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On December 17, 2010, Kenny Pittenger, who was a background layout supervisor on the show at the time, announced that the series had been renewed for a ninth season. Pittenger said he had meant to tell of the news sooner, implying that the show was given a season under wraps sometime during 2010.[1]
The season would officially be announced by Nickelodeon on January 3, 2011, for 26 episodes, bringing the amount of episodes in the series up to 204, passing the 200-episode mark. The president of animation at Nickelodeon and MTV Networks Kids and Family Group, Brown Johnson, stated that the series' "success in reaching over 200 episodes is a testament to creator Stephen Hillenburg's vision, comedic sensibility and his dynamic lovable characters." Paul Tibbitt, the series' executive producer following Hillenburg's departure, said that "[the crew] never imagined [they] would be going on for that long but we're going to keep going," with "the trick [being to try] to keep the episodes simple and press from here and there."[2]
On July 28, 2011, Vincent Waller would post a drawing on top of a censored outline on his Facebook page. The drawing featured Patrick licking Pearl, to her surprise.[3] Storyboard artist Brad Vandergrift replied to Waller's post, saying "Naughty Patrick." This drawing would end up being from the scrapped episode "The Crush."[4]
On December 7, 2011, Waller posted a few images from a voice recording session on his blog from an episode: "Was pleased to get to hang with Mr. Borgnine, Mr. Conway, Mr. Lawrence, and Mr. Joles this afternoon to watch them all do voice magic."[5] The only episodes that the would have lines recorded for at the time considering the production frame of this post was "Patrick-Man!"
During the winter 2011-12 season, two episodes of season 9 would have models colored and shipped to Rough Draft Studios for animation: "Squid Baby" and the aforementioned "Patrick-Man!"
Throughout winter and spring 2012, more episode models would be designed by the series' sole character designer during season 9, Virginia Hawes. Models for "Squirrel Record," "Little Yellow Book," "Bumper to Bumper," "Eek, an Urchin!," "Squid Defense," "Evil Spatula," and "It Came from Goo Lagoon" were completed and ready to be colored and prepared for shipping.[6][7]
On January 5, 2012, the first episode of the season, "Extreme Spots," was announced. The episode was announced to air in the summer of 2012, and it involved the extreme sports team The Drastic Radicals coming to Bikini Bottom, and their new fans, SpongeBob and Patrick, do whatever they can to get in. Johnny Knoxville was announced to be Johnny Krill, the leader of the Drasticals, and he had recorded his lines for the episode that week. Paul Tibbitt told that the episode was specifically written for him: "This episode was written specifically for him. The network wanted to do a show about extreme sports and the first thing that came to mind was Johnny Knoxville, because there are few humans living that are as extreme as him." Knoxville stated that he got a lot of street credibility doing the show and everyone around him was psyched. He said that as soon he finished doing "Spots," he begged to come back and record another episode.[8]
On January 24, 2012, popular mathematician and YouTuber Vi Hart made a video exposing the logical fallacies of SpongeBob's house, believing it to not be a pineapple as its lines didn't spiral under the Fibonacci sequence. A week later, Kenny Pittenger, who enjoyed the video, redesigned SpongeBob's pineapple for the show to fit the sequencing, even adjusting elements like the amount of rivets on SpongeBob's door to count to 13, and the amount of flowers around the ridge at the bottom of the house to 5 on each side. Pittenger told them to "keep up the good work" and come for a tour at the studio when they are in Burbank.[9]
On February 28, 2012, the series' second movie was officially confirmed, following the movie being rumored[10] about after being mentioned as a part of Paramount's animated film slate on March 4, 2011.[11] The movie had a tentative release date of late 2014. The movie would serve to start off or be one of [Paramount's] films to start of [their] new animation effort," according to then-Viacom president Philippe Dauman.[12] The movie would slowly begin to eat up production time on the main show before ultimately shifting to the movie full time, as the series would go on hiatus.
On March 22, 2012, Vincent Waller would announce on his Twitter account that episodes of SpongeBob would eventually be produced in HD.
On April 25, 2012, Waller would a sketch of Mr. Lawrence he did during a meeting, with the drawing being done on top of an episode outline. The title ended in "-s," From what can be seen, at one point in the outline, Squidward (shortened to Squid) takes something.[13]
On May 1, 2012, an article written by Derek Iversen's friend Lynette Carrington was published in the AZ Sports & Lifestyle magazine. In the interview, Iversen detailed the production process of the show: he wrote an idea that was approved by Paul Tibbitt, and later, network executives for further ideas. After a final outline was written, it would go through a series of storyboard directors, artists, and revisionists, as well as an animation director before having a rough draft animation made in Rough Draft Korea. He said that a total of 50 people had a hand in the making of each episode.[14]
At the time, he said the crew was still working on season 9, and that it contained 52 "episodes," really being 52 11-minute production segments. Iversen said that many stories he wrote were born from childhood experiences and were based around SpongeBob's "fish-out-of-water" character, being "a square peg trying to fit in a round hole." He said the crew never tried to dumb down the show, and that "Sincerity counts nowhere more than SpongeBob."[14]
Iversen posted the link to the article on Facebook on May 11, 2012, and stated that if it wasn't for the help of Paul Tibbitt, Vincent Waller, Doug Lawrence, Zeus Cervas, Casey Alexander, Marc Ceccarelli, Luke Brookshier, and the entire SpongeBob crew, as without them, his stories would only be words on a page. He also gave a shout-out to voice actors Tom Kenny, Bill Faggerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, and Carolyn Lawrence in the comment section.[15]
During the following month in June 2012, Iversen would leave the series. He wrote a total of 56 episodes for the show, and 19 episode outlines for season 9.[16]
The Super Spongy Square Games and more confirmed episodes
- ↑ Kenny's Korner: 9th Season
- ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (January 3, 2011). Nickelodeon Renews SpongeBob for Ninth Season. Retrieved on February 14, 2018.
- ↑ Vincent Waller on Facebook - "Meeting Doodle"
- ↑ File:SB908-title.jpeg
- ↑ 4 fer - Welcome to Incoherent-Thought
- ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants - Ginny Hawes
- ↑ Props - Ginny Hawes
- ↑ Johnny Knoxville Visits SpongeBob and Friends - Animation Magazine
- ↑ Called Out! - Kenny's Korner
- ↑ SpongeBob Movie 2 - confirmed! *SPOILERS* | SpongeBuddy Mania
- ↑ Success for Paramount's 'Rango' could lead to end of deal with DreamWorks - Los Angeles Times
- ↑ Paramount to Release 'SpongeBob' Movie in Late 2014 - The Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ A Bunch - Welcome to Incoherent-Thought
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 AZ Sports & Lifestyle v4.3 2012 May-Jun - Issuu
- ↑ Derek Iversen on Facebook - "Hey everybody, my friend Lynette Carrington wrote..."
- ↑ Derek Iversen | Linkedin
