Only vaguely aware of the show’s plotting so no idea what’s going on in this set or how accurate it is to a particular episode. It’s all kind of jarring to look at when all together like that, I assume that’s the point?

Any idea why Lego didn't sell these sets in the UK?

Folks are gonna be really mad when they find out the band's not playing...oh wait, this isn't 'The Weekenders':D (Edit: wrong spelling too, band goes by: Chum Bukket)

Spongebob. Great cartoon. Haven’t rewatched it in a long time, so i don’t know if it aged well. Just like Adventure Time, which was super great at the time it came out. But for some reason i don’t like to rewatch it. Maybe it’s because those series were kept alive a little too long. Some characters who were just weird and cool reappeared too long and too often, and made the series more and more into a vague blur of recognition instead of the fresh series they started as.
However i do like that Lego made sets out of them. Never collected Spongebob, i was always about to, but my money went to star wars at that time.
If i ever had to pick a cartoon that lego should make sets of it’ll be Ren & Stimpy. Especially with all the new head moulds they are producing nowadays

@PurpleDave said:
" And the Chum Bucket is a literal chum bucket, which is a bucket full of the unwanted remnants of processed fish, often used to lure sharks in for scientific study or tourism.

@Zordboy:
The second largest viewer contingent was probably stoned college students, so I’m thinking they did."

Chumbuckets also have a long history in frat-boy stoner college culture.

However, as any deep sea fisherman knows, a chum bucket is used to throw overboard hacked-up unwanted fish that are caught and then used to lure bigger fish (not necessarily anything close to shark level).

I personally think the practice is probably wasteful and a bit barbaric. Nevertheless, delicious!

@StyleCounselor said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" And the Chum Bucket is a literal chum bucket, which is a bucket full of the unwanted remnants of processed fish, often used to lure sharks in for scientific study or tourism.

@Zordboy :
The second largest viewer contingent was probably stoned college students, so I’m thinking they did."

Chumbuckets also have a long history in frat-boy stoner college culture.

However, as any deep sea fisherman knows, a chum bucket is used to throw overboard hacked-up unwanted fish that are caught and then used to lure bigger fish (not necessarily anything close to shark level).

I personally think the practice is probably wasteful and a bit barbaric. Nevertheless, delicious!"

The only reason why Midwest stoner culture likes SpongeBob so much is because they don't know about Aqua Teen Hunger Force, or, if your more Anglo, The Mighty Boosh!

@ecleme11 They were released in the UK (not entirely sure if at anywhere other than Lego stores), although the 2006 wave didn't come out in Europe until the following year.

@ChazTheMinifig said:
" @ecleme11 They were released in the UK (not entirely sure if at anywhere other than Lego stores), although the 2006 wave didn't come out in Europe until the following year."

Never realized that, just figured that was why all the bricklink stores selling Nickelodeon sets were mainly US based

@WesterBricks said:
"One of the two sets that contains the super rare, super expensive dark blue pillars that you need if you want to build an accurate Cafe Corner modular building from scratch."

Oh no. Oh nooo!
I'm looking to re-acquire set 8894 sometime soon, and your comment alerted me to the insane rarity of that part, as 8894 is the other set you mention. It has 6. I'm probably in for one of 'those' rides when I actually get to buy one. I'm saying this because so far the set has barely been sold anywhere close to here except one that has 'a few parts missing'...

Curse you, Cafe Corner part-out scarcity!

@Brickodillo said:
"Spongebob. Great cartoon. Haven’t rewatched it in a long time, so i don’t know if it aged well. Just like Adventure Time, which was super great at the time it came out. But for some reason i don’t like to rewatch it. Maybe it’s because those series were kept alive a little too long. Some characters who were just weird and cool reappeared too long and too often, and made the series more and more into a vague blur of recognition instead of the fresh series they started as.
However i do like that Lego made sets out of them. Never collected Spongebob, i was always about to, but my money went to star wars at that time.
If i ever had to pick a cartoon that lego should make sets of it’ll be Ren & Stimpy. Especially with all the new head moulds they are producing nowadays"

Spongebob (1999) is still going strong for better or worse, and I believe is only beat by The Simpsons (1989) and the recently-cancelled PBS series Arthur (1996) in series length over time for a continually-running animated show.

I could be wrong about that, though.

also, I had the 2006 Krusty Krab.... Squidward looks like someone gave him something, because he should *never* be that happy. 3825

@Zordboy said:
"The kids at home realised how dirty some of the Spongebob canon was, right? Or do I just have a dirty imagination? Or both?"

There were a lot of jokes, especially in the early episodes, that I didn't get as a kid, but did when I was an adult.

Part of what made a lot of the early Nick shows so good was that the writers always barely skirted censorship rules and what is OK for a kid's show. Coincidentally, many of the same writers worked on Family Guy and the Simpsons.

@Murdoch17 said:
" @Brickodillo said:
"Spongebob. Great cartoon. Haven’t rewatched it in a long time, so i don’t know if it aged well. Just like Adventure Time, which was super great at the time it came out. But for some reason i don’t like to rewatch it. Maybe it’s because those series were kept alive a little too long. Some characters who were just weird and cool reappeared too long and too often, and made the series more and more into a vague blur of recognition instead of the fresh series they started as.
However i do like that Lego made sets out of them. Never collected Spongebob, i was always about to, but my money went to star wars at that time.
If i ever had to pick a cartoon that lego should make sets of it’ll be Ren & Stimpy. Especially with all the new head moulds they are producing nowadays"

Spongebob (1999) is still going strong for better or worse, and I believe is only beat by The Simpsons (1989) and the recently-cancelled PBS series Arthur (1996) in series length over time for a continually-running animated show.

I could be wrong about that, though.

also, I had the 2006 Krusty Krab.... Squidward looks like someone gave him something, because he should *never* be that happy. 3825"

Speaking of SpongeBob sets that are the only other set with a rare piece from a modular, one of the doors in the Krusty Krab is the door for a modular (I think cafe corner), and stupid expensive now.

@Murdoch17:
1. The Simpsons (32yrs, 33 seasons 1989-present)
2. Arthur (25yrs, 25 seasons, 1996-2022)
3. South Park (24yrs, 25 seasons, 1997-present)
4. Family Guy (23yrs, 20 seasons, 1999-2003, 2005-present)
5. SpongeBob SquarePants (23yrs, 13 seasons, 1999-present)

This is pulled from a list of the longest-running _American_ series (shows produced in the rest of the world were not included, even if they are broadcast in the US). The Simpsons got a renewal for Season 33 & 34, so has one more year on tap. Arthur has ended after 25 seasons, and will soon be overtaken for 2nd. South Park got renewed last year through Season 30 in 2027. Family Guy gave us a blessed reprieve in 2004, but has one more season confirmed.

And SpongeBob clearly was stoned. The shortest season still lasted nearly 14 months (October 15, 2016 thru December 2, 2017), the longest was S9 (4 years, 7 months, from July 21, 2012 thru February 20, 2017). Most seasons lasted around two years, and most overlapped two other seasons. S3-4 was the only true hiatus when S3 concluded October 11, 2004, and S4 didn’t pick up again until May 6, 2005. On July 19, 2009, ep 91a concluded S5, S7 kicked off with six episodes (127a, 127b, 128a, 128b, 129a, & 129b), and they threw in four S6 episodes just because they could (116b, 119b, 120a, & 122a). Depending on broadcast order, this means S5 may have overlapped S7, which would also mean both seasons overlapped three other seasons.

Now, many people may wonder how this could all be possible. Seasons are determined by production order, not broadcast order. The first thing that happens during production is the episode is assigned a production number. Typically this is done in sequential order. For animation, the lines are recorded, and everything is shipped off to an animation studio to do all the visuals. Animation takes a lot longer than filming, so most animated series use multiple animation studios that you’ve probably never heard of. B:TAS commentary tracks mention that the show used upwards of 20 different studios, some for just a few episodes (Emmy-winner Heart of Ice may have even driven one studio out of business). B:TAS broadcast six days a week at the start, so broadcast order was determined by when the episodes came back. The only episodes that were guaranteed to not have their order flipped were 2-parters, because both episodes were assigned to the same studio.

Another thing that can affect broadcast order is Standards & Practices, which is a polite way of saying “network censors”. They may object to something that requires rework before it can air, or in extreme cases may object to the entire premise of the episode resulting in delays of a year or longer (if it isn’t scrapped altogether). In reruns, there are several shows that have had an episode or two stricken from the lineup, never to be rebroadcast (Darkwing Duck and South Park are two shows I know this has happened with).

@cody6268:
The slime used on Double Dare was referred to as “gak” behind the scenes…until host Marc Summers started using the term on air. Nickelodeon went on to license it as a kid’s toy, unaware that the crew purposefully had taken the name for a slang term for heroin.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Murdoch17 :
1. The Simpsons (32yrs, 33 seasons 1989-present)
2. Arthur (25yrs, 25 seasons, 1996-2022)
3. South Park (24yrs, 25 seasons, 1997-present)
4. Family Guy (23yrs, 20 seasons, 1999-2003, 2005-present)
5. SpongeBob SquarePants (23yrs, 13 seasons, 1999-present)

This is pulled from a list of the longest-running _American_ series (shows produced in the rest of the world were not included, even if they are broadcast in the US). The Simpsons got a renewal for Season 33 & 34, so has one more year on tap. Arthur has ended after 25 seasons, and will soon be overtaken for 2nd. South Park got renewed last year through Season 30 in 2027. Family Guy gave us a blessed reprieve in 2004, but has one more season confirmed.

And SpongeBob clearly was stoned. The shortest season still lasted nearly 14 months (October 15, 2016 thru December 2, 2017), the longest was S9 (4 years, 7 months, from July 21, 2012 thru February 20, 2017). Most seasons lasted around two years, and most overlapped two other seasons. S3-4 was the only true hiatus when S3 concluded October 11, 2004, and S4 didn’t pick up again until May 6, 2005. On July 19, 2009, ep 91a concluded S5, S7 kicked off with six episodes (127a, 127b, 128a, 128b, 129a, & 129b), and they threw in four S6 episodes just because they could (116b, 119b, 120a, & 122a). Depending on broadcast order, this means S5 may have overlapped S7, which would also mean both seasons overlapped three other seasons.

Now, many people may wonder how this could all be possible. Seasons are determined by production order, not broadcast order. The first thing that happens during production is the episode is assigned a production number. Typically this is done in sequential order. For animation, the lines are recorded, and everything is shipped off to an animation studio to do all the visuals. Animation takes a lot longer than filming, so most animated series use multiple animation studios that you’ve probably never heard of. B:TAS commentary tracks mention that the show used upwards of 20 different studios, some for just a few episodes (Emmy-winner Heart of Ice may have even driven one studio out of business). B:TAS broadcast six days a week at the start, so broadcast order was determined by when the episodes came back. The only episodes that were guaranteed to not have their order flipped were 2-parters, because both episodes were assigned to the same studio.

Another thing that can affect broadcast order is Standards & Practices, which is a polite way of saying “network censors”. They may object to something that requires rework before it can air, or in extreme cases may object to the entire premise of the episode resulting in delays of a year or longer (if it isn’t scrapped altogether). In reruns, there are several shows that have had an episode or two stricken from the lineup, never to be rebroadcast (Darkwing Duck and South Park are two shows I know this has happened with)."

I'm still shocked 'Mid-life Crustacean" made it to air at all. There has also been a episode of SpongeBob that didn't air as planned because of good reasons: "Kwarantined Krab" was supposed to air in 2020, but was not, according to Wikipedia, because of similarities to the COVID-19 pandemic. (It was eventually aired in April, 2022.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwarantined_Krab

@Murdoch17:
Yeah, real life events can also cause episodes to be cancelled or delayed. The show “24” was supposed to premiere with an episode that showed a terrorist bail out of a commercial jetliner after activating a timed bomb left on board. Then 9/11 happened, and they weren’t sure how to proceed with a very expensive series that was well into production. After a short delay, they did eventually release the episode, but the plane is not visible onscreen when the bomb detonates.