Many people have different opinions for when
SpongeBob went downhill. Some think it happened during/after the movie, some think during Season 3 (the season before the movie), some think Season 4 but then it got better, some think the show never went downhill, some think the show was
always downhill, and some think... other.
Is this a sign that SpongeBob is going to end?
No.
I think the show stopped being funny after Stephen Hillenburg stepped down as director and took his ideas with him. Since then, only a few have been witty enough I enjoy them all the way through. Unfortunately, I think they've been making the newer episodes too quick and short on a storyline.
At least SpongeBob has had a good legacy.
Yeah. I think
Rugrats is the only other Nicktoon that's lasted so long with new episodes airing. Then
All Grown Up came and
SpongeBob gained a lot of popularity. Wonder what'll be the next
SpongeBob? Although we're probably not going to see it coming ahead of time... They called
Catscratch the next big Nicktoon, and look what happened to that...
Dattebayo said:
At least the show is celebrating its 10th anniversary, hope it redeems itself after a few years of mediocre episodes ever since the movie came out. Sadly, I'm predicting this will be the last time we'll ever see Spongebob again after the celebration's over.
Also no, I'm afraid- actually, I don't even think they'll even tell kids when they make their last
SpongeBob episodes.
There'll probably be another marathon for the special coming in November.
Tyrannotaur said:
I don't usually like to post negativity (negativity breeds negativity, I post something negative and then you are offended and post something negative right back... Vicious cycle) but I really dislike this show.
This show is the reason I believe Nickelodeon went downhill.
Actually, you're not the only one I've heard say that. (It's kinda ironic.
SpongeBob's first season's probably the last remaining bit of Old Nick, IMO.)
It also helped bring about the end of Cartoon Network, by them trying to make something to compete with Sponge Bob and making Chowder. I never got into Sponge Bob. It just seems too nonsensical for me. Yes I understand it is a kids Cartoon show. But it is drastically different from what I used to watch as a kid.
When I first saw commercials for
SpongeBob, I thought it'd be an okay show (one scene in a sneak peek of an episode made me smile, though). When I watched it, I thought it was good, though. The thing I like about most of the pre-movie episodes is that to me it wasn't just some show about an immature sponge and his dumb best friend. There was more thought put into the show than one would expect from a show about a talking sponge.
To me, generally speaking, the movie and the episodes that came episode made SpongeBob and Patrick in particular look exactly the way, IMO, haters of
SpongeBob pictured them to be. To me the series basically turned into what I originally praised it for
not being.
Not trying to make you like the series, just pointing that out.
Anyway, I don't mean to offend people who like it. Like what you want. I'm not gonna stop you. That's cool it has been around for 10 years though. Time really does fly.
And I (and others) won't stop you from not liking
SpongeBob. =)