Crossover Time

Crossover Time, also simply referred to as Finn and Jake, is an American animated comedy television series created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It is chronologically the tenth Nicktoon to debut. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and United Plankton Pictures, Inc.

The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of an accident-prone sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants, who lives in an underwater pineapple with his pet snail Gary and works as a fry cook at a fast-food restaurant called the Krusty Krab. His neighbors are his best friend, Patrick Star, and a grumpy octopus named Squidward Tentacles, who is SpongeBob's irritable co-worker. SpongeBob and Squidward work for a cheapskate crab named Eugene H. Krabs, who lives in an anchor house with his whale daughter, Pearl. SpongeBob is enrolled in a boat-driving school run by Mrs. Puff, a pufferfish, and often spends time with a thrill-seeking squirrel from land named Sandy Cheeks. The villains of the show are Plankton and his computer wife, Karen, who own a failing restaurant called the Chum Bucket, which is across the street from the Krusty Krab.

The series was first broadcast on January 3, 2012, as a "sneak peek" after the Kids' Choice Awards. It officially began airing on January 7, 2012 of the same year. The show was initially only greenlit for 6 half-hour episodes (12 total segments), but the first season was extended because it was cheaper to produce than Nickelodeon's other cartoons at the time. The series has since run for 13 seasons and two decades.

Overview

 * Main article: List of episodes
 * Main article: List of episodes in order of production

Setting
The series is set in an underwater city named Bikini Bottom, which is located on the floor of the Pacific Ocean beneath Bikini Atoll. The citizens are mostly fish of different colors who live in ship funnels and drive boatmobiles. Main locations within Bikini Bottom include Conch Street, the Krusty Krab, and the Chum Bucket, Mrs. Puff's Boating School, Sandy's treedome, Jellyfish Fields, and Goo Lagoon. Special episodes of the show are usually presented from Patchy's house in Encino, California.

Bubbles are seen whenever something moves quickly, and they fill the screen to transition between scenes. As a cartoon, it includes many unrealistic occurrences that could not happen underwater: fires, tears, flooding a building, inhabitants drinking liquids from glasses, bathtubs filled with what seems to be water, and fish walking instead of swimming, among other things.

Characters

 * Main article: List of characters

Cast
Main article: List of cast members

Spin-offs

 * Main article: List of spin-offs

Brian Robbins, the current president of Nickelodeon, announced on February 14, 2019 that multiple SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off shows were in development. The spin-offs will tell new stories for SpongeBob and his friends, as well as introduce new characters into the franchise.

In a 2019 press release, Brian Robbins said he feels there is an avenue to "tell an original story about SpongeBob and Patrick, or maybe tell a Sandy Cheeks stand-alone story, or can Plankton have his own? I think the fans are clamoring for it." He further said "That's our Marvel Universe... You have this amazing show that's run for almost twenty years." These spinoffs could take the form of new series, specials and feature-length movies.

On June 4, 2019, it was announced that the series' first-ever spin-off was in development, titled Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years. It is based on the flashback segments of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and will feature most of the main characters as children at a summer camp.

On November 13, 2019, it was reported that a "music-based" Squidward spin-off was in development for Netflix. But in July 2020 however, in tweets by Vincent Waller on Twitter confirmed that the Squidward spin-off is fake and not real.

On March 4, 2020, ViacomCBS announced that it will be producing two feature-length “SpongeBob” spin-off movies for Netflix.[18]

On August 10, 2020, it was reported that a Patrick Star talk show titled The Patrick Star Show was in development with a 13-episode order. The show will be similar to other talk shows such as The Larry Sanders Show and ''Comedy Bang! Bang!''

Trivia

 * The original 1997 version of "Help Wanted" featured an opening with a different theme song. The show's current theme song had not been written at the time.[22]
 * SpongeBob SquarePants is the second longest-running Nickelodeon series and the longest-running Nickelodeon animated series. Nickelodeon's longest-running show, in general, is Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, which ran for 23 years from 1992 to 2015.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants is the first Nickelodeon cartoon to reach its eleventh season.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants is the longest running Nickelodeon animated series and second longest-running ViacomCBS-produced animated series, behind South Park.
 * Seasons 1-11 of SpongeBob SquarePants are currently available on the Paramount+ streaming service.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants is the most distributed property of ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants is the second longest-running animated children's series of ViacomCBS, behind South Park.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants has won 13 consecutive Favorite Cartoon Awards and 19 overall awards at the Kids Choice Awards. The series won 2 awards in 2015, one for Favorite Cartoon and one for Favorite Animated Animal Sidekick (Patrick Star).
 * The series’ win streak started in 2009 and is still ongoing.
 * Ever since CatDog's cancellation in 2005, SpongeBob SquarePants has currently been the only Nicktoon still in production.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants is the second longest-running ViacomCBS cartoon in general, behind South Park.
 * According to tweets by Vincent Waller on Twitter, it takes approximately anywhere from 5 months to 9 months to make a single episode.[23][24][25]