I feel like a broken record at this point- it was okay, not great.

Episode starts off with Pearl going through a growth spurt, and she demands food.  She eats the entire fridge in one bite.

Krabs first goes to Ms. Puff’s house and starts harvesting what look like giant peanuts, but they are all really worms, and they begin to spit disgustingly at him.  he then goes to Patrick’s house.  When he opens the sand fridge under the rock, he sees all sorts of food.  But when he takes it out, it all turns to sand.  so he just takes Pat’s bowl of cereal.  pearl eats that, but it is not enough.  so he raids. Squidward’s house.  Now, Squid’s house is full of expensive and exotic foods.  Krabs takes it all and feeds it to pearl, but she wants more.  so off to SB house, where SB catches Krabs going through his fridge.  he thinks it is a slumber party.  But Squidward comes over and threatens to call the police.  But Mr Krabs rips out his own gold tooth so squidward won’t

Anyway… SB tells Mr. Krabs that he has a secret ingredient so that a single Krabby Patty he makes will fill her up for good.  They go to the Krusty Krab.   where SB cooks up a special patty.  He gives it to Pearl, and she shrinks a little bit and finally feels full.

What is the special ingredient?  Love.  The bets part of the episode is Mr. Krabs reaction of confusion and disappointment when SB tells him.

Again… nothing special, nothing horrible.  It has its moments, but they are few and far between to  make it a truly excellent episode.  After I saw pearl growing at the beginning of the episode, so big she was destroying the house, I thought we would see her going off on her own.  but I was wrong.  It would have been funnier, though.

I wish there was more to say on these episodes, but they have been just…blah…

Up next: Tentacle Vision

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And thank god, no Plankton this time around.

Quick synopsis: Spongebob dances at work and is approached bya  talent scout for an audition for a show she is promoting.  SB tells Squidward, so off course, Squidward is jealous.

We can to see a little more of Squid’s evil side this episode.  He decides he will try to tire SB out so badly he will miss the audition so he can take his place.  Squidward convinces SB to allow him to tutor him in the art of dancing, and for a little bit I was reminded of the art school episode.  Squid shows SB how to do certain moves, and each time, SB does it better than him, enraging Squidward.  Squidward finally gets SB to perform an impossible dance step, and SB stays up all night practicing, and in the morning, he passes out.

Squid takes SB’s place at the audition, and his performance is awful, but the talent evaluator loves him… and he gets the part.  And he is so excited.

Until he sees who he is going to be working for- Squilliam.  Squilliam yells at him and shows him what dance moves he wants him to do, and Squidward is clearly miserable as he begins.

At the end, we see SB and Patrick in the audience watching Squidward practice.

I’ll put this in the category as most of the newer episodes.  Fair.  Not horrible, not great, though the middle five minutes where SB is outperforming Squiward is entertaining.  Its watchable once or twice, but misses the mark.  It misses the wackiness of SB.  And the end… the end could have been better.

Again, at last no Plankton.

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The episode is not terribly interesting.  In fact, Karen, Plankton’s robot wife, wraps it up quite nicely: Repulsive.

In this episode, Plankton is unknowingly brought back to Sandy’s habit inside of Sandy’s suit.  She goes to shower, but before she does, she peels off her fur, revealing the same pink skin we saw after SB and Patrick shaved her.  Plankton steals her skin and locks Sandy in her bathroom, and then animates it at the Chum Bucket.  It’s quite disgusting.  Just watching it shamble along makes you a little queasy.  Plankton goes tot the Krusty Krab and tries to steal the formula while SB teaches her how to make a Patty.

Meanwhile, sandy escapes (she puts a coffee pot over her head) and wanders around town looking for the thief.  Everyone laughs at her and the police chase her for being naked in public, though she is wearing her bathing suit.

Eventually Sandy makes it to the Krusty Krab where Plankton, in her skin, is making off with the formula.  Sandy beats up her own skin, save the formula and puts Plankton in  a mustard jar.  Then the police show up and arrest her for public indecency.

Once again, I am getting tired of the Plankton episodes.  i think they have run out of ideas when it comes to stories about him stealing the formula.  I know there is at least one more, if not many more, in the summer bash from the previews, and if there are, I can only hope they’re better. This was was disturbing, yet boring, and I can’t say I’ll go out of my way to watch it again.

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In this episode, Plankton decides to try drumming up business by advertising with a catchy sign.  He hires Patrick as his advertising guru, and Patrick comes up with the slogan: Chum is Fum.  Business booms, and on several occasions, the customers are seen saying that the food is awful, and then they violently throw up.  After several days, the customers get bored of the slogan, and Plankton urges Patrick to come up with a new, and he eventually does: Fum is Chum.  Customers return.  Now, to piss of Krabs, Planlton has installed a microphone next to the cash register, so every time he makes a sale, the dinging sound is transmitted over outside speaks so Krabs can hear it.

Anyway,,, Patrick final quits because he is burned out- he turns around and there is actually a hold through the back of his head through which we can see his brain.  his resignation to Plankton is a drawing of himself in a fighter plain.  Plankton exclaims that he doesn’t need Patrick, that he can sell anything to his dim-witted customer.  he proceeds to degrade is patrons, and his voice is amplified over the speakers.  Everyone hears it and spits out the food, and Plankton is assaulted by a hockey team.  At the end, we see Patrick, still with the hole in the back of his head, painting a sign for Krabs: Krabby Pattys are Fum.

This was actually an entertaining episode.  Much like the episode where SB becomes a waiter to impress Squidward’s rival and we see all of the little SB running around in his head, we get to see inside of Patrick’s head.  In this case, Pat is truing to read Plankton’s first sign, Chum is Metabolic Fuel, and his brain catches on fire, and we see all of the little Patrick’s trying to escape.

Three episodes in, and it’s already the second Plankton episode, though in this one, he isn’t trying to steal the formula.  Much like the Spongicus episode, where Plankton builds the Colosseum, it’s nice to see Plankton episodes where he isn’t trying to steal the formula, though seeing people eat chum and vomit is gross.

But not all Plankton episodes are good- all we have to do is look at Single cell Anniversary to see how bad they can be

And like always, Patrick-related episodes are always entertaining because Patrick is hysterical.

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Again, not horrible, watchable, but nothing new.  I guess this is the problem with the new episodes: there is very little new material.  In this episode, Patrick wants to get a hat, like SB and Squidward have.  So he gets a job at the Krusty Krab, holding up a sign pointing to the restaurant, a job he doesn’t do very well. 

Mr Krabs eventually gives him a Krusty Krab hat, and he promptly falls over.  SB explains that when Pat is nervous, he can not stand.  Mr. Krabs decides to make Patrick a side show at the Krusty Krab, where he spends seven hours falling over.  At first crowd loves it, but after the seven hours, they get bored and threaten to leave.  So Mr. Krabs ups the danger of Pat falling,a dding boxes to the height, and eventually asking him to fall off a diving board into a bucket of spiny sea urchins.  He takes off his hat and can not fall, and when Squidward tried to push him, Squidward tumbles down instead.  the hat falls from Squidward’s hand onto Pat’s head, and he proceeds to fall on top of a mangled squidward.

We learn at the end that it isn’t nerves which makes Pat fall, but the hat he wears, which is top heavy.

Pretty lame episode, but in fairness, any epsiode that features Patrick in all of his glorious stupidity has its fair share of funny lines and moments.

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Not a horrible episode, better than many of the new ones.  It centers around Plankton’s plan to steal the formula by reducing Krabs and Spongebob to children, preventing them from stopping him.  The episode is composed of several scenes showing Krabs and Spongebob as babies, regular age, and old age.  It’s really quite funny, especially when baby Krabs puts Plankton in his mouth and sucks.

The episode ends with Plankton being reduced to a baby, I guess, though all that happens is that he si reduced to the size of an amoeba.

Most of the episodes featuring Plankton’s schemes to steal the Krabby Patty formula are good, and while this isn’t one of the best, it has its share of good moments

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Plankton drills into a cavern under his restaurant, and sets up shop there.  food still disgusting, but ambiance brings the customers.  Krabs gets jealous and burrows his own hole down and sets up a Krabby Patty stand.

The two begin to argue and begin to drill under each other, until they are dropped deep underground.  Episode ends when the Krusty Krab collapses down onto them.

Fair episode.  Nothing special.  Watch it once, but that’s it.  No truly funny moments, although the screaming monsters who live underground are entertaining.

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It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t horrible either.  The premise is quite simple: Spongebob ruins all of his square pants in the dryer, so he has to buy new pants.  The store is out of square pants, but they have a nice pair of round pants, which SB purchases.

Neither Patric nor Sandy recognize SB, and Squidward pretends not to, so SB believes he must start his life over in Bikini Bottom.  And in contrast to his first day at the Krusty Krab in the very first episode, instead of becoming an ideal frycook, he follows Squidward’s example and becomes a rude slob.

The episode ends when Mr. Krabs tells Spongebob that he recognizes him, and if SB wants to be square pants again, all he has to do is take off his round pants.  Spongebob does so, and begins working in just his underwear, until Sandy calls him Sponge Bob Underpants, which causes SB to scream in horror.  End of episode.

Like I said, not great, a little slow, but funny.  The scene where SB tries on different pants was funny but could have been made longer, like the Mermaid Man episode when SB uses the shrink ray on Squidward and hilarity ensues for a minute or two.  The same can be said for the scene where SB shows Squidward a series of disturbing pictures of them together.  They were funny, but only four of them.  Could have been more.

The entire episode seems to be a giant lead-in to those final five minutes, when we see Spongbob become a mini-Squidward, but it was worth it.  I laughed more than I did during any of the episodes in the last batch.

Another entertaining part was when SB removes Gary shell.  We have seen multiple different things under his shell over the years, and this time we see Gary’s big blue butt, first without underwear, then with a nice big pair of tidy whities.  Priceless.

I wish an episode of this magnitude had been a half an hour special, but beggars can’t be choosers. 

Stay tunes over the weekend for more reviews!

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