at first it was kind of slow, with another spongebob making krabby patties in a unique way joke starting off the episode, which is getting tiresome imo...
Next Spongebob started crying when he got fired, for just a nickel, and I thought *oh man this is going to dissapoint*, The crying wasn't as bad as all that glitters, it was briefly after he got fired, and when he's talking to Patrick about what happened, which actually is to expected anyways. So that's good.
The episode then took a turn in the right direction.
I love how frustrated spongebob looked, it's such a polar opposite emotion he's feeling compared to his illogical optimism all the time. He genuinely looks pissed the *dolphin noise* off!!! And when they did that gross close up of his face and showed the warts on his nose, that mysterious green stuff between his eyes (what the *dolphin noise* was that anyways?), I loved it, thank goodness we still have gross humor in season 9.
There were a lot of jokes despite the somewhat serious tone of the episode.
My favorite jokes were when Patrick crashes in and out of Spongebob's house, Spongebob referring to all the bosses as Mr.Krabs (perhaps to show that he was losing his mind), the snide remark by spongebob to the pizza guy (Hope your pepperoni falls off!), and especially, that whole fighting scene over spongebob. now they want him as soon as they fire him! And being chained to the grill was a bit extreme, LOL! It's like when they kidnapped squid ward's mom to make cookies, that's instantly what I thought of. And then the garlic breadsticks being used as handcuffs, lol. Spongebob being so perplexed to the situation added a lot to the humor of that scene. The final scene of paying to use the restroom and Spongebob, Squidward, and Mr.Krabs just laughing at old man jenkins expense was funny too. It's cool they were able to include him in the episode.
Killer Krabby was cool, and GASP IT WAS *SPOILER ALERT* Squidward!!! Out of all the people who could have saved Spongebob, it was Squidward! It was very sweet of him, as he doesn't show that side to Spongebob that often. Only thing that could have made this climax better was if they went into detail on how much they need Spongebob and maybe provide an emotional flashback, but at least it was sweet.
So at first this episode was on the rate of being a 6, maybe a 3 if Spongebob kept crying...but it quickly turned into a Solid 8/10.
Those are my thoughts yo, I finally came around to seeing this new episode. Lived up to the hype idk, but it was good enough for me.
