Food Con Castaways is a semi-infamous episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. In this episode, SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs get stranded while heading to a food convention.
Why It Deserves To Be A Castaway[]
The episode is considered to have a very similar feeling to some of the previous episodes, mostly the episodes are due to the same Kelp Forest background in most of the episode. It's similar to Club SpongeBob because the characters are stuck in the wilderness and Squidward is unable to eat something. It's similar to To Save a Squirrel because again, the characters are stuck in the wilderness and desperate for food. It's similar to Pineapple Fever because the character goes insane just over something to eat. Especially, it's very similar to A SquarePants Family Vacation because firstly, it starts with SpongeBob and Patrick annoying other passengers. Secondly, the story randomly turns to the characters are stuck in the wilderness where they can find the way out because the destination seems to be near to them. This causes viewers to feel as though they're just watching the same episode, they've already watched a dozen times, and therefore they get bored with the episode.
Also, in the road trip scene, there is a bit of mild Squidward torture with SpongeBob and Patrick messing around with the truck driver and getting away with it, and Squidward attempting to do the same and having/getting smoke blown in his face.
As well as that, the twist at the end makes no sense at all because the Judge just randomly likes the nature patties, despite being disliked by SpongeBob and others. And to top it all, when SpongeBob goes to tell the judge about the nature patty, Mr. Krabs clamps his mouth shut as usual and takes the cornucopia. Also, this "happy ending" twist is the one that's been done many times in the show making this unoriginal.
Redeeming Qualities[]
- "EVERYBODY PIPE DOWN!"
- The road sign jokes are funny, like "World's Least Exciting Sweater", where Patrick's parents apparently fell in love, and "Peep's Cliff".
- The Nature Patty idea was pretty creative.