Going along with the "not a manufactured product yet" thing, it was written like a lot of adult swim shows, "we make jokes based on what we think is funny" not what boardroom statistics say what the kids like these days like. Clever jokes that you have to think about, not surface level "lol so random" knock knock jokes.
What made S1-S3 Spongebob so great?
Evan Thompson
Brayden Brooks
1 guy, DEREK DRYMON
Robert Perry
>Watched both classic and post-Movie SpongeBob as a kid
>Enjoyed them both about the same
>Watch them years later as an adult, can't stand anything beyond the first half of season 4
>Can still get a laugh out of any episode in the pre-movie seasons
Nah, the writing and gags in the earlier seasons were legitimately better
Luke Cook
it had a reserved, yet happy and innocent, sense of humor (which was already rare in the late 90s-early 2000s) but didn't try to come off as counterculture with its laid back style like with hey arnold. instead, it basked in its optimism, sillyness, and genuineness instead of trying to be appealing or edgy
Chase Scott
Was it?
I've heard that back in the early years of the show if one of the crewmembers didn't like something about an episode the crew would talk to them and they'd discuss what they thought didn't work about it.
I think it was on a page on how Spongebob lost it's spark, but it could be any interview really.
Leo Miller
so it is nostalgia
Robert Hughes
dumb contrarian
Ian Ross
The Ween
Nathaniel Ross
Elijah Morris
Literally this. Can we end the thread already?