Honestly, I didn't hate Sparky too much, but I could definitely see why other people did. It didn't help that his first episode was really, really bad. If it weren't for Timmy and his family's bad track record with pets, and the fact that Sparky was being extremely manipulative, that episode might have been more tolerable. But either way, it was definitely around that point when it felt like FOP's dead horse was being beaten just as hard as SpongeBob's.