Bikini Bottom Television

Template:LTab Template:Location Bikini Bottom Television, abbreviated as BBTV, is a television station that appears in the episodes "Model Sponge" and "Smartificial Intelligence." The station also makes commercials, as hinted in "Model Sponge."

Description

BBTV is a green station with an antenna on the roof. It reads the station's name in red lettering with yellow outlines. The walls are made out of metal and wood.

18 windows can be seen on the building, with six on the ground floor and twelve in the tower section of the building. The doors are dark green and there are two small windows on them. In the building itself, there are blue walls with stars and stripes on them.

Role in series

"Model Sponge"

The casting director is shown to work here. She hires Template:Data:Links to work with him at BBTV for a short time as a kitchen sponge in the commercial for New Sponge, which ends in him quitting the job and leaving.

"Smartificial Intelligence"

Newsbot takes over as Perch is escorted out by security, and one of the guards empties Perch's belongings out of a box, saying he cannot take any 'company property' with him. When Perch asks if he can at least keep the box, a guard allows it — but takes his hair away, claiming it is studio property, and places it on Newsbot's head. As Perch sadly leaves the Bikini Bottom Television building, SpongeBob, watching from his TV, decides he won't stand by and let a robot replace Perch. SpongeBob protests in front of BBTV, where Perch interviews him. SpongeBob expresses that Perch is his favorite news reporter, but at first, he does not recognize him. When he realizes that it is Perch, Newsbot appears and tosses Perch aside to interview SpongeBob himself. Newsbot asks SpongeBob what he thinks about Perch being replaced by a robot, to which SpongeBob angrily responds that no machine can take over someone's job — ironically leaving the protest in Pat-Tron's robot hands. Template:Section-expand