Bob Esponja

If you were looking for the article about the Spanish dub in Spain, then see Bob Esponja (European Spanish).

This is the page about the Latin American Spanish dub. For other uses, see Bob Esponja (disambiguation).

Template:Series Bob Esponja (Bob Sponge in English and alternatively called Bob Esponja Pantalones Cuadrados) is the Latin American Spanish dub of SpongeBob SquarePants. It is part of Template:ISS.

Description

Nickelodeon Latin America

Este es un dibujo animado sobre una esponja de mar llamada Bob Esponja.

Bob Esponja vive en el fondo del Océano Pacífico, cerca de la isla de Bikini Atoll, y siempre se está metiendo en líos, junto a su amigo Patricio Estrella.

(This is a cartoon about a sea sponge called Template:Data:Links. SpongeBob lives at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, near the island of Bikini Atoll, and is always getting into trouble, along with his friend Patrick Star.)

Broadcast

Bob Esponja debuted on Nickelodeon in Latin America on February 7, 2000.

Episodes premiered before the United States

Note: "Pineapple RV" and "Pat Hearts Squid" do not count on this list due to this episode being released digitally on Mundonick.com and the Latin American version of Paramount+.

• "The Chaperone"
• "Employee of the Month"
• "Hooky"
• "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II"
• "Gary Takes a Bath" (aired on Canal 5)
• "Graveyard Shift"
• "Krusty Love"
• "Ugh"
• "Born Again Krabs"
• "I Had an Accident"
• "Krabby Land"
• "The Camping Episode"
• "Missing Identity"
• "Plankton's Army"
• "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"
• "Pranks a Lot"
• "Dunces and Dragons" (aired on the same day)
• "The Thing"
• "Hocus Pocus"
• "Born to Be Wild"
• "Best Frenemies"
• "Squid Wood"
• "The Original Fry Cook"
• "Night Light"
• "Fungus Among Us"
• "Spy Buddies"
• "Boat Smarts"
• "Good Ol' Whatshisname"
• "New Digs"
• "Krabs à la Mode"
• "Roller Cowards"
• "Bucket Sweet Bucket"
• "To Love a Patty"
• "Breath of Fresh Squidward"
• "Money Talks"
• "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget
• "Slimy Dancing"
• "The Krusty Sponge"
• "A Flea in Her Dome"
• "The Donut of Shame"
• "The Krusty Plate"
• "Goo Goo Gas"
• "Pest of the West"
• "Slide Whistle Stooges"
• "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One"
• "Overbooked"
• "No Hat for Pat"
• "Yours, Mine and Mine"
• "Kracked Krabs"
• "The Great Patty Caper"
• "There's a Sponge in My Soup"
• "Sanitation Insanity"
• "Shopping List"
• "My Two Krabses" (accidental)
• "Hiccup Plague" (accidental)
• "Kwarantined Krab" (accidental)
• "Patrick's Tantrum"
• "Squidferatu" (aired on the same day)
• "Slappy Daze" (aired on the same day)

Episodes

Season		Segments	Episodes	Originally aired
				Season premiere	Season finale
	1	41	20	February 7, 2000	April 29, 2006
	2	39	20	October 6, 2001	August 28, 2005
	3	37	20	September 2, 2002	September 1, 2006
	4	38	20	November 25, 2005	October 7, 2007
	5	41	20	May 14, 2007	July 17, 2009
	6	47	26	August 25, 2008	November 12, 2010
	7	50	26	February 22, 2010	February 11, 2013
	8	47	26	October 22, 2011	December 19, 2014
	9	49	26	July 4, 2013	March 25, 2017
	10	22	11	April 3, 2017	December 6, 2017
	11	50	26	September 25, 2017	March 30, 2019
	12	48	26	April 6, 2019	March 6, 2023
	13	52	13	May 8, 2021	December 1, 2023

Cast

Original name	Latin American name	Actor	Season	Episode
Main characters
Template:Data:Links	Bob Esponja Pantalones Cuadrados	Kaihiamal Martínez	1
		Luis Carreño	2–
		Ángel Balam	7	145 (one line)
Patrick Star	Patricio Estrella	Paul Gillman	1–3
		Luis Lugo	59
		Alfonso Soto	4–
		David Silva	8	165 (one line)
Squidward Tentacles	Calamardo Tentáculos	Renzo Jiménez	1–
Squilliam Fancyson	Calamarino Elegante		2–
Mrs. Tentacles	Sra. Tentáculos		1-
Eugene H. Krabs	Don Eugenio H. Cangrejo	Luis Pérez Pons †	1–5
			9–13	190–293
		Carlos Vitale	6–9	102–189
		Walter Véliz	7	148 (one line)
Sandy Cheeks	Arenita Mejillas	Mercedes Prato	1
		Anabella Silva	2–4	23–72
			5–6	92–111
		Yaraiví Alcedo	4–5	74–90
		Lidya Abboud	4	66 (one line)
		Lileana Chacón	6–	114–
Sheldon J. Plankton		Óscar Zuloaga	1-2	1-28
		Luis Miguel Pérez	2-9	34-179
		Héctor Indriago	9	183
		Ángel Mujica	9-	184-
Karen Plankton		Rocío Mallo	1
		Melanie Henríquez	2-9	34-186
		Lidya Abboud	4	TBA
		María José Estévez	8	170-177
		Gabriela Belén	9	185-203
		Sixnalie Villalba	10-	209-
Mrs. Puff	Señora Puff	Isabel Vara	1-9	4b-190
		Citlalli Godoy	3	51, 59-60
		Ivette García	9	180, 182, 195
		Elena Díaz Toledo	10-12	205-246
		Catherine J. Reyes	12-	247b-
Pearl Krabs	Perlita Cangrejo	Irina Índigo	1
		Yensi Rivero	2-8	22-154
		Melanie Henríquez	8-9	161-186
		Mariangny Álvarez	9-	190-
Gary the Snail	Gary el Caracol	Kaihiamal Martínez	1
		José Manuel Vieira	1	15
		Fernando Márquez	6-11	TBA
		Lileana Chacón	12-	TBA
Flying Dutchman	Holandés Volador	Armando Volcanes	1-
Mermaid Man	Tritón	Juan Guzmán	1
	Sireno Man		2
		Héctor Isturde	3-9
		Sergio Pinto (young)	7	135
Barnacle Boy	Chico Percebe	Antonio Delli	1
		Alex Orozco	2
		Armando Volcanes	3-9
		Jhonny Torres (young)	7	135
DoodleBob	Bob Trazo
		Luis Carreño	2–

Translations

• Cangreburger (Krabby Patty)
• Medusa (Jellyfish)
• Mundo Guante (Glove World!)
• Crustaceo Cascarudo (Krusty Krab)
• Balde de Carnada (Chum Bucket)
• Fondo de Bikini (Bikini Bottom)
• Laguna Pegajosa (Goo Lagoon)

Trivia

• Despite completing dubbing from its copyright year, Nickelodeon Latin America would often held an episode years after the previous episode aired.
  • "Arrgh!"/"Rock Bottom" completed dubbing in 2000, but aired in 2006, even though both of these episodes premered in Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2002.
  • "Gary Takes a Bath" and "Squid on Strike,"/"Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm" completed dubbing in 2001, but aired in 2005, even though these episodes premiered on Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2002.
  • "The Sponge Who Could Fly" completed dubbing in 2002, but aired in 2006, even though this episode premiered on Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2004.
  • "The Curse of the Hex"/"The Main Drain" and "Hide and Then What Happens?"/"Shellback Shenanigans" completed dubbing in 2010, but aired in 2013, even though these episodes premiered on Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2011.
  • "The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom"/"Bubble Buddy Returns" completed dubbing in 2011, but aired in 2013.
  • "Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go!"/"Chum Fricassee" and "The Good Krabby Name"/"Move It or Lose It" completed dubbing in 2012, but aired in 2014.
  • "License to Milkshake"/"Squid Baby," "Bumper to Bumper," "Eek, an Urchin!"/"Squid Defense," "Safe Deposit Krabs"/"Plankton's Pet," "Don't Look Now"/"Séance Shméance," and "Kenny the Cat"/"Yeti Krabs" completed dubbing in 2013, but aired in 2015.
  • "Kwarantined Krab" and "Hiccup Plague" completed dubbing in 2020, but were aired in 2022 and 2023 respectively, but they did air in the pan-regional (Central) feed and ended up being released on Paramount+ Latin America in 2021.
• Squidward's Spanish name, Calamardo, is based off the combination of the Spanish word for squid, which is calamar; and the name Eduardo, Spanish for Edward. His nickname is Calamardito.
• Sandy Cheeks' name in this dub is Arenita Mejillas.
  • In "Ripped Pants" and "Nature Pants", Sandy was called by her original English name.
• Plankton's name is sometimes spelt "Plancton" on the Bob Esponja en español YouTube channel.
• A voice-over will usually read out any text that is on screen.
• This dub airs on the Bob Esponja channel on Pluto TV with season 1 airing very often.
• The title cards aren't edited with their respective language as in other places. The only thing that is heard is the name of the episode in the dub, this is common for all Nicktoons to be dubbed in the Latin American language but not edited to the respective language, the same thing goes for all other dubs except for the French, Hebrew, Italian, German, and Japanese dubs.
  • However, fellow Nicktoon The Fairly OddParents! had the early seasons to be edited in the respective language, due to distribtion rights with Nelvana.
• Unlike the original version, SpongeBob is called "Bob" countless times.
• This dub has aired on 49 different networks.
• On Nicktoons airings, season 5, season 6, some episodes of season 7, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!," some episodes of season 9, last 2 episodes of season 10 are in PAL pitch, this is due to the feed being merged with Nicktoons Global after 2017
  • In addition, all reruns from the former are stretched in widescreen.
    • Also on Netflix, season 6 is in PAL Pitch.
  • On Nickelodeon airings, the rest of season 11 and some episodes of season 12 are in PAL pitch, this is due the Central and South feeds merged with Nickelodeon Scandinavia/South Africa as of October 17, 2023.
  • In the North feed (Mexico), episodes from the former are not in PAL pitch.
• The last episode that would air on Nicktoons is a rerun of "Goo Goo Gas" and half of "Le Big Switch."
• Kaihiamal Martinez who voices the titular character and Gary the Snail was replaced with Luis Carreño in the second season onwards due to him hitting puberty upon his firing in 2007. He then moved to Mexico where he would continue his dubbing and acting career in other shows.
  • He would then reprise his role in The Sponge Who Could Fly Musical in 2011.
  • Kaihiamal and Luis were previously cast together in the Latin Spanish dub of CatDog. In the dub Luis voices Dog and Kaihiamal voices Winslow T. Oddfellow and Clifford in the first three seasons.
  • Coincidentally, both Dog and Cliff are voiced by Tom Kenny.
• Luis Carreño (The voice of SpongeBob and DoodleBob) moved to Miami after completing dubbing The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
• In this dub, RandomLand is called "Locolandia," which translates into "CrazyLand."
• As of 2022, unedited versions of "Procrastination," "Karate Island," and "SpongeBob in RandomLand" are currently re-airing on Nickelodeon Latin America, Canal 5, and Telefe.
  • The unedited version of "Just One Bite" was dubbed, but during its original Latin American airing on September 3, 2002 they decided to air the edited version instead, due to avoid of children imitating dangerous acts of playing fire matches and gasoline.
    • The cut version of "Procrastination" is available on Amazon Prime Video.
      • All three endings of the "You Wish" version of "Shanghaied" are aired rarely on Canal 5, since 2016.
• During an airing of "Ripped Pants" on Canal 5 on April 16, 2021, a flow of tweets appear on the bottom screen mentions users @ElEsponjosoMX and @webesponjosa, which they are both of the creators that runs La Web Cascarudo and Webesponjosa.
• To date, "Dunces and Dragons," and "Squidferatu"/"Slappy Daze" are the only episodes to be aired in Latin America on the same dates as the United States.

Cast of voice actors

• Luis Carreño (SpongeBob)
  Luis Carreño (SpongeBob)
• Alfonso Soto (Patrick)
  Alfonso Soto (Patrick)
• Renzo Jiménez (Squidward)
  Renzo Jiménez (Squidward)
• Luis Pérez Pons (Mr. Krabs)
  Luis Pérez Pons (Mr. Krabs)
• Ángel Mujica (Plankton)
  Ángel Mujica (Plankton)
• Lileana Chacón (Sandy)
  Lileana Chacón (Sandy)
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• File:Actores de Voz Bob Esponja.jpg

Videos

• Season 1 promo #1
  Season 1 promo #1
• Season 1 promo #2
  Season 1 promo #2
• Season 3 promo
  Season 3 promo
• Promo with the song "Rock Lobster" by The B-52's
  Promo with the song "Rock Lobster" by The B-52's
• Promo with the song "Shut Up and Let Me Go" from The Ting Tings
  Promo with the song "Shut Up and Let Me Go" from The Ting Tings
• File:Lyric video canción de Bob Esponja Latinoamérica Nickelodeon en Español
• File:Bob Esponja Calzones Rotos Nickelodeon en Español
• File:UPFRONT REEL NICK 2016-17
• File:Reel Upfront NICK 2017

External links

• Mundonick.com page (archived)
• https://doblaje.fandom.com/es/wiki/Etcétera_Group
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMfYMB69Y1B-SlGKm1Tdb0Q
• http://ar.mundonick.com/programas/bob-esponja/76ypv4