6/10
The best season 13 episode with one of the most boring
5 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
As I am a huge fan of this show, I still continue to watch all the episodes. However, most of them have been very weak (slowly getting more tolerable like with "Wallhalla" and stuff).... with the exception of "Salty Sponge", this is the best episode of the show in years! This episode's one star bomb ratings make as much sense as rating "Brandy & Mr. Whiskers" episodes less than a 7/10.

This episode is filled with fun references to episodes especially like "No Weenies Allowed", and for once they don't feel shoved in to please the 'SpongeBoomers'. It also has an animation style similar to season 4 in some scenes, like on the pictures at the end of the episode, the one in the center feels very "old SpongeBob" like. It's very enjoyable, and the humor in general is really fun. One time characters in this one are good too, I love how they treat SpongeBob like their god.

The animation is spectacular in both of these episodes, as always.

I also love how SpongeBob is in this episode, this episode feels more like classic SpongeBob doing classic stuff, whereas the other season 13 episodes he's just felt like a Patrick clone to some copasticity. It reminds me of episodes like "MuscleBob BuffPants" where he barely needs to try to get the respect of everyone, it's really funny.

Ok, if I haven't made myself clear, THIS IS A FUNNY EPISODE. Please give it a chance, I'm starting to feel hopeful for the rest of this season to be honest. 8/10.

I hate to end the good stuff, but I really didn't like "Karen for Spot". This episode can be described in one word: boring. Overused plot with boring characters and little to no substance in its humor.

I did like Plankton's plot, it made me wish the entire episode was focussed on him instead of Karen's dilemma. SpongeBob and Karen were pretty mediocre though, and the second half of the episode kinda reminded me of "Say Awwww!" too, which is not a good thing.

This episode felt like someone on the staff had a f3t1sh (censored because of IMDb) with all the stuff about Spot growing and eating everything, it was mostly uncomfortable but made me wonder what was going on behind the scenes.

Maybe I'm being "too negative" all of a sudden, but I'm just glad "Salty Sponge" was a fantastic episode. "Karen for Spot" is a 4/10, scores average to a 6/10, as much I didn't want it to be under an 8 for the average.

SpongeBob, please continue to make stuff like this.
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