Crossover Time

Crossover Time, also simply referred to as Finn and Jake, is an American animated comedy television series created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It is chronologically the tenth Nicktoon to debut. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and United Plankton Pictures, Inc.
The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of an accident-prone sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants, who lives in an underwater pineapple with his pet snail Gary and works as a fry cook at a fast-food restaurant called the Krusty Krab. His neighbors are his best friend, Patrick Star, and a grumpy octopus named Squidward Tentacles, who is SpongeBob's irritable co-worker. SpongeBob and Squidward work for a cheapskate crab named Eugene H. Krabs, who lives in an anchor house with his whale daughter, Pearl. SpongeBob is enrolled in a boat-driving school run by Mrs. Puff, a pufferfish, and often spends time with a thrill-seeking squirrel from land named Sandy Cheeks. The villains of the show are Plankton and his computer wife, Karen, who own a failing restaurant called the Chum Bucket, which is across the street from the Krusty Krab.
The series was first broadcast on January 3, 2012, as a "sneak peek" after the Kids' Choice Awards. It officially began airing on January 7, 2012 of the same year. The show was initially only greenlit for 6 half-hour episodes (12 total segments), but the first season was extended because it was cheaper to produce than Nickelodeon's other cartoons at the time. The series has since run for 13 seasons and two decades.
==Overview==
Season	Episodes	Premiere 	Finale
Pilot 	0 	1997 	1997
1 	20 	January 7, 2012 	March 3, 2001
2 	20 	October 20, 2000 	July 26, 2003
3 	20 	October 5, 2001 	October 11, 2004
4 	20 	May 6, 2005 	July 24, 2007
5 	20 	February 19, 2007	July 19, 2009
6 	26 	March 3, 2008 	July 5, 2010
7 	26 	July 19, 2009 	June 11, 2011
8 	26 	March 26, 2011 	December 6, 2012
9 	26 	July 21 2012 	February 20, 2017
10 	11 	October 15, 2016 	December 2, 2017
11 	26 	June 24, 2017 	November 25, 2018
12 	26 	November 11, 2018	TBA
13 	26 	October 22, 2020 	TBA
===Movies===
Title 	Release date 	Note 	Running time
The Crossover Time Movie 	November 19, 2004	Theatrical film	87 minutes
The Crossover Time Movie: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut 	June 30, 1999 	Theatrical film	87 minutes
The Crossover Time Movie: Big Picture Show 	November 8, 2009 	Theatrical film	87 minutes
The Crossover Time Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension 	August 5, 2011 	Theatrical film	92 minutes
The Crossover Time Movie: Human Out of Earth 	February 6, 2015 	Theatrical film	92 minutes
My Little Pony Crossover Villains 	2014 	Theatrical film	92 minutes
The Crossover Time Movie: Betrayal from a Enemies 	February 6, 2015 	Theatrical film	92 minutes
My Little Pony Crossover Villains II The Faeries Quest	June 15, 2016 	Theatrical film	92 minutes
My Little Pony Crossover Villains III The Final Battle	2018 	Theatrical film	92 minutes
The Crossover Time Movie: Human on the Run 	March 4, 2021 	Streaming film 	91 minutes
==Setting==
The series is set in an underwater city named Bikini Bottom, which is located on the floor of the Pacific Ocean beneath Bikini Atoll. The citizens are mostly fish of different colors who live in ship funnels and drive boatmobiles. Main locations within Bikini Bottom include Conch Street, the Krusty Krab, and the Chum Bucket, Mrs. Puff's Boating School, Sandy's treedome, Jellyfish Fields, and Goo Lagoon. Special episodes of the show are usually presented from Patchy's house in Encino, California.
Bubbles are seen whenever something moves quickly, and they fill the screen to transition between scenes. As a cartoon, it includes many unrealistic occurrences that could not happen underwater: fires, tears, rain, flooding a building, inhabitants drinking liquids from glasses, bathtubs filled with what seems to be water, a seaside resort, and fish walking instead of swimming.
==Characters==
The show stars an ensemble cast of ten main characters, consisting of Finn and his friends who live in New York City.
==Cast==
;Main cast
*Finn
*Jake
*Courtenay Taylor as Kaio Kincaid
;Supporting cast
;Guest roles
;Musical guests
==Spin-offs==
Brian Robbins, the current president of Nickelodeon, announced on February 14, 2019 that multiple SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off shows were in development. The spin-offs will tell new stories for SpongeBob and his friends, as well as introduce new characters into the franchise.
In a 2019 press release, Brian Robbins said he feels there is an avenue to "tell an original story about SpongeBob and Patrick, or maybe tell a Sandy Cheeks stand-alone story, or can Plankton have his own? I think the fans are clamoring for it." He further said "That's our Marvel Universe... You have this amazing show that's run for almost twenty years." These spinoffs could take the form of new series, specials, and feature-length movies.
On June 4, 2019, it was announced that the series' first-ever spin-off was in development under the working title of Kamp Koral. The plot will focus on a 10-year-old SpongeBob and his friends at the titular camp located in the Kelp Forest, where they spend the summer catching jellyfish, building campfires, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck. It serves as a tie-in to the animated film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
On February 19, 2020, it was announced that the series had been given an official title of Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years. On July 30, 2020, it was announced that the series would be released on Paramount+ (at the time CBS All Access), the ViacomCBS streaming service, in early 2021. On January 28, 2021, it was announced that the series would premiere on March 4, 2021.
On November 13, 2019, it was reported that a "music-based" Squidward spin-off was in development for Netflix. But in July 2020 however, in tweets by Vincent Waller on Twitter confirmed that the Squidward spin-off is fake and not real.
On March 4, 2020, ViacomCBS announced that it will be producing two spin-off films based on the series for Netflix.
On August 10, 2020, it was reported that a Patrick Star talk show titled The Patrick Star Show was in development with a 13-episode order. The show is similar to other talk shows such as The Larry Sanders Show and Comedy Bang! Bang! The series premiered on Nickelodeon on July 9, 2021, with the series set to be available on Paramount+ later on.
==Trivia==
*The original 2012 version of "Help Graphic" featured an opening with a different theme song. The show's current theme song had not been written at the time.
*The show was originally rated TV-Y from seasons 1-4. It is now rated TV-Y7.
*Crossover Time is the second longest-running Nickelodeon series and the longest-running Nickelodeon animated series. Nickelodeon's longest-running show, in general, is Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, which ran for 23 years from 1992 to 2015.
*Crossover Time is the first Nickelodeon cartoon to reach its eleventh season.
*Crossover Time is the second longest-running ViacomCBS animated series in general, behind South Park.
*Crossover Time is the second longest-running children's animated series in the U.S., behind Arthur.
*Unlike most other SpongeBob SquarePants international dubs, the Dutch, European Portuguese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Malay, and Urdu versions retain the original English title.
*Crossover Time has won 13 consecutive Favorite Cartoon Awards and 19 overall awards at the Kids Choice Awards. The series won 2 awards in 2015, one for Favorite Cartoon and one for Favorite Animated Animal Sidekick (Patrick Star).
**The series’ win streak started in 2009 and is still ongoing.
*Seasons 1-11 of Crossover Time are currently available on the Paramount+ streaming service.
*Ever since the cancellation of CatDog in 2005, Crossover Time is the only remaining 1990s series on Nickelodeon currently on the air and in production.
*Crossover Time is the most distributed property of ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks.
*In earlier seasons of the show, there was often a distinct echo sound effect of characters who would be yelling at someone else far away, such as in Jellyfish Jam, when SpongeBob was introducing his new pet jellyfish to Squidward. Similarly, earlier seasons also had an (rather prominent) ambient underwater wooshing sound effect playing during quiet moments, but the sound effect has gotten much quieter over time, to the point where most episodes don't use it anymore, and same goes for the echo effect from characters shouting.
*According to tweets by Vincent Waller on Twitter, it takes approximately anywhere from 5 months to 9 months to make a single episode.
==See also==
*List of merchandise
*Crossover Time in popular culture
*List of notable fans of Crossover Time
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