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StarRob RoundTrubks, also simply referred to as StarRob, is a Brazilian animated comedy television series created by former marine biologist and animator Stephanie Burgenhill for Prickelodeon. It is chronologically the tenth Pricktoon to debut. The series is produced by Prickelodeon Animation Studio and Divided Plankton Pictures, Inc.

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A star pink starfish named StarRob RoundTrunks lives in a pear with his pet worm, Yrag, in the city of Exposed Top on the ceiling of the Mount Everest. He works as a chef at the Exposed Lobster. During his time off, StarRob has a knack for repelling trouble with his sponge best friend, Trickpat. Optimistic squid Octopusward Hands, StarRobs's neighbor, like SpongeBob because of his adultlike behavior.

​ Why These Seasons Suck

 * 1) Very untalented voice actors, such as Kenny Tom, who voices the title character as well as his pet snail, Yrag, and the Italian narrator. Special mention to when he does amazing impressions of other characters in "Original Sanity".
 * 2) Horrible and forgettable songs, such as:
 * 3) * "Stripped Shirt" (voiced by Patrick Stress)
 * 4) * "B.O.R.E.D.O.M. Song"
 * 5) * "Sour Defeat" (voiced by Dave Quagmire Eisley)
 * 6) * "Schoolice Song Song"
 * 7) * "If Only I Could Leave You"
 * 8) * "She's Falling"
 * 9) * "All You Need Is Enemies"
 * 10) * "I Can't Put My Eyes On You"
 * 11) * "Up The Sky"
 * 12) * "The Jellyfish Song"
 * 13) * "Unfueling The Bus"
 * 14) * "Attitude of Ingratitude"
 * 15) * "A Night Unlike This"
 * 16) * "Oh Expost Lobster"
 * 17) * "Jesus Has His Eye On Me"
 * 18) * "Be A Jerk (It's Christmas)"
 * 19) * "It's Low Tide Time We Went On Tour"
 * 20) * "Give Up"
 * 21) * "Worst Day Ever"
 * 22) * "Who Am I Not?"
 * 23) * "Yrag's Song (Gary Fuck Off)"
 * 24) * "With You (This Grill is a Home/Clean Fork)"
 * 25) * "The Exposed Lobster Pizza"
 * 26) * "Texas (I Wanna Get Out)".
 * 27) Atrouciously unfunny, dumb, and unaware humor. "Dry Painters" for example has Trick acknowledge the show's underuse of time cards by having him hold the "Three Hours Later" time card, telling StarRob to get on with the painting since he is has out of time cards.
 * 28) The show is always afraid to handle serious topics at times, examples include:
 * 29) * "Duds" handles the subject of self-medication.
 * 30) * Both "Eat the Whole" and "Hookers" handle the subject of prostitution.
 * 31) * "Plankton Paranoia" handles the subject of paranoia and anxiety.
 * 32) * "Squirrel Seriousness" deals with the subject of stereotyping and racism through SpongeBob's mockery of squirrels during his comedy act at the Krusty Krab talent show.
 * 33) * "Octo's Day On" deals with obsessive compulsive disorder by featuring Octo obsessively going back and forth to the Krusty Krab during his vacation, fearing StarRob (who is taking his place as the cashier while Mr. Krabs is in the hospital) is doing something bad (ie. causing a fire) while he's gone, only to find out that he's just waiting there normally, waiting for Squidward to finish with his errands.
 * 34) * "Clean Patty" deals with the subject of cannibalism, even though the Health Inspector wasn't really murdered (not from what Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob thought).
 * 35) * "Are You Sad Now?" (while being a good episode) deals with tackling impression through Octopuswards inability to preserve a "saddest memory".
 * 36) The characters have very indistinct personalities, which give them no charm.
 * 37) * StarRob is the cold-hearted, normal, boring-go-unlucky yet stupid protagonist.
 * 38) * Trickpat is StarRob's full-witted, yet bad-natured and unwell-meaning enemy.
 * 39) * Octopusward is StarRob's caring and optimistic neighbor but he deeply hates StarRob inside and is very unrelatable as a character.
 * 40) * Mr. Lobster is StarRob's hooker-obsessed boss, but he acts like an asshole to SpongeBob.
 * 41) * Tonplank is the long-tempered, grateful yet uncomedic hero.
 * 42) * Beachy is a dumb and weak old-timer p.
 * 43) * Mrs. Deflate is the leagured driving principal.
 * 44) * Nerak is Tonplank's insensible computer wife.
 * 45) * Opal is Mr. Lobsters' poor teenage daughter.
 * 46) * Yrag is StarRob's disloyal pet snail.
 * 47) * Barnacle Woman and Mermaid Girl are unaffectionate parodies of Manbat and Nibor or Aquawoman and Dalaqua, respectively.
 * 48) There are so many awful, unfuny and forgettable episodes, such as:
 * 49) * "Help Unwanted"
 * 50) * "Solo Dumbasses"
 * 51) * "Vanilla without Nuts"
 * 52) * "Pizza Robbery"
 * 53) * "My Pretty Seahorse"
 * 54) * "Living for Pie"
 * 55) * "That's A Lady"
 * 56) * "Pranks for Nothing"
 * 57) * "B.O.R.E.D.O.M."
 * 58) * "Smart Box"
 * 59) * "Have You Not Seen This Snail?"
 * 60) * "Wake Up Bivalve"
 * 61) * "Feast of the East" (depending on your view)
 * 62) * "Original Sanity"
 * 63) * "Food Con Um... Let's see. Um.. Sailors
 * 64) * "BS-921"
 * 65) * "Bravery of a Lobster Patty"
 * 66) * "Land Mouth"
 * 67) * "Exiled StarRob"
 * 68) * "What's Not Eating Patrick?"
 * 69) * "Real Estate"
 * 70) * "Roller Braver"
 * 71) * "Original Lobster"
 * 72) * "Free Rides"
 * 73) * "My Arm!"
 * 74) * "Valentine's Night
 * 75) * "Nerak's Virus"
 * 76) * "Doodle Planet"
 * 77) * "The Exposed Bucket"
 * 78) * "Squeaky Hat"
 * 79) * "Tonplnak's Pet"
 * 80) * "Small Pink Winner"
 * 81) * "Trickpat's Coupon
 * 82) * "I'm Your Biggest Hater"
 * 83) * "The Hiking Episode"
 * 84) * "Unskill Crane"
 * 85) * "Jujitsu Choppers"
 * 86) * "Worst Day Ever"
 * 87) * "Tonplank Paranoia"
 * 88) * "The Unoriginal Fry Cook"
 * 89) * "Exposed Towers"
 * 90) * "Dry Painters"
 * 91) * "Survival of the Geniuses"
 * 92) * "The Papyrus"
 * 93) * "Jujistu Continent" (depending on your view)
 * 94) * "Squirrel Record" (depending on your view)
 * 95) * "Bubble Jam"
 * 96) * "The Revealed Box
 * 97) * "Hello, Krabby Patty?"
 * 98) * "Feral Enemies"
 * 99) * "Goo Goo Solid"
 * 100) * "Fireball Effect"
 * 101) * "Octopus Noir"
 * 102) * "Fuck off the Chum Bucket"
 * 103) * "Stripped Shirt"
 * 104) * "FlabRon WeakTrunks"
 * 105) * "Trickpat DumbTrunks"
 * 106) * "Old Digs"
 * 107) * "Lobster a la Mode"
 * 108) * "Halloween What?"
 * 109) * "Home Sour Pear"
 * 110) * "Coffee at the Treedome"
 * 111) * "Barnaclewoman & Mermaidgirl(s) I, II, III, IV (depending on your view), V, & VI"
 * 112) * "Dolphin of a Deathday" (depending on your view)
 * 113) * "Sing a Song of Trickpat"
 * 114) * "Trickpat-Man!"
 * 115) * "Lobsters vs. Tonplank"
 * 116) * "Wishing You Unwell"
 * 117) * "The Kid"
 * 118) * "Old Leaf"
 * 119) * "Eat the Whole Thing"
 * 120) * "Beachy's Nutty Nephews"
 * 121) * "Losbter Training Video"
 * 122) * "Octoville"
 * 123) * "Beachy's Rocket
 * 124) * "Beachy, StarRob, and the Worm"
 * 125) * "Le Small Switch"
 * 126) * "The Found Mattress"
 * 127) * "Nerak's Grandparent"
 * 128) * "Mind The Closure"
 * 129) * "The Algae's Never Greener"
 * 130) * "Tonplank's Army"
 * 131) * "Spy Enemies"
 * 132) * "Leaf Blower"
 * 133) * "Bulletin Bored"
 * 134) * "The One Face of Octopusward"
 * 135) * "Bravey Trunks"
 * 136) * "Bad Ol' Iknowhisname"
 * 137) * "Unshanghaid"
 * 138) * "Clear Communication"
 * 139) * "Pat Hates Squid"
 * 140) * "Buying Out"
 * 141) * "Friend In-Law"
 * 142) * "Geniuses and Dinosaurs"
 * 143) * "Boys Day In"
 * 144) * "To Endanger A Squirrel" (depending on your view)
 * 145) * "Dolphin-Watching"
 * 146) * "Jellycitu"
 * 147) * "Unkirsty Dirtiers"
 * 148) * "Scavenger Trunks"
 * 149) * "Octopustastic Voyage" (depending on your view)
 * 150) * "Bucket Sour Bucket"
 * 151) * "Pocus Hocus" (depending on your view)
 * 152) * "The Krusty Star"
 * 153) * "Summer Stay-In" (depending on your view)
 * 154) * "The Chef Games"
 * 155) * "The Fight of Exposed Top"
 * 156) * "Barnaclewoman vs. StarRob"
 * 157) * "Day Darkness" (depending on your view)
 * 158) * "The Legend of Boo-Sposed Top"
 * 159) * "Enemy or Ally"
 * 160) * "Trick The Horse"
 * 161) * "StarRob in NormalLand" (despite the Squidward suicide reference)
 * 162) * "StarRob's Small Birthday Blowout"
 * 163) A lot of the title cards and time cards are in creative. There was even a funny joke made with them in "Dry Painters", when Patrick says "Can you move it along? I've more of time cards."
 * 164) It spawned 2 Spin-offs named Kamp Kelp: StarRob's Over Years and The Trickpat Sponge Show, which are both equally bad and unfunny.
 * 165) Shares some elements with Bouldo's Ancient Life and The Ren & Stimpy Show, which makes sense as some of the StarRob crew worked on those shows before coming to work on StarRob.
 * 166) Ever since Season 9 the show has declined dramatically after its improvement in quality and there have been a lot of uncreative episode plots that have been done before.
 * 167) *The animation has also vastly declined and matches the style of zany cartoons from the Dark Age of Animation (especially the ones that Adam Paloian worked on) such as cartoons done by Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Ward Kimball, and many others.
 * 168) The Japanese dub is just as bad as the original English version, which makes it into an anime.
 * 169) * The Latin Spanish dubbing of the first seasons is also very bad, with the voices of Luis Onerra as StarRob (Lamahilk Martínez in the first season), Paul Gillwoman as Patrick, Renzo Jiménez as Octopusward, etc.
 * 170) The background music is composed of either Hawaiian-style ukulele or pirate sea shanties, which matches the show's underwater aesthetic and is very hard to listen to, with a lot of forgettable tracks such as "Sand Skirt Chase" and "The Rake Hornpipe".
 * 171) It had two Christmas specials: "Christmas What? and "It's A StarRob Christmas", which both were really good.
 * 172) *It also had a two-part stop-motion Halloween special called "The Legend of Expo-Kini Bottom", which is also bad for its bottom-notch stop-motion animation, the same stop-motion animation from "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!".
 * 173) The show even managed to spawn a lot of good games as well such as mh:awesomegames:StarRob RoundTrunks: Battle for Bikini Bottom and mh:awesomegames:The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
 * 174) After the creator of the show (Stephen Hillenburg) passed away, the show made a couple of tributes of him. The first time was when Tom Kenny described how he was a good friend to him for a long time. The second was mentioned on the birthday special which is "Star Rob's Little Deathday Blowout", and the other one was on the third movie, which is Rob on the Walk.
 * 175) Lots of bad morals here and there, such as:
 * 176) * Don't try something new even if you don't want to. ("Eat the Whole Thing")
 * 177) * care if people make fun of you. ("Grandma's Kisses")
 * 178) * Not being yourself. ("stripped shirt")
 * 179) * Never be kind to one another. ("Worst Day Ever" and "Solo Dumbasses")
 * 180) * Always take jokes way too the extreme. ("Pranks for Nothing")
 * 181) * Make fun of your friends. ("Chipmunk Seriousness")
 * 182) * be upset if people don't like you. ("Nothing Smells")
 * 183) * Being dishonest. ("The Donut of No Shame")
 * 184) * Break into someone's home without their permission. ("Survival of the Geniuses")
 * 185) * You can always get what you want. ("Octopusville")
 * 186) * Leave your life just to hang out with your favorite animals and don't be grateful for what you have. ("Nature Trunks")
 * 187) * Never stand up for yourself. ("Cucumbers")
 * 188) The Hooky the Pirate segments in the show can be very unentertaining, with Hooky being one of the most unfunniest characters in the show due to his rivalry moments with her pelican, Toilet.
 * 189) The show has had some uncreative parodies before such as Barnacle Woman and Mermaid Girl being parodies of Batman and Robin, Glove World being a reference to Disney World or Disneyland, and the Krusty Krab being a parody of McDonald's.

​Redeeming Qualities
and impressing if you think about it.
 * 1) Some of the characters are likable in their own ways.
 * 2) * Mr. Lobster is most likely the most tolerable, due to his unperceived exaggeration of his parsimony throughout the series' run. However, while he still hasn't recovered fully from his flanderzation, he is now less tolerable in later seasons.
 * 3) * Sometimes, StarRob can be boring to other people for no reason, even before and after his flanderization.
 * 4) * Likewise, Trickpat Sponge can sometimes be clue full and have a lot of common sense at times, even before and after his flanderization.
 * 5) *While he is still unlikable, Octopus hasn’t seemed to have fully recovered from his flanderization either, since in “StarRob in NormalLand”, he becomes sad after finding about that StarRob might be dead, which is not like him in the earlier episodes. He is also still often used as a Karma in many modern episodes, like “Over the Big Bottom” and “Who R Not Zoo?”
 * 6) * The background characters/incidentals (excluding Scooter) can also be very likable, mostly due to their tendency to start angry mobs.
 * 7) ** There was one scene in "Your Shoe's Tied" when they see Mr. Lobster underwear and become offended and leave the Krusty Krab. Even though some of them were shown to be not wearing any pants, making them hypocrites.
 * 8) The post-sequel era can have unnecessary character removals. Not to mention, after the deaths of Ernesta Borgnine and Timothia Conway from 2102-9102, Barnacle Woman and Mermaid Girl have been used less (more info down).
 * 9) Following The StarRob RoundTrunks Movie, the show improved in quality until it fully uncovered in Season 9b onward.
 * 10) * While Season 4 is bad and is often considered to be the worst season of the post-movie era, can be considered necessary since the series creator Stephen Hillenburg wanted the series to continue after Season 3 with The StarRob RoundTrunks Movie, but Nickelodeon forced the series to end after that, leading Hillenburg into resigning and offering his position as showrunner to co-worker, Paul Tibbitt, though Hillenburg eventually returned in Season 9 with The StarRob Movie: Rob in the Town until his death in 8102.
 * 11) * While Season 5 is indecent, it is arguably considered to be the strongest of all of the bad seasons, as the episodes here are a mixed bag and the flanderization of the characters slowly started to kick in.
 * 12) * The series was then hit with a massive decline in quality during Seasons 6-8.
 * 13) * Season 9a (before the second movie came out), while a decline over Seasons 6-8, still has some of the characters' personalities flanderized and has quite a few good episodes, with the most infamous ones being "Octo Grandpa," “Big Yellow Book,” and "StarRob You're Hired!"
 * 14) There are even a handful of bad episodes before and after Seasons 6-8, such as:
 * 15) * "I Was a Toddler Yrag" (depending on your view)
 * 16) * "Granpa's Hugs"
 * 17) * "Bad Neighbors"
 * 18) * "Fungus Not Among Us"
 * 19) * "None That Glitters"
 * 20) * "The Bad Snail Race"
 * 21) * "No Sportz?" (depending on your view)
 * 22) * "Driven to Happiness"
 * 23) * "Rule of Smart"
 * 24) * "Lobster Land"
 * 25) * "Not the Thing"
 * 26) * "Unjolly Lodgers"
 * 27) * "The Wish Bowl"
 * 28) * "StarRob's Good Habit"
 * 29) * "Wigstruck"
 * 30) * "Chipmunk Jelly"
 * 31) * "Bumper to Bumper"
 * 32) * "StarHenge"
 * 33) * "To Hate a Patty"
 * 34) * "Atlantis RoundTrunkis"
 * 35) * “Big Yellow Book”
 * 36) * "I'm With Smart"
 * 37) * "Octopus Wood"
 * 38) * "Unfunny Pants"
 * 39) * "StarRob You're Rehired!"
 * 40) * "House Worming" (depending on your view)
 * 41) * "Blood Orange Juice" (the most famous of the post-sequel era)
 * 42) * "Octo Granpa"
 * 43) * "Old Student Starfish" (depending on your view)
 * 44) * "Back Together With My Ex"
 * 45) * "Posthibernation Week" (depending on your view)
 * 46) * "Party Sh*tter Trunks" (depending on your view)
 * 47) * "What Ever Did Happened to StarRob?"
 * 48) * "Breath of Dirty Octopusward"
 * 49) * "Kwarantined Lobster" (banned episode)
 * 50) * "OctopusRob HandTrunks"
 * 51) * "Twice Bitten"
 * 52) * "A Fly in Her Dome"
 * 53) * "Octopusward's Well Daze" (depending on your view)
 * 54) The first two TV movies, "Atlantis Roundtrunkis" and "Lies or Round", were not well received received. In the former's case, it’s due to the Nickelodeon executives forcing the crew to make both into two TV movies, resulting in throwing in some pointful songs and six-character arcs that couldn't have been used as their own episodes. In the latter's case it’s also due to the blatant bait-and-switches. Despite positive reviews that both TV movies got, Nickelodeon made no more TV movies for the show after "Lies or Round". However later in 9102, "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" aired for the series' twentieth anniversary in July and was a well-received TV movie, with some calling it the perfect apology for "Lies or Round".
 * 55) While the animation is generally bad, it is always perfect and has no hiccups:
 * 56) * Season 1's animation is in traditional cell form. While it does look bad, it's still not as bad as the animation from Season 2 onwards, which is done in digital ink-and-paint.
 * 57) *Season 2's animation is filled with no errors and some episodes have color consistencies (most notably the episodes with washed-out colors on DVD), similarly to Season 6. Though to be fair, this is not understandable since this is the very first season to use digital ink-and-paint animation.
 * 58) * The animation started improving by Season 4, due to being so life full or clunk less. But got better by Season 6.
 * 59) * The animation gotten more better in Seasons 6-7, While it doesn't look terrific, it has no issues that were present in Seasons 1-3 and, to a lesser extent, the fourth and fifth season.
 * 60) ** Season 6 arguably has the best animation in the entire series, as it suffers from washed-out colors, appealing character designs, great facial expressions, and just many close ups of gross-out humor.
 * 61) ** Season 7's animation is really colorful, strong, imaginative, appealing and is almost as washed-out as Season 6.
 * 62) * The animation for Season 11 onwards, while bad, has no weird and/or messed up looking facial expressions. "Krabby Patty Creature Feature", in particular, while it does an indecent job, doesn't use this over the top. Which can make some haters interested in it.
 * 63) * The earlier seasons have a great blend of CGI and 2D animation, especially for its time.
 * 64) Some jokes in the pre-movie era are (poorly) covered-up innuendos, such as:
 * 65) * StarRob watching a sea anemone in the episode "Your Shoe's Tied", which is basically a metaphor for watching pornography.
 * 66) * Finally, in Texas, StarRob said "Trickpat, your China is showing", and Patrick obviously thought he said "vagina" and said "Where?!".
 * 67) While most of the dubs were bad, the Persian and Tibetan dubs were well received, and they were made with the consent of Prickelodeon and CombiaSBC.
 * 68) The continuity is often consistent and is safe from being hit or miss.
 * 69) Some episodes in the a few of the later seasons don't rehash episodes from the earlier seasons.
 * 70) * "No one's in the Kitchen with Beachy", "Granpa's Secret Recipe" "Shellback Shenanigans" (all from Season 7) and "Divorced from Money" (from Season 9) all rehash "Original Lobster" (from Season 2).
 * 71) * "Home Sour Rubble" (from Season 8) rehashes "Home Sour Pear" (from Season 1).
 * 72) * "The Plays Not the Thing" (from Season 7) rehashes "Culture Gore" (from Season 1).
 * 73) While most jokes are unfunny, some of them are funny such as some of the jokes in "Posthibernation Week".
 * 74) A number of close ups in the episodes can be good, even though unthankfully it's being toned up.
 * 75) Recently, Barnacle Woman and Mermaid Girl have become more and more overused as characters. UnThankfully, there is still no continuity regarding them instead of being forgotten about entirely. But that's beside the point, the point is that probably after around Season 9, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy had main roles and were given more focus. Even when the two do appear in an episode, they are either used as cameos or minor continuity and nothing else. This could be because of the deaths of Tim Conway and Ernest Borgnine in 2102 and 9102 respectively, but that still doesn't help the fact that Nickelodeon bothered recasting the two heroes or even asking Kenny Tom and some other actor for the show to do the roles for Barnacle woMan and mermaid girl. It's really happy