Spongebob

Baby Name or Weapon of Mass Humiliation?

Alex McCord | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Iphone, The Stir, Cafemom, Melrose Place, Timberly Whitfield, Calvin and Hobbes, Spongebob, Real Housewives of New York City, Nickelodeon, Baby Names, Coffee Shop Confessions, Alex McCord, Andrew Shue, Julia Knight, Video, Parents News

What's the worst thing you've ever let your older child do to the younger one?

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My Psychological Theory about SpongeBob SquarePants

Yalda T. Uhls | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Social Recognition, Social Theory, TV Shows for Kids, Community Feeling, Children's Television, Physical Fitness, Nickelodeon, Milton Rokeach, Financial Success, Lewin, Kasser, Schwartz, Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants, Parents News

Besides perhaps fostering an interest in marine biology, it's hard to understand the ability of Sponge Bob Square Pants ability to fascinate, let alone teach.

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KAWS Kills Cartoons

Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: The Modern, Video, Mickey Mouse, Kaws, Street Art, Slidepollajax, Graffiti, Spongebob, Modern Art Museum of Fortworth, Disney, Brian Donnelly, Arts News

Brooklyn-based Brian Donnelly, known mostly as KAWS, mixes graffiti and cartoon imagery to create juicy, larger-than-life characters that look a littl...

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Top 10 TV Episodes of My Childhood

Matthew Byrd | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Spongebob, TV Shows, Hey-Arnold, Jimmy Neutron, Recess Tv Show, Hive-Learning-Network, High School News

Prepare for an extreme nostalgia blast with my list of the top 10 favorite television episodes of my childhood.

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Entertaining Our Kids, Have We Gone Too Far?

Abi Cotler O'Roarty | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Spongebob, Simplicity, Parenting, Childhood, Children Attention Spans, Add, Parents News

If we choose to let a marketing department decide what's entertaining for our kids, we could unwittingly be playing a high stakes game that doesn't end until they go off to college with a laser show, just to be sure they're paying attention.

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Nickelodeon: Not the Only Company Reaching Young Children Through Advertisements Intended for Older Children

Marlene Schwartz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Television, Food Marketing, Children, Advertising, Health, Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants, Parents News

Research has shown that advertising to very young children is harmful. Until age 7 or 8, children do not have the cognitive capacity to understand that advertising presents a biased point-of-view.

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Spongebob Squarepants vs. Caillou: Both of These Things Are Not LIke the Other

David Kleeman | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Child Development, Early Childhood Development, Television, Research, Caillou, Children, Screen Time, Spongebob, Children's Television, SpongeBob SquarePants Study SpongeBob SquarePants Kids Brains, Media News

It's impossible to conduct a thoughtful debate, or to build family media literacy, if we allow the conversation to be hijacked by pseudo-science that lends itself to flashy headlines.

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WATCH: SpongeBob Gets A Beatdown

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Spongebob Detained, Spongebob Fight, Spongebob Los Angeles, Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Sponge Bob, Spongebob Arrested, Spongebob Squarepants Detained, Video, Los Angeles News

Somebody better call Patrick Star. A man dressed in a SpongeBob SquarePants costume was detained -- but not arrested -- outside of Hollywood's Grau...

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PHOTO: LAPD Bust Shady Character

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Lapd Arrest Spongebob, Spongebob, Spongebob Detained, Spongebob Police, Video, Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob Arrested, Comedy News

Delight, horror, intense amusement... these are all things this photo by Steve Boelhouwer makes us feel. Oh, barnacles! Related Video: ...

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Nickelodeon Admits SpongeBob Not Fit for Preschoolers

Josh Golin | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Spongebob, Children's Television, Nickelodeon, SpongeBob Study, Spongebob Squarepants Study, Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob Preschoolers, Spongebob Squarepants Preshoolers, Media News

Children who watched nine minutes of SpongeBob scored worse on assessments designed to measure memory and problem-solving skills than children who watched a slower-paced cartoon or kids who spent nine minutes drawing.

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SpongeBob SquarePants Causes Attention Problems: Study

AP | By LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Spongebob, Spongebob Attention Problems, Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob Suqarepants Attention, Spongebob Attention Disorder, Media News

CHICAGO -- The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cau...

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Fox's Latest Assault on Climate Science: Attack SpongeBob

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Fox & Friends, Spongebob, Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Effect, Climate Deniers, Green News

Apparently, using cartoons to teach children about important science issues of the day raises hackles at Fox, especially when those issues are at odds with their political perspectives.

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Going There: My Lunch With Comedian Tom Wilson

Tim Siedell | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Freaks and Geeks, Spongebob, Tom Wilson, Back to the Future, Standup Comedy, Pop Culture, Sam Kinison, Comedy News

Tom Wilson gets asked the same Back to the Future questions over and over and over again. So when we met, I was determined not to go there. And good lord, I tried not to.

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5 Things SpongeBob SquarePants Can Teach You About Business

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Geoff Williams | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Bikini Bottom, Spongebob Squarepants, Mr. Krabs, Spongebob, Small Business News and Trends, Hr, Managing Employees, Nickelodeon, Krabby Patties, Small Business News

Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants," with its brightly hued colors and juvenile hijinks, may seem like the last place you should look for business o...

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BFF Makes the Oxford English Dictionary

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Bff, New-Words-Added-to-the-Dictionary, Spongebob, Living News, Noun, Style, Comedy Central, Tv, Lifestyle, South Park, Breaking News, Breaking Living News, Oxford English Dictionary, Healthy Living News

The Oxford English Dictionary announced on its blog yesterday that the acronym "BFF" has been added as an official noun and lists its D.O.B as 1996. A little on the history of the word here.

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A Short History of "Baby Got Back" and Advertising

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Last month, an investigation revealed that Washington Mutual employees performed a parody of "Baby Got Back" that expressed how much money they made d...

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Good Samaritan 12-Year-Old Miriam Starobin Inspired By SpongeBob SquarePants

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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LIDO BEACH, N.Y. — When her best friend turned purple, Miriam Starobin's thoughts turned to yellow – cartoon hero SpongeBob SquarePants. ...

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James Cameron? Really? Seriously...Really?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Titantic, Bp, Kevin Costner, George W. Bush, James Cameron, King Triton, Hollywood, Gulf Oil Spill, Spongebob, Dick Cheney, Obama Administration, Politics News

Forget James Cameron, what about "Waterworld's" Kevin Costner? He battled the evil forces that engulfed the Earth in water. Can't he plug up a little ole oil well with his various rusty junk and grimy debris?

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SpongeBob vs. BP (PICTURE)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, BP Oil Spill, Funny Pictures, Spongebob Bp, Spongebob, Bp vs Spongebob, Spongebob vs Bp, Comedy News

BP's gone too far. The oil giant has crossed the line, taking SpongeBob from us. This portrayal of the deceased Nickelodeon character comes courtesy o...

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HuffPost Reviews: Neil Young, Tom Petty, Elvis Presley, And R. Kelly, Plus An Exclusive Of Neil Young's Live "Harvest Moon"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Petty's album Pack Up The Plantation was a somewhat rockin' example of his stage shows. In comparison, that release was nothing more than a handful of crumbs compared to the feast that is The Live Anthology.

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DVDs -- Rock N Roll Heaven

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Britcoms, Spongebob, Futurama, TV Shows, Simpsons, Marlene Dietrich, Movies, Dvds, Entertainment News

Nothing can replace being in the room, of course, but the 9 DVD set Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum Live takes some of the sting out of not being there.

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The Not-Too-Distant Future of Air Travel: Drop That Sippy Cup!

Bob Geiger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spongebob, Tsa, Lax, Northwest Flight 253, Comedy News

At Los Angeles International Airport a suspicious toddler was recently subdued by alert Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents while creating a disturbance.

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Palin Says Family Guy Offends Her 'As a Fellow Cartoon'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Spongebob, Family Guy, Glenn Beck, Andy Borowitz, Homer Simpson, Sarah Palin, Comedy News

"It always hurts to be attacked, but when you're attacked by one of your own, that's particularly hurting," Sarah Palin said today in response to a recent episode of the animate series "Family Guy."

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HuffPost Review: The September Issue

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Devil Wears Prada, American Vogue, Spongebob, The September Issue Movie Review, Anna Wintour, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Meryl Streep, Entertainment News

It's Anna Wintour's world - the rest of us are just accessories.

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On The Streets: Green Jobs (VIDEO)

Jonathan Kesselman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spongebob, Green Jobs, Jonathan Kesselman, Green News

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