Fungus Among Us is the final segment of the third episode of the 5th season of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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 The first episode (where Richard Pursel works) with disgusting imagery does not make it "fung" (no pun intended) to watch!
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Plot
SpongeBob spreads an itchy fungus across Bikini Bottom.
Why It's Among Us (In a Bad Way)
- This episode in particular can easily frighten younger children, fans, and fans/people who suffer from mysophobia (fear of fungus or mold).
- In addition, this episode is a rehash of The Powerpuff Girls episode, "Geshundfight" (which is a terrible episode) because it has the same premise as this episode, albeit with a different symptom.
- It is an extremely harsh and mean-spirited SpongeBob torture episode as poor SpongeBob gets extremely infected with the fungus that just happened to show up because of plot convenience.
- Several scenes of SpongeBob attempting to get rid of the fungus only serve as filler and nothing else.
- Squidward knows SpongeBob contracts an itchy fungus, but he calls on the SWAT team instead of hospital.
- SpongeBob during part of that episode was also dumb as he wants to play "Pirate wrestling" with Patrick, even though the Pirate arm has a pointy section making it a bad idea from the start.
- The customers at the Krusty Krab drinking and eating with the fungus are incredibly disgusting to watch.
- The part where Squidward and the other characters blame and attack SpongeBob is needlessly harsh (and the part where SpongeBob is crying because of that is sad).
- Plot Holes:
- When SpongeBob got the fungus of him, it was able to grow back, but when Gary consumed the fungus it didn't grow back for some reason.
- Some characters can see the fungus, while others don't for some reason despite how it is obviously on SpongeBob.
- How did Gary get out of the bubble and make his way to the Krusty Krab?
- This episode goes to show that being disgusting and torturing an infected person is funny when in reality, it's not.
- "Fungus Among Us", overall, has a lot of disgusting imagery; this is common in scenes with the fungus spreading.
- It's also the worst start of the infamous writer, Richard Pursel.
Redeeming Qualities Among Us
- The opening of this episode is okay.
- At least the SWAT team still helps SpongeBob.
- Patrick's "worm dancing" and line "Go, Patrick!" are funny.
- The line "I supersede all of you! For I have an exotic accent", is quite funny, although it may sound unnecessary for someone to supersede someone just because he/she has an accent of that type.
- The episode has a nice ending where all of the customers pay Mr. Krabs for Gary to "de-ick" them.
- SpongeBob (for the most part) is still a likable character.
- This episode may be disgusting, but it's meant to deal with a serious issue.
Reception and Trivia
- Ranked Number 8 on MoBrosStudios's Worst SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes List (Fan Edition)
- Praised by PhantomStrider for dealing with a serious issue well
- The title of the episode is based on the album "Fungus Amongus" by Incubus which was released on November 1, 1995, which was their debut studio album.
- This is the very first episode that Richard Pursel worked on.
- The episode gained internet attention in 2021 because of "Among Us" being used in the episode title, a reference to the game itself. This can be considered anachronism because the episode was made in 2007 & Among Us wasn't released until 2018.
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