modern spongebob unironically feels like one of those content farm youtube channels that make "*popular character* does *thing*" videos, but with a way higher budget. like, here's a random episode summary:
>Squidward and SpongeBob venture to Nosferatu's castle in order to return the mail that Squidward accidentally received.
it sounds ai generated.
that does not sound any more absurd than spongebob meeting the flying dutchman
It's more absurd because the Flying Dutchman fits with the nautical theme, it's part of seafarer lore. It fits with the sea theming Spongebob has. Nosferatu has nothing to do with the show's nautical/pirate/Hawaiian aesthetic and only serves as a call-back to a quick gag from an episode from season 2 that was blown out of proportion for the sake of fanservice, nobody was asking them to bring back Nosferatu, much less give him a major starring role.
>modern spongebob
>pic rel is from first half of Season 9
Take your meds, the show got good again after the 2nd movie, although the last season is a bit meh.
>the show got good again after the 2nd movie
Being slightly less shit is not "getting good again" zoomers you need to raise your standards
First 3 seasons are great
Season 4 is good
Season 5 is bad
Seasons 6 to 9a are awful
Seasons 9b to 12 are good
Season 13 is meh so far
And Season 1 and 2 are Supreme.
Season 5 wasn't that bad
Season 5 is one half Season 4.5 and the other half Season 5, you can clearly tell which episodes were meant for 4
>Seasons 9b to 12 are good
Is there a name for this phenomenon of people thinking things are good just because they're marginally better than what came before?
It's like Star Wars gays creaming their pants over The Mandalorian just because the Disney trilogy was complete trash.
If you actually compare Season 12 Spongebob to Season 2 instead of season 8, you'll notice how distinct the quality gap is.
Lowered expectations, if I fed you nothing but moldy bread and goat milk for 4 years a McDonald's Hamburger and a Coke would start to look like a royal feast.
Rehab culture is a mental illness, Prequelgays and SM3gays destroyed the internet beyond recovering
>Is there a name for this phenomenon of people thinking things are good just because they're marginally better than what came before?
A frame of reference?
>Seasons 9b to 12 are good
*less bad
From what I've seen of seasons 11 and 12, this show is unwatchable purely because of the animation. It feels like they're trying to go back to the first couple seasons which are famous for when characters would go off-model sometimes. Now it seems like they're rarely on-model, they're so cartoony and stretchy and it feels like Ren and Stimpy, which just doesn't fit the kind of show Spongebob is. It worked in the past because it was restrained, and the rest of the show was consistent, visually. Now it's just unpleasant to watch, and that's not even getting into how bad the writing is.
>the show got good again after the 2nd movie
no it didn't
The concepts are fine, it’s just the execution that’s shit. Literally no substance, it’s what parents thought spongebob was back in the 2000’s
You are correct. At least it's not shock jock humor anymore
Yeah
I think the higher ups involved with the show are looking for that sort of thing to compete with Youtube for the viewer's rapidly shrinking attention span. The future of cartoons is going to be Speed > Quality.
There's an episode where they meet an actual gorilla.
The writing for all entertainment across the spectrum is shit. Even movies feel AI generated because nobody working there actually has anything to say. About their characters, about life, about fears or curiosities or cosmic ironies. It's all just "wouldn't it be cool/dramatic/funny if-"
Like everyone in entertainment is just aping the generation of media that came before them instead of reflecting on timeless classics or reality itself.