Modern SpongeBob's Wacky Faces 

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I sometimes felt bored when ever they played the same goofy music during a scene that is supposed to be witty banter. I can't put my figure on why but I think it would sometimes add a boring layer of predictability.

I think it just doesn't fit spongebob

it may be full of life, but in disgusting way.

That's the thing, for modern TV standards

The issue is it's lack of restraint, it's like they throwing weird face after weird face at you, hoping atleast one will chirp out a chuckle

I don't care what people say, but it's still beautiful. Not in the Space Goofs (Season 2) levels, but it's still wonderful.

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Very true. A lot of people, (including myself) quote older SpongeBob a lot. It’s very memorable and funny

The ability to quote a series makes it more approachable than otherwise.

This is one of the reasons i enjoy the older point and click SpongeBob pc games that came out in the early 2000’s, the environments were just hand drawn images, sometimes the ones straight from the show, so being able to walk around and explore that especially now is extremely satisfying in a similar way

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YES.

U hit the nail on the head

Can’t forget chicken bob

Mark literally debunked this at the beginning of the video. And honestly as an artist myself, Mark was pretty on point. The internet is crazy and fads come and go and animation takes so long to make its pretty disingenuous to chalk up all that talent to them just being in arms race to make a meme in a cartoon for kids where wacky faces has always been sort of part of the show. Forgot their name, but the og rebel taxi crew straight up brought in a ton of animators in the industry as guests for their old podcast (the pizza party podcast) and one of the most poingnant things said by one of them is what their thoughts were on what they thought of non-animation industry takes and theories And homeboy said they love them because it’s always 100% more interesting than what actually goes on on the inside, due to the fact that it’s all just any other job at the end of the day. Nobody makes choices, everything is some insidious plot or slight on someone’s character or some act of self sabotage for clout. And GOD it rings so true Now to be fair; yeah, a myriad of things impact why artist do what we do in the same way things effect what you do what you do, we’re all just people after all. However- Sometimes-- It ain’t that deep bro, (which I hate saying when it comes to art) but sometimes it not some insidious plot, sometimes an artist puts something in because it’s cool or funny and it makes their job and their day a little brighter. I only bring this up because while not working on anything spongebob related, Tyson Hesse one of the main artist for a lot of modern 2D sonic media had about the same thing to say in response to a fan criticizing the silly faces. They’re doing god knows how many drawings a day, sometimes they just do something silly for silliness sake. To treat it like some valid clout chasing, is honestly pretty scummy imo :/ As Mark said at the beginning, we DON’T know what’s going through their heads, but to make an assumption to rationalize your distaste for something that basically amounts to personal preference is incredibly odd, rude and disenegenous You could just say “idk, I can’t put my finger on it, but it doesn’t feel ‘spongebob’ to me, and I don’t like it.” Instead of using some ad hominem to attack or imply one’s character. Just makes you look shitty, even when you weren’t intending to be.

Not at all. Even LS Mark said he disagreed with this.

also that it's been 10 or even 15 years for some characters to reappear again randomly in the series. THAT LONG

It’s probably the over complication in design compared to the simpler design of the main cast. I mean you can easily draw the main cast by heart since it’s a few shapes and colours, I mean look at Patrick. The new side chars are often complicated and not fitting. It’s like if you put SpongeBob through a hyper realistic filter.

Simpsons has had the same issue for years too, maybe this is just the curse of long running cartoons?

They're either tube sausage people claiming to be fish, or wrinkly realistic monsters

you can tell they're drawn by the wrong type of Spongebob fans, the type that also like Sonic and make X the Y OCs.

Yeah it’s a little off

Yeah, SpongeBob's cheeks can be a real problem sometimes.

Yeah his cheeks need to be bigger

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​@@logancracraftgaming7124Maybe keep your weird sad little comments to yourself until you mature past the age of 5, freak. Hopefully nothing important to you dies

This feels like what happened to American Dad too

Forreal. They just keep bringing Nosferatu back. Also the chocolate skeleton lady from Chocolate with Nuts (she came back in two recent eps)

@@Dezlite I was surprised when I saw Nosferatu being a re occurring character instead of being a background nod to that particular episode

That's exactly how I feel about this.

That's literally my thoughts. Previous seasons 1 had the expressive off-model moments as just that, "moments." It feels like nowadays, it's just feels like watching an old rubberhose cartoon just with 50% less brain cells.

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Same

And people still find ways to harp on him and villainize him. Its very telling.

@@corporatecanine6030 Yeah! They hate when they can't really be upset at the fact he actually cares about their views

Agreed.

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I had a really bad childhood where I lived in an apartment with my bio parents and the only thing I could do was sit in my crib and watch seasons 1-3 of spongebob, all day every day for 5 years. I’m not kidding, they were genuinely very neglectful. Spongebob was my friend, and i fucking hate what they’ve done to him and his friends. For me, it’s very personal because he was the only thing I had for the first few years of my life, and they took that away too. I would’ve felt much better if they just canceled it maybe 5-6 seasons in, let it die with some shred of dignity. It feels like the only good part of my childhood was taken away from me, too. Sorry I didn’t mean to trauma dump.

it feels like compensation tbh.

You see this a lot now. It's like writers just go "who cares, kids will eat this up" without remembering that many parents and older siblings are going to have to watch this stuff a lot with the kids. Stuff like old SpongeBob and Shrek were genuinely funny even to the parents

Spongebob is trash without Stephen Hillenburg

It was meant to end at the first movie, but Stephen decided that SpongeBob was to good of a show to end on that note, but that was his mistake that he can't take back since he passed away.

I hate this saying too, though. Spongebob has always been a "kids'" show, it just so happens that it also heavily resonated with adults and adults loved it too because of how genius the dialogue and humor was; however, this newer team of writers (I've noticed this in a lot of other modern cartoons as well) seem to think children are inherently too stupid to find anything other than oversaturated colors and endless body gags entertaining. It's like they went from a show that was creative AND hilarious to......Cocomelon level brain rot. It's unfortunate tbh

@@princessnicki63 very offended you’d ever compare any version of SpongeBob to cocomelon. Bright colors doesnr automatically equal something is bad and childish.

Now I know why he is insane. Thank you breaking Walter white🙏🙏

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he's not like mr. enter, thankfully.

@@benpodvia5744 Yeah, though at least John owned up to his mistakes and is more calmer in his videos now then he was in the past.

​@@FlowermationsHe actually saw the Patrick Show episode that involves the "online reviewer" and he actually enjoyed it. He said if the episode came out around the same time he was reviewing the other bad SpongeBob episodes, he would go ballistic and call the episode mean spirited for insulting the fan (all while doxxing the writers and have people to harass them). Instead, he actually appreciated the episode for how accurate the Bubble Bass reviews were to the reviews of the 2010s. He explain that the show wasn't for him, but he know some people who like Uncle Grandpa would genuinely like this as they're part of the same niche of humor. Mr Enter is no longer that angry reviewer that would shout random and bizarre takes especially once be pandemic came to an end.

@@allendepacheco3419 Yeah I saw that video too, that´s what we folks call character development.

The problem with most kids shows (partially cartoons) these days is that they pander too much to kids than being for the whole family. Families are more able to enjoy cartoons like Regular Show and Gravity Falls over something childish like We Baby Bears or Molly McGee. I heard that Adult Cartoons have been getting better reputation in this decade with shows like Smiling Friends, and the Adventure Time revival, but I highly don't recommend children watching those.

@@happaxgamma it helps with a show being regarded as timeless when you make it targeted towards everyone in the audience

Like the flintstones

Yeah when you’re watching season 10+ it’s more reaction-inducing to NOT see a wacky face. Hell….. with how the animation is now, we need to stop calling them “wacky”because it’s just the new normal. Lol

@@legendbtvNot when most people who think of Spongebob only think of the golden years of Spongebob from 1999-2004.

@@thesupermayoreo well Yeah….. of course, during that era, stuff like Squidward’s “tonight” face is a wacky face, I’m just saying that when you normalize something like wacky faces, ( post season 9 ) it kind of just makes them faces, imo

@@wallowlightlmao what’s that suppose to mean

LOL, like as if the fanbase is not keeping it relevant enough already. Consider that this is the same fanbase that won't allow the show to get cancelled and go off the air.

what???? you act like all paramount is is nickelodeon

​@mrdingus1530 actually i think they are, yknow it's a 25 year old show right?

He literally refutes this thought process in the video

I agree. The new rendering style feels too bright, sharp and sleek. The warmth and fuzziness of older Spongebob, though, that was the stuff. Now I wonder what Adam Paolian's drawings would look like with the original fuzzy lines and cozy colors.

sorry to say this 6 months later, but its always supposed to have been like that. you can look up color guides and animation cels from the early seasons and they'll all have the same, bright color palette.

There comics of SpongeBob?!

I have an issue lying around somewhere in my room, and it absolutely does have the same charm as the early seasons for sure

​@@dante_0962Yup. There is some wild stuff in them too.

The current seasons of Spongbob are maybe hit-and-miss, but it's better than Season 6 - 8.

theyve been picking up the slack in season 13 but it kinda is terrible ill be real 💀

I agree, I enjoy watching the modern seasons, especially Season 9b and 12

Tbh I'm not the biggest fan of post sequel SpongeBob, I think the past two seasons have been good but it's just not really my thing but I really hate the way some older fans tend to talk about long running series. Where they say the modern stuff's bad because of episodes made like 10 years ago

​@@usermcskull4713exactly. Like, how many times do we have to say that the Splinter was back in 2008? I was a kid

Me when a long-running show has a divided fan base:

Some say that they've been trying to do that since Sanjay and Craig and to think that show was 10 years ago now.

​@@andykishore The Mighty B! was also inspired by R&S, and that show lasted from 2008 to 2010.

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Really enjoyed your cameo appearance in this one.

I just started watching your content and found you here. What the hell? Keep up the great content, I love it!

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The source? Google Psychic Pebbles SpongeBob and read the multiple sources that confirm it. You can't link on RU-vid, the burden of proof is no longer on the original poster it's on you to trust or confirm

@@ww6372 - no it's ok i looked it up. neat stuff

@-throat- sweet. Sorry, saw a recent thread were a creator of a video joined in on mocking a user for sharing a fun fact instead of just fact checking it, so I've become a lol more irritated by people who are like "gimme all the links idk how to google"

uh akshually he never really did any voices

Helluva boss’ problem is that 99% of the jokes are just “hehe s*x”

gotta be real, i cannot finish an episode of anything that person has animated, and it’s because of the dialogue. it sounds so much like the terrible dialogue I wrote when I was 15 where every character is extremely stand off-ish and sexual / or rude because comedy, I guess.

I can agree with not attacking the writers or animators, but if people wanna voice their opinions on what they heavily dislike, then who are we to say “it’s better to just not say anything negative?”

Sweet. This comment is pretty underrated.

You thought this was gonna be a top comment didn't you

@@n50409 yeah and I wasn’t even eating grapes

@@frenchfry7774 I can't believe you would do this

How were those grapes

Oh yeah! Extreme Spots was when the show transitioned into widescreen for the first time.

man the ‘and then’ thing is exactly how i feel about new episodes. tried to give them a chance but every episode just felt like ‘this happens and then this happens and then this happens and now it’s done’, i definitely preferred it when it was more character driven and the characters weren’t either flat, a complete shell of themselves, or needlessly vindictive

​​@@mavohqYeah it makes the jokes suffer too. Like, there is no real setup or delivery. It is just "this and then this and then this and then end scene". Like, there was a really recent one involving Sandy that i assume was intended as a job but came off more as some writer's incredibly weird self inserted kinks (something that I have noticed more than once in modern episodes).

@BrandonNobleRocks If it is getting old and repetitive then perhaps a sign that the show should finish? There is nothing left to do. Everything is a copy of an older episode.

Although sometimes the animation in that season looks a bit "slow", the budget probably had to be adjusted with the Spin-Offs

@@maxsteellatino3241That could be it, it must cost a lot of money to manage 3 shows at once

hot crossed *what*

@@Patricksdoorbell Yeah, I noticed this when I compared the scene of Squidward hitting in the Sushi Maker in Life Insurance, with the one in Friendiversary, in Life Insurance it looks more fluid and detailed than in Friendiversary, especially when the fists hit Squidward, in Friendiversary looks like they won't touch him, and both episodes are 6 years apart (2017-2023).

More simple and clean

​@@SIudgeIt's the way that you're making me feel

Mark said that.

@@bigearl1624 true. but i thought that before i watched the video so hweffwfdsafdsfawefasefdsa

He doesn’t animate tho

You can like it and I can dislike it. Though at the end of the day, there are different iterations of Spongebob that people can go and stick with.

It’s also kind of inevitable that something running this long hits phases. Everything from dragonball or Jojo (manga AND anime) to western stuff like family guy and the simpsons go through phases that impact the output, for better or worse. It’s inevitable and we have our preferences But just because something changes, just because it isn’t for us, doesn’t mean it’s objectively bad There’s a difference between something isn’t for you, and just being UPSET at something that doesn’t APPEAL to you and treating it as an inherent fault on the creators part. Distinguishing the two is key

Don't we all.

We all do

Wow what a unpopular opinion!

New Spongebob can be good too, give it a try

i dont know, i grew up around the late noughts early 2010s and i remember hating modern spongebob, all those super toxic "security system takes control of squidwards house!" critic youtubers came from that time period

It gives me vibes of "never draw the same face twice"

That's Vincent Waller magic to modern SpongeBob since he worked on the original ren and stimpy show.

omg mr friendship

​@@thecaptain6520 It's kinda funny when you think about it. John.K goes absolutely nuts anytime an artist unintentionally duplicates a face. While SpongeBob (Or at least Modern SpongeBob) is able to causally pull of the "no same face twice" rule (Unless they're referencing a meme). Like seriously, it feels like almost every face in modern SpongeBob is always different unless they're using the "default/blank faces"

He has eyebrows?! HOLY MOLY, HE DOES!

@@ThatWackyWaffle He always did, but they would appear only at times to emphasize his expression, Now he has them in his "Default" expression, which ngl, as much as it sounds nitpicky, looks a bit uncanny since I'm use to him having a baby-ish face. Tho it does look appealing too!

part of it must’ve been bc of technology i’m assuming (at least in the very beginning)