Why do most Spongebob Specials suck?

Why do most Spongebob Specials suck? Even during the Pre-movie seasons, specials like Party Pooper Pants and The Sponge Who could Fly were lackluster.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ugh kind of sucked, too.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My theory is that it put too much pressure on the writers, who end up trying too hard to make a memorable episode so it creates a forced feeling in the writing room. None of the episodes considered the best come from specials, they're just run-of-the-mill episodes.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Executive meddling

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Thats the joke it seems.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They were incredibly hyped up and overadvertised as this epic must not miss episode, and they turn out to be nothing special and the ads were greatly exaggerated. Every single time.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That has to be on porpusse, but not in the sense you might think, seems thats just some silly running gag, overhype the episodes when they are just mediocre.

        Its kinda like this:

        >Its an episode of them goin to Brazil.
        >They never even go to the airport

        Spongebob did something similar with the Krusty Krab Training video episode, the whole "Titatiddlytahtiddlytah" was just done to waste time and then cut away before they reveal the secret recipe.

        there's no secret ingredient, its a non etntity

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Anon...Nickelodeon released the full recipe in like 2006-ish

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Crab meat
            Anon, the Krabby Patty is a veggie burger.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Anon...Nickelodeon released the full recipe in like 2006-ish

              Is this real even or from one of those illegal krusty krab real life knockoffs that lasted only 3 months until viacon erased them?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Crab meat
                Anon, the Krabby Patty is a veggie burger.

                It's IMITATION CRAB MEAT and I remember clicking the Nickelodeon page that took me to this still image

              • 2 years ago
                truteal

                Wrong, it's crab meat, but non-sophont crabs

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >It's a gag.
          Well nobody found it funny the first, or any other time.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >>Its an episode of them goin to Brazil.
          >>They never even go to the airport

          Aaah, someone else remembers Foster's Goes To Europe

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nick exec walks into writer's room
    >points at a random script on a table that's being used as a coffee mug coaster
    >"that's the special, put in some patchy segments"
    >exec walks out
    >writers shrug and do as they're told

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Christmas Who was good

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    because they're forced

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    but i thought the lost episode was great

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sponge Who Could Fly is carried by the Patchy segments

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      IT WAS A BUNCH OF CHEAP WALK CYCLES!

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SpongeBob's had some good specials, such as Christmas Who, Dunces and Dragons, Friend or Foe, and Frozen Face-Off.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly think that, for some reason, the SpongeBob crew in general struggled to come up with episode ideas that went beyond the 11 minute mark. Patchy was created as a way for Christmas Who! to achieve a 22 minute runtime without padding the living hell out of the main plotline. Unfortunately, the SpongeBob.plots they decided to use for the three 22 minute episode in season 3 unluckily were some of their weakest efforts of the pre-movie team, the Patchy wraparounds be dammed.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Did anybody actually liked the patchy segments?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Did production of Season 3 overlap with the first movie?

      I could see a scenario where the crew were stretched thin trying to do both the movie and the third season, and decided to pad out three 11-minute episodes to double length, since it meant three less 11-minute episodes to write and storyboard.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's because they were never "specials" to begin with. It was either that Nickelodeon just wanted to make events out of a standard SpongeBob episode to help bring more viewers and entice marketing ("A BIG SPONGEBOB SPECIAL") which still seems to happen to this day, and the other reason is that the production of SpongeBob had to complete a certain number of minutes of the season (the total number of minutes allotted to a season) and had enough left over where they could make an episode longer and uncut, or that they simply just wanted to wrap the season up faster by doing a "special" to get there sooner.

    These longer episodes were any easy excuse for Nickelodeon to turn it into a promotion and treat it as a "special". I guarantee that this is where Patchy was born; to fill in the gap in time needed to fill in for the animation budget running out. You film a cheap live-action scene on a Nickelodeon soundstage to fill up time and not have to pay for more expensive animation.

    In short, they were typically never meant to be specials and instead was just a cheap marketing technique by Nickelodeon to get more viewership on an episode's release, which in turn brings a higher profit from ad revenue and whatever other programming they have scheduled.

    Sorry, it's not always that stuff "sucks" but it's that network television is in the business of making money, like everything else.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This, wasnt even a "special" that was supposed to be an over 1 hour tv movie? But the actual episode was just a shitty normal episode, and that it generated a lot of backlash?

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They suck because they started doing them when the show was either starting to suck or was full on sucking (yeah end of S3 is when the cracks start to show).

    Notice how Christmas Who is beloved, because it was developed in the middle of S2 where almost every episode is a winner

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can remember Nickelodeon hyping up Dora the Explorer episodes for some reason. With the same announcer voice and everything.

    In fact does anyone remember when they would do bumper reads over show credits? "This is Stinky, make sure to watch Hey Arnold 8 eastern 7 central." or "This is O from the Nickel-O-Zone make sure to have your 3D goggles ready for tonight special episode of Kablam" [[Think the last one was a tie-in with Lunchables/ Tony's Pizza

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