Why is Spongebob Squarepants allowed on the air?

[Deja Q]

Everyone knows he's a smiling prophylactic. x(

[SPKrazy]

1. who lives in bikini bottoms

:P

[Deja Q]

2. Naturally!

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[rateyes]

22. self delete

[rateyes]

23. And makes crabby patties!

:P

[AlCzervik]

3. i knew Today's Sponge, i used Todays Sponge and Spongebob Squarepants is no Today's Sponge.

[quip]

4. Pee Wee opened Pandora's box

in an adult movie theater, if I recall correctly.....

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[IzaSparrow]

5. Spongebob: Today’s the big day, Gary!

(climbs a ladder)

Gary: Meow!

Spongebob: Look at me! I’m naked! (jumps off the board and lands into his pants then walks over to stuffed animal weight lifting set.) Gotta be in top physical condition for today, Gary.

Gary: Meow!
(Spongebob inhales deeply then lifts the weight slowly eventually getting it up then throwing it back down)

Spongebob: I’m ready! (runs out of house and on to the Krusty Krab) I’m ready. I’m ready. I’m ready. I'm ready.



I like prophylactics

[Left Is Write]

6. I heard he was getting busy with Zoey.

[MorningGlow]

7. Oh, that's an easy one

To keep my kid silent and immobile for 22 minutes, so mama doesn't sell him to the gypsies. :shrug:

[sasquatch]

15. You could sell him to matcom

He can always use a scotch pourer.
:D

[MorningGlow]

16. Good idea--does matcom have teh bux?

My kid don't come cheap...unless he's really acting up--then it's bargain basement prices.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Jellyfish - into the net!

:evilgrin:

[NNadir]

9. There was a time that I didn't allow my oldest son to watch that show.

The first time we watched it together - and I watched every single show my oldest son watched with him and none of the shows my youngest watched - it seemed violent. Spongebob was getting smacked around.

My standards have relaxed considerably over the years, and I have probably seen nearly every episode of Spongebob by osmosis.

Actually, as cartoon shows go, Spongebob can be quite witty and droll, but my favorite kid's show for wit is often "Fairly Odd Parents." The send up of Governor Hydrogen Hummer is great! The show seems to often have an underlying political agenda of which I approve.

When I was a child, the most political - and wittiest - show on television was "Rocky and Bullwinkle." I feel particularly privileged to have grown up watching that show. It was purely fabulous, and highly literate, especially the "Fractured Fairy Tales."

[harmonicon]

12. but did you like "Rocky and Bullwinkle" as a kid?

I think I just didn't get it (any of the political stuff), though I loved Rocky. I had a little stuffed squirrel that I called rocky who could fly/be thrown across the room. I just didn't understand why Bullwinkle was so stupid, and it drove me mad. For the same reason I always hated Scooby Doo - how were these people dumb as doornails but still detectives?

[NNadir]

18. I absolutely loved Rocky and Bullwinkle as a kid, and I got the political humor.

My mother was what would today be called a "moderate," slightly right leaning - and my father was a right winger, always wanting to nuke the Russians.

It would not be fair to say that "Squirrel and Moose," as Boris Badanov used to put used to call them, were liberals exactly, but they did - and this dates to the years of the Cold War - make the cold war seem kind of, well, cartoonish and silly.

They probably laid some seeds in my mind that definitely didn't come from my parents.

[harmonicon]

20. I sort of understood that Boris and Natasha we're russian

But I just sort of thought Russian = bad guys, so of course they were Russian. Maybe I was a dummy. To their credit (I think) my parents never made their political feelings known to us as kids, until we were old enough to understand in adult terms why they were liberals/democrats. Man, it must of have been hard to not tell kids that Reagan was evil.... but man, that wold have stirred up trouble to have us running around telling other kids that the president was a bad guy.... probably wouldn't have been good for our mental health either, to let kids know a moron's finger was on the button. Still I remember having nightmares about nuclear war and foreign invasions.

[REP]

17. Yay, Rabies!

I love the Fairly Odd Parents. One of my favorite scenes is where Timmy breaks a tiny box, and his Dad says no problem, it was the box that held his hopes and dreams but it's been empty for a while. "How long, Dad?" "How old are you, Timmy?"

I don't have kids - I just have a cartoon problem.

[tjwmason]

10. He isn't.

If you remember the SpongeBob film he and Patrick are taken into the air and start to dry-out, perhaps the most touching and emotional moment in the history of film.

[krispos42]

11. Because we're Spongeworthy...

:rofl:

[meegbear]

13. It's much worse than that ...

Pastor Exposes Perverted Little Cartoon Character

Complete shock filled the Landover Baptist main sanctuary last Sunday as Pastor Deacon Fred revealed in graphic detail, decadent hidden sexual messages in the popular cartoon series, Sponge Bob, Square Pants™. Mrs. Ida Denkins, who was seated in the first pew, fainted in the middle of the presentation and had to be rushed to Landover Baptist Hospital. Church usher, Bob Halburg, had an immediate reaction to the slide show that went straight to his stomach. He vomited so forcefully that pieces of his steaming breakfast were sprayed across nearly 15 pews. All total, at least two-dozen church members became physically ill after being exposed to the disgusting garbage that Hollywood is pumping into our children’s heads.

“I found out about this disgusting little yellow cartoon character, quite by accident,” said Pastor Deacon Fred. “I was laying on the couch with my grandson, and must have fallen asleep, so he was unmonitored in front of the television set. When I woke up, my head had leaned back over the side of the couch. My neck was craned in such a way that I was looking at the television set upside down. I reacted immediately to what I saw there, and was able to flip over and grab my grandson by his hair and fling him across the room, thankfully, knocking him unconscious long enough for me to get to the remote control and switch back to Fox news, where they were showing Godly footage of our Christian troops blowing up ignorant Arabiacs. I have no idea how much mental damage my grandson suffered while he was exposed to that cartoon show while I was asleep, but I’ll tell you what, I won’t hesitate to sue the bastards that put this junk on TV if we find out anything happened to my grandson!”

Pastor explained to the congregation that he ordered a team of Creation Scientists, led by Dr. Jonathan Edwards, to spare no expense on opening up a full investigation into the lewd cartoon character, Sponge Bob, Square Pants™. “I ordered our Christian team not to stop their investigation until they pulled out every single lewd, disgusting, sexual reference in the cartoon,” said Pastor.

The two-hour slide presentation seen on Sunday morning was the result of an investigation that lasted nearly six months. The full findings of that investigation cannot be revealed on this public web site, since there is currently a pending lawsuit between the Landover Baptist Church and the Nickelodeon Channel. We can however, say that most of what we found is too shocking for words. Innocent little Christian children might be reading this article and they should not be exposed to the decadent smut of Sponge Bob, Square Pants™, anymore than they already have been.

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http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0403/spongebob.html

[BarenakedLady]

14. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

I can't walk two feet without running into something to do with Spongebob in this house.

[Taverner]

19. SpongeBob is the most genius thing to happen to TV since Ren and Stimpy

And not to be topped until Six Feet Under.

The levels of comedy on SpongeBob are amazing - everything from Kantian philosophy to Nietzsche.

[madeline_con]

21. Which was moved to the "Adult Cartoon Content" file, BTW.

What ever