Krabs, went from being a greedy yet goodhearted restaurant owner to being a malicious and villainous restaurant owner with little regard or care for anyone, including his two employees SpongeBob and Squidward, up to the point where he is more evil than Plankton and has his parsimony completely exaggerated.
Patrick never even gets his comeuppance for his actions at all. In " Stuck in the Wringer", SpongeBob gets stuck in the wringer, and Patrick made things worse by sticking forever glue, so now he's stuck to the wringer until his tears wore it off.He has also become somewhat of a jerk who would care less about anyone and that includes SpongeBob, who is supposed to be his best friend Patrick Star went from being a hilarious, charming and marginally intelligent starfish to being a very unfunny and loathsome moron who's as dumb as a bag of rocks.In " Cephalopod Lodge", him and Patrick snuck into Squidward's lodge and ended up getting him kicked out and he would never be allowed to join again.SpongeBob SquarePants himself went from being a naive, eccentric and somewhat immature, yet optimistic and well-meaning protagonist who has some moments of maturity every now and then to being an even more immature, annoying, outright troublemaking, and obnoxious idiot who is either too happy or a crybaby, and annoys other characters for no discernible reason such as Squidward Tentacles, his restaurant co-worker and one of his two neighbors, and Mrs.Many characters were flanderized badly, to the point of becoming unlikable and lacking the charm they previously had:.It should be a mention that however, Season 10 didn't have 26 episodes, but had 11 instead.As a result, it will sometimes jump the shark, especially with these seasons.
Also, starting in Season 6, Nickelodeon began asking for 26 episodes per season compared to Seasons 1-5, which had 20 episodes per season. The show itself isn't bad by all means, it is a great show overall.
Quantity Over Quality: Like The Simpsons and Family Guy, the series ran for way too long (it started in 1999 and there are no signs of the show ending anytime soon), spanning a total of 13 seasons and 267 episodes and counting.Lawrence and Aaron Springer being one of the only few original writers that stayed on, while these writers have been replaced by Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, Steven Banks, Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas and Richard Pursel, most of them which barely had any experience in working on the series' earlier seasons, which therefore explains the series' massive decline in quality during these seasons due to the various problems such as bad writing and character butchery as listed below. have already left the show to work on other projects by then, with Mr. Greenblatt, Derek Drymond, Mark O'Hare, etc. Not helping is the fact that nearly all the original writers of the previous seasons such as Sherm Cohen, Merriwether Williams, Kaz, C.H.The main problem with these seasons is that they often don't stay true to its original routes and lack the charm and cleverness of the first three seasons, to lesser extents, the fourth and ninth season onwards, and to an even lesser extent, the fifth and eighth season.While Seasons 1-5 (1999-2008) and 9b onwards (2015-present) were well-received, while Seasons 8 (2011-12), and 9a (2012-15) garnered mixed reception, Seasons 6 & 7 (2008-11) received extremely negative reception by fans and critics and caused the series to undergo a massive decline in quality. As of 2015, the media franchise has generated $12 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon, and is currently one of the most well-known cartoons to date. The series' popularity has made it a media franchise, as well as the highest-rated series to ever air on Nickelodeon, and the most distributed property of MTV Networks. The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by the late marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. Captain: Who hasn't been good between 2008-2011? Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!Ģ3 minutes (certain double-length episodes)