ZTrainExpress
Joined Mar 2007
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1. That Sinking Feeling
This one started out good with a funny premise. Sqidward is annoyed by Spongebob and Patrick's noise in the yard. So the 2 build a tunnel in between their homes. Great, funny start. But then the episode goes off the rails. Squidward can still hear the 2 even though they're underground? Doesn't seem plausible. Then Squidward chases them through tunnels resulting in everyone's homes sinking?
This one was more about sight gags than keeping the story together and making sense.
2. Karate Star
Spongebob makes a candy for Gary and it attracts flies? Isn't this underwater, where flies can't survive? Is this show even trying to live in the real world anymore? But Patrick being stuck with a chopping affliction works well but there's not real resolution. The writers got lazy with this one.
This one started out good with a funny premise. Sqidward is annoyed by Spongebob and Patrick's noise in the yard. So the 2 build a tunnel in between their homes. Great, funny start. But then the episode goes off the rails. Squidward can still hear the 2 even though they're underground? Doesn't seem plausible. Then Squidward chases them through tunnels resulting in everyone's homes sinking?
This one was more about sight gags than keeping the story together and making sense.
2. Karate Star
Spongebob makes a candy for Gary and it attracts flies? Isn't this underwater, where flies can't survive? Is this show even trying to live in the real world anymore? But Patrick being stuck with a chopping affliction works well but there's not real resolution. The writers got lazy with this one.
Okay let's all admit that Seasons 1-3 were nothing short of iconic television theater - far beyond the average sitcom fair.
But this one was a great episode that started out seeming like it would be gimmicky. But really John Lithgow and Kristen Johnston out-do themselves by essentially playing each other. It was a far fetched plot that was played to perfection by the whole cast. In the same vane you have to include Jane Curtain and Wayne Knight, who serve as the perfect foils to the switched gendered cast members. Curtain just keeps showing her comedic acting skills through completely bizarre scenarios, taking it seriously so that the comedic effect is enhanced.
The ridiculous business with the "bad-asses" at the restaurant. that's another story. The whole premise of Harry working in the restaurant this season just feels like forced jabs at new plots. The scenes with the bikers just weren't very funny and the payoff just didn't, well, pay off.
That's okay though. As long as the A-plot is perfect and the B-plot is sub-par, that's more than enough for me.
Long live 3rd Rock!
But this one was a great episode that started out seeming like it would be gimmicky. But really John Lithgow and Kristen Johnston out-do themselves by essentially playing each other. It was a far fetched plot that was played to perfection by the whole cast. In the same vane you have to include Jane Curtain and Wayne Knight, who serve as the perfect foils to the switched gendered cast members. Curtain just keeps showing her comedic acting skills through completely bizarre scenarios, taking it seriously so that the comedic effect is enhanced.
The ridiculous business with the "bad-asses" at the restaurant. that's another story. The whole premise of Harry working in the restaurant this season just feels like forced jabs at new plots. The scenes with the bikers just weren't very funny and the payoff just didn't, well, pay off.
That's okay though. As long as the A-plot is perfect and the B-plot is sub-par, that's more than enough for me.
Long live 3rd Rock!
