I still find it so weird they brought BubbleBass back as a recurring character
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I still find it so weird they brought BubbleBass back as a recurring character
I mean I didn't know this is a thing. But honestly they need a bad guy who isn't sympathetic. The worst they usually have is Plankton or Squidward who are both not really antagonistic. I suspect it was either Bubble Bass or Flats.
>they need a bad guy who isn't sympathetic
why tho? why do they 'need' one? the show always worked best with antagonists, not downright villains, and when it did have one it perfectly well utilized a one-off character
that aside i don't like how they use him, they turned him from a simple mean guy to a modernist portrayal of "le neckbeard bad guy" meme, complete with shit like pic rel which just does not suit spongebob as a show whatsoever
She should have been a freshwater catfish
Either that or a snailgirl.
Exactly, this doesn't match the style of the show at all. I blame Nick for forcing millennial weebs to work on this show instead of just canceling it and letting them make their own crap
Why? Why do writers feel the need to do stuff like this? It's not like Spongebob as a cartoon was ever super modern for the era it was airing in, can these new writers just not think up a story that'll be timeless? Can they not write a character and have us form opinions about them without directly comparing him to a caricature of a real person we're supposed to dislike, down to the exact interests and everything? Even back when the pickles episode aired writers of other cartoons wrote the "big fat mean fan boy" character and despite clearly gently emulating that attitude, the writers of the episode managed to never downright having him act that way, he was just a rude butthole who wanted to take advantage of free food and served as the antagonist of the episode. But the new writers can't into subtlety and just decided to go nuts to the wall and make him a full blown modern youtuber or some shit
Guess it struck a nerve with you guys, huh?
making new character haaaaaaard :((
tiny brain hurt lots :((
use old character instead, much easier, tiny brain no hurt :))
oh no cocaine bucket is empty :((
that shouldnt be funny but i laffed anyway
This is worse than the gore spongebob era
I agree, at least that era still had funny lines sometimes. This is just unbearable
>they turned him from a simple mean guy to a modernist portrayal of "le neckbeard bad guy" meme
I'd argue he already was one from the beginning. His episode on SpongeBob was nice focus on SpongeBob as a frycook. But the "um actually" was already there with the no pickles.
I appreciate them reviving this character much like an old toy in a toy chest you stopped playing with.
>Does not suit SpongeBob as a show
The picture you posted is from The Patrick Star Show, they've never gone that far with Bubble Bass in the main series.
I always felt that Bubble Bass was always meant to be a recurring character in season 1 along with Flatts the Flounder, but they never figured out what to do with them until later.
kinda weird Flats still hasn't come back in a new episode, not counting the cameos
That's what I thought too.
I'm pretty okay with Bubble Bass' Big Comeback.
Flatts's design was actually one of their incidental designs
This, I always got the impression from the pickles episode that Bubble Bass was a long time antagonist for Spongebob and probably came to the krusty krab regularly to criticise his fry cooking
His return was the definitive sign that Spongebob was dead.
>Original appearance of Bubble Bass was a food snob/restaurant critic
>Retool him into being a nerd stereotype/anime fan/ internet critic
Fricking why? Was it because of all the meme images oh him as a Discord moderator?
Desperation to stay relevant.
Bubble Bass pivoting to being a culture warrior rage critic is pretty realistic
>realistic
Him being the nostalgia critic was kinda funny
ok im gonna sperg hard about this but this is flaring up my autism
look at this hand, do you know why hands are drawn like that? it's a simplified representation of a thumb and the fingers from the front as the person is holding something, the item they're holding is supposed to be between the two shapes, as it is clutched against their palm
the fact that they did this like that suggests they don't know WHY this shape is utilized, they just repeat it without understanding it because other cartoons do it
and that just boils my chromosomes
unless i see the mug start moving in his hand, i'm gonna huff my copium and say it's just apart of the bad editing/green screen
To this day i Cannon comprehend NOSTALGIA CRITIC appearing in fricking Spongebob. How is it happening that he still poseses a cultural relevancy?
To be fair, that stuff was from The Patrick Star Show and they were trying to give that show a unique identity
Nice trips for the first anon but NC is still quite popular even as a meme among zooms. It helps that, unlike Linkara, Doug takes jokes about him/NC in stride which earned him a big chunk of good will. Even moreso when it turned out everyone associated with "Change the Channel" was horrible people.
>NC is still quite popular even as a meme among zooms.
The kiddies only know of him through references on Oneyplays. That's not relevance.
Believe it or not, Doug still gets a lot of views, anon. He hasn't fallen into irrelevancy yet like, say, TFS.
just checked, he get's half the views of fricking cinemassacre, which already get's way less than RLM.
Is fricking over dude.
I went check out of curiositu too and noticed only "Nostalgia Critic" episodes get the good views while everything else languishes, same as AVGN. People really don't care about neither Doug nor James as people, just want more NC and AVGN huh?
I like Twilight Tober Zone. I remember watching the show(dad was a fan) and it was nice to see there were some episodes that i haven't seen like Nightmare at 20000 feet. I like when they delve into a behind a scenes stuff
the only people i can imagine willing to sit through Doug's content these days have to be under the age of thirteen
Kids under 13 have no way of finding him because they only know of things that are spoonfed to them by algorithms.
he literally doesn't, current writters are THAT out of touch.
Everyone I know who's involved with cartoons or talks about them online watched Nostalgia Critic at one point or another. He is an inevitability.
One of the Spongebob writers is friends with OneyNG, Oney probably persuaded him to give Doug his long overdue cameo
It's so dated. Nostalgia Critic stopped being relevant ten years ago.
Different generations interpret things in different ways. I imagine most of the modern group that's been working on Spongebob for the past few years are more familiar with the concept of a snobby internet nerd than a snobby food critic, even if it doesn't line up with how Bubble Bass was originally envisioned.
Outside that I always figured Bubble Bass would have been utilized more as a direct "rival" for Spongebob in relation to his interests outside the Krusty Krab, like Mermaid Man or the Jellyfishing convention/Kevin. Basically Spongebob's equivalent to Squilliam, instead of just being a modern Comic Book Guy clone. Although thinking about it now, I wonder if the creation of Squilliam had anything to do with Bubble Bass being used less outside season 1, since the crew probably felt no need to have two similar rival dynamics running at the same time.
How exactly did you envision someone who looks and sounds like Bubble Bass living when not being a food critic?
It just seems natural that he'd be a nerd as well.
>food critic
Was he? He was just an overweight nerd dressed just like Lenny Baxter from Powerpuff Girls, I don't know where the food critic angle mentioned here comes from. Especially considering it's fast food.
I agree with you.
He didn't go into the krusty krab and say if the food is good or bad. He went in with a complicated order with the intention SpongeBob won't be able to make it, specifically so he can get food and a refund.
If anything he's like one of those YouTubers that order something very stupid that technically you can order, but nobody eats like that.
He is a bad guy though. He lied about the pickles thus from the get go he was always supposed to be somebody we didn't like, even if that wasn't specifically pitched as neck beard.
Finally someone who gets it. Again, I don't know where the "food critic" thing mentioned ITT comes from.
Spongebob says he has a reputation for being picky
It honestly felt weirder that he wasn't recurring in the first place since SpongeBob was already aware of who he was.
I also really wish they kept SpongeBob's inherent distaste for him.
I actually like that idea. It's just it was done too late and it's nu-Spongebob so therefore it's unwatchable.
nu-Spongebob has no personality or ability to switch into an mature upset mode like in the first few seasons.
I think it's weirder than he disappeared for so long. He was a memorable semi-regular in the first season.
Lack of ideas
nu-Bob wants desperately to cash in on Season 1-3 nostalgia so bad. They brought back Noseferatu, the my leg guy, made Mrs. Puff and Krabs date again (which I actually kinda liked) etc.
Yet they can't figure out what actually made those seasons good?
He's a decent original character
I think he works.
He is a solid archetype which has good banter with many of the main characters.
Why not bring him back? There is no reason to stop using him, his rivalry with Spongebob wasn't over. It's like wanting Disney to stop using Scrooge Mcduck after his first comic
Why'd he do it?