Holy grail of awfulness, grand finale of SpongeBob's dark age, my least favorite episode of all time. You know, I watched SpongeBob no matter what, no matter how bad episode could get, it was SpongeBob, I am a FAN of SpongeBob, then I must watch every new episode and must be hyped for every ::dolphin noise::ty special that Nickelodeon orders SpongeBob's working crew to M A K E, to M A K E ratings, controversies and money-money-money. But this episode, ironically, the last episode of original post-movie era - was my last straw. After this waste of an episode, I just straight up stopped watching the show all together.
Someone really hates Sportz, someone really hates One Coarse Meal or Pal for Gary, someone really hates Truth or Square - but this episode is mine arch-enemy, that I now will dissect.
First and foremost, this is the most pathetic excuse for special yet.
SpongeBob is fired from Krusty Krab, how original, I never seen this before. /s
Really, there's nothing S P E C I A L about this plot at all, and okay, maybe it's not that's interesting, but it's not an excuse for such ::dolphin noise::ty storytelling in this episode, which was all over the place. Some scenes really drawn-out, some scenes just plain filler which exists for unknown purpose other that pad out the time. Characters here just... Wrong. Patrick for some reason likes his status of being Big Pink Loser now, Sandy experiments on homeless and jobless citizens of Bikini-Bottom (Revenge for "There's someone in the Kitchen with Sandy"?), Squidward lacks ANY compassion and understanding for his neighbor's situation and Mr.Krabs just plain stupid. He fired his only employee that can actually work in this place, what a great business decision.
And I can't here put the excuses like "it's stupid comedy cartoon for kids, it can have stupid plot", stupid plot and plot that flawed from the very concept - is entirely different things, not to mention, it's special, half-hour special, it must have something that deserve extended time for an episode.
Comedy is falls flat from slow pacing and lack of originality for jokes.
Visuals are nothing to celebrate of hate, but this special also pretty bland, usually even the worst specials had some new scenery, but this episode?.. New restaurants don't count, they're not that interesting visually and they appear in episode very briefly.
Also, this episode lacks ANYTHING original. Of course, I doubt that it would save the episode, but c'mon, almost every joke, almost every scene, THAT FREAKING TITLE seems too familiar for my taste.
This episode is just rock bottom for me (pun intended), even bad episodes from previous seasons had something unique and and memorable, but this piece of trash... Is memorable by just how insultingly this episode forgettable and unoriginal, with bad plot, OOC characters, poor jokes and overall lack of ANYTHING good about this thing.
It's like writers of post-movie-era knew somehow that this garbage would be their last effort before Steven Hillenburg's comeback and they tried their best to make this episode as bad as possible.
Literally -10 out of 10.