You may be an open book SpongeBob, but I'm a bit more complicated than that. The inner mechanitions of my mind are an enigma, and I can't tell you talk about feeling joy when you are studying the storyboard. I came upon that moment and what you got to do this? Hi, friends, welcome to SpongeBob binge Pants, Nickelodeon's official podcast about all things SpongeBob. I'm Hector Navarro and I'm Frankie Grandang. You heard part one. Hector and I are here again and we're gonna guide you through as you hear the rest of that unbelievable interview with the one and only Patrick Starr. Let's do it. Here we go Bill again, to go back in time a little bit. You guys are recording the first see see you get a season two, season three, then a movie. Did you ever think, as one of the actors on the show, like, there's no way that this eleven minute, silly episodic show that doesn't really have a continuity to it could carry a full length movie. There's no way. I mean, what was your reaction to learning that you guys are going to do that? And what was it like making that first movie. Yeah, that's challenging. I was just so happy that we got to keep doing the show. They weren't sure there after three seasons with cable children's animation, there's this kind of this routine of three seasons and we're done. It actually took a lot of commitment from Nickelodeon to keep going with it. Oddly enough, I mean me, coming from the camera world, I'm going, what of course, it's like this where the New Yorker was talking about. It was just becoming so exciting. And I'd go and pick up my kids at school and I was like the Beatles, you know, all these kids are got bad come running. And then they went forth with the movie and season four. I was anxious, But I mean real labor here is the writers and knowing that Steve was into it, and knowing that he had had some time to work on it, because it takes a lot of time to develop that kind of story, Like you say, going from eleven minutes to eighty seven minutes or whatever, that's a big leap. Yeah, but it's wonderful. I mean, absolutely was wonderful. Wasn't very different from recording the TV shows in terms of the way that you guys approached it. It was done in the typical animated film format where it's very broken up. We did, however, they'll get to do a lot of stuff together on that delightfully. And then those awesome songs that Stephen Stephen did and Derek Driving worked on, and I mean the songs were wonderful, But when stuff is that broken up, that's a very different experience as opposed to the wonderment of just doing like a radio life for three hours or whatever. To do uh, an eleven minute episode that is so much fun. Do you ever allow people to come to like a taping. My daughters have come in and watch a couple one or two over the years. You know, his last couple of years with Stephen I was really meaningful because he kept coming to sessions as long as he could. And to look up and see a smiling face was that's great. Yeah, that was That was inspiration a plenty right there. Yeah, when when your daughters saw you working in the booth, did you ever get feedback from him after the fact, like, Dad, you're really good, Like I didn't know really understood what you did, but like to see you do it. Dad, you're really good. Oh that's interesting. No. Ever, once a while they'd say something like, you're so dumb cool, just like every daughter to every dad. Remember I was doing uh a phone er once at home on speaker phone, and my youngest was in there, and at the time she was probably like nine or ten, and the reporter asked me if I ever did Patrick, you know, in my day to day life. M hmmmm, And I said no. And Carson, who had understood that she had to just like sit there and listen, she immediately just went, Dad, whenever you see a spider around the house, she goes, spider, spider, spider. And then I went, oh, my god, that's right. That that did become now my official reaction to a spider finer. Patrick's voice has become literally synonymous with the word fool. It is the voice in hundreds of languages around the world that one comes to associate with this type of character, no matter whether it's Patrick or not. Does it ever like kind of get back to you, like the cultural impact of your voice and your character that you've kind of created in the world. Well, it's really about this show, and that starts with Stephen and what he created and and who Stephen Hillenberg was and his wonderful heart and spirit. Tom and I have talked about this, but when you've heard thank you from my childhood, yeah, five hundred Toms, it never stops being beautiful. And this joyful recognition and admission of the potential of a cartoon, and I am so grateful. I never have taken this for granted in any way, because when young parents come up and say, you know why, I grew up with the cartoon and now I'm getting to watch it with my four year old, nothing prepares you for that. I work in this absurdly transient business and I had one incredible nine year run with the show, which almost never happens. And cut to this, I've been working with these guys. I guess we recorded season one and so I've been working with these wonderful people doing these wonderful characters for all that time, and it's a treasure. And the way people love the characters and the incredible array of response from all manner of people just blows me away. I Bill, have you ever met any voice actors around the world who played Patrick in other languages? I would love to, but we had the Swedish SpongeBob stopped by the studio one day when we were working on I think the second film, and that was cool and he was super excited. But you know, I still kick myself. I never once said, hey, you do Swedish SpongeBob, I'll do English Patrick. What an opportunity I lost? That would have been so much fun. Would um Swedish Patrick have a Swedish accent? Well, speaking Swedish, I guess technically it's on an accent, it's just and the version version with Swedish SpongeBob, No, that's man and Barnacle Boy spot. There are Genemy reflect though up to no good. You know what this means? So Hi the power of Napkin Assemble. Obviously we've been talking about fandom and fans and how much we love Patrick. Do you have any good UM fan stories about someone who has come and met you. Well, certainly UM Comic Con as a cast and we were doing a signing as a part of the activities and I look up and their in line is the father and the mother and the three kids who were I don't know, let's say like a toddler twenty months or something, and then maybe a four year old and a six year old. The entire family of five were dressed like Patrick, and it just it was breathtaking. It was so right. And I got to talk to the dad a little bit and he was having so much fun. Oh man, that sounds like a blast. We talked about Comic Con in the show all the time and just how wonderful it is that adults have found the freedom to really truly expressed their childhood desires and loves forever, that energy, because it's all about passion, and what a great energy that creates. And such a large group of people too, if you're it's just incredible. It's massive. Yeah, listen, I've got pictures of me as a kid going to Comic Con because I'm from San Diego, I grew up there, But I don't have any pictures where my whole family did the same costume. That would have been awesome. So those kids when they grow up and they're like, we went, I went as Patrick. My siblings wants Patrick, my parents went as Patrick. We met Patrick. Like, that's that's such a great story, you know, that's so cool. I just met this girl. She is a hatful of air. Do you mean she puts on airs, I guess, so that's just fancy talk. If you want to be fancy, hold your peeky up like this. The higher you old at, the fancier you are higher like that. Now that's fancy. They should call you SpongeBob fancy pants. So Bill uh, we know that your show television best friend and friend in real life, Mr Tom Kenny, he's directing the shows. Now, what's it like working with him the voice of SpongeBob as the director of the voices of SpongeBob. Well, he usually at least want secession. He'll make someone cry just just with his brutality. Yeah, we're so lucky to have him in this COVID situation. What we were able to I think achieve as a group recording together where you're immediately fed creatively what the people around you are bringing. People like Roger Bumpus and Clancy Brown and Caroline Lawrence and married Joe Kaylin and Lori Allen and Doug Lawrence and all these people they bring and it's all there and it's vibrant, and it can't help but inform and lift what you're doing. So we've lost that. However, you have Tom directing and he is, like I was saying earlier, his background in stand up comedy and his passion for animation brings such a great sense of what you need to get to where it needs to go, and it's so sound and it's so accurate and inspired that we're very lucky to have him on board directing it. Stephen Hillenberg was their session director the first three seasons, and he did something that was so unusual. Steven would have his little table sitting in the room with us, and he would wear his cans and he would sit there and he doodle and so he'd just be dooling as we're going, and he laughing, doodling, and then he'd look at the lines and be doodling and he's laughing and go, okay, we'll try that line up. And it was it was so much fun. It was so great. Steve was just awesome. Around season I'm going to guess here and say season seven or eight, because I think a lot of us started screwing around with the lines anyway. So because so it's just you know, let's let's keep control of this year. Let's do it is written, and then what we'll do is after a couple takes as written will let you guys have a crazy pass and so so we get to add lib as we want to. If you have an idea of something, it might work. You know, Remember we've been doing these characters for so long. We are kind of in the dna of the characters and the spirit and the spirit of the writing and in the comedy. So you really try and come up with something. I try not to abuse the crazy past just to just to make my you know, fellow actors laugh. I wanted to be so good that the writers go, yes, usable, yeah, you know, so I really want it to be good, and I wanted to be Jermaine. I wanted to be within the spirit of that moment in a very specific way and and inappropriate to Patrick obviously, so that that's a really cool thing because typically in animation you don't get to do that because there's been so much work on the part of the writers and the storyboard artists to develop a single moment. So if you come waltson in to do your little record and go, I have a fabulous joke here, you know, it's like, you know, yeah, thousands of dollars I got to animate that joke. Yeah, before we let you go, let us play a quick little game that we like to call finish that. That's a great jingle. I can never get that out of my hand. Thank you. First one for you, Bill. We're not going to tell you what season it's from. We're not gonna tell you what episode, but let's see if you can finish that line. It's called the ugly Barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that Blank once it was an ugly barnacle. The barnacle was so ugly that he died? Is all right? It's it's pretty much right the line. The answer is he was so ugly that everyone died the end. We'll give you that one. We'll give you that one. That is from the season two episode Something Smells, which SpongeBob had a he was real smelly and Patrick is trying to make him feel better. So Frankie, take away, take it away. What's the next one? Okay, is blank a musical instrument? Please come on a musical Okay, mayonnaise instrument? Now? Patrick Mayonai is not an instrument. Radish isn't an instrument either. Now is mayonnaise an instrument? No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument. That's from band geeks? Is that your is that your favorite episode? Is that Tom Kenny's favorite episode band Geeks? I think it's Tom. It's probably Tom's. I know he loves it a lot and I love it a lot too, of course. I mean it's so great and it has so many of the great elements, including like squid words, you know, absurdity. You know that that sets it up so everyone else can play at his experience, which is always just so great. Yeah, yeah, I love that. You know on right away that double points for that double point you got three points so far. So the next one is I'll give you this scenario here SpongeBob blows a giant elephant bubble and Patrick goes, oh, it's a blank. That moment that was when it's throw started to drop. How much fun this draw? That episode just brilliant of course from bubble stand of course, yeah, oh funny. Okay, ready, hum. You may be an open book SpongeBob, but I'm a bit more complicated than that. The inner mechanitions of my mind are an enigma. We pan up to see Patrick thoughts and it's blank, and it's a live action picture of milk spilling its contents. Yeah, that's right. And I can't tell you talk about feeling joy when you are studying the storyboard. I came upon that moment and what to do? This what a fantastic I don't know what happened there, boy, brilliant. You know, the creators of this show, the people who work on the show, they all know exactly when to use the live action bits. And that is one of the best uses of the live action bits. That's, of course, from the season two episode The Secret Box. It's a great, great moment. All right, here's the last one. Where's the X. It's supposed to be right here, ten thousand paces east, Oh East. I thought you said blank? That you said west? Yes, perfect score. Bill. That was from the season one episode Are where Patrick is using a compass that Mr Crabs thinks is a weird compass, a completely normal compass, and the word was west and Patrick thought it said. Which is one of the funniest moments of my entire show. Delightful, delightful, Bill, that was so much fun. I want to thank you on behalf of Frankie Night for sharing some time this afternoon when you were talking about how much the show means to you and how grateful you are to be a part of it. I'll be honest with you, Bill, I was like getting choked up because the stuff you were saying, it's hits so close to home. The show is really something special. The shows plural are really something special. And uh, it's just been a joy to get to talk to you today. Man, So thank you so so much. Think congratulations on all of the success, and thank you again for you know, for inspiring both of us for our entire lives. And there you have it, everybody. That was so much fun. It was an unbelievable conversation with Bill Fagerbaki. Huge thanks to Bill for spending some time with us and sharing some great, great stories. Frankie and I got a little emotional, very emotional, beautiful conversation deep and it's so nice to know like someone that you would associate like Hope has that kind of emotion and and depth of person. It does. In the end, Bill is just a wonderful human being. I'm so grateful that we got to have this opportunity today. Guys, We're gonna be back with a brand new episode of SpongeBob binge Pants next week, It's gonna be awesome. We're watching season one of SpongeBob and we hope that you're watching them with us. Let us know what you thought of the episode, let us know what your favorite part of the interview was, and be sure not to miss next week's episode. Every Thursday, we got the new episodes coming out. Check them out wherever you get your podcasts, Tell your friends, and as always, keep watching cartoons. Thanks guys. By

You may be an open book SpongeBob, but I'm a bit more complicated than that. The inner mechanitions of my mind are an enigma, and I can't tell you talk about feeling joy when you are studying the storyboard. I came upon that moment and what you got to do this? Hi, friends, welcome to SpongeBob binge Pants, Nickelodeon's official podcast about all things SpongeBob. I'm Hector Navarro and I'm Frankie Grandang. You heard part one. Hector and I are here again and we're gonna guide you through as you hear the rest of that unbelievable interview with the one and only Patrick Starr. Let's do it. Here we go Bill again, to go back in time a little bit. You guys are recording the first see see you get a season two, season three, then a movie. Did you ever think, as one of the actors on the show, like, there's no way that this eleven minute, silly episodic show that doesn't really have a continuity to it could carry a full length movie. There's no way. I mean, what was your reaction to learning that you guys are going to do that? And what was it like making that first movie. Yeah, that's challenging. I was just so happy that we got to keep doing the show. They weren't sure there after three seasons with cable children's animation, there's this kind of this routine of three seasons and we're done. It actually took a lot of commitment from Nickelodeon to keep going with it. Oddly enough, I mean me, coming from the camera world, I'm going, what of course, it's like this where the New Yorker was talking about. It was just becoming so exciting. And I'd go and pick up my kids at school and I was like the Beatles, you know, all these kids are got bad come running. And then they went forth with the movie and season four. I was anxious, But I mean real labor here is the writers and knowing that Steve was into it, and knowing that he had had some time to work on it, because it takes a lot of time to develop that kind of story, Like you say, going from eleven minutes to eighty seven minutes or whatever, that's a big leap. Yeah, but it's wonderful. I mean, absolutely was wonderful. Wasn't very different from recording the TV shows in terms of the way that you guys approached it. It was done in the typical animated film format where it's very broken up. We did, however, they'll get to do a lot of stuff together on that delightfully. And then those awesome songs that Stephen Stephen did and Derek Driving worked on, and I mean the songs were wonderful, But when stuff is that broken up, that's a very different experience as opposed to the wonderment of just doing like a radio life for three hours or whatever. To do uh, an eleven minute episode that is so much fun. Do you ever allow people to come to like a taping. My daughters have come in and watch a couple one or two over the years. You know, his last couple of years with Stephen I was really meaningful because he kept coming to sessions as long as he could. And to look up and see a smiling face was that's great. Yeah, that was That was inspiration a plenty right there. Yeah, when when your daughters saw you working in the booth, did you ever get feedback from him after the fact, like, Dad, you're really good, Like I didn't know really understood what you did, but like to see you do it. Dad, you're really good. Oh that's interesting. No. Ever, once a while they'd say something like, you're so dumb cool, just like every daughter to every dad. Remember I was doing uh a phone er once at home on speaker phone, and my youngest was in there, and at the time she was probably like nine or ten, and the reporter asked me if I ever did Patrick, you know, in my day to day life. M hmmmm, And I said no. And Carson, who had understood that she had to just like sit there and listen, she immediately just went, Dad, whenever you see a spider around the house, she goes, spider, spider, spider. And then I went, oh, my god, that's right. That that did become now my official reaction to a spider finer. Patrick's voice has become literally synonymous with the word fool. It is the voice in hundreds of languages around the world that one comes to associate with this type of character, no matter whether it's Patrick or not. Does it ever like kind of get back to you, like the cultural impact of your voice and your character that you've kind of created in the world. Well, it's really about this show, and that starts with Stephen and what he created and and who Stephen Hillenberg was and his wonderful heart and spirit. Tom and I have talked about this, but when you've heard thank you from my childhood, yeah, five hundred Toms, it never stops being beautiful. And this joyful recognition and admission of the potential of a cartoon, and I am so grateful. I never have taken this for granted in any way, because when young parents come up and say, you know why, I grew up with the cartoon and now I'm getting to watch it with my four year old, nothing prepares you for that. I work in this absurdly transient business and I had one incredible nine year run with the show, which almost never happens. And cut to this, I've been working with these guys. I guess we recorded season one and so I've been working with these wonderful people doing these wonderful characters for all that time, and it's a treasure. And the way people love the characters and the incredible array of response from all manner of people just blows me away. I Bill, have you ever met any voice actors around the world who played Patrick in other languages? I would love to, but we had the Swedish SpongeBob stopped by the studio one day when we were working on I think the second film, and that was cool and he was super excited. But you know, I still kick myself. I never once said, hey, you do Swedish SpongeBob, I'll do English Patrick. What an opportunity I lost? That would have been so much fun. Would um Swedish Patrick have a Swedish accent? Well, speaking Swedish, I guess technically it's on an accent, it's just and the version version with Swedish SpongeBob, No, that's man and Barnacle Boy spot. There are Genemy reflect though up to no good. You know what this means? So Hi the power of Napkin Assemble. Obviously we've been talking about fandom and fans and how much we love Patrick. Do you have any good UM fan stories about someone who has come and met you. Well, certainly UM Comic Con as a cast and we were doing a signing as a part of the activities and I look up and their in line is the father and the mother and the three kids who were I don't know, let's say like a toddler twenty months or something, and then maybe a four year old and a six year old. The entire family of five were dressed like Patrick, and it just it was breathtaking. It was so right. And I got to talk to the dad a little bit and he was having so much fun. Oh man, that sounds like a blast. We talked about Comic Con in the show all the time and just how wonderful it is that adults have found the freedom to really truly expressed their childhood desires and loves forever, that energy, because it's all about passion, and what a great energy that creates. And such a large group of people too, if you're it's just incredible. It's massive. Yeah, listen, I've got pictures of me as a kid going to Comic Con because I'm from San Diego, I grew up there, But I don't have any pictures where my whole family did the same costume. That would have been awesome. So those kids when they grow up and they're like, we went, I went as Patrick. My siblings wants Patrick, my parents went as Patrick. We met Patrick. Like, that's that's such a great story, you know, that's so cool. I just met this girl. She is a hatful of air. Do you mean she puts on airs, I guess, so that's just fancy talk. If you want to be fancy, hold your peeky up like this. The higher you old at, the fancier you are higher like that. Now that's fancy. They should call you SpongeBob fancy pants. So Bill uh, we know that your show television best friend and friend in real life, Mr Tom Kenny, he's directing the shows. Now, what's it like working with him the voice of SpongeBob as the director of the voices of SpongeBob. Well, he usually at least want secession. He'll make someone cry just just with his brutality. Yeah, we're so lucky to have him in this COVID situation. What we were able to I think achieve as a group recording together where you're immediately fed creatively what the people around you are bringing. People like Roger Bumpus and Clancy Brown and Caroline Lawrence and married Joe Kaylin and Lori Allen and Doug Lawrence and all these people they bring and it's all there and it's vibrant, and it can't help but inform and lift what you're doing. So we've lost that. However, you have Tom directing and he is, like I was saying earlier, his background in stand up comedy and his passion for animation brings such a great sense of what you need to get to where it needs to go, and it's so sound and it's so accurate and inspired that we're very lucky to have him on board directing it. Stephen Hillenberg was their session director the first three seasons, and he did something that was so unusual. Steven would have his little table sitting in the room with us, and he would wear his cans and he would sit there and he doodle and so he'd just be dooling as we're going, and he laughing, doodling, and then he'd look at the lines and be doodling and he's laughing and go, okay, we'll try that line up. And it was it was so much fun. It was so great. Steve was just awesome. Around season I'm going to guess here and say season seven or eight, because I think a lot of us started screwing around with the lines anyway. So because so it's just you know, let's let's keep control of this year. Let's do it is written, and then what we'll do is after a couple takes as written will let you guys have a crazy pass and so so we get to add lib as we want to. If you have an idea of something, it might work. You know, Remember we've been doing these characters for so long. We are kind of in the dna of the characters and the spirit and the spirit of the writing and in the comedy. So you really try and come up with something. I try not to abuse the crazy past just to just to make my you know, fellow actors laugh. I wanted to be so good that the writers go, yes, usable, yeah, you know, so I really want it to be good, and I wanted to be Jermaine. I wanted to be within the spirit of that moment in a very specific way and and inappropriate to Patrick obviously, so that that's a really cool thing because typically in animation you don't get to do that because there's been so much work on the part of the writers and the storyboard artists to develop a single moment. So if you come waltson in to do your little record and go, I have a fabulous joke here, you know, it's like, you know, yeah, thousands of dollars I got to animate that joke. Yeah, before we let you go, let us play a quick little game that we like to call finish that. That's a great jingle. I can never get that out of my hand. Thank you. First one for you, Bill. We're not going to tell you what season it's from. We're not gonna tell you what episode, but let's see if you can finish that line. It's called the ugly Barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that Blank once it was an ugly barnacle. The barnacle was so ugly that he died? Is all right? It's it's pretty much right the line. The answer is he was so ugly that everyone died the end. We'll give you that one. We'll give you that one. That is from the season two episode Something Smells, which SpongeBob had a he was real smelly and Patrick is trying to make him feel better. So Frankie, take away, take it away. What's the next one? Okay, is blank a musical instrument? Please come on a musical Okay, mayonnaise instrument? Now? Patrick Mayonai is not an instrument. Radish isn't an instrument either. Now is mayonnaise an instrument? No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument. That's from band geeks? Is that your is that your favorite episode? Is that Tom Kenny's favorite episode band Geeks? I think it's Tom. It's probably Tom's. I know he loves it a lot and I love it a lot too, of course. I mean it's so great and it has so many of the great elements, including like squid words, you know, absurdity. You know that that sets it up so everyone else can play at his experience, which is always just so great. Yeah, yeah, I love that. You know on right away that double points for that double point you got three points so far. So the next one is I'll give you this scenario here SpongeBob blows a giant elephant bubble and Patrick goes, oh, it's a blank. That moment that was when it's throw started to drop. How much fun this draw? That episode just brilliant of course from bubble stand of course, yeah, oh funny. Okay, ready, hum. You may be an open book SpongeBob, but I'm a bit more complicated than that. The inner mechanitions of my mind are an enigma. We pan up to see Patrick thoughts and it's blank, and it's a live action picture of milk spilling its contents. Yeah, that's right. And I can't tell you talk about feeling joy when you are studying the storyboard. I came upon that moment and what to do? This what a fantastic I don't know what happened there, boy, brilliant. You know, the creators of this show, the people who work on the show, they all know exactly when to use the live action bits. And that is one of the best uses of the live action bits. That's, of course, from the season two episode The Secret Box. It's a great, great moment. All right, here's the last one. Where's the X. It's supposed to be right here, ten thousand paces east, Oh East. I thought you said blank? That you said west? Yes, perfect score. Bill. That was from the season one episode Are where Patrick is using a compass that Mr Crabs thinks is a weird compass, a completely normal compass, and the word was west and Patrick thought it said. Which is one of the funniest moments of my entire show. Delightful, delightful, Bill, that was so much fun. I want to thank you on behalf of Frankie Night for sharing some time this afternoon when you were talking about how much the show means to you and how grateful you are to be a part of it. I'll be honest with you, Bill, I was like getting choked up because the stuff you were saying, it's hits so close to home. The show is really something special. The shows plural are really something special. And uh, it's just been a joy to get to talk to you today. Man, So thank you so so much. Think congratulations on all of the success, and thank you again for you know, for inspiring both of us for our entire lives. And there you have it, everybody. That was so much fun. It was an unbelievable conversation with Bill Fagerbaki. Huge thanks to Bill for spending some time with us and sharing some great, great stories. Frankie and I got a little emotional, very emotional, beautiful conversation deep and it's so nice to know like someone that you would associate like Hope has that kind of emotion and and depth of person. It does. In the end, Bill is just a wonderful human being. I'm so grateful that we got to have this opportunity today. Guys, We're gonna be back with a brand new episode of SpongeBob binge Pants next week, It's gonna be awesome. We're watching season one of SpongeBob and we hope that you're watching them with us. Let us know what you thought of the episode, let us know what your favorite part of the interview was, and be sure not to miss next week's episode. Every Thursday, we got the new episodes coming out. Check them out wherever you get your podcasts, Tell your friends, and as always, keep watching cartoons. Thanks guys. By