He just locks himself in a bathroom and cries. Pearl feels bad and she starts to reevaluate how she had been treating SpongeBob, and she even comes to realize that some of his screwups were actually kind of amusing. Realizing that he’s screwed everything up, SpongeBob cries. He manages to ruin pretty much everything that Pearl wanted to do at prom and embarrasses her until Pearl is ready to give up and go home. SpongeBob is a complete disaster, as anyone could expect. She’s so demanding and he can’t keep up with her standards. Not to mention it causes her to treat SpongeBob badly. She’s really just ruining her own fun by caring so much about what people think. Prom is important to her because it defines her social status and she places a lot of value on that, mostly to her own detriment. She cares very much about what people think of her and about maintaining her popularity. Pearl is basically the complete opposite of the sort of person I was in high school. Anyway, considering the type of person I was in high school, of course prom wouldn’t have held any interest for me. Which is fair because I was pretentious and a snob and I had a weird superiority complex because I liked books and video games and I wasn’t like one of those people who liked partying and shopping and I was mature. Man, I was annoying. I disliked most of the people in my school and I didn’t socialize much outside my circle of friends and I couldn’t have cared less about my own popularity, so while I wasn’t disliked per se I did kind of come off as pretentious and a snob to most people. I wasn’t exactly unpopular in high school but I definitely wasn’t popular either. Maybe it has to do with your social status. So yeah, I just don’t really get the whole prom thing. None of us had fun but at least I got to wear a gorgeous dress (that I’ll never wear again) and we still had a sleepover after prom that was a lot more fun. We all ended up being forced to go to prom by our families who insisted that we would regret not going one day. I didn’t even want to go to my prom, I and a few of my friends who also didn’t want to go had planned on skipping it and just having a sleepover at my place instead. I can’t relate because prom wasn’t a big deal to me at all. It’s always kind of weird to me when shows and movies make prom out to be this huge, important event in your life. His own prom wasn’t exactly a success but it’s very important to Pearl that it goes well, so he tries his best to be the perfect date for her. Krabs tries to find someone to take her to the prom, and uh, I guess we’re not supposed to think too much about the fact that Pearl is a teenager and they’re mainly suggesting adults take her to the prom? SpongeBob ends up being roped into taking her. At the last minute her date cancels on her and Pearl has no time to find another date. She can be pretty funny and cute, and while she is a brat, I think fandom tends to exaggerate how bad that particular trait is.Īnyway, on to the episode, which is about Pearl’s prom. After a while my dislike became more like indifference, and eventually I got to genuinely liking Pearl.
Defending Pearl made me realize that there were actually things I did like about her, and it also made me reflect on my own reasons for disliking her and I realized that they were probably also unfair and kind of sexist. But once I start doing that, it’s hard not to grow to like them. Pearl’s not the only (female… it’s always female) character I’ve defended against criticism despite not caring for them myself.
It just seemed that a lot of people disliked her for reasons that were unfair and kind of sexist, and I couldn’t let that slide. She’s disliked by quite a few people in the fandom, and I often found myself in the weird position of defending Pearl against some of her haters despite not even being a fan of her myself. I wasn’t in the minority for not liking Pearl. I used to dislike her, she was in fact the only character on the show that I outright disliked, aside from Patchy and Potty but I’m not sure they count. I have kind of an odd history with Pearl’s character. This episode is our first real look at Pearl’s character, as she’s only had what were basically cameos in previous episodes.
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