what the fucking hell is happening at nickelodeon im honestly really fucking scared and concerned for whoever the fuck is working on spongebob right now
Okay, let me explain you kids a thing:
This is Stephen Hillenburg
Spongebob series creator and original showrunner.
He ran the show from 1999 through 2004 (shortly after the first Spongebob Movie) up until the third season finished.
After the movie came out, he wanted to end the series, for fear that it would jump the shark if it went on any longer. Unfortunately, Nickelodeon had other plans, and requested more episodes to be made. So Hillenburg resigned from his position as showrunner and appointed Paul Tibbit.
So all those episodes we all love to quote from our childhood? Those were all Hillenburg-era, anything after the Movie came out, is when the show started really going downhill
Downhill is an understatement. The episodes turned outright insulting, and dangerous, and I would strongly advised against showing your kids any of them because they’re sick with graphic depictions of sufferring, characters encouraging each other to kill themselves and even an episode in which Spongebob handicaps Mrs. Puffs, then acts like an ablist scum to her, so she tries to murder him. I wish I was kidding.
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