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This is one of the 1st shows I've ever watched in my whole life, and I still love it to this day.

I originally intended to make this scorecard to share my thoughts with the cartoon community. I started off with this scorecard on June 20, 2016, when I first made the scorecard. It wasn't until a month later until I decided to change my ratings because they're obviously aren't my opinions. That's why you see some unpopular opinions in this scorecard when it was first uploaded to DeviantArt and today. A year later, I decided to rewrite my opinions AGAIN because I disagree with some of my opinions on SpongeBob episodes. While I kept some ratings, most of them had a major change either if they're booted up to being divine or just bad. Can you spot the diff?

But when it comes to my critic side, this show is a mixed bag the entire time. Seriously, I have seen lots of debate between pre-movie SpongeBob and post-movie SpongeBob in the last few months, and I decided to make my own scorecard of the show, thus beginning my own series of scorecards I'll be making very soon.

Because of all of the debating, there’s a lot of unpopular opinions in this scorecard. I’m afraid that my scorecard will be controversial, but nowadays, I feel rather glad that it's controversial. The reason why I rated a lot of SpongeBob episodes ample and under is because that the episode that’s ample or under isn’t balanced enough. For example, an episode might have a great sense of comedy but ended up having an inadequate plot, mostly because it focuses more on being funny, which this example appears in most comedies.

I’m aware of some of the episodes I rated to be controversial, but I won’t post my reasons here. Instead, I’ll post them in a different deviation that’ll be my new series called “ControChoices”, where I post mostly my unpopular opinions on a variety of episodes.

Anyways, this show is a mixture of good and bad episodes and a butt load of meh episodes (Alright-Poor). It’s just the fact that it’s not good because despite being funny, the story is weak enough to anchor an episode’s chances of being great, it being a stupid episode overall, or just rehash a lot from the previous episodes, making it into being either so-so or plain bad. In my opinion, SpongeBob had a problem with at least 1 thing varying through the seasons.

There is 1 thing that’s making me want to re-review a couple of SpongeBob episodes (especially the “pre-movie” ones), and that are pre-movie reviews. Pretty much any review like this is missing 1 thing; the story. It can often go in a pretty straightforward path that blocks a lot of episodes into being such masterpieces. Not to mention that some of their endings are just really stupid that I can't excuse it at all. What I seem to notice about the pre-movie seasons is that SpongeBob's characterization can be frustratingly inconsistent where he can act a lot mature than usual in several episodes (Chocolate With Nuts, Party Pooper Pants, Mid-Life Crustacean, etc.). What I also notice about this era is that the episodes can have such bad and simple plots that the progressions they take can be pretty slow and hollow, which in some cases doesn't have lot happen throughout the episode, adding to the boredom factor (The Paper, Chocolate With Nuts).

And if I didn't like pre-movie but liked post-movie better, then why did I put Season 4 in the same category as Seasons 1-3? It's simple really; it's not funny as a lot of the episodes don't have a lot of jokes, the plots and animation can be pretty uncreatively boring and hollow and I know, this show has no continuity, but this season seems to be contradicting itself that the show knows and repeats, including the part where SpongeBob was on the V.I.P. list on Squidward's concert for some reason despite Squidward hating SpongeBob, and the fact that everyone seemed to enjoy his clarinet recital, despite it often being posed as bad throughout the series. Those plot holes happened in Best Day Ever

For Seasons 5-9a, I notice how they were an improvement compared to the first four seasons as that was when the storytelling got more smart and creative with a lot of funny and reasonable plot twists shown here and there. In fact, some of these episodes became pretty bizarre enough with a lot of things happening throughout the episode that I honestly became really engaged in those seasons' episodes. And yes, I think this chunk of the show is the funniest not only because of the plot twists but also due to the unpredictable actions and dialogues of the characters. This is what makes these "Squidward Torture" episodes better as they are cruel but in an unexpectedly hilarious way. Also, the crew knew how to make SpongeBob in-character in situations where he's honest and helpful of other people who appear to be miserable, adding more likability to this character.

SpongeBob was mostly a mixed bag and thanks to that confusion, I don’t know what’s my conclusion of SpongeBob SquarePants. But instead, I’ll just go through a brief summary; SpongeBob SquarePants can be hilarious or tell good stories sometimes, but a lot of the show’s episodes ended up swapping the quality of the show’s story and humor. The show can be executed terribly wrong, but more commonly in the “pre-movie” era and rarely in the “post-movie” era. The characters are mostly solid and interesting but ended up taking their characterization to a different path to the point where they’re either obnoxious or jerky. Thanks to its tackled reputation, I’m calling it a fair show, but not a meh but really close.

I hope you reviewers express your thoughts on my scorecard. Like what the warning sign said, ‘this is my opinion only, so please respect my opinion on each episode’. I don’t mind if you disagree with me, but don’t rage or start a fight in the comment section. It’s very rude for many reviewers and that doesn’t help you become a better user. Thank you.

And before I close off this review, I'd like to say something to everyone: I tend to update opinions of past episodes because I feel like they didn't age well, not for the sake of attention. If you think these updates are dishonest, causing you to lose respect for me, then please check out my updated reviews of various episodes from this show. Some of these reviews are episodes that were formerly rated a higher/lower rating:
Love That Squid
Demolition Doofus
Band Geeks

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Comments: 521

Jaylop97 [2020-01-01 21:22:39 +0000 UTC]

Funny enough now you have a popular opinion of the fact you agree with most of the consensus over Season 4 being worse than the Pre movie seasons.

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CheeseCrocker In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 18:19:07 +0000 UTC]

Idea:

Make one season way too overly good and demote the rest (and keep s9 the same lolol)

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1033Forest [2020-01-01 13:39:30 +0000 UTC]

Now we got our first middling season! Eventually this show's gonna drop to an L soon...

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ReviewSic In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 12:37:33 +0000 UTC]

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SoshiTheYoshi In reply to ReviewSic [2020-01-12 20:10:15 +0000 UTC]

It turns out All That Glitters IS gold!

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SandalsFish In reply to ReviewSic [2020-01-02 06:00:50 +0000 UTC]

To be fair it is genius

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ReviewSic In reply to SandalsFish [2020-01-02 13:49:33 +0000 UTC]

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PineapplePan2003 In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 07:04:27 +0000 UTC]

60%...This show is definitely gonna be meh

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SirExistingAlot16 In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 06:41:32 +0000 UTC]

guys
guys
i COULD be wrong.. but i think intrancity doesn't like the first 4 seasons very much

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098765four In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 06:31:02 +0000 UTC]

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TTLF In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 06:24:08 +0000 UTC]

genius update

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SI-LLY [2020-01-01 06:21:46 +0000 UTC]

just make pre movie inadequate

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HenryTheBean In reply to ??? [2020-01-01 06:11:57 +0000 UTC]

WEAK season 4, hmmm totally doesn't look like you did this on purpose just because TTLF jacks off to it all the time

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1ExistLoL In reply to HenryTheBean [2020-01-01 06:48:17 +0000 UTC]

tolerable

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TheLoudHouseFan37 [2019-12-31 23:08:51 +0000 UTC]

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CheeseCrocker In reply to TheLoudHouseFan37 [2020-01-01 18:18:26 +0000 UTC]

Technically Sharks vs. Pods used to be notorious

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PineapplePan2003 In reply to ??? [2019-12-29 02:03:35 +0000 UTC]

RIP Season 4, it became meh like the first three seasons

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1033Forest In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 21:20:36 +0000 UTC]

So even season 4 is meh now... I wonder if this show is gonna drop from Fair to Meh soon...

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PineapplePan2003 In reply to 1033Forest [2019-12-29 02:06:36 +0000 UTC]

it probably will in a few months

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TheReviewer20 [2019-12-28 17:52:56 +0000 UTC]

Interesting changes. Are you doing this season by season, or stopping at 4?

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Intrancity In reply to TheReviewer20 [2019-12-28 19:09:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm not going to tell you.

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SI-LLY In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 17:50:39 +0000 UTC]

help wanted should be odious

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JrTheAnimater123 In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 16:52:02 +0000 UTC]

What's with the downgrades?

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Intrancity In reply to JrTheAnimater123 [2019-12-28 19:12:52 +0000 UTC]

outdated opinions. there are many scorecards that are outdated but this is the show I follow the most as I see many people praise and criticize episodes I want to downgrade and upgrade respectively.

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SI-LLY In reply to Intrancity [2019-12-28 23:30:16 +0000 UTC]

since you say most of your scorecards are outdated, which ones are not?

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HugeTFPFan In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 16:21:11 +0000 UTC]

At least post-sequel SB still lives. 

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SoshiTheYoshi In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 13:56:57 +0000 UTC]

Rest In Peace, my favorite season...

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SandalsFish In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 13:37:27 +0000 UTC]

Time to rage and fight in the comment section!

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TTLF [2019-12-28 13:18:34 +0000 UTC]

hell yeah s4 demotions

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ReviewSic [2019-12-28 12:46:31 +0000 UTC]

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Intrancity [2019-12-28 10:22:04 +0000 UTC]

nope, it is not your lucky day.

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SirExistingAlot16 In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 10:00:00 +0000 UTC]

so what's the best season 4 episode? is it the gift of gum?

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Intrancity In reply to SirExistingAlot16 [2019-12-31 19:35:59 +0000 UTC]

my favorite episode from season 4 is now wigstruck, .

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TTLF In reply to Intrancity [2019-12-31 19:52:31 +0000 UTC]

time to demote wigstruck 

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SandalsFish In reply to TTLF [2020-01-01 06:55:46 +0000 UTC]

:Coffee_loverPromotion:

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BacktoReviews [2019-12-28 09:29:32 +0000 UTC]

Okay, Let's see what happened this ti.....WHAT?

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SandalsFish In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 09:09:38 +0000 UTC]

this is your most disgusting round of demotions yet.

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Jaylop97 In reply to ??? [2019-12-28 09:01:35 +0000 UTC]

Dang Season 4 didn't get spared from the Pre Movie demotion treatment. Of which I'm worried for Season 5 and its eventual demotion.

Let us take a moment to remember when Dunces and Dragons and Krusty Towers were blessed at one point.

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Elebrony In reply to ??? [2019-12-20 00:47:24 +0000 UTC]

Man, you have some really unpopular opinions. How come you liked One Coarse Meal and Ink Lemonade, yet thought The Secret Box was heinous?

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Intrancity In reply to Elebrony [2019-12-20 00:50:22 +0000 UTC]

Click here for my reasoning on One Coarse Meal and here for Ink Lemonade.

To briefly describe "The Secret Box", the plot was really hollow and boring and the climax was repetitive.

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SoshiTheYoshi In reply to ??? [2019-12-19 03:45:45 +0000 UTC]

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PineapplePan2003 [2019-12-16 00:26:41 +0000 UTC]

"but more commonly in the “pre-movie” era and rarely in the “post-movie” era, it can be executed into one of the best episodes I’ve ever reviewed."

precedes to demote every blessed pre-movie episode

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BacktoReviews [2019-12-15 08:58:36 +0000 UTC]

Woah.

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Elebrony In reply to BacktoReviews [2019-12-20 04:22:04 +0000 UTC]

Woah what?

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BacktoReviews In reply to Elebrony [2019-12-21 04:35:48 +0000 UTC]

He downgraded the blessed pre-movie episodes. Now there's not a single pre-movie episode he considers among the very best of the show.

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SandalsFish [2019-12-15 04:13:50 +0000 UTC]

"but more commonly in the “pre-movie” era and rarely in the “post-movie” era, it can be executed into one of the best episodes I’ve ever reviewed."

bruh

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1033Forest [2019-12-12 20:37:31 +0000 UTC]

RIP blessed pre-movie episodes
and even season 3 is meh now...

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TTLF [2019-12-12 11:17:54 +0000 UTC]

i am so happy that supreme Gem Glow is better than all of pre-movie

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Jaylop97 [2019-12-12 01:16:40 +0000 UTC]

Season 3 was loaded with stupid endings.
*Can You Spare a Dime
*No Weenies Allowed
*Born Again Krabs
*Pranks A Lot

Those episodes are some examples of endings that were just pretty nonsensical. Meriwether Williams episodes writing the final act of the episodes that season mostly spammed that to no end.

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PineapplePan2003 In reply to Jaylop97 [2019-12-12 11:20:48 +0000 UTC]

"If nautical nonsense be something you wish!"

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