Why spongebob is awesome

Nicole Ortiz. Movies TV. January 5, May 9, Eric Vilas-Boas. September 18, December 29, John Maher. July 26, April 15, Sammy Nickalls. Customer: Another one? Look, I told your little friend I ain't payin' for that!

Squidward: Well, this one's on the house! SpongeBob: You hurt my friend! You're not a king! You're a bully and a liar! Patrick: [burnt to a crisp] Bring it on! SpongeBob can handle anyth— [gets shocked again] Ouch! Customer: April Fools , jerk! SpongeBob: Squidward!

Is all that true? Squidward: Yes, SpongeBob. Yes, it's all true. SpongeBob: Even the part about the lima beans and the car chase? Squidward: What the? Yes, whatever! But you have to promise not to tell anybody. SpongeBob: I promise. Squidward: Really? SpongeBob: Okay, goodness lesson number three.. My middle school art teacher was really into SpongeBob , and though I originally assumed it was because he was a goofy guy trying to relate to his students, he ended up spending a week of class pointing out every reference to dada artwork e.

Man Ray is a reference to the famous surrealist artist. Suddenly, this cartoon had legitimacy. An actual adult teacher was telling me that SpongeBob was not only cool, it was smart. But the beauty of SpongeBob was how it never showed off how smart it was, and it never sacrificed a joke for the sake of being clever. Petrana: SpongeBob was a meme before we even had a word for memes. It was an inside joke that everyone was in on. As someone whose parents were weirdly strict about television, I was left out of it.

Austen: SpongeBob has always gotten praise for its clever jokes and the heart of its characters — and it deserves every bit of that praise — but the hold that the show has always had over me was its absurdity. Its ability to toss something completely random at the audience and smile like the joke made perfect sense.

And you know what? In , 16 years after the episode originally came out, I know exactly who Nosferatu is and I still love the joke because it makes exactly the same amount of sense in the show that it did when I was a kid.

Julia: My extremely cursed brain thinks in images and memes, most of which come from SpongeBob.