#19 - Gary Takes a Bath
"I'm a dirty boy."
This is the shortest episode of Season 2, with a running time of under seven minutes. Due to this, its plotline is simpler than most, but the gags are more rapid-fire than ever. It jumps from silly to cute to disturbing, but it always keeps me laughing, and for that reason, I'm putting Gary Takes a Bath, one of the season's funniest episodes, in my Top 20.
#18 - Survival of the Idiots
"You're nothing but pure evil! Just like newspaper comics!"
This is the first Sandy-themed episode to appear on my list since Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm (at #49). Sandy is an interesting character, don't get me wrong, and she'll appear a lot more as we go up the list, but I thought that this was worth mentioning. Sandy's episodes tended to be the least memorable of Season 2. Even this episode, the highest Season 2-er featuring the squirrel on this list, doesn't have a lot of her, at least not her in her regular form. I guess the writers weren't as comfortable with Sandy as they were with the rest of the cast, and as a result, their strongest writing went to the episodes that featured the male characters more prominently
But enough of that. Here's what I think about the episode itself: It's hilarious. Next!
#17 - No Weenies Allowed
"I'll have you know I stubbed my toe last week, while watering my spice garden, and I only cried for twenty minutes."
This is another Sandy-related episode, and like the last one, Sandy doesn't appear in it very much at all. That's probably for the best, though, because SpongeBob's attempts to get into the Salty Spittoon are much funnier than SpongeBob and Sandy's adventures in the Spittoon would ever have been. This episode is similar to another Sandy episode, MuscleBob BuffPants, in that it focuses on SpongeBob is trying to prove that he's something he's not, in that case strong, in this case tough In both instances, he manages to deceive people into thinking he's such a thing, and in both instances, it horribly backfires on him. I think this episode did that better, though, because once again, it focuses less on the after-effects of the deception and more on its lead-up.
Final thought: Seeing Patrick go beserk after being called "tubby" was the highlight of the episode for me, and it shows that, when provoked, Patrick can shed his gentle nature in a second.
That's it for now! Come back tomorrow for...this thing! Yeah.