Toy Store of Doom review

I've been away from the TV for a while, and am ashamed to admit that I've missed most of The Bob Squad --- that is, the week of new episodes.

I don't have time to write an entire review right now, but I just got to see two of the new episodes. The first one (whose name escapes me) had SpongeBob trying to find home for a group of baby worms. It was, to be honest, a bit boring. Most of the humor was derived from the worms barfing on folks, and the mom did not look like a SpongeBob worm at all.

The second episode, Toy Store of Doom, was awesome. The story goes like this: SpongeBob and Patrick have grown bored of all their toys, but a new toy store called The Toy Barrel opens up nearby. They have the time of their lives in there, and don't want to leave at closing. They hide in dollhouses and wait until everyone's gone, and then they have the entire store to themselves.

But all isn't fun and games. Remember when you were seven, and whenever the lights went out your Power Rangers action figure--- you swear--- it turned into a werewolf? And mom said you were just seeing things in the dark? You're not the only one.

The rest of the episode covers their melodramatic attempts to "stop" the toys, whom they believe are out to get them.

Some of the dialogue fell a little flat, though. A few jokes seemed to come out of nowhere, but overall the humor was strong and effective. At times, SpongeBob seems a bit less mature than he should be, but I'm not quite sure that's saying much.

This episode is rather nostalgic to me, because I remember the thrill of a new toy store very, very well. It has its weak points, but it's a good watch. You won't regret it, and if you do, what's 11 minutes of your life?

"Well, Patrick, it was nice knowing you."
"I know; I'm an interesting person."

Christmas is over

Sorry for being gone so long. It was a bizarre combination of work, the holidays, and my ISP that prevented me from posting.

Starting tomorrow, I'll continue posting the sort of thing I was originally: random observations about the characters and canon, news, comics and official art.

For today, I just have one new comic up. It's been on Nick.com for a while, but heck, you never know when Nick.com will go down in a fiery explosion of doom, right? Right.

Also, when I get a chance, I think I'll post photos of some of my SpongeBob-themed Christmas presents. :D

Bah, humbug!

Well, Christmas is coming, which means I'm practically required to post.

So! For all you good boys and girls out there--- as well as all you who actually read this--- I've got a few episode reviews. Be warned --- spoilers ahead!


Ditchin'
This was actually a very enjoyable episode for me. The premise is like this: SpongeBob takes a "bathroom break" to sneak out of Boating School and go to a book signing, but on his way back is met by many distractions, including the Bikini Bottom Hugfest.

It had maybe one gross-looking shot and a few continuity errors, but hey, this is a cartoon. Overall, it was a very funny episode, and the melodramatic citizens of Bikini Bottom seemed natural and funny rather than forced and over-the-top.

The ending was also pretty funny. It wasn't too much of a twist, but was just right and tied the story up nicely. How many times has Mrs. Puff been arrested now?


Dear Vikings
This episode was kind of out there. SpongeBob wants to learn about vikings, so he writes them a letter. A garbage man who turned out to be a viking finds the letter, and the vikings come to kidnap SpongeBob and Squidward. It had a few good jokes, but I can't judge the acting because my sound was off and I was reading the captions.

The episode ended on sort of a dull note --- the vikings' ship has sprung a leak, and SpongeBob and Squidward solve the problem by catapulting Spongie into the hole to plug it up and absorb the water inside the boat. SpongeBob makes a lame joke, and it cuts, very suddenly, to commercial. They're still kidnapped by vikings, though. It's fine to end the episode with unresolved conflict (Shanghaied is a very good example of this), but Dear Vikings didn't make it funny, and gave the impression that it was rushed and had no ending.



I'll review the other new ones later. I want to watch them once more before I do so, so they're still fresh in my mind.

Return of the Stuffed Animals!

I finally got around to seeing No Nose Knows. I always come in right when it's going off, so I decided to park myself in front of the TV until it came on, no matter what was on. I can now tell you that My Life as a Teenage Robot is...odd.

So, how did the episode measure up? I have mixed feelings. The ending was a little gross, but not like, for example, the "toenail incident" on House Fancy. If you haven't seen it, be glad. Ooh, my feet hurt. Back to the episode, anyway.

So, Patrick has no nose. On the episode Something Smells (my personal favorite), it was shown he couldn't even smell, right? The premise is simple: Patrick wants to be able to smell like other people, so he gets plastic surgery to get a nose. This quickly poses a problem for his friends, as he goes out eliminating any bad smells, and is a jerk about it, too.

Honestly, this is the first time in a while that I have laughed out loud over a SpongeBob episode. It was an interesting twist to see Patrick of all people as a clean freak, since he had the motivation. The climax, as mentioned before, was kind of gross, but not like Plankton's Regular or anything. Still, it wasn't "good" gross, like The Appetizer.

The voice acting was also subpar. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the acting has gotten worse after season 4. Squidward and Patrick just didn't sound convincing, though.

In short: the episode was, overall, nothing special by my usual standards. However, it really did have it's funny parts, and the gag at the very end was funny. Nobody ever said every episode would be perfect, so just watch it already. :D

SPOILER ALERT!
The title makes no sense to anyone who hasn't seen the episode, I guess. There was one scene in which Patrick smelled something foul coming from SpongeBob's house, and heard SpongeBob grunting. My first thought: "He's sweating." I crossed my fingers and hoped he'd be working at his "gym" from the episodes Help Wanted and MuscleBob BuffPants.
Cut to SpongeBob at said gym, struggling to lift his "weights". He finally does succeed, only to drop them on top of himself. To add insult to injury, Patrick comes and tosses them away effortlessly. That one, due to being both funny and nostalgic, made me laugh SO HARD.

By the way, I'm going to start posting more.

My expectations were low...

...And I'm still disappointed.

SPOILER ALERT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

This wouldn't be half so bad if everyone I knew hadn't thought WhoBob WhatPants was a movie. The specials in general are pretty bad, and this one is no exception. The story was...

• SpongeBob annoys his friends, and they call him an idiot
• SpongeBob runs away and gets bonked on the head
• SpongeBob loses memory, and blows bubbles
• A gang threatens him for blowing bubbles. He drive them out
• He is appointed mayor
• His friends go find him. Krabs is bribing Squidward to get him back, so Squid takes him back
• SpongeBob gets hit on the head.

...And they all live cheesily ever after. There was a little humor, but not much. Some of the dialogue was pretty unconvincing, too. And, just to tick me off, after it was over, there came a commercial saying that I could see the whole thing tomorrow, talking about how it was SpongeBob's GREATEST ADVENTURE, and how I can see THE STUNNING CONCLUSION all over again!

"Stunning conclusion?!" He got bonked on the noggin for cryin' out loud! There was little pacing, and hardly anything interesting happened. It could've beena decent story if it was longer, but it was 22 minutes total, which is hardly enough.

It did have its good points, though; The opening was rewritten to say "WhoBob WhatPants" instead of "SpongeBob SquarePants", and there was one really funny part: Sandy pointed to a picture of SpongeBob saying, "It's SpongeBob!" Patrick runs up to the next person he sees, hugs her, and acts as though it's SpongeBob, saying he hasn't changed a bit.
Aaaaaand, it didn't have Patchy.

Overall, the story still seemed sloppy and rushed. Nothing happened after SpongeBob became mayor except that Squidward took him home and he got hit on the head. The end.

You're slippin', Nick...you're really slippin'.

WhoBob WhatPants

FOUR DAYS

I just saw an ad referring to it as "WhoBob WhatPants". Since it's supposed to sound like SpongeBob SquarePants, I guess that makes sense.

I also noticed multiple commercials referring to it as a special, not a movie. The official website lists it under "Hot Shows" but not under "Movies". I know that WhoBob WhatPants is an hour and a half long, and all the specials are half an hour, but nobody ever said those were the specific, unwritten and unbroken rules, right?

But then, it's longer than Atlantis SquarePantis, which was only an hour long. It would be kind of silly to have an episode longer than your movie. I guess that's probably enough to count it as a movie....

No more minigames...please....

I keep getting the date for Who Bob, What Pants? wrong. It's only about two weeks 'til it airs, though. I think it's either sixteen or fifteen days.

I mentioned a while back that I was getting Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition. I'm not expecting anything special, but I bought it because it has DoodleBob. Sure enough, the polygons are ugly, the dialogue is flat, and I caught a plothole in the opening scene. Long as I'm with DoodleBob, right?

It has a few features the original Drawn to Life didn't have that I like; for example, in the SpongeBob one, you can buy new furniture, redraw it, and rearrange the things in your house. The gameplay's pretty good, being built off the original Drawn to Life. The first couple of levels were genuinely fun, but I haven't played since my fifth attempt at the third one.

The third one is a touch-based minigame with unresponsive controls. Yeah, I've calibrated my Touch Screen and everything, but the controls are just plain loopy! The game is ignoring me, I swear. It's true that a good minigame is fun in between platformer levels, but honestly, have they never heard of beta testing?

I'm just griping. I'll get through it eventually. Maybe. It's stupidly long. But hey, I gotta have DoodleBob, right? Anything for him, right?

...Right...?

Believe it, man; I'm a fangirl

I was once told that I'm not a SpongeBob fan if I don't like video games based on SpongeBob. I later beat the person who said that at Fact or Fishy, mostly by answering more questions properly than he.

Face it --- I'm obsessed with SpongeBob. I dedicate every breath I breathe to the man! When, for some reason, I can't watch an episode, I spend the hours reading interviews with Stephen Hillenburg (may he live forever); I have every song off the show recorded and have written lyrics sheets for them (okay, not all...somewhere between sixty and eighty); I started a blog so I could babble about random, SpongeBob-related nonsense, upload over 200 official images I searched all over teh intarwebs for, and upload all the comic scans in case Nick.com should ever get rid of them!

I've written songs about SpongeBob. Serious songs, silly songs, songs that can only sound good coming from the mouth of Tom Kenny....

I've seen every episode, paid close attention to all the little details, rewatched every episode, observed the different styles of the different show writers, and taken my knowledge to write a fan fic trilogy to bring back Doodlebob, save the seemingly hopeless marriage of Plankton and Karen --- Enemy In-Law was not canon, people --- and expose Stephen Hillenburg's (may he live forever) ingenius plot to take over the world through television, all in one melodramatic storyline.

I can tell you the voice actors of Mama Krabs, Bubble Bass, DoodleBob, Bubble Buddy, Jim, and Stanley.

I AM A FANGIRL. YOU SHALL NOT TELL ME OTHERWISE.

Oh, yeah, new comic. ^_^

The problem with the new episodes

Boy, where to start? First off, I'd like to note that I'm not the sort who will criticize something simply because it's a new episode. I don't care if it's season one or season one hundred; if it's funny and well-written, I like it. Some of my favorite episodes have been after the movie, but most of them are not funny and well-written. I think I'll review each season seperately.

Post-movie differences
The movie, being, ya know, the movie, had cleaner line art, good framerate, fancy camera tricks, more shading, and brighter colors. That was fine. It was kind of nice. Problem being, even with those aspects aside, it looked like they were trying out a totally new art style, particularly on Spongey's face. I can't even place my finger on exactly what it is, but his face tended to look ugly and ill-proportioned, and his facial expressions often seemed out there. I mean, sure, "out there" is fine, but I mean too out there.

Season 4
The writing also changed. SpongeBob would sometimes be his normal self; other times, they'd greatly exaggerate certain aspects of his character, until he was a caffeine-fueled two-year-old; other times he'd be very aggressive, hanging onto his sanity by a thread, and incredibly easy to send into a rampage. The writers could've easily used Patrick for parts like this, I think.
Aside from this, Sandy became much stupider, but they put more emphasis on the fact that she was smart. It's like a Mary-Sue fan fic; they talk about these great traits the character has, but they show us nothing.

Aside from this, the humor just lost it's edge.


Season 5
Season 5 fixed many problems with the art, and some with the writing. They got SpongeBob out-of-character less often, but when they did, they sure did. Aside from this, they fleshed out SpongeBob's evident but ignored clean-freak side, and brought back some of his geekier traits which made him so dang endearing. Not to say it was perfect; season 4 seemed like they had no ideas for storylines, but season 5 made it seem like they had plenty of ideas, but couldn't work them properly. Also, unfortunately, season 5's idea of visual humor was drawing Plankton with a bottom.
Speaking of Plankton, as of one season 4 episode his marriage to Karen has been a bad one. Later episodes show this, and what was previously a nice, evil couple has become hideously depressing. Sandy was, for the most part, back in character. SpongeBob was, except for being overly whiny on occasion, and being too close to Squidward.

Season 6
So far, season 6 has been a mixture of seasons 4 and 5. Some episodes are great, some...not so much. For humor, season 6 has relied on rear ends less, but has made up for it with...disgusting injuries.
I'll explain: I'm totally fine with it if Bugs gives Daffy dynamite, the dynamite blows up, and the last we see of Daffy is an angel. That's fine.
I do, however, have something against seeing Plankton's innards, Squid's graphic toe injuries, and an entire episode dedicated to SpongeBob's swelling, infected, pus-oozing splinter!
It's not all like this, but a good deal of it has been. So far, it's not been great, but it has had some decent episodes, and a few outright great episodes.


Keep in mind, though I've listed every flaw in these three seasons, there are episodes in all of them that are shining exceptions. And besides, the first three seasons weren't flawless; they had things like...well...I know they had...hm.... Okay, so they were flawless.
Nickelodeon has confirmed a season 7. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I'm gonna watch all of it. All of it!

Technically, Who Bob, What Pants? is a part of season 6, but I have a good feeling about it. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic? ...Nah. :)

SpongeBob's instrument of choice

No news, so I'm just back to posting random bits of SpongeBobness I've noticed.

Normally, things what instrument is played by a character who doesn't play often doesn't stay consistent. If it's not been said that the character particularly likes that instrument, then it's not really important enough for the writers to make note of again and again. That's why I think this is sort of cool: SpongeBob normally plays something with strings, and Patrick's normally a drummer.

SpongeBob actually plays a pretty wide variety of instruments. The ones I recall him playing most often are guitar and ukulele, but on the episode New Digs, he showed some talent for drums. Just a few occasions, off the top of my head:

Ripped Pants	Guitar
F.U.N.	Ukulele
Sponge Guard on Duty	Ukulele
The Camping Episode	Guitar
The Movie	Guitar? I can't remember.

Patrick normally plays the drums, one exception being the episode Krabby Road; he played his belly.

Band Geeks	Drums
The Camping Episode	Drums
The Best Day Ever CD	Drums
Krabby Road	Belly

Overhyped, underhyped, whatever; 26 days!

Argh! It's nearly a month until Who Bob, What Pants? premieres, and I'm sitting here yanking my hair out in impatience! But I've noticed a pattern: whenever Nickelodeon hypes something A LOT, it turns out to be pretty lame. SB: Atlantis SquarePantis; FOP: The Big Superhero Wish; JN: --I think it was this one-- Win, Lose, Kaboom, and on and on. They might've had some good points, but they didn't live up to the hype.

But what about stuff that wasn't hyped as much? Sometimes they hype new episodes of things, but the ones with less hype were the ones that were best. Nine years ago, the day the second SpongeBob episode aired, do you remember commercials saying things like, "Tonight...one Sponge...rips his pants!!"

No? You don't? Exactly.

I've seen very few ads for Who Bob, What Pants? on Nick.com, I've never seen a commercial for it on TV, and I've not seen magazine advertisments. Do you hear any hype coming from anyone but the fans? 

No? You haven't? Exactly.

SpongeGeeks, keep your fingers crossed. And your toes, teeth, eyes, and shoelaces. That way, when October comes...we'll be ready!

SpongeBob MUST sing this!

You all remember my post, My Bizarre Daydreams, right? Well, I have more on that. I've written a song and rewritten it again and again over the years. The final draft is almost done, and I'm gonna do it. I'm Ready!

...I wish. : I feel silly. I know that nobody knows who I am, so there's no need to be embarrassed, but still. The last thing Nickelodeon wants is some random hick kid sending them a letter shouting "OMG PLZ CAN SONGEBOB SING DIS?!"

Fortunately, I ain't some random hick kid, and I can spell. I'm awfully fond of the word ain't, but I decided that, to make a good impression, I should remove the ain'ts from my letter. The finished letter is pretty professional looking, in my opinion. After double-checking the letter to make sure it didn't reek of stupid kids and plagiarism, I chose a nice, readable serif font and printed it off and signed it in the best cursive I could do. At first I was wondering if that looked like a form letter, but I dug up a letter from Nintendo of America I had saved. They did the same thing, and the letter was clearly not a form letter.

I'm trying not to look like I'm trying to look overly professional, but I'm also trying not to look like an overeager SpongeBob fangirl who stole some song off the radio and replaced the singer's name with SpongeBob. Which I didn't. It's only slightly based on another songs, and those are two songs off of SpongeBob's CD, The Best Day Ever, based on them in style only.

I'm in over my head alright. My dream isn't even to contribute to a SpongeBob episode, it's just to hear him sing it whether it's on the show or not. Meaning I'd just be satisfied tracking down his voice actor and getting him to sing it for me. Boy, it'd be creepy watching a perfectly human-looking guy sing something I wrote in SpongeBob's voice.

I've given them the URL to a recording of the song, but I wonder if they'll even listen to it. Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained! :) Yeah, I'm gonna send the letter...soon...I guess... O_o

Boy, I don't know how I'd live without a blog

I hate talking to people. Nobody ever listens, nobody ever makes an effort to follow. I'm either going too fast or too slow, and if I mention something they're not wild about in passing, the conversation ends right there. I always log on here when I want to talk. Problem is, this is a SpongeBob blog. I've got SO MANY more things to talk about than SpongeBob. :( I know like two people who will listen to me, and the one I like isn't home right now.

In actual, slightly-SpongeBob related news, I can watch TV again on the eighth, so I'll post my thoughts on the new episodes.

*sigh* I guess I'd better listen to track 2 on The Best Day Ever.

The SpongeBob SquarePants movie

(Note: I don't have the source, but I read that Mr. Hillenburg said the movie took place after the series ends, which explains the lack of Krusty Krab 2 on the show.)

Remember, way way back in '04? Season 3 had come to a close, and the world thought SpongeBob was cancelled, especially with the announcement that there'd be...a movie!

This is a big event! This was THE SpongeBob movie. A theatrical presentation for all us SpongeGeeks out there! Now, I didn't get the chance to see it in theaters, but it's just as well because I can't imagine watching Patrick...er, streaking to the extreme on such a huge screen. I'd be the ten-year-old with her face buried in her hands.

The movie had it's good points and it's bad points. It kinda tried to get away with more than a regular SpongeBob episode, and is actually a subject of some censorship. XD They didn't use any obscenities, but the Goofy Goober Rock song was censored for TV, and they rarely show the uncensored version.

As for the good points, I thought it was hilarious. Aside from the whole Patrick thing. SpongeBob and Patrick drunk and pestering a waiter was truly a rare site, because I've never thought of SpongeBob as the guy to run out and get drunk all night. Even if it's from ice cream. And the Now That We're Men song remains one of my favorites from the series. And Patrick's first meeting with Mindy was pretty funny. "She's purty, SpongeBob!" "You're HOT!" Good gravy, isn't this the sort of thing Neptune would BEHEAD a guy for?

I thought that the moral fell a little flat. SpongeBob acts like a child, but he's clearly an adult. Krabs' "you're just a kid" speech honestly sounded very forced. I also thought Squidward was out of character. They tried to do his usually kinda bored-and-uncaring thing, but instead it came across as, "you can kill people and take over the world, but I'd better get paid!!" One reason that's awful is 'cause Squid has been shown to actually care whether SpongeBob lives or dies.

And Neptune was kinda awful. They redesigned him and changed his personality completely. Since on the show, even after the movie, they've shown old Neptune, I just like to assume movie-Neptune is show-Neptune's son.

I thought the very end was pretty satisfying. The power-of-music-deus-ex-machina didn't suspend disbelief, but I felt pretty good afterwards when little old Spongey was a hero, a manager, and declared it the best day of his life just as the credits music began to play. Then, as the credits roll, we see images of a truly fulfilled sponge living his dream as manager of the Krusty Krab 2. No more fry cooking? Don't worry, I'm sure Krabs places a workload on him...

Powerpoint

Yeahh, I've been lazy. It was a lazy, rainy, depressing week and my website was down for reasons beyond my control, so I just bundled up and read Calvin and Hobbes 'til everything blew over. It was all very "blah," and I couldn't watch television, meaning I couldn't watch Spongey.

Anyway, though, back on subject. In a computer class I'm taking, we're working with Microsoft Powerpoint. We can make a presentation about anything, no matter how stupid it is (as long it's not obscene...), but the default subject is one about yourself.

The "myself" subject is kinda boring, even if I make it about bowing to me and all that, so I was thinking that it had to be SpongeBob-themed. Now, what the heck could I do a SpongeBob presentation about? I'm considering:

• Why Band Geeks should've beaten Karate Island as #1
• An overanalysis of the pairing "Spandy"
• A bizarre, completely made-up interpretation of Patrick's "I Wrote This"

Who Bob, What Pants? commercial

Mood: Yayness

Sorry for not posting in a while. I've been slightly sick and life's been crazy. Fortunately, I've got an update on the third SpongeBob movie. Nick.com put up a commercial for Who Bob, What Pants? on Turbonick. You can watch it here.

Looks interesting, to say the least. The old "amnesia by getting bonked on the head" is perhaps a bit too cliche to base an entire movie on, but there's a chance that they'll do it well. Besides, (to my knowledge) the whole deal with mayor sounds unique. Of course, for all I know it's all a reference to something I've never watched, like, for example, Karate Island contained references to some movie I'd never heard of.

That being said, watch the commercial. :)
*sings, to the tune of the SpongeBob theme song*
Who Bob, What Pants? Who Bob What Pants?

Weird

I was on a some foreign Nickelodeon websites, and BOY, I came across some weird stuff. Including over twenty new wallpapers which are in the wallpaper section.

One thing I found is a wallpaper with hints of SquidwardxSandy. YES, SQUIDWARDXSANDY. One wallpaper had them standing next to each other in a large group picture. They took an official picture of Squid and edited him so he was smiling, wearing a bow tie, and holding Sandy's hand. Heck, that ain't a hint; they're both practically screaming, "MARRY ME!!"
EDIT: I just noticed, SpongeBob's also holding her hand. Darn it.

Another thing was Pearl's profile on one site:
"Pearl is the lovely daughter of Mr Krabs and literally the largest teenager on the planet. Possessing the biggest brain in Bikini Bottoms, she is probably the most intelligent citizen as well. Yet, she is still immature and prone to tantrums. Her interests are the same as those of an average Girl: cheerleading, the mall, loud music, and boys, boys, boys! She's gifted in math, so naturally her father tries to interest her int he exciting life of restaurant book keeping. Her response? "I'm so sure, Daddy!" Pearl is more interested in fads than counting french fries."

I guess they changed her personality in some of the dubs. O_o The biggest brain? Most intelligent? What about Sandy or Plankton? Heck, what about PATRICK?

It's the Best Day Ever!

I added a few new official pictures as well as wallpapers. 215 official pictures now. The first picture of Sandy now has a complete ear and alpha.

I really like the song, The Best Day Ever. I think it's cute, funny, and charming. I'll listen to the TV version, the movie version, the soundtrack version...anything, really. The movie version (that is, the normal version) is my favorite, though.

Nobody I know takes the lyrics to heart as much as I do. I, personally, try to have the same attitude SpongeBob has throughout the song. The day he's describing sounds like it could be the worst day of your entire year. Leave it to Spongey to put a positive spin on everything from the sunlight waking him up to two hours of boredom.

One thing that is definitely me in this song is the line, Sometimes the little things start closing in on me. Really, it seems like the things that are hardest to ignore and easiest to ruin your day are the things that matter the least in the long run. Whenever I'm in a funk (and believe me, I often am), I pop my SpongeBob CD into CD player and immediately go to my favorite track. Guess what track that is? ;)

This is the official Best Day Ever music video from the CD of the same name.

Johannsen?

It seems to have faded from the canon that Squidward's middle name is Johannsen. I think it was stated ONCE, on Nick.com. I think it was on the back of one of the first-series SpongeBob E-Collectables, so I guess it's debatable whether it's canon or not.

Of course, on the Behind the Scenes features on the movie, Squid's voice actor introduces himself by saying he voices "Squidward J. Tentacles." Huh. If it is canon, I wonder why it's not been said. I guess it doesn't really have to be, though.

Sort of like how, on Camp Lazlo, the creator told me that Jane pulled Lumpus out of the asylum and they all lived happily ever after. Wasn't shown on the show, though, so it's canon status is debatable. VERY debatable.

I'm getting off topic here. Anyway, I like that middle name. Squidward Johannsen Tentacles. It just has a cool ring to it! There aren't too many good names that start with a Y, ya know. Actually, Johannsen (obviously) doesn't, but the J is pronounced like Y, so...kinda the same thing.

Squidward...Johannsen!!
         Dramatic, ain't it?

Ugly, canibalistic Food City SpongeBob

In the Food City in my town, there's a seafood section. Normal, right?

WRONG.

Hanging up around it, there used to be some construction paper cut-outs of SpongeBob and Patrick that looked like they were done by Squidward. Except Squidward isn't a canibal. SpongeBob had a word balloon talking about how much he LOVED seafood. They were so ugly!

SpongeBob was a perfect rectangle, unrecognizable as even a dish sponge. Pat was star-shaped...perfectly star-shaped, like one you'd see on an American Flag. Their expressions were blank and somewhat alien, and their mouths were perfectly round. It was creepy, man!

I wanted to snap some photographs and post them, but when I went back to the grocery store, they were gone. Well, darn it! D:


In unrelated news, I fixed the 'Gary' section in Official Art, added two new images under 'Groups,' and put another image of a bubble under 'Other Stuff.'