Meant to add: any kid’s show that brings on Norm Macdonald as a guest can’t be all bad. 
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.
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.”
Maybe it was just those frickin’ irritating kindergarten-teahcer voices they had.
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.
Right there with you. Nails on a chalkboard.
Isn’t that the one that extolls the principles of P.O.O.P?
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’).
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!’
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
Every knows there’s no such thing as a laugh box…or is there?
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 Next** T**uesday.
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)
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 ::
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?
Aw, go play your clarinet.
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…”).
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 theChocolate with nuts 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 is just brilliant.
SB: Show the customer you care
Patrick: I love you
door slams.
That would be Fantastic Max.