# Spongebob Squarepants
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 22, 1999, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226 "1999-09-22T02:56:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)
#### Post date: [September 22, 1999, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/1 "1999-09-22T02:56:00Z")
## I watched this show on Nick the other day and thought is was the funniest cartoon I’ve seen since Ren and Stimpy. Besides the fact that I’m a bit out of the targeted range for the show, I wish it wasn’t just on saturday mornings. Spongebob is the BEST!
“I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”-- Calvin and Hobbes
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [September 22, 1999, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/2 "1999-09-22T03:21:00Z")
There’s something about that cartoon that I find very strangely appealing, too. I can’t put my finger on it. It’s just…well, it’s just funny, I guess.
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### Author:  [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)
#### Post date: [September 22, 1999, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/3 "1999-09-22T04:12:00Z")
## After I saw the commercial for that show, the only thing that ran through my mind was "what the hell **is** this? I haven’t watched it, and I gotta say, I don’t really intend to. Unless it comes on after the Angry Beavers, then I’ll watch it, but only because I’m too lazy to change the channel.
Jeremy…
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [September 22, 1999, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/4 "1999-09-22T14:48:00Z")
I’m with you! SpongeBob is IT! Best thing on Nick since Rocko’s Modern Life.
Angry Beavers are pretty funny, too.
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“Owls will deafen us with their incessant hooting!” W. Smithers
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### Author:  [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)
#### Post date: [September 23, 1999, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/5 "1999-09-23T05:20:00Z")
Who wouldn’t like Spongebob? After all, he “lives in a pineapple under the sea”. You can’t beat that.
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### Author:  [@omniscientnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omniscientnot)
#### Post date: [September 23, 1999, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/6 "1999-09-23T00:17:00Z")
Spongelovers:
[http://www7.mercurycenter.com/tv/center/tv71199.htm](http://www7.mercurycenter.com/tv/center/tv71199.htm)
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### Author:  [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)
#### Post date: [September 23, 1999, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/7 "1999-09-23T01:30:00Z")
Alright, Sponge-o-philes, which one is your favorite so far? I like the one where Spongebob gets a job at the Krusty Krab, and they make him go looking for that really cool spatula. I want a spatula like that.
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### Author:  [@Cumbersome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbersome)
#### Post date: [September 23, 1999, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/8226/8 "1999-09-23T01:34:00Z")
My favorite is the episode in which he has to take the driving class and keeps failing the test. The teacher reminds me of the guy I had for Driver’s Ed.
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“Will there be another race to come along and take over for us?”