SprewellSleeve said:

clown133 said:

SprewellSleeve said:

But, if you don't want the creators to not express themselves and all that, then why can't you just accept it as one bad episode and view them as not perfect? I think this topic would be better suited if this happened several times on the show.

I get your point and I respect it, but this should be more generalized rather than one episode of Spongebob imo. Such as a thread about how adults are developing unintentionally kids to have bad habits or whatever and use this as one of the examples maybe.

There was a thread a day or two ago about car insurance commercials on kids channels is bad for them. It's just over thinking imo. How could this episode really change a kid, specifically? What scenario could you come up with?

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i think the title of the thread pretty much sums up my intentions.  as for your question in the last paragraph, imagine a 7 year old kid watching this show.  he wears these really different glasses (big, colorful, whatever) that aren't necessary but he gets a kick out of wearing them.  he watches this episode.  he sees spongebob getting bullied for being different.  he sees how mean the people are to him.  then he sees spongebob conform to everyone else's views and take the wig off even though he loves it.  then he sees that its ok to wear the wig only after its "cool".

do you really not see how this could impact a kid?

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You're right about that, but how do you know the ending could have taught the kid differently? Yes, it's not the most positive episode despite the outcome showing how fake people are, but also consider this, maybe everything happened JUST for that ending of the musician to get the hair back.

You could break down other episodes as leaving bad messages. What if some kid is cheerful as Spongebob, sees similarities in him, but grows up thinking his cheerfulness will annoy the crap out of his neighbor and never want to buy a house?

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pfxtc said:

oh and by the way, complaining about kids and television programming

FUCKING RETARDED

if you don't want your kids to grow up stupid and mindless,

uhh

DONT LET THEM WATCH TELEVISION

holy shit problem solved

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clown133 said:

pfxtc said:

oh and by the way, complaining about kids and television programming

FUCKING RETARDED

if you don't want your kids to grow up stupid and mindless,

uhh

DONT LET THEM WATCH TELEVISION

holy shit problem solved

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this is an issue for an entirely different thread man

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no it seems completely relevant