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Okay well here's Clever's design anyway (done by Toyminator900).

For me, it goes like this: 10. Season 7 (It had among the worst episodes of the whole show and very few that stuck out) 9. Season 6 (Though there was more trash here, it wasn't as bad as Season 7) 8. Season 8 (There was an even mixture of blunders and gems) 7. Season 9A (You could tell that they were starting to get better, but Season 9B blew it out of the water, literally) 6. Season 5 (Definitely where that Classic SpongeBob charm had left completely) 5. Season 4 (Some people say it feels like a Classic SpongeBob season, and I can see why) 4. Season 9B (Same as with Season 4 but in a much more positive way) 3. Season 1 (You can tell they were just starting out, so there was a mix of innovative, fresh ideas and some rather forgettable episodes, though nothing super-bad) 2. Season 3 (Although people will always have 2 or 3 episodes from this season that they hate, the gems more than make up for that) 1. Season 2 (For me, the definitive SpongeBob season, and like Season 6 of The Simpsons, the one I'd associate the most with the show's Golden Age) What do you guys think? Have you watched every season enough to have a solid opinion on them?

The Simpsons is one of my favourite shows, especially the first 10 seasons. In case you're willing to ask, Season 6 is my favourite season (Treehouse of Horror V, Lisa on Ice, Homer Badman, Homer the Great, And Maggie Makes Three, Bart Vs. Australia, Two Dozen and One Greyhounds, A Star is Burns, Lemon of Troy, Who Shot Mr Burns? being among the best episodes of any show in TV history IMO, and really capture The Simpsons in their prime).

Chip, Melody Notes Clever Clop, Cyan Lightning, and Andandampersand (that's it's real name) among others, as we have our own little community on Derpibooru (started by Toyminator900, who created Chip).

Crud I'm late, better make a Star Wars joke…Tr8or!

I used to be into Disney Channel's live-action shows from the 2000s and very early 2010s (Hannah Montana, Lizzie McGuire, The Suite Life, Wizards of Waverly Place, That's So Raven, Cory in the House, Good Luck Charlie, Shake It Up!, Phil of the Future, Zeke and Luther, Sonny With a Chance, So Random!, Pair of Kings), but like any millennial, I grew out of them and have no choice but to view everything afterwards as trash, despite my generation not being too much better. At least there were the animated shows to balance things out, especially Phineas and Ferb.

I guess the Doctor Who one from Series 6, but that's just because it's one of the only few I've watched, next to My Little Pony, AVGN and, funnily enough, The Suite Life on Deck did one.

A video game console with bits = A good video game console If this continued today, I'm certain that the "512-bit era" of the PS4/Wii U/XB1 would be taken a lot less seriously.

I really like how each generation of Mario spin-offs had a style matching the big platformer of the era, like how there was a lot of beach-themed elements in early-mid 2000s Mario games thanks to Sunshine. That said, I love the more vibrant colour scheme in the late 90s N64 Mario games (more pink, more turquoise, more yellow), which should be in no small part thanks to Super Mario 64, one of my favourites in the series. Plus a little rant about N64 Rainbow Road. I don't care if it's boring and long, the music is magnificent and the neon characters in the night sky always give me goosebumps. You might be wondering why I'm nostalgic about N64-era Mario if I was born in 2001 and am in no way a 90s kid. That's because my uncle is a gamer and had a Nintendo 64 when I was younger. He then replaced it with a GameCube which he gave to me when I was 10 (I also got a Game Boy Pocket from him for my 15th birthday).

What people don't realise is that there's also the fear of a franchise getting more stale and repetitive if it doesn't get a new kick of life into it. Of course there's The Simpsons, which has had Al Jean as the showrunner for 15 years straight now (compared to the previous showrunners who would usually serve 2-4 years), but then you have a video game franchise like Mario. Let it be known that I love Mario and that it's my favourite Nintendo franchise, but I can get the criticisms over it getting more and more old-fashioned and boring over the past decade or so, especially with the RPGs which have taken a decline in regards to story content. IMO, they should keep on making games like Super Mario Galaxy, as that seemed to be the height of the series' wackiness and story content (without turning into Final Fantasy, which I just find to be weeaboo fuel that you play on a console), and the New/3D games taking an intentionally retro throwback vibe in regards to it's mechanics and design ticked off a lot of people. I still consider them good games, but it's clear that the older Nintendo's fans get, the more they crave something serious from Italian plumber jumping on turtles and riding dinosaurs to save princesses and mushrooms from bigger turtles (and occasionally a monkey wearing a tie).

I tend to be quick when it comes to using the term "jumping the shark", perhaps much quicker than most fans of things. The reasoning behind this is because jumping the shark doesn't mean the absolute worst episode ever coming out and now the show can't possibly recover. That's what I call just becoming a bad show. After all, hitting rock bottom only means you can go uphill from then on out. I mean, just look at Sonic the Hedgehog. When I think of jumping the shark, I usually look at the point where the seeds are sown for the future of a show, and generally the point in time in which tonal shifts were being made for the worse. This can for many reasons: - The budget being sliced - New writers coming in who can't write already-established characters - Stories that get increasingly more clichéd (clichéd plots are a show's worst nightmare IMO, because a clichéd episode would lack the originality and tone of the rest of the show) - Characters getting flanderised - Typically a show getting more popular could also mean the network wants to milk it for all that it's worth Then the two big ones that can kill a show's reputation forever: - Trying to be current and with the times - Flat-out insulting the haters, which in turn will alienate you entire audience The Fairly OddParents is mostly terrible with the former, and Teen Titans Go! derives pleasure from the latter, with the excuse that it's meant to be written lazilly, which keeps me from wanting to even watch the show. Conversely, jumping the shark shouldn't really be the earliest possible point in which these microscopic problems can be detected by scientific instruments, but generally when these problems begin to affect the viewing experience. Now for a list of 3 shows and where/why I think they jumped the shark: SpongeBob SquarePants- Best Day Ever (Season 4, 2006): It was simply where Nickelodeon started to become too attatched to the series, which is the number one complaint that people have had with the show, regardless of it's incline in quality over the past few years. Couple this with the "Harveygate" crap that arose about a month ago (C.H. Greenblatt, the creator of fellow Nicktoon Harvey Beaks, expressed annoyance with the executive of Nickelodeon and said that SpongeBob's popularity is flat-out keeping other Nicktoons from growing and prospering), and this was definitely a bad move on Nickelodeon's part that sealed the fate of SpongeBob as a cash cow's cash cow. The Simpsons- Saddlesore Galactica (Season 11, 2000): The Simpsons has always been about taking stabs at it's audience, mostly with Comic Book Guy's fanboyish nature, but this took the criticisms of the Scully era (Season 9-12; 1997-2001), and blew them out of proportion and not making sure that they were funny. When I think of The Simpsons, or at least The Simpsons of the 1990s, I think of a show that always tries to be funny. This just feels like "Look at this thing that you guys hate, now it's even worse! U mad bros?". Did the "U mad bro?" phrase even exist in 2000? I'm not jiggy enough to find out. Doctor Who- The Twin Dilemma (Season 21, 1984): I know not many of you would be interested in the Classic Series, but hear me out. Everything about this just screams "Bad decision", particularly it's placement in the season. It's the only Post-Regernation serial to be the finale, therefore not giving the audience enough time to get accustomed to the new Doctor while also not giving the writers a good amount of time to develop the character. As such, we get the infamous scene where the new Doctor strangles his own companion in a fit of rage. Slightly justified rage, but still, it aired right after The Caves of Androzani, one of the greatest serials of all time, so it's barely excusable that writing like this should follow a classic. Sure there were still good stories until the Classic Series' rock bottom in Season 24, and the two seasons following it, but the audience reaction to this serial was sour enough to affect Doctor Who's reputation as a feasible show for the rest of the 80s and 90s. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic- The Cutie Remark (Season 5, 2015): I'm pretty sure, as a brony, you'd know why this is what I consider the shark-jumping point by now. It was rushed, clichéd, barely used the Mane 6 as a group, gave Starlight a bad reputation, with most rightfully labelling her a Mary Sue, it came at a point where many of the old writers were being replaced with inexperienced ones, the time travel makes little sense compared to It's About Time, which wasted the potential of all those alternate timelines, and reforming Starlight and making her the protagonist for the next 2 two-parters makes me feel like the Mane 6 being a group that saves the day is a completely worthless concept, despite the earlier episodes showing otherwise.