I just realized that I haven't done a pre-movie SpongeBob episode. Heck, I haven't even done a good episode review. That's kinda sad, so I'll change that. But what episode do I review? I can't do a holiday special yet, and I haven't got any recorded. Aha! I'll do "Mimic Madness"! Wait, I don't have that one. Guess I'll have to settle with "Born Again Krabs".
"Born Again, Krabs?"
A review by Eric "2OldMen"
So it's closing time at the Krusty Krab. Squidward's happy as a clown (must be a Wednesday), SpongeBob's doin' a sad and finds a Krabby Patty under the oddly gross grill. It looks super disgusting. I watch these episodes on the TV, so I can't show a pic, but it's bad. Anyways, it's old as Mr. Krabs himself, but SpongeBob throws it away. Then Mr. Krabs goes crazy and takes it out of the trash. Mr. Krabs reassures SpongeBob that it's perfectly sellable. They then rhyme, and Krabs makes SpongeBob sell the old patty before he makes anymore.
We get the laziest timecard in the world, then Sponge gives Squid a nasty patty. No, not the nasty patty, a nasty patty. Squidward gives Customer #243216 the patty and, as it turns out, he used the new Out-Of-Nowhere gym classes to his advantage and fliped outta there.
Mr. Krabs blames the placemats on the absence of customers, but Squid says it's the patty. The patty is sentient, and as we saw in "Gone", sentient things always turn evil and try to kill you. Mr. Krabs then eats the patty and dies. The end.
Just kidding, he actually just gets a severe food poisoning. Mr. Krabs wakes up from his nap and ask the doctor what happened. The doctor then freaks out. I have no idea what the doctor was freaking out about. Then the Flying Dutchman, no, not a flying Dutchman, the Flying Dutchman. Mr. Krabs tells Dutchy that his name is Harold Flower. It works, then it doesn't. Dutchy wants to take him to David Jones's foot locker, as seen in "The Big One". He's taking Krabs there because he's frugal. Yes, all frugal men go to Hell, everybody. So buy, buy, buy; spend, spend, spend, that's what you have to do.
Krabs begs to Dutchy to not go to locker hell. Flying D. says that he's gotta be generous if he wants to live.
As Squid's commiting a felony by robbing the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs comes back (sadly). Mr. krabs decides that he's not gonna stop being cheap. He then becomes to chairitable for his own good. i've learned from my mistakes in my review of "Gone", and I'm not gonna list what Krabs does. Krabs then gets a bill that's real big. Mr. Krabs thinks that it's a dream. I'm gonna be real for a second when I day that we all spit out our mochas when we heard this for the first time, didn't we? Exactally. They tell him that it isn't a dream and he freaks out more than a 5 year old watching Friday the 13th.
He threatens to rip someones arm off. Dutchy comes back from the dead and is about to take Krabs to Hell- I mean David Jones's foot locker. SpongeBob Back-sassPants accuses Dutchy of getting the wrong Krab. Dutchy bets that Krabs wouldn't sacrivice SpongeBob for some cents. Krabs chooses SpongeBob and they live happily ever after. AHAHAHAHAHA, you thought I was tellign the truth? No! Of course he sells Back-sassPants's soul!
Squidward copies Back-sassPants's style and tells Mr. Krabs off for sellign Back-sass for less than a dollar. No, not the dollar, a dollar. Krabs regrets everything and gets Back-sassPants back after he learned his lesson. He also brought him back cause he's annoying. Mostly the ladder.
Now, for the ratings.
Story: 7.8/10 A slow climb to the inciting incident, yes, but the story is good with a great moral.
Characters: 10/10 Everyone is perfect.
Comedy: 8.3/10 This episode is funny, especially before he eats the patty.
Climax: 8.5/10 It shows Krabs is cheap, yes. But it does work out in the end.
Conclusion: 9.2/10 A real good moral topped with a funny ending.
Overall Rating: 9.4/10 Has real great comedy and characters. Probably the best thing to show someone who dislikes the older seasons to make 'em love them.