The Patrick Star Show is clearly what I thought it would be as I watched the first episode. This is once again why Stephen Hillenburg didn't want any spin-offs from SpongeBob SquarePants. But Nickelodeon always uses marketing as an excuse to their advantage to do it anyway.
Now that I got the elephant out of the room, what is this show like? It's just Patrick being a dingus for 11 minutes. There's never really an actual story for each episode. There's not even a joke that I found funny either. It was announced officially that this show would have no rules and it tries to do that random = funny concept, and it is just poorly executed. Patrick can basically just do whatever he wants in a reality where anything can happen, and it's confusing and boring. This show has no grounds or boundaries and the fact that Nickelodeon wanted to say that this show would have no rules just tells me how much they're not even trying anymore.
Modern-day Patrick isn't even funny in general as seen in the original SpongeBob show. But here he only has one trait and it's being obnoxiously dumb. The other characters are all wrong. Patrick's family are all breaking continuity even for a stand-alone series. We all know that these aren't Patrick's parents since we met his real parents in the original show. His adopted sister Squidina is a bit annoying and we've met Patrick's big sister Sam in the original show. Sure, he did once say he didn't have a sister in the classic seasons but the way the original show went made him and also the audience realize that he did have a lost sister all that time. And why is this show even a spin-off if it uses the same cast just as recurring roles? SpongeBob, Squidward, Plankton, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Gary, Pearl, and even characters like Man Ray all appear regularly in this show, it lacks originality. If I haven't said it enough every new character mostly from Patrick's "family" are just starfish clones who act just as obnoxious and unfunny as Patrick himself.
Anyway, the animation is even a problem. This show does the same thing I hate about the animation in the modern episodes of the original SpongeBob series. There are just way too many overly exaggerated facial expressions and close ups on characters for no reason without even catching a break. This makes the show visually far too absurd to watch since Patrick is already bouncing off the walls continuously. We just can't have an animation style that calms itself down.
Despite Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, the voice acting is sub-par. Some characters just sound straight up annoying and some just sound like you've heard them several times elsewhere in the original series. There's nothing really creative even about the voices in this show.
And this can't be seen as a show inside of a show when characters are made to look younger if this is what the show was trying to go for instead of a literal prequel. If it is meant to be a prequel, then it fails because of the noted continuity errors.
This whole show just feels like a slap in the face to SpongeBob fans, Stephen Hillenburg, and people who loved Nickelodeon two decades ago. This just shows how less Nickelodeon could care about their cartoon creators and more about the money. It's such a shame that nobody will just wake up already.
Now that I got the elephant out of the room, what is this show like? It's just Patrick being a dingus for 11 minutes. There's never really an actual story for each episode. There's not even a joke that I found funny either. It was announced officially that this show would have no rules and it tries to do that random = funny concept, and it is just poorly executed. Patrick can basically just do whatever he wants in a reality where anything can happen, and it's confusing and boring. This show has no grounds or boundaries and the fact that Nickelodeon wanted to say that this show would have no rules just tells me how much they're not even trying anymore.
Modern-day Patrick isn't even funny in general as seen in the original SpongeBob show. But here he only has one trait and it's being obnoxiously dumb. The other characters are all wrong. Patrick's family are all breaking continuity even for a stand-alone series. We all know that these aren't Patrick's parents since we met his real parents in the original show. His adopted sister Squidina is a bit annoying and we've met Patrick's big sister Sam in the original show. Sure, he did once say he didn't have a sister in the classic seasons but the way the original show went made him and also the audience realize that he did have a lost sister all that time. And why is this show even a spin-off if it uses the same cast just as recurring roles? SpongeBob, Squidward, Plankton, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Gary, Pearl, and even characters like Man Ray all appear regularly in this show, it lacks originality. If I haven't said it enough every new character mostly from Patrick's "family" are just starfish clones who act just as obnoxious and unfunny as Patrick himself.
Anyway, the animation is even a problem. This show does the same thing I hate about the animation in the modern episodes of the original SpongeBob series. There are just way too many overly exaggerated facial expressions and close ups on characters for no reason without even catching a break. This makes the show visually far too absurd to watch since Patrick is already bouncing off the walls continuously. We just can't have an animation style that calms itself down.
Despite Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, the voice acting is sub-par. Some characters just sound straight up annoying and some just sound like you've heard them several times elsewhere in the original series. There's nothing really creative even about the voices in this show.
And this can't be seen as a show inside of a show when characters are made to look younger if this is what the show was trying to go for instead of a literal prequel. If it is meant to be a prequel, then it fails because of the noted continuity errors.
This whole show just feels like a slap in the face to SpongeBob fans, Stephen Hillenburg, and people who loved Nickelodeon two decades ago. This just shows how less Nickelodeon could care about their cartoon creators and more about the money. It's such a shame that nobody will just wake up already.