![]() Production Development, writing, and voice casting ![]() Santa puts Patchy on the naughty list for stealing the mail truck, with he and Potty wishing the audience a Merry Christmas. Patchy realizes that he was hallucinating and in reality encountered a polar bear, which starts chasing him. He then sees Santa with gifts in a cave and tells him his Christmas wish is to meet SpongeBob. Plankton loses the formula and is given coal by Santa's Elves.Īs Patchy is about to give up searching for Santa, he suddenly finds what he believes to be Santa's workshop. Santa thanks SpongeBob, and is enraged when he realizes that Plankton was behind the chaos. SpongeBob fights and destroys the robot with the fruitcake dispenser, and saves Santa. The SpongeBob robot then arrives to eliminate Santa and destroy more of Christmas. Santa grants Plankton the formula, and tells SpongeBob that he is the worst of them all for wreaking havoc in Bikini Bottom. ![]() Unfortunately, it is too late as Santa Claus arrives and states that everyone including SpongeBob is on his naughty list, except Plankton, who is the only nice person in town. SpongeBob begins singing, bringing back the residents' Christmas spirit. SpongeBob and Sandy Cheeks discover the antidote for jerktonium, and it happens to be a song. The next day, SpongeBob begins to notice that everyone is acting like jerks. Plankton then sends out an evil wind-up robot SpongeBob to commit troublesome deeds and frame the real SpongeBob. Upset that his plan seemingly failed, Plankton gives his fruitcake dispenser to SpongeBob, who promptly distributes the fruitcakes to all of Bikini Bottom and turns all the residents into jerks. To test it, Plankton lets SpongeBob taste a fruitcake, but learns he is immune to jerktonium. He bakes the jerktonium into fruitcakes he intends to spread around the town. However, he discovers jerktonium, an element that can turn anyone nice into a jerk, and plots a scheme. During Christmas season in Bikini Bottom, Plankton becomes angry that his evil acts have landed him on Santa Claus' naughty list, and he won't receive his Christmas wish-the Krabby Patty secret formula. While arguing about the directions to the North Pole, Potty sees a fork in the road and crashes. In the opening wraparound of the special, Patchy the Pirate and Potty the Parrot are driving in a mail truck which the former had stolen. It was also nominated for Best Sound Editing in Television at the 60th Golden Reel Awards. It received four nominations at the 40th Annie Awards including Best Animated Television Production for Children (with Dan Driscoll winning the Character Animation in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production category). Upon premiere, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" attracted nearly five million viewers and met positive critical reception. On November 6, 2012, the soundtrack album and the DVD for the episode were released simultaneously. John Goodman guest starred as the voice of Santa Claus. Lawrence, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" was based on Tom Kenny and Andy Paley's 2009 song "Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)", which was also featured in the episode. Written by Luke Brookshier, Marc Ceccarelli, Derek Iversen, and Mr. The animation style was inspired by those of the classic Rankin/Bass television specials. The episode was produced in stop motion animation at Screen Novelties, and was directed by Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh, two of the founders of the company. In the special, Plankton tries to convince SpongeBob to transform everybody in Bikini Bottom into jerks by feeding them his special jerktonium-laced fruitcakes in order to get his Christmas wish-the Krabby Patty secret formula. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on November 23, 2012, and on Nickelodeon on December 6. " It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" is the 23rd episode of the eighth season, and the 175th episode overall, of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. ![]() "Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go!" " Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)" by Tom Kenny and Andy Paley Promotional artwork for the episode depicting SpongeBob's friends singing a Christmas carol.
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