Importance Of Spongebab Square Shows

Most people easily pick up on the importance of television programming like Sesame Street and other educational shows for young children. Shows like these teach lessons about multiculturalism, manners, letters and more into their content. For adults the lessons seem obvious, so we feel good about allowing her children to watch and learn from these television shows. But others shows seem to hold zero promise of learning. For example, SpongeBob Square pants, a popular cartoon show on Nickelodeon. Children, including my three year-old daughter, were enthralled by this bizarre show about a sponge that lives under the sea. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple, next door to his best friend Patrick Star, whom is known for little intelligence. SpongeBob also lives next door to Squid ward, who has a very cynical view on life and is always complaining about SpongeBob and praising his clarinet and other arts. Besides perhaps fostering an interest in marine biology, it’s very hard to hard to understand the show’s ability …show more content…
When they arrive at the weight lifting area, Sandy lifts a bar weight and the crowd cheers. Larry lifts a bar weight with six weights and the crowd cheers. Trying to impress the audience SpongeBob lifts a stick with two marshmallows on the end, which he actually struggles to do. However, he accidently rips his pants in the process and the crowd sees his underwear and start laughing hysterically. Feeling embarrassed, he leaves the weight lifting area and looks very sad until one fish compliments him on the good laugh. SpongeBob uses this to his advantage and keeps ripping his pants to get everyone laughing. This episodes teaches us that sometimes you just have to laugh it off and not all things are as bad as you