Yesterday, I claimed that I would reveal what yearly marathon I had planned for 2024! Well, here it is! To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Spongebob Squarepants, I decided to do a retrospective (and later on)/perspective on the entire franchise as a whole. This includes every season up to this point and three featured films that have come out. I won’t be discussing the spin-off shows such as Kamp Koral or The Patrick Star Show, just everything tv or movie related that connects to the actual MAIN series involving our favorite yellow sponge. I may cover some new Spongebob content that comes out in 2024 such as the new Sandy Cheeks movie titled Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie or a potential 25th anniversary episode but there’s no guarantee when or even if I will go over those.
It won’t so much talk about each individual season and ESPECIALLY not each individual episode but go in depth to the several different eras of Spongebob that took place when referring to it’s overall quality. And unlike mainstream media, it’s not going to be the one-note/sided argument about how everything good that happened with Spongebob was the first three seasons and first movie and everything to come after that was bad with no redeemable values to it. That would be tiresome and just plain lazy. I don’t refer to the two separated spectrums of Spongebob as exclusively being pre-movie Spongebob and post-movie Spongebob. In my eyes, there’s just good Spongebob and bad Spongebob.
The goal of this marathon is to talk about a handful of seasons at a time while getting together of what seemed to be the general opinion surrounding each individual era from the hardcore Spongebob fandom. It’s a means of celebrating the 25th year long legacy of Spongebob Squarepants and why the series has stood the test of time to this very day.
This schedule is subject to change throughout the year, but at the moment, here is what my planned yearly schedule for the year looks like:
January: The Golden Era (Seasons 1-3)
February: The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
March: The “Awkward” Era (Season 4-5)
April: The “Bad” Era (Season 6-7)
May: The “Other Awkward” Era (Season 8-9)
June: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
July: The “New Golden” Era (Season 10-11)
August: The “New Bad” Era (Season 12-13)
September: The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run
October: The “Current” Era (Season 14-onwards)
November: TBD
December: Ranking of Every Single Season
Again, this is subject to change but that’s the road map that I have at the moment.
I get the feeling that this is going to be the most fun marathon that I’ve ever done on this blog. Especially because Spongebob has had such an impact on me since I was a childhood and is a character that is just incredibly important to me. And because this is meant to be a brand new anniversary for him, why not celebrate by taking a good trip down memory lane?!
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