SpongeBob Squarepants

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SpongeBob is just one example of the low quality of cartoons these days. Its seems like all creativity in this area has ceased. Back in my day…we had great cartoons like: DuckTales, Chip N’ Dales’ Rescue Rangers, Ghostbusters, Thundercats, Care Bears, Gummy Bears, My Little Pony, The Snorks, The Smurfs, Transformers, Voltron, He-Man and Bugs Bunny cartoons that were NOT edited for Political Correctness. And this wasn’t too long ago…late 80’s to mid 90’s. sigh maybe I’m just getting old…:crying:
 
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MamaAtHome:
There are so many more beautiful and worthy things for children to be doing, or dare I say, even watching?
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I guess you have to go with your own interpretation. I find humor beautiful. To laugh is a great gift. Yes, it can be silly but silly is ok and fun and kids love to be silly. Nothing wrong with that.

btw–We don’t watch it everyday and it is only a half hour show. There definately are worse things they could be watching and doing.
 
We awe hunting …

WABBITS!!!

If there was an all-Bugs, all the time channel, my TV would never be off.
 
I love SpongeBob, and Patrick, and Squidward, and Plankton, and really just everyone in Bikini Bottom. The humor is light-hearted, innocent, and colorful. As one someone posted above, there is normally a moral lesson attached to each episode.
Are there more beautiful things to watch? Certainly.
Are there more productive ways to spend time? Absolutely.

But you know what, life can’t be one deadly-serious moment after the next. We as human beings need to laugh, to be light hearted and joyful, and to lay down our cares from time to time.

I don’t enjoy the majority of programs currently available on Nickelodeon, and many of them are outright offensive to my spiritual nature, but SpongeBob is not one of these.

In my family, we are pretty discriminating about what we choose to watch on television (we watch very little of it outside of PBS, HGTV, the Food Network, the History Channel, TLC, and Discovery) – but I have to say I am a real fan of SpongeBob SquarePants. I’m 35 years old, and if it happens to be on while I happen to be free, I watch it. 😉
 
I voted NO. If you don’t want YOUR CHILDREN to watch it, don’t let 'em. They are much too young for it IMO.

My oldest children are 14 and 12 and my husband & I watch it with them. We LOVE IT!!! We even translated the theme song into Italian! It is silly and I think quite smartly written.

Someone thinks VOLTRON and Smurfs was better?!! :rotfl:
 
kamz said:
“He epitomizes the utter banality of our culture today. Why would you want to expose your child to something so totally un-uplifting? It might not corrupt his morals but it surely is filling his mind with cultural trash. You know what they say: Garbage in, garbage out.”

Space Ghost,
This is the post that I found to put a bad taste so to say in my mouth, maybe I am being a bit touchy but that is why I wrote what I wrote and should have addressed that poster only, I was not posting directly to you.
I really like sponge bob, my 11,9 & 5 year old watch it almost daily with me and when my 1 year old is old enough he too will watch it if he wants. 👍
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I thankyou for the communication… i was not offended personally, and i support any parents right to view with their children or not SBSP… i just thought your response was a little harsh, but i also realize some people love the show and that’s ok with me too… peace… 👍
 
Oh, the Smurfs. That reminds me of the time I took my kids to a summer movie camp and the feature was the Smurf movie . I was about eight months pregnant and feeling a little irritable as it was (if ya know what I mean?). I just about pulled my hair out watching that thing.:banghead:

The sacrifices we make for our children;) .
 
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Oh, the Smurfs. That reminds me of the time I took my kids to a summer movie camp and the feature was the Smurf movie . I was about eight months pregnant and feeling a little irritable as it was (if ya know what I mean?). I just about pulled my hair out watching that thing.:banghead:

The sacrifices we make for our children;) .
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I liked the Smurfs…but I remember spending alot of time contemplating where the heck baby smurf came from in a village full of bachelors :eek: There’s always Smurfette…:rolleyes:
 
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SpongeBob is just one example of the low quality of cartoons these days. Its seems like all creativity in this area has ceased. Back in my day…we had great cartoons like: DuckTales, Chip N’ Dales’ Rescue Rangers, Ghostbusters, Thundercats, Care Bears, Gummy Bears, My Little Pony, The Snorks, The Smurfs, Transformers, Voltron, He-Man …] And this wasn’t too long ago…late 80’s to mid 90’s. sigh maybe I’m just getting old…:crying:
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Actually, I think you’re showing your youth. 😛 With the exception of Bugs Bunny (which is why it was elided), this old f@rt thinks all the toons you listed are on a much lower pedestal than you placed them.

My family (no kids under 12) enjoys SpongeBob. Along with The Fairly Odd Parents, I find the writing to be almost on a par with Rocky & Bullwinkle or The Flintstones* – There is a lot of humor that goes over the kids’ heads, and is only caught by the adults.

Disclaimer: De gustibus non est disputandum

(* How many people know that was originally a prime-time toon written for an adult audience?)

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But you know what, life can’t be one deadly-serious moment after the next. We as human beings need to laugh, to be light hearted and joyful, and to lay down our cares from time to time.
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Yah, sure, in our family we walk around with our heads bowed down each minute piously praying novenas all day long. :rolleyes:

SpongeBob, and most television these days is nothing but junkfood for the brain (and soul).
 
I admit it, I’m guilty, shamelessly guilty of letting the t.v. be a babysitter while I prepare supper and when I’m having a migrane headache (have had them for 17 years) Yes, we watch sponge bob and a few others. If I had the energy to think of things for my kids to do 24/7 I would but I don’t and really I’m not that type of parent. I was allowed one hour of t.v. after school and one hour in the evening after homework and chores were done and on weekends we were allowed to get up in the wee early hours and watch Saturday morning cartoons and summers we were allowed some extra t.v. time also and really thought it was a big treat, of course we lived in the country and whatever our antana could get in was what we watched, lots of bugs bunny, Mr.Rogers, Little house, the waltons etc.
I still like t.v., I have the news channel going low all day, if I happen to see something of interest catch my eye I turn it up and watch.
I’m one of those parents who likes silly t.v. and if there is no swearing, hurting others, etc. I don’t mind watching it with my kids, I hate arts and crafts and once we have done our chorse, played out doors, played in doors, I’m ready for some pop corn and sponge bob, Yes, I’m guilty, We are all different types of people on this earth, each with their own thoughts and ideas of what is ok and not ok of what is right and what is wrong and we are all striving to do the best we can to raise good, christian kids, hats off to all of us, we do the best we can 👍
 
each with their own thoughts and ideas of what is ok and not ok of what is right and what is wrong and we are all striving to do the best we can to raise good, christian kids, hats off to all of us, we do the best we can
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Wow, spongebob aside, that smacks of relativism.
 
F is for food that we all eat together, U is for uccaleli!
da da da da da

It’s really one of the cleverest shows out there, it is somewhat like the Simpsons in that the kids laugh at physical comedy (Patrick = Homer at times), and the adults catch more of the dialogue. Great show!
 
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I admit it, I’m guilty, shamelessly guilty of letting the t.v. be a babysitter while I prepare supper and when I’m having a migrane headache (have had them for 17 years) Yes, we watch sponge bob and a few others. If I had the energy to think of things for my kids to do 24/7 I would but I don’t and really I’m not that type of parent. I was allowed one hour of t.v. after school and one hour in the evening after homework and chores were done and on weekends we were allowed to get up in the wee early hours and watch Saturday morning cartoons and summers we were allowed some extra t.v. time also and really thought it was a big treat, of course we lived in the country and whatever our antana could get in was what we watched, lots of bugs bunny, Mr.Rogers, Little house, the waltons etc.
I still like t.v., I have the news channel going low all day, if I happen to see something of interest catch my eye I turn it up and watch.
I’m one of those parents who likes silly t.v. and if there is no swearing, hurting others, etc. I don’t mind watching it with my kids, I hate arts and crafts and once we have done our chorse, played out doors, played in doors, I’m ready for some pop corn and sponge bob, Yes, I’m guilty, We are all different types of people on this earth, each with their own thoughts and ideas of what is ok and not ok of what is right and what is wrong and we are all striving to do the best we can to raise good, christian kids, hats off to all of us, we do the best we can 👍
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And I support you, and think what you do with your children is just fine… 👍
 
I wouldn’t have any problems letting kids watch it. Some of the humor may be lost on them, but going back and watching some old looney tunes as an adult allowed me to catch a great deal of the humor that I missed (Almost every character in the Looney Tunes represents a stereotype for people from different parts of the country).
 
pacersFan,
I know from watching my kids that half the humor does fly over their heads and they really don’t get some of it, they just love the sounds of the characters voices, they love Patricks voice, my sons love to do patrick impressions and my daughter loves to say “don’t mess with Texas” and then they all fall over laughing at themselves. I know as a child I didn’t really get half of bugs bunny and I just went crazy watching wile e coyote chase that bird ? What was that birds name? I was scared that coyote might get that bird some day, lol. Oh, the memories.
 
cove said:
👍 The show usually has a moral lesson attached to it.

One of the posters mentioned an episode where Bob made fun of one of his friends. If I remember correctly the episode in question, Bob wanted to be a comedian and the only jokes that got laughs were the ones her made about his friend Sandy. Sandy was very hurt by this and he lost her as a friend. Bob found out that it is not good to make jokes at the expense of someone elses feelings. He found he valued his friendship with Sandy more and gave up his popular comedy routine.

I find the show very cute and I love Patrick. He is a sweet soul and an endearing little character. Bob’s work buddy is a grumpy sort who is hard to be friendly with but Bob manages to love him anyway (I can’t think of his name right now). Bob is a very lovable and loving character. For the most part he expresses sympathy and concern and love for his friends. He loves his job. He is a hopeless optimist but he has flaws just like all of us.

I think it is a great show. I watch it with my kids and we get lots of laughs. I think it is very creative and does appeal to adults but I think that is the genius of it.

It is a fun time for us to laugh together. I don’t know maybe a sense of humor runs in my family. We just see the humor in it. :clapping:
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That was so well said! I think Sponge Bob Square Pants is hysterical and I feel is an innocent, silly, funny cartoon. Who would ever think to name a pet snail Gary and have it meow like a cat! 😃
 
ROADRUNNER, yes, yes, yes, that has been driving me crazy trying to figure out what that name was, thankyou!! :dancing:
 
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