The Sponge Who Could Fly

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orlygirl1235

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I'm interested in hearing a different take on Spongebob's "Lost Episode". From what I remember, it was a pretty hated episode and considered a shark-jumping moment for Spongebob.

I agree that the songs in it were uninspired and trite, and the Patchy wraparounds were lacking, but aside from that, this is a prety good later Spongebob. Sponge's Wile E. Coyote-esque attempts at flying were funny, the running gag with Farmer Jenkins was also funny, the funeral everyone holds for Spongebob's pants is worth a chuckle, and it boasts one of the greatest quotes in SB history; "I was supposed to be a concert pianist, until I realized I didn't have any fingers".

Really, this episode should be liked in spite of its shortcomings.
 
I like the episode, it's one of my favorites. Especially the fake Lost Episode with Spongebob and his walk cycle, I crack up everytime I see it.



What does that mean? I looked up the meaning of "Jumping the shark" but it seems like people have their own idea of what it means.
 
It's been a while since I've seen it, so I should rewatch it again with fresh eyes. But from what I remember, it wasn't one of their better outings. Ironically, I liked the fake "lost SpongeBob" episode (including Patchy destroying all his SpongeBob merchandise in a blind rage) more than the real one.
 
I think the dislike comes from the fact that it's supposed to be a super special LOST EPISODE of Spongebob.

All it was was an average episode extended a few minutes with Patchy wraparounds.
 
^Just a promontional thing for SB.It may be that the episode wasn't picked for whatever reason earlier in it's season,but I've seen "lost episodes" of shows before.They're pegged.
 
It's not a bad episode, just overhyped. I think the worst Spongebob "event" was for Plankton's Army. They had a huge special event for what was a regular episode. No Patchy wraparounds, nothing distinct, just a regular 11-minute segment (not even full length!) paired with another 11-minute segment.

What a big load of nothing.
 
Around the tail end of season 3 was when Nick began hyping any and all new Spongebob episodes to high heaven, despite their quality. They also got the great idea of only airing one 11-minute segment at a time to squeeze every last ounce of ratings...juice...they could out of the sponge. Keep in mind back then the future of the show was up in the air.
 
But that's not even it. Both segments were all-new and as one full episode, but Nick treated the first half (and the first half alone) as a special event anyway. With that said, I hate Nick's new air-one-segment-at-a-time policy. Why can't they air their show's seasons normally and in one regular run like all the other television stations? :shrug:
 
Because the longer it takes to go through a season, the less episodes Nick has to buy, and the more they can profit from what they already have. Sure, the fans don't care much for it, but from a network's perspective, it's brilliant.
 
Adult Swim does the 15-minute trick all the time, but there, it's more advanced. They ALWAYS air the segments in a random order. Sometimes they even do a segment from one show and then a segment from another. Then again, I haven't seen Adult Swim in a LONG time.
 
Well, the difference there is that most of the AS originals are that long. Usually each episode is 11-13 minutes long. With Spongebob, its two 11-minute segments that make up one episode.
 
It wasn't bad, it was actually better than average, but there was such a big hype for it and all of the big promotions, I was expecting it to be the best Spongebob episode yet. It was like they could have showed a huge Spongebob marathon in front of plenty of episodes that were just as good.
 
Yes but "The Sponge Who Could Fly" didn't ruin the show forever. Someone explain to me what was so wrong in this episode that it destroyed the show completely? Because nothing like that happened.
 
The Sponge who could Fly is probably one of the better episodes. If anything "Jumped the shark" on Spongebob it had to be the horrible Plankton gets the secret recipe hype marathon.
 
I apologize. The phrase "ruined FOREVER" is a term thrown around in fan communities when people overreact to things they see as shark jumping moments before they happen.

To give a better explanation, it's generally a convenient point to say "______ was when I officially decided that the show wasn't worth watching anymore".

In this case, it's a cross between Nick taking 2 years (!) to show all 11 episodes of season 3, the fact that those 11 episodes were mostly poor-to-mediocre, and the fact that Nick started over-advertising the hell out of every new episode. There were a couple of great episodes that aired after this (Chocolate with Nuts and The Camping Episode), but they were so few and far between that everyone simply stopped putting up with it. To make matters worse, only 6 episodes played between this and the movie (and by extension, the post-movie episodes), including the overhyped "Spongebob BC", "Plankton's Army", "Missing Identity", and "Pranks a lot".

In short, a lot of people see Lost Episode as the jumping point because "after the movie" doesn't include the episode drought and marathons leading up to mediocre episodes that I named earlier. Also to it's disadvantage, one complaint about the post-movie episodes is that they have too many bad songs, and a lot of people see the singing in The Lost Episode to be the point when this started. (even though it really wasn't)
 
While I agree that "Ugh" (Spongebob BC) wasn't a very good episode, I don't see what's wrong with "Plankton's Army", "Missing Identity" and "Pranks A Lot". Care to elaborate.

That's only if you consider those episodes mediocre. And I personally think most of season 3 holds up really well, especially in retrospect. And the episode drought was essential in dragging out airings of new content in order to keep people interested in the movie. And considering the movie did well enough to keep the series going the way it has I think it was a good decision.

I just don't see where everyone has this idea that there are too many songs on the show. I just don't see it. Yes, the characters sing from time to time but I don't see it as an issue the way a lot of people here seem to.
 
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