special thanks to @Number1GarfFan and @ArtofSpongebob on twitter for posting about this! i wouldn't have known otherwise here is a link to the pdf where i got all this information!: www.scribd.com/document/520748698/SpongeBob-Bible-1997 you can watch the spongebob season 1 dvd behind the scenes here: ruclips.net/video/Q0wl4weN8RA/видео.html
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk It'd require a pretty long explanation in itself, but basically, you know when the characters will like wear clothes on skins (think of the clip where SpongeBob rips off his own skin to reveal that he looks exactly the same as a spoof on superheroes)? The theory takes clips like that and uses them to compose a theory that the characters are fully aware of the skins and even accept it and incorporate into their everyday life. It's kinda crazy but really interesting lol
One specific change I like going into the final show was Larry the lobster. In any other cartoon he would be a generic muscular bully character but instead he’s a nice and supportive friend of spongebob who takes his lifeguard job very seriously.
Like Sandy he’s a Type-A, outgoing figure whose physical and social successes Spongebob - always looking for the “normal” way to find acceptance - aspires to match, but unlike Sandy he’s largely oblivious to the fact that this is something which tends to go on in the little yellow guy’s head. I think that handily explains why there are three separate classic episodes whose premises can be summarized as “Larry’s presence at the beach causes Spongebob to psychically bully himself into going way past his comfort zone and causing havoc”.
Spongebob does play ukulele but not very often. Most notably in the special “Hello Bikini Bottom” where he and Squidward become a musical duo, but also other eps
The idea of Pearl being the smartest blows my mind, that could've made her character so much more interesting and given her great interactions with characters like Sandy or Plankton.
Pearl and sandy are friends they a made a episode with pearl, sandy, ms puff, and karen all hanging out with each other its a season 12 episode i cant remember the name
A bible in this sense is just a book of settings, traits, and other details pertaining to a media franchise! It’s what’s given out to writers, game devs, etc so they know the ‘rules’ of the show/game/whatever they are making and what they are allowed and not allowed to do. For example, the bible for the Sonic franchise that Sega hands out to the studios who develop Sonic games contains stuff like ‘only Tails and Eggman are allowed to create technology’.
Fun Fact: Squeaky Boots, which is seen in the pitch, was one of the first few episodes to be made (the 3rd to be exact), although Nickelodeon aired it much later for some reason. Contrarily, Reef Blower was produced more than halfway through Season 1 despite airing alongside the first episode, Help Wanted. Still, it's interesting how Reef Blower was an idea in the pitch bible even though the crew didn't get to the idea until much later. It's also interesting how Patrick was originally meant to be in that episode, let alone how many episodes we know today were originally gonna be super different. It's kinda fun to imagine every bit of the show turning out exactly as planned. R.I.P. Stephen Hillenburg (1961-2018)
I think the original reef blower idea was used for opening scene of the squidville ep. (Patrick also having a reef blower, he and spongebob destroying squidward’s house)
Wow! This is very interesting! It's neat to hear about the little details that were ultimately lost later in development. Like Spongebob and Sandy dating, Patrick apparently renting his rock, and Spongebob not ever making employee of the month, despite being the best employee. That stuff would have kind of grounded the show a bit more, made the characters and world just a little bit more relatable to the real world. (Seriously, can you imagine Patrick needing to pay rent or having to negotiate with his landlord?) To me, Spongebob is a show partially about what a kid wants adulthood to be like. Spongebob lives next to his best friend, has a job he works at purely out of love, and generally doesn't have any responsibilities or obligations to worry about. That's the conflict of the first movie, how Spongebob is a kid essentially playing pretend grown up. It's interesting that, at least during this stage of development, Spongebob as kid isn't mentioned. Again, having some minor grounding elements like rent, dating, and Spongebob being at least somewhat frustrated in his job by not getting employee of the month - could have made the show very different. Something a little closer to Rocko's Modern Life, which makes sense given Stephen Hillenburg worked on that too.
ngl i got a little choked up at the end thinking about how much love hillenberg put into spongebob. something about it is so very sweet and genuine, the way the whole pitch is written
“His creative spirit, original thought, and incurable optimism make him a standout, a renegade and a hero. Now, of course, we're no fools (We're salts!). We know that in today's narrative, entropy must give way to harmony eventually, and it will. But not before a transcendence occurs. For Sponge Boy transcends his world by affecting it. And, viewing through sponge eyes, we see that world transforming, becoming new, ridiculous, funny.”
Bro go watch Sandy's introduction episode the entire thing is set up as a date, with Patrick as his wingman. He even says stuff like "I won't let you blow this"
@@rattb0i482 That was her introduction scene, but @__ is also correct-the clam fight and Spongebob’s attempted date were the same episode, “Tea At The Treedome”, aka Sandy’s debut
There was definitely hints of a romance sub plot in the beginning. I think that as they produced more episodes with just SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward they realized sandy didn't need to be a main character. It probably also has to do with the creator leaving after like season 3. This means the individuals that guided the reigns of SpongeBob's story decided not to continue with the sandy relationship for various reasons.
Why is it when a male character meets a girl they get along with, they have to be a couple??? I'd rather Sandy being one of SpongeBob's circle of pals, not the "main character's girlfriend" that's boring.
13:24 - 13:26 "the one will we grow up to be" this painful revelation was also mentioned in the emplemon "There will never be again" spongebob series, pretty much spongebob us when kids & squidward when we are adults, its the most intelligent writing i ve ever seen.
I love how the crew portrays female characters in this. Obviously Sandy is smart but she's also courageous, into sports and not a stereotypical nerd or anything. Pearl is still a teenager and still maturing and of course into stereotypically feminine things which is great but I would have loved to have seen her math skills in the show!! That would have balanced her character out so well, especially for the time! Gender roles were definitely subverted and challenged in 90s cartoons and I'm still living for it 💕
I think they might have taken a bit of pearls brains and gave it to sandy. Sandy's sports girl adventurer personality is there but didn't explain how she was able to be live in the ocean. I think they fixed sandy to be how she is currently and left pearl as a teen and but a "iou one talent" sticky note that hasn't been filled since
You say that as if well written female characters didn't exist prior to then. I really don't get why so many audiences fail to see girls as just normal people, and instead are all like, "OMG, how progressive!" to every single female character who's just written like a normal character.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Literally nobody's doing that. And for kids' cartoons, female characters were usually relegated to love interests before the 90s. Even 80s action girls like Cheetara or She-Ra were one-note, often super girly and had male love interests that were always saving them because they were usually useless.
It being called "The Spongebob Bible" isn't like a quirky title given to it for being immense. It's called the Spongebob Bible because it's the pitch bible for Spongebob.
as a person who watched every season and spin off The show had potential to be cancelled or zombified during season 9 and this man came back and fixed most of the issues the dark era had. This show is now a mixture between the pitch bible and the dark era. Spongebob lost his desire to fit it, but still is a positive sponge who likes his friends and finds joy in the most common ways. Patrick depends on the episode if it's more about him than spongebob he's the dumb dude guy, but after hillemburg's return, he's the gas of spongebob's fire again instead of the contrary during seasons 5-9. Squidward is know for being a punching bag during seasons 4-9, now it's the punching bag, but he was buffed recovering his traits from the bible and getting more cartoony pain instead of... stuff like the nail. Mr. Krabs was buffed, he's more like the season 2 Mr. krabs. Sandy is weird, writters don't know if she's smart or a sports fan, wich actually was an issue since season 2. Pearl now has a phone. Ms puff now is in a relationship with mr krabs but still has some weird behaviors from the dark era. I still love this show and plenty of the newer episodes, the spin offs are kinda mediocre, but I hope if this show ends one day, it ends on a high note
It's always about him "returning", but no one outside of nick seems to know how much involvement he actually had at that point. A lot of new writers joined during seasons 9+, which was probably why it changed so much.
@@robo-roger7815 I know, the return of a lot old writters was the huge change that made the improvement even bigger, if you notice, hillemburg barely was the main writter in older and newer episodes before his death, except a few like the first one
@@_puduposting He was show runner in the first 3 seasons, which is a pretty major role, but I guess I shouldn't deflate peoples enjoyment of the new episodes. Even if I don't feel like it captured what made the show good. I know a few who have season 10/11 as their favorite....
@@robo-roger7815 thats what im saying yes steve came back but he didnt really do all that much he just hanged with the crew the new direction is all the new artist and writers (some of wich actually grew up with spongebob) and the new direction vincent and co gave the show
4:14 Spongebob and his boyz 6:05 Our Hero, who lives in a pineapple under the sea. 8:08 Sincere Service and a SMILE 9:42 13:13 MIND BLOWING (did you hear that?!) *Characters not named Sponge Boy* 13:16 Squidward Tentacles 14:43 Patrick Star 15:51 YEEE-HAWWW 17:15 Money Money Money Money. MR SQUIDWARD! 17:51 The Largest Teenager on the planet, Big Brain 3000 IQ 18:51 Sheldon "Napoleon" J. Plankton 19:47 Barnacle Bill and Mermaid Man "a relic of the past" *Episodes* 21:23 Jellyfishing 21:53 Muscle Beach & Ripped Pants 22:55 Squeaky Boots, Bubbles, Employee Of The Month, Big Pink Loser 23:49 24:19 Underdog 25:51 It was a Passion Project 26:15
As the video played, I realized exactly *why* Spongebob resonates so much with autistic people such as myself. Down to the pitch, his character traits mirror our own. I doubt this was purposeful, but seeing how much care was put into his development and how (for the most part) it has stayed true throughout the run of the show, warms my heart.
This is like, george lucas levels of unnecessary lore, and i love it. When do we get a deep, 30 chapter graphic novel about nevil the swordfish's marital troubles, struggle with his drug addiction to "marine snow", and his estranged relationship to his 12 kids?
i feel like even though they dropped the documentary feel for the official show, i wish they had kept the narrator that had that similar feel that they kind of dropped in more modern episodes
14:20 It's notable to point out that Spongebob and Squidward never played ukulele and clarinet together until 2012 in Season 8's "Hello Bikini Bottom", a whole 13 years after the show's release in 1999. It's a welcome surprise to see the idea developed into an actual episode, and a special no less.
FYI a "pitch bible" is what people call the original pitch writing+concept art for a cartoon, so it's not at all weird that this is called the "SpongeBob bible"
Not to be That Guy, but... It's called the "SpongeBob Bible" because it's a pitch bible; it wasn't meant to be a reference to _The Holy Bible._ There are "Bible"s of some other shows, too.
There’s definitely a lot of passion that goes in to modern SpongeBob, even during the middle seasons I’d say. It just doesn’t have as much of a direction or as good execution as the earlier seasons
Bible is the actual name you give to the archive used to pitch a series, every series has a bible and it contains lots of o information, there's also the Adventure Time bible online and it's great
I grew up watching spongebob, it’s my favourite cartoon and in elementary school I would pretend to be him LOL. I was so excited to read the pitch bible. Cool video :D
I believe Hillenburg said he thought SpongeBob would only be a 1 season show with a cult following at one point, and honestly, if the show ended up this way, I think it might've been. It just feels so off in comparison to the final show. Like, it feels like looking into a parallel universe where this is how the show turned it, and it's honestly kind of interesting but... scary (?) at the same time
A 56 pages long pitch bible! I'm amazed someone read it at all, I honestly doubt it would work nowdays, where if you hit 20 you're already way over your head and the studio's attention. Can't deny genius though, so who knows
Bible is the general term for a show guide. They call it a Bible because they list the rules of the show, and you must follow those rules. Every show has one.
idk I kinda like the whole exploration subplot being bought back. In like around season 10 or 11 the French Narrator's character is extended so that he's actually a marine biologist who's observing the Bikini Bottom from a distance. He has an old fashioned diving suit like the Bikini Atoll nuclear experiment researchers
very glad i found your channel, the way you can explain stuff without really extending the video for no reason is pretty good, cant wait to see how much you grow
The Marshall Islands are closer to Japan (both culturally and geographically) than Australia and I would say “Micronesia” (the region it’s in) rather than Oceania (which is like saying Eurasia or The Americas)
gosh i just love shows that, well, love and want the best for their characters 🥺 like hearing how much hillenberg truly loves all these characters and loves the sponge himself is so sweet
Discern what you know about the latter of the yellow sponge's success, and it becomes recognizable how Nickelodeon treated Hillenburg and the characters after his death. Overall, Stephen Hillenberg's characters are insanely lovable, and he created a world where it pushes through boundaries through subliminal and blatant means while touching the hearts of an entire audience. That is what makes Spongebob Squarepants the most eclectic show of its time.
I would actually like to see spongebob rebooted with a different art style, different character designs, aesthetic and colour pallet but going back to it's original style of animation and comedy, maybe a good approach to this would be for it to be entirely accurate to Stephen Hillenberg's original vision for sponge boy, obviously just using the name spongebob. It might even be interesting to see a spongebob movie that follows the same format as the spongebob bible, a mocumentary presenting itself as a factual account of the discovery of bikini bottom. It would be really cool to see Barnacle Bill in his original state and hear the evermore dramatic retellings of how he came to be essentially a wooden clockwork cyborg. I like the more quirky and rough-around-the-edges art style of Hillenberg's original sketches and it'd make for a nice animation style. I honestly think that's how they should've gone about keeping spongebob alive after Stephen Hillenberg's passing, instead of making these unfaithful and kinda lazy prequels and reboots. It would've actually been a powerful way to honour Hillenberg by bringing his original, unaltered, unfiltered vision to life for either a movie or a one-off episode. It'd actually be even better as a movie because they could try and fit in a lot of those original episode drafts. They could even include Sponge Boy as one of Spongebob's nicknames, since his name is actually Robert Harold Square Squarepants then that means Spongebob is also just a nickname. Idk, it's just a thought. This comment ended up being a lot longer and more fleshed out than I intended 😅.
They have refrenced spongeboy like showed a sketch of him in an episode and also theyv only made 1 "prequal" wich is kamp koral but kk is complicated cause it takes place in an alternate reality but anyway yeah iv been thinking the same thing it would be cool if they made an episode with the the original style colors of spongeboy ahoy it seems like somthing they would do
This bible changes everything. We all thought Bubble Bass was going to be the main antagonist for the series but got overshadowed by Plankton, but this reveals that Plankton was always intended as such.
I really love the art style present hear, it's just about the same, but there's little things that make the bible art pop and look so alive, honestly sad it doesn't look like that
I'm about 10 minutes in but I wanted to say I appreciated the Sponge lesson before I forget Also seeing SpongeBob's characterization written down by the creators makes me notice his little ticks that I never thought about like his whole detail oriented thing with his pencils in boating school I never thought I'd see a new perspective on a show I know like the back of my hand
[Insert inevitable 'There are many benefits to being a marine biologist' meme here] I would like to nominate the sentence "We had indeed found Sponge Boy" for some sort of academy award, please
8:07 This whole section just hurts really bad for some reason Anyone else feel like their life consists mostly of wanting to fit in and make others happy? Optimism sometimes feels very painful, but Stephen Hillenberg definitely created the all time greatest mascot for it.
oh my god when you said "very heavily based him off of optimism" i thought you said autism and i was like "YEAH YEAH HE DOES HAVE A LOT OF AUTISTIC TRAITS AUTISM ICON"
special thanks to @Number1GarfFan and @ArtofSpongebob on twitter for posting about this! i wouldn't have known otherwise
here is a link to the pdf where i got all this information!: www.scribd.com/document/520748698/SpongeBob-Bible-1997
you can watch the spongebob season 1 dvd behind the scenes here: ruclips.net/video/Q0wl4weN8RA/видео.html
Ok
You absolute idiot evolution never happened
@@theguythatuploadsnothing6604 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@dogeatdog3579 ARE YOU INSULTING ME !?!!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK THEY FOUND THE SPONGEBOB BIBLE
This really throws a wrench into Spongebob Squarepants: Skin Theory doesn't it
haha, that entire theory is a wrench. this is just another one
What is the Skin Theory anyway?
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk It'd require a pretty long explanation in itself, but basically, you know when the characters will like wear clothes on skins (think of the clip where SpongeBob rips off his own skin to reveal that he looks exactly the same as a spoof on superheroes)?
The theory takes clips like that and uses them to compose a theory that the characters are fully aware of the skins and even accept it and incorporate into their everyday life.
It's kinda crazy but really interesting lol
It proves the TV Theory though.
It doesn't prove or disprove anything because it was just the start and things about the show changed after the pitch bible
One specific change I like going into the final show was Larry the lobster. In any other cartoon he would be a generic muscular bully character but instead he’s a nice and supportive friend of spongebob who takes his lifeguard job very seriously.
Like Sandy he’s a Type-A, outgoing figure whose physical and social successes Spongebob - always looking for the “normal” way to find acceptance - aspires to match, but unlike Sandy he’s largely oblivious to the fact that this is something which tends to go on in the little yellow guy’s head. I think that handily explains why there are three separate classic episodes whose premises can be summarized as “Larry’s presence at the beach causes Spongebob to psychically bully himself into going way past his comfort zone and causing havoc”.
@@Champiness What's the third?
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 “Spongeguard On Duty”.
@@Champiness Sad Larry's barely even a side character now
I wish they kept "SpongeBob playing ukelele" and "smart Pearl" as recurring character traits
Spongebob does play ukulele but not very often. Most notably in the special “Hello Bikini Bottom” where he and Squidward become a musical duo, but also other eps
@@tiablue9106 Ripped Pants too
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 I think that was a guitar but yeah
I'm sorry I still can't get over the fact this book canonize SpongeBob being an anarchist.
i stan
The sponge will not be televised ✊
ikr? I guess he meant more in a cultural sense than political one?
No wonder he's so chaotic
@@tiablue9106 yeah probably
The idea of Pearl being the smartest blows my mind, that could've made her character so much more interesting and given her great interactions with characters like Sandy or Plankton.
Oh yessss imagine pearl and sandy being best friends
@@ijustlikebees and having a battle of smarts with plankton when he steals the secret formula to get it back
Pearl and sandy are friends they a made a episode with pearl, sandy, ms puff, and karen all hanging out with each other its a season 12 episode i cant remember the name
@@Usernamee619 God yes that would be such a fun episode. They could've been like friendly rivals trying to outsmart each other
@@sammyjaohnson5631 they don't really interact much though
"Sponge Bob's Bible is written like fictional scientific paper"
Are you saying Hillenberg wrote an SCP article before it was cool?
It never was.
That concept is even older than SCP
Ngl the title made me think that some Christian made a spongebob bible for the 'cool kids'. That does remind me of the infamous Lego bible.
“Lego Bible”?!? I might have to look into this…
@@churyuu8458 if you want to check it out the book is called 'The Brick Bible' by Brendan Powell Smith
A bible in this sense is just a book of settings, traits, and other details pertaining to a media franchise! It’s what’s given out to writers, game devs, etc so they know the ‘rules’ of the show/game/whatever they are making and what they are allowed and not allowed to do. For example, the bible for the Sonic franchise that Sega hands out to the studios who develop Sonic games contains stuff like ‘only Tails and Eggman are allowed to create technology’.
reminds me of the minecraft bible
the what
Fun Fact: Squeaky Boots, which is seen in the pitch, was one of the first few episodes to be made (the 3rd to be exact), although Nickelodeon aired it much later for some reason. Contrarily, Reef Blower was produced more than halfway through Season 1 despite airing alongside the first episode, Help Wanted. Still, it's interesting how Reef Blower was an idea in the pitch bible even though the crew didn't get to the idea until much later. It's also interesting how Patrick was originally meant to be in that episode, let alone how many episodes we know today were originally gonna be super different. It's kinda fun to imagine every bit of the show turning out exactly as planned.
R.I.P. Stephen Hillenburg (1961-2018)
I think the original reef blower idea was used for opening scene of the squidville ep. (Patrick also having a reef blower, he and spongebob destroying squidward’s house)
@@tiablue9106 Yeah
Funny that apparently Krabs thinks so little of Plankton as a threat here that he's willing to let him eat at the Krusty Krab.
Wow! This is very interesting! It's neat to hear about the little details that were ultimately lost later in development. Like Spongebob and Sandy dating, Patrick apparently renting his rock, and Spongebob not ever making employee of the month, despite being the best employee. That stuff would have kind of grounded the show a bit more, made the characters and world just a little bit more relatable to the real world. (Seriously, can you imagine Patrick needing to pay rent or having to negotiate with his landlord?)
To me, Spongebob is a show partially about what a kid wants adulthood to be like. Spongebob lives next to his best friend, has a job he works at purely out of love, and generally doesn't have any responsibilities or obligations to worry about. That's the conflict of the first movie, how Spongebob is a kid essentially playing pretend grown up. It's interesting that, at least during this stage of development, Spongebob as kid isn't mentioned. Again, having some minor grounding elements like rent, dating, and Spongebob being at least somewhat frustrated in his job by not getting employee of the month - could have made the show very different. Something a little closer to Rocko's Modern Life, which makes sense given Stephen Hillenburg worked on that too.
you would be very interested in the behind the scenes clip i linked in the pinned comment! they talk about this exact thing :D
ngl i got a little choked up at the end thinking about how much love hillenberg put into spongebob. something about it is so very sweet and genuine, the way the whole pitch is written
“His creative spirit, original thought, and incurable optimism make him a standout, a renegade and a hero. Now, of course, we're no fools (We're salts!). We know that in today's narrative, entropy must give way to harmony eventually, and it will. But not before a transcendence occurs. For Sponge Boy transcends his world by affecting it. And, viewing through sponge eyes, we see that world transforming, becoming new, ridiculous, funny.”
Bro go watch Sandy's introduction episode the entire thing is set up as a date, with Patrick as his wingman. He even says stuff like "I won't let you blow this"
Sandys introduction was her fighting a clam, where Spongebob called her "land squirrel"
@@rattb0i482 That was her introduction scene, but @__ is also correct-the clam fight and Spongebob’s attempted date were the same episode, “Tea At The Treedome”, aka Sandy’s debut
Well it does happen. People start dating and then realize they work much better as friends than lovers.
There was definitely hints of a romance sub plot in the beginning. I think that as they produced more episodes with just SpongeBob, Patrick and Squidward they realized sandy didn't need to be a main character.
It probably also has to do with the creator leaving after like season 3. This means the individuals that guided the reigns of SpongeBob's story decided not to continue with the sandy relationship for various reasons.
Why is it when a male character meets a girl they get along with, they have to be a couple??? I'd rather Sandy being one of SpongeBob's circle of pals, not the "main character's girlfriend" that's boring.
13:24 - 13:26
"the one will we grow up to be"
this painful revelation was also mentioned in the emplemon "There will never be again" spongebob series, pretty much spongebob us when kids & squidward when we are adults, its the most intelligent writing i ve ever seen.
Good job dodging, “I’m so sure, Daddy” when reading out Pearl’s description. Some of Rock Bottom’s more slimy denizens would’ve loved to hear that.
I CANT BELIEVE SOMEONE CAUGHT THAT LMFAOOO yeah i was not about to say that :/
Lmao.
I loved marine Biology as a boy I’m loving this marine biology lesson!
Jotaro Kujo?!?!
I love how the crew portrays female characters in this. Obviously Sandy is smart but she's also courageous, into sports and not a stereotypical nerd or anything. Pearl is still a teenager and still maturing and of course into stereotypically feminine things which is great but I would have loved to have seen her math skills in the show!! That would have balanced her character out so well, especially for the time!
Gender roles were definitely subverted and challenged in 90s cartoons and I'm still living for it 💕
I think they might have taken a bit of pearls brains and gave it to sandy. Sandy's sports girl adventurer personality is there but didn't explain how she was able to be live in the ocean.
I think they fixed sandy to be how she is currently and left pearl as a teen and but a "iou one talent" sticky note that hasn't been filled since
You say that as if well written female characters didn't exist prior to then. I really don't get why so many audiences fail to see girls as just normal people, and instead are all like, "OMG, how progressive!" to every single female character who's just written like a normal character.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster Literally nobody's doing that. And for kids' cartoons, female characters were usually relegated to love interests before the 90s. Even 80s action girls like Cheetara or She-Ra were one-note, often super girly and had male love interests that were always saving them because they were usually useless.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster That’s true
It's incredible that the full thing resurfaced tbh
Where did the comments go
@@kerschmack7829 idk lol
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It's fun to imagine the research note sections read in Tom Kenny's French narrator voice.
Tom Kenny needs to see the whole pitch bible himself.
@@ExtremeWreck Considering he was involved in the development of the show before they’d even pitched it I would guess he’s seen it
@@Champiness Now that would be interesting, though it makes me wonder if Tom Kenny himself has tried to make his own cartoon.
@@ExtremeWreck He did, actually! He and Andy Suriano made a Plastic Man cartoon pilot, but it sadly didn’t go anywhere. You can find it online
@@darkhero-3097 Really now? I know there was a 2000s Plastic Man pilot, but I didn't know Tom Kenny was one of the 2 people who tried to pitch it!
It being called "The Spongebob Bible" isn't like a quirky title given to it for being immense. It's called the Spongebob Bible because it's the pitch bible for Spongebob.
Yep
Apparently, a lot of cartoons started out as a _pitch bible._
Missed opportunity to call it the SpongeBible
as a person who watched every season and spin off
The show had potential to be cancelled or zombified during season 9 and this man came back and fixed most of the issues the dark era had.
This show is now a mixture between the pitch bible and the dark era. Spongebob lost his desire to fit it, but still is a positive sponge who likes his friends and finds joy in the most common ways. Patrick depends on the episode if it's more about him than spongebob he's the dumb dude guy, but after hillemburg's return, he's the gas of spongebob's fire again instead of the contrary during seasons 5-9. Squidward is know for being a punching bag during seasons 4-9, now it's the punching bag, but he was buffed recovering his traits from the bible and getting more cartoony pain instead of... stuff like the nail. Mr. Krabs was buffed, he's more like the season 2 Mr. krabs. Sandy is weird, writters don't know if she's smart or a sports fan, wich actually was an issue since season 2. Pearl now has a phone. Ms puff now is in a relationship with mr krabs but still has some weird behaviors from the dark era.
I still love this show and plenty of the newer episodes, the spin offs are kinda mediocre, but I hope if this show ends one day, it ends on a high note
MS PUFF IS WITH MR KRABS?????/ thats hte most interesting thing ive heard
It's always about him "returning", but no one outside of nick seems to know how much involvement he actually had at that point. A lot of new writers joined during seasons 9+, which was probably why it changed so much.
@@robo-roger7815 I know, the return of a lot old writters was the huge change that made the improvement even bigger, if you notice, hillemburg barely was the main writter in older and newer episodes before his death, except a few like the first one
@@_puduposting He was show runner in the first 3 seasons, which is a pretty major role, but I guess I shouldn't deflate peoples enjoyment of the new episodes. Even if I don't feel like it captured what made the show good. I know a few who have season 10/11 as their favorite....
@@robo-roger7815 thats what im saying yes steve came back but he didnt really do all that much he just hanged with the crew the new direction is all the new artist and writers (some of wich actually grew up with spongebob) and the new direction vincent and co gave the show
4:14 Spongebob and his boyz
6:05 Our Hero, who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
8:08 Sincere Service and a SMILE 9:42
13:13 MIND BLOWING (did you hear that?!)
*Characters not named Sponge Boy*
13:16 Squidward Tentacles
14:43 Patrick Star
15:51 YEEE-HAWWW
17:15 Money Money Money Money. MR SQUIDWARD!
17:51 The Largest Teenager on the planet, Big Brain 3000 IQ
18:51 Sheldon "Napoleon" J. Plankton
19:47 Barnacle Bill and Mermaid Man "a relic of the past"
*Episodes*
21:23 Jellyfishing
21:53 Muscle Beach & Ripped Pants
22:55 Squeaky Boots, Bubbles, Employee Of The Month, Big Pink Loser 23:49
24:19 Underdog
25:51 It was a Passion Project 26:15
He needs to pin this. Asap.
I love the inclusion of Mr. Krabs Memes in this
As the video played, I realized exactly *why* Spongebob resonates so much with autistic people such as myself. Down to the pitch, his character traits mirror our own. I doubt this was purposeful, but seeing how much care was put into his development and how (for the most part) it has stayed true throughout the run of the show, warms my heart.
honestly was totally thinking the same thing :)
Dang, now I'm worried that my own autistic character is going to be accused of being a SpongeBob knockoff. :(
This is like, george lucas levels of unnecessary lore, and i love it. When do we get a deep, 30 chapter graphic novel about nevil the swordfish's marital troubles, struggle with his drug addiction to "marine snow", and his estranged relationship to his 12 kids?
LMAOOOOOO
Lucas never did this lol
Show Bibles have always been so interesting to me and I really want more of these to surface
i feel like even though they dropped the documentary feel for the official show, i wish they had kept the narrator that had that similar feel that they kind of dropped in more modern episodes
14:20 It's notable to point out that Spongebob and Squidward never played ukulele and clarinet together until 2012 in Season 8's "Hello Bikini Bottom", a whole 13 years after the show's release in 1999. It's a welcome surprise to see the idea developed into an actual episode, and a special no less.
Aw hell naw sponcobb is a culture myth
You're an excellent narrator. Every video you make is mad interesting!
FYI a "pitch bible" is what people call the original pitch writing+concept art for a cartoon, so it's not at all weird that this is called the "SpongeBob bible"
surprisingly the thing named "the spongebob bible" dosent have neptune in it
Not to be That Guy, but... It's called the "SpongeBob Bible" because it's a pitch bible; it wasn't meant to be a reference to _The Holy Bible._ There are "Bible"s of some other shows, too.
There’s definitely a lot of passion that goes in to modern SpongeBob, even during the middle seasons I’d say. It just doesn’t have as much of a direction or as good execution as the earlier seasons
Just a tiny mistake: Bikini atoll wasn’t a WWII nuclear test site. It was a cold war nuclear test site.
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he wears a mask with a smile for hours at a time
thats what the mask is..... thats what the p
*SpongeBob predicted Dream*
*SpongeBob predicted Dream*
Bible is the actual name you give to the archive used to pitch a series, every series has a bible and it contains lots of o information, there's also the Adventure Time bible online and it's great
22:19 I think it more so resembles ripped pants. The way he was jealous of Larry, and the song at the end of the episode makes me believe this.
I grew up watching spongebob, it’s my favourite cartoon and in elementary school I would pretend to be him LOL. I was so excited to read the pitch bible. Cool video :D
I believe Hillenburg said he thought SpongeBob would only be a 1 season show with a cult following at one point, and honestly, if the show ended up this way, I think it might've been.
It just feels so off in comparison to the final show. Like, it feels like looking into a parallel universe where this is how the show turned it, and it's honestly kind of interesting but... scary (?) at the same time
It wouldve come down as those "underrated" shows because the first season is not as good is the rest.
A 56 pages long pitch bible! I'm amazed someone read it at all, I honestly doubt it would work nowdays, where if you hit 20 you're already way over your head and the studio's attention.
Can't deny genius though, so who knows
18:35 I think that line was just referencing the fact that Sperm Whales have the largest brains of any creature on earth
I barely found this channel and it's already becoming one of my favorites
Bible is the general term for a show guide. They call it a Bible because they list the rules of the show, and you must follow those rules. Every show has one.
Very interesting 👀 It's cool to see how it was all in the beginning, what changed and what stays the same!
Dog eat dog AND spongebob?? This whole video is just incredibly satisfying.
idk I kinda like the whole exploration subplot being bought back. In like around season 10 or 11 the French Narrator's character is extended so that he's actually a marine biologist who's observing the Bikini Bottom from a distance. He has an old fashioned diving suit like the Bikini Atoll nuclear experiment researchers
God, you're underrated.
very glad i found your channel, the way you can explain stuff without really extending the video for no reason is pretty good, cant wait to see how much you grow
This is the only other Bible I am comfortable reading as a christian
The best bible other than the actual one hahah
@@theberrby6836 True that brother, true that :)
That's... a common term used in the industry, to refer to the document used for pitching a show.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster I'm joking you know
They REALLY unpacked the spongebob bible! Classic.
aww that animation on the end card is ultra cute
The Marshall Islands are closer to Japan (both culturally and geographically) than Australia and I would say “Micronesia” (the region it’s in) rather than Oceania (which is like saying Eurasia or The Americas)
gosh i just love shows that, well, love and want the best for their characters 🥺 like hearing how much hillenberg truly loves all these characters and loves the sponge himself is so sweet
You seriously make some of the best videos on youtube!
aww thanks :)
Discern what you know about the latter of the yellow sponge's success, and it becomes recognizable how Nickelodeon treated Hillenburg and the characters after his death. Overall, Stephen Hillenberg's characters are insanely lovable, and he created a world where it pushes through boundaries through subliminal and blatant means while touching the hearts of an entire audience. That is what makes Spongebob Squarepants the most eclectic show of its time.
If only the modern spongebob team actually read this and the show will be more better and more of the spirit of old spongebob.
Most of the "modern" team was around during this time though and besides even old spongebob changed after the pitch
And also the new episodes are good yes its diffrent but its still great episodes
Never realized that artstyle is so unique. Reminds me of Dr.Suess
You can really tell the passion he put into this. It's such a creative way to pitch a show, too. One of my earliest childhood heroes.
Dangit I was expecting Bible Stories starring Spongebob characters.
I would actually like to see spongebob rebooted with a different art style, different character designs, aesthetic and colour pallet but going back to it's original style of animation and comedy, maybe a good approach to this would be for it to be entirely accurate to Stephen Hillenberg's original vision for sponge boy, obviously just using the name spongebob. It might even be interesting to see a spongebob movie that follows the same format as the spongebob bible, a mocumentary presenting itself as a factual account of the discovery of bikini bottom. It would be really cool to see Barnacle Bill in his original state and hear the evermore dramatic retellings of how he came to be essentially a wooden clockwork cyborg. I like the more quirky and rough-around-the-edges art style of Hillenberg's original sketches and it'd make for a nice animation style. I honestly think that's how they should've gone about keeping spongebob alive after Stephen Hillenberg's passing, instead of making these unfaithful and kinda lazy prequels and reboots. It would've actually been a powerful way to honour Hillenberg by bringing his original, unaltered, unfiltered vision to life for either a movie or a one-off episode. It'd actually be even better as a movie because they could try and fit in a lot of those original episode drafts. They could even include Sponge Boy as one of Spongebob's nicknames, since his name is actually Robert Harold Square Squarepants then that means Spongebob is also just a nickname. Idk, it's just a thought. This comment ended up being a lot longer and more fleshed out than I intended 😅.
They have refrenced spongeboy like showed a sketch of him in an episode and also theyv only made 1 "prequal" wich is kamp koral but kk is complicated cause it takes place in an alternate reality but anyway yeah iv been thinking the same thing it would be cool if they made an episode with the the original style colors of spongeboy ahoy it seems like somthing they would do
Everytime i think of sponges as an animal i come to this video just to hear the sentance "spongebob and his boys?"
This was great! I checked out a few more things too and now you've got yourself a new trusted fan :) Keep it up!
This bible changes everything. We all thought Bubble Bass was going to be the main antagonist for the series but got overshadowed by Plankton, but this reveals that Plankton was always intended as such.
Ppl rlly thought that? Bubble Bass never seemed as “important” as Plankton, seems clear to me who the main antagonist was gonna be
I really love all the style in his original sketches for the pitch
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Is now real 😳🥴
Spongebob and Splatoon gave a lot in common! Cartoon sea creatures, a single mammal character, *mysterious cryptic lore-*
19:44 Fun fact: Barnacle Bill is the name of a seafood restaurant chain in Australia.
i really love these videos!!!! i get so pumped whenever i see one in my feed :)
U seriously need more subscribers. Ur videos are the best!
What an absolutely charming way to pitch a show
The image of spongebob at the top at 6:11 is true meme worthy status
"Draw me like one of your French girls Squidward"
Is it odd that this sounds like a better show then sponge bob, no insults towards spongebob though, I love that show
I really love the art style present hear, it's just about the same, but there's little things that make the bible art pop and look so alive, honestly sad it doesn't look like that
Barnacle bill actually comes back exactly like in the pitch in a spongebob comic arc
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Once again banger video hope you get the silver button soon
I'm about 10 minutes in but I wanted to say I appreciated the Sponge lesson before I forget
Also seeing SpongeBob's characterization written down by the creators makes me notice his little ticks that I never thought about like his whole detail oriented thing with his pencils in boating school
I never thought I'd see a new perspective on a show I know like the back of my hand
I half expected this to be a weird spongebob version of the actual bible
i want to make a fundraiser to make tiny SpongeBob models of bikini bottom and go underwater and put them somewhere random underwater
Mat pat be like ..
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Damn he really be like that 😳
that is me when Mat pat be like ..
This channel is amazing so far I love deep dive lore stuff and it’s really entertaining
YO WAIT THE BIBLE GOT RELEASED LETS GO
BIBLE 2 IS REAL
3:35 ish: *"dies of information overload"* *SAMSUNG NOTIFICATION SOUND BASS BOOSTED*
0:17 Uh... no, that's just the term used in the industry for the document detailing a show being pitched.
Hell yeah new video
Interesting to know SpongeBob used to play ukulele
He does in the show but only a few episodes
Great video, but maybe use a more neutral color as a background so the screen doesn't burn my retinas.
[Insert inevitable 'There are many benefits to being a marine biologist' meme here]
I would like to nominate the sentence "We had indeed found Sponge Boy" for some sort of academy award, please
this reminds me of the sonic bible that nobody uses
8:07 This whole section just hurts really bad for some reason
Anyone else feel like their life consists mostly of wanting to fit in and make others happy?
Optimism sometimes feels very painful, but Stephen Hillenberg definitely created the all time greatest mascot for it.
4:17 That's the thing about evolution - it's a *branching* process, and not a linear sequence like you may have been taught by school and the media.
Yeah she explained that
the benefits of being a marine biologist
Barnacle Bill was reference in Mermaid Mans ice-cream order a double scoop of prune with bran spinkles
I was waiting a shitpost, but this is better
this video released on the 82 anniversary of World War 2
I just wanna say at 0:33 I laughed WAY harder than I probably should have
what the dog eat dog doin
In sponge we trust
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I thought this video was gonna be a meme video but it actually is a interesting one
oh my god when you said "very heavily based him off of optimism" i thought you said autism and i was like "YEAH YEAH HE DOES HAVE A LOT OF AUTISTIC TRAITS AUTISM ICON"