Character Analysis - SpongeBob

What do I mean by character analysis? This is the first of many topics I will be creating for the main characters of SpongeBob. In these threads, you can analyze the character listed above in the title.

What do you guys like about the character of SpongeBob? Do you have any problems with SpongeBob's character now? What changes would you make about the character of SpongeBob?

I'll start off.

Out of all the main characters, I feel that SpongeBob has changed the most. I feel that his character has become more man-childish as the seasons have progressed. Granted he has always been man-childish, but at least he was a bit more reasonable back in the early days of the series. Despite that complaint, I wouldn't change his character now. The show has clearly defined the way their characters are going to act from here on out and the producers are probably not going to make too many dramatic changes to the character of SpongeBob. The only change I can possibly see them making is changing his laugh (which was at its best in Season 4 if you ask me), but his laugh always changes.

I haven't noticed anything different about SpongeBob, but that's probably because I wasn't looking.

JCM wrote:I haven't noticed anything different about SpongeBob, but that's probably because I wasn't looking.

You never noticed how man-childish his character is or how his laugh constantly changes all the time?

i have two complaints about spongebob's character. one would be his voice. it changed after the movie, and it is now too high and intolerable that i just can't handle it. i want his old low voice back. also, in the first three seasons, he was more mature and acted like an adult, even if he was a little goofy and silly every now and then. but after the movie, he began to act too immature and childish. he cried for every little thing and that made him so annoying and act too much like a baby. what the heck happened to him?

Spongebob isn't funny anymore in the new episodes

spongebobiscool wrote:Spongebob isn't funny anymore in the new episodes

You know what, I'm finally going to speak my mind about you. Do you hate everything after 2004 for a good reason? Have you even tried to watch some of these episodes? Not all of them are awful. Just because Stephen Hillenburg is gone, it doesn't mean that the show completely sucks now. Sure, there are times where there's an episode that's less than okay, but season 8 overall has been pretty good. We got gems like Oral Report, which was the first time in a long time where I laughed out loud while watching a post-movie SpongeBob. I'm sorry, but could you actually, oh I don't know, have some backbone behind your ''spongebob isn't good anymore'' theory? That's all I ever hear from you.

wait deli...are you talking to me or to spongebobiscool? because you highlited spongebobiscool's sentence and responded to that, but everyone knows that i am the one who hates everything after 2004 and that i keep bringing it up a lot. so, who are you talking to? me or spongebobiscool?

person wrote:wait deli...are you talking to me or to spongebobiscool? because you highlited spongebobiscool's sentence and responded to that, but everyone knows that i am the one who hates everything after 2004 and that i keep bringing it up a lot. so, who are you talking to? me or spongebobiscool?

Spongebobiscool. Because he seems to say the same thing on anything to do with post-movie episodes.

I do think Spongebob's characterization has downgraded more towards an immature kid than a young adult that he (kinda) used to be. But otherwise, I think Spongebob is a good character that I otherwise wouldn't change dramaticlly unless truly needed.

I still adore the little square dude, but my opinion I have upon him now is somewhat ambiguous. What I mean by that is, I feel that he is a little more childish and not as mature as he used to be. Believe me, he was immature then, but not as much as he is now. And I HATE when his dang cheeks go inwards like that! It annoys me soooo much.

Clappy wrote:

JCM wrote:I haven't noticed anything different about SpongeBob, but that's probably because I wasn't looking.

You never noticed how man-childish his character is or how his laugh constantly changes all the time?

No, sir. Nothing unusual at all.

Deli wrote:

spongebobiscool wrote:Spongebob isn't funny anymore in the new episodes

You know what, I'm finally going to speak my mind about you. Do you hate everything after 2004 for a good reason? Have you even tried to watch some of these episodes? Not all of them are awful. Just because Stephen Hillenburg is gone, it doesn't mean that the show completely sucks now. Sure, there are times where there's an episode that's less than okay, but season 8 overall has been pretty good. We got gems like Oral Report, which was the first time in a long time where I laughed out loud while watching a post-movie SpongeBob. I'm sorry, but could you actually, oh I don't know, have some backbone behind your ''spongebob isn't good anymore'' theory? That's all I ever hear from you.

I'm just saying the truth cuz it is. But however not all new episodes were bad but most of them are bad in season 6-8 with a few rare good or ok episodes.

spongebobiscool wrote:

Deli wrote:

spongebobiscool wrote:Spongebob isn't funny anymore in the new episodes

You know what, I'm finally going to speak my mind about you. Do you hate everything after 2004 for a good reason? Have you even tried to watch some of these episodes? Not all of them are awful. Just because Stephen Hillenburg is gone, it doesn't mean that the show completely sucks now. Sure, there are times where there's an episode that's less than okay, but season 8 overall has been pretty good. We got gems like Oral Report, which was the first time in a long time where I laughed out loud while watching a post-movie SpongeBob. I'm sorry, but could you actually, oh I don't know, have some backbone behind your ''spongebob isn't good anymore'' theory? That's all I ever hear from you.

I'm just saying the truth cuz it is.

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OT: I'm lovin' your signature, Deli. xD

Wumbology wrote:OT: I'm lovin' your signature, Deli. xD

Say, Wumbo, ya like bananas?

JCM wrote:

Wumbology wrote:OT: I'm lovin' your signature, Deli. xD

Say, Wumbo, ya like bananas?

I'm not answering that.

I haven't noticed a change in SpongeBob's personality other than he can sometimes be more childish than he used to be, but he still smart and adorable. The only thing I can't stand are the way they draw his cheeks like in episodes Boating Buddies and Pets or Pests.

NegiSpongie wrote:I haven't noticed a change in SpongeBob's personality other than he can sometimes be more childish than he used to be, but he still smart and adorable. The only thing I can't stand are the way they draw his cheeks like in episodes Boating Buddies and Pets or Pests.

This. This right here. It perfectly explains exactly how I feel about this whole thing. I FRICKIN CAN'T STAND WHEN HIS CHEEKS DO THAT. Who does that? Who's in charge of drawing him? Storyboard artists?

Servin' Up Smiles wrote:

NegiSpongie wrote:I haven't noticed a change in SpongeBob's personality other than he can sometimes be more childish than he used to be, but he still smart and adorable. The only thing I can't stand are the way they draw his cheeks like in episodes Boating Buddies and Pets or Pests.

This. This right here. It perfectly explains exactly how I feel about this whole thing. I FRICKIN CAN'T STAND WHEN HIS CHEEKS DO THAT. Who does that? Who's in charge of drawing him? Storyboard artists?

And Aaron Springer is one of those.

Steel Sponge wrote:

Servin' Up Smiles wrote:

NegiSpongie wrote:I haven't noticed a change in SpongeBob's personality other than he can sometimes be more childish than he used to be, but he still smart and adorable. The only thing I can't stand are the way they draw his cheeks like in episodes Boating Buddies and Pets or Pests.

This. This right here. It perfectly explains exactly how I feel about this whole thing. I FRICKIN CAN'T STAND WHEN HIS CHEEKS DO THAT. Who does that? Who's in charge of drawing him? Storyboard artists?

And Aaron Springer is one of those.

HIM.

We all have a little bit of SpongeBob in us.

Servin' Up Smiles wrote:

NegiSpongie wrote:I haven't noticed a change in SpongeBob's personality other than he can sometimes be more childish than he used to be, but he still smart and adorable. The only thing I can't stand are the way they draw his cheeks like in episodes Boating Buddies and Pets or Pests.

This. This right here. It perfectly explains exactly how I feel about this whole thing. I FRICKIN CAN'T STAND WHEN HIS CHEEKS DO THAT. Who does that? Who's in charge of drawing him? Storyboard artists?

I personally think it's kind of cute, but that's just me.