Why Plankton Never Fell Off 

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I think the reason why the kept plankton the same was because of how likable he was on his own. His unending attempts of trying to steal the crabby patty formula really made him a funny character and good villain. Especially his dynamic with spongebob and the gang But mostly with him and Mr. Krabs rivalry.

Plankton was always the character that seemed to escape the flanderization of the middling seasons. It’s pretty hard to do that for a villain other than just straight up making them a good guy.

Fun fact: according to Doug Lawrence's page on the Spongebob wiki, Plankton was only supposed to appear in one or two episodes, but Lawrence (whom was also a writer on the show) liked the character so much that after his first recording session, he also wrote down some ideas of his own for Plankton and took them to Stephen Hillenburg. After that, Plankton was promoted to recurring cast member. It was also his idea to have Karen and Plankton be an inseparable duo, with Karen being the brains.

Honestly plankton probably got better with time. His dog episode and wife Karen gave him a lot more depth and emotional attachment.

I was actually surprised Karen was so supportive of Plankton's change. I was so sure the writers would've made her the reason for everything going back to "normal".

“Not only did you play with Squidward’s heart.” That’s the _first_ thing Mr. Krabs said after Plankton was exposed.

Episodes like this that show us under all the rushed deadlines and corporate interference there are still good writers. Its just a shame that they're stuck on something that's being milked dry

My theory as to why he alone hasn’t failed is because he’s the only one of the main characters to be played by a writer, that being Mr Lawrence. Someone who, to my knowledge, has been writing and continued writing for the show since season 1

I actually think this episode was good. I wish they did more with Plankton's flower addiction which was a good plot twist. I also really found the "Me Free Me Free Me Freee" joke really funny lol.

Plankton plan is always constant, steal the formula He does want to take over the world, but stealing the formula is number 1 and I’m glad that has never changed for how long he’s been on the show

Plankton became the anti-hero by comparison to the later-season evils of Mr. Krabs. Consider: Did Plankton ever trick children (who weren't Spongebob) into spending all their money at a theme park where their lives were in danger (and then try to skip town with the money)? I mean the mind-controlling in the movie was real but it didn't target the most vulnerable, right? After a while everyone wanted Mr Krabs' downfall and Plankton was always working toward it from minute one. It's like the old saying: "You couldn't live with your own flanderization. And where did that lead you? Back to me." -Plankton

Plankton may be evil but he also has moments of emotional vulnerability. Compare him with Krabs who is willing to shave off all his morals for money. He's an entirely one note character who acts exactly how you'd expect every time.

Plankton has possibly been the best character in the show, both back then and now. Back then, he was a villain who wasn’t taken all that seriously aside from his first appearance and the movie, where he finally succeeds and almost enslaves everyone in Bikini Bottom except for Sponge and Pat. Now, he’s completely unchanged from how he was before. He isn’t a one dimensional character like the others, he isn’t unnecessarily beaten up like Squidward, and there’s his amoeba pet, son, and the song he wrote for Karen. If anything, Plankton has improved over time.

I do enjoy that they keep coming up with new ways for plankton to be nefarious

SOMEONE SHOULD PUT YOU IN A BOX FLOWING DOWN THE RIVER *GRANDMA!!!* Plankton is one of my most liked characters in spongebob

I haven’t got to see that episode yet, but it seems amazing! I’m glad that there’s at least one character in the show that can make old fans laugh. I’m hoping that season 14 will try to do something different and make the characters a little more likable and give them that special touch or something.

Aw heck yeah, so happy to hear our favorite college graduate is still just as iconic as ever ✌️😁

I've noticed that too about Plankton. I attribute that to Mr. Lawrence who has written for Plankton for years now

I feel like Plankton and Squidward are the most consistently good characters in this show after all these years.

Excellent job for the writers to make sure that this episode is more than just a hybrid between "New Leaf" & "Imitation Krabs" as well as keeping Plankton's character relatively intact.

Tbh, i am kinda sympathetic to Plankton. At the beginning he was like: "the clear evil guy" but now, with mr.Karbs becoming more and more... i wanna say "greedy uncaring Scum", something that he clearly wasn't in the early seasons (At least not to that degree), i feel sometimes so much despisemeant toward the new mr.krabs that i find myself hoping for Plankton to win at least once.

Although my favorite character is Squidward, you still have to agree that plankton is one of, maybe even the best spongebob character due to how entertaining he is in some episodes

IMO Plankton always has been one of the best written characters on the show.

honestly, yeah. they've never screwed up plankton's character and it only feels like they've improved it. i don't watch a lot of modern episodes due to both me having dvds of the first 10 seasons and the issues signing in i have online, but this episode feels like i need to go out of my way to enjoy it

Quite surprised to hear Karen put under unlikable. I thought she was most improved of the main cast from old to new, and one of my favorites overall

Plankton will and will always be my favorite character. I hope there will be more episodes surrounding him in the future!

I know the show has evolved over the years, but I could've gone my whole life without hearing Squidward say "think of me as your _begonia pappy"_

Fun fact: Mr Lawrence originally auditioned for the role of SpongeBob. The writing staff thought it was absolutely hilarious but wouldn't be a good fit for SpongeBob. Because of this, they created a character specifically for Mr Lawrence with the same voice as his audition, who went on to become Sheldon J Plankton.

I really liked this episode. Reminds me of something from season 3-5. I like the squidward subplot the most as I think it’s funny that he falls in love with a robot and breaks down at the end causing them to fight plankton cause he broke squidward

I really liked this episode and the parade episode was even better! It's already one of my favorite episodes of the ENTIRE SERIES!!!

Crazy how the villain of the show is the only one that didn’t fall off.

He’s too powerful

I feel that this episode is a blend of new leaf,f.u.n,married to money and squidwards tiki dream(because there's a place full of flowers)

Best spongebob villain

5:03 oh my god its so weird watching newer episodes in my language because a lot of jokes are references that i do not understand + they are impossible to translate. In one episode while squidward was angry a spoiled piece of cheese appeared above his had and fell on him which made no sense and had no reason to happen unless you understand the reference if it even is one, it might just be there for no reason.

This episode is great imo. And yes, even though I think all the main characters work well rn, Plankton is by far the most consistent. I recommend checking out the newest episodes of TPSS btw, the show is storyboard driven now, and you can clearly see more charm and better writing in these newer episodes.

You also forgot he already did a persona to get close to Krabs with Cashina.

Doug Lawrence does such a great job as plankton's voice actor. Nobody else could come close

Plankton was always a favorite. He was so underutilized which I think gives credence to his character whenever he shows up

Plankton has always been my favorite character more than sandy, very underrated etc, finally getting some recognition

Honestly, this just seems like another Rehash to Imitation Krabs, especially Married to Money, mixed with Plankton's Good Eye ending.

It's crazy how out of all the characters to change in this show, the recurring antagonist is the one who changes the least.

Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos, it always shows

Honestly I see the show split into 3 eras as far as character and tone Seasons 1-3: The Golden Era Seasons 4-8: (I don’t have a name lol) Seasons 9-13: The Wacky Era

Plankton never fell off because of how straight foward his charecter is

You know even tho the quality’s dropped since I was younger, I still find myself sitting next to my younger sister and watching it from time.planktons probably the best part of the new episodes.

Love your video Alpha Jay show

Wouldn't it be nice if Plankton allowed the Petunia personality to take overr for a bit? It'd give us a break from the Krabby Patty Secret Formula arc, and give us a new sort of thing for a while.

funny that out of all characters, they make the villain the most likable

The fact that all the characters besides plankton were blacked out in unlikable is just seriously sad to look at ngl

The TLDR version seems to be "Flanderization kills characters."

i think this video is super good from differentiating “good” and “liked” characters, because people LOVE squidward and gary, but because of other characters, their quality drops as theyre commonly the punching bag.

Bro that ad was so smooth and good! Wasn’t to long but got the The point across and ended as smooth as it started! I may go and buy one just because of how good that was😂

am i the only one who LOVES the gag at 7:22?? aligning with what alpha jay was saying - "it's just a nice change of pace for a character some of us have seen for two decades!" - his panda's expression is drawn in a much more cutesy art style, the red parts of the design change to pink, and the hoodie lightens up! a short change of pace for alpha jay himself, too! or maybe i'm reading into it too much??

I'm pretty sure there'd be a less complicated way to set off all those explosives in the krusty krab

7:20 Is that refrencing how your mascot changed in this moment? xD

Haha squidwards rizz is honestly pretty good

A mountain has 1 peak but many paths to reach it. Maintaining the same plot but with new apporaches, reptitive but dynamic.

i like how they still kinda stay to the aquatic theme with the bee beeing (pun intended) a jellyfish

The part where Squidward fucks everything up is the funniest part

Bru that sponsorship insertion was fucking beautiful

I think the Flower Pot episode would've been better the shop owner turned out to be even WORSE than Plankton. It would be awesome if Mr. Krabs begged Plankton to come back and put the flower shop out of business.

I think Season 13 has had a very random upkeep in quality from the earlier episodes you criticized. Episodes like this one, Ma and Pa’s Big Hurrah and Delivery to Monster Island are all great. I think it’s mostly due to the work on the spin-offs and the main show finally being split in between different crews. The Patrick Show is finally (mostly) funny due to its new staff being filled with many Billy and Mandy as well as Ren and Stimpy veterans. Also SpongeBob hasn’t been completely Flanderized like you made it seem he has in your Yellow Pavement review, it just depends on the writer, in Ma and Pa’s Big Hurrah, he shows many more emotions than just happiness like annoyance and even anger.

Interesting essay😊

the little green bean is the onlt one who gas had an expansion of his character rather than being trimmed down to fit in a box. honestly he deserves his own spin off for his character surviving this long;

I have a theory, what if the characters that did fall off are actually pod people. The real characters who had the personality everyone loved was replaced by other people trying to imitate them.

The thing is plankton was always refreshing to see, even the his thing of trying to steal the formula every day wasn’t repetitive because he always came up with a new idea or scheme that was always fresh. Plus the character himself, unlike a lot of others plankton legitimately has two sides to his character His evil side and the good side that comes out every now and again showing that while yes he can be angry and a jerk sometimes he does have the compassion and ability to care as he can be very open to help or pitch in outside of schemes to get what he wants Ex: the mermaid man movie he was there and wanting to help more or less by choice and never tried to steal the formula

plankton is so versatile and iconic, love that dude.

2:58 you can tell Squidward just watched The Mask

Plankton never successfully steals the formula but he really does steal the show in many appearances

@AlphaJayShow unicorn dark warriors eternal premieres tonight on adult swim I’m definitely going to watch it.

Some people claim that Plankton obsession with the Krabby patty formula is falling off. I disagree this obsession is people like him.

Any idea what happened to Jem Reviews? I found your channel because of the Collab you two did on his SpongeBob episode and he's been inactive for 3 years. I've always wondered what happened.

I searched for a vid specifically about Plankton because how I realized in retrospect, how good he was as a character and I wanted to see if other people agreed.

While we're on the subject of this episode, the way Plankton's robot kept ending its sentences with "Huh" honestly got really annoying.

0:52 "A tried and true *formula* with Plankton..." 4:44 "...turning into a *shell* of their former selves..." I see what you did there, Alpha Jay 😉

At first I was skeptical, but now that I think of it, I never recall watching an episode with Plankton in it and thinking “That feels out of character”, unlike literally every other main character

Petunia was hitting those onion-son "HUH?"

I genuinely liked the idea of plankton actually realizing he wanted to do something else nicer than wanting to steal the secret formula once again. Iv seen plankton in lots of times as a casual relatable guy who is not as evil as who i thought he was. That chum clan episode was an example for it. At first i thought plankton only liked those alive chum monsters just because they would help him steal the formula and take over the krusty krab. When they failed to destroy and scare krabs into giving them the formula. Plankton actually still wanted to hang out with them. Surprisingly. I thought plankton would just stop talking to them and just call them useless or another failed attempt. But plankton actually gained emotion for them and wanted to spend more time with them acknowledging the fact he actually found some friends. The chum monsters were the ones not wanting to hang out with plankton anymore which was surprising. But at the end of the episode. I really liked that about plankton. It shows he really does have a heart for some people. He actually just wants some friends and just wants to have a good time.

I never knew I'd love a happier, more wholesome Plankton. And yeah, it'd be great if they kept "Petunia" for a couple more episodes, IF SQUIDWARD DIDN'T MUCK UP HIS PLANS!! He also could've taken over the world by using hypnotic flowers.

they left the season after 12 to the dust ben on Paramount +, and didn't even put season 13-16 on paramount +

7:21 Ani-Jay isn't real. He can't hurt you.

1:42 gosh how does a fish get that thicc? I mean... I guess she likes the crusty crab, right? 1:55 ah. Still that's a thicc fish. 2:50 and squidward is a cultured man.

“I will now present to you a slideshow on why everyone else has fallen off, meanwhile I have remained on top” -Jackmanifold (A RU-vidr I don’t watch but have still heard that quote from a random clip)

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All those times where plankton tries to steal the secret formula makes me think back to FOP. You know When it comes to stealing there is something that Crocker wants to steal from Timmy's Fairies, And I was thinking that he only wants them for their magic wands and by stealing a wand he can prove to a girl as crazy as him that fairy god parents exist. Now we have Chloe, and she has to be perfect for a reason. But what reason would there be for a girl as perfect as her for needing fairies? They haven't explained that reason to anyone or maybe the reason is so simple for Chloe that she wouldn't need Timmy's Fairies just to steal a magic wand of her own from Fairy World.

What’s funny is the only time anyone can say Plankton “Fell Off” was in Served but even then what wasn’t even his fault. The writers just DESPERATELY wanted to torture him for whatever reason.

Day 1 million of waiting for the next mordecai/margaret-cj arc.(I never learned how to count)

I thought he left for hood but then I remember what happened at dulls ville

you forgot to include larry the lobster and the flying dutchman i think both are pretty interesting

Goodbye everyone I'll remember you all in therapy - Plankton

" I ALWAYS COME BACK"

I mean even when I didn't like Plankton at first he had always made me laugh with his over the top voice.

When did this come on? I don't remember hearing about any new episodes or even seeing this on

7:06 sunflower :0

Plankton's my favorite character on the show.

3:06 Oh dear gods make it stop! I feel terrible for plankton! Squidward is The true monster here…

Plankton has always been my favorite

2:48 squidwards arm changed color for a split second