Post-Movie can be applied, but we're far beyond that and have been on Post-Sequel for years now.
I always see people complain about the heavy usage of overexaggerated expressions, and while most of them aren't my personal tastes of animation. I think the issue a lot of people ignore is how the writing of the humor and especially the characters, which I feel has really been awful.
Sit through most episodes of Season 9-12 and the writing of Squidward or Patrick have really ruined their characters more than Post-Movie has (which was already bad to begin with), Squidward has become over the top unlikeable and looks even more of a doofus with his actions in certain episodes/expressions and Patrick is even more braindead than ever that it's hard to tell which character is worse nowadays.
Krabs and Sandy also show signs of flanderization (Krabs in Out of the Picture and Sandy in Squirrel Jelly), probably more episodes but I don't even want to waste my time seeing more of this era when it's all the same shit. SpongeBob seems to be okay character-wise so it's strange to me how everyone else is just annoying now.
I wouldn't have a problem with the current era if it was just written better and didn't feel like fast-paced stupidity 99% of the time. Animation moving very nice isn't enough for this show. idk
I feel like the voice acting has changed. Squidward sounds worse now.
Gavin Sullivan
I honestly wonder if Roger Bumpass ever gets tired of having to scream his lines most of the time now
John King
This picture alone shows that writers forgot that this show is about sea creatures.
Dylan Wright
Just... I just don't care anymore, I feel nothing about the new seasons anymore after the movie and the live action musical. And I don't see why should I care. When I was a child I was afraid the day Spongebob would end, but now I get it should have ended as good things shouldn't last forever.
Connor Ross
I've seen a couple of the post movie episodes and they felt forgettable jokes and writing just don't stick compared to pre-movie and most of the time they if they can't do a joke its gross out humor literally Family Guy for kids.
Chase Myers
I found this clip pretty good but its from that small point where if seemed like spongebob was becoming good again. youtube.com/watch?v=rTJOKYx4aWo
Joseph Diaz
>I feel that the new writers probably think that the main reason why Spongebob became so popular was because of meme faces (like Moar Krabs and Unsure Squidward) >Stupid characters are easier to write for (that's why Patrick became stupider got more attention in the post-movie seasons)
Carter Myers
I have a hard time deciding whether post-movie or post-sequel is worse. Post-movie has the problem of stiff animation, gross out plots and just being plain boring, I feel post-sequel tries way too hard to overcompensate for this because it's over-animated and has really out there ideas (giving the my leg guy an entire episode was seriously a really terrible fucking idea), it also screams a lot more, at least in the episodes I've seen.
I never really understood the crowd that claimed post-sequel Bob is the second coming, a handful of episodes were certainly better than what came in post-movie but it was nowhere near the level of golden age. Maybe people were just hyped up because the 2nd movie wasn't garbage and Hillenburg returned briefly.
Jason Campbell
Basically this. I don't give a fuck about new episodes and watch seasons 1-3 whenever I want.
Oliver Long
>my leg episode >""""Bad"""" Shoot yourself.
Andrew Jones
>hurr hurr it's the same joke repeated ad nauseum for eleven minutes Aren't you zoomers the same faggots that criticize Ripped Pants for being repetitive?
Jeremiah Foster
Remember when Spongebob used a leaf blower on a face, creepy eyeholes weren't left behind? Were complicated visual gags (unfunny cultural references?) always done in the span of 2 seconds?
Classic, post-movie and post-sequel are all three different shows that use the same cast and settings.
Parker Jackson
The characters are just too juvenile. Spongebob and Patrick don't have to be exactly like their early season forms but they write them like actual toddlers a lot of the time. Part of the issue with the over exaggerated expressions is that it pushes the juvenile behavior more too. Even when Sponge or Pat aren't saying something juvenile they're twisting around banging their head on the ground while they say it or making cutesy faces.
Josiah Campbell
It's ironic because I remember reading how Hillenburg really pushed the idea that Spongebob IS an adult, a naive one but still an adult. Now his character is like this and Kamp Korral is coming.
Charles Sullivan
Yea, disappointing because Hillenburg specifically fought to keep Spongebob out of school since Nick wanted it, so he compromised and did the boating school thing. None of it matters anymore. Despite everything he did being what got it popular, most of it was removed as if the execs suddenly worried "m-maybe this stuff is too risky, we should try lowest basic appeals" like they didn't just make a hit using it in the show.
Jackson Taylor
post-sequel is at least more interesting to watch
Gabriel Martin
the pacing in every subsequent episode right from the first has been pozzed. no surreal antics, no absurdist existential humor, just shoved and sharted out like the brownshit-tinged load it is now
Ethan Nguyen
the show is fucking weird now, we have so many transformation and baby and grossout episodes
Carter Campbell
>so he compromised and did the boating school thing. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Because it made for some good moments and episodes even if I did feel the anachronism.
Funny how they'd tell people on twitter that Post-M sponge was a different thing but now they're nostalgia baiting hard as fuck.
Michael Rivera
God the visuals got atrocious the colors are oddly bright and nasty looking, everything looks stiff as all hell and the slight changes in the character models and faces make em look obnoxious or retarded and hardly anything else
Kevin Lee
why is the background such an odd color? that, combined with the super bright colors of the characters and odd shades they choose make it look like the characters are in some nightmare zone
Isaiah King
This. Why even bother making Kamp Koral at this point, they've already got it.
Xavier Sullivan
The callbacks were cute at first but now it's annoying and painfully obvious the staff is full of kids who grew up on the classic seasons but somehow don't know how to make SpongeBob charming.
Jordan Reed
Yeah, I know what you mean. Am I the only one who wasn't huge on the first movie? I don't think it's horrible or anything but the entire tone already felt majorly off from that.
Robert Watson
First movie definitely has issues, I don't like how they turned Plankton from a character that's petty and only wants a stupid burger formula to wanting to take over the world. There's also the deus ex machina ending with the guitar and Mindy serves almost no real purpose other than pushing the story along when the writers have got themselves in a corner.
Benjamin Kelly
Current Spingebob is ADHD baby shit, gone is the witty writing and subtlety
Owen Sullivan
I was thinking more that the overall tone and humour feel like some sort of exaggerated adult cartoon. I get that movies have to amp up the stakes a bit but it just doesn't have the same charm to me to begin with. I could tell even when the ads came out that this was different.
Brayden Lopez
Yeah it does have a different tone from the rest of the show but it's probably because like you said, had to up the stakes cuz movie
