# 10 Years of SpongeBob SquarePants **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801 "2009-07-13T00:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/21 "2009-07-13T18:45:14Z")
Meant to add: any kid’s show that brings on Norm Macdonald as a guest can’t be all bad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/22 "2009-07-13T18:58:00Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I wonder if someone will ever do a study that corrolates pot smoking with viewership of sponge bob squarepants. It might be the most reliable way we have to figure out how many people smoke pot in America. I for one cannot imagine why anyone over the age of 5 would watch the show unless they are incredibly stoned, and in that case they only watch it because they are too baked to reach the remote. :p:D I have never smoked pot and I LOVE Sponge Bob. My favorite are the episodes with Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. They sometimes fight a villain called Man Ray. For those who don’t get it, Man Ray was an artist of the Dada movement. On at least one episode, there are also references to Tolouse LaTrec. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/23 "2009-07-13T19:10:18Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > One of my favorites is the Krusty Krab employee orientation video. This is one of my favorites, too. For some reason, the horrible puns amuse me. “As you can see from this graph [cut to a picture of a giraffe] _ahem_ GRAPH…” “The Krusty Krab didn’t become the phenomenon it is overnight. It closes at six.” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/24 "2009-07-13T19:16:58Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > It’s a very clever show. Maybe not as much as SpongeBob, but there’s some startlingly adult humor in it. Just off the IMDb quote page: > > Cosmo: I don’t get it. If you’re not married to her, why is she trying to kill you? > > Dad Turner: It’s deserted and lonely, just like my childhood! > > Timmy Turner: I’m huge, I hurt people, and I’m misunderstood! > Cosmo: Just like the IRS! > > Timmy Turner: This may sound cliche, but you’ve gotta throw my severed head into the clearance bin! > > Sorry for the hijack. Maybe it was just those frickin’ irritating kindergarten-teahcer voices they had. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/25 "2009-07-13T19:21:01Z")
I love Spongebob, but ever since my 2-year-old got obsesses with it, I’ve gotten a bit sick of seeing the same episodes over and over again. I seriously need for Season 6 to come out on DVD already. Favorite episode: Neptune’s Spatula, “pulled from a solidified blob of ancient grease.” Beautiful pun. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/26 "2009-07-13T19:28:08Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Maybe it was just those frickin’ irritating kindergarten-teahcer voices they had. Right there with you. Nails on a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/27 "2009-07-13T20:22:49Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > This is one of my favorites, too. For some reason, the horrible puns amuse me. > > “As you can see from this graph [cut to a picture of a giraffe] _ahem_ GRAPH…” > > “The Krusty Krab didn’t become the phenomenon it is overnight. It closes at six.” Isn’t that the one that extolls the principles of P.O.O.P? ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/28 "2009-07-13T20:28:50Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I have never smoked pot and I LOVE Sponge Bob. My favorite are the episodes with Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. They sometimes fight a villain called Man Ray. Well, Mermaid Man has presented me with the ‘earworm’ “EEE-VILLL”, which alas is now how I heard that word (especially in overwrought expressions, like the now (hopefully) deprecated ‘Axis of EEEE-VILLL’). ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/29 "2009-07-13T20:40:49Z")
I think my favorite gag had Squidward trip over a pebble, then fall down a cliff and burst into flames. Or when Spongebob is getting dragged behind a boat-car through progressively worse things - like there was a sign that said ‘Warning - cheese graters ahead!’ and then finally, ‘Warning - Educational television!’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/30 "2009-07-13T21:46:34Z")
SpongeBob is today’s version of that wonderful concept, the cartoon that is appealing to both kids and adults. In the day, it was Bugs Bunny. Animaniacs managed it, too. SpongeBob is awesome at it. I could waste an entire day watching SBSP. I’d probably short out my laughing nerves, though. 😃 Oh, I also like the Fairly Oddparents ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/31 "2009-07-13T22:21:48Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > I’d probably short out my laughing nerves, though. 😃 Every knows there’s no such thing as a laugh box…or is there? ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/32 "2009-07-14T04:53:41Z")
I was listening to the show one day and heard Spongebob tell someone “See You Next Tuesday.” I fell out laughing and made my husband rewind it. He didn’t know why. I had to explain to him what that phrase meant. (FTR: **C U N** ext\*\* T\*\*uesday. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/33 "2009-07-14T10:50:27Z")
Ah, now you guys are reminding me that I used to like Spongebob. I think I got soured on it after season 3 or so, where it just felt like it decayed. I forgot about all the good early episodes that I may have to rewatch now. And Fairly Oddparents, one of my favorite shows ever (in fact, I may have to have a nostalgia night soon… Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Fairly Oddparents, Rugrats, the first season of Jimmy Neutron, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zelda series, Mighty Max, and whatever the name of that show with the baby who had a spaceship shaped like a bottle was… wow, there’s a lot of them) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/34 "2009-07-14T11:29:56Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > On at least one episode, there are also references to Tolouse LaTrec. Squidward has tricked Spongebob and Patrick into being his slaves. He makes them carry him and his lawn chair all around his yard. They put him down. Squidward says “Too warm.” They move him again. “Too bright.” They move him across a backround of a Toulouse Latrec painting. “Toulouse… Latrec.” :: audible rimshot :: ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/35 "2009-07-14T12:31:11Z")
I love SpongeBob, though I say we all chip in and get him a new wardrobe. I like the way the interpolated the fact SpongeBob is an adult and holds down a job and lives by himself yet is still a child. He and Squidward are equals in terms of finance (well basically) but Squidward is an adult. So is it that they are all adults and SpongeBob and Patrick just care? Or don’t they know? Or are they really young and living as adults? Owning their own houses and holding down a job, as in SpongeBob’s case. I guess Patrick doesn’t need a job. How much can a rock cost? eh? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/36 "2009-07-14T13:58:32Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I wonder if someone will ever do a study that corrolates pot smoking with viewership of sponge bob squarepants. It might be the most reliable way we have to figure out how many people smoke pot in America. I for one cannot imagine why anyone over the age of 5 would watch the show unless they are incredibly stoned, and in that case they only watch it because they are too baked to reach the remote. :p:D Aw, go play your clarinet. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/37 "2009-07-14T14:54:18Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I guess Patrick doesn’t need a job. It’s not so much he doesn’t need one as that he’s too dumb to have one. In one episode, Patrick was jealous of all of SpongeBob’s achievements and started mimicking him in every way, proving that he could fail at even the simplest of jobs, such as answering telephones (“No, this is _PATRICK_! I’m not a krusty krab…”). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/38 "2009-07-14T15:09:16Z")
I started off in the SP hate camp because so many parents told me how AWFUL SP was. Then, one day, sick and defenseless, laying on the couch in a puddle of misery, SPSP came on and my toddler had the remote. I have been hooked ever since. From the[Chocolate with nuts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCM29Az6J9k) episode: (Trying to think of ways to sell chocolate bars.) Patrick: Let’s get naked. Spongebob: Nawww, let’s save that for when we sell real estate. the [Krusty Krab Training Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uW4NX5pjNU) is just brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/39 "2009-07-14T17:11:33Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > from the Chocolate with nut episode: SB: Show the customer you _care_ Patrick: I love you door slams. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801/40 "2009-07-14T22:13:05Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > that show with the baby who had a spaceship shaped like a bottle That would be Fantastic Max. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-years-of-spongebob-squarepants/502801.md?page=3)