Legendary actors Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke, the voices behind Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star are joining CBS Sports analyst Nate Burleson and play-by-play announcer Noah Eagle live in the booth to call the game.
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00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, I have two of Bikini Bottom's most legendary people.
00:07 I have Bill Fogerbakke right here, voice of Patrick Starr, and I have Tom Kenny.
00:12 One... I'm good at counting. One...
00:15 Two and a half!
00:17 Yeah! Sorry, go ahead.
00:19 So, okay. We are in Super Bowl Las Vegas.
00:23 This year, we're doing the first Slimecast.
00:27 We got you guys talking during the football game.
00:30 How excited are you guys to talk about football this weekend?
00:35 We're really excited to irritate serious football fans all over the world.
00:40 What are they even... Why are they doing... Shut those people up!
00:45 I'm trying to watch the game here.
00:47 But, yeah, we're really excited.
00:49 Yes, CBS and, you know, the NFL and Nickelodeon have teamed up to do
00:55 kind of like an alternate Earth 2 version broadcast of the Super Bowl.
01:01 So, it's the same game, obviously, but there's this overlay of Nickelodeon wackiness.
01:06 So, SpongeBob and Patrick are... which is us in motion capture suits.
01:10 Don't worry, you won't be seeing us. Don't worry about it. Don't get scared.
01:14 Nor will... Yeah, you won't see us in our leotards and tights.
01:17 You won't see us in our green leotard motion capture suits with the weird bulges.
01:22 No, it's going to be... So, yeah.
01:27 So, Nate Burleson and Noah Eagle are going to be handling the real game calling.
01:33 They are professionals.
01:34 Yeah, don't worry.
01:35 They are talented.
01:36 Boy, do they have our backs big time.
01:38 So, the conceit is that the stadium, Allegiant Stadium here in beautiful Las Vegas,
01:43 has been dropped into beautiful bikini bottom.
01:46 And these people that have never seen football before,
01:49 SpongeBob and Patrick and Sandy and Plankton,
01:52 are seeing a football game for the first time.
01:55 And, yeah, it's going to be... Yeah, it's weird.
01:58 It's kind of like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" in real time.
02:00 We're not there to enlighten anyone.
02:02 We just want to have fun and we want to make it a great environment for kids
02:07 to enjoy the game and process all that crazy stuff that happens in a football game.
02:13 And Nate and Noah are so good at that.
02:15 They've done it a few times.
02:17 So, our job is to have fun.
02:20 Yeah, so family will be watching it together.
02:23 I was thinking it would be an interesting experience to do the screen-in-screen thing.
02:27 You've got the real Super Bowl and then you've got the crazy Nickelodeon.
02:30 Well, the Nickelodeon was the real game too,
02:32 but the CBS version won't have jellyfish and bubbles coming out of guys' butts
02:37 when they're running down the field.
02:40 Only we have that.
02:41 So, yeah, watch it on Nickelodeon.
02:43 I think you'll find it hopefully pretty entertaining.
02:47 Spongebob, what position would you play if you were to play in the Super Bowl?
02:51 Oh, boy, let's see.
02:52 There's a tight end.
02:53 I would be the soft end.
02:55 I would be the soft end because my fanny is very spongy.
02:59 What about you, Patrick?
03:01 I'd be in charge of the snacks.
03:04 There are snacks, right?
03:06 Yeah, there's a lot of snacks.
03:07 Okay, well, that's my game.
03:09 A lot of peanut butter jelly.
03:10 I'd be an all pro, pro bowl snack master.
03:14 Yes.
03:15 He thinks the Super Bowl--he thinks the bowl in Super Bowl actually is full of snacks.
03:19 Okay, so who do you think is the snack master in the game this weekend, Patrick?
03:25 Is it Travis Kelce?
03:27 Is it George Kittle?
03:28 Is it Chris Jones?
03:29 Is it Patrick Mahomes?
03:30 Is it Brock Purdy?
03:32 Brock Purdy sounds like a--that's like a Flintstones character name.
03:38 Brock Purdy.
03:39 Yeah, B. Rock Purdy.
03:40 Patrick Mahomes.
03:43 My home is a pineapple and your home is a rock, so we both have--we each have Mahomes, respectively.
03:51 Okay, let's talk--let's go--let's jump over into something else right now.
03:55 So they said Tiger Woods is playing in his first golf tournament this season at the Genesis Open.
04:03 Do you have any tips for Tiger this week?
04:05 Wow.
04:06 You know, I don't know who this Tiger Woods is, but I know a Tiger Fish.
04:10 I wonder if they know each other.
04:14 Oh, man.
04:15 Any golf advice, Bill?
04:16 Take care of that leg, man.
04:18 Yeah, yeah, take care of that.
04:19 I got to say, the only golf I've ever played involves windmills.
04:23 You know, if there's not a windmill, I'm not on that course.
04:26 I like the mini golf.
04:27 I'm all about the mini golf.
04:29 Don't have to pay a caddy.
04:30 Super Bowl prediction.
04:31 Yes.
04:32 Who survives the Chiefs or the Niners in Bikini Bottom?
04:36 Which team survives in--
04:38 Well, let's see.
04:39 As long as their helmets enable them to breathe water--breathe air underwater, I think everybody's going to survive.
04:45 Everybody's going to come out of this alive.
04:48 Everybody.
04:49 We got this.
04:50 Don't worry, Taylor.
04:51 You're not going to--it's going to be good.
04:52 So, man, let's see.
04:54 Let's see who is going to survive.
04:56 I think we're all going to survive.
04:57 We're all going to survive, but someone's going to be more happy than someone else.
05:03 That is a bold prediction.
05:04 I predict that one of the teams--
05:06 It just came to me.
05:07 One of the teams that has big guys, large men, with logos on their helmets is going to take this thing home.
05:12 One of the two.
05:13 That is my bold prediction.
05:15 I got a question for Tom and Bill.
05:17 You guys have been doing SpongeBob for a long time.
05:20 I grew up watching it.
05:21 My kids are watching it.
05:22 What does it mean for you guys to be doing it this long?
05:26 Because this show is still rocking.
05:29 I'm laughing hearing you guys.
05:31 When you enter this ridiculous industry, you understand it's inherently transient.
05:38 And you're at both--maybe you'll get to work with the same people for a couple months.
05:43 Maybe if you're lucky, for a year, you work with the same people.
05:46 We've had this wonderful stability in our lives for over 25 years.
05:52 Plus, we love what we're doing.
05:55 You never anticipate it.
05:58 You never expect it because it's so rare.
06:01 It's funny.
06:04 Your stint on Coach--
06:06 Nine years.
06:07 That's nine years.
06:08 In show business, that's a lottery scratcher.
06:11 And then here's SpongeBob that's almost triple that now.
06:16 It's pretty insane.
06:18 Nine years and 25.
06:20 Stability, doing characters we really like, working with people that we really like,
06:26 we really get along, we really are friends.
06:27 And everybody on the show is beautiful.
06:29 It's the same cast that it's always been.
06:31 So you get to know people very well.
06:33 And we like that, which is fortunate because that would be terrible to spend a quarter century with people you detest.
06:40 But no, it's really a beautiful thing.
06:43 And then the generational, multi-generational footprint like you talked about, like you watch it now, your kids watch it.
06:50 That's incredible.
06:51 That's really a gift.
06:52 Like when people come up and tell us that, I mean it sounds corny, but it really is the best part of the job.
06:59 When people say, "Hey, I grew up on this. Now my kids are watching it."
07:02 We laugh at it.
07:03 And hopefully this Super Bowl broadcast will be that similar family group viewing for people
07:11 that maybe have not had a chance to watch a Super Bowl that way before.
07:15 Hopefully Spongebob and the whole Nickelodeon thing can kind of be the on-ramp for kids who are new to football
07:23 and maybe haven't really dipped their toe in it yet.
07:25 But maybe the cartoon aspect will be the thing that draws them in.
07:29 Right. Would you say that doing the Super Bowl broadcast this week is like, I don't want to say a bucket list,
07:36 but is it something that you guys ever thought that it would happen?
07:39 Well, as a lifetime football fan, I wouldn't have even dared to put this on my bucket list.
07:45 No, just the experience I had doing the game last year, the Nickelodeon broadcast on Christmas Day,
07:50 was an exhilarating, incredible experience.
07:55 This is just, I'm still struggling to actually completely...
08:00 Take it all in.
08:01 Yeah, take it all in.
08:02 Me too. Me too.
08:03 Because we haven't really been on the stage.
08:04 We haven't even tried out the technology yet, which is going to transpose Tom and Bill messing around
08:11 into Spongebob and Patrick sitting at a table.
08:13 We haven't even seen that yet, except for kind of some test footage and mock-ups and stuff like that.
08:17 So, I'm with Bill. It kind of hasn't really percolated into my spongy brain yet, what this is.
08:26 But one thing that we are seeing that's really gratifying and exciting
08:31 is that people are kind of freaking out in a good way about the prospect of it.
08:35 Like, "Spongebob's doing a Super Bowl!"
08:37 I'm amazed how much crossover there is between intense sports fans, like football fandom, and animation.
08:45 Sure.
08:46 There's a lot of crowd. People are like, "My two favorite things in life are the 49ers or the Chiefs and Spongebob."
08:53 Like, this is a harmonic convergence of all time.
08:56 So, that kind of surprised me, how often I'm hearing that.
09:01 "I love these two things and know they're together!"
09:04 It's like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
09:07 Exactly.
09:08 "Hey, you got Super Bowl in my Spongebob. Hey, you got Spongebob in my Super Bowl.
09:12 Don't worry, it tastes pretty good."
09:14 We can't say Reese's.
09:16 I want to thank Spongebob and Patrick for coming on to talk to me.
09:21 I appreciate it. I feel blessed.
09:23 Awesome.
09:24 I appreciate it. I can't wait to watch the game.
09:26 Brayden, my son, Liana, my daughter, you are watching the podcast of the Spongebob crew.
09:33 Don't let him forget, Brayden!
09:35 We want to thank you and your beautiful family for letting us into your lives.
09:40 Thank you so much for that.
09:42 Sports Illustrated, Patrick, Spongebob.
09:46 I don't have nothing else to say.
09:48 (laughing)