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133a - The Curse of Bikini Bottom[]

Premiered on October 24, 2009.

Written by Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash and Mr. Lawrence.

Highlight: "I knew I shouldn't have lent them my lawn mower".

The Flying Dutchman turns SpongeBob and Patrick into ghosts.

The Curse of Bikini Bottom title card

This episode is considerably funny, even though nobody seems to remember anything about it.

It all starts with SB and Patrick wanting to play with the lawn mower of "Old Man Squidward". I am unaware of why they randomly decided to have SB and Patrick call Squidward "Old Man Squidward", but I think it fits the tone of this beginning, as that sounds like something kids would call their neighbour, and they're acting in a really childlike way in this beginning. This gives for a pretty entertaining and fast-paced beginning of them playing with Squidward's lawn mower and eventually getting to the cemetery with it. Under the cemetery, we can find the Flying Dutchman, who hears all the foolery and checks what's happening, losing his beard thanks to SB and Patrick running him over with the lawnmower. Now, these first four minutes of the episode were just introducing the concept, but they were still fairly entertaining, or at least far more entertaining than most episodes that don't introduce their concept until the episode is basically halfway through. I mean, at least we got a fairly entertaining scene of SB and Patrick playing with a lawn mower, and with a funny scene of them taking it from Squidward, where Squidward finds his trowel in Patrick's butt, or lends them his lawn mower hoping they might kill themselves with it. BTW, this also connects to my favorite joke in the episode: when they go back to Squidward's backyard as ghosts to haunt him, and Squidward not only doesn't get scared, but he also says "I knew I shouldn't have lent them my lawn mower", all in a completely monotone tone and with a deadpan tone of voice, like he doesn't care but he is semi-surprised.

Now, the second half of this episode relies on ghost jokes mainly, and I honestly thought they were gonna be pretty predictable, and honestly, it's not that they are predictable, but more that there's not a lot of jokes you can tell with ghosts, as the only thing you got to make jokes is that they go through objects and they are transparent, but I don't think the jokes itself were lacking of creativity, except for the one where Patrick mentions he can't eat because the food goes through him. I've already seen that joke in basically every cartoon episode where they make fun of ghosts, but the rest aren't really unoriginal, and are something you can enjoy for what they are. I mean, they're kind of silly although they don't make me die of laughter. Still, they're more creative than what you'd expect, like Patrick having not slept at all because he could see through his eyelids, or one of my favorites, which is not really a joke, but it's a good detail, and it is that SB breaks his spatula to get a ghost spatula that allows him to cook. I think this is a clever detail and solution to SB's problem, although I mainly like it because it's kind of referencing ATG, as the spatula apparently becomes a ghost after dying, meaning that it is alive, just like in that episode.

Another thing about the second half is that, just like in episodes like Money Talks, it first shows how great it is to be a ghost, as SB and Patrick are loving every moment of it, and they also look excited when they are turned into ghosts, but then slowly realize that being a ghost is the worst thing ever. I've already said it when talking about episodes with this kind of plots, but I'll repeat that this structure works because it doesn't show you how bad it is right away, but it actually shows you some good stuff, and then is when the bad things start.

I find the ending hilarious, because the entire episode happens because SB and Patrick ruined Dutchie's date, and when they fix it, it turns out that his date was the most disgusting thing ever. I specially enjoy her design because it's basically a dude but with a bra and pink lipstick. I generally enjoy when in order to make an ugly female character, they just make the toughest dude ever dressed as a female.

Really funny episode with a pretty cool plot. Another good episode for S7.

Rating: Good

133b - Squidward in Clarinetland[]

Premiered on March 24, 2010.

Written by Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas and Dani Michaeli.

Highlight: Clarinetland.

While sharing a locker with SpongeBob, Squidward finds a sacred world for clarinets only.

Squidward in Clarinetland title card

This episode is very S1-like. It takes way too much for something to happen.

So, this episode's title sounds promising. It sounds like it's gonna be an episode with great visuals and very cool designs in the places Squidward's going to go, and it's true, it is, after halfway through the episode. See, it starts with Squidward being happy because he has a clarinet concert right after work, and the first minute and a half of the episode is just him being happy, until he suddenly gets mad because a baby drools on his clarinet, causing him to suddenly become mad. That's pretty stupid, I'd expect any other character but Squidward to get angry because someone drooled a single drop of saliva into his clarinet. Not like that's gonna affect his clarinet at all. It's all very convenient. It would've made more sense for Squidward to simply demand a locker to put the clarinet in, instead of having this unnecessary introduction. It's very obvious the episode needs to have filler, because after that introduction, the episode doesn't start right away, but first, we have SB cleaning the locker. After that, we get SB making the locker look "glossy", and after that, we get SB remodeling the locker into a huge warehouse where he relocates Squidward's clarinet. All this is damn boring to watch. It's very obvious filler. Why didn't they just make SB take the clarinet right away? I mean, if they needed filler, they could've added a longer sequence of Clarineland, because it's not like those sequences have a lot of plot, so they could've dragged them as long as they wanted, instead of dragging out the set-up which is fricking boring to watch.

As for the Clarinetland segments, they start five and a half minutes into the episode, but honestly, they're fairly entertaining. They don't really have a plot, but I guess it can still entertain you with its crative settings and animation, because it has a lot of that. It all really feels like something out of Alice in Wonderland, from the warehouse, to the evil Squidwards in the mirrors, to the pachinko machine Patrick plays with. It all has that feeling of being something you'd see in your dreams, using techniques like places leading to other places that are completely unrelated, or constantly changing the size perception of the characters, like Squidward suddenly being tiny when he is on the pachinko machine. Still, that's pretty much all I can say, they're good and entertaining, and perhaps considerably fast-paced too, but they lack plot, and they didn't serve any purpose either because it is revealed that SB was keeping the clarinet himself all along.

I kind of like the ending. It fits with the tone of the episode that tries to confuse the viewer on what's real and what not, with SB having been sent miles away inside the locker, but suddenly appearing inside of Squidward's suitcase to bring the clarinet to him. Still, the episode in general sucks. It takes way too long to start and once it starts, is more entertaining than good, because there's barely any purpose and the fact that it was worthless because SB had the clarinet all along, makes me wonder what's the point of this episode.

Rating: Bad

134 - SpongeBob's Last Stand[]

Premiered on April 22, 2010.

Written by Aaron Springer, Steven Banks and Derek Iversen.

Highlight: The post-apocaliptic visuals.

Jellyfish Fields is threatened by the construction of a highway.

SpongeBob's Last Stand title card

I HATE this episode. It's like a Jellyfish Hunter 2.0, only worse.

This episode has a terrible moral and SB is really unlikeable. The basic premise is that a super highway is being built across all off Jellyfish Fields, and this is shown right away as a bad thing. Obviously. I know this show has done several nice critiques to greedy businessmen in episodes like Selling Out and The Krabby Kronicle, but I think that at this point it's very obvious that the show only dares to criticise capitalism and not other economic systems, because I haven't seen a critique to any other system aside from this one, but why is this one bad? Well, it's another Jellyfish Hunter where they basically assume that building a highway is bad for the sake of it. Well, I mean, if it didn't have any good things I don't think people would want to build it in the first place, but this episode just assumes right away that the writers' opinion is the only good opinion, because that's right folks! Industrialism is bad in all cases! That's why there are people that support industrialism, because it's always bad! I mean, this could've worked if they did something like showing you the good and bad things about industrialism, but no, apparently industrialism doesn't have good things, because the episode just shows you SB as the anti-industrialist and Plankton as the pro-industrialist. That's right, only bad guys and ignorant people who support them can like industrialism. Also, this leads to another terrible implication of this episode, which is that basically tells you that you don't have to respect democracy. I mean, I could understand you don't respect democracy if people voted yes to killing you, but it's not the case, so this basically works this way: the mayor asks whether they want a highway or not, people vote yes, and SB, who is the only guy in all of the town who doesn't want the highway to be built basically says "Well yeah, you all voted yes, but my opinion is better than yours and therefore, even though it's thousands of people against one, I'm gonna stop this highway to be built". Yeah, sure SB. That's like if a presidential candidate lost the elections, but said "Oh yeah? Well, Imma be president anyways". Sure, that's fair. That's totally how democracy works.

This episode also has several plot holes, which reminds me of Atlantis, like for example, when it implies that jellyfish will need to find a new home if the highway is built. Dude, that highway is like 5 meters wide, and the Jellyfish Fields are so huge we can ever see the horizon in several directions and it's still Jellyfish Fields, so are you telling me they're gonna have to find a new home? Well maybe, but that home is like 200 meters away because they don't have to leave Jellyfish Fields considering that's probably not even 0.5% of Jellyfish Fields' wideness. Also, they imply that the highway is something awful for the KK because it connects to the Chum Bucket. What sense does that make? So apparently, because now people can use a highway to go to the CB, they're gonna stop going to the KK? Why exactly? The KK is still there, and it's not like the highway hides it, it's clearly visible, specially because everyone fricking knows where the hell it is.

The episode itself doesn't have a lot of plot either aside from anti-industrialist propaganda. It only gets somewhat entertaining near the ending, but mainly because it has that teamwork between everyone to stop the villain, even though as I said, he's not really a villain. SB is more of a villain that Plankton in this episode. The post-apocaliptic visuals are cool too, even though this episode's definition of post-apocaliptic is a highway being built that also magically makes the sky turn red.

This episode has two songs, which are also reminiscent of Atlantis, because they suck eggs too. Everyone knows why the Jellyfishing song is crap. It's basically repeating the same lyrics over and over, but people don't usually talk about Give Jellyfish Fields a Chance. This song is underhated. It's a parody of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance, except that that song had lyrics that were related to the meaning and title of the song, while this one just throws random things at you like "Citrus fruit! Combat boot! Give a hoot! Gorilla suit!". Genius lyrics. I usually don't mention other reviewers that aren't bruh like PieGuy, but it really bothers me that 9/17 says in his review of Last Stand that "it is a song with really random lyrics that somehow still manage to rhyme". Well, of course. If the lyrics are random words, it's very easy to make it rhyme. Everyone can just take random words that rhyme LOL.

Atlantis with Jellyfish Hunter's moral. No thanks.

Rating: Bad

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