A Pal for Gary (SpongeBob SquarePants)
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.jpg) An episode that became an absolute legend...but for all the wrong reasons.
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A Pal for Gary is an episode from season 7 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Why It Should Put Gary Down
- To get the nudibranch out of the house: This episode is infamous for using the "character gets punished for something he/she didn't do while the person who did gets off scot-free" cliché, which has been done to death on many, many cartoon episodes.
- It is also infamous for what poor Gary went through because SpongeBob was seriously oblivious because he thinks that Puffy Fluffy is a harmless creature when in reality, he isn't.
- Speaking of SpongeBob, he is very unlikable and is at his lowest point as his flanderization has gone too far such as:
- He intends to get a pal for Gary because he felt upset that the latter is all alone, even though Gary has always been doing fine and has never minded being alone.
- He finds a pet store with nudibranchs owned by a merchant, at which he ignores her warning about Puffy Fluffy and steals him without paying.
- He sends Gary to bed (with Puffy Fluffy) as he thinks the former was ignoring Puffy Fluffy, even though Puffy Fluffy is acting psychopathically towards Gary.
- Assumed Gary destroyed his library and almost his whole house, which is nonsensical as it would be impossible for a normal pet to destroy a house in a single night.
- Instead of being scared of him, he idiotically thinks Puffy Fluffy's monster form is one of Puffy Fluffy's friends.
- And right when he saw Gary being held captive inside Puffy Fluffys mouth, he infamously said "Gary, you put Puffy Fluffy down right now!" Not even Patrick could be that stupid!
- It would've been much more funnier if it we're in a cartoon like Family Guy or The Simpsons and not in a kids cartoon like SpongeBob SquarePants.
- This episode also uses the generic "pet being jealous of the new pet", but this episode took it to the point where it became horrible.
- Puffy Fluffy is unlikable for doing nothing other than terrorizing Gary.
- The scene where Puffy Fluffy puts one of his tongues in SpongeBob's mouth is gross.
- Puffy Fluffy's vicious design with long, jagged teeth and multiple Sarlacc-like tongues is very disturbing, nightmarish, grotesque, although it does fit well with the solid tone about how the original must face the chaotic new pet, but still.
- VERY Unsatisfying ending: After Puffy Fluffy runs away when Gary rescues SpongeBob, who yells for him to come back, acts ungrateful towards Gary, and still blames him by telling him "what do you have to say for yourself?", instead of apologizing or being grateful to Gary for saving his life. And after all that, he takes Gary everywhere he goes, especially the Krusty Krab. Not helping is that Mr. Krabs uses Gary as free labor, even though he created a policy banning pets from the Krusty Krab.
- SpongeBob never gets called out for his actions.
Redeeming Qualities
- Gary is the only likable character.
- Mr. Krabs is a tolerable character since he understand SpongeBob's needs to tend to Gary (despite being hypocritical.) It's also one of these episodes where he has his original personality instead of his seasons 6-10 one.
- And even though despite being unlikable, SpongeBob did have good intentions of why he did what he did: It was because he was worried about his pet snail and he just wanted him to have a companion with him while he's at work.
- Puffy Fluffy got what he deserved in the end.
- "Oh, these enchiladas are hot, hot, hot!" - SpongeBob.
- The premise could've worked if it didn't turn out so mean-spirited.
Reception
The episode was universally slammed by critics and audiences alike becoming the lowest rated episode of spongebob on IMDb with a score of 3.2/10. For reference that is just one tenth away from Fanboy & Chum Chum which has a 3.3/10
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