[8.2/10] Definitely a classic. The very concept of a pencil whose drawings come to life lends itself to the sort off the wall zaniness that SpongeBob specializes in. The initial part where SpongeBob and Patrick are just goofing around with it has a lot of the sort of casual goofiness that I enjoy from this show, particularly in the “two goofballs annoy strait-laced Squidward” vein.
But things pick up even more once the eponymous doodle show up. The very notion of SpongeBob and Patrick being terrorized by a living, scribbled doppelganger of SpongeBob is really fun. His nonsense word attacks are worth a laugh; the pencil-to-pencil combat of it all is creative, and the “trap him on paper” solution is clever.
This is also a great Patrick episode. There’s something about the way SpongeBob asks if Patrick is OK after two hits on the noggin with a bowling ball, only for Patrick to yell out “FINLAND!” that cracked me up. Also, the running gag about Patrick finding DoodleBob’s appearance creepy, while insisting that it looks fine on SpongeBob, was a laugh.
Overall, this is the type of over the top looniness that few shows do better than SpongeBob, with a creative conceit that lets the show find tons of interesting ways to pull off its Looney Tunes-style gags.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2019-10-19T14:31:49Z
[8.2/10] Definitely a classic. The very concept of a pencil whose drawings come to life lends itself to the sort off the wall zaniness that SpongeBob specializes in. The initial part where SpongeBob and Patrick are just goofing around with it has a lot of the sort of casual goofiness that I enjoy from this show, particularly in the “two goofballs annoy strait-laced Squidward” vein.
But things pick up even more once the eponymous doodle show up. The very notion of SpongeBob and Patrick being terrorized by a living, scribbled doppelganger of SpongeBob is really fun. His nonsense word attacks are worth a laugh; the pencil-to-pencil combat of it all is creative, and the “trap him on paper” solution is clever.
This is also a great Patrick episode. There’s something about the way SpongeBob asks if Patrick is OK after two hits on the noggin with a bowling ball, only for Patrick to yell out “FINLAND!” that cracked me up. Also, the running gag about Patrick finding DoodleBob’s appearance creepy, while insisting that it looks fine on SpongeBob, was a laugh.
Overall, this is the type of over the top looniness that few shows do better than SpongeBob, with a creative conceit that lets the show find tons of interesting ways to pull off its Looney Tunes-style gags.