Board 8 > Rate the Character Day 45: SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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Welcome to the most must-see recurring daily poll series on Board 8. I'm your host scarletspeed7. Everyday, I choose a category, you pick a character. I post the character you rate them. These are characters, you are raters, and this is Rate the Character.

Yesterday, nearly bottomed out, scoring only a 5.853.

All ratings are on scale of 1-10. Please do not rate characters with which you are unfamiliar. You may rate any previous characters you have yet to rate at any point; please post them in the thread. No more than ten retro-ratings per day. View your ratings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P47gZ8N7QcS-ShXYjvteOnd_aCJbv3AcJdipiUChhAg/edit?usp=sharing

Today's character is SpongeBob Squarepants, star of a successful children's show.



Current Top Ten:
1) Han Solo (Star Wars) - 8.394
2) Scarecrow (DC Comics) - 8.293
3) Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect) - 8.228
4) Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) - 8.141
5) Furiosa (Mad Max) - 8.091
6) Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) - 8
7) Bowser (Super Mario) - 7.971
8) Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 7.962
9) Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil) - 7.921
10) Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics) - 7.893

Current Bottom Ten:
35) Phil Dunphy (Modern Family) - 6.036
36) Zelda (Legend of Zelda) - 5.853
37) Randy Marsh (South Park) - 5.792
38) Mad-Eye Moody (Harry Potter) - 5.642
39) Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) - 5.447
40) Pikachu (Pokemon) - 5.339
41) Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics) - 5
42) John Cena (WWE) - 4.957
43) Kylo Ren (Star Wars) - 4.817
44) Akinator (Akinator) - 2.915

Hi MI.
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1 out of 10 for me

When I was a child, I found this character puerile and juvenile. And I was a child.
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1
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Yeah I can't do anything other than 1.

Hi scarlet!
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easy 1
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I like the poll choices today
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eh, 4. it's not that great of a character and the like, and has suffered from mental fatigue with the absurd overdoing of reruns of it... but it's not mindblowing horror or horrible, just can be rather stupid. and that's okay in limited amounts.

4/10

1/10

The most extremely annoying character of all time.
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1.5/10
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9
dude gave me plenty of laughs as a kid

Thankfully I have never watched even a minute of a SpongeBob episode.
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1/10

one of the worst things to happen to children's entertainment
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2/10

I just had a react lesson featuring him and I was
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buncha haters itt

5

No single character on that show is particularly great by themselves, but they shine together as a cast.
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Eh 4.

Earlier he was okay and even now he's not offensively bad or anything.
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Leonhart4 posted...

Thankfully I have never watched even a minute of a SpongeBob episode.

Damn, the requirement to rate is 95 seconds.
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Spongebob is fine, it's patrick that's the annoying one.

8/10
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Patrick gets a zero, rounded up to one for this topic.
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6/10

He's not as bad as Squirrel Girl or John Cena.

People come on.

He's voiced by TOM KENNY.

THE GUY WHO DOES THE VOICE OF SPYRO.

You guys can't think of one legit positive thing?

1 out of 10
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PrestonStarry2 posted...

You guys can't think of one legit positive thing?

My thought was I couldn't think of one really legit negative thing either, outside of just mindburn, and the fact Nickelodeon wants to have him on 24/7 versus the old days when there was actual variety.

Positive things in my mind is that it could be much much worse, like barney or the teletubbies, i mean being meh overdone being the worst thing is really mild compared to true mental trauma.

As a kid I never liked him, as an adult I find the show not worth my time anymore... I attribute Spongebob to why I hate a specific archtype in anime (the fang characters), since usually they're hyper yet stupid... and it gets annoying... Makes me easily vote: 1/10
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Up for possible lowest ranked character?
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3

While I think Spongebob is pretty bad especially in recent years. I don't think his character is an automatic 1/10.

I've always like Spongebob's youthful innocence and optimism as well as his desire to be hard working. I think it's a good message to send to kids, therefore I think the earlier incarnations of him are pretty solid.

Granted they later dropped all that and just made him an idiot. Making him the opposite influence and unfunny. As well as him taking on a role that already exists in the show (Patrick) who I always imagined as the bad influence that you don't want to be like.

So while I don't think he's a 1/10 character. I'll at least give him a 3/10 for the older stuff. After all there are much much worse characters.
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1/10

Hated him even as a kid. Terrible show and terrible character.
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5

Pretty good (although not the best, Patrick and Squidward are definitely better) early on, annoying later. Mostly gets points for those early episodes.
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6.5

Now he's not a favorite character by any means but I'm sure there are more fans of the show here than this


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3/10

Much of what Tangy said.
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