nortonstime
Floating Shopping List
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2015
- Messages
- 101
- Reaction score
- 109
Given the success of Patrick The Game being attributed primarily to the combination of characters used, I'm wondering if even the writing staff has finally realized that Mr. Krabs isn't really funny to use anymore. 90% of jokes about him basically boil down to "he is cheap lol" and it has been that way for decades, so we tend to find most jokes about his greed to be repetitive. It doesn't help that they try to underline his cheapness by showing how cruel he is to his employees. During a lot of times, we're supposed to be thinking that his behavior is so ridiculous it is funny, but instead we feel angry about his treatment of others.
I've noticed a lot of rants about Mr. Krabs and how he never gets punished -- albeit these complaints have been reduced as of late and people tend to simply write off his episodes (like Company Picnic) as dull. An exception would be Pull Up A Barrel, which thankfully focused on his past as a cook rather than his greed. But episodes like that come rarely.
Has Mr. Krabs simply become too one-dimensional to utilize effectively? Even for me, I welcome Sandy as his substitute in recent episodes and, while I enjoyed Company Picnic, his rivalry with Plankton and his moneypinching tendencies were all nothing new and felt rehashed from so many eps before. In Sewers of Bikini Bottom, his sideplot doesn't even focus on him -- he simply reacts to the swordfish character and has less of a presence. It's as if the writers know that the well of jokes centering about Mr. Krabs has long been dried up.
So how can they improve Mr. Krabs' character? They can focus less on his unwillingness to spend money and more on his history. They can reverse years of terrible characterization (firing Spongebob for a nickel, selling Squidward into slavery, etc.) by showing episodes that have him actually care about his employees, in the same vein that recent episodes have Squidward be less annoyed with Spongebob. Because in the meantime, every episode without Krabs feels like a breath of fresh air.
I've noticed a lot of rants about Mr. Krabs and how he never gets punished -- albeit these complaints have been reduced as of late and people tend to simply write off his episodes (like Company Picnic) as dull. An exception would be Pull Up A Barrel, which thankfully focused on his past as a cook rather than his greed. But episodes like that come rarely.
Has Mr. Krabs simply become too one-dimensional to utilize effectively? Even for me, I welcome Sandy as his substitute in recent episodes and, while I enjoyed Company Picnic, his rivalry with Plankton and his moneypinching tendencies were all nothing new and felt rehashed from so many eps before. In Sewers of Bikini Bottom, his sideplot doesn't even focus on him -- he simply reacts to the swordfish character and has less of a presence. It's as if the writers know that the well of jokes centering about Mr. Krabs has long been dried up.
So how can they improve Mr. Krabs' character? They can focus less on his unwillingness to spend money and more on his history. They can reverse years of terrible characterization (firing Spongebob for a nickel, selling Squidward into slavery, etc.) by showing episodes that have him actually care about his employees, in the same vein that recent episodes have Squidward be less annoyed with Spongebob. Because in the meantime, every episode without Krabs feels like a breath of fresh air.
