Oh come on, not even Squidward wants to see your pathetic splinter! infamous Quotes The episode has a user rating of 2.7 out of 10 on SpongeBuddy Mania and a user rating of 4.9 out of 10 on IMDb along with its sister episode, " Slide Whistle Stooges". "The Splinter" is considered the worst episode of the series, along with other episodes like One Coarse Meal, A Pal for Gary, and Pet Sitter Pat.
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This is the first demonic episode of SpongeBob to be reviewed by TheMysteriousMrEnter, it's also the first part of his Animated Atrocities series where he reviews a lot of bad episodes from cartoons and explains why they're bad.Some fans think this episode started the dark era of the show.This is Tom Kenny's least favorite SpongeBob SquarePants episode, it's not hard to see the reason as to why exactly.Moral: Be very careful with slipping on wooden surfaces, if you see a barb pointing in front of where it's easy to get a splinter cut it off so that no one can end up like our poor Sponge here Remember everybody, think carefully before you do this.
While Patrick's playing doctor in "Suds" did not help SpongeBob's situation either, at the very least, the treatment montage in the aforementioned episode didn't worsen SpongeBob's affliction save for his holes being plugged (the other treatments shown more or less didn't have any effect whatsoever).
Additionally, he only succeeds in making the situation worse for SpongeBob before leaving. Patrick is another widely disliked element of the episode, as, despite his best friend wanting to get rid of the splinter and not wanting to be sent home, he acts rude and snide to SpongeBob when he points out that his "treatment" is not working. There are also a number of scenes that feel excessively lengthy, such as Squidward's interaction with the customer and the entire sequence of Squidward antagonizing SpongeBob with the idea of Mr. Krabs over the splinter feels more like it was only added to pad out the episode's length to eleven minutes when the episode could have still worked at a much shorter runtime. The side plot of SpongeBob trying to avoid getting sent home by Mr. And at long last, the thumb is finally cured. Krabs was nice enough to remove his splinter for SpongeBob. It would later lead to this!Īt least its ending isn't bad (which is a redeeming quality basically) Mr. Following failed attempts to remove the splinter, Doctor Patrick arrives and worsens things by hammering the splinter deeper into SpongeBob's thumb and putting garbage on top of the thumb, causing it to become even more swollen and begin exuding pus out of it. The scene where SpongeBob initially gets the splinter can be hard to watch due to it being rather detailed and in slow-motion. It’s so uncomfortably disgusting that it probably makes people want to run away and move to Squidville.
While gross-out humor is not necessarily bad, the way it is presented in this episode in the form of the titular splinter that SpongeBob gets tends to be unfunny and can be uncomfortable to watch, especially later into the episode as SpongeBob's thumb gets more and more infected and swollen. The Splinter is most notorious for the excessive use of gross-out and filler content. Why You'll Need a Doggie Bag for this ScumBob