The best episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants are visually hilarious and innovatively animated (“Wet Painters,” season three) While I could easily recommend dozens of episodes to the Sponge-curious, I’ve instead opted to highlight three that embody the main elements that make SpongeBob so great: the show’s visual gags, surreal sensibilities, and most importantly, its charming and lovable cast. Anyone who loves comedy or animation should regard it as essential viewing. At its best, SpongeBob SquarePants is a masterwork of containing so much unique, brilliant humor in each 11-minute episode. Meme-while, our Bikini Bottom friends are now available on as brand-new toys! /zOgSt圜Yok- SpongeBob April 25, 2019īut to focus solely on the memes as proof of SpongeBob’s cultural cachet is to ignore the elements that really distinguish it as something special.
Viewers who grew up with the character have, over the past four years or so, isolated some of the show’s most memorable moments into some of Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook’s best (and weirdest) jokes. Part of that life is online, as SpongeBob has been woven into the fabric of the internet by way of a number of popular and transformative memes. Now he’s a very rich, very famous kid whose persona has essentially taken on a life of its own. The quirky yellow sponge - whose daily life includes working as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, hanging out with his friends, and occasionally fending off a killer, sentient doodle or building campfires underwater - is no longer just the bright-eyed kid he was when the show premiered on May 1, 1999. The character and his eponymous Nickelodeon cartoon have spent the past 20 years working their way into nearly every corner of popular culture, spawning a multimedia franchise that spans nearly 300 episodes and counting, two movies, several video games, endless tie-in merchandise, and even a well-received Broadway musical.
Watch a clip from the “Mid-Life Crustacean" episode, below.SpongeBob SquarePants has grown up quite a bit since his TV debut as the eccentric inhabitant of a pineapple under the sea, surrounded by his equally eccentric aquatic pals. “You’re talking about girls, right? … And you’re talking about raiding their dressers for their underpants, right?” Krabs subsequently decide to break into a woman's house to steal her underwear.
Krabs' spirits during his mid-life crisis. In the episode, Patrick Star suggests going on a "panty raid" in order to lift Mr. “‘Mid-Life Crustacean’ has been out of rotation since 2018, following a standards review in which we determined some story elements were not kid-appropriate,” the rep told IGN. The show’s parent network also decided that a raunchy plotline featured in a Season 3 episode titled “Mid-Life Crustacean," which originally aired in 2003, is also not fit for streaming. "The 'Kwarantined Krab' centers on a virus storyline, so we have decided to not air it due to sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic," a representative from Nickelodeon said in a statement to IGN.