movies/tv Why does it seem that most Bronies hate SpongeBob?

[TheOneAndOnly543 16]

Especially post movie...It seems like almost everywhere online I lately I see people that are always comparing SpongeBob to My Little Pony FIM. Saying it has better dialog, better characters, story, etc.

 

Out of all the cartoons that people compare SpongeBob to...I've seen this one in comparison the most right now, most of the time making SpongeBob seem inferior and My Little Pony FIM superior. I don't get why people do that. I just find the goodness in both shows instead of criticizing them for their faults.

 

My Little Pony is amazing because after years and years of almost no one hardly cared for it, but when Friendship is Magic came out it became very popular in a short amount of time, which is great for a cartoon series. This series has made a platform all by itself, instead of relying on the whole entire My Little Pony franchise. That is simply outstanding.

 

SpongeBob SquarePants is also amazing because SpongeBob is an iconic worldwide phenomenon. He isn't some temporary fad like some people believe. The show is still good. That's why it's still on TV.

SpongeBob has been on TV for about 14 years now, and that is very difficult to pull off (there are other shows, but lets stay on topic). Sure, some of you may hate every single new episode, but you know what?

NO TV show is perfect. But SpongeBob is still close too it. You can't expect ANY show to be a 100% A+  all the time (Not even MLP FIM). Because if you did, then that's a dishonest way of enjoying a show. Blindingly worshiping a show is NEVER good. Because one little thing that you don't like will make you give up on the show completely, not living up to "your" expectations.

 

And it doesn't matter if you like SpongeBob or not, you still have to respect that longevity. If SpongeBob ended like, tomorrow, most people's hearts would stop so to speak, and some won't realize what's good til it's over. And even though I ALWAYS loved SpongeBob, I have to agree with the fans on SBMania that SpongeBob is getting like Seasons 1-3 quality with Seasons 8 and 9. The new theatrical movie coming in 2014 will also hopefully be another highlight of the franchise, refreshing it.

Edited May 18, 2013 by TheOneAndOnly543

[Smoothie 4]

I used to watch Spongebob Squarepants every morning back in the days and i still sometimes do, but i met Friendship is Magic and got stuck with the show. I think there is no way to compare Spongebob with FiM... but i didn't really know that so many bronies hated Spongebob. I would really like to see some other opinions because i never heard of this phenomenon.

 

 

 

[Aaramus 449]

This topic seems to be related to a television series, therefore I have decided to move it over to the Media Discussion section. 

[Friendship_Cannon 1,676]

Who dislikes Spongebob on here >:| (bring it!).

Nah, just kidding, I really like it, watched it a long time and still do (though the newer episodes lost a bit of it´s charme to me). It has not the same kind of fandom and rightaway community MLP:FIM created = Bronies, but it´s a big part of my childhood, and it´s just very, very entertaining, very, very loveable and quite a bit educating (or I am just interpreting stuff in it)...

So, I like both, pretty much!

[Betez 1,734]

I personally love Spongebob. I will say though that I think the newer episodes aren't as good as the ones in the past. I really feel like Spongebob hit its peak around 2006, and then kinda leveled for a few years, and has very slowly gone downhill since 2010. But hey, Spongebob's as old as Family Guy, so when a show's been on TV for over 13 years, I wouldn't be surprised if the writers are starting to run out of ideas.

 

This is all my opinion, of course. I still love to watch Spongebob.

Edited May 18, 2013 by Betez

[Skullbuster 1,906]

im surprised you think that, i have yet to meet a person who hates sponge bob, other than my self, i watched a few episodes, i just never got into the humor, i remember one event where spongebob took off his pants and ran off to live with jelly fish, it was at this point, (keep in mind, im a child, about 8 or so) i say to my self "this is inappropriate for me" and changed the channel and never watched it again, but i saw its influence spread, ever since spongebob got really popular in 2003 ish, the over all quality of all cartoons went down, all of them trying to copy spongebob and the result was every cartoon channel was filled with stupid, heck there was a point where i just stopped watching cartoon network all together, and then in the 5th grade i stopped watching cartoons period, and i blame spongebob for that decline in quality

[Sapphire Quill 1,186]

I personally love spongebob, how can't you?

it's just so childish, Personally brings back memories for me.

everything about it I love,

and well it shouldn't be compared to MLP, they're completely different shows,

really I love it, and well I haven't met many people who hate it in my mind,

even some of my teachers love it, and they're easily 40.

so not all of that is true, but some of it is.

and that's my opinion

~Sapphire

[Leafeon 2,702]

....Where did you get that from, exactly?

 

I don't like the show myself, as it now feels like the humour is very tired, but since I don't actually watch it, I don't have a solid opinion. I've never heard anyone say they really hated it, though...

[I love Jelly Otter 477]

I don't hesitate watching SB whenever there's nothing else to watch. Ren & Stimpy, along with Ed, Edd n Eddy are greta shows too.  But all don't stay even close to my Otters.

[Shanks 10,816]

I like alot of the old episodes of Spongebob but do agree with many people that it has gone downhill after the movie but though it really isn't my cup of tea I wouldn't go so far as to say that I actually hate it.

[TheOneAndOnly543 16]

im surprised you think that, i have yet to meet a person who hates sponge bob, other than my self, i watched a few episodes, i just never got into the humor, i remember one event where spongebob took off his pants and ran off to live with jelly fish, it was at this point, (keep in mind, im a child, about 8 or so) i say to my self "this is inappropriate for me" and changed the channel and never watched it again, but i saw its influence spread, ever since spongebob got really popular in 2003 ish, the over all quality of all cartoons went down, all of them trying to copy spongebob and the result was every cartoon channel was filled with stupid, heck there was a point where i just stopped watching cartoon network all together, and then in the 5th grade i stopped watching cartoons period, and i blame spongebob for that decline in quality

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Sure, SpongeBob may have influenced other cartoons to be that way, but there really is no point to compare it to other shows. You also don't make any sense saying u stopped watching cartoons period, but your on an MLP FIM forum about the cartoon...i can't tell if ur "trolling" or just acting silly or not...

[The Dandy 73]

I don't know where you got that idea from my favourite kids are shows

MLP FiM (although it's number one for anything anyway)

Fosters home for imaginary friends

Spongebob

Yu-Gi-Oh (old version not the GX stuff)

Pokemon

[Skullbuster 1,906]

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Sure, SpongeBob may have influenced other cartoons to be that way, but there really is no point to compare it to other shows. You also don't make any sense saying u stopped watching cartoons period, but your on an MLP FIM forum about the cartoon...i can't tell if ur "trolling" or just acting silly or not...

i did stop watching cartoons, MLP is the first cartoon ive watched in years, i started watching it in 2011, and i still credit sponge bob to the over all decline in quality cartoons had in the 2000's

[Megas 27,764]

Most bronies hate Spongebob? I thought it was the complete opposite, considering how many love to reference the show

 

 

 

 

 

If they hate anything, it's probably the new Spongebob episodes

[Lionheart27 33]

I'm a bit older than most bronies (clocking in at 27), so Spongebob is a bit after my time, but I will not hesitate to watch Ed, Edd 'n Eddy. Just a matter of personal preference for me.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I don't really see why, unless you can count Spongebob going downhill after the movie. But, it wouldn't be easy to compare My Little Pony to the old Spongebob episodes. Pretty much, you can hate the show after the movie.

[Sir.Flutter Hooves 2,953]

I USED to love Spongebob when it was still good. Seasons 1-3 and the movie were the  best, we're talking about Band Geeks and Chocolate with Nut, two of the best episodes of animation history ever.

 

But, right after the great movie the quality dropped a lot, because all the original people left. The characters were annoying, Spongebob who used to a funny adult was now an annoying 6-year old. Plus, each new episode has already been done, cheap Krabs, Squidward's Depression.  Don't get me wrong, I used to love it, but it got unwatchable after the movie. 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,727]

I will admit that I have compared the two, FiM to Spongebob, but I realize that they are not too comparable, they both do their own thing. I do think that FiM is far superior (since the new SB episodes are....meh) but I still love Spongebob, but mostly the older episodes. There are actually tons of hilarious, subtle things about the older episodes that makes me laugh a lot when I look back on them.

[Mutemutt 773]

Well, I used to watch the show a long time ago. It was a funny show with some of its jokes like the story of the ugly barnacle and the whole weenie hut thing, the imagination box sfx etc. And how can we forget the "push it somewhere else" meme, thanks Patrick.

 

Still, I lost interest in the show. The episodes I see now just aren't that funny to me and comedy was the only thing the show had going for it.

[Dzastur 1,719]

For what it's worth, two of the ladies who write for MLP: FiM, and were on the writer's panel at Equestria L.A., revealed that, if they could write for any other show, it would be Spongebob.

[deadprofile 1,122]

I watched spongebob in early middle school, when it first started.  At first it was okay, but as it started to go down line of "stupid" humor, it just turned me off to it.  There are so many adult references that no 8 year old should hear, and it, in my eyes, brought about the STUPID cartoons we know of today.  Their humor does not teach morals nor does it entertain in a normal sense, (like looney tunes, where the humor included so much dialogue, whereas Mickey Mouse was very bouncy, but used real situations to bring humor and often taught something of a moral. I consider FIM to be more like the older Disney cartoons).  Spongebob, Chowder, Regular Show, Adventure Time, The Misadventures of Flapjack, Ed Edd and Eddy etc etc. use stupid humor.  Nothing is learned, no knowledge is gained, nothing "special" to be remembered, and morality is degraded, and when you make humor within the lines of these aspects, this is stupidity, and if stupidity is funny, then what will come of the people who watch it, especially when nearly every modern major cartoon there is out there follows this pattern?

 

I am not saying I do not at all like any of these shows, In fact most of them I have watched and enjoyed to some extent, but if that is all that is popular and out there and that is most of what is available out there, it's just not very healthy to be constantly exposed to.

Edited May 18, 2013 by Treble Bolt

[Avatar tag: shipping 299]

I loved ol' Spongebob when I was younger. It was one of my favorite shows, a close second to Ed, Edd, and Eddy. I have to agree that the show has kind of fallen flat as of late. But that doesn't mean I stop watching it, something had to keep me occupied until season 4!

[Pinkazoid 3,493]

I doni't compare them to each other, but Spongebob had a "Golden Era" of some sort which was pretty much every episode before the Movie.

 

I'll admit there's some good spongebob episodes which i'll watch if i have nothing better to do, but i rather watch this:

 

 

than this

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZM6t6jU8k&feature=endscreen

 Spongebob, Chowder, Regular Show, Adventure Time, The Misadventures of Flapjack, Ed Edd and Eddy etc etc. use stupid humor.

Don't group Chowder with those other shows ; n ;

 

I hate the rest of those, but not Chowder, while it had some slapstick humor, it had pretty good moments were it took some background knowledge to understand, and it had constant flashbacks of other episodes as if trying to remind the viewer about them, and i still believe Chowder was the last good made in Cartoon Network, because i hate everything that airs nowadays.

Edited May 18, 2013 by Pinkazoid!

[immblueversion 331]

I coincidentally stumbled upon one of the newer episodes of SpongeBob the other day after a really long time of not thinking about SpongeBob. And while it's obvious that one episode does not totally denote the tone of the whole show or whatever direction it's gone in, I must say that what I saw was pretty uninspired; it was like anything any other cartoon could have done, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I almost forgot all about it by the time I came across this thread. Like Star Trek: Insurrection, I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it either.

Edited May 18, 2013 by immblueversion

[Champion RD92 8,658]

The old Spongebob was one of the absolute best cartoons ever, how could people hate it??? I've never seen any bronies say they hate Spongebob unless they are talking about the new Spongebob, which is garbage in my opinion.