SpongeBob's FIRST Crossover Was WASTED 

I'm 1000% down to rewrite these episodes.

I would never think SpongeBob would get a crossover with Spongebob. Never expected that.

Karen and Patrick swapping places could be one of the funniest episodes ever, principally if they get in the original show scenario.

“What inspired you to disrespect Stephen Hillenberg’s legacy twice in one episode?” “Money!”

I expected it to be a crossover with old SpongeBob like in Family Guy's "Back to the Pilot". It would have been very cool getting to see modern SpongeBob interacting with Bikini Bottom as it was 23 years ago.

Really says a lot about the current state of Nickelodeon's lineup when their first crossover in years only had a single IP in it.

My main issue is that all three shows feel way too similar. Besides one is 3D and the other is a bit more surreal, That’s it.

Here’s how I would’ve written a SpongeBob Universe Crossover: Sandy made a new invention to help her travel to different dimensions, but SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally activates it and travels to the other two show. The two meets their younger self at Kamp Koral and wonder why they look different animation wise (Much like how the Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour did), then they go to the Patrick Show Universe and question the alternate reality where Patrick has a step sister. And for the climax as they try to head back, they run into other shows (Loud House, Casagrandes, Big Nate,) and even they old season of the Original SpongeBob, back when they used Cells. Now tell me fans would pay big bucks for that kind of SpongeBob Universe Crossover

The SpongeBob franchise needs a lot of new writers and artists. Every single show has the same staff and tone.

Honestly, the entire concept of Welcome to Binary Bottom has me want Nickelodeon to do another sci-fi show. We haven't gotten one since My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Invader Zim was the only other one besides that.

I feel a Fairly Oddparents crossover could’ve worked during both show’s golden years

honestly i'm more insulted that the name of the crossover was a reference to The Twilight Zone and yet we only got a couple episodes that felt like Twilight Zone plots

Now we know why Stephen said he's not interested in crossovers

Surprisingly, the episode where Alpha Jay shoots Patrick with a gun, to obtain mayonnaise was the funniest one out of all of them.

I gotta say, it really weird to look back at season 4-9 of Spongebob and compare it to pretty much every season and spin off afterwards, feels like an entirely different show.

This video is SO necessary. I think slapstick humor is what modern spongebob is mostly now and it got worse with the spin offs. When i feel interactions the sitcom feel story and reaction shots were the most memorable parts to me. I actually liked the bus joke of the demon in the end of "you're going to pay... phone". would love a rewrite of these rho

this might be melodramatic, but I feel like spongebob and family guy have the same problem. You can go back to early episodes where these characters almost felt like people. They had genuine and consistent emotions, wants, and struggles. now they just think or act however the nonsense plot needs them to in order to fill the timeslot. the need for constant creation whose only purpose is one-time consumption before being forgotten makes me weep for creatives and their true ambitions.

Kinda sad the crossover was slept on until the 2020’s. The potential for a great show crossover in the 2000’s would’ve been nearly endless but sadly those Nicktoons have come and gone.

I really wish they would have done a crossover back in 2000s when they had iconic shows TO crossover with.

The most insane thing in this special to me is the fact Squidward as a robot is earlier to work than SpongeBot

The funniest bit was calling "Goo Lagoon" "Lube Lagoon" and only because sounds like something that would be used in a Spinge Binge ytp.

8:55 Little does Jay know that’s exactly what they’re doing. These episodes were produced before the shows were changed from having a group of people work on all of them to having different staff, so it’s not indicative of what the new crews are capable of, but The Patrick Star Show straight up got a new showrunner, new storyboarders and it’s being board-driven now. Honestly kinda excited for what the new writers/storyboarders are gonna do.

I didn't really think the crossover would be five episodes, instead I thought the three shows where going to be in the same setting and that characters from each show would be in different art styles. Kinda disappointing.😢

I wouldn’t mind seeing more from Binary Bottom if a bit more fleshed out.

To me it's hard to imagine modern SpongeBob coming up with a better joke than "SpongeBob, my legs are frozen solid, you're gonna have to cut them off with a saw. No Patrick I can't do that! Why not?! Because I already cut off my own arms!'

How to make the plot actually relevant: regive Sandy's portal and have Sandy explore the different worlds and analyze them into a small journal of sorts which she looses in a world maybe the robot one in which karen and sandy have to work together with their smarts and get the journal back

patchy the pirate being in an episode felt like more of a crossover than this

Rod Serling is laughing in his self-made purgatory........

Well it can’t even count as a crossover b/c it’s just 3 spin offs mixed into 1 episode.

Huh, interesting, so basically a Crossover that wasn’t much of a Crossover? Well, it’s unfortunate that it ended being so lackluster, I do wonder what could’ve been, so i would be very much interested to know what kind of ideas. Also, Karen being a potential masochist confirmed?

8:56 they should have most of the veterans in the og show so that the other shows feel like they have their own distinguishable voice

“SpongeBob’s FIRST Crossover” Nicktoons Unite: Am I a joke to you?

Honestly, this supposedly crossover episode is the kid-friendly equivalent of the hurricane episodes of Family Guy, the Cleveland Show, and American Dad. At least American Dad showed both Peter and Cleveland, even though Cleveland is part of Family Guy.

I think pay phone would’ve been more fun if they put the Flying Dutchman in the payphone. He’s said before that he’d take Mr Krabs’ soul if he didn’t become less cheap. When he gets discovered, he could’ve given Mr Krabs’ an ultimatum. Be less cheap and he’ll leave or “be a cheapskate to Davy Jones locker!!” Then Spongebob could pull out some random thing the Dutchman wants or scares him away.

Interviewer: What makes disrespect a man's dead wish? Nickelodeon: Money

There’s no weight or punch to the slapstick anymore in newer seasons of SpongeBob anymore. It’s all just wall to wall slapstick with no subtly. Earlier season had restraint. An example of great slapstick was that one scene from ‘No Weenies Allowed’ when Patrick beats up himself. “No please… HAVE MERCY!!” There would never be a scene like that in modern SpongeBob.

1:32 Did you somehow miss the end of the episode, where it turns out [spoilers] They were actually in a microscope petri dish monitored by Sandy, so they technically didn’t escape even with toon logic. In fact, it seemed like it made things worse by somehow ending up there

as a spongebob fan, I liked the crossover special, but I totally understand where your coming from.

“That’s it? That’s the crossover special? That was just a bunch of lazy writing!”

SpongeBob meets SpongeBob isn’t even a decent idea for a crossover but the fact Nick can’t even commit to it. Actually, not even the first time for this network

6:05 spongebob staff: *WRITE THAT DOWN!!*

I was gonna say “why are they going with crossovers when Stephen said they shouldn’t, are they going against his wishes again?” But I mean if they are doing crossovers with themselves then I guess that’s fine.

as an avid spongebob lover, i was really wondering how they would do a "crossover" with three of the shows, because since its all technically from the same universe, but the crossover part being just grandpat trying to find his way home and being on the screen for 5 seconds literally was the most disappointing thing ever... i thought we were gonna get like a jimmy neutron/timmy turner type thing but i guess i put my expectations too high. regardless thought this video put my EXACT thoughts about the the tidal zone to life, and i absolutely agree that binary bottom was the best ep out of all of them, aesthetically pleasing and seeing how each character was different still even as robots, but at the same time it did feel SUUUPER super empty plot wise, and i wish they did more with the episode cause it definitely had potential

Bro the "It's better than playing a video game where you shoot Patrick for mayonnaise" line might be a better idea than some of the episodes

Honestly this crossover feels like it’s restricted down for kids to enjoy and *only* for kids to enjoy

People believed both of the current spinoffs were exploitative. Well, it doesn't seem like they have done much to convince people otherwise. And we know why these exist... they don't have any sort of respect for the audience, given how little they try to compliment the original.

Seeing that last clip as someone with 0 context is truly wild

Ngl what I thought was gonna happen was GrandPat getting lost for a whole hour, like he goes from his show to Camp Koral then to regular Spongebob and then back his own show and there could've been hundreds of ideas for how that could've went. And this was a Spongebob crossover and each character was made to be different they could've had the all the Patrick's or all the Spongebob's meeting each other along the way and that could've went somewhere.

I feel like we should've gotten a nicktoons unite crossover tv movie. I remember as a kid thinking it would happen after unite became a thing. What always threw me off with nickelodeon is why we kept getting crossovers with just Rugrats and The Fairly OddParents ? Rugrats crossed over with Aaahh Real Monsters and the Wild Thornberrys. The Fairly OddParents crossed over with Jimmy Neutron (3x), and Bunsen is a Beast.

4:59 "don't drop them ;)"

10:23 someone should make this a real game

Another SB-129 or Dunces and Dragons episode could have been in this crossover

As someone who loved SpongeBob as a kid and The Twilight Zone as an adult, The Tidal Zone is an idea I absolutely love. The episodes may not have been good, but the idea was there. Actually, the zany world of SpongeBob where anything can happen lends itself extremely well to the spirit of The Twilight Zone.

The switch ideas actually implements the concept of old spongebob concepts I’d honestly see those ideas come to life

How is it a crossover when it’s all within one show technically?

I think a better crossover between these episodes would be if Karen-Patrick from the Camp Coral episode built a dimensional wormhole to one-up Sandy, only for Patrick-Karen to mess up the controls and send himself into each episode before returning right as the device runs out of power, and with no way to recharge the device there's no proof to show Mr. Krabs.

I don't get why they also included the tidal thing in the patrick star show when the show is already random/nonsensical in the first place, making an episode where patrick actually makes a show without anything dumb going on is more tidal zone worthy than what we got

Why did we need 3 Spongebob shows again? Does anybody know? Who is watching these other than 5 year olds with tv babysitters- Wait...answered my own question

From what i've seen, Karen being the only fish in Binary Bottom and Patrick bringing in variations of him from other episodes were the highlights for me.

3:45 red mist be like

Let’s be real. We all knew this would be bad

Binary Bottom wrote Gary out of character. He was clingy to SpongeBob when in A Pal For Gary and every other episode he was just vibing at home. Gary is supposed to be more aloof. Karen being a fish did make me chuckle though. The giant Sandy head just felt weird, unfunny and out of nowhere.

5:46 "ohh pain, facinating. come on. Kick me for more pain." Lol

Crossover? Crossover with what? My life as a teenage robot?

If Karen and Patrick switched places during Camp Coral, Spongebob might have been in the cash register, and Patrick be the cook, just like that episode Bummer Vacation.

A skin in wrinkle time was EXTREMELY funny and memorable because of the grandpat sea star opening😂🤣

Agreed, when I was done watching it I just felt kinda… in the middle. Because I half liked it and half hated it. There’s still a lot of cool stuff tho like how in the parody intro you can see that SpongeBob kinda looks like the season 1 version but that’s about it. I liked 2 out of the 4 stories. Basically it was mid.

6:04 I think more critics need to do this. If your frustrated that an idea isn't well executed you should give your ideas or ask your followers what are there ideas. Because as a critic you should want the production team to do better for the sake of the show or the sake of creative betterment. P.S here to hoping your new channel goes well.

Of course your idea for "Switch Glitch" works. You actually put thought into what you're writing, instead of copying something that's been done and just then pretend that no one would care.

I thought the crossover was ok at best. It really didn’t feel like a crossover but more like an anthology episode with a slight over-arching plot as none of episodes featured really “crossed over”. I feel like this was just a total ratings trap as these were most likely meant to be separate episodes for each of the shows but Nick forced them to make it a “crossover” event. Also the whole “3-night event” thing was a total lie as all they did was replay the episode again at the same time. I thought this was gonna be a “Wishology” type thing where it was a 3-part episode just split over 3 nights. But no.. it wasn’t. Overall it was ok. The episodes themselves were good imo but everything surrounding the special was kinda bad a miss leading.

Although I haven't watched these episodes myself, I definitely agree with your idea of spreading out the crew across shows while also bringing in new people. From what it seems in recent, the crew's seemed kinda strained for ideas across each show, and I think that goes to show that having essentially the same crew across 3 shows is not effective. Do something similar to season 9's second half, where more people are brought in who grew up with classic episodes are brought on board as writers/storyboarders for each of the three shows, thus allowing for less strain across crew members, and consistent work outputs from each show, as opposed to having each show essentially at a standstill due to the multi-tasking the current crew has to do. Nicely done review otherwise. Oh, one more thing, I'm really not sure how to feel about the main show promoting/implementing things from the spin-offs in the show in excess, I feel it's just kind of obnoxious.

i think the appreciation of pain thing has to do with the fact that as a machine she cant really feel, she can "express" but that doesn't mean she really understands it, its an ai mimicking behaviors not a chemical reaction in a pile of flesh, and not to sound edgy or anything but there's even a three days grace song about wanting to feel pain instead of the emptiness of a machine.

I'd love to see better writing versions! This should be cool.

I DID like Welcome to Binary Bottom, Alpha Jay!.

Patrick isn't supposed to be totally stupid, he's just supposed to be normal, but really clumbsy and sometimes dumb.

Speaking of your point at 4:40, Family Guy writers also need to realize that new family guy shouldn't be repeating jokes.

Imagine if they had a splatoon crossover, I mean they had a splatfest of SpongeBob vs Patrick so it’s not that bad.

this is the problem with modern spongebob there to focused on relying on the past instead of making new ideas and even when they try they don't flesh them out enough mordern spongebob is just so confusing

Nickelodeon just doesn’t know what to do with SpongeBob anymore

They could've made a Nicktoons Unite crossover.

The last several seasons were wasted.

This should've been a 22-minute special instead of a standard 11-minute episode.

No! Because I’m so disappointed it was mid! Other RU-vidrs have been hyping it up for months so I was actually finally excited for something SpongeBob related.

i didnt even know these were supposed to be crossovers rippp thats how you know its bad

How to fix this episode. Play up the spookiness more. The twilight zone is supposed to be scary. They have made better spooky episodes before. Scardy Pants, Curse of Bikini Bottom, Ghoul Fools etc.

Yeah, I agree with what you said about binary bottom. This is really creative and some visual jokes land but I just wish they did something with it. Like imagine if Spongebob somehow ended in this reality where everyone is a robot with no feelings and he had to teach his counterpart the joy of freedom and feelings while the rest of town chases him down for being an organic lifeform (you would have to delete the Karen joke but whatever) , I literally came up with that in 5 minutes. You don't even have to change the visuals and the amazing voice acting.

This reminds me of when FOx did the whole HUrricane event with Family Guy, Cleveland Show, and American Dad but done bad.

To be honest from my perspective I doesn't feel like a crossover since all shows use most of the same characters

We started 2023 with the wrong foot. All i can say at this point is just PLEASE!!! SAVE US DISNEY TVA AND MARVEL !!! YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!!!

As I expected. A typical cash in that fell flat on it's behind.

Alpha Jay is my favorite Content Creator because he’s right.

If you want to storyboard and rewrite these, I will absolutely provide the voices for Patrick, Squidward (the one I’m best at imitating) and SpongeBob.

to be honest I knew it wouldn't be that good coming from spongebobs track record

I’d be done to see how you come up with writing these episodes AJ. Another argument could be the writers need more time. Are test audiences not a thing anymore?

i feel like these crossovers and spinoffs show EXACTLY why stephen hillenburg didnt want spinoffs of spongebob and such, it shows that these spinoffs will just take ideas from older episodes and try to make them more zany and crazy and such, i mean its actually so blatant its crazy and i mean i dont hate on modern spongebob, but they are just taking such a lazy route with the show and other shows aswell

At this point, I have had it with SpongeBob now. It sucks cause the classic seasons is my favorite show of all time, and Season 9-11ish was pretty good. But thanks to these money hungry executives, Combine with the fact that we have 2 uneccesary spin-offs, I just can't watch this show anymore.

Yeah, I agree that this special could have been a LOT better. However, if there is one saving grace for it, it's the episode You're Going to Pay Phone. It was funny, and it was nice to see Mr. Krabs actually get punished this time around.

Wow those ideas for the switch glitch you just wrote down from the top of your head I would’ve loved to see something like that in the actual episode in fact maybe I could make it like a kinda fanmade episode don’t worry I’ll give you credit for the ideas if I do make this one day

Honestly, SpongeBob killing Patrick to get mayonnaise at the end of the video was so funny, out-of-place, perfect and unexpected, it seems like it was better than those cheap knockoff episodes. "Modern SpongeBob" is an oxymoron. I was watching these episodes' cons outweigh their pros. And I did not expect to laugh so hard

what'd you think was gonna happen, spongebob would suddenly become good again?