'SpongeBob' Season 13, 'Kamp Koral' Season 2, 'Patrick Star Show' Season 1 Deployed For July 10 SpongeBomb

 

When animation legends SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star were announced to be hosting the 2024 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards (happening July 13) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants, Paramount+’s content contributions to the celebration would include the arrivals of SpongeBob season 13 and the long-awaited first season of The Patrick Star Show. Surely the franchise’s first spinoff Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years would be contributing something new right? Indeed all 13 episodes of season 2 will premiere with its brethren’s latest seasons on the streamer on July 10, three days before the KCAs and a week before the celebrated anniversary of July 17.

Season 2 of Kamp Koral will see SpongeBob and all his friends return to Kamp Koral for another spirited summer of fun. They’ll stay up all night, get monster lessons, and dig up a prehistoric creature, all part of having the best summer ever. The press release comes with episode screencaps for all 13 episodes as part of its collection of series art, and they are captioned with the episodes they come from, including titles. They are “Mad Science Squirrel”, “High and Dry”, “Low Falutin”, “Mermaid Men and the Boys”, “A Tale of Two Roxies”, “Calling Some Monsters”, “Un-Breaking and De-Entering”, “Krabsy the Clown”, “Mascot Mayhem”, “Who’s Complaining”, “Cretins of the Night”, “A Finful of Sand Dollars”, “The Suit Suits You”, and finally, most telling of its future, “End of Summer Daze”. Nickelodeon President Brian Robbins, now part of Office of the CEO at Paramount, previously said Kamp Koral would be a limited summer series.

The series stars Tom Kenny as SpongeBob, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick, Rodger Bumpass as Squidward, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks and Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, as one would expect. Carlos Alazraqui, a franchise veteran with a relationship going back to Kenny and creator Stephen Hillenburg’s days on Rocko’s Modern Life, voices Nobby, brother narwhal to Kate Higgins’s Narlene, who live in the woods surrounding the camp. Series vets Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller serve as executive producers. Production is overseen by Kelley Gardner, the Vice President of Current Series Animation at Nickelodeon. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank.

The Patrick Star Show stars a younger Patrick as he puts on his own talk show with the help and support of his family, with redesigned parents Cecil, voiced by famed Biff Tannen and former SpongeBob supporting voice Tom Wilson, and Bunny, voiced by Cree Summer. He also has an adopted sister Squidina voiced by Jill Talley, and his paternal grandfather GrandPat voiced by Dana Snyder. The familiar characters of the main series are pretty present here too. 

The series has had a very long and notorious three-year journey to Paramount+. It premiered on Nickelodeon in July 2021. But the thing is, it proved to be no exception to how far the first network for kids can stretch a season of SpongeBob, or evidently its spinoffs. While its sole segment of the crossover special “The Tidal Zone” reached Paramount+ in May 2023 after premiering in January, the first season of The Patrick Star Show lagged behind because the 26 half hours didn’t finish airing until that July, meaning it will have taken just about a year since finishing to reach the streamer. Though that airing stretch has nothing on SpongeBob season 13’s 28 episodes, which began in October 2020 and finished this past November. Nickelodeon has always elongated SpongeBob seasons even back to the original seasons. Season 3 lasted from October 2001 to October 2004 thanks to admittedly self-imposed (they imposed them, obviously, not me-imposed) delays. Recent seasons have started up before others have finished, and season 9 premiered in 2012 with its last episode to premiere finally getting it in 2017.

Source: Paramount Press Express