The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

***The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie*** is an 2021 American 90-hour long horror television film written by Sean Bishop and directed by Gary Trousdale. A horror slasher film based on the Nickelodeon's animated children's television series, *SpongeBob SquarePants*, the film follows a family attending a live taping of the aforementioned show and trying to survive when the titular characters go haywire upon learning of their show's cancellation, starting a killing spree around the studio. The film will be aired on October 9, 2021 on Comedy Central for the Halloween event.

## Poster

The main poster shows SpongeBob with with his right eye missing, black scars on his face and holding a bloody axe, Mr. Krabs with his right eye missing and his robotic right arm exposed, Squidward with black eyes, red pupils and remaining unchanged, and Patrick with red eyes, his hands covered in blood and holding a bloody hammer.

*A gory sponge on the run* - Tangline

## Summary

An 8 years old boy named Billy and hisr family go to Nickelodeon Studios to see the live taping of SpongeBob SquarePants, unaware that the robotic characters have learned that their show is gona be cancelled, and they don't want to let that happen. As the body count rises, Billy, his family and his friends must escape from SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends or to be doomed to get die.

## Plot

Billy Johnson is a huge fan of *SpongeBob SquarePants*, a successful Nickelodeon's animated television series featuring the four main animatronic characters — SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, Patrick and Squidward — along with their human co-star named Jason, who dress as the villain of the show, Plankton. On his 8th birthday, Billy's mother Lily and his father Ryan take him to Nickelodeon Studios with his brother Jonathan and his school classmate Sucy. Upon arrival, the family meet several audience and staff members like the show's hostess Sam and her assistant John, the fan couple Tyler and Monny, the aspiring young performer Miranda with her father Bruno and the studio's security guard.

As the taping band is getting ready, the studio's new vice president of programming named Carlton, informs the show's producer, Lucy that he will cancel the series after the recording. After learning this, the SpongeBob SquarePants animatronics' new software updates malfuction with Mr. Krabs and Squidward kidnapping Carlton and Patrick thrusting a prop lollipop down Jason's throat, killing him. Outside the studio, Lily learns that Ryan is cheating on her. As she returns to the studio, Ryan finds the security guard's decapitated corpse and is then got chased and run over by Squidward. Meanwhile at the magic show area, Monny accepts Tyler's marriage proposal while blogging the backstage before SpongeBob arrives and murders Tyler by sawing him in half. SpongeBob leaves Monny when he hears Billy and Sucy looking for Squidward, taking them to the studio's workshop. He traps them with Miranda, who got kidnapped by Mr. Krabs while Bruno's face was burning by Patrick when they were looking for Carlton for an audition. The remaining survivors learn about the animatronics' carnage after finding a seriously injured Bruno. While Sam finds all phones disconnected and the confiscated cells destroyed, Lily manages to defeat Mr. Krabs before she and Jonathan find Monny, convincing her to join them.

At the same time, Bruno and Lucy are forced to participate in the show's obstacle course game by the animatronics with Bruno stabbed to death by SpongeBob with a blue key while Lucy wins before Patrick smashes her face with a hammer. Billy, Sucy and Miranda meet the animatronics' creator named Stephen Hillenburg, who considers his creations' actions justified by the show's cancellation and conflicts over freeing the children. Patrick brings Mr. Krabs for repair, causing Stephen Hillenburg to get distracted enough for the kids to escape and lock him in his own cell. While looking for a way out, the four kds come across Squidward and convince him. Back with Lily, Jonathan, Sam and Monny arrive at the workshop to ask Stephen Hillenburg how to stop the animatronic sea creatures; he does not provide any information, but the group hear music coming from a hatch in the floor. The others go down while Monny notices the endoskeleton and its costume of an unused character was a bush cricket torch key raccoon named "Sandy Cheeks". Losing her sanity, she puts on parts of the endoskeleton's costume and kills Stephen Hillenburg as her revenge for Tyler's death. Finding the underground passage littered with the corpses of John, the studio's staff and the adult members, the survivor group discover SpongeBob and Patrick holding the children hostage while performing the gruesome bloody variants of their acts, like burning Jason's corpse and brutally murdering Carlton by ripping his limbs off.

Squidward arrives and chains Billy, Sucy and Miranda with the other kids, but secretly Squidward gives Billy the keys to free them. Lily and Jonathan manage to destroy SpongeBob and Patrick while Miranda guides all the kids to the exit. The Johnson family meet up with Sam and Sucy before they being cornered by Mr. Krabs. Squidward then attacks him by removing his wires from his neck before deactivating himself from the critical damage sustained. Back outside as the police and paramedics arrived to attend the survivors, Billy sees Jonathan and Sam start a romantic relationship while Lily divorces a heavily injured Ryan. Left behind, Ryan gets run over again, but this time being killed by Monny with the animatronics' remains in the back of the truck and Sandy's endoskeleton in the front next to her. As she drive off, SpongeBob is seen reactivating himself and then he laughing maniacally. During the credits, clips of SpongeBob SquarePants performing are shown followed by a gray rat passing by the two severed fingers.

## Tropes

Token good teammate: Squidward, he even fights Mr. Krabs in the final battle.

Dark reprise: A slowed down version of “SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song” plays when SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends do their kills.

## Trailer

(It starts with the SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song)

Billy: (Watching SpongeBob SquarePants while dancing to the music)

(Billy blows out his candles on the birthday cake)

Lily: Happy birthday swethart! We....

Ryan: Are going to.... SpongeBob SquarePants!

Billy: (Gasps for joy)

(It cuts to Nickelodeon Studios at night)

Security guard: Sometimes at night... I see SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends riding around in their krabby patty cars. Laughing and singing.

Sam: Who's excited to see SpongeBob SquarePants ans his friends?

(The audience cheers as Patrick and Mr. Krabs spin a wheel)

Audience: ROCK OUT! ROCK OUT! ROCK OUT!

(It cuts to Carlton telling Lucy that he is cancelling the show)

Carlton: Lucy, I'm cancelling the show.

Lucy: What?!

(SpongeBob then ominously shows up)

Patrick: Hey kids, put on your hap-happiests faces, because the SpongeBob SquarePant show is about to begin.

(A creepy version of the SpongeBob SquarePànts theme song plays)

Lily: Where are the children?

Jonathan: Mom, get out of here!

(Billy looks at Squidward and holds his hand)

Mr. Krabs: Time's almost up!

(Patrick swings a hammer)

Ryan: Why are you doing this to me?!

(It cuts to SpongeBob locking a magic box)

Monny: Tyler please!

Tyler: Let me out!

(SpongeBob cuts the magic box in 2 with a saw)

Patrick: Now the show can go on forever, ever and ever!

Lily: Come on you fucking son of a beach.

(The screen cuts to black and shows Squidward walking with Billy)

Lily: I just want your brother's birthday to be perfect.

(It shows Carlton screaming, dead bodies, SpongeBob and Patrick ganging up on Lily and Patrick holding his hammer. It shows the main title in the black background)

Narrator: Rated R.

SpongeBob: We're going have so much fun! \*Laughs\*