SpongeBob (2022)

SpongeBob is slendernyan's reboot of  SpongeBob SquarePants ,  The Patrick Star Show , and Squid vs. Squid in the  Reboot Universe . The goal is to reboot the original show, which began to massively convolute its own continuity after the first movie.

Development
The original show ran for ten seasons before stopping production in 2017, taking all reboots with it. Three years later, it was confirmed by Nickelodeon that the series was to be rebooted with showrunner Ben Bocquelet (The Amazing World of Gumball), and executive producers Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) and Stephen Hillenburg (SpongeBob SquarePants), after being sold to Cartoon Network for $10,000,000,000. The show premiered two years later.

Production team
Ben Bocquelet has stated that he wants to be creative, but also nostalgic, with the plots of most episodes, and that he personally chose Alex Hirsch as a producer to keep continuity in line. Alex wants the show to have a basic plot outline, but also stay true to itself and its humor. Rather than considering non-plot episodes filler, he considers the plot progressive episodes to be something extra. Hillenberg has stated countless times that the show is meant to be just that: Just a show. There will be no movies, nor spinoffs, though there are shorts that often show between programs and premiere on YouTube. He believed it should be very self-contained.

Airing
The show premiered on May 5, 2022. Each episode is 22 minutes rather than the classic 11-minute format, and they tell a longer story than classic episodes. A new episode normally airs every week, and the standard episode count per season is 25. Cartoon Network started airing classic SpongeBob episodes in syndication about a month after it was revealed that they owned the rights to the franchise. After the show started going downhill in the fifth-seventh seasons, CN made a deal with HBO to air episodes there first, then show them the following day on Cartoon Network itself. Different writers also started to get hired, and the show went uphill for the next two seasons.

Writing
A lot of classic SpongeBob writers stayed on the crew, though a lot of gen 2 (post-movie) writers were fired for the reboot. Writers from other shows, such as Justin Roiland, Rebecca Sugar and Pendleton Ward (more often) started writing for the series to give it that modern edge. When the CN/HBO deal (see "Airing") was made, different writers also started to get hired due to poor ratings in the fifth and sixth seasons.

Music
The majority of the music was remixed music from the original series, but Steve Belfer also composed some music specifically for it.

Animation
The show used a very simple, mid-20th century cartoon look, reminiscent of Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, and Popeye the Sailor, but also animated digitally. It's very different from the original show, yet all character designs remain almost if not exactly the same.

Voice Actors
Bocquelet tried to get back as many classic voice actors as he could, instructing them to still breathe new life into the characters that fit into the feeling the animation style suggested. Returning voices include Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, and a few others. The most notable missing actors were Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown and Mr. Lawrence as Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton, respectively. They were replaced by Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons), J.K. Simmons (Gravity Falls), and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), respectively. Dan Castellaneta played a laid-back, assholeish, less nasaly Squidward. J.K. Simmons played an older, crustier Krabs, which led to a slight redesign, with yellower eyes, a hunched back, and a slight bears. Benedict Cumberbatch played a smarter, British Plankton who believed he was above everyone else.

1. Pilot
SpongeBob has just moved in to Bikini Bottom, and is teaching his new friend Patrick the fun of jellyfishing outside his neighbour Squidward's house. Squidward lashes out on them out of annoyance and tell SpongeBob to get a job. He decides to apply at both the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket, both of which get average customers and are considered competitors. Eugene Krabs and Plankton, the owners of the two restaurants, fight over the great fry cook, while Squidward, who happens to also work at the Krusty Krab, comes up with several plans to get SpongeBob as far away from the Krusty Krab as possible, with failure every time. SpongeBob ends up working at the KK, much to Squidward's dismay, and sends the Chum Bucket into a rut of low sales.