Gone (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Gone is the fourth episode of the sixth season of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Plot
SpongeBob wakes up to find Bikini Bottom deserted.

Why It Should be Gone

 * 1) This is a very cruel SpongeBob torture episode as he is treated as the victim.
 * 2) All of the characters (except for poor SpongeBob) are unlikable and mean-spirited in this episode as they abandoned SpongeBob and going as far to burn a statue of him, meaning they want to kill him, everyone treated him as he never existed before or they just didn’t care about him and they thought it was ok to abandon SpongeBob and they were selfish too as they don’t bring SpongeBob on the trip just because he has flaws.
 * 3) * While it’s understandable for Squidward and Mrs. Puff to abandon SpongeBob, but it’s very cruel of other characters to treat him like this especially Patrick who is literally his best friend and the reasoning on why they left him is because he’s annoying and basically saying that everyone deserves a break from him but in reality he’s a nice person.
 * 4) **Speaking of which, this episode is an early sign of Patrick's flanderization.
 * 5) * Even if one can understand this high douche level move of all of the Bikini Bottomites for driving spongebob to (as Far Cry 3's Vaas said) the definition of insanity via pointing out how seasons 6b & 7 have the title character being an annoying dumbass, what they did to the sponge is beyond cruel. As said above some of the nicer characters like Sandy ditch him because he’s annoying, despite SpongeBob not doing anything harmful to her.
 * 6) * It's also possible that SpongeBob's own Grandmother and Parents also went with the Bikini Bottomites which would also make the episode even MORE cruel to SpongeBob.
 * 7) The moral is cruel to kids because it’s basically teaching kids how it’s ok to abandon someone because of their flaws.
 * 8) The title card is very off-putting and scary for a kid’s show.
 * 9) No one besides Patrick gets a comeuppance for abandoning SpongeBob, they don’t learn their lesson and just get off scot-free.
 * 10) Aside from being mean spirited, the writing, just like most of the Seasons 6 to 8 episodes, is extremely lazy as well as being a huge fillerfest with plot shifts due to SpongeBob being the only person as if the writers didn’t even try to put creative effort into the writing, an example of this is where SpongeBob pretend to be everyone in Binki Bottom, right before the plot switched to him stealing a boat from boating school to be his only best friend only for him to find out that Boaty is evil after realising the Patrick dummy made out of Krabby Patties in the closet.

Redeeming Qualites

 * 1) SpongeBob is the only likable character in this episode.
 * 2) Patrick was pretty much the only one who got what he deserved as he got abandoned.
 * 3) The ending is good because SpongeBob gave Patrick a taste of his own medicine by abandoning him.
 * 4) The scene of SpongeBob imitating his friends is a bit funny.

Reception
Although it has a 7.1 rating on IMDB (mostly because it's sister episode, "Not Normal", is among one of the better episodes of season 6), this episode was critically hated because of it’s mean-spirited tone and SpongeBob getting tortured.