Season 1 just hits different, yknow

Season 1 just hits different, yknow

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yeah it was great
after all these years it still holds up. I probably love it even more on rewatch and realize how hilarious even more of the jokes are

Makes we wanna be five again

This is my favorite season as well.

Season 2 and 3 have higher highs, but aren't as consistent, and start to flanderize characters (Patrick and Mr. Krabs, in particular) which will eventually get out of control.

Valentine's Day is boring, just 11 minutes of Patrick being autistic
>inb4 HEART MAN
yeah what else fag? nothing

It's crazy to me how literally nothing else measures up. I've had some shows I really fucking loved over the years, but it's like early SpongeBob had some secret ingredient no one else has been able to replicate since, not even other old shows I'm nostalgic for have it.

It's just the fact that the crew is trying to figure things out while Hillenberg had probably been working on this show in his head for the 10 years beforehand.

Season 1 is the only one to use cel animation. It really gives it a different feel. The humor is also more sophisticated

Zoomers hate season 1

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It's the art style and writing. No bad episodes and it's comfy.

Whoever made this is retarded. I bet they think Season 4 is absolute gold

>Some literally who's opinion (inb4 they're some eceleb faggot, still a literally who)
>Representative of literally every single person younger than 25
Fuck off retard

Seething

>Meme response
Oof yikes cringe dilate have sex cope cringe etc

Autism the list.

I can tell you were born after 95

>rock bottom
>bad

I wasn't but I wish I was so I could at least have some excuse for browsing this wastedump of a site anymore

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Just in: Zoomers only enjoy the taste of tide pods as well as their own corn-ridden shit, more news at 11.

Extremely accurate. The Mickey Mouse of our generation.

The genius of Spongebob simply can't be encapsulated properly in language. There is absolutely NO REASON why any of it should have worked at all. I mean, imagine if you were an executive of a network and I came to you and pitched a show involving a bucktoothed tie-wearing freckle-having seasponge who lives inside a pineapple house with his pet snail Gary, neighbors to a clarinet-playing squid who lives in an art bust and a lazy starfish who wears shorts and lives under a rock, and works as a fry cook at a fast food restaurant owned by a money-grubbing krab who has a whale for a daughter and has to routinely prevent a plankton with a robot wife from stealing the formula for his signature menu item.

It's the most random collection of elements I've ever encountered in any piece of media, and yet it's one of the most genius pieces of media I have ever encountered.

There is no formula which Spongebob followed to reach success, nor one that can be used to dissect it working so well.

It's simply a masterwork of imagination and will always inhabit a league of its own, with no other shows of its generation (and most generations) being able to achieve the indescribable factor of brilliance it managed to do so effortlessly.

Sorry, I hate gushing about things but Spongebob is seriously such an incredible piece of art. It's like, everyone KNOWS how brilliant it is that they never really even stop to discuss it in detail because it's so obvious and needs no saying, but I feel like the show deserves more explicit praise than it receives.

I don't like to use the word "genius" but Hillenberg and all the people who brought Spongebob to life were seriously tuned into another creative wavelength when they made the first seasons of this show.

Exactly. Stephen Hillenberg had his own vision of what type of cartoon he wanted to make. He did what made sense to him and that's why the show turned out so well.

>Texas
>BAD

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Early Spongebob is like the perfect balance of smart, character-driven, dialogue and situation based humor (as exemplified by The Simpsons and South Park) and wacky, cartoony, slapsticky surreal humor (exemplified by Looney Tunes and Ren and Stimpy).

The characters, the jokes are smart, and there's some sort of grounding in reality. But it never feels like it's ashamed to be a cartoon and would rather be a live-action sitcom.

Stephen Hillenburg also brought much of his lived experiences (teacher, marine biologist, fry cook) to the show, as did the writers, so it doesn't feel like the work of people whose only experience with other people comes from circa-1965 MAD Magazine and the Harvard Lampoon.

Based. Spongebob is on par with Mickey Mouse or Mario in terms of brilliance

Excellent post, Spongebob is one of those shows that managed to fire on every single cylinder in a way that you almost never see from any medium, never mind cartoons. I think that even in 100 years people will look back on those first three seasons with reverence.

Kill yourself Pieguy

This reeks of zoomer

Dude....

It gets worse.

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When did it really start to go down hill? What season marks the end of solid Spongebob?

Anything after 2004 is shit

4. It had some good moments but they were mostly leftovers from 3 and it's a pretty notable decline if you watch them side by side.

Season 5. After that it never came back.

Zoomers weren't even born yet retard

To be fair, S2 and S3 were better.

Only Zoomers unironically think SpongeBob is that good since they didn't grow up with Simpsons or Batman TAS

Season 4 had a couple decent episodes, but was otherwise pretty meh. It never recovered.