#43
Comment: If I made this list today, then this most likely wouldn't have made it, but it's still mediocre, at best. It's not bad at first, but it can be kind of annoying at times, especially at the end. But I've already established my thoughts on starting from the end. :P So, let's get on with the show!
A TV show episode has been used in some shows that I've seen where a character is worried about how their picture will come out on picture day, such as Full House, where Stephanie hopes she'll have good luck with her picture (for once). Or a real life situation, such as my mom being worried for weeks about how she'd look in her Senior picture. SpongeBob doesn't have a record of bad pictures, so it seems like he just wants to look his finest, which is nice to see. Immediately, we are thrown into a conflict, which I don't like. Some green seaweed thing that is sticky gets on SpongeBob's shirt. Instead of just taking out another shirt, he has to do the routine he ALREADY DID. I know that he did this in "Missing Identity," but in that episode, he took Squidward's advice, and besides, he was retracing his steps. Here, he just does his routine again for the sake of doing it.
Speaking of Squidward, it was really unnecessary to have him in this episode. He just laughed at SpongeBob's misery of being dumped into a garbage truck. <_< How was SpongeBob mistaken for garbage, anyway? He didn't look like he did in "Fools in April" after Squid's cruel prank. That being a little sausage. Believe me, though. Squidward isn't even the worst character in this episode. In fact, his performance is
beautiful compared to another special someone. Anyway, SpongeBob ends up getting dirty, although, except for one time, it was on his pants. I'm pretty sure the school yearbook photos only show your face and part of your shirt. At least that's how it goes for my school. He then keeps on attempting new ways to stay clean, such as Sponge Gloss, which gets washed off with... a tanker full of WATER. Yeah, that's right. Bikini Bottom needs shipments of water. I guess it shouldn't bother me that much, because there is often water underwater, but for some reason... it does. All of the sudden Patrick comes in out of the blue, just to make things worse and to make the conflict funnier. The only problem with this is the "funnier" didn't exist. Patrick carries SpongeBob in a jar to Boating School, and then dumps the jelly [SpongeBob] onto his peanut butter taco, making SpongeBob a dirty mess. Instead of Patrick realizing how stupid he just was for mistaking a yellow sponge with holes, eyes, a nose, and a mouth as jelly, he yells at SpongeBob for getting into his taco. um wtf? SpongeBob starts crying. I would have been more pissed than anything. Maybe I would have smeared all of the peanut butter and shove the taco in Patrick's face... or somewhere else on his body... SpongeBob is then placed in an incredibly goofy outfit with dentures, and that ends up being his school picture. But hey! All the other humans in the yearbook are wearing mega dentures, too! Yeah, somehow he got into that yearbook. if you were trying to make us laugh, it didn't work.
All in all, this episode wasn't bad at first... at all, actually. It kind of reminded me of Missing Identity with SpongeBob having OCD, but then it gradually just got more boring, and then incredibly stupid to the point where it was hard to function once Patrick came along. Why isn't he a sophistacated idiot anymore? Y'know, with the humor that isn't constantly idiotic? I don't know? But do any of us???
Aired: 2007
Least Favorite Character: :patboo:
Least Favorite Part: The ending, even before the very end.
CLUE: Good thing he doesn't have one of these. :patrick: