The History Of SpongeBob SquarePants | A Brief History

today's episode of a brief history is sponsored by Squarespace stay tuned to the end of the video to find out more information if you're anything like me then you probably have a chronic disease of the pancreas but more importantly you were born in the mid-1990s you know late enough that you don't really remember the 90s but early enough that you can still read BuzzFeed and feel like you get it and if there's one thing we 2000's kids disguised as 90s kids remember it's Nicktoons you know the days of Doug Rugrats Hey Arnold Wild Thornberrys rocket power and a bunch of other crazy cartoons that I III didn't really like all that much but when it comes to Nickelodeon there was always one cartoon that reigned supreme and it wasn't as told by ginger no Nickelodeon's ace-in-the-hole was of course SpongeBob SquarePants and for us 90's kid imposters spongebob was inescapable if we weren't playing Pokemon silver on our lime-green gameboy colors or listening to 30 seconds of it's gonna be me on our hit clips that's right I can list old things too if we weren't doing all that then we were probably watching Spongebob on our spongebob TV while all snuggled up in our spongebob beds eating spongebob cream of wheat to which yes is absolutely a real thing there was no bigger kids cartoon in existence at the time and even today when cartoons are looking a lot less like cow and chicken and a lot more like Stevie University spongebob is still out there just doing its thing and I want to talk about it so hello and welcome to another episode of a brief history today's episode spongebob squarepants Ready Set spongebob was created by this dude named Stephen Hillenburg a guy who spent a good chunk of the 80s teaching marine biology to kids in Orange County California but while teaching his wet science class he decided that he wanted to flex his art muscles to creating a little comic called the intertidal zone that featured a bunch of talking sea creatures that aimed to help teach the little tadpoles more about underwater life including this little weirdo Bob the sponge I I don't I don't think he's gonna be that important but eventually Hillenburg decided he was ready to move on from marine biology and further pursue his interest in art so he packed up his stuff and enrolled at Cal arts to study animation a few years and one Fine Arts and experimental animation degree later and Hillenburg gets picked up by Nickelodeon to work on a show called Rocko's Modern Life but after that show ended in 1996 he kind of needed something new to work on and at the recommendation of one of his Rocko co-workers Hillenburg decided to pursue making his own cartoon based off the intertidal zone change up a few things figure out your main characters do a few rounds of pitching in a Hawaiian shirt and in 1997 a sponge boy ahoy was greenlit for full production despite that not actually being the name they went with though that was the show's original title and then come May 1st 1999 a Stephen Hillenburg show would now known as SpongeBob SquarePants was officially premiered on Nickelodeon we all know what this shows about right spongebob lives in a pineapple under the sea absorbent and yellow and porous is he he gets into nautical nonsense with his various undersea friends and he drops on the deck and flop like a fish which means he is gasping for breath he is clinging on to his life by a thread he can't breathe his spongy fish lungs cry out for water the darkness creeps in slowly he's scared he had so much he still wanted to do in life only for his life to be cut so short in a tragic end but yeah we all know what spongebob is about it's your standard comedy story about a sponge that makes burgers for a greedy crab and karate with a scientist squirrel who lives in an air dome it's nothing you haven't seen before your run-of-the-mill sponge based comedy but despite its clear and totally not sarcastic on originality spongebob was an immediate hit for Nickelodeon audiences both young and old really latched on to the show's clever writing unique world and likeable cast of characters quickly making spongebob Nick's newest to number one show but it went so much further than that throughout the early 2000s spongebob was a total phenomenon with countless toys books video games nightmares and more and of course the show was still going strong premiering a second and third season that were chock-full of classic episodes that people still quote and make Twitter memes of today in fact spongebob had become such a massive hit that by November of 2004 the series saw a full-fledged feature film that was again pretty much a classic for my generation except for this scene this scene messed me up [Music] dear Lord I was only kidding about the whole suffocation thing but as great as that movie was this is where trouble started to brew you see by the time the Spongebob Squarepants movie was released - the show had been on the air for about five years and a Stephen Hillenburg was kinda ready to wrap things up he and many of the show's writers felt like the series had run its course and going any longer could risk the show jumping the shark wait are there any shark characters in spongebob but I can make like a joke out of here there's the there's the anchor arms guy I think the tough guy from the salty spitoon was he a shark I think he was a shark never mind never mind abandoned joke abandoned Joe so pretty much none of the main people behind spongebob wanted to keep the show going but Nickelodeon sat in its pile of money was like come on and thus in 2005 a we got spongebob season for the first ever season of spongebob that Stephen Hillenburg did not spearhead he had stepped away from his showrunner position and acted as an executive producer instead but didn't really have much of a hands-on involvement with the show the new showrunner was longtime SpongeBob writer Paul tibbitt and while this change happened pretty smoothly at the time a season four began what many view as a steady decline in quality for spongebob taking a pretty big leap here from 2005 to 2015 and the show had seen six more seasons and had even changed showrunners for a second time most of the writers who made the classic seasons were long gone and the show's comedy and tone had been shifting in a way that really turned older fans off the new seasons featured less of the clever writing and setups that fans loved and instead started to get predictable and weirdly gross the show was still doing well in ratings but the sponge was starting to dry out no don't show that clip again it's too sad it's like one Dodie song away from making me shed tears not my skin or my hair just might gross however after ten years of decline things actually started to turn around for spongebob 2015 saw the premiere of SpongeBob's second movie sponge out of water and for this movie Stephen Hillenburg returned in a major writing role for the first time in basically a decade and following the warm reception of the film the Hillenburg did what many fans thought would never happen and returned to spongebob and not only that but a lot of writers from the show's golden age were also returning to the show and as a result seasons 10 and 11 have actually managed to get a lot of older spongebob fans back on board bringing back older characters and settings that had pretty much been forgotten about in later seasons remember bubble baths he's back Nosferatu he's back that guy that shouts my leg oh you better believe he's back and outside of the show SpongeBob's still doing really well as a general media franchise boasting a Broadway musical that is way better than it has any right to be and recently ended its run which means I didn't get to see it and there's a third movie coming in twenty twenty whatever so spongebob has been through quite a few ups and downs over the years back when it premiered it was quite literally the most popular kid show on television however despite never really having a drastic drop in ratings the later seasons kind of tanked the show's reputation a bit but at the end of the day I almost don't think that matters like yeah post movie spongebob was not as good as it used to be but it was far far far from the worst cartoon out there and obviously it's fantastic that the show is picking up steam again and getting more creative but even if that hadn't happened and the show freakin crashed burned and did an episode about why the ending to life is strange before the storm was actually really good I don't think any of that could truly take away from this show's legacy of just being just really freaking good guys I mean there's a reason that the characters and jokes from this show are still quoted and reference to this day and that's because it's just timeless quality comedy the kind that going on 20 years later we still remember by heart and chances are we'll still be quoting in another 20 years so in conclusion I think spongebob is good 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Length: 11min 47sec (707 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 10 2018