While the outbreak hasn't found its way into SpongeBob's fictional world, the character himself, long a favorite topic of meme-makers, is again showing up in plenty of memes about the virus. (Neither the new SpongeBob season nor Kamp Koral have premiere dates yet.)Ĭartoons just translate globally to all cultures better than most pop culture. In addition to recording for Rick and Morty - he's voiced everyone from the cat-like Squanchy to the uber-creepy King Jellybean - and other projects, he's working on regular SpongeBob SquarePants episodes as well as the show's upcoming new Nickelodeon spinoff, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years. Kenny himself is staying busy in his "pineapple under the sea in Studio City (California)," he said. (He sounds a bit like Breaking Bad and Malcolm in the Middle star Bryan Cranston, actually.) "You can make it in a different way but the end product still looks and tastes and smells the same way it ever did.
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"Cartoons are this kinda comfort-food product," Kenny said, in a friendly, professional voice you'd never connect to SpongeBob's bubbly, perky tones. Dobrik grew up with the character, and Kenny dubs him a "SpongeBob kid." YouTuber David Dobrik joins the SpongeBob cast for the fan favorites special. The cast recorded from their homes, as opposed to joining together in one studio as they usually do. The actor hopes the fan-favorites special provides some laughs in these strange times. "Some of (the scenes) are 20 years old, so those mental files were dumped long ago by the cast," he said. Kenny said the re-created scenes felt fresh to the voice actors, even though they've done them before. Fans were allowed to vote on a small selection of scenes at, with the top vote-getters being used in the special. YouTube personality David Dobrik hosts the half-hour show, which features animation from original SpongeBob Square Pants episodes, with the regular voice cast redoing the same lines they delivered years ago. (Editors' note: Nickelodeon is a part of ViacomCBS, which also owns CNET.) Kenny has voiced SpongeBob since the Nickelodeon animated show's 1999 premiere, and he'll voice SpongeBob in a new program, The Stars of SpongeBob Fan Favorites Special, airing Friday on Nickelodeon. Krabs would rather just hang out with his cash register and count his money in the back room than do anything else, so yeah, I think that they're probably doing better than SpongeBob." Sandy is the only mammal for 20,000 leagues around, so she's used to kinda being a lone wolf - or a lone squirrel. "Squidward is a social distancer just by his personality," Kenny said of SpongeBob's morose co-worker.