Are they friends?

Are they friends?

Colleagues and neighbours.

But part of squidward guenuinly cares about sb, even if he can't stand him

are you sure?

When he stood up for him at the end of the pizza delivery episode

When he thought sb ate the pie bomb and hung out with him all day

Squidward does care

That's just Pre-Movie.

Remember the time his suicidal depression was cured by the feeling of killing paper mache SpongeBobs?

Or the time he read SpongeBob's diary aloud and didn't feel guilty for being a dick about it?

Dude's gone insane pham.

Lovers actually

WE

They can be. Usually when Squidward lets go of his animosity for Spongebob and just has fun, or when Spongebob helps Squidward without becoming infuriatingly obnoxious

GOTTA
Alternatively, "WUZ"

nothing after the first movie is canon

>Spongebob
>canon
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There is the Post-Movie episode where Squidward attacked a Yeti thinking it was Mr Krabs in a Yeti costume because Squidward thought that Spongebob wouldn't deserve Mr Krabs terrorizing him to work harder.

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(You)

What is this post/pre movie distinction? I never watched anything post-movie. Is it just really shitty, did they change the writing staff? Why the separation?

Immediate drop in animation quality, characters get flanderized hard, spongebob's voice becomes an unbearable high-pitched screech, and the writing and jokes just don't come anywhere close to pre-movie.

What happened? Everyone in charge got fired?

Not the same user, but iirc, the creator and a bunch of the original writers left after the movie, then eventually they were pretty much all gone.

Anyone else a fan of Marver?

The original creator Stephen Hillenburg left the show to focus on his marine biology passion. As executive producer, he still approved of the shitty post-movie scripts, but he clearly wanted to the show to end after the movie to begin with.

Now he's back and the quality has gone up a little, but it's still a really different show and not nearly as good as the classic seasons.