Ok, so continuing on my fast forward state of posts, heheh…, this.
When I thought of making a post about SpongeBob, I was considering how cool the program is, maybe because it’s kind of entertaining and simple. But there is indeed something more than random events and unnoticeable misfortune of the main character, and even a careless behavior of those situations. It is obvious that I like the show because somewhat it makes me laugh at comical situations. Maybe it is because its events are too random and because those occurs underwater, resembling personifications with aquatic animals. Maybe I can’t care less if they treat some characters in an unusual way.
The thing with SpongeBob, it is simple, dumb, and silly, and also with a lot of variations because of the ambiance of the events. Starting with the main character SpongeBob SquarePants, a yellow sponge, awfully optimistic and unconscious of the behavior of other characters or even his own behavior. He just loves his life under the sea, no matter what things happen to him. They put the character as he is happy most of the time, but at the same time he might exaggerate all what he does. With his friend Patrick Star, they can do unimaginable things.
It’s kinda tough to explain a little about some episodes, but they start normal and develop weird ideas that end in a funny situation, which ends with a random thing. In the episodes they enter the house of SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward, the Krabby Patty restaurant, Sandy’s House, some buildings in the city, the Jellyfish Fields, Plankton’s restaurant, and some other stores. Even if doesn’t seem to have a story development, the essence of the episodes is to make you smile and laugh on dialogs and random things.
Why SpongeBob is awesome? Because he’s happy most of the time, even if his happiness can be bothersome to other characters. His characterization seems to personalize someone who has a work; he might be a young adult around 20s? I just guess…, but his personality is like a boy who likes to play and be happy. In fact the activities of SpongeBob might be the ones a geek or nerd has, like Jellyfish Catching, although that hobby is difficult to relate to a human activity, maybe like a sport? His friend is the same, and other characters have a little more mature personality. That impression that I have about the character of SpongeBob is one of the things I can obtain when I relate it with normal life.
A weird thing is when other people talk to the main character with an offensive tone or a mean intention and he may not care about it. Or he cannot interpret the tone of the message or it’s just the way he see the other characters. Even if careless, and even if the dramatic event is not present (mostly the events are comical), the showing of those events were in order to not make a direct meaning, or SpongeBob just attenuate the situation by his behavior, and results in a not dramatic event. He makes comical situations like those. That’s why I don’t feel sad about him, because even with that, he is happy by nature, and because it’s a sponge, not a person.
Of course, confront of the situation in real life would result in a not comical event. Comical events showed in the cartoon are unrealistic; it becomes more unrealistic because they are not real-like people. Those kinds of events, and not showing dramatic events, are what a comical cartoon can make an enjoyable one. It’s kind of weird, but it is. Why it is enjoyable? Dialog and events, people-like animals and comical situations.
Well, there are certain episodes in which so much insistence of a character is far from plausible even into the ambiance under the sea. All the time with the same behavior and lacking a little of purposes…. But overall a lot of episodes are just funny.
