Spongebob Squarepants

When the Kansas City Chiefs scored the winning touchdown during a historic overtime nail-biter at the Super Bowl on Sunday, viewers were on the edge of their seats — including none other than SpongeBob Squarepants and his best friend, Patrick Star. An unlikely pair to have anything to do with one of the biggest sporting events of the year, one might think, but the beloved animated characters turned out to be the breakout sports commentators of the night. In a Super Bowl and Nickelodeon first, the network, owned by…

Eat pizza-inspired treats at the new One Up cafe at Universal Studios Hollywood, which has opened to celebrate the new land’s one year anniversary. The thematic menu includes:Snacks:Super Mushroom Calzone: Mushroom-shaped calzone filled with pepperoni, sausage, mozzarella cheese, and tomato sauce1-Up Mushroom Calzone: Mushroom-shaped calzone filled with spinach, green pepper, mushroom, mozzarella cheese, and basil pestoFire Flower Pretzel: Fire Flower-shaped pretzel served with chipotle cheese, mustard, and white queso…

Have you ever wondered what kind of phone you have? No, seriously. Have you held a phone in your hand that has no identifying marks on it and asked yourself “what the hell is this?” before slamming it against the table like the meme of Patrick Star in the Spongebob Squarepants season 3 episode “Wet Painters?”Read more... Have you ever wondered what kind of phone you have? No, seriously. Have you held a phone in your hand that has no identifying marks on it and asked yourself “what the hell is this?” before slamming it…

For Roblox fans, this year’s Super Bowl is coming to Bikini Bottom.Thanks to a collaboration between the NFL and game developer Gamefam, a number of the company’s popular Roblox games, including the newly released SpongeBob Simulator, will be featuring special Super Bowl material from early February through Super Bowl Sunday. SpongeBob Simulator players will be able to help prepare Bikini Bottom—SpongeBob’s hometown—for the big game, fans of Twilight Daycare will be tasked with training babies for a “Baby Bowl” event, and…

If you’re at San Diego Comic-Con and you want to maximize your “activation” situation—you can’t do better than “The Lodge: A Paramount+ Experience,” which combines multiple of the streamer’s projects in a pop-up packed with photo ops. There’s also a bar with themed cocktails.Why ski lodge? Well... Paramount does feature a giant snow-covered mountain in its logo, and this activation ties into its “Mountain of Entertainment” campaign. Here’s what’s on tap, courtesy of a press release from the streamer; scroll through to see…

Image: 20th Century Television/HuluJust before the weekend started, news broke that beloved character actor Clancy Brown would be joining The Penguin, WB’s TV spinoff of the now one-year-old The Batman. Brown’s been a part of the DC universe for years, having most famously voiced Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe that still partially defines the entire DC brand, and also showed up in The Flash TV show a handful of times.Brown’s been in the acting game for a long time, and is one of those actors whose work spans…

Rapper Lil Nas X wanted “bussy,” which combined “-ussy” with “boy” to refer to a man’s anus, added to the dictionary for Pride Month in 2022. Image: Amanda Edwards (Getty Images)The evolution of language on the Internet is truly a fascinating one, and future linguists will be shaking their head at the American Dialect Society’s choice for 2022 word of the year: “-ussy.”The “-ussy” suffix is a callback to the word “pussy” and has exploded on the Internet in recent years. “-ussy” was a finalist for the American Dialect…

Image: Disney/20th Century StudiosIs there a family in media who’s persisted quite so much as The Simpsons? Matt Groening’s five-person (and one dog!) family of yellow oddballs has been going on strong since 1989, as long as some of our parents have been married, if not alive altogether. Depending on who you are, time hasn’t entirely been kind to the show, whose 34th season is presumably due to air in a couple of months. And in the case of its first and surprisingly only theatrical film, time has proven how everlasting…