>Slower pacing
Genuinely why is every cartoon, show, movie so fricking fast paced compared to something in the 60s? It's like you can't just have moments where two characters are silent or thinking, everything has to be an ADHD sugar filled comedyfest.
Something like jellyfish jam could not fricking happen today because animators and writers now have no faith in their audience to pay attention anymore.
Early installment weirdness.
It was the only season to be animated on cells, so it maintains a unique look. They were also figuring out the plot and dynamics, for example, season 1 has a more nautical feel which was watered down over the years.
Oh and the voice acting, Tom Kenny doesn't sound like absolute ass as SpongeBob and Patrick sounds like a ditsy lovable friend instead of a moronic moron.
NTA but season 1 utilized a lot more aquatic underwater sound effects and used bubbles more generously when characters did fast movements. The lighting also tried to looked more like light shining through moving water
Season 1 was a lot more realistic. There weren't as many unrealistic situations. It was still zany, but the stuff in season 1 could more likely happen in real life
>Tell him off, Spongebob. Assert yourself! >That's my ice cream cone! >Great! Now let him have it! >You can have it.
This still makes me chuckle everytime I see it
It's so weird how this one-off character fits perfectly into the aesthetics of Spongebob, while the later ones from seasons 4+ feel so fricking off. Like you take one fricking look at a character introduced in season 4 or later and INSTANTLY tell. They're also almost always in these garish bright colors that the first three seasons never delved into.
Personally, I always felt like the redone game missed the aesthetic and feeling of the seasons that the original battle for bikini bottom game was going for. The 2003 game actually looked like the show, whereas the newer version just looks like a generic, bright, negative fetishization of cartoons.
See, even with something like that, whoever redid the game missed that artstyle direction of having some of the objects in the background of Spongebob look scribbly, like the items on Mrs. Puffs desk. If you're gonna do a game out of passion and love based on a show with a certain style, you've gotta respect that style. That be like doing an Ed Edd n Eddy redone game, but not doing the boiling lines or something like that.
Fun fact CatDog was suppose to be Nicks SpongeBob and they greenlit 100 episodes and the execs didn’t think SpongeBob was going to succeed and only gave it 13 episodes.
They forced the animators to work on CatDog but they wanted to work on SpongeBob.
SpongeBob is interesting that it already had a pretty solid grasp on the characters and their dynamics right out the gate, most other shows take a season or two to really have an understanding on their world.
The slow pacing, the darker color scheme, the less exaggerated voice acting (it's still exaggerated of course, it is a cartoon, but not as much in s1 as the rest) plus the sound scape with plenty of bubbles and whatnot.
Those make the season pretty calm in comparison.
Also the plots of the episodes are usually built on more realistic situations, less out-there premises (excepting Sandy's Rocket or SB-1:29)
Visually and in general season 1 of Spongebob is one of the greatest pieces of animation in cartoon history.
Only season 1. Season 2 & 3 are just your typical decent cartoon with season 3 showing decay at the end.
I think people have LONG overlooked the real original appeal of SpongeBob. It was always a very ~relaxed~ show. It's a about an optimistic dude and his chill buddy. It's punctuated with hawaiian music, warm underwater imagery, and a very-happy-go-lucky type of vibe. This is why SpongeBob was good, because it's very whimsical, but has a lot of great jokes and character interactions. When I see clips of modern SpongeBob, and how it's just and ADHD nightmare of characters screaming, I just feel so sad. Flanderization isn't the right word, it's basically a completely different show. Man I miss it.
Classy slapstick that didn't rely on actual fricking gore, for one
>Cel-animated
>Slower pacing
>Less zany situations and humor
>Ukulele is played often
>Sentimental
>Slower pacing
Genuinely why is every cartoon, show, movie so fricking fast paced compared to something in the 60s? It's like you can't just have moments where two characters are silent or thinking, everything has to be an ADHD sugar filled comedyfest.
Something like jellyfish jam could not fricking happen today because animators and writers now have no faith in their audience to pay attention anymore.
>why is every cartoon, show, movie so fricking fast paced compared to something in the 60s
Thanks to the internet, kids have very short attention spans (and they're trying to compete with Skibidi Toilet and Elsa/Spiderman)
Cel-animated was a pretty nice concept
Season 1 is actually my favorite season of Spongebob
Same
Early installment weirdness.
It was the only season to be animated on cells, so it maintains a unique look. They were also figuring out the plot and dynamics, for example, season 1 has a more nautical feel which was watered down over the years.
Oh and the voice acting, Tom Kenny doesn't sound like absolute ass as SpongeBob and Patrick sounds like a ditsy lovable friend instead of a moronic moron.
>a more nautical feel
How?
NTA but season 1 utilized a lot more aquatic underwater sound effects and used bubbles more generously when characters did fast movements. The lighting also tried to looked more like light shining through moving water
I've heard that before but other seasons use bubbles too
>a more nautical feel which was watered down over the years.
I sea what you did there
All my favorite spongebob YTPs are of season 1 episodes
Season 1 was a lot more realistic. There weren't as many unrealistic situations. It was still zany, but the stuff in season 1 could more likely happen in real life
Soul
>Tell him off, Spongebob. Assert yourself!
>That's my ice cream cone!
>Great! Now let him have it!
>You can have it.
This still makes me chuckle everytime I see it
>Gee thanks!
It's so weird how this one-off character fits perfectly into the aesthetics of Spongebob, while the later ones from seasons 4+ feel so fricking off. Like you take one fricking look at a character introduced in season 4 or later and INSTANTLY tell. They're also almost always in these garish bright colors that the first three seasons never delved into.
>garish bright color
This is why I haven't played the bfbb remake
Personally, I always felt like the redone game missed the aesthetic and feeling of the seasons that the original battle for bikini bottom game was going for. The 2003 game actually looked like the show, whereas the newer version just looks like a generic, bright, negative fetishization of cartoons.
>newer version just looks like a generic, bright, cartoon
This is probably the most egregious example, environment wise
See, even with something like that, whoever redid the game missed that artstyle direction of having some of the objects in the background of Spongebob look scribbly, like the items on Mrs. Puffs desk. If you're gonna do a game out of passion and love based on a show with a certain style, you've gotta respect that style. That be like doing an Ed Edd n Eddy redone game, but not doing the boiling lines or something like that.
Fun fact CatDog was suppose to be Nicks SpongeBob and they greenlit 100 episodes and the execs didn’t think SpongeBob was going to succeed and only gave it 13 episodes.
They forced the animators to work on CatDog but they wanted to work on SpongeBob.
SpongeBob is interesting that it already had a pretty solid grasp on the characters and their dynamics right out the gate, most other shows take a season or two to really have an understanding on their world.
The slow pacing, the darker color scheme, the less exaggerated voice acting (it's still exaggerated of course, it is a cartoon, but not as much in s1 as the rest) plus the sound scape with plenty of bubbles and whatnot.
Those make the season pretty calm in comparison.
Also the plots of the episodes are usually built on more realistic situations, less out-there premises (excepting Sandy's Rocket or SB-1:29)
Visually and in general season 1 of Spongebob is one of the greatest pieces of animation in cartoon history.
Only season 1. Season 2 & 3 are just your typical decent cartoon with season 3 showing decay at the end.
I think people have LONG overlooked the real original appeal of SpongeBob. It was always a very ~relaxed~ show. It's a about an optimistic dude and his chill buddy. It's punctuated with hawaiian music, warm underwater imagery, and a very-happy-go-lucky type of vibe. This is why SpongeBob was good, because it's very whimsical, but has a lot of great jokes and character interactions. When I see clips of modern SpongeBob, and how it's just and ADHD nightmare of characters screaming, I just feel so sad. Flanderization isn't the right word, it's basically a completely different show. Man I miss it.
If you wanna cross this bridge, that flanderization already started by season 2 and 3
Yeah, patrick and mr krabs got way worse
true, but at least it was still funny
The original appeal of SpongeBob was that it told more jokes than Klasky-Csupo Nicktoons and Hey Arnold
Nobody used those words when the series was first airing
why didnt that greedy israeli homosexual krabs get shit on more often? I don't like how happy Sponge is with him all the time.