Spongebob Leaves Fans All Wet
Dra
SpongeBob leaves fans all wet
by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Friday, August 23, 2002
It was mayhem at the South Shore Plaza the other night when more than 2,000
Krabby SpongeBob SquarePants fans were turned away after waiting hours to
have their picture snapped with the Krusty Krab's head frycook.
``Mothers were fighting, kids were crying and the police had to escort
SpongeBob out,'' said Caroline Casey of Walpole, who was shopping at the
Braintree mall when the SpongeBob incident reached its saturation point.
``It was like he was Elvis.''
Ha! If Squidward could see old SpongeBob now!
The costumed SpongeBob character - whose cartoon counterpart and his pals,
Patrick, Gary and Mr. Krabs, are the No. 1 ratings draw on Nickelodeon - was
slated to appear for three hours in the mall's center court early Wednesday
evening. But by the time Bikini Bottom's most famous resident surfaced, the
line stretched from Filene's all the way to Macy's.
``There were about 2,500 kids and parents,'' said Someone Who Knows. ``They
did 100 photos per hour - which is a lot - but that's only 300 kids. You do
the math.''
Well, by our count, that leaves some 2,200 Krabby customers when it came
time for SpongeBob to return to his Pineapple Under The Sea. And while the
kids in line were still crying ``I'm ready!'' SpongeBob had left the
building.
``SpongeBob may be square but he sure was hip last night,'' said South Shore
Plaza marketing director Linnea Kelliher.
So hip that mall security and a Braintree police detail officer had to help
him escape the angry mob.
``Mothers were yelling, calling each other names and accusing each other of
cutting the line,'' Casey said. ``Kids were crying, yelling `SpongeBob!' It
was unreal.''
File Under: Spongeworthy.
Dra
clutterbug
Dra wrote:
I had not ever heard of "SpongeBob" until I read the above.
Are you sure this isn't satire?
So happy to be CF and ignorant of the trendiest k1ddie cartoon characters,
-Mb
Tara Deen
>
> http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/inside_track/track08232002.htm
>
> SpongeBob leaves fans all wet
>
I've never heard of Spongebob either.
>
> File Under: Spongeworthy.
>
<snork> That's funnier than the article!
Tara
who didn't even watch Seinfeld, but still gets it.
David Cato
> I had not ever heard of "SpongeBob" until I read the above.
When I first heard about it, my response was along the lines of "what's
a sponge bob?"
> Are you sure this isn't satire?
Sadly it's probably not.
> So happy to be CF and ignorant of the trendiest k1ddie cartoon characters,
I do my best, but ocassionally the stuff creeps in around the corners.
Last Giftmas my niece was crazy about SpongeBob, although I'd never
heard of it before then, and wanted SpongeBob trinkets. A few weeks ago
I got to see part of one of the cartoons. I watched it for a little
while for the trainwreck factor. Sorry, I just didn't get it. Maybe
it's one of those things that only a 5-year-old understands, although it
seemed to drag on for far longer than a typical 5-year-old attention
span.
Unlike the Looney Toon characters of my and my parent's youth, I don't
see SpongeBob and his ilk having any appeal to today's kids when they
grow older.
David
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REP
dcato+...@crunchyfrog.net wrote:
> clutterbug <nos...@attbi.com> wrote ...
>
> > I had not ever heard of "SpongeBob" until I read the above.
>
> When I first heard about it, my response was along the lines of "what's
> a sponge bob?"
>
> > Are you sure this isn't satire?
>
> Sadly it's probably not.
>
> > So happy to be CF and ignorant of the trendiest k1ddie cartoon characters,
>
> I do my best, but ocassionally the stuff creeps in around the corners.
> Last Giftmas my niece was crazy about SpongeBob, although I'd never
> heard of it before then, and wanted SpongeBob trinkets. A few weeks ago
> I got to see part of one of the cartoons. I watched it for a little
> while for the trainwreck factor. Sorry, I just didn't get it. Maybe
> it's one of those things that only a 5-year-old understands, although it
> seemed to drag on for far longer than a typical 5-year-old attention
> span.
>
> Unlike the Looney Toon characters of my and my parent's youth, I don't
> see SpongeBob and his ilk having any appeal to today's kids when they
> grow older.
Oh how I wish I were a big stoner, but I admit this with a clear head: I
sorta like SpongeBob. I think it's its absurdist qualities and
sweet-but-not-puke-inducing sweetness I like. Or maybe I *am* a big stoner
without the bud.
Ron Sullivan
<rep-ya02408000R...@news.sf.sbcglobal.net> ,
r...@inanna.com (REP) wrote:
>
> Oh how I wish I were a big stoner, but I admit this with a clear
> head: I
> sorta like SpongeBob. ...
So do I. In my case, I suspect it's the slack-key
soundtrack, and maybe the very obscure little slynesses like
"Squidward," which I hear as a play on Ledward rather than
Edward.
Ron "Kapana Fan" Sullivan
Faultline, California's Environmental Magazine
http://www.faultline.org
--
If you're NOT disappointed with modern "journalism," you
haven't been paying attention...
Pete, ascf
bronxelf
>
>
>I had not ever heard of "SpongeBob" until I read the above.
>
>Are you sure this isn't satire?
>
>So happy to be CF and ignorant of the trendiest k1ddie cartoon characters,
>-Mb
It's not.
I like spongebob and all, but I still think The Angry Beavers were
funnier...
elf.
Pat
news:en8pmukvh6hf21pdq...@4ax.com:
> I like spongebob and all, but I still think The Angry Beavers were
> funnier...
>
>
> elf.
>
Is that a women's rugby team?
Pat
Gutterboy
>> I like spongebob and all, but I still think The Angry Beavers were
>> funnier...
>>
>>
>> elf.
>>
>
>Is that a women's rugby team?
No, just the local chapter of Episiotomies Anonymous...
Gutterboy
---
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conceiving." -- Sarah Silverman
Dan M.C.
with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or whatever the fuck they were
called.
Seems like every Yuppified moo and duh within a 50 mile radius
descended upon some shopping mall in Jersey like a breeder army. Fist
fighting, name calling, and some pretty horrific vandalism was
reported.
I was staying in a Marriott across the street and witnessed three
police departments and the state police break up the whole mess.
Turns out later that lawsuits were filed against the promoters with
the usual baseless bullshit about how the snotminers were emotionally
damaged by not being able to see their heroes. One lawsuit mentioned
on the news the following month even mentioned that the promoter
"should have known" and "should have had two or more sets of the Ninja
Turtles to handle the overflow". Now, wouldn't that be 'traumatic'
for the little bastards if they had seen two sets of the Turtles in
the mall?
Why is it you never see this kind of bullshit at the symphony?
Somehow, I doubt that Yo Yo Ma has many groupies.
Lots42
Yanno, when I was a sprog, I liked cartoons like any normal kid. But I had no
desire to visit with any super-sized real life version of them. I cringed when
one appeared because I knew my mom would want to drag me to it.
Lots42
>That those are
>even *made* had me gawking a bit, but I guess it just means DH isn't
>the only one who never grew out of liking cartoon characters.
>
>
There's more of us cartoon-loving adult freaks out there then you think!
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US