Very Rare SpongeBob Lost Media

Man, I remember that Stephen hillenburg’s biggest regret about this show was SpongeBob’s overwhelming marketing. He mentioned how he didn’t want the possibility of polluting the ocean with SpongeBob merch when it’s mass produced.

Drinking game: Take a shot every time a Spongebob video essay starts by saying that Spongebob is a character that needs no introduction

That press kit is actually super revealing, it sates clearly and canonically that Bikini bottom is definitely under Bikini Atoll confirming fan theories.

I feel so OLD because I actually remember when Nickelodeon would show Astrology with Squidward around 2001 😂

As long as the Earth is still revolving around the sun, there will still be new pieces of SpongeBob lost media discovered and searched for all around the internet.

What I find more interesting about the SpongeBoy thing is the fact that it was a pencil not a mop. Like, I’ve always heard it was a mop yet it’s actually a pencil

I think the reason Spongebob lost media is so popular is because even if you didn’t grow up with it. EVERYONE KNOWS SPONGEBOB. And seeing something that’s lost in such a big series is inherently intriguing.

Ah, the foghorn thing: Back in 1999 I was a 17 year old Para (think slightly fancier babysitter, but less fancy than a nanny) and the kids I watched were allowed to watch Spongebob after school. The ending screen, at least in America, was always the Seagulls one, BUT, when the show was new they had a commercial bumper that used the foghorn that frequently played right after that. I think a lot of people have sort of transposed the two together. Like you, it always made me jump, but I was also old enough to know it wasn't a part of the end screen. Hope that helps a little.

I was somewhat active in closing logos circles and on the CLG Wiki in the mid-2010s. One thing that always put me off about this community was the propensity of some members to lie and make things up for a goof. Since there were no restrictions on who could and could not edit the wiki, you'd have plenty of kids dreaming up random variants on logos that did not exist. Another trend in the community was to spoof existing logos in odd ways - for example, overlaying the music from one logo with another or inserting a cartoon character into a logo. I'm not denying the possibility that the United Plankton foghorn variant may exist, but there's a non-zero chance that it was just some 12-year-old's weird fib.

Finally a lost media youtuber that doesn't put creepypasta ambience and music over every lost media piece to try to make it seem scary.

I figured that the "SpongeBoy" audio was probably recorded, since a cel from the pilot with SpongeBob wearing a "SpongeBoy" name tag managed to survive.

The foghorn end roll was broadcast on TV in the early years of Spongebob - like maybe only the first season or two. The recreation is lretty close but the horn sound was very loud and obtrusive - startling, which is why I figured as a kid that they changed it to the seagull sound. It was kind of shockong during show transitions. I remember back during SpongeBob's original airings on US Nickelodeon (I never owned VHS or DVDs of SpongeBob) that you could tell the older episodes because they retained the foghorn noise and newer episodes had the seagull. They weren't converted for at least some time after they changed to the seagull. As well as the subtle change in the quality of animation. I would guess it is going to most likelt be found in refoedings of original runs of SpongeBob on Nickelodeon in the US, West coast and on DirecTV if that by chance makes a difference in what was broadcasted.

I think I know what the "fog horn" variant is. My brother was watching some old nick bumpers from 2000 (or 2001, I didn't quite see the title) on YouTube just a few days ago. It was the closing credits of Ren and Stimpy and it was advertising the Amanda Show. The Amanda Show theme in the advert played over the "Games Animation" logo, followed by a Nickelodeon logo with a loud fog horn sound effect (though I could've miss heard, I just remember it being fairly loud and deep). I think that's what people are confusing it for, if at one point SpongeBob episodes were aired with that variant of the Nick logo. EDIT: Ok, so I keep trying to reply, but my replies are getting automatically deleted for some reason. I'll just edit the message here. So I got back with my brother, and he showed me the vid he was watching. I skipped to the part where I heard the noise, and I can safely say that it isn't a foghorn. I actually can't quite tell what the sound is. Though, I was right about the Amanda show theme playing over the Games Animation logo, so there is a possibility the foghorn might've been a part of a promo that was shown at the end of SpongeBob that played over the United Plankton logo. The video is "Nickelodeon Commercials - Ren & Stimpy - 2000" if you want to check for yourself. I do want to state I also found a version of the seagull variant from a December 2001 recording (the video is "Nickelodeon Commercials - December 2001"), so that narrows down the timeline of when the variant might've been. Possibly between mid-2000 to late-2001.

"Ain't Life A Beach" Is using a Font called PlayHouse which was used a lot during the Early 1990's and the Early 2000's

I remember hearing that Tom Kenny interview from Kid Leaves Stoop's 'The Sponge Boy Mop™ Does Not Exist' video. Also, in the first season of SpongeBob, a lot of the characters would refer to SpongeBob as just 'Sponge'. So they either took the existing audio, and cut out Boy in SpongeBoy. Or they rerecorded the lines before they settled on a name (That being SpongeBob obviously)

"SpongeBob is a character with no need for introduction" -LSuperSonicQ

Oh man, seeing the rehydrated thing flung me back to when the Nicktoons channel was launching. I always wondered what was up with SpongeBob flying in shades but never seeing a ep with that in it. Now I know. Thanks

Actually little fun fact on the Spongeboy audio, some of the animation was probably reshot when his name was changed to Spongebob from Spongeboy, BUT a remnant can still be found, a scene that probably wasn't reshot with the new name in mind. In the scene where Spongebob's running up to the Krusty Krab saying "go Spongebob, go Spongebob, go self!", if you actually read his lips, it looks as if he's saying Spongeboy rather than Spongebob. I know that sounds insane but genuinely, look up the scene and you'll see, it looks like he's saying Spongeboy, potentially making it one of the oldest scenes of the original cut that was animated and not reshot.

The Tom Kenny audio you're looking for is in the YouTube video "The Spongeboy Mop Does Not Exist." That's how we know the offending product was a pencil and not a mop.

I’ve been really into lost media things, and knowing that my mom likes to hoard a bunch of things makes me think that there is a slight possibility that we may have a piece of lost media somewhere that is stored away with the rest of our stuff. I plan on asking her to look through them all sooner or later so I can prove my thought on maybe having a piece of something important :D I’ll update this when I ask her