| SpongeBob's Truth or Square | |
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The Truth or Square DVD case. |
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| Genre | Comedy Musical |
| Creator | Stephen Hillenburg |
| Directed by | Luke Brookshier (Storyboard) Nate Cash (Storyboard) Andrew Overtoom (Animation) Alan Smart (Animation) Tom Yasumi (Animation) Vincent Waller (Creative) |
| Produced by | Stephen Hillenburg Paul Tibbitt |
| Written by | Luke Brookshier Nate Cash Steven Banks Paul Tibbitt |
| Starring | Tom Kenny Bill Fagerbakke Clancy Brown Rodger Bumpass Carolyn Lawrence Mr. Lawrence Dee Bradley Baker Jill Talley Sirena Irwin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| Release date | November 6, 2009 |
| Running time | 59 minutes |
| Preceded by | SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis |
Truth or Square is a SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie which celebrates SpongeBob's 10th anniversary. It is episodes 123 and 124 in the sixth season of the show. This is a TV movie of season 6.
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Alarm clocks ring everywhere throughout SpongeBob's house and even in Squidward's house. SpongeBob's foghorn alarm spits out some more, and SpongeBob wakes up and stops them. SpongeBob remembers that, on this day, the Krusty Krab celebrates its "eleventy seventh" anniversary. He remembers his first visit to the Krusty Krab and tells Gary about it: Years ago, when SpongeBob's mother was still pregnant with him, she and SpongeBob's father went to the Krusty Krab to eat there. His mother asked him what he wanted (SpongeBob could speak and read even before he was born), and he asked for a Krabby Patty. They were so good, SpongeBob took off his umbilical cord and sucked on it. When he finishes his flashback, SpongeBob showers, goes through the wringer, puts on his clothes and drinks a can of socks (socks then appear on his feet). He then puts on his shoes and goes over to the mirror, opens the door on it and looks through a collection of his faces. He takes off the one he already has on, and then replaces it with his "eager face". SpongeBob then leaves to go to the Krusty Krab, but as soon as he exits his house, he bumps into the back of an unbelievably long line of customers waiting to get to the restaurant as well. SpongeBob jumps on top of every second person in the line, then eventually reaches the Krusty Krab front door and squirms underneath it.
Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob and Squidward that this is a perfect opportunity for his arch-nemesis Plankton to steal the Krabby Patty formula (Plankton is commemorating 50 years of failure and 1003 failed attempts to get the formula). Krabs has hired Patrick as a security guard, so that he does not have to pay for a real one. SpongeBob spectacularly decorates the Krusty Krab with ketchup, mustard and pink toilet paper. He then turns the Krabby Patties into balloons with an air pump, but then mentions that has one last decoration. Patrick, Squidward and Mr. Krabs follow SpongeBob into the freezer where he shows them a giant Krabby Patty ice sculpture which he made himself. However, in attempt to take the ice sculpture outside, they accidentally knock SpongeBob out the open freezer door; he then rebounds of the kitchen door and back into the freezer. The impact shuts the door and it locks, trapping all four friends inside. While finding their way through air shafts, they look back at some memorable moments in their lives, including the first Krabby Patty commercial in which Krabs, baby SpongeBob and his parents played (animated by Chip Wass), the time Mr. Krabs first conveyed the Krabby Patty formula to SpongeBob while they travelled around the world, the day SpongeBob moved to Bikini Bottom (Squidward had planted a miniature garden beside his house, when suddenly SpongeBob's pineapple house fell out of the sky, landed on top of Squidward and destroyed his garden), and also a time when SpongeBob and Sandy got married - which turned out to be a play without the priest knowing. (Technically meaning that they are actually married).
To get out of the air shaft, SpongeBob gathers Squidward, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs to bust out the shaft, but it takes a few tries, On his last try, he says to himself, OK, this is the one! Feel very good about this! OK, steady..., and he finally makes it out, only to find that all the customers have left after waiting for so long without getting any food. However, SpongeBob summons them all back as he sings a song in honour of the Krusty Krab, called "Oh, Krusty Krab" (similar to O Christmas Tree). Meanwhile, Plankton finally finds the perfect opportunity to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. He fails, having Mr. Krabs to launch him, but Plankton tells Krabs that he cannot take any more launches, having been launched countless by Krabs times in the past. So, Krabs instead inflates Plankton into a balloon and floats him up into the sky. The eleventy seventh anniversary celebration then goes ahead.[1][2]
Patchy is hosting a SpongeBob SquarePants show, starring several celebrities such as Pink, Queen Elizabeth II, Abraham Lincoln and SpongeBob himself. Patchy is looking forward to seeing SpongeBob in person (He still has not realized that SpongeBob is not real), but when SpongeBob does not show up, Patchy is furious and goes out to find him. Meanwhile, the celebrities are bored and ask Potty the Parrot for several things, but Potty just tells them to wait and goes back to his job. P!nk and her band then practice a song and Queen Elizabeth asks Potty how she can eat a pineapple if there is not a slicer or a knife to cut it open. Afterwards, Patchy sets sail in his boat and soon arrives at the island above Bikini Bottom. However, just as he nears the island, he is swallowed whole by a whale.
Patchy later shows the audience some clips of SpongeBob whilst in the belly of the whale, including different character versions of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song and an old SpongeBob episode in a 1930s cartoon format (also animated by Chip Wass), but the projector breaks down. The smoke from the projector causes the whale to sneeze Patchy out through its blowhole, and Patchy lands back in the studio. When he lands, Patchy falls unconscious and dreams that he is at SpongeBob's house. Delighted, he dances around a few times and then knocks on SpongeBob's door. SpongeBob answers the door and says hello, but Patchy cannot believe his own eyes and passes out again. He then wakes up in the studio, depressed that it was just a dream. However, Queen Elizabeth assures him that he can see SpongeBob anywhere and then Abraham Lincoln lifts up his top hat, revealing a toy SpongeBob that laughs. Upon seeing and hearing this, Patchy faints a third time.
Around March–April 2009, it was announced that a new TV movie would be made, entitled SpongeBob SquarePants: The Great Escape.[2][3][4] The movie is part of the promotional campaign for SpongeBob SquarePants' 10th anniversary, along with The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash marathon, Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants documentary, and a TV special entitled To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants.[5][6] Despite what the promos said, the Krabby Patty formula was not revealed in this episode and remains a secret.
In September 2009, a book was released, which is based on this movie: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Great Escape.[7][8] A video game was produced by THQ for the Wii, PlayStation Portable, and other video game retailers.[9]
On November 10, 2009, Truth or Square was released on DVD; the director's cut of the film was also included.
The premiere of SpongeBob's Truth or Square on Friday, November 6 drew 7.7 million total viewers, making it basic cable's number-one entertainment show for the week, while a rerun the following morning attracted 7.2 million viewers. It was also ranked as the week's number one program among children in the demographic groups ages 6–11 and 2-11.[2] It was also the channel's third most watched premiere of the year, behind the two iCarly specials iFight Shelby Marx and iQuit iCarly (7.9 and 8.8 million viewers respectively).
The movie was given a largely positive feedback by critics and fans, especially compared to other more recent episodes, which have been widely criticized as being inferior to the older episodes. The film is currently the best received "SpongeBob" TV movie to date. Truth or Square currently holds a 8.2 rating on TV.com based on 74 votes made by users.[10]
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