ITT: Worst attempts at Ratings Traps

https://youtu.be/mmOSv0YHSPQ

I still think it’s funny how this pissed off so many people who don’t even watch Family Guy

>>149182819 (OP)
I'm not sure it counts but SU putting up extremely baity titles on episodes about nothing only to put in massive bombshells in episodes that's called "Donut Dreams" or whatever.

>>149182819 (OP)
Not a cartoon but selling the second I Hate Fairyland run as a sequel only to then reset the run back to the status quo in the worst possible way.

>Oh no, Homer and Marge are gonna divorce and pair up with different partners!
It was all a dream within a dream on some tattoo

>>149183277
>This bait happened more than a decade ago

>"Lost Episode" of Spongebob
>Is just a fairly boring musical episode that has absolutely nothing to do with being "lost"
I don't even hate this episode as much as others do but it does feel weird that they marketed it this way. What made it "lost"?

>>149182852
Anyone who watches Family Guy(and isn't autistic in the actual sense of the word) would know how much of a nothing burger it was. I also hated how people thought Brian was brought back because of "backlash", as if these episodes weren't made like a year earlier
This is why cartoons like these dont try to do anything new, the audiences are too fucking stupid.

>>149183403
I found it funny because Brian died earlier in the las vegas episode and was permanently replaced with a clone

>>149182819 (OP)
Spongebob was really got at it

>>149183754
Nah it always fucking annoyed me, like those crazy Silver Age DC covers, you know the ones

cam it be considered the "worst" attempt if it works?

>>149183754
These clickbait specials are half the reason post-movie SpongeBob is so hated.

>>149183754
>Includes nickelodeon EXCLUSIVE Bonus Episode
what did they mean by this

>Promos hype this episode as "Spongebob leaves the town and get amnesia"
>Sandy, Patrick, Gary and Mr. Krabs are totally out of character and cruel towards Spongebob, calling him "Idiot boy" which drives him into leaving the town.
>Squidward is really unlikable
>Grossout "realistic" pic of Spongebob
>Dark humor joke against homeless people, which is kind of sick because homeless people can't see it, it's like making a joke behind their back
>Twisted moral for ending with the "Status Quo is God" trope.
This episode is not only a lame ratings trap, this is probably the most mean-spirited Spongebob episode. The tone feels more like a Family Guy episode.

>>149183957
iirc they didn’t release Help Wanted much after a certain year because of copyright issues with the Tiny Tim song, but it still aired on Nick.

>>149183277
The latest season was really bad about this shit. From the opening "finale" episode to season finale where Marge "dies". All of them with news sites going crazy in a sad attempt to drum interest in the show.

>>149184037
Yeah was never a huge fan of this one. Also I can't help but think of that one creepypasta whenever I see the realistic Spongebob

>>149184037
this made Hillenburg return to the show since he saw it and it completely went against his vision of the show

My Little Pony started one season with a plot about whether or not Twilight was going to send Starlight away since she finished being a student offscreen. This was highly promoted as a big status quo change. The episode ended with this not happening and the writers promising us that she'll never, ever leave and continue to be the awkward 7th wheel character that no one likes.

>>149184166
Enjoy your vacation

>>149182852
the tattoo that one guy got always gets me

>>149184283
Like I give a shit. Imagine being scared of a little ban, must be rough being such a pussy.

>>149184166
No shit she wouldn't leave. She lives rent free in a god damn castle. It was never about friendship.

>>149183341
personally, I liked Atlantis Squarepantis less but I can at least understand that they probably tried to get those numbers up since they got David Bowie on the special

>>149182819 (OP)
stopped caring about any episode that involved Gary

>>149182881

>>149182852
>>149183403
Brian was gone for like one episode

Jake the Dog becoming a dad but his kids become adults in a week
really clued me in that adventure time was going to be one of those semi continuity shows

>>149183277
>>149184095
Same when they were baiting about one character that was going to die.
In the end, they chose the least interesing character ever.

>>149188750
Talking about Adventure Time the biggest one by far has to be when Finn loses his arm, only to gain it back after a few episodes later

>>149182852
Reminds me of one of Mike Carlin's lines when talking about The Death and Return of Superman.
>Reporters would ask "How dare you take Superman away from his people?" I would inquire back, "Well... when was the last time YOU bought a SUPERMAN comic?"
>The answer, invariably, was something like, "Well... maybe 20 or 30 years."
>That rested my case... "IF you don't water your plants they WILL die. And Superman was there when YOU weren't!"

>>149183957
"Laughquake" from Sanjay and Craig

>>149183341
>What made it "lost"?
It was an excuse to make Patchy go on silly comedic adventures, which I'm all for. Patchy segments were always peak kino.

>>149183441
*time travel duplicate
for all in-tents and purposies they are the same dog, so one dying leaves the other as the supreme being

>>149184283
GR15 is specifically for images, newfag.

>>149184037
I agree but the gross picture was so funny what are you talking about
>Dark humor joke against homeless people, which is kind of sick because homeless people can't see it, it's like making a joke behind their back
KEK

>>149183819
Post-movie SpongeBob is basically Silver Age Superman
>Weird convoluted plots where everyone acts out of character and false advertising so people pay attention to it

>>149188903
If a mod is on his period then he'll get cranky and delete you if you just mention it, happens sometimes

>>149184048
I'm shocked Nickelodeon couldn't afford it. It's not like with Beavis & Butthead and Daria which was understandable because they used hundreds of songs.

>>149184166
To be honest, Small Horse changed the status quo several times and the response of the viewers were always unanimously "fuck, go back".

That entire show is such a shining star of corporate mismanagement that its unbelievable. Not only they have struck gold beyond their wildest imaginations but completely failed to capitalize on it and almost as if they actively sabotaged it. Like /toy/ will tell you how they did not make plushies of the extremely marketable main characters for YEARS, despite the customers begging for them. They wanted to throw money at them, yet they somehow managed to dodge the wads and they went to indie craftsmen and chinese bootleg companies. Yes, the toy company whos' toy ad blew up just refused to make toys. Why? No why.

This should have been the defining moment of the cringe era of 2013, not some neckbeard badly singing a song at a con.

>>149189698
Its pretty funny how good writers always work with the simplest of concepts and make it work, while bad writers want to make the most complicated and contrived premise possible and fail to make it interesting or funny anyway.

>>149188750
Especially then they tried to backtrack the whole thing and make him a parent-ish character anyway so they had to use Bronwyn.

>>149188777
No show past it's prime would ever willingly kill off an actual popular of importat character. Because it'd force them to write drastically new character dynamics.

Why does modern spongebob do everything to forget it takes place under the ocean?

>>149191936
Because it wants to write normal ass sitcom plots

>>149185176
IIRC the reason Bowie never sings in the special was because he was added last minute.