cartoonician.com/the-oral-history-of-spongebob-squarepants/2/ This article from 2012 references the episode Leaf Blower, but this time the supposed damaged audio equipment is not referenced, at least as far as I can see. (Can someone else check to make sure?) Crews references ADR (Audio Dialogue Replacement) but not the episode at the same time. Seems the odds are stacked against this being true. This article seems the most grounded yet, being actual interviews and coming from a seemingly legitimate magazine (Hogan's Alley) but does not say anything about the missing audio, just the checking of the animatic for the episode.
Also, anyone want to help look at the dates that the trivia pieces were submitted to the wikias they are on? There's tons of wikias with this episode, and all of them so far have this quoted verbatim with no source. I know that wikia saves edits.
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on May 26, 2018 5:01:32 GMT
en.spongepedia.org/index.php?title=Reef_Blower_(Episode)&oldid=62510 Oldest reference to this trivia yet, with it being mispelled as well. In late April 2009, IP 98.217.95.233 submits the following edit to spongepedia's article on Reef Blower: The episode was origannaly going to have dialouge,although the recording equitment was broken. Not only are 3 words mispelled, the worst being "origannaly", there is no space between dialouge (mispelled) and although. I have a suspicion this is the first appearance of this 'fact', due to it's very poor grammar, and how much early it is than the other versions, though I haven't checked the revisions on other wikis. This is 3 years earlier than another reference I pointed out earlier on a Deviantart comment section. Stay tuned, I guess.
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on May 26, 2018 5:08:37 GMT
The spongebob wikia first says this in it's trivia section on 1:48, July 15 2012 by VastScatMan. He saves the page one revision earlier at 1:46 and it is not there.
I have a feeling VastScatMan's edit was either ripped from Spongepedia or the article I mentioned earlier from September 2012. The article's protection mode soon appears to be raised to protected. This is following a ton of revisions in a row by Family Guy Sucks. A while following this, a spelling mistake is corrected on the line which further confirms to me this could be ripped from the 2009 Spongepedia reference due to it's numerous spelling mistakes, and the fact it's on the word originally, the most misspelled word in the 'fact'.
Well, this sure is interesting. My bet is on it being fake.
Yeah, some kid after school in 2009 was bored and was like "why don't I make something that sounds realistic but is absolute bs on spongepedia so it'll be copied to literally every spongebob wiki out there?" And so they did.
This whole story is very confusing. From what I think, it was just a theory why it was silent. That's the best guess it can actually be until we get a concrete answer from anyone working on it.
This whole story is very confusing. From what I think, it was just a theory why it was silent. That's the best guess it can actually be until we get a concrete answer from anyone working on it.
More like a hypothesis, as there is zero evidence for it other than maybe gathering more information than is really there.
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on May 30, 2018 4:17:09 GMT
Now that I re-read the LMW page for Spongebob deleted episodes, it mentions that supposedly this was said on the Season 1 DVD commentary. Anyone got a copy to see?
Post by dogpolygonrt66 on May 30, 2018 5:15:47 GMT
spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/The_Complete_1st_Season#Audio_commentaries The spongebob wikia makes mention of dvd commentary on the season 1 box set, but it appears it may only be for "Plankton!" and "Karate Choppers" not Reef Blower. Cannot confirm until I actually find a copy. The wikia's page for all audio commentaries from every set does not include Reef Blower. spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/Plankton!_(audio_commentary)#Audio_commentaries < just copy this link it won't hyperlink
It's not mentioned on either episode commentary. I also watched through all the "documentary"-type special features on disc 3 and it wasn't mentioned on those either - not even on "The Origin of SpongeBob SquarePants" or "Recollections from the First Season Crew", the two that I would most expect to have something like this.