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Daniel: "You know considering the circumstances you're handling this quite well."
Evan: "Sorry I'm not bursting your eardrums with a blood curdling scream right now."
Daniel: "Jokes on you. Ghost don't have eardrums."
Evan: "I just really want to figure out if you're actually related to me or not, or if the last name thing is just a coincidence."
Daniel: "Well if it is a coincidence it's a pretty big one."
Evan: "And if you are related, what is your relation to me. Great great grandfather, Great Uncle, what?"
Daniel: "Listen kid I have no idea. I don't even know what year it is. I just sort of woke up and bam. Everything was different. I only wanted to talk to you about the box you have."
Evan: "The box? What about it."
Daniel: "It looks like something my brother was working on before I....you know. Bit the bullet."
Evan: "Well apparently it's been passed down for generations through my family. If we are related maybe your brother started the tradition. By the way it's 2016."
Daniel: "2016, Christ. That's almost 400 years from my time period."
Evan: "What year did you die?"
Daniel: "If I recall it was 1692."
Evan: "What! Jeez that's a long time ago. So it'd be more like Great Great Great Great Grandfather."
Daniel: "Tell me about it. So much has changed since I was alive. So you review cartoons on this internet I've been hearing so much about."
Evan: "Yep."
Daniel: "Cool, uh....if you don't mind me asking, what's a cartoon?"
Evan: "......."
Daniel: "......."
Evan: "Are you....serious?"
Daniel: "...Yes. Hey give me a break, I'm from a period where these things didn't exsist."
Evan: *Shudders* "Well fair enough then. I still have some reviews to work on so I guess I can show you an example of a cartoon. In fact, one of my favorites. SpongeBob.
End
Hello my name is Evan A.K.A. The Animated Critic. Toon-O-Ween continues on. Last year we reviewed a SpongeBob episode from Season 1. Let's move up a season this year with Season 2 and Shanghaied. By the way, this is one of my all time favorite episodes.
The plot is that an anchor falls from the sky and lands on both Spongebob and Squidward's houses. Squidward is obviously upset and so climbs the anchor to give whoever dropped it a piece of his mind. In other words a very stern talking to. Of course it turns out to be the Flying Dutchman. Man this is the second year in a row we're covering an episode with him in it. If I do another SpongeBob episode next year I have to make sure it doesn't involve him, at least not too much. So we get some comedic antics and eventually Squidward gets thrown out. By the way I guess this episode does have a little Squidward torture in it, but the old writers knew how to pull that off. The new ones....not so much. SpongeBob and Patrick eventually become part of the Dutchman's crew (against their will), but when they fail at the job the Dutchman just decides to eat them. He can't eat without his sock though, and so SpongeBob and Patrick take it. In exchange for the sock SpongeBob and Patrick get 3 wishes. One is wasted to bring Squidward back, and Patrick wastes the other one wishing he knew about the 3 wishes thing earlier. The last wish is decided with Eeny Meeny Miny Moe. I'll talk about that later on though.
Anyway there's not much to say about this one. It's a classic episode. Clever, funny, it's just all around enjoyable. Who can forget classic moments like the perfume shop. I use to just keep rewinding the show to watch that scene over and over and over again. Or what about "Leedle, Leedle, Leedle" you get the point. I can't mention every memorable joke in this episode. That would take way too much time. It's a great episode, so instead of boring you with stuff you already know I'll bore you with stuff you might not know. Did you know this episode had two other endings. The ending we usually see is that SpongeBob wishes for the Dutchman to be a vegetarian. That way he can't eat them. Unfortunately the gang turns into fruit and so have to run away from the Dutchman. When this episode first aired though there was a contest. People would call a hotline number and vote for who should get the last wish. SpongeBob won so every airing of the episode since then has used that ending. However Patrick and Squidward also had endings made for them that were shown once while the contest was going on. The contest was also hosted by Patchy, so there's also a Patchy segment that is never shown as well. (It's not much though so I won't talk about it.)
Patrick's ending has him wishing for gum. He says since they're going to be there forever might as well have nice breath.
Squidward's is actually my favorite of the three endings. Squidward wishes he never meet SpongeBob and Patrick. He hoped it would get him out of this mess, but all it does is cause Sponegbob and Patrick to forget who Sauidward is.....and they still end up being eaten, but hey it gives Squidward time to reintroduce himself to SpongeBob and Patrick.
All endings though are very funny and I would've been happy with any of them winning. You know though, I think it would be cool if as a special Nick shows the episode with the alternate endings, or heck even switches them out every time they air the episodes. One time it could be Spongebob's then Patrick's and ect... I know the point was to decide which ending would stay for the rest of Spongebob's lifetime, but did anybody really think back then that Spongebob would be going on this long. It's 17 years old now. It's 20th anniversary is 2019, a little less than 3 years away. I don't know, I just think it would be nice to do every now and then. I like the gag Patchy has after he announces the winner. He says that everyone who participated is now an official cartoon decision maker and then some stock footage of monkies typing plays. I don't know, I just feel it currently represents the bulk of cartoons on Nick right now. It's very hilarious in hindsight.
So overall Shanghaied is an amazing episode. If you want to watch the alternate endings you can find them online, yes even with the Patchy segment.
Plot-Check
It's a hilarious episode with many a great moment.
Characters-Check
The characters are likeable as always....well for this point in the series it was something to always expect.
Animation-Check
It's good, but then again it's Spongebob so what did you expect.
Sound-Check
Ditto
Enjoyment-Check
Overall-Check
It's a great episode and I would highly recommend it. Though you all probably already knew this was a good episode. It's one of my all time favorites. Definitely in my Top 5 Episodes of all time.
Evan: "So now do you understand what a cartoon is."
Daniel: "So a cartoon is a bunch of pictures put together to make the appearance of movement."
Evan: "Yes."
Daniel: "Are they all that stupid."
Evan: "What? Spongebob isn't stupid......sometimes. I mean there is A Pal For Gary, and Are You Happy Now?, and Pet Sitter Pat, and Good Neighbors and that Gundam House."
Daniel: "That was a completely inaccurate representation of ghost culture."
Evan: "Well most people can't see ghost so I doubt they know what ghost culture was like....wait, can't see. Unseeable. Not meant to be seen."
Daniel: "Uh....are you OK?"
Evan: "That's what the box said. For those who can see what's not meant to be seen. And that's exactly what a ghost is."
Daniel: "Then what are we waiting for, let's open that box."
Daniel: "Woah, that's a lot of paper."
Evan: "There's something here I'm more concerned about."
Daniel: "And what is that?"
Evan: "This."
Daniel: "Help?"
TO BE CONTINUED!!!
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