Review: Spongebob Shorts “Can You Spare A Dime?: Puppet Edition!”

 

Overview 
The Pineapple Playhouse presents: Squidward is fired from the Krusty Krab after Mr. Krabs accuses him of stealing his very first dime; luckily his neighbor SpongeBob is there to take care of him…


Our Take

Once again we get another puppet-reenactment of a classic episode that’s pretty by-the-numbers as it makes the attempt to carefully replicate the episode shot-for shot this time with the animated version of the episode shown at the top-right side of the screen. In terms of production design while the colors and background textures are different for the stages they’re using for the Spongebob puppets. I’m surprised they still haven’t made anything original with them.

Overall another ok episode that leaves me to wonder why Nickelodeon hasn’t done any original episodes with these puppets? It’s creative how they’re replicating episodes, but they could’ve found other ways to use them other than just live-action reenactments of classic episodes.