The show SpongeBob SquarePants first aired on May 1, 1999, and ever since, has been popular amongst children. It is rated for children six years and older. Despite the age, it is classified at children younger and even older adults watch the show as well. Since the show has great popularity, to this day there are still new episodes that air. The television network that runs this show is Nickelodeon. SpongeBob SquarePants is an entertainment show, but it may not be helping the children as parents think. A lot of people have questioned the meaning of the show such as Evans (2006), who states, “attacked the character, claiming his protolerance message promoted a homosexual agenda” (p.1). Given that it is an eight billion dollar franchise and the
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In the episode “ Big Pink Loser” , he was told to open a jar lid and he could not even manage to do that (Lender, J., Reiss, W., Williams, M., and Lender, J, 2000). In another episode, called “Tentacle Vision”, Squidward asks him “Patrick, just how stupid are you?”, and he answered “It varies”. ( Brookshier, L., Cash, N., Iversen, D. and Brookshier, L., and Cash,N., 2009). With that being said, he basically admits to being dumb, which is not very influencing to the children. There is also SpongeBob, that is supposed to be an adult, but Patrick and he still manage to get themselves in situations that are idiotic and irresponsible. SpongeBob is naïve and is too much of an optimist, and the other characters usually take advantage of him. An example, would be episode “ Club Spongebob”, would be when he worships a magic conch shell and he does only what it tells him to.(Dohrn, W. O’Hare, M., 2002) Even though the magic conch shell is making a negative impact in his life, he still continues to follow what is says. Another example, would be that he has not passed his driving test, even after taking it so many times. The bad part about that is that he really does not even try, and he approximately …show more content…
As mentioned before, the audience of the show is not only children, so Nickelodeon manages to sneak in some adult material .The children obviously do not know what the material really means, and it is not appropriate for a kids show. The first example of the inappropriate material on the show would be, in episode “Choclate with Nuts”, when SpongeBob and Patrick are out selling chocolate. (Osborne, K., Prapuolenis, K., Tibbitt, P., Williams , M. and Prapuolenis, K., Tibbitt, P. , 2002). They need a plan to sell more chocolates and Patrick suggests that they should get naked. This is not appropriate because children around the ages of seven and above sometimes sell items from school and they will have the idea that Patrick suggested it, so why not do it. It gives the children the idea of getting naked will somehow attract people towards their product. Another example would be in episode, “ Your shoes untied”, when SpongeBob is watching what seems to be a naked coral reef dancing, and once Gary, his pet snail, goes into the room, he rushes to change the channel and looks nervous and denies that he was watching that show. (Dohrn, W., Tibbitt, P., Williams, M. and Dohrn, W., Tibbitt, P. , 2002).This would be a reference to SpongeBob watching erotic adult programs. There should be no inappropriate content in a show that is for children as little as six years. They
In the episode “ Big Pink Loser” , he was told to open a jar lid and he could not even manage to do that (Lender, J., Reiss, W., Williams, M., and Lender, J, 2000). In another episode, called “Tentacle Vision”, Squidward asks him “Patrick, just how stupid are you?”, and he answered “It varies”. ( Brookshier, L., Cash, N., Iversen, D. and Brookshier, L., and Cash,N., 2009). With that being said, he basically admits to being dumb, which is not very influencing to the children. There is also SpongeBob, that is supposed to be an adult, but Patrick and he still manage to get themselves in situations that are idiotic and irresponsible. SpongeBob is naïve and is too much of an optimist, and the other characters usually take advantage of him. An example, would be episode “ Club Spongebob”, would be when he worships a magic conch shell and he does only what it tells him to.(Dohrn, W. O’Hare, M., 2002) Even though the magic conch shell is making a negative impact in his life, he still continues to follow what is says. Another example, would be that he has not passed his driving test, even after taking it so many times. The bad part about that is that he really does not even try, and he approximately …show more content…
As mentioned before, the audience of the show is not only children, so Nickelodeon manages to sneak in some adult material .The children obviously do not know what the material really means, and it is not appropriate for a kids show. The first example of the inappropriate material on the show would be, in episode “Choclate with Nuts”, when SpongeBob and Patrick are out selling chocolate. (Osborne, K., Prapuolenis, K., Tibbitt, P., Williams , M. and Prapuolenis, K., Tibbitt, P. , 2002). They need a plan to sell more chocolates and Patrick suggests that they should get naked. This is not appropriate because children around the ages of seven and above sometimes sell items from school and they will have the idea that Patrick suggested it, so why not do it. It gives the children the idea of getting naked will somehow attract people towards their product. Another example would be in episode, “ Your shoes untied”, when SpongeBob is watching what seems to be a naked coral reef dancing, and once Gary, his pet snail, goes into the room, he rushes to change the channel and looks nervous and denies that he was watching that show. (Dohrn, W., Tibbitt, P., Williams, M. and Dohrn, W., Tibbitt, P. , 2002).This would be a reference to SpongeBob watching erotic adult programs. There should be no inappropriate content in a show that is for children as little as six years. They