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SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout is a 2019 made-for-television live-action/animated comedy special based on the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. [1] [2] It was written by Kaz and Mr. Lawrence, and was directed by Jonas Morganstein.
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"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 12. In this episode, SpongeBob and Patrick tour the surface world, while the rest of Bikini Bottom prepares a surprise party for SpongeBob.
Act 1 (254)
In Encino, California, Patchy the Pirate is struggling to start his boat. He tells the audience that he has a present to deliver to SpongeBob on his birthday. Potty tells Patchy that the boat is out of gas, but is ignored. Potty triggers the boat's airbags, causing Patchy to be launched out of the car into his garage. He decides to walk instead and follows the direction of the wind with a sail on his hand. Down in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob is woken up by his alarm clock and sees Gary singing him a happy birthday. He opens Gary's present to see a jellyfish net made out of Gary's slime. SpongeBob loves it and plays with it, causing bits of snail slime to fly across the room, and some it even into Squidward's coffee next door. At Patrick's house, we see that Sandy, Bubble Bass, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, Mrs. Puff, Old Man Walker, and Patrick are planning a surprise party for SpongeBob. Sandy struggles to remind Patrick of his duty, though he continually forgets until he is alerted by a ring on his watch and finally remembers his role. Everyone is shocked at his sudden recollection, though Plankton remarks that idiots have their day. Plankton hops into Patrick's pocket as he is about to pick up SpongeBob for the tour that is heading towards Surface Land. Plankton grabs the keys to SpongeBob's house. The crew then moves all of his stuff to Squidward's house. Sandy forces Squidward to help out with the decorations. He gladly agrees. Mr. Krabs then assigns Old Man Walker to be the lookout. Meanwhile, Rube is driving to the destination, and he gives SpongeBob a birthday hat, while also telling the tourists the rules. It turns out that in order to get to Surface Land, they need to get a lift from the French Narrator, which instantly makes Patrick want to get to the nearest restroom. The submarine ends up tilting David Hasselhoff's boat over. Everyone on the tour bus says goodbye to the French Narrator as they get on the beach and see some local human activity.
Act 2
Their first stop is the Beach Blanket Bean-Go. The host being Beanie McBean, Beanie asks contestants different questions and get covered in bean slime. Patrick watches them getting covered with bean slime and cannot resist; he drives the bus all the way up to the rostrum and says "Wrong answer!" Bean slime explodes and falls into the bus, where Patrick eats all of it, and also soaks up all the water in it. Rube drives the bus, while he and the passengers are drying up, to a beach shower, and refills the bus with water. Immediately after, the bus gets approached by a dog, which Rube calls a pie dragon. As soon as it starts drinking its water, Rube drives the bus away. Meanwhile, back at SpongeBob's house, there are arguments about the theme by which it should be decorated, until Sandy tells each one of them to decorate a part of the house: Bubble Bass decorates it after a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy theme, Plankton after a torture theme, Sandy after a karate theme, Squidward after a painting theme where he puts his paintings in the display, Mrs. Puff after a driving theme, and Mr. Krabs opens a Krusty Krab section to sell Krabby Patties. Rube is explaining guides the passengers through a forest, they stumble again upon the dog, which runs after the bus. SpongeBob realizes that Patrick, on the surface of the bus' water, has caught with his mouth its frisbee and does not let it go. SpongeBob makes him do so, and the dog stops to catch the frisbee. The bus tour continues as Rube guides the tour passengers through the city.
Act 3 (255)
Back at SpongeBob's house, the party begins as the guests come over. Things do not turn out very well at the house, as some of them break things and impatiently eat the cakes served. Despite Sandy's attempts to calm the guests down, they wreak havoc and two walls of the living room fall apart. The bus tour visits a lot of places, including a business center in which they watch a meeting partaken by business people wearing gorilla masks, and the Trusty Slab, a restaurant similar to the Krusty Krab as to the employees, the employer and some of its design.
The episode was confirmed on January 24, 2019, by Vincent Waller and multiple other sources.
The episode was announced to be 44 minutes long. The first clip of the episode was shown during a commercial break of the 2019 Kids' Choice Awards on March 23, 2019. The following day, an extended version of the clip was released to the official Twitter account.
It features the voice cast of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Doug Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. With the exception of Mrs. Puff and Gary, live-action versions of the animated characters were played by their voice actors in the Surface Land sequence.
Tom Kenny noted, "I don't want to live in a live-action world. I want to live in the cartoon world." In the episode, he had to perform in character on a Krusty Krab set along with the rest of the voice cast, who were also dressed as their respective characters.
On May 22, 2019, an article from Entertainment Weekly revealed images of the voice cast playing their human forms. Other images revealed that David Hasselhoff was going to be guest starring standing next to Patchy the Pirate.
On June 18, 2019, an article from Den of Geek! revealed that Nickelodeon was going to hold SpongeBob's 20th birthday blowout at Comic-Con.
General
•This episode is dedicated to the series creator Stephen Hillenburg, as a "thank you" message for him appears at the end of the episode. •All 10 main characters are present in this episode. The live-action versions of Mrs. Puff and Gary don't appear. •This is the first season 12 episode released on DVD. •This is the first episode in which Patchy meets SpongeBob. •Mrs. Puff is the only main character whose voice actor does not appear in live-action. Jill Talley and Tom Kenny do appear in live-action, but not as versions of Karen or Gary respectively. •Mary Jo Catlett, the voice of Mrs. Puff, recorded some behind-the-scenes work as herself as seen on Vincent Waller's Twitter account, but it was cut from the episode. •This episode was made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants. It premiered on July 12, five days before the series' officially recognized debut date of July 17, 1999, when "Bubblestand" and "Ripped Pants" premiered. Nickelodeon counts July 17 as the series' premiere rather than May 1, when the pilot-trio "Help Wanted"/"Reef Blower"/"Tea at the Treedome" was previewed. July 12 is also two days before SpongeBob's recognized birthday. •This episode also came out the day before Tom Kenny's 57th birthday. However, in multiple countries , this episode aired on Tom Kenny's 57th birthday. •This is the only episode in season 12 to be written by more than one person. •This is also the first episode to be written by more than one person since "Squirrel Jelly." •This is the first episode to have three supervising directors. •This is the fourth episode to have three animation directors, following "Truth or Square," "Hello Bikini Bottom!," and "Senior Discount." •Vincent Waller has confirmed on Twitter that Stephen Hillenburg was alive during the storyboard and writing phases of the episode. However, he did not contribute to the episode's boarding or script. •This is the most-viewed episode of season 12 at 1.83 million US viewers. •This is also the second highest-viewed children's program of 2019, with only Descendants 3 having a higher amount of viewers. •In some international versions of the episode, Lana Condor is replaced by John Goodman.[citation needed] •This marks the first appearance of Princess Mindy in an episode. •This is Patchy's first appearance since the "I ♥ SpongeBob week" in 2018, and his and Potty's first episode appearance since "Feral Friends." •In the commercials advertising this episode, clips from "Gary's Got Legs," "Squid's on a Bus," and "Mind the Gap" were used. •The cake in the main title card has the colors teal, yellow, and pink. These are meant to refer to Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick respectively. •This is the first episode in which Rube's name is mentioned, since in the previous episodes he appears in, his name is just listed in the end credits. •This is the third TV movie of the series. The first is "Atlantis SquarePantis" and the second is "Truth or Square." •It is also the second TV movie that celebrates the series' anniversary, after "Truth or Square" was produced to celebrate the series' 10th anniversary in 2009. •This is the second TV movie to count as two episodes. The first was "Truth or Square," which is also an anniversary special. •This is the third episode in which the French Narrator is seen in person. The first was "No Free Rides" and the second was "Feral Friends." •"My leg!": Plankton ties Fred's leg up and forces him to say it. •SpongeBob's parents make their first speaking appearance since "A SquarePants Family Vacation." •In international countries, this episode airs in two parts. There is an alternate "To Be Continued..." title card that is used in those countries. It features the track "SpongeBob Comic Tag." •This also happens with "Atlantis SquarePantis." •The two-part version also has noticeable differences when heard in English. In all of the live-action scenes, people's actual speech from the shooting is heard (mostly seen in the Trusty Slab scene), while in the 44-minute version, the lines sound cleaner and without the echo, meaning there was an ADR process after shooting. •A set of four Double Dare episodes premiered to celebrate the 20th anniversary. •This is the third episode to not have the opening credits take place underwater. The other two episodes to do this are "SB-129" and "Krusty Krab Training Video." •The fourth wall is broken twice in this episode. •The French Narrator is seen holding the "One little boost to the surface later..." time card and everyone in the tour bus says bye to him. •At the end of the episode when SpongeBob is telling his age to Patrick, static abruptly interrupts him and he plays his nose like a flute and the TV screen shuts off. •This is the first episode in which the elderly fish formerly known as Old Man Jenkins, now known as Old Man Walker, is referred to by his new name in an episode. •However, the first time the name was used at all was in the credits of "Plankton Paranoia." •The cast of The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical appears at the end of the episode, wishing SpongeBob a happy birthday. •Mrs. Puff asks Squidward if he has ever taught SpongeBob how to drive before, which he has to an extent in "Pizza Delivery," although Mrs. Puff was not around to see that. •At the end of the birthday theme, where everybody cheers, Squidward can be heard saying "I still don't like you!" •When comparing the Trusty Slab scene in its clip uploaded by the official SpongeBob SquarePants YouTube channel, versus the same scene in the actual episode, the dialogue, while the same lines, is delivered differently. •There are a lot of shots on the surface where the passengers in the tour bus are not animated, but instead as shown as figurines. According to live-action director Jonas Morganstein, this was a stylistic choice to keep the DIY-style aspect of the series. •A cut version of the episode premiered on October 5, 2019. It includes some differences: •All of the partying/planning scenes are cut. •SpongeBob's house is also not destroyed, and Old Man Walker is not present. •Patrick starts dancing to the Birthday Song before the group joins in, and he is in a different position throughout the song as well. •The celebrities wishing SpongeBob a happy birthday were cut. •Some dialogue was changed. •The pie dragon chase and paperclip jungle scenes are cut. •Nickelodeon's on-screen credits start on the bottom left of the screen when Patrick saves everyone from the aquarium. Normally, the credits start on the bottom left of the screen during the celebrity scene. •When JimBob sings his Slabby Patty song, "Flop and Go A" plays when he starts dancing. •On November 5, 2019, Nickelodeon began re-airing the regular version. •When Sandy karate chops the table and punches Slappy in the face, she is wearing red karate gloves, which are supposed to be SpongeBob's, instead of her usual green or pink karate gloves. •This also occurs in "Waiting" and "Shopping List." •However, the green karate gloves do appear in the Trusty Slab segment, when Carol beats up Charleston. •When Larry is approaching SpongeBob's pineapple house, someone in line says, "I haven't been to a party in 20 years." This is a reference to the twentieth anniversary of the show. •Zeus the Guitar Lord appears at the Krusty Krab booth. •Since SpongeBob was born in 1986, if the episode is set in 2019 it would make him 33 years old. 2021 McDonald's Happy Meal UK Commercial Clips from the episode were used. •Clips from this episode along with "Gone" would later go on to be used as footage for the commercial to the 2021 McDonald's UK Happy Meal promotion for the SpongeBob SquarePants 2021 Happy Meal toys.
Dub facts
•In Indonesia, parts 1 and 2 of this episode were originally going to air in Indonesia on July 12, 2019, but they just aired the part 1 and the part 2 of this episode later got pulled for unknown reasons and didn't air until one year later on September 10, 2020. •In the Israeli version of the episode, when Squidward is walking to his house, he sings the song "Shevet Ahim Veahayot" (שבט אחים ואחיות).
Episode references
•SpongeBob and Patrick can be heard saying bad word #11 from "Sailor Mouth." •SpongeBob mentions that the French Narrator is Sandy's friend, referencing "Feral Friends." •Squidward choking on the cake is a reference to "Naughty Nautical Neighbors." •Live-action Patrick saying "not until four" is a reference to "I Had an Accident." •Incidental 6 is seen holding a drink with two ice cubes in it, which is a reference to "Fools in April." •When Mr. Slabs throws Mr. Charleston into a pile of trash, the pizza box from the episode "Pizza Delivery" is seen. •Live-action Patrick struggling to order something is a reference to "Krusty Krab Training Video." •The ape masks in the meeting scene are a reference to "I Had an Accident." •Bubble Bass' Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy-themed party contains multiple references to previous Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episodes. •The Dirty Bubble and Man Ray as action figures are seen on the table, referencing the second and third Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episodes, respectively. •Mermaid Man's belt is strapped around the cake's bottom layer, referencing the fourth Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episode. •The live-action versions of SpongeBob and Patrick were originally planned to appear in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. •After meeting Patchy, SpongeBob's eyes turn into one big eye, which he also did in the season 10 episode "Lost and Found." •SpongeBob's sentence being cut off by the end of the episode is similar to the reveal of the Krabby Patty secret formula being cut off by the end of "Krusty Krab Training Video."
Jul 12, 2019 · SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout: Directed by Jonas Morganstein, Sherm Cohen, Dave Cunningham, Adam Paloian. With Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown. SpongeBob and Patrick tour the surface world, while the rest of Bikini Bottom prepares a surprise party for SpongeBob.
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"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is a special hour-length episode from the twelfth season of SpongeBob SquarePants. It was produced to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary and was aired as a tribute to creator Stephen Hillenburg, who passed away during production.
SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout is a 2019 made-for-television live-action/animated comedy special based on the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It was written by Kaz and Mr. Lawrence, and was directed by Jonas Morganstein.
Nov 23, 2023 · As the group is about to sing SpongeBob a happy birthday, Patchy suddenly stumbles by and almost hits the bus. Meanwhile, many people have came to SpongeBob's party. Sandy tries to control everyone, but they still wreak havoc and cause the walls of the living room to fall down.
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