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There are often times, the cartoons can be so funny, they can be just outrageous. For Nickelodeon, they’ve made it a constant where the animation has not just been oriented toward kids, but also to adults as well. That has happened with Jimmy Neutron, The Fairly Oddparents, and especially Spongebob Squarepants. Since his debut began in 1999, Spongebob has been recognized as the most popular cartoon character ever in years. But, many have longed for a new crop of episodes of Spongebob shows for the past few years, while the people behind the show were conjuring up the Spongebob movie. Now, new great shows have made it to home video.

Spongebob Squarepants Season 4, Volume 1 is a double disc compilation of great cartoons that’ve shown that even with Spongebob’s absence from new cartoons, the cartoon hadn’t lost its appeal. The shows here are just as funny as they were from the previous season, and deliver each with promise and delightful humor. The compilation includes so many great episodes including Funny Pants, where Spongebob loses his ability to laugh, after Squidward told him he would break his laugh box, but Spongebob was still able to laugh, Shell Of A Man, which Mr. Krabs is invited to his sailors’ reunion, but he molts his shell, and Spongebob has to impersonate Mr. Krabs, and make himself as krabs as possible, and the unique episode Dunces And Dragons, which is a clever twist on the Mark Twain classic A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court. This one is my favorite on this DVD set, because it was just funny, and really delivered as if Spongebob and Patrick exhisted during the middle ages.

All in all, I just wished that there could have been more episodes of Spongebob on this DVD set, such as current episodes like Whale Of A Birthday and Wishing You Well, which are currently airing on Nickelodeon, but will be on the new volume definitely. Still, if you don’t have cable and you enjoy Spongebob Squarepants, than this is a perfect DVD set for you or for any die hard Spongebob fan.

Price: B

Extras: B-

Remastering: B+

Overall: B 1/2-
Rating: 4 / 5

i manage a video store, and i just preordered spongebob season 4, and my sales rep. told me it was listed as a 3 disc comlpete season set. so i am not so sure about this vol.1 thing. but i am definately going to add it my collection cause spongebob is the perfect way to escape from reality when i am having a bad day. recomended.
Rating: 5 / 5

This review is for the second volume of this season as well. I’ve watched every episode from season 1-3 and I was eager for a new season. I was so overjoyed to find out a new season had been released. Once I got and all I could say was WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!? Spongebob’s voice made a major conversion and now is head to head with the Chipmunks/chippetes for the most annoying voice ever done. All the character’s personalities have been dramatically changed.

Spongebob: He has now become incredibly annoying on a hundred different levels and is now somewhat a jerk. He’s now not someone you can point and laugh at because your hands will be too occupied plugging your ears whenever he talks!

Squidward: He is now somewhat agreeable, in the sense that now you can hate Spongebob with him. Unfortunately now he’s given even more screentime, this would be cool except that it’s mostly with Spongebob!

Patrick: Some people have said he’s getting stupider, but really he’s getting smarter, in the sense that he no longer analyzes certain situations in the same way. Instead of going with the innocent, naive response he goes with the jerky, pompous response.

Sandy: Somehow she has attained a vast fountain of knowledge and is even, now a scientist who apparently is somewhat incompetent, I’d like to see her do karate (ke’ra’te) in her lab coat.

Mr Krabs: Just plain stupid and not funny, oh and all the remarks Patrick make about his sweatiness are gone. He doesn’t even care about money as much anymore which was basically was the basis with which they built his character on.

Pearl: Just not there enough to care!

Plankton: He’s not even a scientist anymore just an over zealous restaurant owner who is apparently older than Mr. Krabs, yet is exactly the same age as him. He doesn’t really act like he has a napolean dynamite syndrome which was really the reason we found him funny.

Larry the Lobster: Like Pearl, just not there enough to care.

Patrick/Patricia: He/she, uh you don’t want to know

Mrs. Puff: She never has any hilarious driving scenes or a case of paronia.

Gary: Saying Meow all the time finally got annoying!

Random Cameo fishes: They’ve basically lost virtually all emotion and the one’s with emotion are angry, the rest just stare at the named characters with blank expressions on their faces, like they don’t want to be there (who can blame them).

Atmosphere: The setting is under the sea but I couldn’t tell except for the fact that they draw sea life in the background, otherwise it just seems like you’re above the sea.

Plot: A monkey could write better! Forcing the characters to lose character is just terribe. The plot of each episode is just so dull and the jokes hardly inspire a chuckle.

Anyways my favorite cartoon is ruined. Tom Kenny left and Spongerbob is now all but a memory. Stephen Hellenburg left the production and now it sucks. Kind of reminds me of when Chris Colombus left the Harry Potter series, in the sense that it started sucking bad! Mr. Krab’s voice has also been replaced! Paramount better get their act together, because I’m not buying anymore of this junk.

Spongebob: R.I.P.

Good night sweet prince, and my choirs of angels sing thee to thine rest.
Rating: 1 / 5