

It had some good episodes like "Friend or Foe," "SpongeBob vs. Season 5 was a pretty mixed bag according to fans and critics. Patrick gives SpongeBob a glob of gum for Best Friends Day.
SpongeBob's "best day ever" does not go as planned. SpongeBob makes a miniature Squidward and everyone likes him better. Patrick becomes a mean tyrant when he is crowned king. Patrick gets his driver's license and rubs it in SpongeBob's face. SpongeBob breaks his spatula and is forced to replace it. SpongeBob and Squidward get morphed together. SpongeBob and Patrick annoy Squidward with their "Good Neighbor Club." But starting with this season, most of the original humor is gone. In previous seasons the show did have some of this humor, but also had lots of multi-layered and adult humor. The second thing is the show relying on Self-Referential and Slapstick jokes. Patrick became stupider, Squidward started losing that sense of joy, just being empathetic, and Mr. stupid and happy, losing all that intelligence he had in the first three seasons. SpongeBob started losing his good-morality, and became. However, this season is the start of two things, the first is Flanderization, which basically means a character trait is inflated so much it's the only trait. While this season was the start of the show's downfall in quality, it's still considered good by fans, with many saying the best episodes of this season are great, and some even including it as part of the "classic" era of SpongeBob. Season 4 was the first season without most of the original people that worked on the show, including creator Stephen Hillenburg. There's only two infamous episodes in this season. This was originally going to be the last season, but Nickelodeon demanded a fourth season. Season 3 was the last season during the show's original run, with everyone leaving to work on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. SpongeBob pretends to be stupid to make Patrick look smart in front of his parents. There's only one episode in this season that is semi-infamous. Season 2 is when the show started exploding in popularity, with the episode Band Geeks being considered the best episode in the entire series, and one of the best episodes in kids shows overall. SpongeBob accidentally transforms into a snail after being injected with snail plasma. Season 1 premiered in 1999 and is considered good by fans, containing classics like "Pizza Delivery." There is only one Semi-Infamous episode.
