Seriously, what's the real reason behind Spongebob success? Spongebob is a billion dollar worth franchise, it outlived all of it's peers like no other, it achieved worldwide Mickey Mouse levels of recognition with only a handful of episodes that aired for a couple years. But deep down, Spongebob was just another cartoon, with production, drawings and gags not really that different from other cartoons.
I have the theory there are some really really heavy subtle psychological subsets that make Spongebob appeal to the human subconscious, which made Spongebob's reception so memorable during it's first 3 seasons. I think it has to do with a combination of geometrical shape, proportions and color combination that makes him appeal to things naturally like.
Unique stand-out protagonist with a design unlike ever seen in kids show before. Quirky humor that appealed to adults who watched it with their kids - which moved on to celebrities raving about it - giving it a popularity boost.
Lots of merchandising potential - it hit it's stride early on and cemented itself in an up and coming generation. Plus the Network was constantly airing it while axing most other cartoons.
In the 90s Nickelodeon had a plethora of cartoons, usually 5-8 going on at any given time. Now a days, there is like 3 tops and 1 is always Spongebob.
Caleb Ramirez
I think somebody said it when talking about Teen Titans but people underestimate how much big eyes help to make a character's design more memorable (just look at Spider-Man). SpongeBob has a very simple but recognizable design.
Adam Reyes
yellow and works at a burger joint he reminds everyone of McDonalds everyone is addicted to McDonalds everyone is addicted to sponge bob by association
kinda like a festish
Grayson Cooper
Right place, right time, right team. From what I've heard, Nick was sinking all of their cash into Rugrats and CatDog, and gave SpongeBob a smaller budget. The team made up for this with great scripts, enjoyable characters, and a unique setting.
Alexander Johnson
>people underestimate how much big eyes help to make a character's design more memorable That makes sense, big eyes cause an impact on mammals psyche and nature has a fetish for big eyes
-The design is original and striking. - The writing of the first three seasons is fun and sometimes heartwarming.
Ryan Sanders
the comedic timing is all but unmatched to this day. Even when the jokes are nonsense, they land
Ian Barnes
This. Spongebob is what happens when a big network lets a team do what they want with little interference. Giving a trusted team the resources, exposure, support, and creative freedom to make something will 8 out of 10 times result in a very good and pretty profitable product. Problem is you need to give them ALL of those things to really soar, and more often than not, modern studios are resistant to even giving them one.
To anyone arguing anything about him being yellow or the big eyes cute theory: Remember that Rugrats was fucking huge at the time and got like, five movies. It was alongside Spongebob in terms of being a money-maker, and it had one of the ugliest art styles around.
Parker Cooper
>all those fucking notes Its too much
Gabriel Hughes
theyre designing a main character. attention to detail is a must.
Julian Barnes
The notes are just the main color numbers for when cels were painted.
Isaiah Howard
I find it funny how it's ok for the network to just let a show do it's own thing but fans insist that x-show should be what they want exactly to their specifications.
>Why are they making a comfy slice of life/comedy show and not just like my action anime?
Ryder Gray
If only they could keep Spongebob to look like he did on the pilot and S1
i fucking detest how he looks in some episodes starting S2, the ones when he looks like a total idiot and he looks flat and solid as a brick.
Meme answer: Soul Non meme answer: they put effort into it, from jokes, to designs, to expressions and soundtrack, maybe except backgrounds
Carson Scott
Some video I saw one day had a theory that the SpongeBob and Squidward dynamic made the first few seasons so memorable. I actually agreed, they played off each other very well and post Hindenburg the new writing team flanderized the characters. Reminds me of a quote I heard a long time ago, old sitcoms were written by people who lived lives and drew from their experiences. New tv is written by people who grew up watching TV. Hence the flanderization of the series.
William Gutierrez
My argument has to do with SpongeBob being the most popular cartoon during the slow transition of internet dominance over television. From 2004 on, SponeBob has been a huge source of internet related jokes, parody, homage and so on. It kept the character in three different generation's minds. Of course SpongeBob would not have gotten that popular in the first place had it not been for its memorable first few seasons, but as people stopped actively watching the show, they were reminded of the character, and things just snowballed from there.
Samuel Johnson
I'm honestly not sure how to answer because in one way it's so obvious and in another way it's impossible to answer. With all things so popular, it's a matter of timing. I think the most important thing to note is that Spongebob provided a non-PC humor that was funny to all ages, not just children, ans so parents subtly encouraged their children to watch,etc, etc. And in a more general sense, Spongebob was humor that children appreciate and that adults gave feedback that said this was good humor. And such a convergence of sensibilities is actually extremely rare, and though it might mean very little to adults, it actually means a subconscious whole lot to kids.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
This image isn't even taking into account his mouth moving to the middle of his face as opposed to being near the bottom. SponeBob's design has changed slowly. You'd notice if you took a screencap from each season instead of taking to polar extremes.
Isaac Bailey
A network that is funding a multi-million dollar project isn't comparable to Yea Forums or Tumblr fanbases whining.
Henry Ortiz
There's a sheet by Hillenburg where he explains exactly what NOT to do when drawing Spongebob and they broke all those rules after a few seasons, like drawing him square instead of wider at the top.
Because it was a great cartoon and it looked incredibly fresh and unique. There's a huge amount of imagination and genuine love that went in this show's creation unlike 99% of other shows.
Andrew Gutierrez
>He was Rocko with more conventional appeal/less risqué (just like Phineas and Ferb) >It wasn't as mean spirited as Catdog or had the dull writing of Hey Arnold/Klasky Csupo shows
Christian Reed
IIRC some of the younger generations prefer the new episodes that aired when they were kids. Like I remember seeing a infograph favoring newer seasons over ones from season 1-3 I think they just manage to adapt to what kids currently like without losing itself to an unrecognizable view. Take the weird faces in newer seasons, they did it first and now every one else is doing it too, we could probably thank memes and reaction pics for that
>it's so obvious and in another way it's impossible to answer This is so damn true. Other cartoons tried to imitate Spongebob's rhetoric, but none of them could recreate. It's not just about gags, childish personality, a dumb friend, a narcissist friend, etc.
Because the answer doesn't line in the product, but the crew behind it. Reasons why Spongebob got popular can also be found in why something like MLP, Adventure Time, or Gravity Falls blew up.
Right time, right place is a major factor (As well as having your show actually air). But there's a lot of, "Doing what you love, but with a fresh spin on it". The product being familiar hooks people in, but it being "fresh" keeps them there. There are passionate cartoonists who make things that are so out there and experimental or alienated from mainstream audiences, they struggle to get popular (Think of the Superjail creator).
Whereas something like Adventure Time is already combining things that a large core audience loves (Nintendo, Zelda, Dungeons and Dragons, wacky web comic humor) but doing it during a time when no one else was.
It's hard to know when your story will just take off like that. In the 90's, Wander Over Yonder might've been as much of a classic as Dexter's Lab. But right now? It failed to find an audience.
Hudson Campbell
They had a great foundation to build from (Rocko's Modern Life.) They just toned the edge and adultness down a little and made the characters more marketable.
Austin Sanders
>Seriously, what's the real reason behind Spongebob success? being a good show
Tyler Wilson
Loud House or Spongebob?
Luke Cox
Loud House
Cameron Moore
It can't be that simple
Carter Morales
- Spongebob looks cute and has to learn how to be an adult which appeals to both children and adults - the setting of bikini bottom reminds of holiday and is really relaxing to look at - everyone loves burgers - all the other characters have pretty much their own life philosophies and are therefore relatable too - the characters are made of simple shapes and colors and really recognizable - they're non human characters without appealing to furries - OBVIOUSLY the humor
Biggest factors 1. it was the right time, on the right network You really cannot overstate how important this element is. This was the height of cable television, at a time when there was little other choices for what people could watch. Nowadays everyone is fractured, watching what they want to watch. A whole generation grew up watching Spongebob. 2. It was a genuinely high quality product Spongebob was funny, unique, and appealed well to all age groups, adults and children. It was non-violent, and had no themes that religious parents could object to, so even the shut-ins that were banned from Pokemon could watch Spongebob. It had talented staff of course, but again, the most important thing was when it was made the network was willing to give the show healthy funding, advertising and created in 2D traditional animation. You would never get that these days. 3. He really stands out from traditional mascots. Bright yellow color that is pops on CTR television screens (like Simpsons or Pacman). Big eyes, simple design. Charming (early) personality.
That said, I'm sure Nickelodeon wishes that some other cartoon had been their billion dollar break out hit. Compare Spongebob with Mickey Mouse, Mario or even Bugs Bunny. All those other characters are neutral, you can place them into any situation with only a few minor tweaks. They have a greater range than Spongebob, who is stuck in pure comedy and a nautical theme gimmick.
Alexander Cox
is not just the cheek. is the gesture as whole
Ayden Brooks
It had broad appeal. Simple as that.
William Morgan
> like drawing him square instead of wider at the top I see the point
The backgrounds have always been simple yet majestic. And the "flower cloud" is easily one of the most brilliant and iconic design ideas in animation history.
But Flanders himself was flanderized by the people who created him with a more fleshed-out character.
Christopher Fisher
Just like with Simpsons, Yea Forums discounts how important animation is to the DELIVERY of a joke.
Modern Spongebob has shit animation, and shitty bland animation can turn a 10/10 joke into 3/10 garbage.
It old Spongebob was written exactly the same, but drawn like modern Spongebob, nobody would have liked it.
Ian Lee
>co/ discounts how important TIMING is to the DELIVERY of a joke. ftfy
you fucking retard
Evan Howard
>Wander Over Yonder failed to find an audience I will never not be mad about this. IT TOOK FUCKING LAST-MINUTE WAIFUBAIT FOR PEOPLE TO START CARING ABOUT THIS SHOW!
Timing is important, it is not as important as animation as a whole (of which timing is partially a competent of).
Stop talking if you don't know what you're talking about.
Joseph Wood
>It old Spongebob was written exactly the same, but drawn like modern Spongebob, nobody would have liked it Yeah that's just not true. The writing in the show, i.e. the characters, plots, settings, jokes, was what drew people in and made them remember the show for more than 30 minutes. If the show had terrible writing to start with no one would have given a damn.
Aiden Scott
Reminder that prime era Spongebob was second fiddle in the ratings to FOP. How did Hartman blow it...
William Jackson
That face was from a nightmare sequence where Lincoln is tryharding to be funny and different but his audience just groans at him. If anything I found it a clever metacommentary on those forced "meme faces" shows like Gumball do.
Dylan Smith
>shitty bland animation I think you're still misguided. Seasons 5~9 had stiffer animation, but the current episodes are the exact opposite. Every second of every episode, a character is making WACKY faces. We definitely need more of those in modern cartoons, but not when they're used as an alternative for actual jokes or good writing.
is right. TIMING is key. It's what made classic Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes so universally funny and timeless. Funny faces are great and all, but the best comedy comes from exaggerating relatable situations with timing and character acting that make said situations so absurd, you can't help but laugh.
>Yellow MC Can be sold to either boys or girls, there's no surprise that the two biggest characters of kids media to come out of the 90s were Pikachu and Spongebob >big expressive eyes but also kinda easy to draw, he's just a square kids can do their own spongebob drawings easily >unique designs >unqiue setting >kids relate to sponge, teens/adults relate to squidward >idiot sidekick can spout catchphrasey punchlines >catchy songs by solid bands >good messages sometimes >came out a couple of years before 9/11 after which the world went to shit, so he's a reminder of the 'good old days' for a lot of kids, strong nostalgic attachment.
Justin Nguyen
Re-read my post. If the writing remained the same, but the animation of old Sp-ongbob was bad, people would have not liked it.
The writing was good, but the potential for it was only unlocked by the animation quality.
Benjamin Campbell
>Every second of every episode, a character is making WACKY faces.
That doesn't mean good animation. In fact that's a good highlight of the badness of the modern animation. Those "Waky faces" jokes fall flat BECAUSE the animation is not up to snuff to pull off these jokes.
Elijah Martin
re-read his post, he's simply disagreeing it's writing > animation the animation of Spongebob's early season is really nothing impressive
Nathaniel Richardson
According to Hillenberg and Mr Lawrence a lot of humor in SpongeBob was fueled by doing things that Murray turned down in Rocko
Jeremiah Ortiz
Not always. Do you want to know why the original Star Wars trilogy isn't as bad as it's prequels? Studio interference. Same thing with the Matrix sequels.
Hunter Myers
>Whereas something like Adventure Time is already combining things that a large core audience loves (Nintendo, Zelda, Dungeons and Dragons, wacky web comic humor) but doing it during a time when no one else was. then they fucked it up
Joseph Evans
Did they even ever do an underwater setting in cartoons aside of the little mermaid?
David Rogers
A time when a cartoon was needed that wasn't Ren and Stimpy but filled that void. Being weird and random enough stopping short of being vulgar or in poor taste. The multimedia moments, puns and simple gags really brang it home to stay.
That's the thing, the animation of early Spongbob wasn't groundbreaking fantastic. It was just decent, and in a medium (2D traditional) that complimented quality.
BAD animation destroys jokes, or really any sort of action, romance or drama in a cartoon. New Spongebob has actively bad animation. And it ruins the jokes that even potentially could be good.
>not when they're used as an alternative for actual jokes or good writing. sounds like youtube animators are ending up on the show.
Carter Adams
It was a success because of SpongeBob's personality.
Wander's personality was too similar to SpongeBob's.
Sebastian White
i miss the muted colors
Jacob Jones
is there any SB artbooks? do you have any more images?
Jaxon Harris
Because Wander was shit, the show should have been about Hater running his evil empire
Joshua Roberts
>Wander was shit Look, I know we all agree that Hater’s the best cartoon character to come out of the 2010s, but Wander was funny and adorable. The reason WOY failed was because it came out at a bad time; by 2013, Adventure Time had already evolved to be a bit darker and more serialized, and Gravity Falls had already started changing Disney TVA by making lore-heavy mystery cartoons the new cash cow formula. A silly comedy cartoon like WOY was just scoffed at by audiences who felt it was too “childish.”
Exceptionally good first, second, and third season. That's really all you need with a comedy cartoon. If you have really good early seasons, you can be as mediocre as you want later on.
Unique design. Unique setting. Wel animated. well drawn. Well written (at least the first 3 seasons that made it a household name) Simple but effective likable characters.
Spongebob's success is akin to the same reason cartoons in the 20s-40s had such success. It was just somehting no one had ever seen done before on top of it being incredibly funny and charming.
Dylan Smith
it's not like everything spongebob did was genius
the good just far outweighed the annoying and forgettable
plus it aired constantly on TV so it got drilled into the heads of almost every American millennial
Lincoln Wilson
yes but nothing like this. Stuff like the Snorks and sealab 2020 existed but with no immediate success. Plus they just lacked a certain tropical under water setting spongebob did, the Ocean Floor in spongebob looks like no other representation of the ocean ever seen. Even the prettiest underwater backdroops like Litte Mermaid don't look anything like spongebob's. There's a certain element of familiarity it's setting has that stands out from the crowd.
It also helps that hillenburg himself had such a love and understanding for the ocean that it looks and feels natural. You can tell a counscious effort was put into making sure that while character interactions felt human they never let you forget you were in an underwater setting.
Chase Thomas
He said 8/10 for a reason
Ryder Thompson
He was WAY more expressive back then. Or at least looked more natural.
>It wasn't as mean spirited as Catdog or had the dull writing of Hey Arnold/Klasky Csupo shows
Hey Arnold was a great show ruined by studio greed. Cancelled out of spite of the showrunner doing work for CN and other disagreements. Since Nick owns the show, Craig Bartlett could not shop it to anyone
Grayson Reyes
>Hey Arnold was a great show ruined by studio greed. Cancelled out of spite of the showrunner doing work for CN and other disagreements Go on...
This. I fucking hate Summer Camp Island, and agree with the sentiment, but that's literally just an uninspired reject John K cat.
Jace Ross
>Do you want to know why the original Star Wars trilogy isn't as bad as it's prequels? Studio interference
Quoting shit a YouTuber told him
Joseph Johnson
I don't think that picture means what you think it means.
Zachary Cook
Craig Bartlett and co. had already begun to work on the 'Jungle Movie' (where Arnold goes in search of his parents with the help of his classmates) when Nick told him that he would have to sign an exclusivity contract if he was to continue working there. Since Craig was already working with CN on 'Party Wagon', Nick told him to GTFO
Evan White
The backgrounds in 1-3 spongebob dont get enough credit. A lot of them looked really good.
Eli Myers
In way it was because of how memeable it was in a time before memes were popular. Every kid used to quote jokes from spongebob and still do to this day.
Mason King
I'm sorry you like Summer Camp Island, user
Jackson Hernandez
youtube.com/watch?v=cYu7Y52iiYI The gist of it is the dichotomy between Spongebob and Squidward, and how the public changed which one of them they relate to as they aged
Jaxon Hall
>appeal to things naturally like. >things >naturally >natural >nature
You do know that Stephen Hillenburg is a marine biologist, right?
The truth is we had no choice. It was what was on TV. Otherwise we'd have to play outside.
Asher Bell
>Cigarettes the Cat Someone's a John K. fan.
Gabriel Anderson
>And the "flower cloud" is easily one of the most brilliant and iconic design ideas in animation history. Totally right, one of those details that you never really notice but it's so subtly well done.
Jeremiah Hill
This looks really good, neat.
Grayson Thomas
It wasn't the studios it was Lucas' friends and trusted creative partners you fucking mong.
Mason Sullivan
>Spongebob is what happens when a big network lets a team do what they want with little interference. Why did this work FANTASTIC for spongebob.
But basically destroyed AT?
Nathan Cooper
Thats sort of true. In an episode of Harmontown, Dan Harmon talks about using TV as an escape from his household and why working on Community at NBC let him capture some TV magic that wasn't available at cable studios.
On the other hand, I Love Lucy or the Bob Newhart Show or the Jack Benny Program were wide enough to influence every show after them. That's also ignoring classic radio sitcoms like Fred Allen or Jack Benny.
My point is Jack Benny is dope as shit.
Ryan Cook
I mean, it worked fantastic for SB for 3 seasons, which is basically the same length AT stayed good. And AT didn't just have creative freedom, the head stepped down and then the show became more experimental. Not exactly comparative.
Juan Roberts
AT is what would have happened to spongebob if hillenberg didn't have previous experience in the industry as a director and he also left the show
Liam Myers
So he's the one to blame for Spongebob doing THAT face in the newer seasons.
Samuel Bennett
holy shit that looks so bad on Jack
Christian Russell
That and many of the buildings in said background are made of various ship parts. Look back at this picture you got anchors, boat rudders, metal tubes and a life savor serving as the sign for the town.
Nathaniel Flores
Yeah, I hadn't thought of it before, but the flower clouds are worth appreciating in that they are familiar (there are "clouds" as if they were not under water) but also alien, and they also tie the whole hawaiian theme directly into an environment that wouldn't otherwise show it.
I mean, this is also why he lives in a pineapple. It's hawaiian, but hawaiian stuff is more about the beach and the land, not the ocean floor...
I watched season 1 recently and as a kid I didn't notice all these great abstract hawaiian backgrounds, which also show concern for a visual theme.
As for OP I think that the success of the show really is because of how well made it was, rather than advertising or the subliminal appeal of the sponge. I think it's an especially endearing show because it takes the cynicism and edginess of Ren & Stimpy and puts it into a nicer world with a main character who's an adult with responsibilities and an independent life, but is also joyful and childlike. Rocko came before with the idea of a kid cartoons about adult characters who have jobs, but I think it's the contrast with SpongeBob's character that really makes him interesting.
Shows with "fappable" aren't popular. Sandy is hot
Juan Murphy
I cant really think about spongebob without a steel guitar playing in the back of my mind. It's just a very good show that anyone and everyone could sit down and find something to like about. I was talking to my dad and spongebob came up some time ago and I was a kid when it first came out. He said he'd ended up actually liking it and watching it with me, that's really really common too with parents that where raising kids while the early seasons where on air
Bentley Sanders
One thing that has always puzzled me is how the show has such a massive "fanbase" (for lack of a better word) with a myriad of different characters, but it never became a source of a massive amount of fanart. Sure people draw the characters but there never was a wave of OCs or a huge flow of fanfics or anything, especially compared to less popular shows like IZ
Michael Myers
autist fanbases ruin shows that's why SB is great too, you don't associate it with any cringe fan content
Brayden Young
Honestly, I seen entire s1 and either full s2 or part of it, and I feel like they squandered the potential of 'bottom of the sea' setting. Also, its one of those shows you don't watch for protagonist. SB the character is insufferable and so is Patrick, authors done a smart thing by throwing in some straight-man chars to balance things out.
Joshua Anderson
Someone post THAT picture of Sandy.
You know the one.
Mason Cruz
you wouldn't enjoy the movie then
Jordan Harris
I never liked it and still don't, and I too have never understood how it got so popular. However, it's not even close to disney level in europe.
Justin Hughes
>old sitcoms were written by people who lived lives and drew from their experiences. New tv is written by people who grew up watching TV. This is true for writing too, at least for genre fiction. The old greats like Robert Howard, Tolkien and Frank Herbert had laundry lists of things they did with their lives before they started writing, and you can see it in their work. Modern fantasy and sci-fi authors are mostly nerds who grew up reading those books, and they can't quite capture the spirit of the greats because they don't have the life experience to make their stories that much more real.
Justin Perry
It's geared to a pretty young set. I tried giving it a watch but ended up feeling kinda embarrassed.
Nathaniel Barnes
>I feel like they squandered the potential of 'bottom of the sea' setting what? did you skip the episodes like Rock Bottom and Pizza Delivery or something? >SB the character is insufferable and so is Patrick guess we were just watching a different show entirely. before the show became a caricature of itself spongebob and patrick were dumb at times but not annoying. spongebob was the well-meaning everyman and patrick was a guy who thought he knew wayyy more than he did which is where a lot of his humor and meme status came from, then they beat that trope out of him to death after the creator left
>Can be sold to either boys or girls, there's no surprise that the two biggest characters of kids media to come out of the 90s were Pikachu and Spongebob Holy shit I didn't even think about that. That kind of explains the universal appeal of Super Saiyans kind of too
Jackson Phillips
and aryans Hitler was right
Wyatt Mitchell
Waifubait wasn't as much of a thing back then
Ian Peterson
what is AT?
Jeremiah James
>Rock Bottom and Pizza Delivery I dont remember skipping any episodes, just watching one after another until the show stopped being interesting to me.
Rock bottom sounds like the title for that one episode where SB was waiting for the bus back to bikini bottom in a deep sea place. That was a good one.
I dont remember pizza one tho.
>spongebob was the well-meaning everyman True, but he was very forceful and annoying in that well-meaning endeavors of his. Sometimes it was just right, other times it was too much. >patrick was a guy who thought he knew wayyy more than he did He always seemed like a retard friend and comedic relief to me, with a scrap of actually being a good friend to SB thrown in once in a while, keeping him from completely degenerating as a character. Thats just my hot opinions tho.
Lack of poor leadership. If you ever read any behind the scenes stuff, you'll find out that Hillenburg was very hands-on with every facet of the show, but not to the point of being an annoying micro-manager.
Early on, when the show didn't quite know what it wanted to be, it was successful as the crew were just having fun doing little random things they thought were funny. But then Sugar started to drive the series in a certain direction, gained awards and praise for it, and every future person they hired were trying to follow in her footsteps since she was the closest thing the team had to a leader and they wanted to emulate her. And then the show became, "The crew doing random things they think is serious and dramatic", which is a lot harder to pull off than just gags and jokes.
It's why SU fell apart really early. Everyone had their own idea of how to drive this cartoon with a serious tone. People doing their own thing works in episodic comedies, it's terrible for a narrative or world-building.
Aiden Baker
Goddamn, I never noticed how beautiful the color scripts are for the show. That exterior shot of KRUSTY KRAB OPEN FOREVER is gorgeous.
Liam Cook
How short are SpongeBob's shorts?
Dylan Lee
>"But deep down, Spongebob was just another cartoon, with production, drawings and gags not really that different from other cartoons.?
Yeah? So does the Mouse, Felix, and others before & after. That's like saying Super Mario Bros is just another video game with simple mechanics, scrolling, collecting, and not completely different from other platformers.
Because Pen lacked experience. That's really the key here. I know everyone here hates him, but John K. was right; you shouldn't let kids who've had one animation job at most boss around everyone else
Hillenburg and his crew had years of experience before starting spongebob, so they knew what they were doing basically from day one
Gabriel Smith
Soul/souless
Levi Ramirez
you fulfilled 103742429's wish worst part is those 2 images are clearly edited as I saw those 2 scenes and SpongeBob did not make that pose in any frame.
Thomas Moore
user I don't know which one, I have seen horrible things with Sandy
Nolan Roberts
the right team at the right time in the right place
Mindy's pretty hot, but then again she was only in the 2004 film.
Dominic Rogers
>Hillenburg and his crew had years of experience before starting spongebob, so they knew what they were doing basically from day one Damn. I think you’ve got a point there.
Anybody know what Derek Drymon’s up to nowadays? The last I can remember were his Cartoonstitute pilot and his time on AT Season 1.
>we will never have a full-length 2D-animated feature on the big screen ever again Are the execs right? Would those normie, Minion-loving American families really be uninterested in seeing hand-drawn animation in theaters?
>I have the theory there are some really really heavy subtle psychological subsets that make Spongebob appeal to the human subconscious, which made Spongebob's reception so memorable during it's first 3 seasons. Yes but it doesn't have anything to do with his shape or color. It's called good writing
anything is fuckable according to the internet I guess
Hunter Barnes
I'm curious to know to WHICH one you are referring.
Brody Price
the one with the plane?
Jeremiah Adams
Its the color Yellow. Minions and the Simpson use it as well. It fools the simple reptilian brain of the corporate executive which registers it as "Gold." The thing that they need to consume to survive on our planet.
I made the mistake of trying to look up of trying to find one particular song from this soundtrack based off of memory. Know how many songs are on this playlist alone?
341. And a large portion of them are full-length. It's as through every episode managed to have at least one unique song dedicated it that would either match the tone of the episode, or set it entirely. If you go through and listen to each play list, a different episode will come to mind each time. And the weird part is that half the time you'll be wrong and you'll be remembering the wrong episode, just because they were rarely reusing these songs.
See, the thing is that ever since Season 2, the people behind Bob's Burgers have done much more with the animation by not solely relying on puppet rigs. The show is actually capable of good visuals and animation, and I hope that can be represented well in the theatrical film.
>everyone is addicted to McDonalds >tfw I was born in commieland and kinda hate McDonalds-like joints in general, preferring cheaper and more familiar cafeterias (or "cтoлoвыe" as they're called here) That's probably why I never liked Spongebob
Ryan Price
Is Nu Spongebob really watchable again since the 10th season?
Hunter Green
Eh, just barely. The show is fucking amazing as far as visuals go (unapologetically cartoony slapstick, expressive faces, smooth-ass animation, fun character designs), but it all of that is wasted on weak story ideas and shitty "jokes."
's right. The current SpongeBob crew uses wacky faces as an alternative for actual jokes instead of mixing the two together. And the comedic timing sucks.
I thought "Fun-Sized Friends" was pretty funny, though. In Seasons 11 & 12, you'll find the occasional piece of silver (not gold) in a pile of shit.
They're like those weird camping shorts that end halfway down the thigh
Gavin Brooks
Simplistic presentation, relatable grounded characters, smart writing and welcoming setting. You ever notice how the most successful of shows never have some sort of gimmick? Spongebob may take place underwater but due to the simplicity of it's setting and accessible characters there's infinite potential for episodes and stories. It was all born out 2 desires; the ocean and cartoons.
I find it so amazing that someone was able to recognize the pieces of media and the exact episodes or movies the screenshots were from. finally i'm sick of those poorly color encoded internet rips that hurt my eyes staring at for too long.
Bentley Watson
this looks unique. yes we had a thread a while ago ok?
Nathaniel Thompson
This. I want to live in a future where Zach's screeches becomes the new Wilhelm scream
It's because SpongeBob was the funniest cartoon ever made. Shit on me all you want Yea Forums, no anime or Western cartoon was or is as funny as the first 4 seasons of SpongeBob.
If SpongeBob succeeded because cute design, how did rug rats or Ren and stimpy work? The easy truth you guys don't want to acknowledge is that good shows do better, and SpongeBob was one of the best.
