Spongebob the Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages
There are many advantages in this cartoon:
1. The Unique Characters
By this unique characterization, the audiences can remember the distinguish characters each. It is about protagonist and antagonist, so that the audiences can know it clearly.
2. Culture Enrichment
By seeing this cartoon, the audiences can know the other culture-especially Greece and American.
3. Vocabulary Enrichment
There are so many simple but essential vocabularies that should be mastered by the audience as early as they can. It is important to introduce them with it as the part of English learning.
4. Imagination
This cartoon has great imagination. It will build up the audiences’ imagination. As we know that childhood never repeat, it needs imagination to make them grow up well.
5. Useful Activity
The children are better to see this cartoon than to see other television program like crime news, electron cinema, unethical show, etc.

Disadvantages
In the film, there are many bizarre thing and behavior that should not be consummated by children. We can take examples in the film;
1. Sponge Bob and Patrick Star always show and move their buttock when they talk with another.
2. Squid Ward always shows his bore face when he meets another.
3. Sponge Bob and his pal, Patrick Star, are well-known as their annoyance. They do something that makes people angry.
4. The Krabby Patty is symbolized the favorite menu in USA, fast-food. In this case, in children mind fast-food is delicious, prestige, and everything. It will make them to ask fast –food likes in the film for their daily menu.
5. The habit to say “Oh, Neptune!” which is the word when the cartoon character gets unlucky or trouble. We know that Neptune is the name of god in the sea in Greece myth. So, this thing makes the children to forget their spirit as eastern who believed in One God.
6. The unpredictable plot makes the children mindset become confuse. For example, there is no appropriate plot and run randomly.
7. The strange thing and attitude that is showed in the film, could affects the children mindset to be strange, too. Even they will imitate it.