Cynical Cinema

Paramount Home Entertainment releases another Spongebob DVD on October 14th. WhoBob WhatPants features a special episode of Spongebob where he screws a bunch of stuff up, makes his friends angry, decides to leave town forever, develops amnesia, and becomes mayor of New Kelp City. He runs afoul of some gangster fish who appear to have just emerged from an underwater version of West Side Story. I am going to put this out there right now: Spongebob is still one of the best shows on television. Not just one of the best kids’ shows, but one of the best television programs, period. And it’s actually…smart? Like a kid-centric Simpsons or Family Guy, Spongebob remains consistently hilarious and totally watchable. I didn’t pick up this DVD for the kids, I grabbed it for myself. I love this show.

Included on this DVD are five other episodes of this awesome show. One where Plankton turns Mr. Krabs into a baby in order to obtain this formula for Krabby Patties, and one where Squidward becomes disfigured in an accident, but his disfigurement leaves him looking handsome, and the whole town of Bikini Bottom goes crazy for him. There is an absolutely fantastic episode, when a harsh wind blowing through the town makes music when it passes through Spongebob’s pores, which attracts jellyfish to him. This creates one of the most memorable lines I can remember in recent Spongebob history - “they’re attracted to my whistly holes”. It also leads Spongebob to build a strange yet awesome underwater version of Stonehenge. Or, Spongehenge. Then there is the episode featuring the United Organization of Fish Against Things Fun and Delicious, which bans Krabby Patties, and the episode where Spongebob’s cousin comes to town and messes up everyone’s life.

The special features are nothing interesting. The best one is a series of four shorts, entitled “What If Spongebob Was Gone?”, but each one is about 20 seconds long, and it’s fairly worthless. But the DVD is worth picking up just for the Spongebob show itself, which remains one of my favourites. Go Spongebob!

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