My expectations were low...

...And I'm still disappointed.

SPOILER ALERT! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

This wouldn't be half so bad if everyone I knew hadn't thought WhoBob WhatPants was a movie. The specials in general are pretty bad, and this one is no exception. The story was...

• SpongeBob annoys his friends, and they call him an idiot
• SpongeBob runs away and gets bonked on the head
• SpongeBob loses memory, and blows bubbles
• A gang threatens him for blowing bubbles. He drive them out
• He is appointed mayor
• His friends go find him. Krabs is bribing Squidward to get him back, so Squid takes him back
• SpongeBob gets hit on the head.

...And they all live cheesily ever after. There was a little humor, but not much. Some of the dialogue was pretty unconvincing, too. And, just to tick me off, after it was over, there came a commercial saying that I could see the whole thing tomorrow, talking about how it was SpongeBob's GREATEST ADVENTURE, and how I can see THE STUNNING CONCLUSION all over again!

"Stunning conclusion?!" He got bonked on the noggin for cryin' out loud! There was little pacing, and hardly anything interesting happened. It could've beena decent story if it was longer, but it was 22 minutes total, which is hardly enough.

It did have its good points, though; The opening was rewritten to say "WhoBob WhatPants" instead of "SpongeBob SquarePants", and there was one really funny part: Sandy pointed to a picture of SpongeBob saying, "It's SpongeBob!" Patrick runs up to the next person he sees, hugs her, and acts as though it's SpongeBob, saying he hasn't changed a bit.
Aaaaaand, it didn't have Patchy.

Overall, the story still seemed sloppy and rushed. Nothing happened after SpongeBob became mayor except that Squidward took him home and he got hit on the head. The end.

You're slippin', Nick...you're really slippin'.

WhoBob WhatPants

FOUR DAYS

I just saw an ad referring to it as "WhoBob WhatPants". Since it's supposed to sound like SpongeBob SquarePants, I guess that makes sense.

I also noticed multiple commercials referring to it as a special, not a movie. The official website lists it under "Hot Shows" but not under "Movies". I know that WhoBob WhatPants is an hour and a half long, and all the specials are half an hour, but nobody ever said those were the specific, unwritten and unbroken rules, right?

But then, it's longer than Atlantis SquarePantis, which was only an hour long. It would be kind of silly to have an episode longer than your movie. I guess that's probably enough to count it as a movie....

5 days

I've really had little to post about lately. Except...IT'S FIVE DAYS 'TIL WHO BOB, WHAT PANTS?

Sorry the blog's been so boring lately. You can bet I'll be posting again after the movie airs

No more minigames...please....

I keep getting the date for Who Bob, What Pants? wrong. It's only about two weeks 'til it airs, though. I think it's either sixteen or fifteen days.

I mentioned a while back that I was getting Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition. I'm not expecting anything special, but I bought it because it has DoodleBob. Sure enough, the polygons are ugly, the dialogue is flat, and I caught a plothole in the opening scene. Long as I'm with DoodleBob, right?

It has a few features the original Drawn to Life didn't have that I like; for example, in the SpongeBob one, you can buy new furniture, redraw it, and rearrange the things in your house. The gameplay's pretty good, being built off the original Drawn to Life. The first couple of levels were genuinely fun, but I haven't played since my fifth attempt at the third one.

The third one is a touch-based minigame with unresponsive controls. Yeah, I've calibrated my Touch Screen and everything, but the controls are just plain loopy! The game is ignoring me, I swear. It's true that a good minigame is fun in between platformer levels, but honestly, have they never heard of beta testing?

I'm just griping. I'll get through it eventually. Maybe. It's stupidly long. But hey, I gotta have DoodleBob, right? Anything for him, right?

...Right...?

The book based on the movie based on the book

Earlier, while browsing around http://amazon.com/, I found a book for sale based on Who Bob, What Pants? Who Bob is based on a book called "For the Love of Bubbles". This means they've got...

The book...

...based on the movie...

...based on the book.

Ingenius, eh? Maybe ungenius. Or something. It's silly, though. It's like doing a novelization of the Lord of the Rings movies.

Well, maybe not; truthfully, I don't know how similar Who Bob is to For the Love of Bubbles. For all I know, they're two completely different stories, but the movie is supposedly based on it.

I found the concept of basing a book on a movie that was already based on a book funny, though. :) Ah, well. Here's hoping Who Bob, What Pants will be good!

Overhyped, underhyped, whatever; 26 days!

Argh! It's nearly a month until Who Bob, What Pants? premieres, and I'm sitting here yanking my hair out in impatience! But I've noticed a pattern: whenever Nickelodeon hypes something A LOT, it turns out to be pretty lame. SB: Atlantis SquarePantis; FOP: The Big Superhero Wish; JN: --I think it was this one-- Win, Lose, Kaboom, and on and on. They might've had some good points, but they didn't live up to the hype.

But what about stuff that wasn't hyped as much? Sometimes they hype new episodes of things, but the ones with less hype were the ones that were best. Nine years ago, the day the second SpongeBob episode aired, do you remember commercials saying things like, "Tonight...one Sponge...rips his pants!!"

No? You don't? Exactly.

I've seen very few ads for Who Bob, What Pants? on Nick.com, I've never seen a commercial for it on TV, and I've not seen magazine advertisments. Do you hear any hype coming from anyone but the fans? 

No? You haven't? Exactly.

SpongeGeeks, keep your fingers crossed. And your toes, teeth, eyes, and shoelaces. That way, when October comes...we'll be ready!

New Kelp City

I read most of this on the Wikipedia, so I can't promise it's reliable.

On Who Bob, What Pants? bubble-blowing is outlawed in New Kelp City. That is, until our amnesiac hero uses his own bubble-blowing skills to drive out the oppressors who have made it so.

Wow. I cannot make that sound anything less than lame....

SpongeBob, confused and searching for his identity, is now considered a hero among the citizens, and is elected mayor for his bravery. He finds himself happy and fulfilled, until a group of "strangers" (Patrick, Sandy, Squidward and Krabs) comes to try to take him home to Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob has not only forgotten them entirely, but has grown attached to the city that declared him its leader.

Oh, the drama! Does he stay? Does he go home? And how could he ever mistake his love for an undersea weasel? And why did Squidward go along? While I'm at it, what is the meaning of life?!

Actually, I'm looking forward to this movie. I really, sincerely believe that Nick may do something right this time, but every pessimist I know tries to convince me otherwise. It's okay; I'll stay optimistic. Aaaaand... if it is bad, it's not the end of the series, right?

Right?

(Actually, it's not. They've confirmed a season 7)

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!

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?

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.