After watching Plankton: The Movie on Netflix, I got in the mood to revisit the first feature-length spin-off of the late Stephen Hillenburg’s beloved animated TV show, The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie. I could have watched the 2004 Nickelodeon film with my Max subscription, but I still had the DVD I first got when I was about 11. I also indulged in watching some of the special features, which reminded me of a behind-the-scenes detail that I had completely forgotten about, probably because I had blocked it out of my mind.
You see, one of my favorite moments from The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie is when the titular sponge (one of Tom Kenny’s most famous voice roles) and Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) find themselves on dry land and are brought back to Bikini Bottom by none other than David Hasselhoff, who I was already a fan of in my youth from his role in the hit ‘80s sci-fi TV show, Knight Rider. It is a gloriously ridiculous sequence that still makes me laugh to this day, but after learning a particularly strange fact about it from the film’s making-of featurette, I may never be able to view it the same way again.
