The first season of the American animated television sitcom SpongeBob SquarePants, created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, was broadcast from May 1, 1999 to April 8, 2000, and consists of 20 episodes. The series tells the exploits and adventures of the title character and various friends in the fictitious underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The show features the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. Among the first guest stars to appear on the show were Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway who voiced the superhero characters of the Mermaid and Barnacle Boy, respectively.
Hillenburg initially conceived the show in 1984 and began working on it shortly after the cancellation of Rocko Modern Life in 1996. To voice the SpongeBob character Hillenburg approached Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on Modern Life Rocko . This event was originally called SpongeBoy Ahoy! , but the name SpongeBoy is already used for mop products. Upon finding it, Hillenburg decided to use the name "SpongeBob". He chose "SquarePants" as his surname because it refers to the square shape of the character and has a "nice ring to it".
Some DVD compilations containing episodes of the season are released. The SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season DVD was released in Region 1 on October 28, 2003, Region 2 on November 7, 2005, and Region 4 on November 30, 2006. The premiere episode, "Help Sought", excludes on DVD due to copyright issues with the song "Living in the Sunlight" by Tiny Tim, which appeared in the episode, but was later released as a bonus feature on various DVD series, including the third of the season. This season received positive reviews from media critics after it was released.
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Development
The creator of Stephen Hillenburg originally contained SpongeBob SquarePants in 1984, when he taught and studied marine biology in what is now the Orange County Ocean Institute. During this period, Hillenburg became fascinated with animation, and wrote a comic book called The Intertidal Zone, which starred in various forms of anthropomorphic marine life, many of which would evolve into SpongeBob SquarePants. characters, including "Bob the Sponge", which is a co-hosted comic and resembles a real sea sponge, as opposed to SpongeBob, which resembles a kitchen sponge. In 1987, Hillenburg left the institute to pursue his dream of becoming an animator, and began to envision a project concept that might involve anthropomorphic marine life. He then began to draw some rough sketches. In 1992, Hillenburg began attending the California Institute of Art to study animation, having been received at the institute by Jules Engel, who was impressed with Hillenburg's earlier work.
While attending an animation school, Hillenburg received a job in the children's television series Mother Goose and Grimm, and worked on the series from 1991 to 1993. While at the California Institute of Art, he made a thesis film titled Wormholes , funded by the Princess Grace Foundation and later featured in various animated festivals. In 1995, Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, met Hillenburg at an animated festival, and offered him a job as director of the series.
Rocko Modern Life ended in 1996. Shortly after this, Hillenburg began working on SpongeBob SquarePants , in collaboration with several veteran Nickelodeon and Rocko crew members , including creative director Derek Drymon, writer and director Sherm Cohen and Dan Povenmire, author Tim Hill, actor and writer Martin Olson, animation director Alan Smart, and story editor Merriwether Williams. To voice the character SpongeBob, Hillenburg approached Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on Rocko's Modern Life. Initially the character is named SpongeBoy and the show will be called SpongeBoy Ahoy! . However, the legal department of Nickelodeon found that the name SpongeBoy has been used for mop products. It was discovered after a voice acting for the original seven-minute pilot was recorded in 1997. Upon learning of this, Hillenburg decided that the name of the given character still had to contain "Sponge" so the viewer would not mistake the character for "Cheese Man". Hillenburg decided to use the name "SpongeBob". He chose "SquarePants" as his surname because it refers to the square shape of the character and has a "nice ring to it".
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Production
Cast
The first season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBob's friend, starfish named Patrick Star, is voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, while Rodger Bumpass plays the sound of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and grumpy octopus. Other members of the cast are Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, a donkey who is obsessed with money and SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab; Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepoda and Mr. Krabs's business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, a computer companion of Plankton; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, the SpongeBob boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs, the teenage whale who is the daughter of Mr. Krabs.
While Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, and Tim Hill are writing the pilot "Help Wanted", Hillenburg also auditioned to find a voice for the character of the show. He has created a SpongeBob character with Tom Kenny, where he utilizes Kenny's personality and others to help create SpongeBob's personality. SpongeBob's voice was originally used by Kenny for a small female crocodile character named Al in Rocko's Modern Life . Kenny forgot his initial voice as he created it only for that single use. However, Hillenburg remembers when she came up with SpongeBob and used an episode video clip to remind Kenny of the sound. Kenny said that SpongeBob's high-pitched laughter was specifically aimed at being unique, stating that they wanted an annoying laugh in the traditions of Popeye and Woody Woodpecker. Hillenburg originally had Mr. Lawrence for the role of voicing Squidward. Drymon said "We know Doug from Rocko , where he is a storyboard director and where he also does Filburt sounds." We show Doug storyboards, and he starts reading back to us at his Tony Tiger Voice/Gregory Peck.That's very funny, and we ended up using SpongeBob with a deep voice when he entered the Krusty Krab for the first time. "Hillenburg liked the sound and decided to let Lawrence play incidental characters, including Plankton.
In addition to regular cast members, the episodes feature guest voices from various ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. Former McHale's Navy actors Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway reunited for their first joint TV project in 33 years as guest actors depicting SpongeBob's favorite superheroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively. Borgnine said, "We [he and Conway] are playing with each other.The team is like a player - a bit more spicy than me.We make all sorts of noise.The guys outside the room are laughing out loud We should be under water, You know." They will re-show their part in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II", which also starred Charles Nelson Reilly as their bitter enemy, the Dirty Bubble. In the episode "Scaredy Pants", a special band Halloween, America, The Ghastly Ones features special musical performances, while Brian Doyle-Murray voices the Flying Dutchman. American guitarist and country singer, Junior Brown, made a cameo vocal, performing the song "Texas" in the episode of the same name. In "Spatula Neptune", John O'Hurley appears as King of Neptune. John Lurie and Jim Jarmusch (who collaborated to make the film Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law) made a cameo as themselves in the episode "Hooky", through a quote from Serial Bravo , Fishing with John.
Write
Before starting production at the show, Hillenburg decided early that he wanted SpongeBob SquarePants to be a storyboard-driven show, instead of script-driven. Storyboard-driven is an approach that requires artists who can take the outline of the framework and refine it with jokes, dialogues, and structures that "will balance between narration and imagination." Hillenburg initially wanted a "young and hungry team" to work on the show. The group, which worked with Hillenburg on Rocko's Modern Life, consisted of Alan Smart, Nick Jennings, and Derek Drymon. Tim Hill was asked about whether he wanted to work as a story editor, but he was not available at the time. The crew made Peter Burns work as a story editor who developed the idea for a "Ripped Pants" episode about SpongeBob who tore his pants.
During the first season, writing staff use most of the story ideas that exist in the Hillenburg Bible series and they have problems on how to generate new ideas. At one point, the writing staff went to the beach to seek inspiration for possible episodes. However, the day was "cloudy and cold, so we [the authors] had to stay in the car." Drymon said, "We did not think of too many ideas that day." Story editor Peter Burns left, and the crew had Merriwether Williams overtaking. Hillenburg told Williams that "it is his responsibility to make us [the writers] come up with new ideas." Drymon says "[This] is a high command." Williams gave Drymon a book titled Zen in the Art of Writing , written by Ray Bradbury, who cataloged the essay collection of the writing process. One of the ways in the book to inspire the plot is "to write the interesting noun [Bradbury] on the note card and hang it in his office, he feels having only a word in his vision will make his mind work." Williams took this scheme and made it a "writing exercise." In a written meeting, the staff will name 10 nouns on a paper strip and place it in a hat. The hat will be skipped and a writer will have limited time to spawn ideas based on the noun he wrote. Drymon said, "Almost always started the discussion, and we ended up getting lots of episodes out of it." Furthermore, Drymon said that Williams "really came up with a great addition to the process."
Once, Hillenburg came to Williams and said, "Why do not you go read many books about writing." Hillenburg wants to keep his enthusiasm in the writing room, because, according to Williams, "sometimes it can be hard work." He left, read more books about writing, and came up with two more exercises to write the meeting.
Animation and design
The animation was handled abroad in South Korea at Rough Draught Studios. Throughout the running season, from 1999 to 2000, SpongeBob was animated using cel animation. The show shifted to digital ink and painted animations during the second season in 2000. Executive producer Paul Tibbitt, in 2009, said "[...] The first season SpongeBob was done the old-fashioned way on the cell, and every cells are to be painted part, left to dry, paint some other colors.This is still a time-consuming aspect of the present process, but the digital way of doing things means it does not take long to improve. "The season is storyboard and by Sherm Cohen, Derek Drymon, Steve Fonti, Stephen Hillenburg, Chuck Klein, Jay Lender, Chris Mitchell, Mark O'Hare, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan, Vincent Waller, and Erik Wiese.
When the crew started production on the pilot, they were assigned to design a stock location where "[...] the show will come back again and again, and where most of the action will occur, such as Krusty Krab and SpongeBob pineapple house." Hillenburg has " clear "about what he wants from the show. The idea is "to keep everything nautical" so the crew uses lots of ropes, wooden boards, ship wheels, nets, anchors, and boilers and rivets.
The season marked the introduction of "celestial flowers" as the main background. It first appeared on the pilot and has since become a common feature throughout the series. When the background designer Kenny Pittenger's series was asked "What is it?", He replied "They function as a cloud by the way, but because the show goes underwater, they're not really clouds." Because the show is influenced by the tiki, the background painters have to use many patterns. Pittenger says, "So in fact, the sky's flower is largely a strange design element that Steve (Hillenburg) makes to evoke the look of a floral Hawaiian shirt-or something like that." I also do not know what it is. "
Reception
This season is recognized critically. Three of his episodes won Best Sound Editing on Television Animation at the 2000 Golden Reel Awards. It consists of episodes of "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" and "Pickles" for Music, while "Karate Choppers" wins for Sound. In 2001, "Rock Bottom" and "Arrgh!" also won the Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing on Animation - Sound Television, while "Fools in April" and "Neptune's Spatula" were nominated for Best Sound Editing on Animation - Music Television.
In his review for Variety , Noel Holston said "[The show] is smarter and weird than most of the prime-time animated series that appeared in the last year." In addition, most of the first season's DVD reviews were positive to the series as one of America's best comedy shows. In a DVD review by Bill Treadway for Verdict DVDs, he called the show "the best American animated comedy ever since The Simpsons , that is my claim standing behind." Treadway said the show was "accessible to everyone" that "adults will enjoy the cute bantering and crafty jokes put into each episode." He also mentioned that "children will love bright colors, spunky speed, and living characters" and that "parents do not have to worry about brute force or humor." Jason Bovberg of DVD Talk called SpongeBob SquarePants "the coolest Saturday morning cartoon ever since the heyday of Warner Bros." In a separate review for the DVD release this season, Bovberg "strongly recommends" the set and writes "I really like the show, I can not see how to give this recommendation." Bovberg specifically on the exclusion of the pilot episode "Help Wanted", says "But why is 'Help Wanted' missing? I guess I should buy" theme "disk on the road to secure that one. Furthermore, he described it as "the only disappointment of the set." Ron J. Epstein, also of DVD Talk, said that the SpongeBob character is "one of the weirdest cartoon characters I ever had to watch." He said that "Unlike most cartoons today, SpongeBob SquarePants serves both children and adults."
In his review for The Washington Post, Michael Cavna renamed the pilot episode "Help Wanted" in 2009 and said "so many styles and polishes are already there." He ranked episodes at No. 3 in the Top Five list SpongeBob Episodes: We Pick 'Em . Nancy Basile from About.com says "[The] humor and SpongeBob's optimistic essence is evident even in this first episode."
Episode
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- The episodes listed in the following charts are arranged according to their order of production, not by their original air dates.
DVD release
The DVD box for season one was released by Paramount Home Entertainment and Nickelodeon in the United States and Canada in October 2003, three years after it was aired on television. This DVD release features bonus material including audio commentary, featurettes, and music videos. The premiere episode of "Help Wanted" was released in a DVD release due to copyright issues. According to Derek Drymon, the episode was not included because Nickelodeon did not want to pay Tiny Tim's estate for DVD rights. However, on the German release of a one-season DVD, the episode "Help Wanted" is actually included. "Help Wanted" was later released on SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 3rd Season DVD as a bonus feature on September 27, 2005. It was also released at SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes DVD , in addition to all season episodes one through five. The DVD includes a featurette called "Help Wanted" Seven Seas Edition that displays "Help Wanted" in multiple languages. This episode is also a bonus feature in the DVD series called SpongeBob SquarePants: 10 Happiest Moments released on September 14, 2010. Upon release, the DVD set quickly sold out at Best Buy and sold "fast" at retailers online, including Amazon.com, Barnes & amp; Noble and Walmart. In 2012, DVDs are released in thin packaging.
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References
Bibliografi
- Banks, Steven (24 September 2004). SpongeBob Terkena! Panduan Insider untuk SpongeBob SquarePants . Schigiel, Gregg (Ilustrator). Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. ISBNÂ 978-0-689-86870-2 Â
- Neuwirth, Allan (2003). Makin 'Toons: Di dalam Acara TV dan Film Animasi Paling Populer . Allworth Communications, Inc. hal 50, 252-253. ISBNÂ 1-58115-269-8
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