Magic Security Dust
Adam Shostack is selling magic security dust.
It’s about time someone is commercializing this essential technology.
Adam Shostack is selling magic security dust.
It’s about time someone is commercializing this essential technology.
You could call them "sky flowers," but that doesn't really make sense either—after all, the faded blue behind each squiggle is water, not sky, and the squiggles themselves don't represent solid objects in any tangible, meaningful way. But they look right. The reds and greens and yellows add life and color in a way that a flat blue might not. Those odd shapes, suspended motionless with no clear reason or value, establish a tone. There are a lot of things that don't make sense on SpongeBob SquarePants. But there's a clear and coherent vision that runs through the entire show, from the design of SpongeBob's kitchen-sponge body down to the squeaky-balloon sound of his footsteps. It's a perspective, and a warm, specific, crazy little world. Of course it has sky flowers in it. What else would be up there?Today marks 25 years since the original broadcast of "Help Wanted" -- the pilot episode of marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg's educational comic that became a delightful romp of "relentless optimism and fundamental sweetness", a hothouse flower of inventive and absurdist imagination, a cultural touchstone for multiple generations, and one of the most iconic and beloved animated franchises of the 21st century. Are you ready, kids?
Season 1: part one - part two - part three Season 2: part one - part two - part three - part four Season 3: part one - part two - part three - part four(PS: Why so much focus on the first three seasons? Because Hillenburg left the show after the release of the first movie at the end of season 3, causing a noticeable decline in tone and quality.) ️ Voice Acting ️ The incredible voice cast has done plenty of table reads of key episodes (Help Wanted, Band Geeks, Shanghaied), not to mention dubbed classic cinema (previously), but most impressive are their fully-produced live-action skits: The Trusty Slab - More scenes Tom Kenny & Bill Fagerbakke Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions News you can use: How to do the SpongeBob laugh (Note that Kenny also doubled as series "host" Patchy the Pirate) ✍️ Essays + Articles ✍️ On The Postmodern Ethos Of "Spongebob Squarepants"
Like all postmodern "texts", Spongebob Squarepants doesn't deny the absurdity of existence. The show is filled with absurd and surreal moments, far too many to describe here. And as a postmodern show, Spongebob has its nihilistic moments as well. One in particular that stands out is from season three's episode "Doing Time", when Spongebob and Patrick attempt to break Mrs. Puff out of jail. After she refuses to leave, Spongebob wonders to Patrick if maybe she'd forgotten what it's like to "live in the outside world". The scene then cuts to a montage of typical postmodern malaise — a man (fish, rather) going to work, sitting in rush hour traffic, then gazing dejectedly out of his window as a woman asks if he's coming to bed. Depressing, hopeless, and completely nihilistic, this moment reminds viewers of their own mortality and the dangers of routine... or, if you're just a kid, you'll realize that being an adult can suck.SpongeBob Made the World a Better, More Optimistic Place
On Monday, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg died after a recent diagnosis with ALS. Nickelodeon confirmed the news on Twitter Tuesday afternoon. What followed was an outpouring of grief for the man behind one of the most recognizable and beloved cartoon characters of all time. [...] Through his show, Hilleburg was an evangelist of sorts for the unstoppable power of positive thinking, which he usually dramatized with absurd scenarios. Think of the time SpongeBob sculpts a perfect marble sculpture with a crack of the chisel, or when he wins a fast foodery face-off against the Flying Dutchman—the undead daddy of burger grilling—with the special ingredient of love. SpongeBob tackles everything in life—work, driving school, friendship, pain, lifeguarding, climate change—with a level of zealous breeziness usually reserved zen monks and six-year-old kids.Memes Vox: How SpongeBob memes came to rule internet culture
It's hard to overstate just how popular SpongeBob SquarePants memes are. On Reddit, r/BikiniBottomTwitter — which exists mainly so that people can screencap the memes from Twitter and share them on Reddit — has more than 1.7 million subscribers, making it one of the site's most popular meme subreddits. (By comparison, the more general r/Spongebob subreddit only has 74,000 subscribers.) And SpongeBob memes don't just appear and then die; as Digg's editors noted in the site's 2018 SpongeBob retrospective, the biggest SpongeBob memes "are all pretty much meme superhits. There are no deep cuts here." What exactly is it about SpongeBob memes that make them so enduring and enjoyable?SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg gave the internet language Revisit: A Chronology of SpongeBob Memes Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke on Spongebob Meme Culture What's your favorite SpongeBob quote? Each Radiohead album described with SpongeBob -- just the first of a whole genre of video memes Music Songs:
Season 1: Opening Theme - Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moon Light - Ripped Pants - Jelly Fish Jam [CW: flashing lights] - The F.U.N. Song - Doing the Sponge - I Wanna Go Home Season 2: Loop de Loop - This Grill is Not a Home - Sweet Victory - Hey All You People - Hey Mean Mr. Bossman [Happy May Day, btw] Season 3: Striped Sweater - Electric Zoo - Underwater Sun - When Worlds Collide - You're Old - The Campfire Song SongPlus a complete playlist of season 1's eclectic production music, including twangy ukelele, ragtime, traditional Hawaiian , whimsical Rakenhornpipe, and of course sea shanties like "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor" Recaps + Retrospectives TVTropes' sprawling article on the series and recap of nearly the entire run Episode retrospectives:
Help Wanted (S1E1): Reimagined as a collaborative ReAnimation and as a black-and-white classic cartoon Pizza Delivery (S1E5): This Is What A Perfect Episode Of Spongebob Looks Like - A whole playlist of live-action remakes SB-129 (S1E14): How Spongebob Explored Existential Nihilism ("SB-129") Rock Bottom (S1E17): "Rock Bottom" reimagined as a Gothic claymation - Podcast discussion Hooky (S1E20): The Powerful Message In This Episode of Spongebob: Don't Get "Hooked" On Drugs Squirrel Jokes (S2E11): The Smartest Episode of Spongebob Squarepants (an Analysis) Shanghaied (S2E13): Live-action remake Band Geeks (S2E15): Band Geeks Is The Best Spongebob Episode - Band Geeks ReAnimated - the disappointing Super Bowl LIII cameo (and the improved LVIII version) Procrastination (S2E17): This SpongeBob Episode Will Make You Stop Procrastinating Sailor Mouth (S2E18): SpongeBob SwearPants: A Look At Moralization Of Swearing - Why "Sailor Mouth" Was So Controversial Squidville (S2E26): Spongebob's Darkest Episode Wet Painters (S3E10): Bubbles of Thought - Full storyboard recap Krusty Krab Training Video (S3E10): The Brilliance of Krusty Krab Training Video - Live-action remake Chocolate With Nuts (S3E12): Live-action (puppet!) remake Graveyard Shift (S3E24): How 'Nosferatu' turned up in SpongeBob SquarePants - Why a Painting of SpongeBob SquarePants Just Sold for $6 MillionThe official YouTube playlist of 50 episode capsule summaries in 5 minutes ️ Clips ️ A grab-bag of memorable moments (via):
I DON'T NEED IT - How to blow a bubble - FIRMLY GRASP IT - 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas - The gang's all here - We serve food here, sir - Krusty Krab Pizza - The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles - He's just standing there... MENACINGLY - Are there any other Squidwards I should know about? -Too hot... Too wet... Toulouse Lautrec - Everything is chrome in the future! - Photosynthesis -"MY LEG" - Advanced darkness - Steppin' on the beach - You used me... for LAND DEVELOPMENT - Stop starin' at me with them big ol' eyes - Have you finished those errands? - The story of the Ugly Barnacle - "No, this is Patrick" - Leif Ericsson Day - The boy cries him a sweater of tears, and you kill him - Ravioli Ravioli, give me the formuoli - Freeform jazz - That's OK, take your time - WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE - What I learned in boating school is... - Going on dry land - How does he dooo that? - DoodleBob - The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma - Is mayonnaise an instrument? - Flag twirlers - BIG... MEATY... CLAWS - That's his... eager face - Sweet Victory - Nosferatu! - - Sentence enhancers - Bold and Brash - MY NAME'S... NOT... RIIICK! - One Eternity Later... - Push it somewhere else - I'll remember you all in therapy - The Magic Conch - You like Krabby Patties, don't you, Squidward? - We've been smeckledorfed! - IMAGINATION - Wumbo - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen - Striped Sweater - The French Narrator's time cards - Welcome to the Salty Spittoon, how tough are ya? - Weenie Hut, Jr.'s - The world's smallest violin - A clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought - Robots have taken over the world! - Spongebob and Patrick as parents - We're not cavemen -- we have technology! - HOOPLA! - Maximum Overdrive - It's time for the moment you've been waiting for - CHOCOLATE - Is your mother home? - Flatter the customer! - Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy - What do you normally do when I'm gone? - That's a 4/4 string ostinato in D minor! Every sailor knows that means death! - Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs? -Episodes
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