Reminds me of :
Plankton: “Watch out Krabs, you will never catch me once I shift into maximum overdrive!!”
Krabs catches Plankton, with out exerting any extra effort.
Plankton “I knew I should have sprung for the turbo”
“If I knew that being a life guard meant guarding peoples lives, I never would have signed up.”
And related :
“This working out thing, isn’t working out.”
And
“Just the thought of Mrs.Puff being in jail, scared and alone, makes me feel scared and alone.”
From Bubble Buddy:
[Spongebob has made a Soap Bubble Dummy.]
At a line for the only Port-a-Head [IIRC] at Goo Lagoon:
Spongebob (to a line of people waiting to use the facility): “My best friend is in there”
First Random fish in line “Congratulations”
Spongebob: “It’s his first time”
F.R.F: “Once agian, Congratulations”
[Time passes]
Second Random Fish: “I’m going in there, 2 hours to wait is long enough!”
Bubble buddy orders one of everything at Krusty Krab:
Spongebob: “Uh, Squidward, you forgot his drink”
Squidward “Oh, here you go, a bottle of our finest Cham…poo”
And IIRC, also at the end of this scene, Squidward adds "If there is anything else I can do, please hesitate to ask.
The entire Bikini Bottom population grows tired of Bubble Buddy in short order. They huddle around Sponge and bubble, a few of them holding needles.
Spongebob “Is this one of those sewing circles I keep hearing about?”
Later, everyone grows angry at Spongebob and Bubble Buddy
Yes, I own the first four seasons of Spongebob on DVD. And I’m 26.
Around 2001, I’d heard of Spongebob, but I thought it was a little kid’s show. Like for preschoolers. I was 19 or 20 at the time so I had no interest in it at all. Then it got left on in front of me once and it was the episode where they were saying cursewords but they sounded like dolphin noises. I have rarely ever laughed so hard at a tv show. Part of it was the shock of the show being so NOT what I thought it was, but it wasn’t a fluke. The show is brilliant.
I think it’s one of the top 5 television shows of all time.
Hey thanks a lot for the link!!!
I don’t get VH1 and I was mad I was gonna miss it. But the dopers come through again
Another favorite I saw recently was the one where Ms Puff gets fired and they bring in a hardass shark drill instructor to teach Spongebob driving lessons.
That obstacle course scene is great.
SB also has a lot of submersive humour.
My LEG!
I don’t know if I’d go that far, but it’s unquestionably in the top twenty or twenty-five.
What I find fascinating about it are the remarkable similarities between it and “Ren & Stimpy.” I’d assume this is simply a matter of them coming from the same studio, but (suprisingly, to me) there isn’t a lot of crossover between the people who made the two shows.
Ren and Stimpy was sublime (the first run, anyway; the later, homo-joke Adult Swim version was atrocious) but I cannot help but feel that SpongeBob is the real premium product, while R&S was just the warmup. R&S was hysterical at times but uneven; SpongeBob is consistently first rate and appeals to any age.
Some friends and I were having this conversation at the bar the other night. We’re all 30+ and were all perfectly willing to say we enjoy it.
The thing I always like to point out to others to display that the show is NOT just for kids is the episode “Karate Island.” The whole thing is a gimmick on a Bruce Lee film and turns out in the end SpongeBob and Sandy’s entire adventure was a scam to get them to buy timeshares!
Brilliant, and nothing a kid would understand.
Gorgon Heap:
No, it was a send-up of Kill Bill. Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino. No Lee.
No, it was definately a send up of Bruce Lee’s final movie, Game of Death.
Bruce, in a yellow tracksuit with black trim (used by Tarantino in Kill Bill as an homage to Bruce Lee), goes upstairs in a building with a different, unique opponant (one was actually Kareem Abdul Jabar) on each floor. At the top floor is the head bad guy…except in Game of Death he was trying to kill Bruce, not sell him a condo.
No, it was definitely Game of Death.
I can not speak on the topic of Ren and Stimpy being related to Spongebob. (I would however, agree with you.)
But then again, I would say that most of the currently run Nicktoons have a certain class of humor across the board, that is Strictly Nick. (See: Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Barnyard and Penguins of Madagascar )
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Rocko’s Modern Life on the other hand, is another story. **
The creative producer for Rocko, is none other that Spongebob creator Stephen Hillenburg.
I’d say Spongebob was the Ren And Stimpy formula applied with restraint. There are one or two ealry episodes where the ‘close-up, highly detailed, gross-out’ style that Ren and Stimpy used was applied to Spongebob. I didn’t know if it was a homage or if the same people were involved.
I am, however, very happy Spongebob didn’t spin wildly off into wierdness like Ren and Stimpy did.
Krabs: :nervous: “Well, uh, you’re beautiful.” :Priceless look on passing mailman’s face:
Patrick: “Gone to store to buy more giant paper. P.S. Happy Leif Ericson Day! a hinga-dinga-durgen!”
I guess SpongeBob and R&S have a few similarities here and there- mainly their quirkiness and use of stock cues (often in an ironic fashion) for background music- but SpongeBob rarely goes the gross-out route R&S went unless absolutely neccesary (“The Splinter” is a great example- by making SpongeBob’s splinter as gruesome as possible, we both feel SpongeBob’s pain and laugh at his overreactions to it). I think most cartoons Nick has had since R&S- Rocko included- have something “Nick” in their DNA- hard to explain, but sort of an ironic, zany, subversive humor. It works, and it works for SpongeBob.
Then again, there is the episode where Plankton takes Krabs to court for negligence over not having a wet floor sign.
Some of the fun included::
Spongebob [To Krabs, in front of Krabs’ Lawyer] : “Hi Mr.Krabs, I’m here to practice my testimony.”
Krabs: “Uh, that’s ok Spongebob you see, you are more of a uh…”
[Krabs lawyer whispers into Krabs’ ear]
Krabs: “A liabillity”
Later in the episode, Spongebob bawls his eyes out, complaining that he was called a Liability.
Another gem in the episode:
Krabs’ Lawyer: “In fact, I Think we should counter sue, for everything that Plankton has”
[Krabs’ Eyes then pop out of his head, and form the size of two HUGE gold bars.]
Krabs’ Lawyer: “Does he always do that?”
Squidward: “No, most of the time, they are silver.”
I loved the Krusty Krab training video, and the “SB-129” episode they always show with it. Squidward on his back with his legs in the air saying “FU-TURE!..FU-TURE!..FU-TURE!” cracks me up every time!
Rock Bottom was a great one too, with the language barriers (you had to talk making a pbbbt!" sound after every word) and Spongebob trying to catch the bus that would never come until he walked away from the bus stop.
Jettboy:
Ah, my apologies. I recognized Sandy’s track-suit as the one Uma Thurman wore on the Kill Bill posters, and didn’t realize that they themselves were a reference to a specific earlier movie. Likewise, I recognized that the plot of Kill Bill was the Bride facing off one-on-one against a series of differently-skilled opponents, like the Spongebob Episode, but did not realize that a Bruce Lee movie also had this plot and was, to boot, set in a building to fight floor-by-floor, which was even more so referenced in the episode.