On Monday January 3, 2011, Nickelodeon ordered 26 episodes for a ninth season, which was confirmed to begin airing in 2012. This season consists of episodes 179-204, and marks the 200-episode milestone. The season premiered with the episodes "Extreme Spots" and "Squirrel Record" on July 21, 2012, and ended on February 20, 2017 with the episode "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?", making it the longest-running season of SpongeBob SquarePants to date; between the episodes "SpongeBob You're Fired" and "Lost in Bikini Bottom", production of this season went on hiatus to finish production of "". Starting from this season, episodes are now in HD widescreen. The DVD for this season was released on October 10, 2017 in region one.
Season 10 was officially announced on May 21, 2012. This season was scheduled to premiere in 2014, but got delayed due to the production of "". The season premiered with the episode "Whirly Brains" on October 15, 2016, and ended on December 2, 2017 with the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge". It is the shortest season of the series, having only 11 half-hours instead of 26; Vincent Waller said on his Twitter that this was due to accounting and contractual issues. The DVD for this season was released in region one on October 15, 2019, exactly three years after the season first premiered.
Season 11 was announced on February 16, 2016; it premiered on June 24, 2017 with the episodes "Spot Returns" and "The Check-Up", and ended on November 25, 2018 with the episode "Goons on the Moon". The DVD for this season was released in region one on March 31, 2020.
Season 12 was announced on May 5, 2017, and premiered on November 11, 2018 with the episode "FarmerBob". This is the last season show creator Stephen Hillenburg was involved in before his death on November 26, 2018. The DVD for this season was released in Region 1 on January 12, 2021, before several episodes will air in the US; however, "Kwarantined Krab" is not on the DVD, due to the episode being too unintentionally similar to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; this makes it the second season DVD to exclude an episode, after The Complete 1st Season which excluded "Help Wanted".
Season 13 was announced on July 17, 2019, and will contain 13 half-hours. It premiered on October 22, 2020 with the episodes "A Place for Pets" and "Lockdown for Love". This is the first season to be produced after show creator Stephen Hillenburg's death.
The following shorts have been formatted as regular episodes, but have not been released in continuity with the rest of the series.
Sarstoon River
Sarstoon River is a river in the Toledo District of Belize. It makes the country's southern border with Guatemala.
The river's sources are in Guatemala. There it is called by its Spanish name, Río Sarstún. It flows through the Guatemalan departments of Alta Verapaz and Izabal. Then it goes into Belize and through Toledo to the Caribbean Sea.
Channing Tatum
Channing Matthew Tatum (born on April 26, 1980 in Cullman, Alabama) is an American movie producer and actor. He is a main actor in the movies "Coach Carter", "Dear John", "21 Jump Street", its sequel "22 Jump Street", "White House Down", "The Lego Movie", "Foxcatcher", "The Hateful Eight", and in "Hail, Caesar!".
In 2006, Tatum met actress Jenna Dewan. They became engaged in 2008. They married on July 11, 2009. Their daughter was born in 2013.
Michael Hutchence
Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 - 22 November 1997) was an Australian recording artist and actor. He was best known as being one of the founding members and lead singer of the rock band INXS.
Hutchence was also the lead singer for the band Max Q and acted in the movies "Frankenstein Unbound" and "Dogs in Space".
In 1992, Hutchence was punched by a taxi driver in Copenhagen, knocking him to the ground. This caused Hutchence brain damage and depression.
In July 1996, Paula Yates gave birth to their daughter.
Hutchence was found dead by a hotel maid in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney on 22 November 1997. He committed suicide by hanging himself with his snake skin belt. Hutchence had been a drug user and was using drugs just before his death.
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), better known as Michael Bolton, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter. He has eight Top 10 records and received Grammy Awards as well as the American Music Awards. He began singing in hard rock, though he later went to the soft rock styles starting in the late 1980s and has stayed there since. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut
Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952 near Philadelphia) is a movie actress and director who was featured in many television programs in the 1980s and 1990s. She also directed them, and directed many movies.
Audrina Patridge
Audrina Patridge (born 9 May 1985) is an American television personality and actress. She acted in several motion pictures. She is especially notable for being among the four original members of the MTV reality show "The Hills".
The Waltons
The Waltons (September 14 1972-June 4 1981) was an American television show. It was about a family in rural Virginia between the Great Depression and 1946. The series was distributed by Lorimar and syndicated via Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. Six television movies followed this: three in 1982, and another three in the 1990s. The series lasted almost nine years.
John Playfair
John Playfair FRSE, FRS (10 March 1748 – 20 July 1819) was a Scottish scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
He is perhaps best known for his book "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth" (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism first reached a wide audience. The idea was later taken up by Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Playfair is also remembered for his proposal of an alternative to Euclid's parallel postulate.
Ryan Tannehill
Ryan Timothy Tannehill is an American quarterback who plays for the NFL's Miami Dolphins.
Tannehill played for Texas A&M during his college career, after graduating from Texas' Big Spring High School.
During the 2012 NFL Draft, Tannehill was picked 8th by the Miami Dolphins. He was the first quarterback picked by the Dolphins in the first round of any NFL Draft since Dan Marino. On July 28, 2012, Tannehill signed his rookie contract, a 4-year deal worth $12.688 million. Tannehill started his first pro career game. He played poorly, throwing 0 touchdowns and 3 interceptions against the Houston Texans. Even though he had a poor first game, Tannehill showed signs of growth throughout his rookie season. Despite playing better as the season progressed, his play was still thought to be overall mediocre, as it was overshadowed by the play of other rookie quarterbacks, such as Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, and Russell Wilson.
Orivesi
Orivesi is a town and municipality in Finland. It is in Pirkanmaa. The municipality was founded in 1865. It has been classed as a town since 1986.
Nearby municipalities include Juupajoki, Jämsä, Kangasala, Kuhmoinen, Ruovesi and Tampere.
There were more than 9,600 people in Orivesi (as of January, 2014). The name "Orivesi" means "stallion water".
Messier 100
Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is an example of a so-called 'grand design' spiral galaxy. It is visible in the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices. Messier 100 is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo cluster, about 55 million light-years away, with a diameter of 160,000 light years. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. Later it was entered in Messier’s catalogue of nebulae and star clusters after Charles Messier made observations of his own a month later. The galaxy was one of the first spirals discovered, and was listed as one of 14 spiral nebulae by the Earl of Rosse in 1850.