Opinions on Nickelodeon

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What is everyone's opinions on Nickelodeon?

Too over-reliant on and obsessed with SpongeBob SquarePants!

It was good in the 90s and 2000s. Now it sucks.

I remember hearing somewhere that Nickelodeon implemented a rule that if a show isn't an instant hit, it won't last more than two seasons. That's probably why most recent Nickelodeon shows (with the exception of The Loud House) have been canceled early. I feel like they want every show to mirror SpongeBob's success.

If this policy is indeed real, it's very unfair and inefficient. Not every show can be an instant hit. Even a lot of long-runners were not instant hits. The Simpsons didn't get big until its second season. (The first season of that show is filled with weird characterizations of the characters that don't match those of later seasons.)

The sad and horrible truth is that SpongeBob SquarePants (or rather the success of SpongeBob SquarePants) ruined Nickelodeon!! !

They need to CANCEL it!

SpongeBob noticeably declined in quality after the fifth season. The sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons contain a lot of bad, unfunny episodes. The ninth season was better than the previous three, but I think SpongeBob has still worn out its welcome.

Fairly OddParents had an even worse seasonal rot than SpongeBob, and possibly one of the worst in all of TV history. A lot of people stopped watching it after Poof was born, but IMO the real decline in quality started around the seventh and eighth seasons, when they started getting rid of almost all of the show's secondary characters so they could focus on Timmy's dad and Mr. Crocker (and later Foop). It declined even more drastically in the last two seasons. In the ninth season, they introduced Sparky the fairy dog, who was not well-received by the fans, to say the least. The tenth and final season introduced Chloe, who broke many of the show's canon rules, such as the rule that fairy godparents were only assigned to miserable children (Chloe lived an implausibly perfect life and was definitely not miserable). The last batch of episodes were animated in cheap-looking Flash. By the time it was canceled permanently in 2018, the show was completely unwatchable.

There is hope for Nick though next year if the new cartoon "Rock Paper Scissors" performs well AND can prove to be worthy of long-term viewer retention like how SpongeBob SquarePants is currently then Nickelodeon may have found the true successor to SpongeBob!! !! !! !! !

The only way for Nick to get better and fully recover is to drop the sponge!

This is what has to be done

I love SpongeBob SquarePants but there is absolutely NO denying that the show/IP caused a lot of irreversable damage to Nickelodeon!

IDk I guess growing up I watched a number of nickelodeon shows. I remember when I was like very young they had like obstacle courses and such it would have kid contestants run through and such...they do not have that anymore that is for sure and haven't for a long while, but I do remember that from when I was like 5 or 6..

But yeah I guess kids including me liked nickeldeon content, but it certainly changed over time. As for spongebob that show has gone downhill, I still like a lot of the older episodes though.