Thread 150315252

Does he deserve the worldwide fame?

The first three seasons are truly excellent, no modern cartoon can match them. Not even Spongebob can. I'd say he's earned it.

Yeah the first three seasons were some of the funniest shit ever put to animation, it's on the same tier as golden age Simpsons and the original Tom and Jerry shorts. Even if the show eventually degraded those three seasons alone make it deserved.

>>150315252 (OP)
He's the modern day Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny. A cultural zeitgeist that will be remembered for centuries.

>>150315252 (OP)

SpongeBob got so popular cause his cartoon managed to strike the perfect balance between standard cartoony stuff and grounded storytelling that people can relate to. He’s earned it.

>>150315387

I do like how SpongeBob is starting to become a timeless cartoon, it’s going up there with Looney Tunes and Tom in Jerry in levels of universal recognizability, keep in mind that Nick still reruns episodes from the golden age so the newer generations can watch them, I agree that nothing can hold a candle to the episodes from the golden age, not even the best modern SB episodes, but that’s the case with other timeless cartoons as well. People in charge of modern Looney Tunes stuff try, but stuff like The Day the Earth Blew Up just can’t compare to greatness of the OG Bob Clampett shorts it was inspired by.

>>150315481
Some of those theatrical shorts they made in the 90s actually managed to match the OG shorts IMO, like Carrotblanca. I wish they just made more of those.

>>150315481
>I do like how SpongeBob is starting to become a timeless cartoon
It already is.

>>150315252 (OP)
Yeah, I'd say it's deserved.

>>150315252 (OP)
He looks like a slice of cheese

>>150318666
cheese bob

>>150315252 (OP)
Those first three seasons were just that good.

>>150315252 (OP)
Patrick looks especially stupid here

>>150321074
I love SBSPs shading, could never recreate it this well

>>150315252 (OP)
All staff members should be flayed alive for what they have turned Hillenburg's creation into after his death

>>150315252 (OP)
No.

Spongebob is truly an awful character. He's an annoying manchild sperg. And how his theatrical movie is about how he will embrace being a manchild is simply a terrible moral. In fact Spongebob started to act MORE annoying and infantile that a later episode of the show had the entire population of Bikini Bottom abandon the town strictly to get a break from dealing with Spongebob's annoying antics.

Really goes to show that Spongebob is an awful character. Never liked him and I hate how he's still ongoing.

>>150322877
>muh "spitting on his grave"
You never knew Hillenburg personally, so you cannot speak for the man.

>>150323635
Shut up, Robbins.

>>150321074
Gary is so cute!

>>150315416
Seeing post-movie episodes get turned into viral memes fills me with a special kind of rage.

>>150321968
i've never once seen or heard someone refer to spongebob as "SBSP", i fucking hate it

>>150326352
For what it's worth that top-left one was ultimately a short-lived twitterfaggot meme that ended up dying out as people increasingly recognized how lame it was.

>>150324878
He stepped down from Paramount a while back.

>>150320183
SO many jokes I missed out on as a wee illiterate lad

>>150315252 (OP)
sure why not

>>150328575
wholesome

>>150327696
What, he literally shouts out exactly what's written on each sign.

>>150315252 (OP)
spengbahb

>>150315252 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9wlOahPtbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DvpUxFwFuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpVcW1CpooU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyBWFPt1V6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50HQKh_LsLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuiiDLQbyg
So question, how does Spongebob's music work? Like was most of this stuff just public domain that anyone could've used beforehand, or did they have to license/pay for all of these?

>>150331083
I'm not sure..

>>150326352
>Patrick when he's constipated

>>150331083
its almost all traditional age old sailor folk music, isnt it? if the specific version is not part of a free use stock music library they might have just recorded any covers for any particular piece they needed?

>>150331083
I think some songs were licensed and that's why they don't show up anymore in the newer seasons.

>>150326352
Imagine being such a whiny nostalgiafag you gotta be mad at something like this.

There are tons of Simpsons memes that originated from their post-golden age seasons and you don’t see Simpsons fans complaining.

I can't believe Nickelodeon got away with this.

>>150333826
Lol Simpsons have definitely complained

He's just a more commercial and safe version of Rocko. Hell every single thing about SpongeBob is just a safe version of Rocko's Modern Life.

>>150335913
Squidward deserves a Bev

>>150331083
because of indie games like FNAF and Pizza Tower I wonder how much public domain music there is that people haven't taken advantage of yet

>>150336009
Well that'd just be Mr & Mrs Robinson

Admit it.

You shed a tear.

>>150315416
He achieved that in under a decade too, the mouse and the bunny could never.

>>150339219
Never Doubt The Yellow

>>150340521
>tfw not 8 years old anymore

>>150340970
wish I could hop on Halo 2 right about now