Modern Spongebobs Biggest Nostalgia Bait Episode 

My bad Spongegar and Patar are the names from Ugh. I got the names mixed up but what I was saying except for that still made sense I think

Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was a marine biologist. His world wasn't just random mash ups. Rocks actually slide along the sea floor. They should get the octopus lady as a consultant or something

Pretty much the biggest symptom of a show running its course, is it having to cycle back on so much stuff that people loved about it in the first place.

There’s literally an exchange in Cosmic Shake about this type of episode SpongeBob: Is there anything that shouldn’t be recycled? Patrick: Old jokes.

They really just said "put every reference possible into the episode, then people will think its good"

you can really tell that Tom Kenny's voice is starting to give out after 25 years of this

Modern Spongebob is like an old man that used to be beloved back in his day, but for whatever reason became weird and creepy as he got older, and he's now trying to relive the days of his youth, but it's just not going well.

Part of the charm in older SpongeBob was taking simple plot points like Delivering Pizza, Playing Music, or Selling Chocolate Bars, and adding a bunch of great jokes to make said plots feel like something much bigger.

I genuinely don't understand modern SpongeBob. It's clearly unenjoyable for adult viewers yet they try to win them back with the constant nostalgia bait.

I wish Squlliam Fancyson returned as the museum worker or his ancestor the boss of the boat factory.

There are plenty of people who are passionate about spongebob and have great ideas for new episodes, but Nick just keeps shoveling out episodes that have horrible dialog and recycled plotlines. It's clear the current writers are COOKED, but nick doesn't seem to care.

Seeing all these older references in newer seasons gives me tonal whiplash. It’s like that one kid in class who tries to be a class clown by saying variations of one joke they said earlier. Whereas SpongeBob has always been a show about moving onto new things in its comedy. Even the Dark Ages (Season 6-8) experimented a little even if it was all garbage

20 years ago, parents thought that Spongebob was just a bunch of brainrot nonsense that their kids shouldn't be watching. Nowadays, it really *IS* a bunch of brainrot nonsense that their kids shouldn't be watching.

At least the episode wasn't some weird foot fetish.

The rock being treated like a horse literally ruins the entire joke of it being a method of transportation

Really starting to notice just how much they dumbed down spongebob. I dont think he was ever meant to be stupid, just naive.

I remember watching that episode from season 10 where Squidward delivers paintings and he visits Rock Bottom briefly, I found that callback really cool at the time. Now I noticed the show has turned into just that. Only nostalgia bait as a crutch for bad writing, the writers have become too self aware and refuse to improve on anything.

The first season so iconic The new seasons are just brain dead 💀

"Ugh" was honestly one of my favorite episodes from season 3, i loved the parts with Patchy as well.

I think the no touching “joke” is that Old Man Walker is one of the exhibits. Get it? Because old person funny. That’s also why there’s the tiny little exhibit sign in front of him. He’s not a guard FOR the museum, he’s an exhibit AT the museum of the oldest guard at the museum. Because old people are a joke.

I think I speak for everyone when I say, "I miss what SpongeBob once was." Even had a conversation with my parents the other day about it. It's not even watchable anymore. It went d9wn hill really badly.

Spongebob is falling apart without Stephen Hillenburg....

The no touching thing just reminds me of the original Kevin episode joke with Patrick. Of course, there, they somehow managed to make Patrick just saying “Touch!” funny. Here, they drag it into a major motive for Walker to be mad at them, which just feels generic and lazy.

6:04 that's probably a callback to s4e3, "have you seen this snail", where patrick eats old milk

Modern SpongeBob’s take on nostalgia is like the gag from family guy where some dude is shoving his family photos on another guy while a little girl is opening a new make up store

You’re not gonna believe me, but Cecil and Bunny (Patrick’s parents from The Patrick Star Show) ACTUALLY appeared in the SpongeBob episode “Sheldon SquarePants.” Can’t we go one episode without nostalgia bait and continuity errors?

I don't think there was any more thought given to Mr. Puff other than "hmm Mrs. Puff related to car thing so old car thing will be Mrs. Puff but Mister."

4:10 But the joke was that it is a normal rock that slide over the groud to move. The original rock never jumped or acted like a horse. That's the whole essence of this joke. Also missed opportunity to have the overruned Sqidward joke there from original episode.

Would be better if they return old humour, instead of referencing old episodes every second

Unfortunately modern SpongeBob is just nostalgia bait. 😔

Jesus christ did they make sandy stupid in modern spongebob? She feels as insufferable as spongebob and patrick, like when she speaks she's talking down to someone.

"Well since we ran out of ideas, we must use the powerful.." "NOSTALGIA!"

All this episode really did was confirm that Ugh is not canon, and they also made an actual historical reference to Henry Ford, which I honestly was not expecting. Still, they could’ve honestly made way more great history jokes here

At this point I'm starting to believe the writers are no longer in charge of the show. I feel like the writers are told what to write. Also if the writers are aware how great the seasons were why cant they write as good? They just copy and paste.

The characters are already always grunting and making sounds like the primals, they could make another ugh

this makes me go "Ugh"

Missed opportunity of not referencing Dunces and Dragons here.

Ugh is my favorite classic episode

What're the odds some of these newer Sponge Bob Episodes are just fanfics written by fans that somehow become a episode?

0:20 i feel like a museum in SpongeBob would be more creative than an anchor design 9:49 ok Plankton stole one of Sandy's robots

Everything is so brain dead now. Adults used to think spongebob was stupid in the early 2000s but now look at it. Now 2000s kids think its stupid.

It's so weird because the old humor was focused on being so random and out of pocket, and what they said and the new humor is trying to over animate them

I was happy to see Spot again at the very least

Spongebobs voice has really gotten rough

6:54 well it can’t be Mrs. Puff’s dad since that’s her married name. But then again, there’s an episode where Mrs. Puff says “I’ll have to change my name and move to a new city… no. Not AGAIN.” Does this mean Mrs. Puff is not her real name??

Man they trippin

They don't even care about the older episodes. They're disrespectful.

Old SpongeBob was so great because it had plots that everyone can relate to at one time or another. It was like watching an underwater themed, comedic portrayal of life.

I don’t understand how the show falls to this level, and yet this episode got a 9.7/10 stars?? How?? I get it, SpongeBob is a kids show now. It always was, but back then the jokes were layered enough to where adults could be entertained. They don’t have those jokes in them anymore. But the thing is, the old seasons weren’t only great for the jokes. They had great storytelling, interesting characters, fun plots, and were more grounded. Instead of throwing in annoying weird facial expressions every 30 seconds, and having these weird songs playing in the background that have been reused for 10 seasons now, just make a more grounded show and make better background music. Ambient, relaxing noise, grounded and realistic characters. Good jokes are just a bonus at this point. Can’t they just emulate what season 1-3 did so well? They have the blueprints right in front of them.

Yeah mr puff must be mrs puffs dad or granddad

squidiot box is actually a crazy episode name i cannot be mad

Tbh no matter how stupid these nostalgia episodes are, What I really wanna see is a band geeks sequel. Then the show can die

0:57 technically she could be combining information from documents as a literature study

I actually kind of liked this episode. I thought the references to Ugh and SB-129 were well done and not too forced.

Where’s Tom Schalk (He voiced SpongeBob in Death Battle’s SpongeBob VS Aquaman in case you didn’t know.) when you need him for SpongeBob’s replacement voice actor? Tom Kenny’s showing his age.

Mr. Puff is either Mrs. Puff's husband or one of his direct male ancestors. Puff is Mrs. Puff's husband's name. I don't think we knoe Mrs. Puff's maiden name.

This situation is perfectly described by the meme with backpack saying let it go bruh 😭

Even when I first saw the episode I assumed Mr. Puff was just an ancestor/older relative to Mrs. Puff’s husband

It's honestly sad seeing my all time favorite cartoon growing up that was kind of a part of me personality wise, go down in such a horrible direction.

“How’d u guys know today was my birthday?” “We just read the invitation.”😂😂😂

Its a real shame when kids tv shows try to copy stories and themes from the original version of the show or earlier seasons rather then trying to do their own thing

I will point out that museums can count as research. I actually had to visit a museum for a paper once.

They’re really unsure if Sandy’s tail should be out or not

They turned SpongeBob into Patrick…

I think Mr.Puff is Mrs.Puff’s father-in-law or something.

Honestly idk why everyone is complaining about the nostalgia aspect, it's literally the ONLY thing I like and appreciate in modern spongebob.

I sure do love it when they reference stuff that I'd rather be watching in newer material. "Remember blank" I sure do, I'd rather be watching that episode.

This episodes makes the nuclear theory more plausible. The main flaw of this theory is that we see the characters way before nuclear bombs even existed. But now we see how an anchor suddenly apears in what is supposed to be prehistory. I think their prehistory is happening right after the nuclear tests and would explain the anchor. The reason they're so developed now when only 40-60 years passed is because maybe time is diffrent here. Think about how 1 human day is 7 dog days. Maybe something similar is happening here

Erosion is a reference to when Squidward reads science digest and laughs at it. (Also did you just say you didnt know what erosion was)

spongebob merchandise constantly references spongebob memes (such as the caveman spongebob picture at 2:38) even if they are years late. so seeing how the episodes now constantly call back to these memes, it makes me feel like they are trying to reel older viewers and internet addicted children in for views and money

I think it would've been funnier if Sandy drew a donkey instead of a bull, that way it would be her calling both Spongebob and Patrick a jackass.

Even Sandy's starting to sound old now 😭

Did they really make SpongeBob say "me do math good." It's so out of character it doesn't even feel like the ogs anymore

Wait I thought Sandy was studying to do a science paper or something. Not history. Did… did they mix up history and science?

Bro they need to study old episodes of Spongebob and just take time to see what made them episodes the best

If the people in charge of writing new episodes see this (I doubt it) please; for the love of god, come up with new ideas. We don’t actually like shameless rips of old episodes, that’s not how nostalgia works. Imagine if instead of Elder Scrolls 6 after all these years, we instead got a slightly different version of Skyrim, the same game we’ve had for well over a decade. That’s what this feels like. You know what would succeed at nostalgia? An episode that actually aims to capture what SpongeBob used to be, the thing I am actually nostalgic for. And you don’t do that by pointing at older episodes going “remember this?” It’s lazy is what it is. If I wanted that, I’d go back and watch that episode.

They ran out of ideas, so they're attempting to reuse old ones

a new spongebob episode before awe reviews it: gets loved a new spongebob episode after awe reviews it: gets hated (no hate)

I like ugh as SB-129 and even ugh has better jokes than hysterical history

I swear the modern writers actually don't know anything about Spongebob, Bikini Bottom or its characters.

Idk why but the Hoops/Old Man Walker villain part reminds me of the unused ending to The Nightmare Before Christmas

2:00 at one point Sandy would have karate chopped spongebob in half for saying/doing whatever that was supposed to be.

If this episode was all about old references, why didn't they use spongebuck and dead eye plankton

Caveman Spongebob meme is back

Bringing back old plot points can absolutely work, but the angle and execution matter most here. Bringing back things from the background/few episodes (like puff and krabs) is a great way to flesh out a world with pre-established ideas, but unfortunately it just turns into nostalgia bait that doesn't work.

Bit of a correction: SpongeGar and Patar are from Ugh, the SB-129 Spongebob and Patrick are just called Primitive Sponge and Primitive Star

there actual names according to SpongeBob official youtube channel is primitive star and primitive sponge

The sad thing is that this premise isn't even bad. If you want to make an anniversary episode with lots of callbacks, the history museum seems like a natural fit for that. If they hadn't forgotten to put actual jokes in there and make the references make sense in the story (and also if they hadn't made a whole season full of references without context), it could have been really nice.

ts funny af “what was that line” “did they forget to put the joke in” 😂😂

If this gets RU-vid Kid'd

Season 14 is literally and should be called the nostalgia bait season

Child labor cannon to SpongeBob!?!?!?!

I think Mr.Puff is just male Ms.Puffs and nothing more lmao

I actually cried when i saw Kevin in modern spongebob

I always assumed this was just to celebrate the 25th anniversary

3:00 - omg guys he did the meme! uhh… now laugh!

Anyone else think that sandy looks shorter?

There's clearly something wrong with Nickelodeon nowadays.

4:59 imagine if this was your op...

Cancer is very Bad