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SpongeBob SquarePants
Season 2
DVD cover
No. of episodes20
Release
Original networkNickelodeon
Original releaseOctober 26, 2000 –
July 26, 2003
Season chronology
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The second season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from October 26, 2000 to July 26, 2003, and consists of 20 episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg, who also acted as the showrunner.

During the season's run, SpongeBob SquarePants became Nickelodeon's No. 2 children's program, behind Rugrats. Nearly 40 percent of SpongeBob's audience of 2.2 million were aged 18 to 34. The show signed a marketing deal with Target Corporation and Burger King, expanding its merchandising, and SpongeBob's popularity translated well into sales figures. In 2002, the show was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Program. Tom Kenny and Mary Jo Catlett were individually nominated at the 29th Annie Awards for their voice performances as SpongeBob and Mrs. Puff, respectively. Peter Straus and Paul Tibbitt were also nominated at the ceremony for their work on the "Christmas Who?" special. The episodes "The Secret Box" and "Band Geeks" won at the 2002 Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing in Television—Animation, while the episodes "Jellyfish Hunter" and "The Fry Cook Games" received a nomination for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation—Music category.

Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released. The SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 2nd Season DVD was released in Region 1 on October 19, 2004, Region 2 on October 23, 2006, and Region 4 on November 30, 2006.

Production

The season aired on Nickelodeon, which is owned by Viacom, and was produced by United Plankton Pictures and Nickelodeon. The season's executive producer was series creator Stephen Hillenburg, who also functioned as the series' showrunner.[1] During production of the previous season, Nickelodeon picked up a second season for SpongeBob SquarePants on August 31, 1999.[2] The season premiered more than a year later, on October 26, 2000.[3] Season production assistant and then-staff writer Derek Iversen commented, "We hoped it would go one season. We hoped it would go two seasons. I figured you do the best you can and you hope."[4]

In this season, production switched from cel animation, used during the first season, to digital ink and paint.[5] Executive producer Paul Tibbitt, in 2009, said "The first season of SpongeBob was done the old-fashioned way on cells, and every cell had to be part-painted, left to dry, paint some other colours. It's still a time-consuming aspect of the process now, but the digital way of doing things means it doesn't take long to correct."[5] The animation was handled overseas in South Korea at Rough Draft Studios.[6][7] Animation directors credited with episodes in the second season included Sean Dempsey, Edgar Larrazabal, Larry Leichliter, Andrew Overtoom, Leonard Robinson, Frank Weiss, and Tom Yasumi.[a] The season was storyboarded by Walt Dohrn, C.H. Greenblatt, Chris Headrick, Chuck Klein, Carson Kugler, Jay Lender, Caleb Meurer, Dan Povenmire, William "Bill" Reiss, Octavio Rodriguez, Jim Schumann, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, and Erik Wiese.[a]

Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Dohrn, David Fain, Greenblatt, Mr. Lawrence, Lender, Mark O'Hare, Povenmire, William Reiss, Springer, Tibbitt, and Merriwether Williams.[a] During the season, the writing staff used their individual childhood experiences as inspirations to come up with much of the story lines for individual episodes.[6][8] For example, in the episode "Sailor Mouth", SpongeBob learns profanity.[6] The idea for the episode was inspired by creative director Derek Drymon's experience "[when] I got in trouble for saying the f-word in front of my mother."[8] Drymon said, "The scene where Patrick is running to Mr. Krabs to tattle, with SpongeBob chasing him, is pretty much how it happened in real life."[8] The end of the episode, where Mr. Krabs uses more profanity than SpongeBob and Patrick, was also inspired "by the fact that my [Drymon's] mother has a sailor mouth herself."[8] In "Secret Box", SpongeBob wants to see what is inside Patrick's secret box. The idea came to Drymon because he too had a secret box as a child.[6][9] Creator Hillenburg said, "[He] started telling us about it. We wanted to make fun of him and use it."[6]

Cast

American rock band Ween (left) composed and recorded the song "Loop de Loop" that is featured in "Your Shoe's Untied", while John Rhys-Davies (right) guest starred in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III" as Man Ray, the heroes' arch-nemesis and the primary antagonist.

The second season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBob's best friend, a starfish named Patrick Star, was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke,[10] while Rodger Bumpass played the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus.[11] Other members of the cast were Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, a miserly crab obsessed with money and SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab;[12] Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival;[13] Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick;[14] Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas;[15] Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher;[16] and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter.[17][18]

Season two introduced various characters that would recur throughout the series. Mr. Krabs' mother, Mama Krabs, debuted in the episode "Sailor Mouth" and was voiced by writer Paul Tibbitt.[19][20][21] However, voice actress Sirena Irwin overtook Tibbitt's role as the character reappeared in the fourth season episode "Enemy In-Law" in 2005.[22] In the Christmas special "Christmas Who?", SpongeBob's voice actor, Tom Kenny, portrayed Patchy the Pirate, the president of the fictional SpongeBob SquarePants fan club, while series creator Hillenburg voiced the character of Potty the Parrot.[23] After Hillenburg's departure from the show as showrunner in 2004, Tibbitt was given the role voicing Potty the Parrot.[24]

In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, athletes, authors, musicians, and artists. American rock band Ween guest starred as themselves in "Your Shoe's Untied".[25][26] The band performed "Loop de Loop", a song they wrote for the episode.[25][26] Before SpongeBob SquarePants aired on television in 1999, Hillenburg had approached band guitarist Dean Ween to compose a song for the show.[25] Dean Ween said "[Hillenburg] called me and told me [he] was a marine biologist who was starting a cartoon about underwater sea creatures and that The Mollusk was a big reference point for him creatively and would we like to do a song for the show."[25] The band conceived the song and wrote it in about three minutes.[25] Ween's 1997 song "Ocean Man" would also be used four years later during the end credits sequence in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and as part of the film's soundtrack.[27][28] In the episode "Bossy Boots", American band The Capsules performed the song "Bossy Boots",[23][29] which was later released on SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Album in 2005.[30] In "Bubble Buddy", professional American surfer Corky Carroll made a vocal cameo as Grubby Grouper, a famous surfer.[23] It also stars Brad Abrell as titular character Bubble Buddy.[31] "Grandma's Kisses" features Marion Ross as SpongeBob's grandmother.[32][33] She would reprise her role throughout the series, including the fifth-season episode "BlackJack".[34] In the entry "Pre-Hibernation Week", where Sandy and SpongeBob play extreme sporting games, American heavy metal band Pantera appeared as themselves for a special musical performance.[23] McHale's Navy actors Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway returned in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", reprising their roles as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively.[35][36] John Rhys-Davies also guest starred in the same episode as the heroes' nemesis, Man Ray.[37][38][39] Brian Doyle-Murray reprised his role as the Flying Dutchman for "Your Shoe's Untied" and "Shanghaied".[40] Various other characters were voiced by voice acting veterans Dee Bradley Baker, Thomas F. Wilson and Clea Lewis.[41]

Reception

Since SpongeBob SquarePants made its debut in 1999, the show had flourished into Nickelodeon's number 2 children's program, after Rugrats. Nearly 40 percent of the show's audience of 2.2 million were aged 18 to 34.[42] As a result, Nickelodeon moved the show from Saturday morning to a much more valuable timeslot: almost-prime time, appearing at 6 p.m., from Monday through Thursday.[42] In 2001, Nickelodeon took the "Saturday-morning ratings crown" for the fourth straight season, grabbing a 4.8 rating/21 share (1.9 million viewers) in two- to eleven-year-olds, jumping 17% from the previous year.[43]

SpongeBob SquarePants signed a marketing deal with Target Corporation and Burger King, expanding its merchandising.[42] Furthermore, the popularity of SpongeBob translated well into sales figures. In 2002, SpongeBob SquarePants dolls sold at a rate of 75,000 per week, which was faster than Tickle Me Elmo dolls were selling at the time.[44] Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom purposefully targeted women in Japan as a way of marketing the SpongeBob SquarePants brand. Skeptics initially doubted that SpongeBob could be popular in Japan, as the character's design is very different from popular designs for Hello Kitty and Pikachu,[45] but SpongeBob has gained popularity in Japan among women. Ratings and merchandise sales showed SpongeBob SquarePants had caught on with parents and with the college audience.[46] In a promotion, college-oriented website Music.com gave away 80,000 SpongeBob T-shirts, four times more than during a similar promotion for Comedy Central's South Park.[46]

Like the first season, the second season received critical acclaim from critics and fans. In 2002, the show itself was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Program.[47] At the 29th Annie Awards, the series was nominated three times,[48] including Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female and Male Performer in an Animated Television Production categories for Mary Jo Catlett for her role as Mrs. Puff in "No Free Rides" and Tom Kenny for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in "Wormy", respectively.[48] Peter Straus and Paul Tibbitt were nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement for a Song in an Animated Production for their song "The Very First Christmas" that was featured in "Christmas Who?"[48] In 2002, the episodes "The Secret Box" and "Band Geeks" won at the Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing in Television—Animation, while the episodes "Jellyfish Hunter" and "The Fry Cook Games" received a nomination for Best Sound Editing in Television Animation—Music category.[49]

In his review for The Spokesman-Review, Isamu Jordan said, "I'll be honest. I dig the little yellow dude who lives in a pineapple under the sea quite a bit for his absurdity À la Ren and Stimpy."[37] He said that "season two is worth having in your or your kid's SpongeBob collection" given that the episodes "Krusty Love", "Squid's Day Off", and "Mermaidman and Barnacleboy III" are on the set.[37] Jason Bovberg of the DVD Talk wrote that the season release is "recommended."[3] He said "Let me state up front that I adore this show. I get a total kick out of watching it with my 4-year-old daughter. We laugh uproariously at SpongeBob's adventures and I'm helplessly reduced to a boy about her age as I beam and giggle at the screen."[3] However, Bovberg called the included audio commentaries "downright boring."[3] Various celebrities—including Lance Bass of 'N Sync, Will Ferrell of Saturday Night Live, singer-songwriter Tom Waits, and Jerry Lewis—admitted they were fans of the show.[46]

During the 2001–02 television season, the Parents Television Council (PTC), a watchdog media group, named SpongeBob SquarePants among the best programs on cable television.[50] However, according to a report titled Wolves in Sheep's Clothing,[51] which documents the increase in potentially violent, profane, and sexual content in children's programming, the PTC and fans believed the episode "Sailor Mouth", which originally aired during the 2001–02 season, was an implicit attempt to promote and satirize use of profanity among children.[51] The report cited a repeat broadcast of the episode from 2005 to prove its point that it promoted use of profanity among children.[51] In a later report, several members of the PTC listed "Sailor Mouth" as an example of how levels of profane, sexual, and violent activity has increased in children's television programming.[52] Nickelodeon, in response to the incident, said "It's sad and a little desperate that they stooped to literally putting profane language in the mouths of our characters to make a point. Has the FCC looked at this?"[53] Richard Huff of the New York Daily News criticized the report for misinterpreting the episode over its intent to satirize profanity implicitly.[54]

Episodes

Key
  • The following episodes listed in the chart are arranged according to their production order, rather than by their original air dates.[55]
No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleAnimation directors [a]Written by [a]Storyboarded by [a]Original air date [56]Prod.
code [57]
21a1a"Your Shoe's Untied"Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsChris Headrick & Erik Wiese (directors) November 2, 2000 ( November 2, 2000)5571-142
21b1b"Squid's Day Off"Andrew OvertoomWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsJim Schumann (director) November 2, 2000 ( November 2, 2000)5571-145
22a2a"Something Smells"Edgar LarrazabalAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
October 26, 2000 ( October 26, 2000)5571-143
22b2b"Bossy Boots"Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mr. LawrenceChris Headrick (director) October 26, 2000 ( October 26, 2000)5571-146
23a3a"Big Pink Loser"Sean DempseyJay Lender, William Reiss, and Merriwether WilliamsJay Lender (director)
William Reiss
November 16, 2000 ( November 16, 2000)5571-144
23b3b"Bubble Buddy"Sean DempseyJay Lender, William Reiss, and Mr. LawrenceJay Lender (director)
William Reiss & Chuck Klein
November 16, 2000 ( November 16, 2000)5571-148
24a4a"Dying for Pie"Edgar LarrazabalAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt & Erik Wiese
December 28, 2000 ( December 28, 2000)5571-147
24b4b"Imitation Krabs"
Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, Mr. LawrenceChris Headrick & Chuck Klein (directors) December 28, 2000 ( December 28, 2000)5571-150
25a5a"Wormy"Andrew OvertoomWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsJim Schumann (director) February 17, 2001 ( February 17, 2001)5571-149
25b5b"Patty Hype"
Sean DempseyJay Lender, William Reiss, and Mr. LawrenceJay Lender (director)
William Reiss
February 17, 2001 ( February 17, 2001)5571-152
26a6a"Grandma's Kisses"Andrew OvertoomWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsJim Schumann & Octavio Rodriguez (directors) March 6, 2001 ( March 6, 2001)5571-154
26b6b"Squidville"Edgar LarrazabalAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
March 6, 2001 ( March 6, 2001)5571-156
27a7a"Prehibernation Week"Edgar LarrazabalAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
May 5, 2001 ( May 5, 2001)5571-151
27b7b"Life of Crime"Sean DempseyJay Lender, William Reiss, and Mr. LawrenceJay Lender (director)
William Reiss
May 5, 2001 ( May 5, 2001)5571-157
288"Christmas Who?"
Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mr. LawrenceChris Headrick & Erik Wiese (directors) December 6, 2000 ( December 6, 2000)5571-155
29a9a"Survival of the Idiots"Larry LeichliterAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
March 5, 2001 ( March 5, 2001)5571-160
29b9b"Dumped"Andrew OvertoomPaul Tibbitt, Walt Dohrn, and Merriwether WilliamsCarson Kugler (director)
Caleb Meurer
March 5, 2001 ( March 5, 2001)5571-161
30a10a"No Free Rides"Tom YasumiAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Mr. LawrenceAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
March 7, 2001 ( March 7, 2001)5571-162
30b10b"I'm Your Biggest Fanatic"Sean DempseyJay Lender, William Reiss, and Mr. LawrenceJay Lender (director)
William Reiss
March 7, 2001 ( March 7, 2001)5571-159
31a11a"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III"Andrew OvertoomPaul Tibbitt, Walt Dohrn, and Merriwether WilliamsErik Wiese (director) November 27, 2000 ( November 27, 2000)5571-158
31b11b"Squirrel Jokes"Larry Leichliter and Lenord RobinsonPaul Tibbitt, Walt Dohrn, and Merriwether WilliamsChris Headrick (director) November 27, 2000 ( November 27, 2000)5571-164
32a12a"Pressure"Sean DempseyJay Lender, William Reiss, and David FainJay Lender (director)
William Reiss
March 8, 2001 ( March 8, 2001)5571-166
32b12b"The Smoking Peanut"Andrew OvertoomPaul Tibbitt, Walt Dohrn, and Mr. LawrenceCarson Kugler (director) March 8, 2001 ( March 8, 2001)5571-163
33a13a"Shanghaied"
"You Wish"
Frank WeissAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
March 9, 2001[58] (March 9, 2001[58])5571-165
33b13b"Gary Takes a Bath"Frank WeissAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
July 26, 2003 (2003-07-26)[59][b]5571-183
34a14a"Welcome to the Chum Bucket"Andrew OvertoomWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mr. LawrenceWalt Dohrn & Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, Erik Wiese, & William Reiss
January 21, 2002 ( January 21, 2002)5571-167
34b14b"Frankendoodle"
Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsChris Headrick (director) January 21, 2002 ( January 21, 2002)5571-167
35a15a"The Secret Box"Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsWalt Dohrn & Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, William Reiss, & Erik Wiese
September 7, 2001 ( September 7, 2001)5571-168
35b15b"Band Geeks"Frank WeissAaron Springer, C.H. Greenblatt, and Merriwether WilliamsAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt
September 7, 2001 ( September 7, 2001)5571-173
36a16a"Graveyard Shift"Sean DempseyMr. Lawrence, Jay Lender, and Dan PovenmireJay Lender and Dan Povenmire (directors) September 6, 2002 ( September 6, 2002)[c]5571-196
36b16b"Krusty Love"Sean DempseyMr. Lawrence, Jay Lender, and William ReissJay Lender (director)
William Reiss
September 6, 2002 ( September 6, 2002)5571-170
37a17a"Procrastination"Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mr. LawrenceWalt Dohrn and Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, William Reiss, & Erik Wiese
November 30, 2001 ( November 30, 2001)5571-175
37b17b"I'm With Stupid"Frank WeissC.H. Greenblatt, Aaron Springer, and Mark O'HareAaron Springer (director)
C.H. Greenblatt and Ennio Torresan
November 30, 2001 (November 30, 2001)5571-179
38a18a"Sailor Mouth"Andrew OvertoomWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether WilliamsWalt Dohrn & Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, William Reiss, & Erik Wiese
September 21, 2001 ( September 21, 2001)5571-182
38b18b"Artist Unknown"Sean DempseyWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mark O'HareWalt Dohrn & Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, William Reiss, & Erik Wiese
September 21, 2001 ( September 21, 2001)5571-174
39a19a"Jellyfish Hunter"Andrew OvertoomWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mark O'HareWalt Dohrn & Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, William Reiss, & Erik Wiese
September 28, 2001 ( September 28, 2001)5571-181
39b19b"The Fry Cook Games"Tom YasumiDan Povenmire, Jay Lender, and Merriwether WilliamsJay Lender and Dan Povenmire (directors) September 28, 2001 ( September 28, 2001)5571-171
40a20a"Squid on Strike"Tom YasumiWalt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Mark O'HareWalt Dohrn & Paul Tibbitt (directors)
Carson Kugler, William Reiss, & Erik Wiese
October 12, 2001 ( October 12, 2001)5571-185
40b20b"Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm"Sean DempseyJay Lender, Dan Povenmire, and Merriwether WilliamsJay Lender and Dan Povenmire (directors) October 12, 2001 ( October 12, 2001)5571-180

DVD release

The DVD boxset for season two was released by Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon in the United States and Canada on October 19, 2004, one year after the season had completed broadcast on television. The DVD release features bonus materials including audio commentaries, storyboards, and featurettes.[3][60][61] In 2005, the DVD compilation was nominated at the 9th Golden Satellite Awards for Best Youth DVD, although did not win.[62]

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 2nd Season
Set details[3][60][61] Special features[3][60][61]
  • Audio commentaries for:
    • "Something Smells"
    • "Big Pink Loser"
    • "Pre-Hibernation Week"
    • "Survival of the Idiots"
    • "Shanghaied"
    • "Welcome to the Chum Bucket""
    • "Sailor Mouth"
  • Storyboards for "Christmas Who?" and "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III"
  • Around the World With SpongeBob SquarePants featurette
  • Nick DVD Game Demo
  • Tickets to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Release dates
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
October 19, 2004[63] October 23, 2006[64] November 30, 2006[65]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Information is taken from the opening credits of each episode.
  2. ^ This episode was first released on the Sea Stories VHS/DVD on November 5, 2002.
  3. ^ This episode was first released on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies DVD on March 12, 2002.

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