Picture Day - 8/10
Pat No Pay - 8/10
Blackjack - 6/10.
7.3/10 overall.
7.3/10 overall.
SpongeBob SquarePants (TV Series)
Picture Day/Pat No Pay/Blackjack (2007)
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Picture Day/Pat No Pay/Blackjack
iratecartoons20 April 2021
Once you go Blackjack, you never go back
mattiasflgrtll68 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Picture Day:
SpongeBob is really excited, 'cause this is the day where everybody gets their picture taken at the boating school. But like some force of nature is controlling it, he can't seem to keep himself clean...
This is one of the few boating school stories not centered around driving, and it has a lot of entertaining visual humor throughout. SpongeBob having to go through the entire routine of getting clean thrice (and painting more stripes on his socks every time for some reason), and the various predicaments which gets him dirtied up are all very funny. The best part is when he covers himself with Sponge Gloss to keep himself from getting exposed to filth, and he comments on how shiny the boating school looks. Then, out of nowhere, the sun comes out reflecting its beam on the gloss and blinding a truck driver who crashes and spills water on SpongeBob. It's funnily done cause-and-effect humor.
When Patrick comes over to his house and licks a jelly jar clean he actually gets the pretty smart idea to contain himself in it and let Pat carry him to school so he'll be completely safe. But alas, the dumb starfish forgets that SpongeBob's in there and mistakes him for jelly. He puts him in the taco and once again he's all... soiled. Damn, you really feel bad for the guy.
I love the fact that once he gets ready to have his picture taken (or well, he has no choice rather), we get an amusing nod to Julien Donkey-Boy, with the photographer substituting for Werner Herzog. It's such a strange reference, yet feels entirely befitting of this series.
The final shot of SpongeBob's forced smile in a picture book with rather creepy-looking people wearing similar smiles is a nice ending.
My only flaw is that Patrick is annoyingly stupid when he forgets he put SpongeBob in the jar. He's not dimwitted to unbearable levels yet, but they're pushing it a bit.
Pat No Pay:
Patrick comes into the Krusty Krab starving, promising that he will pay for all of it once he's done. But unsurprisingly he doesn't live up to it, so Krabs orders him to pay off the debt with work instead.
Not much to say. It's so brief for one moment I thought it was shorter than Reef Blower. This is a fairly unpopular segment since it's got Patrick being the sh'ittiest employee ever, and is one of the only times Mr. Krabs gets unjustly punished. But it does have some chuckles, such as Patrick building with ice cubes like a stack of cards and the whole trash compactor mix-up. I think what makes it funnier than it otherwise would have been is the freeze-frame where Patrick's eyes are pointing at a money bag with a dotted red arrow, leading him to the conclusion that it's trash too. And of course, once the machine blows up he asks Krabs "Can I eat now?". Overall, it's an all right 4 minutes.
Blackjack:
SpongeBob is scared out of his wits once he learns his cousin Blackjack is coming to visit, not having forgotten how much he got bullied by him as a kid.
There is so much comedy packed into this plot. The flashback and visualisations of what Blackjack has done or might do to SpongeBob, as well as the heightened paranoia throughout makes it energetically entertaining. The part where he sees a freshly baked gingerbread and thinks that Blackjack cooked his grandma in the oven is priceless.
He's still worried about his parents however, especially when grandma (wonderfully reprised by Marion Ross) unintentionally spouts unsettling double-meanings.
This leads him to visit uncle Sherm, which is when the most uproarious scene comes. Sherm is constantly surrounded by loud music, so instead of hearing his warning he misunderstands and makes him do chores. The sheer level of frustration with his uncle just delaying him more and more had me in stitches.
When he finally reaches Blackjack's house to rescue his parents, it turns out they are not in danger at all, but are celebrating his return from prison. That doesn't seem to mean the menace is over however, since he still is ready to kick Spongey's ass. But a great use of forced perspective reveals that SpongeBob's fear of Blackjack growing was unwarranted, since he's the one who's grown since then instead. It's a much smarter twist than I was expecting, so big props.
Primarily due to Picture Day and Blackjack, this is somewhat of a hidden gem.
SpongeBob is really excited, 'cause this is the day where everybody gets their picture taken at the boating school. But like some force of nature is controlling it, he can't seem to keep himself clean...
This is one of the few boating school stories not centered around driving, and it has a lot of entertaining visual humor throughout. SpongeBob having to go through the entire routine of getting clean thrice (and painting more stripes on his socks every time for some reason), and the various predicaments which gets him dirtied up are all very funny. The best part is when he covers himself with Sponge Gloss to keep himself from getting exposed to filth, and he comments on how shiny the boating school looks. Then, out of nowhere, the sun comes out reflecting its beam on the gloss and blinding a truck driver who crashes and spills water on SpongeBob. It's funnily done cause-and-effect humor.
When Patrick comes over to his house and licks a jelly jar clean he actually gets the pretty smart idea to contain himself in it and let Pat carry him to school so he'll be completely safe. But alas, the dumb starfish forgets that SpongeBob's in there and mistakes him for jelly. He puts him in the taco and once again he's all... soiled. Damn, you really feel bad for the guy.
I love the fact that once he gets ready to have his picture taken (or well, he has no choice rather), we get an amusing nod to Julien Donkey-Boy, with the photographer substituting for Werner Herzog. It's such a strange reference, yet feels entirely befitting of this series.
The final shot of SpongeBob's forced smile in a picture book with rather creepy-looking people wearing similar smiles is a nice ending.
My only flaw is that Patrick is annoyingly stupid when he forgets he put SpongeBob in the jar. He's not dimwitted to unbearable levels yet, but they're pushing it a bit.
Pat No Pay:
Patrick comes into the Krusty Krab starving, promising that he will pay for all of it once he's done. But unsurprisingly he doesn't live up to it, so Krabs orders him to pay off the debt with work instead.
Not much to say. It's so brief for one moment I thought it was shorter than Reef Blower. This is a fairly unpopular segment since it's got Patrick being the sh'ittiest employee ever, and is one of the only times Mr. Krabs gets unjustly punished. But it does have some chuckles, such as Patrick building with ice cubes like a stack of cards and the whole trash compactor mix-up. I think what makes it funnier than it otherwise would have been is the freeze-frame where Patrick's eyes are pointing at a money bag with a dotted red arrow, leading him to the conclusion that it's trash too. And of course, once the machine blows up he asks Krabs "Can I eat now?". Overall, it's an all right 4 minutes.
Blackjack:
SpongeBob is scared out of his wits once he learns his cousin Blackjack is coming to visit, not having forgotten how much he got bullied by him as a kid.
There is so much comedy packed into this plot. The flashback and visualisations of what Blackjack has done or might do to SpongeBob, as well as the heightened paranoia throughout makes it energetically entertaining. The part where he sees a freshly baked gingerbread and thinks that Blackjack cooked his grandma in the oven is priceless.
He's still worried about his parents however, especially when grandma (wonderfully reprised by Marion Ross) unintentionally spouts unsettling double-meanings.
This leads him to visit uncle Sherm, which is when the most uproarious scene comes. Sherm is constantly surrounded by loud music, so instead of hearing his warning he misunderstands and makes him do chores. The sheer level of frustration with his uncle just delaying him more and more had me in stitches.
When he finally reaches Blackjack's house to rescue his parents, it turns out they are not in danger at all, but are celebrating his return from prison. That doesn't seem to mean the menace is over however, since he still is ready to kick Spongey's ass. But a great use of forced perspective reveals that SpongeBob's fear of Blackjack growing was unwarranted, since he's the one who's grown since then instead. It's a much smarter twist than I was expecting, so big props.
Primarily due to Picture Day and Blackjack, this is somewhat of a hidden gem.
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