ERRRRRGHHHH Media Mementos betrayed us! *Runs around my house destroying all my Media Mementos merchandise* I'm sorry I ever started this stupid fan club!

What a rip.

I think Bubble Buddy, I'm With Stupid, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV, Doing Time, and the endings of Squid on Strike, Sandy, Spongebob and the Worm and Pranks a Lot are a lot worse than this. You do not know how grateful I am that Spongebob Squarepants did not end on the episode Pranks a Lot before The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie's premiere. I guarantee you, Avatar: The Last Airbender's three seasons would have outclassed Spongebob's three seasons in every way, had Nickelodeon not decided to continue making more seasons the month before The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie's premiere.

​@@adamkalb1how are those worse except for I'm with stupid

Their takes on breath of fresh squidward was so agonizingly bad and I hate how they influenced the majority opinion on thinking it’s bad

I quite liked this episode

I liked this episode and owned an anthology book that had the sponge who could fly. I’m actually shocked people hated this episode.

There's a reason why I hate that episode. It's because Bikini Bottom are hypocrites and treated Spongebob as a slave to do whatever they want.

@@johnsantos507 Same here. I think the first third with Patchy looking for the lost episode was more interesting than the lost episode itself.

Yeah, but they don't want Spongebob series to end.

Your wish came true, and this is the timeline in which SpongeBob SquarePants was not dwarfed by Avatar: the Last Airbender telling much grander stories and character development in exactly 60 episodes and 3 seasons, the same as what SpongeBob SquarePants had before the movie. Are you still grateful we got episodes like Perfect Chemisty, Sportz, Surf n Turf and other episodes that have plots pairing some unusual combinations of Spongebob characters who did not have major storylines like these in the first three seasons? Did you like seeing Sandy get those three episodes where she is up against other main characters who wronged Spongebob? _Or would you prefer it if Avatar: The Last Airbender's 60 episodes outclassed Spongebob's 60 episodes in every way when Avatar: the Last Airbender was created as a more serious, less episodic show than Spongebob Squarepants?_ I will not deny that many of the Spongebob's worst episodes come after the first movie, but that still does not mean that the post-movie seasons are worth nothing if you saw Admirable Animations #25! I like it when a long-running cartoon property finds more things to do and newer stories to tell with its characters without ruining them and bending them out-of-character. _If SpongeBob SquarePants just stopped at 60 episodes and a movie, it would never make it to 9 seasons and 3 movies like Rugrats did._ Now it has 13 seasons! The first movie does not really provide closure for every character because Sandy, Mrs. Puff and Pearl were all sidelined, and Squidward, Mr. Krabs and Gary only have a handful of more scenes. I always loved Sponge Out of Water for having a plot with all six main characters given a main part, and the first half of the story taking place in the show's normal settings before traveling to the far future and then out of water in the second half. It gave Sponge Out of Water more variety in its story than being another road trip movie. It tells a much longer story that can fully embrace the unique concepts of the main characters traveling through time in SB-129, leaving the ocean in Pressure, and becoming superheroes in Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V, and *does more with them.* The best part of Sponge Out of Water is, it does not feel like the end even when it could be. I do not want everything SpongeBob SquarePants to come after 2004 to be lost to time, and you should think about all of the new positive experiences some episodes from the later seasons have given you that you would never have if it ended with 3 seasons and did nothing with Sandy Cheeks and Sheldon Plankton both being scientists with different goals.

I have to agree. This would be an interesting allegory for the creator. It should’ve ended after 3 seasons. Pretty disrespectful of Nick to keep it going as Al well as launch spin-offs despite his dislike of the concept.

You are everywhere cartoon related. I now dub you the all seeing eye.

I agree. Whenever I’d get my haircut, they’d let us watch videos, and I would always pick this episode’s VHS to watch.

I would certainly be down for a Patchy The Pirate spin-off, though I doubt it would happen.

If this helps matters, The Patrick Star Show is a spin-off in the style of Pee Wee's Playhouse since I know you wanted that.

Right! Dave the Barbarian, Kappa Mikey, and Jimmy Neutron are perfect examples of this.

@@mediamementosofficial when i think of a good underrated episode i go for Dw Dancing Queen from Arthur. it's project day at school and Binky Barnes is partners with Arthur's annoying sister DW and she decides to do a play with unicorns which she likes but Binky doesn't want to do it because the class will laugh at him but then a ad on dancing came and they say hey let's do that but thats when the problems begin for both of them. what makes this episode great is the message: binky learned that you need to take slowly when teaching as explained by Rattles and Molly.

@@mediamementosofficial This one isn’t a nicktoon but Drake and Josh’s series finale was aired and then 2 more episodes were aired later out of order.

It was the last in production order as well though

@@mediamementosofficial Yes The Splinter is A Terrible Episode and Band Geeks Rocks

It feels like The Boys of Bummer from The Simpsons.

do you not remember the episode where spongebob and squidward went on strike?

Yes. I also wonder if SpongeBob's desire to fly was because of his inability to get a driver's license. It would be like Wile E. Coyote turning to consumption of some other food because he can't catch the Road Runner.

looking back with later seasons, some episodes aren't that bad, some are funny again, i like the fact that mermaid man and barnacle boy are never forgotten

So true.

Valentine's Day/The Paper is not a "lost" episode just because you only see it once in February!

same !

I wonder if they made it so that a lot of fans wouldn't like the episode because in the universe where the Patchy segments take place, it was supposed to be a lost episode that Patchy got possession of the only copy of, and it was supposed to be for the best that Patchy accidentally ruined the only copy of the episode.

Right? It was the first i saw when i was young

The only bad specials in my opinion are frozen Krabby Patty (Cliche plot line and at the time nick hyped it like it was a movie), and Spongebob you're fired. ( Recycles plots of better episodes. Model Sponge and La Big Switch).

I enjoy all the old specials, especially Ugh. They always tend to be weaker than the regular episodes, though.

I mean the only specials I enjoyed were Lost in Time, Ugh (the Patchy segments were the best part), Friend or Foe, and the Christmas Specials.

Ugh was a weak special but at least it’s not unpleasant to watch like Party Pooper Pants and (even with this video’s context) TSWCF. I will say however that some of the episodes that were planned to be double length-ers like Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy 5 should’ve definitely had that happen while the specials in Season 3 should have been 11 minute episodes.

Well he did want to end it after the movie but it was too much of a money maker so he became hands off and Paul Tibbitt was in charge for seasons 4-9. Now Vincent Waller and marc Ceccarelli are in charge.

That’s kind of the point.

That's actually one of my favorites.