Some of the beginning of season 4 I could understand being lumped in, especially since a lot of them were started before the staff change. The rest of them still heavily fall into the dark-age era, especially after "Selling Out," where I can't name a single decent episode.
As for those before it, I rank them like this.
1. "Fear of a Krabby Patty"
2. "Selling Out"
3. "Funny Pants"
4. "Skill Crane"
5. "Krabs vs. Plankton"
6. "The Lost Mattress"
7. "Enemy In-Law"
8. "Dunces and Dragons"
9. "Have You Seen This Snail?"
10. "Good Neighbors"
11. "Shell of a Man"
>>108502656How so? It was written by C.H. Greenblatt (Chowder and Harvey Beakman), and unlike going 7 and downwards on my list, it's got jokes instead of gross-out and gore-out.