You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy?
The mental retardation that is Sponge Bob Square Pants.
After all, he does live in a pineapple under the sea.
SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS
Is it harmless? Or is it the end of civilization as we know it.
Amazingly, someone wasted someone elses money to study the affects of Sponge Bob Square Pants on the development of children under 6.
Why not do a study on what happens when pre scholers lick a hamster?
Why not waste some money to see if high school boys will make prank phone calls or look up girl’s skirts going up the escalator at the mall?
Give me a damn break.
Are these people who waste money on studies like this the same people who will tell me that coffee is bad for me after telling me last week that coffee is good for me?
Sponge Bob Square pants study. What a joke.
In part, it’s what’s wrong with this world. I pisses me off that we are wasting time and money on this issue instead of balancing the budget or getting starving kids in Africa something to eat.
According to a new study in the Journal of Pediatrics, experts are questioning how the cartoon affects the young developing mind.
It’s called the BOOB TUBE people! It’s always been the anti-christ of mental development.
So this study surprises you why?
Sponge Bob Square Pants is one of the most popular kid shows ever. He is certainly one of the squarest.
Nickelodian officials are quick to point out that SBSP is meant for kids over six years of age. I think that a more reflective study would be at the university level where the SBSP crowd is in college doing bong hits. Something tells me the pineapple denizen is seriously messing with their mental development as well.
Dr. Angeline Lilliard is a professor at the University of Virginia. She says; “We do know that immediately after watching such shows a four year old’s ability to think and learn is compromised.”
My ability to think and learn is compromised after drinking carbonated soda too fast. I think I burp much need brain cells into the troposphere.
Experts say the pacing is so fast, that kids are too wound up to focus right after viewing.
That’s what they said about MTV before it became a platform for guidos in a hot tub.
“Too wound up?” A twinkie with powdered sugar will have the same effect on a 4 year old.
ABC News compared Spnge Bob Square Pants to a cartoon called Cailous where scenes last 34 seconds on average. Watching this show is painful, like watching a homeless man wash his underarms in a McDonalds restroom sink.
Compare this to SBSP where scenes change ever 11 seconds. That’s animation on crack. Sponge Bob Square Pants is the Jaguar of the animated jungle.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, Kids who watched just nine minutes of the fast-paced cartoon did worse on tasks requiring focus and self-control than did kids who watched a slow-paced cartoon and kids who entertained themselves by coloring.
I guess if we want to create a cure for cancer we better keep all the clinical researchers away from Nickelodian.
According to producers – the pineapple people under the sea are not designed to stimulate developing brains, the cartoon is designed to entertain.
PERIOD
I am not sure why they have singled out SBSP. Do they hate sponges with squeaky voices? Are they discriminating against creatures that breathe water?
I cannot say that SBSP is any more harmful to children than the Road Runner cartoons were to our generation?
I thought the ACME Co. was somewhere in Nazi Germany where they developed explosives and contraptions that injure. How healthy was this?
Honestly, is Bugs Bunny good TV? The premise is a wise cracking rabbit running from a chronically pissed Elmer Fudd constantly blasting him with a shot gun. You call this good mental health?
Come to think of it, what cartoon was good for us?
The Justice League? Nothing but violence complete with superheroes with bulging man parts.
Tom and Jerry? PLEASE! The cat and mouse hated each other. They bang each other with hammers and burn each other with fire and squeeze each other in vices. The anger is so ferocious, it makes the Palestinian / Israeli conflict seem like the Love Boat.
So if your kid is not ready for Sponge Bob Square Pants, don’t feel bad, I wouldn’t exactly say Fat Albert was visual brain food for our generation.
And if you don’t like it, then put something more suitable on the TV. It’s not the fault of Nickelodeon for being fast paced and creatively irreverent; its the fault of parents for dumping their kids in front of the boob tube, subjecting their kids to the equivalent of televised psilocybin.
And that is Crazy.