Why does this show only have 211 episodes? Shouldn't it

I guess Nickelodeon mostly just prefers to rerun old episodes into the ground. I haven't been keeping up, but last I checked, they were treating the premier of every new episode as some kind of "exclusive special event! catch the BRAND NEW EPISODE of Spongebob Squarepants ONLY at 6:00, 7:00 central!" As though a new episode of a show is supposed to be some rare special thing that only occurs once in a blue moon, and as though there's any reason to expect they for some reason won't rerun that episode for years to come like all the rest. If I didn't suspect they just get all their entertainment from the internet anyway, I'd feel sorry for kids today and the way children's tv networks treat them and their shows.

I know it's just cheaper to rerun old shit and that presenting a new episode rarely as a special event is good for getting a spike in ratings, but it still feels like such a shitty thing to do to treat the consumers like morons, even if they are.

>>91919460
it's got 211 Half Hours: outside of a few half hour specials (and some hour specials and some random halfsized shorts) most half hours have 2 11-minute episodes: so by those standards, it doesn't have exactly 422 11-minute episodes, but it's got a similar number

>>91919460
they reduce the output so they can focus entirely on the quality of the finished product.

>>91919460
I think they stretched season 3 for a few years so they could work on the movie. I think they stretched out season 9 for a few years too.

>>91921091
yeah: season 3 had finished production in 2002, but the last 7 half hours (2 of the half hour specials and 10 11-minute epsiodes) were stretched out during 03-04
meanwhile with season 9, production was straight up halted in 2013 after only 11 of the 26 half hours were produced for the 2nd movie (with 2 of those half hours stretched over 14-15) and didn't resume production until either late 2014 or early 2015 (with a lot of changes; with a lot of the boarders and writers having left for other shows, mainly Uncle Grandpa, Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli replacing Paul Tibbit as showrunners, and the show switching from board-driven to script driven)

>>91921091
That's a good thing, since season 3 had some real duds that nobody remembers because they aired so late.

>>91921488
Which duds?

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>>91920918
>contemporary SBSP
>quality

>>91921522
not that guy, but the episodes that premiered in 03-04 (I agree that some were duds, but others were actually pretty good) were:
Gary Takes a Bath (Actually a season 2 episode; it had spent some time as DVD exclusive)
Ugh (aka Spongebob BC)
The Great Snail Race
Mid-Life Crustacean
Born Again Krabs
I Had an Accident
Krabby Land
The Camping Episode
Missing Identity
Plankton's Army
The Sponge Who Could Fly (The "Lost Episode")
SpongeBob Meets the Strangler
Pranks a Lot

>>91921543
I agree but I also see where he's coming from (as post 2nd movie stuff is better than post movie)

>>91920918
hah

Probably because a few episodes takes at least 9 months to make. At least that's what I heard.

>>91921625
I'd say the only duds on that list are Ugh, The Sponge who Could Fly, and maybe Gary Takes a Bath. Everything else seems pretty solid.

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>>91921625
>spongebob meets the strangler
>a dud

>>91924285
that's all cartoons in general (and the current co-showrunner vincent waller mentioned on twitter that nowadays it's closer to 5 months)