User blog:CartoonFan14/Cliche Clash: Band Geeks vs House Music

It's time to piss people off, yay, as if I don’t do it enough already. It’s time for the first installment of Cliche Clash! (Working title) Band Geeks vs House Music, both I find to be great episodes, but which one is better? That’s what I’ll try to decide today, so with no more said, allow me to get into the rules.

Rules

 * This will be a best of three match.


 * One winner per round, no ties.


 * Every round is worth one point, winning one round will not automatically guarantee a win because of higher leverage.

Those are the rules, pretty simple right? And now, the moment some of you have been waiting for, Band Geeks vs House Music!

Round 1: Comedy
We start with what I consider the most important part in these shows, the humor. The point that decides whether you want to watch an episode 100 times or if you regret watching it even once.

House Music, in all honesty, had a hilarious first half that I enjoyed very much, the girls plans for the talent show, Lana tying Lincoln up, Leni carrying Linc like a handbag. Geo being in a tuba, Leni singing the literal of what Luna tells her, Lynn Sr’s gag, but the second half didn’t do much, another Lynn Sr bit, and the Mick Swagger joke at the end, but that didn’t do much for me.

House Music has an admirable amount of good humor, but put Band Geeks next to it, and you might as well call House Music the animated equivalent of sand paper. For every Geo in the tuba, there’s a Plankton playing Harmonica, for every Leni joke there’s Patrick wondering what condiments are instruments, and him being shoved into a horn. Every joke in Band Geeks puts a smile on your face, and it has good, no great, no fantastic humor the whole way through.

Winner: Band Geeks

Round 2: Writing
Band Geeks was phenomenally written, it did a wonderful job balancing emotion with humor, and I have mad respect for that, however, I felt there were areas that needed a bit more touching upon, I wish we knew more about Squilliam than he’s better than Squidward in every way, and he and Squidward hate each other for some reason, and I feel their should have been more time getting the townspeople on Squidward side, but I digress. A phenomenal attempt from a phenomenal episode.

House Music on the other hand, is one I can’t complain about, other than a not so perfect balance, but the story perfectly captures the emotion it presents, everything seems believable, and I just love how the story plays out. I feel it was paced properly, handled Luna’s story excellently, and everything feels believable. Everything about the writing her screams amazing, and I have the utmost respect for Kevin Sullivan for putting this one together.

This is a very tough call, Band Geeks was more balanced, but House Music captured emotion better, for the longest time I felt these two were equal, but in the end House Music pulls ahead by a hair and takes the point.

Winner: House Music

Round 3: Characters (Luna vs Squidward)
Let’s finish things off with the characters in the story themselves, Luna and Squidward, the musically gifted (and not so gifted) stars of their respective episodes, and see how they compare.

Starting with Squidward, in this episode, he BANDS the Bikini Bottomites together to upstage his rival Squilliam, and after struggling to have them get it during rehearsals, gives up hope and quits teaching the night before the big day, the Bikini Bottom citizens realize that it means a lot Squidward, and try to do something and try to fix things, Squidward shows up prepared for humiliation the next day, but to his surprise the band has a magnificent routine, and he succeeds in bringing Squilliam down.

What I like here is how willing Squidward is in comparison to Luna, he’s a lot more patient before he gives up, and he really wanted to try to make things work, he’s a character we can sympathize with, having the thing you want more than anything seem impossible, and he’s one you want to root for here. However I don’t like how all he cares about is beating Squilliam at the start.

Luna, on the other hand, goes into the episode wanting nothing more than to have some fun, and later on, while she is justified, becomes rather jerkish and unlikeable later on, luckily she immediately regrets it and feels bad, so we know she isn’t completely bad, but it still stunk to see it. After a pep talk from her idol, Luna comes around and apologizes, and the family kills it at the fun fair.

I kinda consider these two opposites in this episode, I start off disliking Squidward, but co me to like him later on, and liked Luna at the start, but liked her less later on, until she came around.

I had to think for a long time to come to the choice for this one, but what did it for me was the patience, Luna only lasted a few minutes, meanwhile on the other hand Squidward tried for as long as he could, and it was what ultimately made my decision to give the point to Band Geeks.

Winner: Band Geeks

Verdict
By a score of 2-1, SpongeBob’s Band Geeks pulls ahead and takes the win, House Music is a great episode, but there’s just no competing with the most acclaimed and widely considered the best SpongeBob episode of all time. Both episodes are worth a watch, even if you don’t like SpongeBob, or Loud House (in which case why are you here?), now, it's time to celebrate Band Geeks Sweet Victory.

Watch Band Geeks and Come Back Here
🎵The winner takes all It's the thrill of one more kill The last one to fall Will never sacrifice their will

Don't ever look back on the world closing in Be on the attack with your wings on the wind Oh, the games will begin

And it's sweet, sweet, sweet victory... yeah It's ours for the taking It's ours for the fight Sweet, sweet, sweet victory... yeah🎵

Feel free to leave suggestions for my next installment of Cliche Clash, and have a great day.