I don’t even like sports betting. I’m more into slots (specifically the older-style 3-reel slots) and roulette when it comes to gambling.
Oh that's creepy as hell. Absolutely report.
it always relaxes me. I love Twilight Princess so much.
because variety is nice.
grandma pls I don't think that's normally meant as a compliment askjfkljslkdlf
Yeah, you're definitely not wrong. I sort of fall into that 80% but just barely. I'm into most subgenres of rock more than anything.
Sports gambling is legal in Michigan, and yes, the overabundance of betting ads and stuff I hear and see is annoying. Honestly, I don't really care what odds are for certain things. All I want is to watch a game the ordinary way. Betting on pro sports isn't bad as long as there's no cheating involved (and lifetime bans are very much justified if athletes try to throw the system), but what I do have a major problem with is betting in college sports. I've heard instances of college athletes straight-up quitting for good because a single bad game caused them to receive death threats from random bettors who placed bets on them or their team. If I was in the athlete's shoes, I would definitely suffer mental breakdowns and hide from the public eye for a while. Now certain states are actually banning player prop bets for college sports due to this, but it would probably be for the best if college betting were eliminated altogether. It's all a hot mess. As far as I know, lost bets don't help school budgets in any way.
I rewatched parts of that episode just now to get a proper understanding of what it deals with, and oh boy is it uncomfortably dark. The message it ultimately tries to send was very poorly done and the ending was likely written in a way to try and prevent the episode from receiving too much criticism. For those that don't know, the episode deals with Timmy wishing he was never born, which causes Jorgen von Strangle to take him on a journey "Scrooged" style to show Timmy how different life would be if he never existed. Life in Dimmsdale turns out to be much better without him, and the climax has Timmy fall to his death right into a fiery pit. Out of nowhere, he randomly saves himself, and redos the wish given to him for free by Jorgen. The moral of the story was that it's totally fine for life to be imperfect with your existence, and bam. Happy ending. If someone were to watch the episode for the first time, I'm fairly certain that older viewers in general would be offended by the plot. Meanwhile, younger kids would only really laugh at the action sequences and feel good about the "laughing gas" featured in the episode to keep it somewhat light-hearted. Nickelodeon eventually realized that the message being sent was sort of wrong, and has not regularly aired the episode since due to moral guardian complaints. It is available on Paramount+, however.
That’s weird. Usually when an episode is banned, it would never be available for streaming. But yes, that episode is clearly the worst episode for any cartoon (even worse than A Pal for Gary and One Coarse Meal).
Yeah, those aren't very good season 7 episodes either. "A Pal for Gary" simply made no sense from a logical standpoint (Gary gets blamed for everything wrecked in the house despite several scenes where his "pal" is very clearly the one doing the damage), and "One Coarse Meal" was some randomly-made episode where Plankton suddenly has a huge fear of whales (Krabs' daughter Pearl). I particularly didn't like where Mr. Krabs made a full-body Pearl disguise suit later on just to get scares out of Plankton for his amusement.
omg I actually remember this episode, I haven't watched Fairly Odd Parents in years so idk how I remember it, but I do remember the part where everyone's lives are miraculously so much better when he's not around. I don't quite remember what I thought of it as a kid, I feel like I was simply humoured by it.
I just realized; there's a season 3 SpongeBob episode that was straight-up taken off TV rotation and is not even available on Paramount+. This being "Mid-Life Crustacean", and it was taken off due to a very specific inappropriate scene (if you've watched it, you know what I'm talking about) which Nickelodeon themselves found to not have aged well. This was a fairly recent decision, actually - instead of deleting the scene and ruining the joke, they simply declared the whole thing a banned episode in March 2022 and paired its original sister episode with one from season 7 instead. The only way you can watch "Mid-Life Crustacean" now is through the DVD releases.
