This week’s question comes from The A.V. Club’s Deputy Managing Editor, Caitlin PenzeyMoog:

Over decades of TV episodes, Homer Simpson has earned an important place in pop culture. A picture of his lightbulb head immediately creates a warm, pleasant sensation: he is a generation’s ur-Dad, he is charmingly stupid, and he’s reassuring in his familiarity. Regardless of The Simpsons’ recent quality, his cartoon…

This week’s question comes from reader Barret LeBlanc:

Very few people would accuse Reddit of being a healthy, soul-enriching environment, but, at the very least, the memes have always been safe. Memes are, at best, mildly humorous and, at worst, super dumb. But, as reported by Vice, a meme war has broken out in the stupidest corners of the Reddit community and things…

Over the decades Radiohead, like most good bands, has changed its sound from album to album. The range of its work (no, not just “sad,” “sadder,” and “saddest,” dad) can be hard to describe succinctly. Fortunately for all of us, the internet has solved this problem in the way the internet solves problems best:…

For any show fortunate enough to have a long run on television, there’s bound to be a point where most people would say the quality of that show takes a dip. But sometimes it can be hard to know if this perceived change in quality is real, that your favorite show has lost its touch, or if it’s simply due to the fact…

SpongeBob SquarePants’ stop-motion Halloween special, titled “The Legend Of Boo-Kini Bottom” premiered last Friday the 13th on Nickelodeon. To honor the occasion, a few members of the SpongeBob crew—producers Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli, and voice actors Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy) and Bill Fagerbakke…

SpongeBob SquarePants is currently the longest running series on Nickelodeon and the second longest running animated kid’s series on television (behind Arthur), amassing over 200 serialized episodes and more than a dozen specials. In the video above, we chat with a few members of SpongeBob’s talented cast and crew,…

SpongeBob SquarePants’ second foray into stop-motion (after 2012’s It’s A SpongeBob Christmas!) is just over a week away, premiering on Friday the 13th on Nickelodeon. The Halloween special, titled “The Legend Of Boo-Kini Bottom,” will pit SpongeBob up against the Flying Dutchman.

At this point, SpongeBob is the binding material for the internet, a sort of permanently relevant ur-meme, primed alternately for subversion and heartwarming relatability. There is a SpongeBob meme, macro, image, GIF, or reference for almost everything, its 11 seasons of animated hijinks supplanting Simpsons quotes…

The internet is riddled with dangers for teens, but one of the rarely talked-about risks of life online is the phenomenon of accidental fame. This can occur for any number of reasons, but it usually happens when someone innocently uploads a video of themselves doing something silly because they want to share it with…

SpongeBob SquarePants is venturing back into the world of stop-motion animation for a new Halloween special. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend Of Boo-Kini Bottom will air on Nickelodeon in October, and will find our sea-dwelling hero decked out as a flower and facing off against the terrifying Flying Dutchman, who’s…

Long before the internet ruined the mystique of our favorite urban legends, kids used to whisper in the back of classrooms about the dirty things they saw in Disney movies, whether it be a bishop’s boner in The Little Mermaid or some debris that spells out “sex” in The Lion King. These myths have more or less been…

The waterlogged world of SpongeBob Squarepants will be on Broadway later this year as the musical based on the Nickelodeon cartoon is set to begin performances in November. The show—which played Chicago last summer—boasts tunes composed by a host of artists including The Flaming Lips, T.I., John Legend, Sara…

When you think about it, the list of yellow cartoon characters is impressively long: The Simpsons, the Minions, SpongeBob SquarePants, Woodstock, Tweety Bird, Pikachu, Flounder, Winnie The Pooh… Turns out there’s a reason for that, and it all goes back to color theory. A detailed yet entertaining video from …

Seemingly egged on by the now-since meme-ified SpongeBob SquarePants scene where Squidward definitively informs Patrick that mayonnaise is not a musical instrument, YouTube user Flamp set out to dispel that conventional wisdom. And you know what? He was able to produce a pretty sick nine-track beat using every part of…

As reported by Variety, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg has announced that he’s been diagnosed with ALS. A source says that he received the diagnosis early and is still in the early stages of the neurodegenerative disease, and Hillenburg confirmed it in a statement that also says he’ll continue to…

SpongeBob SquarePants might not be the first show one would turn to for philosophical depth, but Quinton of the YouTube channel Quinton Reviews argues there’s more intelligence than meets the eye in the cheeky cartoon series. In other words, Quinton agrees that the show deserved its spot on our list of kids’ shows…

Ever the money-hungry businessman, Mr. Krabs is expanding his burger empire with the help of Jon Hamm’s ad man. As we reported last September, Hamm guest stars in SpongeBob SquarePants’ “Goodbye, Krabby Patty?” as Don Grouper of the Grouper, Goby & Koi ad agency, mastermind behind the Krusty Krab’s expansion into the…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are like the Patrick Star and SpongeBob SquarePants of presidential politics. No, they’re more like the Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar of politics. Or maybe they’re the Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of politics. In truth, they’re all these things and more in Trump X Hillary: I Love To…