Wait so modern spongebob makes Patrick into a Ned Flanders annoying neighbor character? That’s the stupidest fucking thing. Seriously how you gonna break up that friendship
Season 4 SpongeBob hollowed out the characters. Anything after the movie turns the characters into caricatures. Squidward is just there as a punching bag, SpongeBob is obnoxious, Patrick is just dumb, Sandy is just a scientist.
I remember watching that Karate Island episode when it came out as a kid and realizing that SpongeBob was over.
My kid was into SpongeBob, and wanted to watch them all on Paramount Plus. I was trying to get him to stick to the older ones. The new ones are indeed crap.
While “Flanderization” is named after Ned Flanders, it doesn’t refer to making a character more like Flanders specifically. It refers more generally to oversimplifying a character to a lazy stereotype, losing any depth or complexity. In the case of Patrick Star, it’s referring to him changing from being just a bit simple-minded to being an absolute moron.
Wait so modern spongebob makes Patrick into a Ned Flanders annoying neighbor character? That’s the stupidest fucking thing. Seriously how you gonna break up that friendship
Season 4 SpongeBob hollowed out the characters. Anything after the movie turns the characters into caricatures. Squidward is just there as a punching bag, SpongeBob is obnoxious, Patrick is just dumb, Sandy is just a scientist.
I remember watching that Karate Island episode when it came out as a kid and realizing that SpongeBob was over.
This is the correct take glad we thought the same
My kid was into SpongeBob, and wanted to watch them all on Paramount Plus. I was trying to get him to stick to the older ones. The new ones are indeed crap.
While “Flanderization” is named after Ned Flanders, it doesn’t refer to making a character more like Flanders specifically. It refers more generally to oversimplifying a character to a lazy stereotype, losing any depth or complexity. In the case of Patrick Star, it’s referring to him changing from being just a bit simple-minded to being an absolute moron.