LittleBigPlanet PSP (found German "SpongeBob SquarePants" commercial; 2009)

A screenshot from the commercial

Status: Found

Date found: 21 Nov 2023

Found by: Gizocaie and lazulee

SpongeBob LittleBigPlanet PSP Commercial (also known as SpongeBob PSP Commercial) refers to a commercial featuring the character SpongeBob playing the game LittleBigPlanet on the PSP.

Background

On November 18, 2009, all four Viacom channels hosted 24 hours of SpongeBob Squarepants called “Think Happy Day”. Comedy Central, being one of the channels, devoted itself to the wildest, most absurd and well-known rumors of the show named “Captain’s Secret”. Some of the rumors that were from these selected episodes were:

• The rumor that SpongeBob is already around the age of 20.
• The rumor that SpongeBob sat down on a photocopier without pants on at a company party (inferring that he might have photocopied his bottom).
• The rumor that Sandy is in a witness protection program.
• The rumor that Mr. Krabs is taking drugs.
• The rumor that SpongeBob is gay and transvestite.

YouTube user JANTista999 posted a video from one of the commercials on the same day “Captain Secrets” aired, where at the 29-second mark, a one-second clip of the commercial can be seen. The PSP model seen in the commercial specifically is a PSP 1000.

It is not known whether the commercial is promoting the PSP console itself, or the game LittleBigPlanet. A possible theory is that the special was airing SpongeBob-related bumpers and interstitials, making the commercials mostly SpongeBob-related, as the YouTube video was uploaded on the same day that Captain Secret happened.

Availability

Not much is known about the commercial outside of the aforementioned one-second of footage from a poor cut, and information on its day of airing.

It is widely believed that JANTista999 has the whole recording of the commercial, but the channel has not been active since 2009, leaving it unlikely that the full recording would be posted.

Though a comment was made by tundil4 that claims they were one of the people who saw the commercial and it was a short bumper with SpongeBob telling that:

"The Think Happy Day is brought to you by Little Big Planet"

And when someone replied how long the commercial was, Tundil4 said it was 5 seconds long

On November 21st, 2023 Youtube User Lazulee uploaded the full 8-second-long Commercial that was found from an MTV Archive from the same day by user Gizocaie.

Gallery

Images

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  Tundil4’s comment on what he remembered from the PSP commercial

Commercial

The full commercial

Videos

LSuperSonicQ’s video on the subject (starts at 8:16)

JANTista999 video of the “Captain Special” commercial which includes 1 second of the SpongeBob PSP Commercial

See Also

LittleBigPlanet

• LittleBigPlanet Generator (lost "LittleBigPlanet" promotional Flash game; 2008)
• LittleBigPlanet HUB (lost build of cancelled PlayStation 3 downloadable game; 2013)

SpongeBob SquarePants

• Astrology with Squidward (found series of "SpongeBob SquarePants" Nickelodeon animated shorts; early 2000s)
• A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie (unproduced unauthorized direct-to-DVD mockumentary film; 2011)
• Got Chocolate Milk? (found "SpongeBob SquarePants" animated tie-in commercial; 2001)
• The Humpback Hop (found full version of "SpongeBob SquarePants" production music; 2002)
• SpongeBob's Nicktoon Summer Splash (partially lost bumpers from Nickelodeon channel block; 2000-2001)
• SpongeBob SquarePants (partially lost deleted scenes of Nickelodeon animated series; 1999-present)
• SpongeBob SquarePants "Sailor Mouth" (lost uncensored version of Nickelodeon animated series episode; 2001)
• SpongeBob SquarePants "Shanghaied/You Wish" (partially lost English audio from alternate "Patchy the Pirate" segments of Nickelodeon animated series episode; 2001)
• SpongeBob SquarePants "SpaceBob InvaderPants/Krabs' Army" (lost production material of cancelled Nickelodeon animated series episodes; 2015)
• War Blowers (found full version of "SpongeBob SquarePants" production music; 1999)
• SpongeBob: Re-Hydrated (partially lost "SpongeBob SquarePants" animated short; 2003)

External Links

• Spongepedia Article about Think Happy Day which includes Comedy Central’s “Captain Secrets”
• Spongepedia Article talking about the selected episodes and it’s rumors