Talk:Squidward's Suicide/@comment-27730721-20190213192531/@comment-35911608-20190617145459

Because it still works, to a degree. Is it the reason we have all of these low quality "i saw a creepy version of ______" pastas? Probably. But there's a reason that those stories exist - because this one inspires them. And it's a fine Lost Episode pasta, even today. It's certainly not as good as some others, but I find it holds up.

JTK, on the other hand, was trash from the start, and only spawned more spinoffs. By keeping Jeff up, the wiki was kinda showing that this is the standard allowed on the site, regardless of historical importance. I saw a fantastic analogy to describe it on a past blog here; you don't keep the old fashioned spear in the armory with all the shiny new spears, you put it in a museum, because even though it's bad, we learned how to make better spears from that crappy one. In that case, Squidward's Suicide is an alright spear.