A quick review of the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons
by James K. Sayre
Over the years, I have enjoyed the classic cartoons produced in Hollywood, from the early Betty Boop cartoons produced in the 1930s to Heckle and Jeckle and Merrie Melodiesi in the 1940s to the Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner/Wily E. Coyote cartoons produced in the 1950s and 1960s. UnderDog and the Rocky Bullwinkle cartoons were excellent shows, produced in the 1960s. The newer cartoons, produced in the last two decades, basically have left me cold.
After the righties began alleging in the corporate media that the new 21st century SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon was advocating a "homosexual agenda," I thought that I should check it out to see what all the fussing was about. Basically, the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon is virtually asexual, there is no overt sexuality at all. The SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon is brilliant, funny, satirical, extremely fast-paced and mind-boggling as it moves quickly from one scene to the next. The underwater world portrayed as the village of Bikini Bottom is quite surrealistic, sort of a Salvador Dali-like seascape. The background music is often Hawai'ian, a nice touch. SpongeBob SquarePants himself is basically good-hearted and only rarely and temporarily acts mean or unpleasant. (Maybe this essential goodness and kindness is what the righties really object to. SpongeBob SquarePants is kind of a cartoon version of a childlike Bill Clinton, if you will. SpongeBob SquarePants is basically the opposite of the lying election-stealing war criminal Bush).
SpongeBob SquarePants is shown on Nickeleon cable television (Channels 299 and3 00 on DirecTV).
by James K. Sayre
12 February 2005
You may want to check out the official SpongeBob SquarePants web site: web site: SpongeBob SquarePants Cartoon
A great link to the Big Cartoon Data Base: web site: Big Cartoon Data Base
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