Hide and Then What Happens? (SpongeBob SquarePants)

"Hide and Then What Happens?" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from Season 7. In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick's game of hiding and seek goes downhill after SpongeBob can't find Patrick anywhere.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This episode has some of the laziest writing in the whole series. At least "You Don't Know Sponge" has a plot, while this episode suffers from not having a plot, as well as for dragging on some scenes for too long, making the entire episode filler.
 * 2) Flat and weak attempts at humor.
 * 3) * SpongeBob tries to explain how to play hide and seek to Patrick only for him to ask what is hide and seek, and this part of the episode drags on for a good solid three minutes.
 * 4) * At the end when SpongeBob says Patrick was under there the whole time, and Patrick responds “under where?”. Did a first grader write that joke?
 * 5) Just like in "You Don't Know Sponge", we know Patrick isn't smart, but this episode takes his stupidity up to eleven and it is annoying when Patrick keeps on forgetting what hide and seek is despite SpongeBob already teaching him how to play and acknowledging that they played it before.
 * 6) * Even worse, in the first 7 seconds of the episode, Patrick can’t even remember SpongeBob‘s name. SpongeBob, his best friend he had known since he was a baby! Did someone hit Patrick with a shovel 50 times for him to be this dumb?
 * 7) SpongeBob is annoying for yelling Squidward's name and running up to him and indirectly causing him to get locked out of his house.
 * 8) The infamous scene where SpongeBob asks Mrs. Puff if she's sure if she wants to play hide and seek while SpongeBob makes an obnoxious face is really annoying and extremely unfunny.
 * 9) The episode tries to do a fake-out showing that that isn’t Patrick at the café (because they revealed that Patrick was in his house the whole time) and someone who looks like Patrick and even his name "Patrick Not-Star" is uncreative.
 * 10) * In fact, Patrick Not-Star's design is a bit creepy.
 * 11) Out of nowhere moral that has nothing to do with the episode’s plot (which is non-existent), about that it’s okay to lose a game as long as you had fun playing. It's not necessarily a bad moral; it's a good moral, but it wasn't even the right moral for the episode.

Good Qualities

 * 1) There are some funny moments here and there such as
 * 2) * In the opening, after SpongeBob and Patrick greet each other, they silently stare at each other smiling for about thirty seconds, blinking occasionally.
 * 3) * "Welcome to the end of the world... cafe and gift shop."
 * 4) * Patrick Not-Star scene (depending on your view)
 * 5) Patrick was tolerable, unlike most episodes centered on him where he is portrayed as unlikable. Although, the only exception from him is how he constantly forgets what playing hide and seek is.
 * 6) The scene where SpongeBob takes Sandy's submarine to search for Patrick was engaging, mostly due to the song that played during it.
 * 7) While out of nowhere and had nothing to do with the plot of the episode (which is non-existent), it does have a good moral that it’s okay to lose a game as long as you had fun playing.

Trivia

 * 1) This episode was paired with "You Don't Know Sponge" on the same day that both episodes aired.
 * 2) It spawned the "Patrick Not-Star" meme.