

On : New SA theater company has LBGTQ focus And that’s what we see in the memes a lot.” SpongeBob will look completely different when he is expressing different emotions. “One of the unique things about the show is that the animation style is really unique and the characters are super-expressive and the detail of the facial expressions is really interesting.

“I think there are some specific things about the show that make it particularly meme-able,” he said. Millennials who grew up watching “SpongeBob SquarePants” call on SpongeBob to express all sorts of things online.Ĭaldwell, though, thinks there’s more to it than that. In terms of his popularity as a meme, Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of, said some meme followers theorize that it has to do in part with nostalgia. Because over the years, that’s the main response we’ve gotten, people saying, ‘I wasn’t sure, I was a skeptic, I didn’t think I wanted to be here, and lo and behold, I walked out in love with the thing, having had a glorious time.’” “Someone wrote the only people who don’t like ‘The SpongeBob Musical’ are the people who haven’t seen it,” Landau said.

The musical seems to have captured that spirit. He sees things and experiences things with a childlike sense of wonder and play and abandon, and I think that’s a really great antidote for so many of us for this moment of time in which we live.” “He is the quintessential ‘see the glass half-full’ kind of guy, or kind of creature or kind of sponge. “He’s such a pure-hearted optimist,” she said. Playwright Tina Landau, who wrote the book for the musical, thinks his sunny perspective makes him appealing. So, what the heck is it about the goofy sea critter that makes him work on so many platforms? On : Fans helped cast the Woodlawn’s Gloria Estefan jukebox musical
