Another One Bites the Dust
By CarolDM
@CarolDM (203452)
Nashville, Tennessee
March 31, 2021 1:51pm CST
Just read about Sponge Bob episodes being cancelled. Sensitivity hits again.
Amazing how cartoons are "offending" others. I say if you don't like it, watch something else. Change the channel.
Anyway, I have never been a Sponge Bob fan. Just never got into the cartoon.
But it is amazing how every day you can find stories like this. He has not been cancelled, just a couple of "offensive" episodes.
"We have decided to not air it due to sensitivities surrounding the global, real-world pandemic," a spokesperson for Nickelodeon told reporters.
Another funny thing, this cartoon has been around since 1999. Unbelievable.
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41 responses
@marguicha (215492)
• Chile
31 Mar 21
All this is more raccist tham racism. Gone with the wind went with the wind because there were slaves them. Laura Ingalls, the wonderful writer of my childhood was banned too. People don´t seem to know how to place things in context.
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@ptrikha_2 (45501)
• India
31 Mar 21
@marguicha
Let people see and judge themselves, unless something is far far too sensitive or inflammatory.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (82022)
• Rupert, Idaho
31 Mar 21
This is just becoming more ridiculous day by day! Not sure what else to say!
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@MommyOfEli2013 (82022)
• Rupert, Idaho
31 Mar 21
@CarolDM Yes I do too, and nothing surprises me anymore.
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@kaylachan (57727)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Mar 21
I have never been much of a fan of Spungebob, but I can't help but shake my head when I hear about stuff like this. It's like we no longer have morals or values. Too afraid to hurt someone's feelings. You know, people need their feelings hurt and need to cry and get it out of their systems. They need to grow and they can't do that, if they don't deal with pain.
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@kaylachan (57727)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Mar 21
@CarolDM Is it true they canceled Pepply La'pue, too? If this keeps happening, nothing's going to be left. Funny enough, this isn't the first time a cartoon or episode(s) of a cartoon was "banned" due to "sensitive content" yet, cartoons got away with a lot back in the day.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
31 Mar 21
@kaylachan Yes that is what I read. Absurdity at its finest. It is just crazy,
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@FourWalls (62181)
• United States
1 Apr 21
The show is all about tolerance. Creator Stephen Hillenburg had a degree in marine biology, and one of the jokes of the show is that Patrick, the starfish, is best friends with SpongeBob, when in “real life” one of the predators of a sponge is a starfish.
And then there’s that Texas squirrel living underwater, and a whale who has a crab for a father......
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@FourWalls (62181)
• United States
1 Apr 21
@CarolDM — from what I read, it’s just a couple of episodes they pulled, not the entire thing.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
1 Apr 21
@FourWalls Yes that is what I wrote above.
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@DocAndersen (54411)
• United States
1 Apr 21
There is a good and a bad side of Cancel culture (Sponge Bob was rated the most mindless cartoon by the National Education Association for many years).
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@DocAndersen (54411)
• United States
1 Apr 21
@CarolDM I would suspect that people don't like the move on option
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
1 Apr 21
@DocAndersen Unfortunately you are correct.
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@snowy22315 (170025)
• United States
1 Apr 21
I guess he will be going back to his pineapple and parking there for their foreseeable future.
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
31 Mar 21
I tell you their quest for stupidity never ends
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
31 Mar 21
@CarolDM Yes I also agree with you..just awful all this
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@MarshaMusselman (38659)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Apr 21
That is so weird. My daughter was into SpongeBob when she was younger.
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@MarshaMusselman (38659)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Apr 21
@CarolDM exactly. It's getting ridiculous.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
1 Apr 21
Is this why your picture is of him? Lol.
I used to like watching the show. It was actually what the fiance and i had on tv the first day we met when we went to the hotel to hang out . But i started not liking episodes few years ago. Just randomly dont even know why. Lol.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
1 Apr 21
@CarolDM ooh. Havent been around to see. Sorry.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
1 Apr 21
Not a fan of spongebob either. But this news really isn’t good news! I think the world is too sensitive!
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@RasmaSandra (73473)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Apr 21
You should have seen Spongebob when he was in Latvia he spoke Latvian lol Anyway I still love all kinds of drawn cartoons and never really got into the computer ones,
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