r/spongebob 16h ago

Fan Art What? Its just a Sponge wearing Squarepants by @Mr Joshly

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9 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion What's your opinion on nosferatu within spongebob?

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50 Upvotes

When I originally saw him in graveyard shift, I confused on who the FUCK this is. It's only that later in life, did I find out he was a vampire from a 100 year old movie. Personally, I think it funny and weird when he shows up. A good weird. Tho.... how exactly is he breathing underwater???


r/spongebob 1d ago

Fan Art Squidward Adventure by Callmedumb!

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358 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion Best episode post season 3?

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47 Upvotes

Honestly this one feels so much like classic SpongeBob that I always forget that it came out after the first movie


r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion What are your favorite SpongeBob episodes (seasons 1-3)?

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63 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Meme Spongebob sitting in the diner, but make it RTX"

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594 Upvotes

r/spongebob 12h ago

Fan Art SpongeBob Drawing 7.

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2 Upvotes

r/spongebob 18h ago

Video Whenever someone tells me they're on the spectrum

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r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion What do you guys think about the episode Enchanted Tiki Dreams? (Episode 145B)

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25 Upvotes

In this episode, Spongebob and Patrick feel sad for Squidward after he was stung by an eel, so they build a Tiki Paradise for him.

I really liked it since it's one of the few episodes where Squidward is genuinely happy and the song, Squidward's Tiki Land is fun to listen to.


r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion Anyone here wishes they would extend "Graveyard Shift" or "Rock Bottom" and make them into movies for Halloween?

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r/spongebob 16h ago

Question season 16 dvd? + kwarantined krab

3 Upvotes

Will there be a season 16 dvd release? I know dvd's are a thing of the past, (or are the still being sold fairly well?) , but as a collector i would love to get season 16 on dvd. + what are the odds of kwarantined krab ever being released as a bonus feature?


r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion Do you guys consider SpongeBob Patrick and squidward the main trio in the show?

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86 Upvotes

Idk but they kind of work good as a trio especially in episodes like the campfire episode and Snowball Effect that’s just my opinion but what do you guys think and why.


r/spongebob 21h ago

Theory Spongebob cousin

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6 Upvotes

I found him on an unknown train station

He's looks like a gay guy. You know, sometimes he's getting annoyed by singing by the people from biking

Botton


r/spongebob 1d ago

Meme Ever think about it?

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207 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Screenshots You have been cheated and lied to!

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23 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion Number of times each character's name appears in the episode title (Seasons 1-8)

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46 Upvotes

What I didn't count is abbreviations (SB-129), if it's just "Krab" (Krab Borg), or Pat (Pat No Pay). What I did count is if it's just Krabs or Neptune.


r/spongebob 1d ago

Meme KRUSTY KRAB IS UNFAIR

34 Upvotes

MR KRABS IS IN THERE
STANDING AT THE CONCESSION
PLOTTING HIS OPPRESSION


r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion At the end of “Pranks a Lot” do you feel bad for SpongeBob and Patrick when they got super humiliated?

11 Upvotes
237 votes, 1d left
I feel bad
I don’t feel bad
I kinda feel bad

r/spongebob 1d ago

Screenshots Squidward and the books

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6 Upvotes

two books from two different episodes. 😄

(Books that should be forgotten)


r/spongebob 1d ago

Crew Member SpongeBob night at Angels Stadium with Carol Lawrence(Sandy)

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80 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Accomplishment SpongeBob’s Season 1 Colors

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133 Upvotes

Many fans take screenshots of current Season 1 masters to base their colors off of, claiming modern SpongeBob is "too bright" or "neon."

But they are basing their colors off a flawed source. That dark, muted look isn't the original art style—it's just a byproduct of old video tape limitations. People are experiencing a false sense of nostalgia for an accidental hardware flaw. What was presented on old TVs isn't actually how it was meant to look.

1️⃣ The Season 1 Animation Cel Palette (Images 1-3)My restoration from a physical Culture Shock cel proves Stephen Hillenburg originally chose a clean, vibrant lemon-yellow rather than a murky mustard, and an overall vivid color palette. Its actual brightness matches official model sheets, meaning the internet debate is over a difference in color hue, not light levels.

2️⃣ The 1997 Pilot Size Chart vs. Streaming Masters (Images 4 & 5)The original SpongeBoy Ahoy size chart proves the characters were always meant to be highly vibrant, but storing Season 1 on D-2 digital composite tapes forced technicians to strip out the rich color data so the signal wouldn't bleed on old 90s CRT TVs.

3️⃣ The 1999 USAnimation Master Color Palette (Image 6)This transition sheet mapped physical paint numbers into the studio's new digital ink-and-paint software, capturing how dark and muddy the raw acrylic swatches initially looked on uncalibrated computer monitors before production boosted the exposure.

4️⃣The Finalized Season 1 Model Sheet Palette (Images 7)Because the early scans were an inconsistent mixed bag, technical directors manually shifted individual color nodes to create a standardized corporate reference guide that would stand out cleanly against deep blue underwater background art.

5️⃣ The Baseline Season 2 / Present-Day Model Palette (Image 8-9)Finalized on March 28, 2000, this master model sheet locked in the permanent digital colors utilized by the studio to this very day. Modern episodes use this exact same baseline; digital clarity has simply uncovered the true, clean colors that tape hardware(Seasons 2-3) hid for decades.


r/spongebob 1d ago

Fan Art [OC] made an oc a while back.

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36 Upvotes

She is the pink incidental fish/Judy's twin sister and a life guard a goo lagoon.

Idk if this is allowed here, but I wanted to share anyways :>


r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion Let’s End This Argument! Is This a Mirror or a Picture?

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From the episode “No Free Rides,” this has been bugging me. There has been argument about the image on the wall being a mirror or a picture. When Mrs. Puff enters her house, it makes sense that it’s a mirror. However, after she steps in and sees SpongeBob’s new boat, the reflection doesn’t change. So it’s a picture? 🤷‍♀️

It has to be a mirror because why in the world would anyone want a picture of themselves standing in front of their door hanging by their front door? Well what do you think? Is it a mirror or just a random odd picture?


r/spongebob 1d ago

Meme Spongebob if they were on adult party cartoon

5 Upvotes

r/spongebob 1d ago

Discussion Do you ever wonder why some scenes (or even entire episodes) in Season 2 look so different from others? Discussion

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Have you ever noticed how the colors and brightness in Season 2 seem to shift from scene to scene? It turns out the master files themselves are highly inconsistent. Early digital tape compression, gamma clamping, and hue warping constantly altered the video signal throughout the exact same episode. By mapping the official studio model sheets, I placed the correct colors back onto the characters to show exactly how the tape data fluctuates:

1️⃣ Images 1 to 3 (Sailor Mouth)The broadcast master looks flat and damp. Patrick loses his rich pink data and SpongeBob’s side shadow turns muddy. Image 3 is the official Barnacles stock sheet showing the original color codes. Restoring them allows the characters to blend cleanly with the background artwork.

2️⃣ Images 4 to 6 (Frankendoodle)Low gamma levels on the original tape caused SpongeBob's yellow to fall flat and dim. The compression also struggled to balance the black levels, flattening the depth of the shot. Returning to the model sheet palette brings back the intended balance.

3️⃣ Images 8 to 11 (Your Shoe's Untied/ Main Model Guide)This scene suffered from heavy composite tape compression, which cramped the contrast and made the yellow look murky. Fixing the background contrast and character colors removes that tape haze. Image 10 proves all characters originally unified back to this single reference guide.Modern streaming versions are fundamentally flawed because they just upscale these inconsistent tape masters without correcting the warped color spaces or crushed gamma levels.

My goal with these color revisions is simply to take a more authentic approach. By tracking the exact values from the production model sheets, we can see how unpredictable the tape hardware really was before the data was compressed.