Bob Esponja (Bob Sponge in English and alternatively called Bob Esponja Pantalones Cuadrados) is the Latin American Spanish dub of SpongeBob SquarePants. It is part of International SpongeBob SquarePants.
Description[]
Nickelodeon Latin America[]
Este es un dibujo animado sobre una esponja de mar llamada Bob Esponja.
Bob Esponja vive en el fondo del Océano Pacífico, cerca de la isla de Bikini Atoll, y siempre se está metiendo en líos, junto a su amigo Patricio Estrella.
(This is a cartoon about a sea sponge called SpongeBob. SpongeBob lives at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, near the island of Bikini Atoll, and is always getting into trouble, along with his friend Patrick Star.)
Broadcast[]
Bob Esponja debuted on Nickelodeon in Latin America on February 7, 2000.[5]
Episodes[]
Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Season premiere | Season finale | ||||
1 | 40 | 20 | February 7, 2000 | December 1, 2001 (TV Hondureña) July 23, 2002 (Canal 5) April 29, 2006 (Nickelodeon) | |
2 | 39 | 20 | October 6, 2001 | May 12, 2002 (TV Hondureña) August 22, 2002 (Canal 5) August 28, 2005 (Nickelodeon) | |
3 | 37 | 20 | September 2, 2002 | December 3, 2004 (Canal 5) September 1, 2006 (Nickelodeon) | |
4 | 38 | 20 | November 25, 2005 | October 7, 2007 | |
5 | 41 | 20 | May 14, 2007 | July 17, 2009 | |
6 | 47 | 26 | August 25, 2008 | November 12, 2010 | |
7 | 50 | 26 | February 22, 2010 | October 17, 2011 (Canal 5) February 11, 2013 (Nickelodeon) | |
8 | 47 | 26 | October 22, 2011 | December 19, 2014 | |
9 | 49 | 26 | July 4, 2013 | March 25, 2017 | |
10 | 22 | 11 | April 3, 2017 | December 6, 2017 | |
11 | 50 | 26 | September 25, 2017 | March 30, 2019 | |
12 | 48 | 26 | April 6, 2019 | July 2, 2022 (Chilevisión) March 6, 2023 (Nickelodeon) | |
13 | 52 | 26 | May 8, 2021 | December 1, 2023 | |
14 | 14 | April 29, 2024 |
Episodes premiered before the United States[]
Note: "The Clash of Triton", "The Curse of the Hex", "Pineapple RV" and "Pat Hearts Squid" do not count on this list due to this episode being released digitally on Mundonick.com and the Latin American version of Paramount+.
- "The Chaperone"
- "Employee of the Month"
- "Hooky"
- "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II"
- "Gary Takes a Bath" (aired on Canal 5)
- "Graveyard Shift"
- "Krusty Love"
- "Ugh"
- "Born Again Krabs"
- "I Had an Accident"
- "Krabby Land"
- "The Camping Episode"
- "Missing Identity"
- "Plankton's Army"
- "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"
- "Pranks a Lot"
- "Dunces and Dragons" (aired on the same day)
- "The Thing"
- "Hocus Pocus"
- "Born to Be Wild"
- "Best Frenemies"
- "Squid Wood"
- "The Original Fry Cook"
- "Night Light"
- "Fungus Among Us"
- "Spy Buddies"
- "Boat Smarts"
- "Good Ol' Whatshisname"
- "New Digs"
- "Krabs à la Mode"
- "Roller Cowards"
- "Bucket Sweet Bucket"
- "To Love a Patty"
- "Breath of Fresh Squidward"
- "Money Talks"
- "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget
- "Slimy Dancing"
- "The Krusty Sponge"
- "A Flea in Her Dome"
- "The Donut of Shame"
- "The Krusty Plate"
- "Goo Goo Gas"
- "Pest of the West"
- "Slide Whistle Stooges"
- "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One"
- "Overbooked"
- "No Hat for Pat"
- "Yours, Mine and Mine"
- "Kracked Krabs"
- "The Great Patty Caper"
- "There's a Sponge in My Soup"
- "Sanitation Insanity"
- "Shopping List"
- "My Two Krabses" (accidental)
- "Hiccup Plague" (accidental)
- "Kwarantined Krab" (accidental)
- "Patrick's Tantrum"
- "Squidferatu" (aired on the same day)
- "Slappy Daze" (aired on the same day)
Cast[]
Original name | Latin American name | Actor | Season | Episode |
Main characters | ||||
SpongeBob SquarePants | Bob Esponja Pantalones Cuadrados | Kaihiamal Martínez | 1 | |
Luis Carreño | 2– | |||
Ángel Balam | 7 | 145 (one line) | ||
Patrick Star | Patricio Estrella | Paul Gillman | 1–3 | |
Luis Lugo | 59 | |||
Alfonso Soto | 4– | |||
David Silva | 8 | 165 (one line) | ||
Squidward Tentacles | Calamardo Tentáculos | Renzo Jiménez | 1– | |
Squilliam Fancyson | Calamarino Elegante | 2– | ||
Mrs. Tentacles | Sra. Tentáculos | 1- | ||
Eugene H. Krabs | Don Eugenio H. Cangrejo | Luis Pérez Pons † | 1–5 | |
9–13 | 190–293 | |||
Carlos Vitale | 6–9 | 102–189 | ||
Walter Véliz | 7 | 148 (one line) | ||
Sandy Cheeks | Arenita Mejillas | Mercedes Prato | 1 | |
Anabella Silva | 2–4 | 23–72 | ||
5–6 | 92–111 | |||
Yaraiví Alcedo | 4–5 | 74–90 | ||
Lidya Abboud | 4 | 66 (one line) | ||
Lileana Chacón | 6– | 114– | ||
Sheldon J. Plankton | Óscar Zuloaga | 1-2 | 1-28 | |
Luis Miguel Pérez | 2-9 | 34-179 | ||
Héctor Indriago | 9 | 183 | ||
Ángel Mujica | 9- | 184- | ||
Karen Plankton | Rocío Mallo | 1 | ||
Melanie Henríquez | 2-9 | 34-186 | ||
Lidya Abboud | 4 | TBA | ||
María José Estévez | 8 | 170-177 | ||
Gabriela Belén | 9 | 185-203 | ||
Sixnalie Villalba | 10- | 209- | ||
Mrs. Puff | Señora Puff | Isabel Vara | 1-9 | 4b-190 |
Citlalli Godoy | 3 | 51, 59-60 | ||
Ivette García | 9 | 180, 182, 195 | ||
Elena Díaz Toledo | 10-12 | 205-246 | ||
Catherine J. Reyes | 12- | 247b- | ||
Pearl Krabs | Perlita Cangrejo | Irina Índigo | 1 | |
Yensi Rivero | 2-8 | 22-154 | ||
Melanie Henríquez | 8-9 | 161-186 | ||
Mariangny Álvarez | 9- | 190- | ||
Gary the Snail | Gary el Caracol | Kaihiamal Martínez | 1 | |
José Manuel Vieira | 1 | 15 | ||
Fernando Márquez | 6-11 | TBA | ||
Lileana Chacón | 12- | TBA | ||
Flying Dutchman | Holandés Volador | Armando Volcanes | 1- | |
Mermaid Man | Tritón | Juan Guzmán | 1 | |
Sireno Man | 2 | |||
Héctor Isturde | 3-9 | |||
Sergio Pinto (young) |
7 | 135 | ||
Barnacle Boy | Chico Percebe | Antonio Delli | 1 | |
Alex Orozco | 2 | |||
Armando Volcanes | 3-9 | |||
Jhonny Torres (young) |
7 | 135 | ||
DoodleBob | Bob Trazo | |||
Luis Carreño | 2– |
Songs[]
Translations[]
- Cangreburger (Krabby Patty)
- Medusa (Jellyfish)
- Mundo Guante (Glove World!)
- Crustaceo Cascarudo (Krusty Krab)
- Balde de Carnada (Chum Bucket)
- Fondo de Bikini (Bikini Bottom)
- Laguna Pegajosa (Goo Lagoon)
Trivia[]
- Despite completing dubbing from its copyright year, Nickelodeon Latin America would often held an episode years after the previous episode aired.
- "Arrgh!"/"Rock Bottom" completed dubbing in 2000, but aired in 2006, even though both of these episodes premered in Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2002.
- "Gary Takes a Bath" and "Squid on Strike"/"Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm" completed dubbing in 2001, but aired in 2005, even though these episodes premiered on Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2002.
- "The Sponge Who Could Fly" completed dubbing in 2002, but aired in 2006, even though this episode premiered on Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2004.
- "The Curse of the Hex"/"The Main Drain" and "Hide and Then What Happens?"/"Shellback Shenanigans" completed dubbing in 2010, but aired in 2013, even though these episodes premiered on Canal 5 (Mexico) in 2011.
- "The Krabby Patty That Ate Bikini Bottom"/"Bubble Buddy Returns" completed dubbing in 2011, but aired in 2013.
- "Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go!"/"Chum Fricassee" and "The Good Krabby Name"/"Move It or Lose It" completed dubbing in 2012, but aired in 2014.
- "License to Milkshake"/"Squid Baby," "Bumper to Bumper," "Eek, an Urchin!"/"Squid Defense," "Safe Deposit Krabs"/"Plankton's Pet," "Don't Look Now"/"Séance Shméance," and "Kenny the Cat"/"Yeti Krabs" completed dubbing in 2013, but aired in 2015.
- "Kwarantined Krab" and "Hiccup Plague" completed dubbing in 2020, but were aired in 2022 and 2023 respectively, but they did air in the pan-regional (Central) feed and ended up being released on Paramount+ Latin America in 2021.
- Squidward's Spanish name, Calamardo, is based off the combination of the Spanish word for squid, which is calamar; and the name Eduardo, Spanish for Edward. His nickname is Calamardito.
- Sandy Cheeks' name in this dub is Arenita Mejillas.
- In "Ripped Pants" and "Nature Pants," Sandy was called by her original English name.
- Plankton's name is sometimes spelt "Plancton" on the official YouTube channel.
- A voice-over will usually read out any text that is on screen.
- This dub airs on the Bob Esponja channel on Pluto TV with season 1 airing very often.
- The title cards aren't edited with their respective language as in other places. The only thing that is heard is the name of the episode in the dub, this is common for all Nicktoons to be dubbed in the Latin American language but not edited to the respective language, the same thing goes for all other dubs except for the French, Hebrew, Italian, German, and Japanese dubs.
- However, fellow Nicktoon The Fairly OddParents! had the early seasons to be edited in the respective language, due to distribtion rights with Nelvana.
- Unlike the original version, SpongeBob is called "Bob" countless times.
- This dub has aired on 49 different networks.
- On Nicktoons airings, season 5, season 6, some episodes of season 7, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!," some episodes of season 9, last 2 episodes of season 10 are in PAL pitch, this is due to the feed being merged with Nicktoons Global after 2017
- In addition, all reruns from the former are stretched in widescreen.
- Also on Netflix, season 6 is in PAL Pitch.
- On Nickelodeon airings, the rest of season 11 and some episodes of season 12 are in PAL pitch, this is due the Central and South feeds merged with Nickelodeon Scandinavia as of October 17, 2023,[7] additionally both feeds only air reruns of seasons 9 to 13.
- In the North feed (Mexico), episodes from the former are not in PAL pitch, and still air episodes from all of the seasons.
- In addition, all reruns from the former are stretched in widescreen.
- The last episode that would air on Nicktoons is a rerun of "Goo Goo Gas" and half of "Le Big Switch."
- Kaihiamal Martinez who voices the titular character and Gary the Snail was replaced with Luis Carreño in the second season onwards due to his firing from Etcétera Group. He then moved to Mexico where he would continue his dubbing and acting career in other shows.
- He would then reprise his role in The Sponge Who Could Fly Musical in 2011.
- Kaihiamal and Luis were previously cast together in the Latin Spanish dub of CatDog. In the dub Luis voices Dog and Kaihiamal voices Winslow T. Oddfellow and Clifford in the first three seasons.
- Coincidentally, both Dog and Cliff are voiced by Tom Kenny.
- Luis Carreño (The voice of SpongeBob and DoodleBob) moved to Miami after completing dubbing The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
- In this dub, RandomLand is called "Locolandia," which translates into "CrazyLand."
- As of today, unedited versions of "Procrastination" and "Karate Island" are currently re-airing on Nickelodeon Latin America, Canal 5, and Telefe.[8][9]
- The cut version of "Procrastination" is available on Amazon Prime Video.[10]
- The unedited version of "Just One Bite" was dubbed, but during its original Latin American airing on September 3, 2002 they decided to air the edited version instead, due to avoid of children imitating dangerous acts of playing fire matches and gasoline.
- The unedited version of "SpongeBob in RandomLand" was dubbed and aired on it's premiere in the region[11][12] until November 1, 2023, it was then switched with the edited version, in response to the Global merger.[13] It's unknown if the unedited version still airs on the North feed (Mexico).
- During an airing of "Ripped Pants" on Canal 5 on April 16, 2021, a flow of tweets appear on the bottom screen mentions users @ElEsponjosoMX and @webesponjosa, which they are both of the creators that runs La Web Cascarudo and Webesponjosa.[18]
- To date, "Dunces and Dragons," and "Squidferatu"/"Slappy Daze" are the only episodes to be aired in Latin America on the same dates as the United States.
Cast of voice actors[]
Videos[]
Notes[]
- ^ As of October 17, 2023, the pan-regional and southern feeds merged with Nickelodeon Scandinavia leaving the Northern feed (Mexico) as a standalone feed for the country.
- ^ Via second audio program and the dialogues since seasons 1 - 2 and Season 11
- ^ Dialogues of Pearl Krabs and Karen Plankton since "Bottle Burglars" and "Whale Watching."
- ^ Dialogues of various characters since "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout."
References[]
- ^ MTV Internal Docs Q4 2010 (Partially found) - GD
- ^ https://youtu.be/JRnRoIRu9pA?si=YesYoEDIZ66Od4-6
- ^ https://www.gatotv.com/canal/7_de_costa_rica_teletica/2012-05-07
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/Telecentro/photos/a.334681556614638/1008348029247984/?type=3
- ^ a b https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/73530.html>
- ^ http://es.doblaje.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Esponja
- ^ https://youtu.be/s4Ckv9ZVVrY?si=EXszODhilHLr40JG
- ^ https://youtu.be/4bZoiYEddBo?si=NMDtDJkq94sr0CbN
- ^ https://twitter.com/webesponjosa/status/1382084819081949184
- ^ https://youtu.be/3goatNUH1BQ?si=zV2xybhvqsgHq40X
- ^ https://youtu.be/Vn51IhenYWc?si=-gqLW8TsLUeVU0kh
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyep1_F4xi0
- ^ a b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NGAyMN3_Y
- ^ https://youtu.be/Mlkf7VtrusI?si=4nakY4W0bqweo5gK
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUaCmPpfo-k
- ^ https://youtu.be/eMzq9_jKJPo?si=wjdJcT3L0OOpWqZz
- ^ https://youtu.be/eMzq9_jKJPo?si=wjdJcT3L0OOpWqZz
- ^ https://youtu.be/_r0HhL0DDL0?si=5rV0MASzoxpOkjyq
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