with Mr. Krabs (who he was suppose to help with a toy car set up), Patrick (for their usual hi jinks, though this day was special in that it was his birthday), and Sandy (for a science presentation). While it leads to usual silliness , eventually the truth comes out and Patrick, Sandy, and Mr. Krabs confront Sponge about it. When he reveals he had made plans with them at the same time to not disappoint them, surprisingly enough in the middle of the show's controversial Seasonal Rot, the three show legit kindness, Sandy seeing Sponge Bob overextended himself, Krabs asking why he didn't just say that in the first place, and even Patrick saying they could have worked something out. It's surprising and heartwarming Sponge Bob's friends understood and even the ending reveals Sandy's new invention was a cloning device, allowing Sponge Bob to literally be in 3 places at once.

Edited by fragglelover on Apr 18th 2021 at 5:43:39 AM

The sentence you bolded can easily be cut.

And while I'm here, some of the entries on TearJerker.Sponge Bob Square Pants seem to misunderstand what Tear Jerker is for, especially this one:

I mean, the "Plankton tries to kill himself" scene can stay, since it's disturbing and sad, but the rest is a bit too exaggerated.

Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness

And most of those examples lack context to explain why they're so sad anyway.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

I brought up that page a while ago on another cleanup thread because it’s a mess. There’s so many examples that are just “character cries for a brief period of time”, no matter if it makes the audience feel genuinely sad or not.

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That's a tough one. On the one hand, characters crying is often a sad thing to see. On the other hand, Sponge crying for no reason is a Running Gag.

For every low there is a high.

It's all about context. There are genuinely sad scenes of characters crying in the show, but also scenes played purely for laughs when the situation isn't sad at all. Scenes of SpongeBob crying over his lost snail or his desire to stay a child is relatable and heartbreaking (or at least it always was for me even as a kid), but episodes like "A Day Without Tears" where he cries at literally everything are not necessarily Tear Jerker because the scenes aren't really sad.

Edited by mightymewtron on Apr 19th 2021 at 8:48:21 AM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

Sorry to derail the conversation but once, there was an ugly Obliviously Evil entry. It was so ugly that everyone died. The end.

The entry in question:

• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Post-movie episodes of the series seem to have the title character, Patrick and Mr. Krabs as this. SpongeBob doesn't mean to hurt or annoy Squidward or drive him insane, all he wants is to make him happy and have fun. Patrick's just too stupid to know any better. Mr. Krabs, while usually just flat-out evil when not falling victim to Plankton, does genuinely seem to believe that his greed helps his business. Best illustrated in "The Krabby Kronicles" when he responds to SpongeBob's concern about their tabloid newspaper:
  Mr. Krabs: How many times do I have to tell you, boy? We're not hurting anyone!
  • The Ugly Barnacle didn't mean to kill everyone else in the story, he was just that ugly.

Maybe the second bullet can be kept, but there's no excuse for the first one.

I really don't know why people have this sort of unreasonable grudge against these characters. You'd think they'd realize that the rot has made them unlikeable and that it shouldn't ruin their memories of the character previously.

Thomas fans needed! Come join me in the the show's cleanup thread!

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16152291830A49393600&page=1#comment-19

This example this post brought up wouldn't count anyway, because Catharsis Factor is for video games.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16152291830A49393600&page=3#comment-55

That could be salvaged as a Kindness Ball moment for Mr. Krabs. Just without bashing SpongeBob.

Edited by PlasmaPower on Apr 20th 2021 at 6:46:13 AM

Thomas fans needed! Come join me in the the show's cleanup thread!

I thought Catharsis Factor got expanded in TRS but I can't tell if the clocking happened before that was made official or not.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.

Here's an entry from Breather Episode:

• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The Tear Jerker special "Have You Seen This Snail?" is immediately followed by the slapstick and lighthearted "Skill Crane" and the Black Comedy of "Good Neighbors".
  • "Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?", an episode about SpongeBob leaving town after being berated by his friends and gaining amnesia in the process, is followed by the memetic "Two Faces of Squidward".
  • The slapstick and comedic "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" is followed by the unexpectedly dark and gruesome "A Pal For Gary". It is then followed by the intense Feud Episode "Yours, Mine and Mine", which precedes the relaxing comedy of "Kracked Krabs".
  • The rather intense "One Coarse Meal" is paired with the fun and relaxing "Gary in Love".

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And here's the Laconic description for the trope:

A lighthearted upbeat episode after a hectic Story Arc.

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Aside from the fact that this show doesn't really have story arcs, isn't it just a little too convenient how the episodes listed follow or precede some of the most hated episodes of the show? Well, except for the first point, which is actually one of the most beloved episodes, but that same point called "Good Neighbors" Black Comedy, which I'm 100% certain is misuse. Chainsaw?

Seems like misuse to me.

Yeah, that's misuse. Those are standalone specials, so it's not remarkable for them to be followed by normal episodes.

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.