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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? In the early '00s, anyone with a pulse knew the answer to that question, as we all were caught in the surprisingly firm grip of SpongeBob-mania. And, of course, any TV series this huge with this much merchandise needs a movie (with even more merchandise), so the world finally saw one after three highly successful seasons of SpongeBob. Originally intended to be the character's swan song, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie stands as the capstone of the optimistic little sponge's many adventures, as well as the creator's final involvement in the world of Bikini Bottom. So sit back and get ready for a four-hour podcast that's sure to make a man out of you! 

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Blake

Ween!

Tashmon Dimps

4 HOURS! You spoil us so much. Thank you for this!!

Tyler The Destroyer

I feel when spongebob says “you don’t need a license to drive a Sandwhich” it reminded me of Hank Hill saying “you don’t need a License to drive a tow truck” lol Thank you so much for all you guys have been doing. four hours of SpongeBob fun I can’t wait!

Alex Irish

Unlike Bob and Henry who didn't see this in theaters back in 2004, I was over the moon when I first saw the teaser poster announcing there was to be a SpongeBob movie the December before. Then as a junior in high school, I saw it in theaters five times(!). It was Itchy and Scratchy Movie-levels of hype for me where I went as far to joke that The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie was the defining event of our generation. Remember that at the time, SpongeBob was fresher and every episode was considered gold, and it was the biggest Nicktoon phenomenon since Ren and Stimpy. There wasn't a high schooler alive in the world who didn't know who SpongeBob was. And I always love seeing an unabashed cartoon movie on the big screen. At one screening, one of my friends remarked, "this was larger than life. Where do I buy the T-Shirt?". That means Viacom's brilliant scheme was working.

Tricia

I remember this movie being the talk of my schoolyard and pretty much everyone loved it, save those edgy kids who saw it as “gay” Speaking of, didn’t Ren & Stimpy also get gay panic reactions? I feel like a lot of kids media gets this and it’s mostly due to projection...

Bradley Winton

Spongebob always has the greatest honour of my Dad telling me it was one of the only shows i watched as a kid he liked, and wouldn't leave the room if i was watching it. I was the perfect age for Spongebob and while i love the simpsons, this was what the simpsons was to Bob and Henry as kids as it was to me, a silly, but well written show. The movie is fantastic and i think still holds up, I still remember going to see this at the cinema, and now that i think about it, disregarding anime, i honestly think it was the last completely 2D animated movie i ever saw in the theatres.

Tyler The Destroyer

Oh wow I am almost 10 years younger than you guys I was 14 when this movie came out when you guys mentioned SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom and thrust me back to my early high school days playing this game forever alongside my brother we would pass the controller between us whenever one of us died more than three times I specifically remember the bubble wand torpedo where your POV in the game became the flying torpedo when you had to maneuver around the screen and blow up everything in your path in the correct order it was a really awesome game and I highly recommend at least Bob to try it out and maybe even review it for Retronauts! :)

Door Curtain

When listening to this podcast, Bob and Henry debated the canonical status of the movie in relation to the series, but Stephen Hillenburg, before he passed away, said that the movie was chronologically set at the very end of the SpongeBob show, probably to account for the fact that the show would end up continuing past the third season against his wishes. This explains why SpongeBob gets the promotion despite that being a big change to the status quo, because chronologically nothing takes place after the movie anyway. Love your podcast, been listening for a few years, it means a lot that you covered SpongeBob so thoroughly and comprehensively even though you two admit to not having grown up with it, as I believe it to be my generation's The Simpsons in terms of how much of a sheer cultural touchstone it was and how many jokes and memes have come out of it. Like Bradley Winton, Spongebob was THE cartoon for us, and when I rewatched it for this podcast, I was blown away by how much it still made me laugh 16 years later.

ShyRanger

So there IS some complaints about the later years of Spongebob episodes, and luckily the few I've seen were NOT "who ruined" but rather just how the show overall progressed in later years. My friend and I have watched every episode recently basically as a "why not" and while I really WANT to like later Spongebob stuff, I sadly do have many issues with the new stuff. I'll save a long list and just point out my biggest issue. During your guys' history of Spongebob, Matthew Jay pointed out how he loves that the show could slow down the pace when needed, not always throwing things at kids and moving. Sadly new seasons have generally lost that touch. A scene where Sandy and Mrs. Puff are just sitting having lunch, you constantly see Sandy bounce and move in her seat as if she had 20 cups of coffee (which she didn't). It comes out like they're worried kids would get bored seeing two girls hang out for a minute.

NervousWrex

Psyched for this episode, I had recently rewatched this movie and was pleasantly surprised at how well it holds up. I still remember seeing it in theaters on opening weekend and having a blast. During the scene in Shell City when Spongebob and Patrick get dried out a kid in the audience loudly and emotionlessly declared "They're Dead", which became an inside joke with my friends for the longest time. Brief aside, I loved the Grandmas Virginity Podcast but I think a lot of people first heard of Justin Roiland from Channel 101 and House of Cosbys, which I have to image holds up much, much worse. Bob, I'm still hoping you'll share your GVP 3DS contest submission with us some day.

Professor Tony

Just finished where you guys were calling out the Little Mermaid Live show. Ariel was actually played by Auli'i Cravalho - the voice of Moana. She was amazing in Moana but terrible as Ariel.

y2kpodcst

The spongebob movie was the first movie I saw in theaters. I was too young to see incredibulls things. I'm getting ready for my high school graduation. If you want to know about the later seasons of spongebob this is a super condensed version the following season was still enjoyed but after the episode began to take a dip in quality it was a mix of much of the cew went on to work on different projects camp lazlo chowder etc and there was flanderization to several of the characters patrick and spongebob became much dumber as the seasons went on. And the show's decision to constantly shit on squidward usually in previous episodes squidward would try to trick spongebob or patrick into something for his own again but now well he's squidward beat the shit out of him which was a lot of episodes. That along with a too season orders of 22 half hour segments back to back equaling out to 44 eleven minutes segments there was an enviable dip.that and several episodes felt more like the worst of ren and stimpy awkwardly put into a spongebob episode did not help things. (want to watch spongebob get a splinter and get more infected for 11 minutes no well you can). Many of these things brought way to the worst of fans of the show emagine if when the simpsons began to dip in quality that the writers also had twitter and thus that is what happens. Though in more recent seasons have been much better shorter season orders fans of the show begin to write on the show and the willingness not center every episode on spongebob and give side characters their own episode have freshened up the show. Sorry this was a bit ranty but i did want to give a bit of context to what happend after the film

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I didn't see this in theatres but I watched it several times on DVD with a friend to the point and remembered really liking it then. I hadn't revisited it since 2005-2006, but goddamn if I don't like it more now than I did then. It's such a well-animated and fun celebration of (most of) what makes the series great, and I love all the very Spongebob-esque touches (following the mold of Ren & Stimpy/ other 90s cartoons) that we don't really see anymore. Since it's been on my mind lately with the Michael & Me episode, I thought a bit about the Simpsons movie while watching it and this avoids a lot of the pitfalls that detract from that movie IMO. It's up there with Mask of the Phantasm, Beavis & Butthead, and A Goofy Movie as being great film versions of awesome cartoons.

Eve of the Stars

The first time I saw this movie was on TV, and I totally misheard the final line of the movie. Spongebob says to Squidward, "your fly is down", but I thought I heard him say "you're fired!" So for the longest time I thought the series was meant to end with Spongebob vengefully firing Squidward the moment he gains the power. It was very out of character and I was relieved when I saw the movie again and heard it correctly!

Harry Thornton

From what I've read, the relation between the Spongebob movie and show is that, no matter how many episodes they make, the film is THE finale to the entire series.

Kris

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