The likenesses of the characters are fairly close to their 2D counterparts. I am stymied as to how Plankton throws his keys to SpongeBob with no wires in sight.Īll the primary characters from SpongeBob SquarePants are in this episode, along with the handful of towns-fish we see from time to time. Though It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! is stop-motion animated, the episode still uses the traditionally animated, holiday-themed opening credits left over from the previous Christmas special, “Christmas Who?” I was looking forward to a stop-motion animated SpongeBob splitting apart and being put back together, but perhaps the production team ran put of time.Īlthough stop-motion animation requires clever eye-trickery, It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! manages to re-create the kind of action we see in the traditionally animated SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon, with characters stretching and shrinking, objects flying and exploding.
Though the scene appears to be innocently charming, soon the silly humor we’ve come to love assures us that, yes, this really is a SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon: Patchy and Potty come to a fork in the road, literally, and the fork flattens their tire. Animated painted snow falls over a sweet stop-motion animated scene that focuses on a toy-like Patchy the Pirate, looking like the mailman in Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, driving with his parrot, Potty. It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! opens just like a classic Rankin/Bass Christmas cartoon, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! also includes a SpongeBob robot and an appearance by Santa Claus, but why spoil everything? My Two Cents Turns out SpongeBob was immune to the jerk fruitcake because of his loving heart. SpongeBob begins singing “Don’t Be a Jerk (It’s Christmas)” and turns the jerks back into normal folks. Pearl’s transition is easily the funniest part of the episode.) Now the town is full of jerks, wreaking havoc and battling each other. (Jerks, by the way, have heavy uni-brows and five o’clock shadows. One by one, each character turns into a jerk. SpongeBob decides to share his good fortune, giving parade watchers their own slices of fruitcake. Finally, Plankton gives SpongeBob his invention, thinking it’s a failure. Discouraged, Plankton keeps feeding SpongeBob slice after slice to no avail. However, he remains his normal, happy-go-lucky self.
Plankton’s first hapless victim is SpongeBob, who gobbles the slice of fruitcake happily. While some of the residents are decorating their homes, Plankton is putting the finishing touches on his latest evil invention: fruitcake that turns someone who eats it into a jerk. In It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!, SpongeBob and the rest of Bikini Bottom are getting ready for a visit from Santa Claus. of wood chips created Sandy’s tree house floor and 20 boxes of breakfast cereal covered the coral rocks. (Perhaps the animators enjoyed the taste of stop-motion animation they got when working on the Abominable Snow Mollusk in 2011’s “Frozen Face-Off” and wanted more.)Īccording to the press release, six sets were going at one time where 60 lbs.
(Picture what kids used to do with their Super 8 cameras and action figures.) The result is a life-like and textured representation of Bikini Bottom and its inhabitants. That means that in this episode, rather than using traditional, 2D animation that is drawn, colored and animated, the production team used 3D models of the characters and locations, snapping a shot every time they move a millimeter then all of those snapshots are strung together to make it appear as if action is taking place. It’s a SpongeBob Christmas! is the first full-length, stop-motion animated episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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