User:Cmcrat26/Episode Reviews/Season 5
Friend or Foe
Ok, I love prequels. I love origin stories. So seeing this with two of my favorite SpongeBob characters and revealing they once were friends is an amazing idea. The episode starts with a great action sequence that also is pretty funny. Then when the flashbacks start the episode gets awesome. Mr. Krabs being a poor kid who got bullied is a great backstory for his character as it makes his love of money a lot more reasonable. Stinky is also a very funny character I li-spect. Also, I love the fact that both Krabs and Plankton tell stories and that both of them were in the wrong, as it makes me sympathize with both characters more. And I haven't even talked about the Patchy segments. Behind The Sponge Who Could Fly's and Blowout's, this episode has the third best segments in the show. They're super funny and cheesy, and take place in a cool, unique location. Patchy and Potty's bickering is more fun than ever, and how dramatic their "falling out" is portrayed as is hilarious. Also there's a rat, so extra points. This is one of the best episodes of the whole series.
Fungus Among Us
Oh God, this episode. If counting went 251, 252, 253.5, 254, this would be the worst episode of the entire series. I don't think this has ANY redeeming qualities. The only reason Jolly Lodgers was worse than this one was because it didn't really have "gross-out" if the faces don't count but the other elements were bad enough to make it worst of the show. This episode, however, fails in EVERY aspect. This episode is gross, boring, unfunny, and annoying. It's so dumb the writers didn't care about important details, like Gary somehow arriving at the Krusty Krab when his bubble wasn't popped, or Squidward noticing the ick sometimes and not noticing it at other times. If they wanted to make that the joke, maybe don't make the visuals so gross! This episode is also unnecessarily dark, with SpongeBob's whole quarantined house, and everyone hating on SpongeBob when the ick wasn't even really his fault and more nature's. This is an unpleasant experience in every way and it's easily the second worst of the whole show.