User:Cmcrat26/Episode Reviews/Season 1/I Was a Teenage Gary
This review was originally from my cancelled review series.
Ok, I don’t hate this, but...this was just a failure. This isn’t like Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost where both had a dark plot, but that episode actually had comedy, it did stuff with its story! This episode is one of the most melodramatic in the series, it plays everything so straight due to its utter absence of comedy. The whole middle section is just way too dark and it’s obvious Gary’s not gonna die or anything, though that’s what it makes it seem.
Also, the whole thing with the snail plasma is confusing. It turning SpongeBob and Squidward into snails makes no sense, even for a cartoon! It’s never foreshadowed or anything and just seems like some weird sort of medicine at first. SpongeBob turning into a snail was just dumb and treated way too seriously. Then he basically haunts Squidward and I feel bad for him. He screams a lot, and while not like he does in much worse episodes such as Ink Lemonade, it’s still really annoying. Also, the ending is just UNSATISFYING. They’re snails now I guess. Nothing happens, they just sing and Squidward gets hit by a boot. They don’t change back, nothing is resolved. Listen, I’m not the biggest fan of Gary’s Got Legs but at least that one did more with the “turning into a snail” idea and had a good ending. This one just doesn’t.
Now after all this, it may seem like this episode was horrible. However, it’s honestly not. Patrick’s jokes like him running through the walls and him throwing the boot at the end were fairly funny and none of the aforementioned problems were horrible. This is just a kinda bad episode with a lot of little problems.