Penny Foolish (Episode Discussion)

In this episode, Mr. Krabs sees Spongebob pick up a penny, and is obsessed with getting Spongebob to give it to him via spending it. I absolutly hate this episode because Mr. Krabs is just WAY too cheap in it. Yes, he's supposed to be cheap, but there's a difference between being a greedy cheapskape, and watch his cheap plan to get money fall apart (Krabby Land, for instance), and spending 11 minutes attempting to get a single penny from Spongebob. It's simply a filler concept, and it shows through it's spotty execution. The only time I really laughed was when the penny turned out to be a 500 dollar bill, but then groaned when Spongebob acted like it was nothing and threw it out. Simply one of the worst episodes of the series IMO.

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It wasn't that bad.

The plot was horrible, the jokes were meh. Just did not like this episode.

I didn't find this episode funny at all.

Underrated episode, and I liked it. 7.5/10

Wumbology wrote:It wasn't that bad.

Exactly. It was worse.

I mean, the plot I can forgive. It's a pretty average story for those days. They could have at least crammed some decent gags in there, though. It was like they weren't even trying.

Sure, it was boring. But at least the plot wasn't completely off the wall, characterization wasn't thrown out the window, etc. It gets a non-offensive 5/10 from me.

Not really good 5/10

I like off the wall plots. They're usually funnier. 3/10

I don't like this episode. 4/10

I didnt really hate it so much, or like it, it was just OK, atleast this one didnt have any disgusting moments, the one with the brain was really nothing at all in my opinion.

5/10

I thought it was an okay episode. It was not good, but not terrible either. Just average.

Quite underrated IMO.
I actually liked the plot. I think it showed how obsessive Mr. Krabs' addiction can be, he obsesses over one thing and ends up spending much more money than that penny trying to get it. That's the JOKE! And to anyone who says Mr. Krabs became unbelieveably money obsessed post-movie, he sold SpongeBob's soul for spare change in I believe Season 2(?). That is far worse than anything he's done post-movie.

tvfan95 wrote:he sold SpongeBob's soul for spare change in I believe Season 2(?).

Season 3, one of the last episodes.