Deleted Scenes

You remember Just One Bite, right? It's the episode where Squid decides he likes Krabby Patties. There was a scene cut from it, where Squidward first entered the Krusty Krab to find that the "security system" was a bucket of water propped up above the door. He was unimpressed, to say the least. A second later, though, he realized by the scent that it wasn't water...it was gas. Right on cue, a robotic hand lit a match.
RavenMileyandAFVRock was kind enough to upload it onto YouTube.



Why was this cut? Some people said that it was because this was a form of "sneaky terrorism." Another explanation, and the most likely one, is that it was because it would show children that gasoline + fire = boom, and the people were afraid of kids playing with explosives.

This wasn't the only deleted scene; Procrastination had a few. In the first one, SpongeBob is just beginning to write his essay when he looks out the window. The sun is smiling, Squidward's tanning, kids are playing, the Jellyfish are having a rousing game of tennis. Among the frolic and happiness was Patrick rubbing sunscreen on Sandy, which is why it was removed.

The second removed scene on Procrastination was where SpongeBob comments that he has to get his essay done so he'll be one step closer to earning his license. Cut away to a live-action dragster driving off and flipping over.

Last, and definitely not least, at the end of The Secret Box, during its first airings...we got to see the embarrassing snapshot of SpongeBob at the Christmas party! ...Or so I heard, anyway. If anyone could confirm this information, or has a video of any of these scenes, please comment.

I think a bit of the smiling-sun-playing-kids scene from Procrastination could be seen in the Best Day Ever music video.

Sponge Boy

I'm sure we all know a bit about the creation of SpongeBob...how he was to be named Sponge Boy, and all that. I'd been looking for a source for the information, and I finally found it. A book entitled Makin' Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies. I haven't had a chance to run down to a book store or library because everything's closed for Labor Day, but I found it on Google Books. Rather than write down the entire section on SpongeBob, I'll just link to it. Linky.

Yeah, the book's going on my birthday list. ^_^ I was thinking about the 'Sponge Boy' thing, and I guess there've been a few references to it on the show. For example, on Frankendoodle, SpongeBob called DoodleBob 'Doodle Boy' at first, then later changed it to 'Bob.'
On Squeaky Boots, Krabs, nervous and high-strung, mistakenly said, "Sponge Boy, me bob!" XD

This post is shorter than the others, I guess...just kinda random. I added a new piece of official art, but it doesn't have alpha.

The SpongeBob SquarePants movie

(Note: I don't have the source, but I read that Mr. Hillenburg said the movie took place after the series ends, which explains the lack of Krusty Krab 2 on the show.)

Remember, way way back in '04? Season 3 had come to a close, and the world thought SpongeBob was cancelled, especially with the announcement that there'd be...a movie!

This is a big event! This was THE SpongeBob movie. A theatrical presentation for all us SpongeGeeks out there! Now, I didn't get the chance to see it in theaters, but it's just as well because I can't imagine watching Patrick...er, streaking to the extreme on such a huge screen. I'd be the ten-year-old with her face buried in her hands.

The movie had it's good points and it's bad points. It kinda tried to get away with more than a regular SpongeBob episode, and is actually a subject of some censorship. XD They didn't use any obscenities, but the Goofy Goober Rock song was censored for TV, and they rarely show the uncensored version.

As for the good points, I thought it was hilarious. Aside from the whole Patrick thing. SpongeBob and Patrick drunk and pestering a waiter was truly a rare site, because I've never thought of SpongeBob as the guy to run out and get drunk all night. Even if it's from ice cream. And the Now That We're Men song remains one of my favorites from the series. And Patrick's first meeting with Mindy was pretty funny. "She's purty, SpongeBob!" "You're HOT!" Good gravy, isn't this the sort of thing Neptune would BEHEAD a guy for?

I thought that the moral fell a little flat. SpongeBob acts like a child, but he's clearly an adult. Krabs' "you're just a kid" speech honestly sounded very forced. I also thought Squidward was out of character. They tried to do his usually kinda bored-and-uncaring thing, but instead it came across as, "you can kill people and take over the world, but I'd better get paid!!" One reason that's awful is 'cause Squid has been shown to actually care whether SpongeBob lives or dies.

And Neptune was kinda awful. They redesigned him and changed his personality completely. Since on the show, even after the movie, they've shown old Neptune, I just like to assume movie-Neptune is show-Neptune's son.

I thought the very end was pretty satisfying. The power-of-music-deus-ex-machina didn't suspend disbelief, but I felt pretty good afterwards when little old Spongey was a hero, a manager, and declared it the best day of his life just as the credits music began to play. Then, as the credits roll, we see images of a truly fulfilled sponge living his dream as manager of the Krusty Krab 2. No more fry cooking? Don't worry, I'm sure Krabs places a workload on him...

ANOTHER Who Bob, What Pants? commercial

Another commercial for the new SpongeBob movie is on TurboNick. Watch it here.

It looks interesting. SpongeBob, being a famous fry cook, generally good friend of all the citizens, and having saved the world through the power of music once, is truly an important person. He may be far more important to the town than was first thought, though, because the commercial shows some sort of chaos breaking out without him.

"Sorry, but I think I'd remember an underwater talking weasel."
Don't say that to the Spandy 'shippers, Spongey.

The website says, "When SpongeBob tries to spend some quality time with his pals, he ends up being a real pain in the square pants and they tell him to get lost, so he does. But will he ever come back, or is SpongeBob lost forever? Will Bikini Bottom survive without him? Tune in on October 13th to find out!"

The airdate of our movie has been confirmed. I hope it's good, I hope it's good, I hope it's good...The whole "amnesia-by-being-bonked-on-the-head" thing is kinda silly and cliche, but let's not judge the movie by a very basic premise. :)

In my opinion, though, SpongeBob isn't the kinda guy who needs a lot of movies. Jimmy Neutron was fine with it (can't say I'm a big fan of that show), and Fairly OddParents did well with several movies. But SpongeBob waited a few years before making a movie, and that was a big thing! It was THE SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and it was even in theaters. I heard that Mr. Hillenburg wanted to cancel the series after the movie, but Nickelodeon had other plans. It was THE movie...a big, dramatic event SpongeBob had never experienced before, where he was allowed to truly save the world and rock out on the big screen. The show continued normally after that, but the movie had it's place among the episodes.
(It's supposed to take place after all the episodes are over, so some people believe it has faded from the canon.)

Then, a few years later, they made Atlantis SquarePantis. It, in my opinion, would've worked better as a half-hour episode, as it had little plot, bad music, and retconned everything. LRH? What about Neptune and Mindy?

Less than a year later, we learn Spongey's got a third movie on the way. Go, SpongeBob! Redeem yourself with your new movie, and leave awestruck viewers cheering for more!

Powerpoint

Yeahh, I've been lazy. It was a lazy, rainy, depressing week and my website was down for reasons beyond my control, so I just bundled up and read Calvin and Hobbes 'til everything blew over. It was all very "blah," and I couldn't watch television, meaning I couldn't watch Spongey.

Anyway, though, back on subject. In a computer class I'm taking, we're working with Microsoft Powerpoint. We can make a presentation about anything, no matter how stupid it is (as long it's not obscene...), but the default subject is one about yourself.

The "myself" subject is kinda boring, even if I make it about bowing to me and all that, so I was thinking that it had to be SpongeBob-themed. Now, what the heck could I do a SpongeBob presentation about? I'm considering:

• Why Band Geeks should've beaten Karate Island as #1
• An overanalysis of the pairing "Spandy"
• A bizarre, completely made-up interpretation of Patrick's "I Wrote This"

Who Bob, What Pants? commercial

Mood: Yayness

Sorry for not posting in a while. I've been slightly sick and life's been crazy. Fortunately, I've got an update on the third SpongeBob movie. Nick.com put up a commercial for Who Bob, What Pants? on Turbonick. You can watch it here.

Looks interesting, to say the least. The old "amnesia by getting bonked on the head" is perhaps a bit too cliche to base an entire movie on, but there's a chance that they'll do it well. Besides, (to my knowledge) the whole deal with mayor sounds unique. Of course, for all I know it's all a reference to something I've never watched, like, for example, Karate Island contained references to some movie I'd never heard of.

That being said, watch the commercial. :)
*sings, to the tune of the SpongeBob theme song*
Who Bob, What Pants? Who Bob What Pants?

Weird

I was on a some foreign Nickelodeon websites, and BOY, I came across some weird stuff. Including over twenty new wallpapers which are in the wallpaper section.

One thing I found is a wallpaper with hints of SquidwardxSandy. YES, SQUIDWARDXSANDY. One wallpaper had them standing next to each other in a large group picture. They took an official picture of Squid and edited him so he was smiling, wearing a bow tie, and holding Sandy's hand. Heck, that ain't a hint; they're both practically screaming, "MARRY ME!!"
EDIT: I just noticed, SpongeBob's also holding her hand. Darn it.

Another thing was Pearl's profile on one site:
"Pearl is the lovely daughter of Mr Krabs and literally the largest teenager on the planet. Possessing the biggest brain in Bikini Bottoms, she is probably the most intelligent citizen as well. Yet, she is still immature and prone to tantrums. Her interests are the same as those of an average Girl: cheerleading, the mall, loud music, and boys, boys, boys! She's gifted in math, so naturally her father tries to interest her int he exciting life of restaurant book keeping. Her response? "I'm so sure, Daddy!" Pearl is more interested in fads than counting french fries."

I guess they changed her personality in some of the dubs. O_o The biggest brain? Most intelligent? What about Sandy or Plankton? Heck, what about PATRICK?

It's the Best Day Ever!

I added a few new official pictures as well as wallpapers. 215 official pictures now. The first picture of Sandy now has a complete ear and alpha.

I really like the song, The Best Day Ever. I think it's cute, funny, and charming. I'll listen to the TV version, the movie version, the soundtrack version...anything, really. The movie version (that is, the normal version) is my favorite, though.

Nobody I know takes the lyrics to heart as much as I do. I, personally, try to have the same attitude SpongeBob has throughout the song. The day he's describing sounds like it could be the worst day of your entire year. Leave it to Spongey to put a positive spin on everything from the sunlight waking him up to two hours of boredom.

One thing that is definitely me in this song is the line, Sometimes the little things start closing in on me. Really, it seems like the things that are hardest to ignore and easiest to ruin your day are the things that matter the least in the long run. Whenever I'm in a funk (and believe me, I often am), I pop my SpongeBob CD into CD player and immediately go to my favorite track. Guess what track that is? ;)

This is the official Best Day Ever music video from the CD of the same name.

Johannsen?

It seems to have faded from the canon that Squidward's middle name is Johannsen. I think it was stated ONCE, on Nick.com. I think it was on the back of one of the first-series SpongeBob E-Collectables, so I guess it's debatable whether it's canon or not.

Of course, on the Behind the Scenes features on the movie, Squid's voice actor introduces himself by saying he voices "Squidward J. Tentacles." Huh. If it is canon, I wonder why it's not been said. I guess it doesn't really have to be, though.

Sort of like how, on Camp Lazlo, the creator told me that Jane pulled Lumpus out of the asylum and they all lived happily ever after. Wasn't shown on the show, though, so it's canon status is debatable. VERY debatable.

I'm getting off topic here. Anyway, I like that middle name. Squidward Johannsen Tentacles. It just has a cool ring to it! There aren't too many good names that start with a Y, ya know. Actually, Johannsen (obviously) doesn't, but the J is pronounced like Y, so...kinda the same thing.

Squidward...Johannsen!!
         Dramatic, ain't it?

Ugly, canibalistic Food City SpongeBob

In the Food City in my town, there's a seafood section. Normal, right?

WRONG.

Hanging up around it, there used to be some construction paper cut-outs of SpongeBob and Patrick that looked like they were done by Squidward. Except Squidward isn't a canibal. SpongeBob had a word balloon talking about how much he LOVED seafood. They were so ugly!

SpongeBob was a perfect rectangle, unrecognizable as even a dish sponge. Pat was star-shaped...perfectly star-shaped, like one you'd see on an American Flag. Their expressions were blank and somewhat alien, and their mouths were perfectly round. It was creepy, man!

I wanted to snap some photographs and post them, but when I went back to the grocery store, they were gone. Well, darn it! D:


In unrelated news, I fixed the 'Gary' section in Official Art, added two new images under 'Groups,' and put another image of a bubble under 'Other Stuff.'

Spongey's style and face

The art style in SpongeBob has changed over time. For the most part, the colors are simply brighter and the lines bolder. But there have been some more noticeable changes, too. It seems like the entire style of the facial expressions will change depending on the episode. It's like, on episodes where he's really annoying and childish, he'll be drawn with his face looking out of whack a lot. It seems like on those eps, his eyes will be drawn weirder-- I can't explain how, just weirder-- and he'll often have eyebrows, which will look wrong on him. And his nose will go down a lot.

This was the norm for a while, especially during season 4. They used to do it every episode no matter what he acted like. That, along with his new, squeakier voice, now seem to only be employed when we're supposed to think he's annoying. For the most part, he has now gone back to his regular, kinda dorky-cute look. But his expressions can be wildly different sometimes. It's okay, though; aside from a few truly ugly episodes, the art has improved overall.

I love it when he makes really ugly faces for humor, though, no matter what episode or season. XD My personal favorite is on Can You Spare a Dime?

I'll grab two pieces of official art from the Group Pictures section on this blog to illustrate the change.

The latter is the more recent one. I personally prefer it to the first, but both are cute. ;)

SpongeBob...just a nickname?

It's occured to us all before...why'd they name their kid SpongeBob? That's like naming me HumanAlice, and I sure as heck ain't going by such a name. Really!

I was just thinkin'...maybe it's a nickname?

On the episode Patrick SmartPants, Patrick reffered to SpongeBob as 'Robert'. It was probably just because he thought calling people by their longer, given names sounded intellectual. Still, surely his best friend ever would know his first name, so maybe he is named Robert.

Then, on Blackjack, he had an uncle who called him 'Little Bobby.' Now, I guess Bobby could be a nickname for SpongeBob as well as Robert, but it's interesting.

I seem to recall one episode, he said, "As long as these pants are square, and this sponge is Bob, I will not let you down!!" Most likely, though, he was just being weird. I highly doubt it has anything to do with the subject.

Every single driver's license he's had said "SpongeBob SquarePants" on it. I guess I'm just babbling. It's an interesting thought, but canonically, his given name is SpongeBob until said otherwise.

SpongeBob's Driver's License

SpongeBob will never get his license. We all know that. There've been some times when he came so close-- but alas, he failed. According to Mr. Hillenburg, the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie takes place after all the episodes end. All of them, which is why on the show he's never manager of the Krusty Krab 2. On the movie Patrick states that SpongeBob doesn't have a license, so we know he won't ever get it on the series.

Of course, on the movie he manages to stay calm behind the wheel, drives with relative expertise, given how he drove before. Meaning we know he'll improve.

There's one episode, I don't like it too much, Nautical Novice. The ending is kind of cheap and disappointing, I think. For a second, a brief, shining second, I believed maybe he'd get his license. Or make a really humorous driving mistake and lose it, which I was prepared for. As it turned out, all the cool stuff he did that earned him his license was null and void; he didn't so any of it. Darn. I thought such an ending was especially cruel.


Note that it lists his address as 124 Conch St. Bikini Bottom. It also says he has yellow hair. Hmm...

Season 5 on DVD

What with Church and volunteering to do a ton of chores, I haven't been able to post much today. I'll probably make this today's only post, but it's pretty good news:

"SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Fifth Season, Volume 2" DVD comes out November 18th in the US and Canada. One reason this is good is because there's a bit of a dispute over the episode order for season 5, and whether or not there's a twentieth episode in the season (as most seasons of SpongeBob have). Once the DVDs come out, we can get the production codes and find out if there's a "missing" episode other than Goo Goo Gas.

Yeah, Nickelodeon's pretty sloppy when it comes to what episodes they air when. Everything's shown one short at a time, in the wrong order, and now that we're in season 6, season 5 hasn't even finished airing! I think there are probably only 19 episodes in season 5, since nobody's heard anything about an unaired episode other than the aforementioned GGG. I could be wrong, though, knowing Nickelodeon.

Patrick the Shapeshifter

Patrick has shown a few times that he is capable of shapeshifting. :P Kinda...
Not as many as SpongeBob, but still sort of enough.


Survival of the Idiots
Patrick said, "That's not disturbing! This is disturbing!" He proceeded to flex his muscles in such a away that a face appeared in his back. Flexing them more, he got it to lip-synch while he said, "Hi, there, SpongeBob! My name is Patback!" But he apparently had some trouble doing this.

Frankendoodle
When DoodleBob threw a bowling ball at Patrick, Pat's head was shaped like a bowling pin. This was just a visual gag, but I wanted to note it. XD

The Battle of Bikini Bottom
During a battle of filth vs. cleanliness with SpongeBob, he decided to pick his nose to gross out SpongeBob. He had to grow one first, though.

Krabby Road
Not only could he extend his belly for us as an instrument, but he also grew and lost hair at will.

Not Normal
Patrick kept asking "normal" SpongeBob what he wanted to do. At one point he asked, "Wanna do this?" He then sucked his head in like a Booba, and it came out his naval.



Patback's HAWT!

The Krabby Khronicle

*EXPECT SPOILERS* This was one of the few newest episodes I got to see this past week. I didn't mind it so much, but I saw everyone on the 'net screaming about how bad it was.

Basically, it went like this: Krabs saw how much money a newspaper was making, and decided to start his own, with Spongey as the reporter. SpongeBob wrote dull stories ("Man stares at pole"), so Krabs told him to change the story some: exaggerate, put a little imagination into it! SpongeBob did so, but realized the stories were hurting people and even ruining some's lives. Krabs threatened to take away his spatula and job if he didn't keep writing, so a depressed SpongeBob had to continue writing day and night for hours on end, unsuccessfully trying to convince Krabs to stop.


Some people said it was upsetting when SpongeBob was being unwillingly pushed so hard for days on end. I seriously had never seen him so depressed; he got tons of sympathy from me. But I thought that the "upsetting" parts added more depth to him and made it much more satisfying when he wrote his news story about Mr. Krabs.

I saw some people say that the part where he ignored all the good stories and wrote about Patrick to be irritating. I thought it was a funny display his usual cluelessness. Maybe that's just me...

I have one complaint, though: at the end, Krabs was counterfeiting and didn't get caught. It didn't really provide a joke, and it did nothing for the story. It was a little annoying...very annoying, actually.


I assume that after it was all said and done, Sandy got her awards back, Mrs. Puff got her students back, Larry got back into the gym, and Patrick and the missus were happy. If not, I have some more complaints... :P

This blog got more interesting AGAIN!

This time I put up some comics. I plan to get back to actually blogging again, but I thought it was disappointing that no fansites had much art or comics, and we've gotta have 'em somewhere!

I was thinking...about random stuff...And it occured to me, Mr. Krabs' and and Mrs. Puff's current relationship is less than romantic. They didn't interact much after the episode Krusty Love. On Wishing You Well, she drove past in the hot rod she wished for.
"See, Mr. Krabs? She wished for that boat!"
"You mean she stole that boat!"
Krabs paid her little mind while she was there, than made that comment while she was there.

On The Krabby Khronicle, Krabs was having SpongeBob write a newspaper full of exciting lies about everyone. His first target was Mrs. Puff, whom SpongeBob wrote about being in a high-speed chase against the police. Krabs laughed upon seeing it, but SpongeBob didn't feel good about it. In an attempt to make him, Krabs asked how such a little news story could possibly affect Mrs. Puff in any way. Later in the episode, she's among those who trample Krabs and steal back their money.

But then, on the DVD case for "Bikini Bottom Adventures," she's looking up at him and grinning. And then on the movie, she and Sandy had the following exchange:
"I paid nine dollars for this?"
"I paid ten!"
Mrs. Puff got in for a dollar less than Sandy. Maybe she and Krabs made up?


Come to think of it, what about his first wife? I guess she was a whale, considering there's Pearl and all. Now that I'm on that subject, I might as well note. One time, referring to Sandy, Krabs muttered, "Mammals." and walked off. Whales are mammals. Maybe he holds a grudge against his whale wife...

SpongeBob's Family

I decided to attempt to figure out Spongey's family tree. I was trying to figure out which relatives were on which parents' side.

Finally, I decided on this: SpongeBuck, due to his last name SquarePants, is on SpongeBob's dad's side. He looks exactly like SpongeBob, so it can be assumed that SpongeBob gets his looks and square shape from that side.

SpongeBob's mom doesn't look much like him, except she has his eyes and a similar nose. Family members who looks more like her, but with those features, are probably on her side.

Oh, and on the episode Blackjack, they said SpongeBob's dad was named Harold. Also, Blackjack calls SpongeBob's grandmother "grandma," so I guess she's on his side of the family. And I am just assuming that Blackjack isn't Blue's son, and is the son of somone else on SpongeBob's mom's side.

NONE OF THIS IS CANON. I'M JUST MAKING LOGICAL GUESSES. Well, except maybe SpongeBob's parents getting married and having a kid.


SpongeBob's dad's side
Grampa SquarePants married somebody. Don't know who.
They had Harold and Uncle Sherm.
Harold married SpongeBob's mom.
They had SpongeBob.
Sherm married somebody or another. Don't know who.
They had Stanley.


SpongeBob's mom's side
Grandma SquarePants married somebody. Don't know who.
They had SpongeBob's mom, Blue, and someone or another.
SpongeBob's mom married Harold.
They had SpongeBob.
Someone or another married someone.
They had Blackjack.


Uncle Captain Blue


Uncle Sherm


SpongeBob's Parents


Grandpa SquarePants


Cousin Stanley

Goo Goo Gas?

I found this on Nick.de. Forget The Sponge Who Could Fly. This is the real lost episode. :P

There was a season 5 episode entitled Goo Goo Gas. It's the second short on the rarely-aired episode, Le Big Switch, and I'd been reading about it since late season 4. They made it, but for some reason it hasn't aired over here in the US yet. I found half the episode in German, but I can't speak German that well. I know a couple words I learned from watching foreign SpongeBob episodes, but I'm only fluent in English. :

Basically, Plankton creates a gas that turns people into babies. Or something...Anyone know German? XD


PS, read the post below this. It's cool.

This blog just got a whole lot more interesting

You remember I said it'd take forever to upload my official art collection, and I wouldn't do it, right?

Guess what: I lied.

Now on the side there's a link to the Official Art section. I didn't make them, so feel free to use them on your site. But since I had such a hard time finding all of them, please link back to me and maybe state where you found the images. :) Thanks.

Tomorrow I think I'll upload a bunch of comic scans...87 pages. I'm not actually the one who scanned 'em, though; you can see them on Nick.com, but it's a little annoying because they're in a tiny frame and you have to scroll.

I can't upload all my SpongeBob music, though. There's nowhere on Blogger that'll let me do that, and I don't want to take up space on my Kirby website to do it.

Oh, and I now have 209 pictures instead of 202. One of them glitched when I took it onto the flash program, but I thought it was funny, so I uploaded it. It's in the SpongeBob section of the Official Art page.

Screensavers

As said in My Quest for Official Art, I sometimes import the screensavers onto Macromedia Flash Pro. I wanted to show off the .swf files, but I can't upload them. I wanted to host them on KirbyPlanet (my website), but my host doesn't allow direct linking. Instead, I'll just put up links to download the screensavers.

Nick.com SpongeBob Promo
An image of SpongeBob's pineapple is shown. In front of all that, a bunch of bubbles containing images of SpongeBob characters fly up past.

The SpongeBob SquarePants Move Screensaver
SpongeBob just hangs around 'til water comes at him from the screen. He absorbs it, and kinda blows up into an ad for the movie, where his face stares at the text reading "Bigger. More Absorbent."

Nick.de SpongeBob Promo
A German screensaver. I can't remember what it does.

SpongeBob shorts

They don't really the shorts anymore, but they're on TurboNick. I just thought some of 'em were kind of funny, so I decided to go ahead and link to all the ones I could find. :D

A Random Act of SpongeBob
A series of shorts to promote the Best Day Ever marathon.

Mr. Krabs discovers his money is missing
SpongeBob and Patrick make a pie
SpongeBob wonders what to do for Surprise Sandy Day
SpongeBob helps an old lady cross the street
SpongeBob goes to extremes to cheer up a crying baby

The Foe-gotten Years
A series of shorts to promote "Friend or Foe", showing Krabs and Plankton as kids.
Krabs and Plankton play together at the nursery
Krabs and Plankton build a sandcastle
Plankton saves Krabs from "drowning"

Atlantis by Vantis
A series of shorts to promote Atlantis Squarepantis, focusing on what the gang did while on the van.
Sandy makes a documentary about their jounrey to Atlantis
Patrick sticks his head out the window, with unpleasant results
Are we there yet?

Pest of the West
A series of shorts to promote the special of the same name, about SpongeBuck and his idiot friend. I could only find one.
Spurskating

Other:
Plankton's Holiday Hits

Nick Extra:
How to draw Plankton
A Closer Look: Patrick's Rock
A Closer Look: Rescue Jet Fusion
Nick Remixed: Plankton
Gary's Gourmet

Who Bob, What Pants?

Howdy! Posting once again, because there's a very important topic I forgot to bring up...the third SpongeBob movie!

In my humble opinion, the first movie was good, and people only watched the second because it had David Bowie. But hey, that's just my opinion. I don't even know who he is...

The third movie, Who Bob, What Pants? is loosely based on the SpongeBob book For the Love of Bubbles. All I know about it is that SpongeBob gets amnesia and runs off, wondering who he is. He ends up becoming the mayor of Kelp City, where the people adore him. SpongeBob's friends find him and try to get him to come home, but from SpongeBob's point of view, it's either

A) Go to some place he's never heard of with a bunch of strangers or
B) Stay in the city where the people see him as a hero.

I've never gotten to read For the Love of Bubbles, so this may be interesting. :) They say the DVD may come out on October fourteenth, but I don't know where that came from.

My quest for official art

I mentioned in my introductory post (I'm Ready!) that I collect SpongeBob official art. I have over 202 large, high quality pictures, actually.

I can't upload them all, though. It'd take too long, and I'm afraid I'd get into legal trouble. But I thought I might talk about how I do it. :)

I used to get them off of NickPages. I would go onto my NickPage, stick a SpongeBob picture on, right click and hit "Zoom In." I'd zoom in until it was so big, I couldn't see it all. Then I'd hit Alt+Print Screen on my keyboard, which copies the entire window.

I'd paste it onto a graphics program. My usual choice is the current version of Serif Photo Plus, but anything with layers and transparency will do. Since the screenshots I got were in pieces, I'd have to turn them translucent so I could see all of them, and piece them together. I'd cut off the little bits of window on every layer, then select everything in the background (which is white and gray, so that's easy) and delete it all. Crop it, save it, and I'm done.

I don't do that too much nowadays, because I've got all the NickPage images. And if I do that, there's no alpha transparency. After that, I went onto Nick.de, clicked the SpongeBob Schwammkopf (his German name) icon, and go onto Downloads. They have a bunch of .pdf files, all with large images I didn't have before. I'd download them and go onto Macromedia Flash Professional 8 (or whatever it's called). I'd go onto File > Import > Import to Stage... choose the file I wanted, and leave the settings as is. I'd delete everything except the picture I wanted, which I would make larger, then go again to File > Export > Export Image... and save it as a .PNG. There you have it, a good, large picture with alpha!

I import other things, too. There were a few SpongeBob screensavers with .swf files in them. I can't remember where they were saved in the directory, though. I also once imported the official site for the movie onto the program, and got a lot of stuff I needed off of that. :D

How I met SpongeBob

'Twas a long time ago. Nine years ago, to be exact.

Back in 1999, my siblings and I always tended to bash anything new or anything we weren't interested in. It probably came out of insecurity having to do with some past incidents, but I won't go into those because this isn't about them.

So! This new show came on. It was about a cute little sponge with buck teeth who worked at a restaurant, liked kah-rah-tay and jellyfishing, and wasn't too bright. Sounds funny, right?

Naw.

My siblings and I immediately starting talking about how dumb it was. Except my youngest brother, who was free from that mindset. None of us ever really watched it that much.

A few weeks later, I was reading a Nickelodeon Magazine (which was much better back in the day). I immediately flipped over to the comics, because that's what I always did. One of the first comics I saw said SpongeBob SquarePants on it in big, bold, letters. Nobody was around. I read the comic once. Or twice. Or thrice, just to get an opinion on it. I liked the comic. Still hated the show.

Soon after that, the aforementioned brother was watching SpongeBob. Like the jerk I was, I told him that he shouldn't be watching it because it was stupid. Not only was I a jerk, but a hypocritical jerk; I was trying to look like I wasn't watching it. It was the very ending of Ripped Pants, followed by Bubblestand. As I left that television, I became a different person; I fell in love.

Maybe that's takin' it a bit far, huh?


And now, the comic.
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SpongeBob's age

I'm mainly writing this because my sister insists he is a child.

The moral of the movie was basically "it's okay to be a kid," with SpongeBob and Patrick as examples of that. Unfortunately, we know they're both at least old enough to drive, and they live on their own.

On The Bully, Patrick said that Flats was his old college friend. I'm not really sure how Patrick got into college, but that's beside the point. There have been a couple images shown on other episodes of SpongeBob and Patrick as babies or young children together, so we can assume they're the same age, and past college.

In the episode The Chaperone, SpongeBob tells Gary that he couldn't even find a date for his high school prom. Gary meows, to which SpongeBob replies, "No, that was Patrick who took his mother." Thus, they are both through high school. It also backs up the fact that they are around the same age.

Aside from all that, he has a full-time job, and it's stated occasionally that he's worked there for years. On the movie, he actually had enough Employee of the Month awards to be in his fifties! But then, on Breath of Fresh Squidward, he had a zillion and six.

I'm not sure who said it, but I remember in the extra features on the movie, it was stated that they didn't mean he was literally a kid. They meant he thought and behaved as one.

DoodleBob

DoodleBob. You remember DoodleBob. From the episode Frankendoodle? 'Twas a pretty cool episode. Since I've got the link there I won't bother posting a summary, but I think DoodleBob's so cool...I'm writing a fan fiction trilogy about him. Why? Don't ask.


I LOVED HIM!! (cries)