I agree. I love the old episodes. The new ones have their funny moments, but something vital has gone.
"Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter." -Dr. Seuss
2/3rds of Viacom's—Nickelodeon's parent company—income is Sponge Bob.
Viacom also owns MTV, TVLand, and Comedy Central.
You underestimate the power of the sponge. Sadly.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuse me Princess. That just makes it even sadder, considering those networks still have shows that I DO like.
What makes it even sadder is if you compare the best preseasonal rot episodes (Band Geeks is my personnal favorite) and compare it with the worst seasonal rot episode. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Sigh :-(
I agree 100%. It`s such shame, This show use to be one of my favorites, but then the writers just had to ruin it, didn't they?
Spongebob was one of my favorite shows as a kid, and the older episodes are some of the only Nick cartoons that I will watch voluntarily. Now, aside from all of the episodes being predictable, I think that a problem is that the characters are too overexaggerated and flattened at the same time, so now Spongebob is predictably naive, Squidward is way too exaggerated, and so on. For some reason, I think Patrick got slightly smarter, but he became predictable at the same time, too.
Every single time I watch a newer episode it ruins a bit of my childhood... and since I consider anything that came around after the movie to be "new", that is quite a lot of episodes to ruin my childhood with. :(
All the major kids networks (which are, at least in my area, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network) have declined in quality lately. But CN and Disney do have good shows to make fans forget the bad. CN has Adventure Time and the Thundercats reboot, Disney has Phineas and Ferb and pretty much anything not Hannah Montanna or Jonas Bros., but what does Nickelodeon have?
Big Time Sellout, (Big Time Rush) !Ay Carly (iCarly), and Dried Up Sponge (Spongebob). And a bunch of other crappy live-action shows (Supah Ninjas and the Troop), plus the Winx Club revival and Milk Fu Panda: the Legends of 'Awesomeness' premiering this fall. (Kung Fu Panda series) They had Surprisingly Mediocre (Penguins), but they screwed that once they found out people liked it. Never heard a new once since.
I'M GOING TO GET OUT OF THE U.S, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU!!!
Nice to know there's never a shortage of "New things suck" people around here.
I actually like the Winx revival, though...
I'M GOING TO GET OUT OF THE U.S, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU!!!
I remember when i was a seed...The old episodes...They were clever and money and it's budget is used wisly for Funny jokes and good Character development. now Spongebob doesn't even use 1/4 of it's budget! i miss the live action jokes and the jazzy music and great plot and twists..
I remember being in love with Spongebob as a kid, now I pray the show ends one day.
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Way past it's prime.
Nickelodeon's most adored show is quickly becoming it's Wesley with each passing season. You need only take a look at the DMOS pages in here to see that a lot of Seasonal Rot and Flanderization have made the show a shell of it's former self.
When the show first aired I was skeptical. It looked stupid, annoying and boring. But as I watched I found myself being mostly entertained by the unique bundle of characters the show had thrown together, from Spongebob's brainless and unpredictable friend Patrick, to the twisted and maniacal Plankton. Episodes were a bit random and absurd, but there was a level of cleverness that adults such as myself could appreciate. Such as the following...
Spongebob: Hey! A note! *shows a music note on the paper*
Patrick: Yea, but turn it over, there's a letter! *the letter B*
Then came the post-movie seasons. All of that was gone. The show became boring and predictable. The characters were flanderized to the point of being unlikable. Patrick in particular has not only become a total Jerk Ass, but so tediously predictable that I just want to bang my head on the desk knowing well in advance how he's going to ruin a particular situation. Plankton became too annoying an obnoxious, incompetent loudmouth to even feel sorry for as he now spends much of his time whining over what a failure he is. The old Plankton was aggressive and confident, what happened in this short time between seasons sandwiching the movie?
Modern episodes now fall into three categories.
As a result the Krusty Krab is the focus of a lot of episodes. I can't honestly say the show's even child friendly anymore. Squidward in particular is often the victim of having skin RIPPED OFF as he screams in horrific agony. Nightmare faces appear frequently and karma houdini's abound. But of course, as the show that makes 2/3rds of Nickelodeon's entire budget, I get the feeling that Spongebob is here to stay indefinitely, and will continue to dominate timeslots until it's last viewer is sick of it.