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The network has recently given us Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn, Awesomeness TV, Wild Grinders, NFL cartoons that shouldn't exist, a Kids React to TV series, and just awful as heck crap I don't want to bother with a mention. Spongebob has completely worn out his welcome, but he manages to keep making money, and if that money goes to fund other animation on Nickelodeon (yes, even Breadwinners), I'm all for it.
That and Ninja Turtles.
Oh my glob! Yes! The TMNT toy lines, cartoon and movie, were a HUGE hit this holiday season. TMNT merch does really well (they can even sell Cotton Candy flavored Yogurt), and it seems that they're slightly edging out Spongebob with the Green Machine in terms of marketing. Just as long as power house shows like those two manage to keep the animation in the network, I'm happy. Any timeslot Spongebob occupies is one less episode of NRD&D. If that's the best thing that can be said about the show, it's good enough for me.That and Ninja Turtles.
Oh my god, I actually agree with you, D'Snowth! SpongeBob is the worst TV show ever! He's just so annoying that I never got into it! And it's not just me-Everyone at my school hates SpongeBob for being overrated. When this one boy in my class mentions it, everyone mocks him for it. They also think the new movie looks like action figures being filmed in front of a camera. I agree, even though Action League Now is a better example. Also, the plot sounds waaaay too similar to My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, where the main character goes to another world to get something that was stolen and has to battle the person who stole it.
You think that's amazing? Pretty Cure gets two films a year thanks to the ever-popular All Stars series and are generally good (I cried at the end of the last Pretty Cure film I watched!) By the end of 2015, there will be 19 films.
See, back in my day, it was just the opposite: the whole school loved SpongeBob, and I was the only one who didn't, so I was something of an outcast because of it... the thing of it is, SpongeBob was also a case of It's Popular, So It Sucks, because everybody made it impossible to even try to like it: "D00d! U N33D 2 like SpongeBob! U H@V3 2 like SpongeBob! U G0T 2 like SpongeBob! SpongeBob iz da bestest! SpongeBob rox! H0w c@n u n0t like SpongeBob?!" But I agree, SpongeBob was a stupid and annoying show to begin with, so all the peer pressure to like it didn't help.
Luckily that didn't happen in my elementary school class. Because I went to a special needs school due to my ADHD, the kids liked trains such as Thomas the Tank Engine, treating it like Pokemon where they would discuss their collections and would sometimes trade trains with each other. Because I was never that into Thomas (the closest I ever was to being addicted to it was Britt Allcroft's other show Mumfie, which one of the kids at my school liked the movie of), their conversations were sometimes confusing. The older students at that school liked Disney shows and movies and...Family Guy. I'm not kidding. My mom actually made the right choice and banned it after my brother watched it in front of me. It didn't help that it came on after a block of children's shows. In fifth grade, the kids liked Hannah Montana and High School Musical, which I was able to relate to because I loved the Disney Channel as a kid. However, but kids in my fifth grade class were into Bakugaun, which I wasn't into because I hadn't heard of it before, mainly because I liked Pokemon. In middle school, the kids liked teen heart-throbs such as Justin Bieber and video games-oh, and there was one girl I was friends with who liked anime like Higurashi and Sugar Sugar Rune. And in my current high school, all the kids like American Horror Story and Frozen, and most of the teachers with younger children LOVE watching Sofia The First. I like it too, since it's actually pretty good for a preschool show. I like the specials of the show the most!
