A Day Without Tears (SpongeBob SquarePants)
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A Day Without Tears is the first segment of the 136th episode from the 7th season of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Plot
SpongeBob bets Squidward that he can't go a day without crying.
Why It'll Make You Want To Cry
- The main problem with this episode is that SpongeBob cries over the smallest of things to ludicrous degrees; like getting his toe stubbed, ripping his favorite shirt, a radio playing a sad song, and even him accidentally dropping his Krabby patty whilst jumping in surprise. These jokes were made as an attempt to make the audience sympathize with SpongeBob but rather make you feel irritated by his non-stop crying instead.
- Squidward himself is also unlikeable in this episode because he wants to make SpongeBob cry to win the bet.
- Which is, as you may have guessed, cheating.
- The entire plot of the episode itself is generic, not for the "BET" type of plot that is used in the actual episode, but because it's simply based on a no-crying bet.
- This episode is a rip-off of "Funny Pants" from the fourth season, and that episode itself is no better. The only difference is that this episode replaces laughing with crying.
- The entire "crying montage" showing the flashbacks to all the "hundreds of tears SpongeBob has cried over the years" are all unbelievable nonsense and utter lies, since none of those "flashbacks" come from past SpongeBob episodes from Seasons 1-6, which just shows how the writers couldn't be bothered with continuity between episodes in Seasons 6-7 for the sake of plot contrivance, which is ridiculous and of course utterly unacceptable since an earlier episode, "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired" from Season 4, did use flashback scenes from the episode "No Weenies Allowed" from Season 3.
- Not only that, the animation in these "flashbacks" is very lazy, as it's the same animation of SpongeBob crying being reused over and over again over different backgrounds.
- To add salt to the wound, this "flashback" sequence isn't even funny as intended, instead it's just incredibly annoying and pathetic.
- On the topic of continuity errors, for some strange reason Squidward yelling at SpongeBob seems to make the latter cry, despite that in other episodes SpongeBob doesn't seem to cry when he gets yelled at by Squidward. This same mistake is also previously repeated in the Season 5 episode "Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?".
- It also comes off as a SpongeBob torture episode, because he has to hold in his tears, making it irritating for him.
- The scene where SpongeBob calls Patrick on the phone to tell him about his bet with Squidward served no purpose but to be filler.
- Most of the humor in this episode is stale, annoying, and unfunny crying jokes from SpongeBob, as well as some stupid jokes like the one-joke where a news reporter reports on the news that a boy does not get what he wanted for his birthday, which with a joke like that, does this even feel necessary to the episode?
- SpongeBob's voice-acting by Tom Kenny is far more annoying than usual, mainly due to SpongeBob's non-stop crying throughout most of the entire episode; not helping is the fact that most of SpongeBob's crying sounds come off as very forced and phoned-in rather than legit genuine crying.
Redeeming Qualities
- SpongeBob getting his toe stubbed was kind of funny and also relatable, because crying over a stubbed toe is believable since it could be pretty painful.
- This also serves as a nice call-back to a joke from "No Weenies Allowed" where SpongeBob, in an attempt to seem tough enter to enter the Salty Spitoon club, mentions to the bouncer that he stubbed his toe while watering his spice garden and only cried for 20 minutes.
- "KRABBY PATTY NOTHING!" is quite a funny quote in this episode.
- Also SpongeBob's "You yelled at me! You yelled at me!" was funny, considering also the Squidward's disappointed face after.
- While completely pointless, Patrick is right when he told SpongeBob that it is possible to go the rest of the day without crying.
- The joke with Patrick and SpongeBob's TV (that he destroyed) is arguably the funniest scene from this episode.
- The ending isn't that bad. Squidward loses the bet and as punishment, he cries due to SpongeBob winning. After all, he came up with the bet in the first place.
- Unlike most cases during seasons six through eight, Squidward gets his comeuppance rather than be given the excessive punching bag treatment.
- It is the first episode to play the production music tracks "Aloha Bikini Bottom" and "Coconut Cream Pie."
- Squidward did have a point about SpongeBob's non-stop crying getting on his nerves.
Reception
- Along with "Summer Job", "A Day Without Tears" is rated 5.3/10 on IMDB.
- "A Day Without Tears" is also the 14th worst episode on MoBrosStudios's top 20 worst SpongeBob episodes.
Trivia
- This episode marks the second appearance of the Bikini Bottom Men's Choir, the first being "Choir Boys." The choir makes two brief cameo appearances in this episode; the first half in the episode when Squidward gets SpongeBob to cry over the sight of the sunset, and then later at the end when Bikini Bottom is flooded with SpongeBob's tears. Coincidentally, these two appearances of the Bikini Bottom Men's Choir are in some of the worst and most hated SpongeBob SquarePants episodes ever produced in Seasons 6 and 7 respectively.
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