Bad Sponge

Bad Sponge
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob Square Pants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! SpongeBob Square pants!” Virginia Heffernan argues that these are the lyrics to a cartoon morally inappropriate for children. According to the author of the SpongeBob article on Slate.com this yellow sponge isn’t helping the upcoming society of children with moral lessons, but rather hindering them.
SpongeBob SquarePants is Nickelodeon’s, which is a cartoon network for kids, most watched animation. This show is in competition with Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Penguins of Madagascar. As the leading cartoon, what makes people watch the show? There are a number of things that attract viewers to this yellow sponge, besides his outrageous obnoxious laugh. When you first look at the show you see an addicting funny and cute sponge, but Virginia Heffernan quickly changes your thoughts of “what will this sponge do next?” to “who ever knew a sponge could be so misleading?” In the article written on Slate.com titled “Mark Twain Under the Sea: The moral Vision of Sponge Bob Square Pants”, the audience is directed to parents, and those who watch the show but are oblivious to its real meaning. Virginia Heffernan, the author, intended to reach out to the parents who have never paid attention to the show, but allow their kids to watch it and inform them of what their offspring are really viewing in this seemingly harmless animation. This article is meant to enlighten and spark opinions and discontinue the oblivious parenting.
Virginia Heffernan focuses on the fact that SpongeBob doesn’t contribute to the learning process of children. For instance individuals that a person would normally look up to in SpongeBob are bad influences on him. These so called wrong doers consisted of SpongeBob’s greedy boss Mr. Krabs; his blowzy, neurotic teacher Mrs. Puff; and his snobbish co-worker Squid ward Tentacles who happens to be the most accused of the cartoons that...