Lost SpongeBob Closing Logo

I think I remember hearing the foghorn at the end of Ugh (the one with Spongegar, not the primitive sponge) on Nick Picks Volume 1

Checked it out, unfortunately doesn't have the foghorn

Wow, on YouTube? Also, aren’t foghorns usually just one long blow?

Anyways, the fact that multiple people seem to remember this is at least something. Unfortunately, I felt like I remembered it too when reading that bit on the wiki, but nothing I or the original poster have found online has backed it up, so there’s a chance this all might end up being a case of Mandela effect.

One thing I think would be a good idea is to contact the creators. They were to able confirm the “I Was a Teenage Gary” thing as being a hoax, so maybe they can clear this up.

It’s possible you could have seen a recreation maybe. The logo community has always been trying to recreate lost logos or post fake “findings” of them. It’s a very simple logo to recreate honestly so I wouldn’t be surprised if a video of some sort exists.

I just tweeted Vincent Walker, who disputed the “Teenage Gary” rumor. I don’t know if he would know about this, but he seems active on Twitter, so it’s worth a try.

Someone I know who watched SB when it first premiered says it didn’t have the logo, but the wiki article says it was on early split-screen credits. Nickelodeon first used those credits in early 2000 (SB premiered in mid 1999) so recordings that have the logo would have to be from 2000 or maybe 2001. I went through a bunch of Nick recordings from the time a while back and the only ones with the logo I could find had the theme song or the waves crashing/seagulls.

Now, did the second of the two aforementioned variants premiere along with season 2? I feel like when I went through the online recordings it was initially just the end theme variant. Season 2 premiered in I believe September of 2000, so assuming the waves crashing/seagulls logo premiered then, it’s likely it “replaced” the foghorn variant on the season 1 airings. So that would narrow down the timeframe to about February-September 2000.

It also might be worth trying to find out who originally added the tidbit about the foghorn variant on CLG wiki. I know it’s been there for a long time, since I remember back in like about 2015 or 2016 being surprised that I couldn’t find the foghorn variant I’d read about and which seemed familiar. So I’m glad to see that someone else noticed this discrepancy and actually brought it up since I never did (again, it was probably before I even joined these forums in 2016 that I read about it).