How to give up SpongeBob SquarePants?

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I am 100% serious!! !

How do I stop watching this show/Nickelodeon as a whole?

The Sunk-Cost Fallacy is making it REALLY hard to give up SpongeBob!

What do you guys think?

Thanks in advance!

Well, what did you like about the show? The comedy? Maybe the characters? Or the setting? What made you start watching it to begin with?

Maybe there's another show that might appeal.

Is there a particular plot point that is keeping you invested?

Do you like the ocean? Is that an interest of yours?

Three seasons and the first movie then stop. How difficult is that?

^unfortunately, it's not that simple!! !

The Sunk-Cost Fallacy is preventing me from leaving the show!

It's the same reason why I am not particularly looking forward to being married

If it is not interfering with life, no need to stop.
If it is, consider your time as cost as well. If you really don't like it, no point in adding more time as a cost. You invested a lot, but no need to keep adding.

It is not a wasted cost, it gave you a lot of entertainment. That is never wasted.

Why does it interfere with your marriage? Afraid your future husband doesn't like it? If this is this much part of you, better discuss it. No need to abandon everything and change completely when living together. I hope you guys like each other for what you are.

^marriage and SpongeBob both relate to the Sunk-Cost Fallacy

That's the connection!

What originally attracted me to the show was the characters & setting mostly

At this point I no longer really care for the plots!! !

The ocean is nice I guess but I am not really interested in Marine Biology like Stephen Hillenburg was though

Just concerned about Nickelodeon's current state...

Does that answer your questions @Lost_dragon?

It does, yes.

Hmm. What are your thoughts on the musical?

perhaps try reading a book.

The ONLY thing that can kill SpongeBob at this point is the perishing or retirement of a main voice actor like Tom Kenny!! !

Alternatively, Nickelodeon losing interest in the show will also result in its cancellation!

SpongeBob SquarePants= Second form of final boss in video game "Paper Mario:The Thousand-Year Door"

You will understand why I am comparing the 2 once I explain my reasoning:

In Paper Mario during the 2nd phase of the fight against the Shadow Queen you CANNOT damage her at all!! !

It is only when Mario gains power from Princess Peach that he is able to successfully penetrate the Shadow Queen's defenses

SpongeBob in its current state is basically invincible unless and until we can find a way to break its seal & penetrate its defenses!

The Broadway musical was good but 100% unneccessary and most importantly it reeked of DESPERATION!! !

That was all the proof needed to rightfully accuse Nickelodeon/Paramount of over-reliance on this IP!

Do you agree that the Sunk-Cost Fallacy is the root cause of the whole issue?

I think that you want it to be.

There's a part of you that wants to stop watching because you think the quality is poor and no longer worth the time. However, it's a show that for the longest time was a major interest of yours. Perhaps even to the point that it partly defines you.

Maybe it feels like you're abandoning a part of yourself or that if you leave it now, the time you spent on it in the past will feel wasted.

I think that might be your problem. A different part of you doesn't want to give up on the show. It wants to find a reason that makes it impossible to give it up.

Look at it this way - let's say it is the sunk-cost fallacy. OK. What then? Let's say it isn't. What then? I think that you're asking the wrong question.

What I want to know is, what changes if you give up watching Spongebob? Would you still consider yourself a fan? Would you feel some sort of guilt for no longer watching?

For the record, if I'm correct in my speculation, I wouldn't consider the time you spent on this interest to be wasted if you stopped watching. Interests can change. You can still consider yourself to be a fan of something even if you don't like the later seasons or adaptations. No longer watching a show doesn't mean leaving it behind.

Hmm...

So you are saying I should give up on the new episodes/seasons ONLY?

What changes if I stop watching SpongeBob?

If I can defeat this now then once I get married it would become easier to evade the Sunk-Cost Fallacy!! !

In addition, this would mean no longer obsessing over the show's cancellation!

What do you think @Lost_dragon?

Not sure why you're so fixated on the "sunk coast fallacy" - but that's not what's going on here.

The issue is your ability to manage your own self-control, and deal with your own obsessions.

The "sunk cost fallacy" might be a convenient excuse, but even if it were the case, the solution to "overcome" it is still self-control and self-discipline.

Make a choice, and stick with it. Be sure you know why you're making the choice, and to what end.

In what way is watching Spongebob affecting your life negatively such that you feel compelled to "quit"?

Your compulsive nature is not unique or specific to just spongebob. You seem to have difficulty with impulse control in many aspects of your life, and often blame "sunk cost fallacy" when it's really just the conflict between obsession, and self-control.

I think that if you're having a difficult time giving up on the show, sticking to the older seasons (that you like) could be a potential option. So long as it isn't taking over your life.

However, I also think that you are comparing apples and oranges here. Both apples and oranges are great (in my opinion) but they're two different things that should be judged by different standards.

Ultimately, I think that you are overly fixated on making your life fit into a narrative. I understand why you're doing this. You're trying to make sense of complex topic but you might be approaching it from the wrong angle. You're drawing connections where there is no solid connection to be made.

If you try to approach / solve everything all at once, you will accomplish nothing. Trust me, I've had to relearn this particular moral multiple times in my life. It's better to approach things with an open mind rather than going into situations thinking this is how things are, this is how things will play out and I will find evidence to back up my worldview. If you go looking for a particular answer, you'll find it, but it'll be riddled with confirmation bias. When people really want something to be true, they'll find it is - regardless of accuracy.

Don't go in to this thinking that your decision regarding whether or not to watch Spongebob has anything to do with marriage. Approach those topics separately.

yeah I hear spongebob's really going downhilll,

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