''SpongeBob Squarepants'' edited

[don Jaime]

Caught the Sponge after work tonight and was surprised as heck to spot an edit. The sequence where Squidward trips the Krusty Krab's burglar alarms - buckets of gasoline over the doors, just waiting for a match - was clipped out of "Just One Bite." Strangely, the following segment (which used to be the first segment) about a bully who tells SpongeBob he's going to kick SpongeBob's butt was unchanged, even though is much more imitatible behavior. Any ideas what (if anything) was going through the minds of Nick's censors?

 

[Karkull]

Can stuff actually burn underwater like that, even with gasoline?

 

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by don Jaime
Any ideas what (if anything) was going through the minds of Nick's censors?

"Nickelodeon: Even more evil than KWB."

 

[Calhoun07]

But what about the real problem still at hand? Kids all over this nation letting their pants fall off?

 

[JustJack]

Originally posted by calhoun07
But what about the real problem still at hand? Kids all over this nation letting their pants fall off?

I tell ya'....in my day, we wore BELTS...or..tight pants...something. We didn't let our pants fall..I most certainly wasn't going to explose my underpants! Thats fer sure!

 

[Jedigreedo]

Nick & WB have really gone to the pits with those type of cartoons....

 

[Majin Vegeta]

"SpongeBeb Squarepants. Rated PG-13. In theaters July 10th."

BTW did you know that there really is a SpongeBob Squarepants movie being made?

 

[DR. BELCH]

There are--

--substances that can burn/explode underwater, I believe. Plastique explosive comes to mind.

What next--censors afraid kids will take to the kitchen and attempt SpongeBob's rapid-fire mass patty preparation to the music of Tiny Tim in "Help Wanted"?

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by Majin Vegeta
BTW did you know that there really is a SpongeBob Squarepants movie being made?

Please tell me you're not kidding. That would be awesome!

 

[Alaskanbullworm]

I saw in a TIME magazine article that there is a movie being made, but only that, they didn't give any information about it.

 

[Ro 2026]

This is a lot lighter than the first round of edits the show underwent when they, among other things, changed the original title from "SpongeBob no pants".

 

[Betaman8]

Spongebob squarepants pas terrible, all current nick shows are pas terrible! and I WANT A BOYCOTT! J'nai sais pas how nickelodeon turned so rotten and odorous!

Je n'aime pas le Nickelodeon!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Argh. If you'll check the rules, you'll find out that we don't allow curse words to be printed, even if one word is "cleverly" replaced by an asterisk since 99.9% of the population can still guess what the word is. We like having a PG rating to keep this board as accessable as possible, and we aim to keep it that way. Got it?

 

[Nightwing]

[color=00FFFF]Yup. Curtly put, but to the point. As the mods have said before, please be sure to read the rules page, and of course keep things toned down. All the rules are common sense anyway. [/color]

 

[Betaman8]

i re-wrote it removing every cuss word, but keeping my original point.

 

[Majin Vegeta]

To the Pinhead,

Yeah, I saw it too in that one TIME magazine article.

 

[don Jaime]

Yeah, the one on top of your head. Don't ever go near Brandon "The Angry Beavers" Pierce with that attitude. There might not be enough left of you to mail home to your mom. It's the network that's the problem, not necessarily the shows. That said, most of their lineup could be put to bed with little complaint from me.

Gasoline floats, so it won't even stay underwater. Patrick did once ask SpongeBob how they could have a campfire when they were underwater, and the campfire went out before he finished his sentence. It came back later, when Patrick stepped on the ashes.

 

[Majin Vegeta]

For goodness' sake, it's a cartoon! That's what makes it so funny!

(Plankton's computerized content analyzing machine): Seaweed. 50% sea, 50% weed.

(later, when Plankton falls into the machine): Plankton. 1% evil, 99% hot air.

 

[Betaman8]

but its NOT funny! It's immature! It creates the hollow heads i have to go see everyday at school, and makes the money-mad morons down in orlando and in nyc rich, when they dont deserve a penny.


Whatever happened to shows like "You Can't Do that On Television", and "Pinwheel", or even "Eureka's Castle"?? I grew up on these shows and they deserve more recognition than any of nick's current shows do combined.

In case you haven't noticed, every last show nick (not nick at nite) has on now were created for two kinds of people-1, infants, and 2, people with IQ's LESS than two (i.e. is no smarter than a piece of furniture).

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by Betaman8
Spongebob squarepants pas terrible...

Oy. Must you break my heart? I'm crushed. Oh well, to borrow from my corny old history teacher, different opinions make the world go round!