ventureharrison

It's somewhat rare to see traditional hand drawn frame-by-frame animation in a big studio series nowadays, which makes it sting even harder that when actually they do it, they still, instead of real animation cleanup, they hire Snipple Animation to mask over the roughs with cheaply rigged characters. It just looks so cheap, blobby and soulless. The entire new season looks like this, which sucks because everything else about it has been pretty on point.

I think this technique is born from a mindless corporate desire for everything to look "clean", when really it'd look much better if they even just colored the rough animation with no cleanup whatsoever. I'd even rather it was actually rigged animation, but this "fake" looking animation just feels insulting.

Most Disney and WB cartoons from the past 5 years have used this cheap technique, and it's always so deflating. Any potential for the show to be good just goes right down the toilet. As soon as they release a trailer and I see that recognizably sluggish and ugly Snipple animation, all hype dies and all I can say is "ugh".

I just hope the few traditionally animated shows that are still around from before this trend don't switch over to a studio like Snipple, it'd break my heart to see more shows like Big City Greens, Adventure Time and especially SpongeBob SquarePants that have always had great animation from studios like Rough Draft, Saerom and Sugarcube, become victims of Snipple, the bane of animation.

It's not too late for Phineas and Ferb to make this right, they can switch back to real animation and we'll all forget and forgive this awkward half a season, but something tells me I'm yelling into the void, and the decisions like this are out of the hands of the animators that actually care, and in the hands of executives that only care about the cheapest option with the least human touch.

'Jeffy T' is the best episode this season, lots of funny jokes, great line delivery, a great character and plot, and a genuine understanding of slapstick, rather than just making things obnoxious or disgusting for no reason and ruining potential jokes. Big win for modern SpongeBob, instant 10 stars from me.

'A Taste of Plankton' is the worst episode this season, very grotesque, unfunny, and a terrible plot. Oddly has some of the best storyboarding and character art this season, but everything else about this episode was just the worst. I wish I could rate the episodes separately, because this is a 1 star episode for sure. It's just like them to shield such a horrible episode by pairing it with a great one.

Any SpongeBob episode with literal gore and characters skin being ripped off to reveal red fleshy veins is automatically on the "please never play this one again" list, but this one is 100% nothing but that.

There's no jokes, no charm or character to be found, it's just trying to make you as uncomfortable as physically possible, and going beyond the grounds of any kind of tolerance in the process.

SpongeBob SquarePants, what used to be one of the most yummy looking cartoons ever, reduced to a showcase of gore, puss, pain, oozing and wet squelching noises. All my life I've watched SpongeBob every morning during breakfast, A SpongeBob episode that you can't eat during is a bad SpongeBob episode.

Even in the fifth season, as the show was getting worse, it still mostly held that appeal, but this was a turning point, the show has never recovered from this.