SPONGEBOB MUSICAL: LIVE ON STAGE
Nickelodeon, 7:00 p.m. ET
“Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!” Yes, it’s SpongeBob SquarePants, the animated sponge whose animated series premiered on Nickelodeon 20 years ago, and soon went from the porifera of pop culture (see what I did there?) to the absolute center. (My college students at Rowan University may initially be unfamiliar with some of TV’s older icons, but they all know SpongeBob.) The popularity of the TV show led, in 2017, to a Broadway musical set at Bikini Bottom – and for this new TV special, the original Broadway cast, including Tony nominees Ethan Slater and Gavin Lee, reunites, to capture the music and marine mayhem for posterity. And for tonight’s Nickelodeon viewers. “Are you ready, kids? I said, are you ready?”