I miss the old Spongebob. I don't really watch the show at all anymore, but the recent episodes have, in my opinion, been a serious disappointment. They've started reusing episode concepts. I recently say a newer one in which Mister Krabs introduced the totally new idea of keeping the Krusty Krab open twenty-four seven. It was like... wtf? Didn't they already make this episode? Granted, they were quite different episodes, but I thought it was lame anyhow. The dialogue seems to be less snappy and clever. I still find myself laughing at a lot of the old episodes I've seen a billion times, but the newer episodes lack the semi-witt charms of the older seasons. I'm also not a big fan of the recent change in art- I always really liked the old animation style- it was kind of rough, but it was really quirky and had a lot of character, and it was unique to the genre at the time. Now the outlines of all the characters seem super-thick, and the colours are genericly cartoon bright and it looks a lot more CG.

I find that most cartoons decline over time, or seem to. Talking to friends about cartoons that we all watched as kids, I've found a general consensus that the later episodes are less favorable- perhaps because they lack the novelty, or the "remember-when" quality of the episodes we watched since we were small. I don't know if that's the case with everyone, but I've always found it to be that way.

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