Pineapple Fever (SpongeBob SquarePants)

"Pineapple Fever"
Symptoms may include filler and annoyance.
Series: SpongeBob SquarePants Part of Season: 6 Episode Number: 25a (193-649) Air Date: June 2, 2009 (United States) November 10, 2009 (United Kingdom) November 19, 2009 (Canada) Writer: Aaron Springer Derek Iversen Director: Vincent Waller Previous episode: Truth or Square Shell Shocked (Airing order) Next episode: Chum Caverns The Clash of Triton (193-650-51) Single Cell Anniversary (Airing order)

Pineapple Fever is the first segment of the 25th episode of the 6th season of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Plot

Squidward is stuck indoors with SpongeBob and Patrick in SpongeBob's house during a storm.

Why It Drives Us Insane

1. There's a lot of unnecessary filler used in this episode. Most of the episode's runtime is wasted by scenes of the main characters doing pointless stuff, such as playing board games... drinking hot cocoa... and this scene goes on for 30 seconds. The amount of filler exists because everything drags on for way too long in this episode.
   • Then there's the overdrawn scene where SpongeBob gives Squidward nothing but trouble overcrossing over a boundary.
2. Many disturbing moments, one example is at the beginning of the episode where Squidward rips his eyebrow out in a painful way. What is with Season 6 and the unnecessary gross out?
3. Out of nowhere all three go insane for no reason over "Squidward's food", and it feels like an "Ugh" ripoff.
   • Nothing builds up to this scene either. It just so happens because of "wacky hijinks funny".
4. As per usual, this is a Squidward Torture Episode, but this time, he only exists to be tortured for no reason.
   • As obvious this already sounds, this episode doesn't bother giving him any reason to be tortured whatsoever.
5. SpongeBob and Patrick deliberately act like idiots.
   • They believe Tic-Tac-Toe has a "roll to see who goes first" system or "rock paper scissors" to decide who goes first.
     • Squidward says he won by getting 3 in a row. This prompts SpongeBob to take out a rulebook for the game.
   • Patrick has no idea where the last piece of a puzzle goes.
     • Squidward tells them where it goes, and then SpongeBob says he cheated and sets the puzzle back to square one.
6. SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward acting like complete animals over a Krabby Patty.
7. The frequent lightning effects could cause seizures for photosensitive or epileptic viewers.
8. Bad ending: Squidward sees that it’s daylight and thinks that the storm has passed, only for him to falling to the ground as a tornado lifted SpongeBob's house as if he wasn't tortured enough.
   • Speaking of the tornado lifting up SpongeBob's house, how did the tornado lift it?
9. Pineapple Fever is overall an extremely wasted concept of an otherwise great episode, an episode where it about three of the main characters being home stuck during a rainstorm was a good idea, it would have come up with some interesting writing like seeing what kind of games that SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward play, and even includes some creative funny gags that involve the storm like wind or lightning, but instead, the entire episode is nothing more than poor Squidward getting tortured, the characters doing bland things like drinking cocoa, doing puzzles, and the characters going insane for no reason.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Squidward kind of set himself up for the episode, since this wouldn't have happened to him if he didn't storm SpongeBob's house.
2. The part where Squidward realizes how animalistic they were acting is cathartic.
3. Robert Ryan Cory (the prop design) take a wonderful yet horrifying take when SpongeBob and Squidward pulling the Krabby Patty.
4. The first half of the episode has a few decent jokes.
5. Patrick's line "Violin!" is funny.
6. "Curse you, Preflumster."
7. The lighting effects do add a bit of energy to the episode, despite possibly causing seizures. Also, they were slowed down in British and Irish TV airings, so good for them.

Reception

• This episode was #9 on MoBrosStudios worst SpongeBob episodes list. Even after revisiting, Anim8ball still considered it a bad episode.
• Mr. Enter ranked this #6 on the worst Squidward Torture Episode list.

Trivia

• It may be ironical, but this episode is paired up with a famous episode, "Chum Caverns".
• According to the Nickelodeon 2009 Magazine this episode was originally going to end with the tornado stopping and the house falling at Squidward.
• Ironically, a writer of this episode has wrote for the 2 episodes that was popular which is Band Geeks and "Hello Bikini Bottom!".

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