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"It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" is the 23rd episode of the eighth season, and the 175th episode overall of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on November 23, 2012, and on Nickelodeon on December 6.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon.It first aired as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999.
The season's executive producers were series creator Stephen Hillenburg and Paul Tibbitt, who also acted as the series' showrunner. [2] [3] Due to the success of the show, the New York Daily News reported that Nickelodeon picked up SpongeBob SquarePants for an eighth season on December 14, 2009, during the year which the show was celebrating its tenth anniversary on television. [4]
SpongeBob's voice actor Tom Kenny considers this one of his favorite episodes. It was included in the iTunes collection "SpongeBob SquarePants: Tom Kenny's Top 20", where he called it "a very sick episode. You can spend hours theorizing about what these eleven minutes says about truth, lies, Big Business, entrepreneurship, and consumerism." [15]
In 2009, Nickelodeon celebrated the show's tenth anniversary with Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants and SpongeBob's Truth or Square. [7] [8] The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, a stand-alone sequel, was released in theaters on February 6, 2015, and grossed over US$324 million worldwide. [9]
This underrated Christmas flick follows Arthur Claus, the son of Santa, who discovers that one little girl was missed on Christmas Eve. He sets out on a mission to ensure that she gets her present ...
It is the second SpongeBob episode to be animated through stop-motion instead of the usual 2D format following "It's a SpongeBob Christmas! The episode's stop-motion animation was produced at Screen Novelties (returning from "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!") and was directed by Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh, two of the founders of the company.
He runs into SpongeBob and gets him to hide the chum, convincing him that he is actually hiding presents for a Christmas-like holiday known as "Chum Day". When the rotten chum fails to hold and explodes all over the city, coming down like snow, SpongeBob shows Bikini Bottom of the true meaning of Chum Day.