“The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom”
“Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle”
“Trenchbillies” (on-air premiere)

The hour-long premiere of Legends of Bikini Bottom will be simulcast on Nick Mobile, and post premiere, it will be available via Nickelodeon’s download-to-own partners. On Nick.com, a dedicated show page will feature clips from the special, SpongeBob trivia, games and a Patchy the Pirate-themed message board.  Additionally, Nick.com will launch a new Game of the Week, “Legends of Bikini Bottom”, which is comprised of six mini games that require players to maneuver SpongeBob or his pals through a different legend-themed adventure.  The first game will launch on Thursday, Jan. 20, and the remaining five will launch one each day from Monday, Jan. 24, through Friday, Jan. 28.  To gain access to the final game, players must enter the code available only on-air during the hour-long special Jan. 28.

Since its launch in July 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has emerged as a pop culture phenomenon.  The series has been the number-one animated program with kids 2-11 for more than 10 consecutive years on Nickelodeon, and over the past several years, it has averaged more than 100,000,000 total viewers every quarter across all Nickelodeon networks.  Syndicated in 171 markets in 36 languages, it’s the most widely distributed property in MTV Networks’ history.

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