There are few issues you may really depend on on this life. Institutions fall. Buildings crumble. Love erodes. But SpongeBob? SpongeBob is without end.
This is per Variety, which stories that Nickelodeon has simply issued a Fifteenth-season renewal to venerable sponge-based animated sequence SpongeBob SquarePants, a 26-episode order that may carry the sequence properly previous the purpose the place it enters its twenty fifth 12 months after we attain May of subsequent 12 months. (Someone ought to inform SpongeBob he’s about to get kicked off of his dad and mom’ medical health insurance, though as a home-owner with one snail dependent, he can presumably foot the invoice himself at this level.) The new order brings the sequence, which has stored sequence star Tom Kenny in paychecks and Emmys for almost half his life at this level, as much as 345 episodes of absurdist, foolish, nonetheless surprisingly humorous children TV.
For these of you who’ve managed to lose monitor, SpongeBob as a franchise is completely large at this level, encompassing two spin-off sequence (Kamp Koral and The Patrick Star Show), three movies (in 2004, 2015, and 2020), a stage musical, a number of video video games, theme park rides, a popsicle, a buying and selling card recreation, and that one tune the place rapper Cupcakke talked about eager to have intercourse with Squidward’s nostril. (We’re fairly certain that final one was unofficial, however Nickelodeon licenses a lot of SpongeBob crap, so who can say?) It’s one of many flagship franchises for the entire community, having, by this level, outlasted its personal creator, Stephen Hillenburg, who died in 2018, and change into a popular culture juggernaut unto its personal.
Despite the season 15 renewal, the sequence remains to be at present solely in its thirteenth season—though that is a kind of Game Of Thrones seasons that stretches for like 3 years, having began again in October of 2020. The present final launched new episodes in August of this 12 months, and can proceed to take action till you, we, and presumably the remainder of the human race are mud.
