Thread by @KoopaTroopa82, SPONGEBOB FACT: "...Stephen Hillenburg himself said he didn't see any potential spin-off [...]

SPONGEBOB FACT: "...Stephen Hillenburg himself said he didn't see any potential spin-off series for SpongeBob before he passed away, which had been misconstrued as him hating the idea." -Encyclopedia SpongeBobia

He made Kamp Koral as a 3rd movie concept. http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2019/11/ramsey-naito-reveals-kamp-koral-was.html https://twitter.com/spongbob_facts/status/1292929082745733120

"Steve would always say to me, 'You know, one of these days, they’re going to want to make SpongeBob Babies. That's when I'm out of here.'" -Paul Tibbitt Interview with Longreads
This is more referring to the fact that unlike Nick, he didn't want SpongeBob as a young kid going...

...to school and living with his parents to be the main focus. A nerd going to boating school was their compromise, with his parents as background characters.

The thing about SpongeBob Babies didn't rule out an origin story about summer camp, nor did it rule out other spinoffs.

While Hillenburg made Kamp Koral for Movie 3, he may not have seen potential in making it a full series, and may not have considered it or other spinoffs for series. However, Nickelodeon saw an opportunity to explore Stephen's idea and continue his legacy that way after his death

Basically, he wasn't completely against spinoffs, he was just against the ones that he saw as tarnishing SpongeBob's name with capitalism (ie "SpongeBob Babies"). Think of these new spinoffs as Nickelodeon expanding on Hillenburg's series as much as they can, within reason.

He also never really mentioned them much. He never said he hated spinoffs. Have you ever considered official SpongeBob YouTube series or shorts as spinoffs? Probably not, but that's what they are (take that SpongeBob game show or the puppet series, for example).

Another thing; my mom always used a show named "Patrick" as an example of a spinoff from SpongeBob when I asked what a spin-off was back in the Flipnote Hatena days.

Think of The Patrick Star Show as a SpongeBob side story. If you don't like it, it won't affect the main show and you don't have to watch it. It's a new experience for SpongeBob fans. I like the idea of this new series, especially after seeing The Patrick Sitcom Show on YouTube.

(About "SB Babies" Hillenburg was thinking that if SpongeBob has to be a kid, it has to be a spinoff, and it can't be something dumb like him being a talking baby or a grade schooler, ie Muppet Babies. Speaking of which, he was likely showing how that show was 100% capitalism)

Think about how you never see SpongeBob's childhood home life or school life in the series, but you DO see his childhood antics with Patrick. Occasionally, you do see Patrick at school, like in "Sing a Song of Patrick".

Even if you are hard on getting the definitive truth about SpongeBob facts, at the end of the day, it's fiction. Things can be changed and retconned. This doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things until someone's wishes are destroyed, but that simply isn't happening right now.

I really don't think that canon (aside from key, core factors in the show's plot) really matter unless the show relies on it and is serialized and plot-driven with a narrative rather than something like slice of life.

I'd like to close this by saying that the SpongeBob "canon" is screwy, so spinoffs like this don't matter anyway. I have proven the popular SpongeBob Facts wrong, even if they are infamous for proving SpongeBob's Twitter wrong. Forget "facts" of this show, they're always changing

Uh, thanks for sticking through with me in this long thread. Just wanted to get the truth of the words of the people behind SpongeBob out there. The whole TL;DR of this thread boils down to "Hillenburg hated Kid SpongeBob, but only in the contexts where it's handled wrongly."

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