# SpongeBob SquarePants! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703 "2002-04-09T18:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/1 "2002-04-09T18:10:31Z")
[SpongeBob Mania](http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/lifestyle/la-000024720apr07.story?coll=la%2Dlifestyle%2Dprintedition) is sweeping the nation! It’s OK to admit that you like the show! 20 Million Adults watch it! (and the initial target audience is 2 to 11) :eeK: It’s Ren-n-Stimpy all over again. 😉 I havn’t seen many episodes, but the ones I have seen, I have laughed out loud the entire time. “The Valentines Day” episode made me cry I was laughing so hard! Just seeing Patrick the Starfish going on a rampage through an underwater amusement park in his hawaiian shorts chasing SpongeBob had me rolling on the ground. “The Anchoives are coming! O No! RUN!!!” LOL! So, any other SpongeBob fans out there? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/2 "2002-04-09T18:15:06Z")
::raises hand:: I love the show, especially episodes with Sandy Cheeks. “I’m from Texas. What you consider big and what I consider big are to entirely different bigs.” Sandy from the Alaskan Bull Worm episode. ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/3 "2002-04-09T18:22:09Z")
LOL! **Sandy Cheeks**! I’ve only seen her once so far. A squirrel from Texas who wears diving gear and lives in a pressurized dome. Hehehehe. And how about that Plankton guy who tries to get SpongeBob to assert himself! Plankton! LOL! I’m gonna have to start taping some shows. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/4 "2002-04-09T19:54:29Z")
The Ren and Stimpy comparison may be fair. They made a handful of SBSP episodes, then there was a long break as they discovered the show was hot and better make more, and then the quality dipped a bit. Now it is back on track and pretty funny again. The anchovy invasion and Rock Bottom are my favorites (and when Patrick and SB visit Sandy and dry up). My daughter watched it, and I started too as well. Now we both love it. It’s truly one of the funniest shows on TV right now. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/5 "2002-04-09T20:14:34Z")
Ah, Señor SquarePants. A wonderful fellow. A very intersting personality. If he wasn’t just a simple cartoon character, I’d put on my scuba gear and visit the little guy. He’s _that_ interesting. One of my favorite quotes regarding SpongeBob is from his creator, Steven Hillenburg, who once commented that SpongeBob could do anything he wants, but he’s happy being a fry cook. And hey, it’s the show that reunited Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway for the first time since _McHale’s Navy_ was canceled (and they’re wonderful as Mermaidman and Barnacleboy-think of a geriatric Batman and Robin). He’s such a bright fellow. He can do no wrong. We can all learn a lesson from SpongeBob. (Looking at that article, I see that making _SpongeBob_ is the complete opposite of how most cartoons are made. Animation BEFORE voice-overs? That must be difficult!) ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/6 "2002-04-09T20:30:14Z")
Heh heh heh…this morning, I was in a meeting, getting angrier and angrier at the short-sightedness of my coworkers…and I suddenly thought of Mr. Krab. Mr. Krab, getting angrier and angrier, until you hear the _ding_ of a kitchen timer going off, and then deflating and sighing, “Oh, all right.” Hooooo, did I get the giggles then! :o _ding_ BWAHAHAHA!! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/7 "2002-04-09T20:40:11Z")
I loved the episode where they are teasing Sandy that she can’t breath underwater without her helmet. Then SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward(sp?), and Krusty Krab all take Sandy’s dare and go up on dry land. On dry land the characters are represented as a kitchen sponge, a plastic toy star fish, a little Squidward doll, and a plastic toy crab all attached to popsicle sticks. Then a seagull comes down and attacks them all. Mrs. ShibbOleth and I were rolling on the floor laughing. Thank god for children so we have an excuse to watch the good tv! ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/8 "2002-04-09T20:40:48Z")
My favorite is Gary the Snail. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/9 "2002-04-10T01:13:02Z")
Isn’t that little one-eyed plankton guy always trying to steal a crab burger or something? ---
**Author:** ![utilityplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@utilityplayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/utilityplayer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/10 "2002-04-10T02:05:55Z")
Yes, I am a SpongeBobian. And I have the shirt to prove it. “Ooooooh…who lives in a pineapple under the sea…” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/11 "2002-04-10T02:18:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by utilityplayer \* > \*\*“Ooooooh…who lives in a pineapple under the sea…” \*\* SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! “Absorbent and yellow and porous is he…” ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/12 "2002-04-10T02:22:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\* > > SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! > > “Absorbent and yellow and porous is he…” \*\* OK, somebody complete the theme song. My kids and I watch this show everyday (and I love it more than they do), but I can’t understand the rest of the lyrics. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Nevermind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nevermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nevermind)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/13 "2002-04-10T02:30:02Z")
Waaaaahhh. I’m feeling foolish–but I’ve never heard of SBSP!!! Channel time and premise please? IMA:wally 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/14 "2002-04-10T02:50:29Z")
Yes, yes, it’s all very funny but they keep forgetting they are suppose to be underwater! They have fires and they tend to fall off things rather than float! Oh I know what your thinking! You’re even getting ready to type it! “Blackclaw, it’s just a cartoon!” Well it’s not I say! Besides catoons should always obey the rules of physics like the Roadrunner does… ok, bad example. Um Tom and Jerry? No, bad physics there too. Um… well I’m sure some cartoon somewhere pays attention to physics dang it! Stop looking at me like that! Yeah, you think you are so smart! Mutter, mutter, incoherent babbling… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/15 "2002-04-10T02:52:49Z")
It’s a Nickelodeon product, check your local listings for details (especially since their line up seems to change at random). It was on MTV at 11 pm for a couple of weeks (Nick and MTV are both part of the same conglomerate, Viacom IIRC) but that seems to have bitten the dust. \*[SIZE=1] Hey, kids! Ya ready? AYE AYE CAPTAIN! I can’t hear you! AYE AYE CAPTAIN! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he, Spongebob Squarepants! If nautical nonsense be somethin’ you wish, Spongebob Squarepants! Then drop drop on the deck and flop like a fish, Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Sponge - Bob, Square - Pants! Ah ha ha ha ah har har har! SIZE] \* ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/16 "2002-04-10T02:54:05Z")
It’s a Nickelodeon product, check your local listings for details (especially since their line up seems to change at random). It was on MTV at 11 pm for a couple of weeks (Nick and MTV are both part of the same conglomerate, Viacom IIRC) but that seems to have bitten the dust. - Hey, kids! Ya ready? AYE AYE CAPTAIN! I can’t hear you! AYE AYE CAPTAIN! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he, Spongebob Squarepants! If nautical nonsense be somethin’ you wish, Spongebob Squarepants! Then drop drop on the deck and flop like a fish, Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Sponge - Bob, Square - Pants! Ah ha ha ha ah har har har! \* ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/17 "2002-04-10T11:14:05Z")
One of those things about which I am extremely proud (an snobby of the fact) to have been a part of since the very beginning. I think they knew it was going to be a hit from the beginning, they were really playing it up and mentioned it a LOT. I like the early ones the best. With the drum beats in the background and the like. Here’s what I want. More exploration of the underground world. We’ve only been to Bikini Bottom, Rock Bottom, somewhere out in the wilderness and then a bit on land. My favorite is Plankton. What was he again, 1% evil, 99% hot gas? ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/18 "2002-04-10T11:37:50Z")
My stepdaughter watches it all the time, and now my mother is hooked on it too. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/19 "2002-04-10T12:11:09Z")
I dig it. I sometimes accidently catch it during the weekend and I have to watch. I’ve only seen a couple episodes, but its a great new cartoon. [ahem] I also like the Powerpuff Girls and Johnny Bravo. And I _love_ Dexter’s Lab! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spongebob-squarepants/102703/20 "2002-04-10T12:13:18Z")
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