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Minority Report (2002)
"Everybody Runs"
Minority Report is a movie loosely based on the story "A Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. (I say loosely based because the original story was a short story.)Steven Spielberg directed it, and this movie is excellently executed. The story is about a chief law enforcer who's able to stop crimes before they happen, so there hasn't been a single murder in five years. He thinks everything about the system is perfect, until he's predicted to kill a person he never knew. Dodging law enforcement and danger, he takes a PreCog to help him get to the bottom of the crime, but he becomes convinced that the would be victim took his son from him years ago and he just might die for that. The plot of this movie was very interesting and it had a great plot twist. However, the story gets a little confusing at some parts and the very ending of it dosen't fit very well.
The movie has great special effects and action sequences, and none of scenes just go into the "the special effects are so cool that we don't need to tell the story right." The title really isn't a very good title for the movie, but that's all I'm going to say about it.
All in all, this is a great movie and I recommend that you watch it.
Arthur: Arthur Writes a Story/Arthur's Lost Dog (1996)
Arthur Writes a Story/Arthur's Lost Dog
Arthur Writes a Story-Based on the "Arthur Adventure" book of the same name by Marc Brown, Mr. Ratburn gives his class a writing assignment: you have to write a story about something that happened to you or something that you just made up. Arthur wants his story to be loved by absolutely loved by everyone, but, unfortunately, Arthur has to go through each stage of development hell to do it. First of all, Arthur wants to write the simple story of how he got his dog, Pal. (Several scenes from "Arthur's Pet Business" are shown in flashbacks.)However, DW finds out and tells Arthur that his story (and his life) is too boring. Arthur addresses DW's opinion, and tries to make it more exciting, but, with each draft he writes, the more it strays from real-life and more haters (all of them are Arthur's friends)and Arthur learns to write his story the way he wants to right it. This episode was pretty good. The plot line is relatable to just about any aspiring writer. I thought the episode had funny moments like when Arthur absent mindedly gets Mr. Haney into an accident and Arthur tells him he was too distracted thinking of elephants and Mr. Haney asks why he chose the job he chose and Binky saying "did this really happen," is funny.7/10 Arthur's Lost Dog-I used to like this episode, but, after seeing lately, I just can't stand this now. There's a big party in the middle of downtown and the Reads are celebrating with everyone else, and Buster. The beginning is the only part of this episode I can still tolerate: the bank is giving out free samples-pens-and everyone looks really mad. The rest of the episode falls apart. There's the recurring clown character again and he's carrying something Kate wants: balloons, but only Pal would know this, even after all the hints she sets up for the Reads and Buster. Pal decides to run off to the clown to give Kate the balloons, but, if you're an Arthur fan, than you'd remember that the clown is allergic to dogs, which complicates things. But that's not what's bad here, Kate+Reads+Buster subplot is the worst part. Ther'ye to figure out why Kate is crying, but they can't find a single thing wrong with her. Hello, Reads and Buster, didn't you notice that Kate stops crying whenever that clown guy and his balloons comes into view? Meanwhile, Arthur and Buster try to find where Pal went, but they can't find him anywhere. The search results into a chase scene between Arthur, Pal, Buster, Francine and Muffy, where, unfortunately, Arthur dosen't find Pal. Now,the next part is the ending, so if you don't me to "spoil the ending", don't read any further, even though it has a predictable end. You see, Arthur is starting to put out Missing Dog signs, but he stops himself and says that Pal will never come back. However, at that minute, Pal finally gets the balloons and goes to Arthur's house and into Kate's room where the crying Kate and Arthur's oblivious parents are. Pal gives Kate the balloons, is briefly punished for doing so, but Kate stops crying. Everything is wrapped up, but the parents, even with the addition of the balloons in the room, still have no idea about why Kate was crying! Pal gives a worried look to the parents. Clearly, he didn't like this episode either. 4/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: Shuffleboarding/Professor Squidward (2009)
One of the Worst
Shuffleboarding-In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick cause injury to Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, just as they're about to have a guest appearance at a shuffle boarding contest, so they give SpongeBob and Patrick very bad costumes to fill in for them. Now, it's up to the mindless replacement dynamic duo to arrest perfectly innocently oblivious townspeople for no reason at all. They arrested kids for playing outside, a gullible jail warden for not finishing a Krabby Patty, an elderly lady for being too old (I never imagined SpongeBob doing that)and, finally, their hardest foe, Man Ray and his old lady friend who are just talking and getting their clothes clean at a laundromat. Really, that's exactly how this episode plays out. Three minutes in, Patrick is ready for the shuffle boarding contest, but SpongeBob tells him that they already won the contest. Patrick, just like the audience, has no recollection of this at all, but were both forced to say that it all happened when we see a trophy. Then, starts off an unoriginal and very clichéd story that gets no worse this time around. There aren't any good jokes in this episode at all. SpongeBob and Patrick were justified in being suspicious of Man-Ray, but they should have realized that he was legitimate when he was at a laundromat; well, the normal SpongeBob would have. Here, SpongeBob and Patrick are acting completely out of character. For example, as I mentioned before, SpongeBob arrests an old lady for being too old, but the normal SpongeBob has a deep respect for the elderly.Here's another thing, SpongeBob and Patrick are never punished for their misdoings, the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are! The episode ends with SpongeBob saying a very meaningless and poor joke. 0.5/10 Professor Squidward- In this Squidward torture episode, Squidward is at one of Squilliam's concerts for some reason when he's mistaken for the real Squilliam, which he points out that he's not, but takes it back when he hears that Squilliam gets to teach a music class. In Squidward's music class, are a couple of normal children...and,guess who, none other than SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward tells them that he "legally" changed his name to "Squilliam," as an excuse. Then, we see a couple of cheesy gags from SpongeBob and Patrick. But here's the worst part, the climax: it's very offbeat and SpongeBob and Patrick find a very strange interest in using a metronome and they move in its exact movement while a newscrew is going to interview Squidward. Then, comes a very bad ending that proves once again that everyone in Bikini Bottom is a moron except for Squidward, but Squidward is a victim of everyone's idiocy. 1/10
Puckman (1980)
Classic
The concept of Pac-Man was conceived when the game developers where having lunch and they saw that they're pizza was cut in half, so they decided to make a classic arcade game about. The plot of the game is where you play a living pizza inside of a weird maze filled with evil ghosts that want to kill you (the red one is the most dangerous)and bright dots called Power Pellets that you have to collect in order to beat the level. There are four Power Pellets in the game that allow to, for a limited time, to give the ghosts a taste of their own medicine. There's not really that much of a story, but the concept is very intriguing and fun to play, and, at times, addictive. The music is great and memorable; especially the dying sound effect. They released several other versions of this game and several sequels, so I highly recommend that you play at least one of the them. At times, like any other video game, it gets very frustrating after awhile. All in all, it's a fun, classic video game.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy/Pickles (1999)
MermaidMan and Barnacle Boy/Pickles
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy-In the debut of the dynamic duo, we see SpongeBob and Patrick watching their favorite Saturday morning TV show of all:The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. They decide to dress up as the dynamic duo to play but, as usual, they end up annoying Squidward. The only way Squidward can get them to stop annoying him is to tell them to meet the real eldery Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (voice of the late Ernest Borginne and Tim Conway)at the Shady Shals Retirement home. They pay there heroes a visit, but they annoy Barnacle Boy instead by talking about their glory days. Barnacle Boy says that they're retired. In a series of hilarious scenes, SpongeBob and Patrick try to somehow get their heroes back to fighting crime, but everything fails until Barnacle Boy takes everything one step further and classifies SpongeBob and Patrick as "evil" and begins battles the oblivious two. This episode was hilarious, well-written and had good guest stars. The best parts are when Mermaid Man goes crazy after hearing the word "evil," the beginning and the end is hilarious. This episode spawned several sequels, comic books and video games.
Note: The elderly live-action sea captain is the person who guards the doors to Nickelodeon Studios in Burbank, CA.
Pickles-Bubble Bass, probably one of the most demanding, obnoxious and cheating customers ever to step through a fast-food restaurant wants to challenge SpongeBob to give a simple order: a Krabby Patty with Pickels. SpongeBob makes the Krabby Patty, but Bubble Bass claims that there aren't any pickles in the rudest way possible, where he gets a cash-back guarantee from a reluctant Mr. Krabs and screws up SpongeBob's life. SpongeBob just can't make another Krabby Patty, so Mr. Krabs gives him the day off and replaces him with Squidward for the time being. But it gets worse: Squidward ruins everyone's food and SpongEbob forgets how to do anything, period. Mr. Krabs pays SpongeBob a long visit in order to restore SpongeBob's confidence and sanity. This episode was very funny and one of the show's best. The most funny part where all the gags they used with Squidward filling in for SpongeBob.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Squid's Visit/To Squarepants or Not to Squarepants (2009)
Squid's Visit/To SqaurePants or Not to SqaurePants
Squid's Visit- SpongeBob really, really, really wants Squidward to visit his house, but Squidward hates SpongeBob, so he refuses, causing SpongeBob to become depressed and asks Patrick why Squidward visits him. (Squidward visited SpongeBob's house on "Nature Pants" and "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler." Squidward was probably forced to on "Nature Pants," but he seemed to be having a good time on the strangler episode.)Patrick tells Squidward that he steals one of Squidward's items and Squidward has to go into his house and get it back, causing SpongeBob to steal Squidward's vacuum. Squidward reluctantly goes into SpongeBob's house to retrieve, but is given a big shock: SpongeBob decorated every single thing in his house to match Squidward's. The writing is just creepy and just done for some unfunny Squidward torture jokes. There's no humor in here at all. 1/10 To SqaurePants or Not to SqaurePants-It's laundry day and SpongeBob washes all his square pants. However, after having to be forced to listen the longest and most pointless phone conversation he ever had with Patrick, all his signature clothing has been shrunk, and they're not to come into the store for awhile. However, SpongeBob finds a pair of round pants and wears them for the time being. However, Patrick is too stupid to recognize that it's SpongeBob and SpongeBob takes Sandy's compliment too seriously and begins to fear that nobody recognizes him. So, he decides to start all over again with trying to apply for a job at the Krusty Krab, but this time he decides to act more like Squidward. This episode is just stupid. You made a whole episode revolving around SpongeBob having to change the shape of his pants. Not much humor here, but there is a line that I thought was funny: When SpongeBob looks at his application he asks what a felony is and Squidward jokingly says it's when you're happy, making SpongeBob say he committed several felonies. 1/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: Krusty Towers/Mrs. Puff, You're Fired (2006)
"How should I know? Why don't you go ask my mother?"
Krusty Towers-Mr. Krabs has apparently just came from a vacation at a hotel that's motto is "we shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request." (With that in mind, you can easily tell what kinda things Mr. Krabs was doing). Everything was going great, until he got the bill. (Did he really think they weren't going to charge him?)Mr. Krabs is at first distraught that he has to pay all that money, but takes to his advantage: the money is in the hotels, so he remodels the Krusty Krab into a hotel. Mr. Krabs pretty much drives everyone away except for Patrick when he tells them they just can't buy food, but they have to rent a room. Squidward is the one that has to deal with Patrick's bizarre needs and wants, which makes him very angry, so angry that Mr. Krabs begins to regret his business decision: Squidward takes some time off from his job to rent a room in the hotel, and all his requests are basically made to manipulate Mr. Krabs. This episode is very funny. The best parts are what Patrick wants done and I like the scene where SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs try to arrange Squidward's mom to make cookies. 8/10 Mrs. Puff, You're Fired-The rules make it very clear:SpongeBob has failed way too many times at boating school, and, if he fails again, Mrs. Puff will be fired and replaced. Guess what? SpongeBob fails his driving test yet again, and Mrs. Puff is fired, much to her happiness. But the students aren't having as much fun as Mrs. Puff is:A very strict boating school teacher is her replacement and SpongeBob is the only person who isn't afraid of him. SpongeBob slowly succeeds with the new projects, but while wearing a blindfold. It's against the law to drive with a blindfold on, so, ironically, SpongeBob causes danger to all of Bikinni Bottom while looking at the street with his normal eyes. This episode was good, too. It's not exactly hilarious, but there are some funny moments like the fact that SpongeBob can only drive with a blindfold on. 7.5/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: Free Samples/Home Sweet Rubble (2012)
"It's not Home Sweet Pineapple, But it Could Be Worse."
Home Sweet Rumble-There's already an episode with a similar name and plot from the first season, Home Sweet Pineapple. I reviewed both of them so I can compare them. Here's the season 8 review. SpongeBob's pineapple is wilting while he's trying to feed Gary, but has to see all the damage that happened at his house. He finds out that his house is very crappy and needs to find a way to fix it before the whole falls apart. His friends are happy to lend a hand in remodeling his house, but their interests just don't work right with SpongeBob. At one point in the episode, SpongeBob says "it's not home sweet pineapple, but it could be worse." I agree with him. The genuine humor stops in the middle of the episode and then we have SpongeBob trying to co-exist with his new house, where random hit and miss jokes are thrown in. The ending of this episode is a little cheesy and makes the ending in "Home Sweet Pineapple" less dramatic. I did laugh at Patrick's dream and how he unenthusiastically said "SpongeBob's house is boring. It's rotting today. We're doomed." This was an OK episode, but wasn't necessary.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Pizza Delivery/Home Sweet Pineapple (1999)
Classic Episode
Pizza Delivery- Mr. Krabs finds out that a customer would pay money if there was a "Krusty Krab Pizza" delivered to their house. Immediately, Mr. Krabs forces an overjoyed SpongeBob and a reluctant Squidward to delivery a "pizza." However, the simple delivery becomes more than they bargained for when they in the middle of a desert, natural disasters and a starving Squidward tries his best to trick SpongeBob into eating the pizza with him, but there's no way SpongeBob will give in. This episode is hilarious. SpongeBob's ideas of what the pioneers did-and Squidward's reactions to them-are the best parts of the whole episode.
Home Sweet Pineapple-There was a recent episode with a similar plot and title, so I wanted to compare them. Here's the review for the season 1 episode. A wave of nematodes come to Bikinni Bottom in the middle of the night, eating everything they can get to, including SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob is now homeless, but Patrick suggests to build a new house. Hilarious mistake ensues. When that fails, SpongeBob and Patrick decide to spend the night together. Hilarious mistake ensues. When that fails, SpongeBob, half-desperate, decides to spend the night with Squidward. Again, hilarious mistake ensues. SpongeBob comes up with his most dreadful decision: he has to leave Bikinni Bottom and stay with his parents. Squidward is happy, but he's the only one. This is very well done. It's hilarious and a little emotional. These two episodes are two of the best of the series.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Survival of the Idiots/Dumped (2001)
"I thought what we had here was special!"
Survival of the Idiots-Yes, SpongeBob and Patrick have always been idiots, but, hence the title, they take their idiocy even farther. In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick want to play with Sandy, but she's hibernating because it's snowing in her treedome. The snow is unfamiliar to SpongeBob and Patrick, so they have their fun, but get very cold. So, what other choice do they have but rip off some of Sandy's fur? When SpongeBob and Patrick are doing this, they hear Sandy talking about Texas outlaws and, just for laughs, they decide to imitate them. Big mistake. Sandy is immediately woken up from hibernation prematurely and she believes that they're really notorious outlaws and she won't stop until they're dead. About SpongeBob and Patrick's idiocy being pushed farther, you see, unlike the new episodes, where SpongeBob and Patrick act so stupid that they're oblivious and just annoying and off putting, they're actually funny here; telling classic jokes. Here's the reason why. You see, in this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick knew what was going on, they were just foolish to trick a hibernating Sandy. I like an example of idiocy in this episode instead of what they do in the new ones.8/10 Dumped- SpongeBob and Patrick are having fun, playing some sort of game. At the end of the day, Gary is affectionate of Patrick and they have a sleepover, much to SpongeBob's joy. However, SpongeBob finds himself in an emotional breakdown when Gary seems to rather want to play with Patrick instead of SpongeBob. SpongeBob wants to replace Gary with another pet, but his at finding a replacement fail miserably. SpongeBob just wants Gary back, but Gary prefers Patrick. Or does he? This episode is executed well and has a great ending. The only thing I don't like is how Patrick treats SpongeBob. He acts like a conceited jerk to SpongeBob. (I don't think it's as bad as "I'm With Stupid"). What's more is that I think they're both overreacting a bit. SpongeBob and Patrick hang out with each other all day long, so why don't they just include Gary? Ah, well, if the writers did that, then this episode might have been bad. 8/10
A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007)
One of My Least Favorite Holiday Films
Another live-action Dennis the Menace is released. In this one, Dennis enjoys Christmas, but he finds out that his neighbor, Mr. Wilson, is deeply disgusted by it. (What a surprise.)Dennis attempts to get Mr. Wilson into the Christmas, but everything he does is done so badly that I'm starting to think he actually planned it to be bad. Because of him, Mr. Wilson is poisoned, arrested, injured and among other things. I'm not one for physical humor (i.e getting arrested or injured for laughs),and I know it's just a show, but it's just gross and very rude how these "jokes" are executed. Next, in the story, after depressing Dennis, Mr. Wilson is given a "Dicken's twist" by having him be Scrooge and he's to find out that if he ruins Christmas for Dennis, then Dennis will grow up to be very grouchy, like Mr. Wilson. The story is very unoriginal and it dosen't at all do justice for either the "Dennis the Menace" comics or "A Christmas Carol." In my opinion, both Dennis and Mr. Wilson went too far. It's justified that Mr. Wilson needs to lighten up, but Dennis trying to make him a decent Christmas is actually wrong. He should have gotten help by his parents before he did anything to Mr. Wilson.
SpongeBob SquarePants: It's a SpongeBob Christmas! (2012)
OK, But I Liked the First One Better
It's a SpongeBob Christmas/Tis the Season to be Jerky-In a stop-motion world of Bikinni Bottom, Christmastime is coming once again and everyone's excited...except for Squidward, but this episode's not about him. Plankton wants to ask Santa Claus for the secret formula to the Krabby Patty, but he's too evil to get it, so he creates a fruitcake that contains the aptly named element "Jerktonium" and which SpongeBob foolishly gives to everyone in Bikinni Bottom.(In my opinion, they're already jerks, they're just nice around Christmas). However, SpongeBob's too merry to turn into a jerk, so Plankton builds an evil robot that's based on SpongeBob (the design really is bad and off, but it's enough to fool Bikinni Bottom)to act rudely. It's up to SpongeBob to destroy his evil counterpart and bring the joys of Christmas back to Bikinni Bottom. The story sounds very familiar to me, so it's not very original. I don't think the stop-motion was really necessary, but he didn't hurt the show too much, but the Bikinni Bottom citizens as jerks looked a little gross and for, some reason, Pearl just dosen't look right here. This episode was based on the song "Don't be a Jerk, It's Christmas," which SpongeBob sings at the end, like the "Best Day Ever," (In my opinion, this was better than "Best Day Ever")and includes another decent song at the beginning: "Santa's Got His Jolly Little Eyes on Me." This is a decent SpongeBob episode, but it's not one of the best.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Christmas Who? (2000)
Merry Christmas, SpongeBob
Patchy the Pirate segment- Patchy is very excited for his Christmas party and he has a lot of things planned...if only his trouble making parrot, Potty, would stop messing everything up. Patchy decides to take a break and tell us how SpongeBob and all of Bikinni Bottom felt about their first Christmas.
Christmas Who?- Sandy is very excited for Christmas to come, and is surprised when SpongeBob has no clue of what Christmas is. Sandy tells SpongeBob all about the holiday. SpongeBob tells everyone in Bikinni Bottom all about the holiday and everyone excepts with full arms. However, there is a curmudgeon to this Christmas special, too, and this time,it's Squidward, who tells everyone in Bikinni Bottom that Christmas isn't possible and poor SpongeBob believes he's right when Santa Claus dosen't visit Bikinni Bottom. However, SpongeBob decides to give Squidward a gift that gives Squidward a guilty conscience because of the way he treated everyone and he decides to don the red suit and save Christmas. This episode is very well done and hilarious. The song "This Feels Like the Very First Christmas to Me" is well-done and has several good jokes in it. My favorite part is when Patchy the Pirate is pretending to sail SpongeBob and Patrick on a boat in a thunderstorm. This was a great Christmas special. 8/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: Snowball Effect/One Krab's Trash (2002)
Snowball Effect/One Krab's Trash
Snowball Efeect- All of Bikinni Bottom is blanketed in snow, much to SpongeBob's joy. He teaches Patrick how to throw a snowball and the two enter an all-out snowball war, which, as you might have guessed, annoys Squidward, who is torn between SpongeBob and Patrick as an ally. Squidward is able to convince SpongeBob and Patrick to stop fighting, but, hoping the war would cause severe and senseless injuries to them, he tries to convince them into fighting again. SpongeBob and Patrick suggest that Squidward so fight them, too, but Squidward takes it a little too seriously and is more intense than they anticipated. This episode was very funny and well-written. My favorite parts are Patrick's failed attempts to make a snowball and Squidward's concerns about his fort at the end.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Born Again Krabs/I Had an Accident (2003)
Born Again Krabs/I Had an Accident
Born Again Krabs- SpongeBob finds a rancid Krabby Patty under the stove. He tries to dispose of it immediately, but Mr. Krabs won't have it that way. The smell and appearance of the Krabby Patty is enough to set everyone as far from the Krusty Krab as possible. Though SpongeBob and Squidward warn him not to, Mr. Krabs eats the Krabby Patty and has near-death experiment. The Flying Dutchman decides to make a deal with Mr. Krabs: he'll get one more day to live, and, if does good things, then he'll get his life back, but, if he does one bad thing, then it's off to "Davy Jones's Locker" for his eternal punishment. This is darker than the typical episode, but, like usual, it provides light comedy and wackiness that any age would find funny. The Flying Duthman's reaction to SpongeBob is the best part of the episode. 7.5/10 I Had an Accident/Safety Freak-SpongeBob is just skiing with his friends Sandy and Patrick, but the day of fun ends horribly when SpongeBob has a very painful injury. Everything checks out fine at the hospital, but if SpongeBob hurts himself like that again, then he'll have a depressing existence for the rest of his life. He vows never to leave his living room ever again, which causes Sandy and Patrick try to figure out a way to make SpongeBob go outside. But it's not until an evil, live-action gorilla comes in and changes everything. This episode has some great gags such as Patrick playing a video game on a ski slope, Patrick's ideas of fun, SpongeBob's antics indoors and the ending is the best part of the episode. 8.5/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob's Last Stand (2010)
SpongeBob's Last Stand
In this 30 minute environmental-themed SpongeBob special, SpongeBob, Patrick and Mr. Krabs find themselves in the middle of huge problem: there's going to be a giant highway that threatens the existence of Jellyfish Fields, the Krusty Krab (maybe Mr. Krabs shouldn't have voted for it)and, possibly, all of Bikinni Bottom. Nobody is going to help them out and everyone in town is in favor of it. Can SpongeBob convince the townspeople that a giant highway cutting through the wilderness isn't a good idea. I usually like it when a TV show makes an episode like this. This episode dosen't have any big laughs (probably just a few smiles). This episode's best parts are SpongeBob and Patrick's songs, Plankton quoting "Gone with the Wind", the scene that shows the voting for the highway and the climax is set up well. All in all, this episode isn't great, but it's still enjoyable.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Krab Borg/Rock-a-Bye Bivalve (2002)
Krab Borg/Rock-a-Bye Bivalve
Krab Borg- In this episode, after watching a "late night scary movie," SpongeBob starts to become paranoid when he suspects that everything is an evil robot. At work, he and Squidward soon become convinced that, after a series of strange coincidences, Mr. Krabs is actually a robot bent on world domination. The jokes in this episode are very memorable. The best ones are either Mr. Krabs's "robot noises" or Squidward's "why couldn't an eleven year old see a pirate movie?" (It's a little cheesy if try to say like a normal joke, but the interaction between the characters in that scene make the scene hilarious.) 7.5/10 Note: The live-action character running from the robot on the movie is Dan Povenmire.
Rock-a-Bye-Bivalve- In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick find a scallop that's too young to learn how to fly so they take it in as their own (SpongeBob takes up the role of a stereotyped housewife and Patrick takes up the role of a stereotyped husband). Inneundoes galore set up the story where SpongeBob is increasingly angry with Patrick because he won't do his part for the scallop. This is one of the funniest and possibly the most controversial episode. (It's a good thing that the censors didn't try to cut anything out or even ban it.) There several jokes; either physical humor or innuendos. The funniest parts of the episode is the running gag where Patrick is addicted to a TV show in which nothing happens but a character gets hit in the head with a coconut. This is a great episode, but I'm also a little mad about this. This is one of the reasons why people think that SpongeBob is gay.I'm very annoyed when people say something like this, but I'm also annoyed that on some of the new episodes it seems like they're trying to make SpongeBob gay and even I think it's weird how SpongeBob is stalking Squidward. 7.5/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: Procrastination/I'm with Stupid (2001)
My Least Favorite Episode of the "Pre-Movie Era"
I'm With Stupid is an episode of SpongeBob SqaurePants. In this one, Patrick is in a state of panic when he discovers that his parents are visiting him and he thinks that they believe that he's a complete moron. SpongeBob reluctantly pretends to be an idiot so Patrick's "parents" (if you watch this one, you'll know why I put it in quotations)-who bear a resemblance to Homer and Marge Simpson-would respect Patrick more. However, the masquerade works all too well when Patrick starts to believe SpongeBob is really that stupid, causing him to prove he's smart. The story in this episode was a decent idea, but I thought it was poorly executed. Several elements of the episode are just a mess and, throughout the whole thing, Patrick just acts a total (donkey)to SpongeBob. 4.5/10 Procrastination-In this episode, SpongeBob, much to his joy, is given a ridicoulously long essay to write before he goes to school the next day about what not to do at a stoplight. However, SpongeBob often gets distracted while writing his essay from eraser shavings to his chair. It's up to a surreal and creepy dream to teach SpongeBob a lesson about doing work. This episode is set up better than I'm With Stupid and has funnier jokes. 6.5/10
SpongeBob SquarePants: All That Glitters/Wishing You Well (2006)
Season 4, Episode 12/12b
All That Glitters- SpongeBob is given the job of making a ridiculously large Krabby Patty for a customer. SpongeBob faces a terrible experience when his favorite anthropomorphic spatula, Spats, breaks. It's taken the hospital and SpongeBob decides to get a new spatula-which costs him all his clothes. The new robot spatula turns out to be too stuck up to make a few patties, so SpongeBob tries to get his old spatula back in the job. This episode isn't too funny and it dosen't have any deep emotional story either. The only good part was the conversation with the doctor at the beginning. 4.5/10 Wishing You Well- Mr. Krabs sees a great money-making scheme: build a wishing well and take everyone's money at the end of the day. He tells SpongeBob-who's a firm believer of magic-to collect the money, and later Patrick and Squidward find themselves in the well. After many strange antics, SpongeBob and Patrick dig deeper in the well and actually find the magic. This episode is much funnier and has a better story than All That Glitters. My favorite part was when SpongeBob and Patrick believe "claustrophobic" meant he was afraid of Santa Claus. This is an episode where Mr. Krabs plays the role of the antagonist-or, at least close to one-and I find episodes like that interesting. 6.5/10
A.N.T. Farm (2011)
Disney is No Longer the Master of Television
ANT Farm is one of Disney Channel's newest and worst TV shows. Disney is responsible for creating classic movies and TV shows. But Disney Channel, unfortunately, isn't working out very well. In this TV show, these prodigies are about 11 and do completely exaggerated high school things. The concept of the show dosen't amount to much and it seems extremely familiar and rather unoriginal. The jokes are bad and just come off as annoying. The only shows that are still left on Disney Channel that I think are worth watching are Phineas and Ferb, Good Luck Charlie and Jessie. (mainly the "Shining" episode). I don't recommend this show. There's nothing good to say about this show.
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Krusty Sponge/Sing a Song of Patrick (2007)
Pretty Funny
The Krusty Sponge is an episode of SpongeBob SqaurePants. In this episode, a food critic name Gene Scallop (a downright parody of the movie critic Gene Schalit, who even voices the character)says the Krusty Krab is a terrible place, but SpongeBob is "no square" when it comes to frycooking, starting a zany and obsessive sponge-themed restaurant, but things go too far when Mr. Krabs sells "yellow patties." This is a pretty good episode. It has a decent story and a few satirical jokes. 6.5/10
Sing a Song of Patrick is one of my favorite episodes of SpongeBob SqaurePants. In this episode, Patrick decides to enter a song-writing contest and tries to forget about his dreaded "poem recital" in gym class. SpongeBob and Patrick like the song, (but they like almost everything)but, as the debut of the song comes, it causes humorous scenes of death, angry mobs and other things. This episode is actually pretty funny. The song is funny if you listen to it. 7/10
Rugrats: I Remember Melville/No More Cookies (1994)
Great
I Remember Melville is an episode of Rugrats. In this episode, Chuckie takes a bug and names it Melville. Unfortunately, Chuckie's new pet passed away and Chuckie tries to deal with it. This episode has good writing and is emotional. It's not as moving as the Mother's Day episode or the second movie, but the writers did a good job on it. 7.5/10 No More Cookies is an episode of Rugrats. In this episode, Angelica stuffs herself with too many cookies, resulting in a stomachache. Angelica swears them off and tells Tommy to get rid of them. However, she remembers her emotional and funny past with cookies and tries to stop Tommy before it's too late. This episode is well done. My favorite part was when the parents wanted infant Angelica to walk to mom or dad, but chose the cookies. 7/10
A Bug's Life (1998)
Tried to Be Creative, But Dosen't Work Out
PIXAR's second full-length movie, and the first completely computer generated movie to appear in widescreen, A Bug's Life, dosen't work out. In this movie, clumsy but creative inventor ant Flick accidentally ruins the food for the villainous grasshoppers. He uses the help of a group of insects who are actually circus bugs to defend the ant colony from the grasshoppers. The story is OK, but most of the characters aren't very good. I thought that Hopper and Flick were the only good characters in this movie. The jokes were poorly delivered. The only good joke I found in this movie was "he stared in a film called "Picnic." This is actually what I thought was the worst of the PIXAR films. If you're a big fan of PIXAR movies, then you may watch this, but isn't not done very well. My Rating: */****
SpongeBob SquarePants: Culture Shock/F.U.N. (1999)
My Favorite Episode
Culture Shock is my favorite episode of SpongeBob SqaurePants. In this episode, the Krusty Krab is having an unsteady lack of customers and Mr. Krabs asks SpongeBob and Squidward ways to improve their publicity. After many bizarre but funny ideas from SpongeBob, Squidward agrees with Mr. Krabs that they should do a Krusty Krab talent show, with SpongeBob as the janitor and Squidward as "the show stopper." However, not everything works out as planned. Pretty funny episode, good story, well done. I actually thought that Squidward's act was the best part of the episode.
F.U.N is another great episode of SpongeBob. As his latest attempt to steal the secret formula to the Krabby Patty, Plankton hangs out with SpongeBob. SpongeBob teaches Plankton about fun (via a catchy song) and believes that Plankton gave up on being evil in general. But Mr. Krabs is as suspicous as ever. This episode has a good song and a story.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Inception in Reverse
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a little known science fiction movie of 2004. (I never heard of it until I watched The Simpsons episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind.) In this movie, basically the movie Inception in reverse, a woman erases all her memories of her boyfriend, who decides to do the same thing. However, when deleting his memories, he feels that he's still attracted to her and tries to go back in his memory and stop his mind from being erased. The movie had a very interesting and imaginative story and it was also pretty complicated.
The acting was great. I recommend this movie to anyone.
My Rating *****/*****