The new ones are so awful, it actually fills me with pain to think about them.
If this show had stopped after the movie was released, every individual who grew up with Spongebob would have been a lot happier. Someone needs to take a stand against Nickelodeon, for subjecting us to watch this garbage that used to be gold.
In summation, if the look of a show is important to you, maybe you should stay away from the newer episodes of this far too long-running TV series. In fact, all the characters express far too intense emotions at times that are either very annoying, or borderline scary. Spongebob's face, for example, conveys far too much happiness and ecstasy, to the point were it gets a tad frightening. The newer episodes' animation features brighter colors, rounder, thicker characters, and obnoxious details that really should have been left out. I don't know what happened, but I think the older episodes looked a lot better, and more rugged like other cartoons such as The Angry Beavers (great show, by the way). I also have a few things to say about the animation. The writers for the show were running out of ideas-I could tell. The verbal jokes were incredibly lazy and dry, and many times felt forced. But nothing at all was even a tiny bit amusing. None of the jokes were funny! I found myself sitting there, trying to FORCE myself to laugh. I was horrified at what I saw there was no actual humor, just attempts at humor that fell extremely flat. But then, one day I decided to watch a newer episode of Spongebob. The old episodes were incredibly witty, and appealing to all ages. And speaking of annoying, the show itself has simply lost it's touch with the humor.
Whatever the reason is, it doesn't change the fact that it is incredibly annoying. Maybe Tom Kenny's overused the voice and now he's losing it. On top of all that, his voice has become incredibly high pitched and nerve-grating. Yeah, no one should let their kid mimic this kind of behavior. And he doesn't cry for a few seconds in a funny way, he cries for minutes on end like an unfortunate soul burning in hell meaning that it is mentally painful to watch. One minute he is unbearably and obnoxiously ecstatic for no reason, and the next he is screaming and crying like a particularly difficult baby. It is a widely-known fact that kids imitate what they see and believe me when I say that you DON'T want them imitating "Spongebob." He is far too emotionally disturbed. I really feel that kids should not be allowed to watch him anymore. That obnoxious, overly-emotional yellow square in the newer episodes? That is not Spongebob. Nowadays, our favorite undersea sponge has been cut down, degraded, and utterly destroyed. Oh, don't get me wrong the movie was pure gold! But since then, the great Stephen Hillenburg left the show and allowed it to rot away. My friends and I recite lines from the old episodes all the time, and we still laugh at them! Then, the movie came. It was charming, clever, and genuinely hilarious. Santa leaves Bikini Bottom, only for Patrick to put him in a jellyfish net when Santa is flying by the moon.Once upon a time, Spongebob Squarepants was the largest jewel in Nickelodeon's crown. Meanwhile, one of Santa's elves finds the wind-up key that proves Plankton was involved with the naughtiness, and he gets piled under coal. SpongeBob fights and destroys Robo-SpongeBob with the fruitcake dispenser.
Santa also says that SpongeBob is the worst of all when the Robo-SpongeBob comes to kill Santa and destroy Christmas.
However, it is too late as when Santa Claus arrives, he says everyone is on the naughty list, sans Plankton, who gets the Krabby Patty formula.
SpongeBob begins singing and cures everyone from their jerktonium trance, bringing back their Christmas spirit. SpongeBob begins to suspect something is up when everyone acts like jerks, and goes to Sandy, who realizes what is happening, and the antidote happens to be song.
Plankton realizes that SpongeBob is so full of Christmas spirit, he is immune to jerktonium, so he sends out a Robo-SpongeBob to commit naughty deeds to defame SpongeBob. First, he gives the fruitcake to SpongeBob to test it, but he is resistant to the jerktonium, and upset that his plan failed, gives his fruitcake dispenser to SpongeBob, who promptly distributes the fruitcake to all of Bikini Bottom, turning all the residents into jerks, like Plankton intended. However, he reveals to Karen his latest discovery: jerktonium, the substance that will turn anyone into a jerk, and cooks into fruitcake he intends to spread around Bikini Bottom. Plankton, however, is miserable, having committed so many naughty acts, he is on the naughty list and won't receive his Christmas wish - the Krabby Patty formula. It's Christmas and SpongeBob is the happiest person in Bikini Bottom, while Squidward remains grumpy and Patrick attempts to capture Santa Claus.