I watch SpongeBob Squarepants. I was there when it premiered on Nickelodeon, and have followed ever since, owning three seasons on DVD.

That show has silly, stupid, goofy moments, let me tell you. But it's intelligently written. And usually we have the stuck-up Squidward to laugh at. His reactionary annoyance at SpongeBob and Patrick is worlds funnier than the slapstick.

TPM is, for the most part, poorly written, and we have nobody to really react to Jar-Jar in humorous ways. The only way this would work for me is if Qui-Gon was the sympathetic butt-end of Jar-Jar's antics. And he isn't in the core movie.