Informative Essay: The Influence Of Television Shows

Most people easily pick up on the significance of television shows like Sesame Street and other educational shows for children. Programs like these teach children lessons about manners, the alphabet, letters and other important things. For adults the lessons seem clear, so we feel alright with letting our children watch and learn from these television shows. But others shows seem to hold no promise of learning. For example, SpongeBob Square pants, a popular cartoon show on Nickelodeon. Children, including my three year-old daughter, were fascinated by this strange and unusual 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. Besides perhaps fostering an interest in marine biology, it’s very hard to understand the show’s ability to fascinate, let alone teach. Yet, …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, SpongeBob 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