Customer Reviews

SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes

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Episodes:
1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome
2. Bubblestand / RippedPants
3. Jellyfishing / Plankton!
4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School
5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple
6. MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy / Pickles
7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam
8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots
9. NaturePants / Opposite Day
10. Culture Shock / F.U.N.
11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost
12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month
13. ScaredyPants / I Was A Teenage Gary
14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers
15. Sleepy Time / Suds
16. Valentine's Day / The Paper
17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom
18. Texas / Walking Small
19. Fools In April / Neptune's Spatula
20. Hooky / MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy II
21. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off
22. Something Smells / Bossy Boots
23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy
24. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs
25. Wormy / Patty Hype
26. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville
27. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime
28. Christmas Who?
29. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped
30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
31. MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy III / Squirrel Jokes
32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut
33. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath
34. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle
35. The Secret Box / Band Geeks
36. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love
37. Procrastination / I'm With Stupid
38. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown
39. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games
40. Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm / Squid On Strike
41. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty
42. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse
43. Just One Bite / The Bully
44. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box
45. MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy IV / Doing Time
46. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash
47. As Seen On TV / Can You Spare a Dime?
48. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns
49. Krab Borg / Rock-A-Bye Bivalve
50. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video
51. Party Pooper Pants
52. Chocolate With Nuts / MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy V
53. New Student Starfish / Clams
54. Ugh
55. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean
56. Born Again Krabs / I Had An Accident
57. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode
58. Missing Identity / Plankton's Army
59. The Sponge Who Could Fly
60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot
61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man
62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton
63. Have You Seen This Snail?
64. Skill Crane / Good Neighbor
65. Selling Out / FunnyPants
66. Dunces and Dragons
67. MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy VI / Enemy In Law
68. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants
69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired!
70. Ghost Host / Wishing You Well
71. Chimps Ahoy! / Whale of a Birthday
72. Karate Island / All That Glitters
73. New Leaf / Once Bitten
74. Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck
75. Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady
76. Hocus Pocus / The Thing
77. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb
78. Best Frenemies / Born to be Wild
79. Squid Wood / The Pink Purloiner
80. Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum
81. Friend or Foe?
82. The Original Fry Cook / Night Light
83. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Fungus Among Us
84. Boat Smarts / Good Ol' Whatshisname / Spy Buddies
85. New Digs / Krabs á la Mode
86. Roller Cowards / Bucket Sweet Bucket
87. To Love a Patty / Breath of Fresh Squidward
88. SpongeBob vs. the Patty Gadget / Money Talks / Slimy Dancing
89. The Krusty Sponge / Sing a Song of Patrick
90. The Krusty Plate / The Donut of Shame / A Flea in Her Dome
91. Le Big Switch / Goo Goo Gas
92. Atlantis SquarePantis
93. Pat No Pay / Picture Day / Blackjack
94. Blackened Sponge / MermaidMan vs. SpongeBob
95. The Inmates of Summer / To Save a Squirrel
96. Pest of the West
97. The Battle of Bikini Bottom / 20,000 Patties Under the Sea
98. What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?
99. The Two Faces of Squidward / SpongeHenge
100. Banned in Bikini Bottom / Stanley S. SquarePants

Bonus Features:
-All 100 episodes (207 segments) on 14 discs
-All shorts (Unconfirmed)
-All bonus features from the first 5 season DVDs (Unconfirmed)
-Pilot Episode "Help Wanted" in regular and 7 Seas Edition
-Documentary "SquareRoots" in original, uncut widescreen format
-Animation Art Galleries
-Music Videos
-More to come!

It is unknown the status about the features labeled "unconfirmed", and what the disc break-up is going to be. My guess is if it includes way more bonus features than listed, then it would be discs 1-10 are the episodes (half a season per disc) and 11-14 are bonus discs, but only time will tell.

There will be a setup menu on each disc with audio and visual options, and presumably captions, and the packaging will be a 3D-lenticular slipcase housed in plexiglass. It sounds like a deal to me, and I'll be picking this up despite the fact I already own seasons 1-5 on DVD.

We own all of the original seasons (1-5) currently offered of SpongeBob SquarePants. We love them but they take up a lot of space and we constantly have the discs rotating throughout our house. We definitely will keep the originals but this set is just a little wider than the box of the 1st season set. Now when our son asks for a certain episode (which he does often) we can actually find it!

I just unpacked this item so I am not sure if discs 1-13 contain bonus features (other than commentaries). There are no extras listed and I haven't found any other extras on the discs with episodes. Also, the menus aren't animated as elaborately as the originals. I prefer the original menus on the previous separate season releases; they are animated (moving pictures) as opposed to one static picture and it is easier to select the specific show that you want on the older version menus. Although, the new menus seem to load more quickly.

* I added some screenshots of the menu to the "customer images" section of this item's listing.

Disc 14 contains the following special features:

- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
- "Help Wanted": The Seven Seas Edition
- Life Lessons from Bikini Bottom
- Kick-Wham-Pow-Bob Music Video

My bottom line opinion: If you are a huge fan, get the original set AND this set -- now at amazon.com for $65. If you don't care about the space or price and want just one set - get the originals. If you have kids and a budget or you like to just "play all" of the episodes - I would recommend this one because it takes up so little space and the price is really good right now - a lot cheaper than if you bought all of the seasons separately.

I already owned the first three seasons on DVD, but I bought this set for two reasons:

1. To save space

This set is just barely wider than either the first or second season boxsets, by about one thinpack DVD case at most. The third season is roughly half the width of either the first or second season boxsets. 'The First 100 Episodes' boxset takes up a little less than half the shelf space of Seasons 1-3 combined (and it also includes Seasons 4 and 5, but that's a moot point because they plain suck).

2. Because I'm a freak about keeping things in mint condition

This boxset at one point came in a plexiglass hardcase with nice bubble cutouts, and a lenticular 3D slipcover. I'm not sure if that was a limited first print run, or maybe it was exclusive to certain retailers, but the boxset I got from Amazon did NOT have a hardcase or a lenticular splicover. That was half the reason I ordered this set, I really wanted the hardcase because I'm obsessive-compulsive about keeping all my media in absolutely pristine condition. I handle my DVDs like they're glass babies, and I hate it when boxsets come in cardboard cases (especially digipacks, those are the worst). By the way, the cardboard shell on my set did arrive all wrinkled/creased along the bottom, with the corners all squished in. I know there are people out there like me that feel my pain on that one... so just be warned, if you were expecting a hardcase, there's a good chance that you won't get one if you order from Amazon. Go to a store and try to find one on the shelves.

Edit: I went to Best Buy to see if I could find a boxset with a plexi case and there weren't any. They had about four sets that were identical to the one I received from Amazon. Two Wal-Marts and a Target didn't even have it in stock.

There honestly has been no doubt about the success of Spongebob Squarepants, and the impact it has had on Nickelodeon, and its audiences. It not only has been the most successful cartoon they've developed since the days of Rugrats, but it also has domianted with everyone from young and old audiences of all kinds. But honestly, it is hard to believe that just this year it has celebrated its 10th Anniversary in the spotlight, and has became one of the most popular cartoon characters of all-time. With that success, Spongebob and all of his friends from Bikini Bottom, have shown not just fun and laughter, but a great feeling that has brought in more humor than we've seen from cartoon in a long time. Not only that, but Nickelodeon is really celebrating what has made Spongebob a true cartoon icon, with a compilation of what 100 Spongebobs would be like on one collaction.

Spongebob Squarepants: The First 100 Episodes brings in Spongebob Squarepants and his finest cuts from his first 5 seasons, to a whole new generation of fans young and old alike. The collection includes all of Spongebob's greatest highs and nautical humor with animation, and what it has brought out from him, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, and all of those great from Bikini Bottom at their best. All the 100 episodes have been remastered beautifully, and re-introduce Spongebob from top to bottom well, from guilty pleasures favorites like The Camping Episode, where Spongebob & Patrick are joined by Squidward reluctantly, who feels that Spongebob and Patrick are not fit enough to joing them with their camping ways, only to be later attacked by an underwater sea bear, and Dunces & Dragons (a spoof on the Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court), where Spongebob & Patrick acciodentally wind up in medevil times, to defeat Plankton, the one-eyed wizard from the heartbreak of Bikini Bottom's torture, and Chimps Ahoy, where Spongebob helps a heartbroken Sandy from fear of leaving Bikini Bottom from not deliveringa knockout invention, by helping to design a new invention for Sandy's bosses, a bunch of chimps. Every short feels like a treat heart and soul, a great treat for anyone who has been a hard core Spongebob fan from young and old. All of them have been remastered nicely, but I do have one big gripe though. In the episode Just One Bite, where Squidward enters the Krusty Krab after closing, eagerly going to sneak a krabby patty, and feed his desire for loving krabby patties. Unfortunately, there was one major scene removed where Squidward, sneaks into the Krusty Krab, but gets hurt from Mr. Krabs security system, being burned from a gas explosion. This scene was also removed from the original launch from Just One Bite as well, but later shown for a brief time on Nickelodeon.

Still, overall, Spongebob Squarepants: The First 100 Episodes is a absolutely great delight for the hard core Spongebob fan, as well as for anyone who has not yet neven seen any of the great Spongebob cartoons from all the way back to 1999. It is absolutely a real must have for anyone who enjoys delightful, classic cartoons. I absolutely recommend this as a great reminder of how loveable the sponge from Bikini Bottom has captured our hearts.

Price: B+

Remastering: A-

Extras: B+

Overall: A-

I cancelled my cable and figured that spongebob is their favorite cartoon and bought this set. Any spongebob fan will love to have this set, it's a lot of spongebob, so be prepared to have fun.

This item was purchased for my son who is a Spongebob fan. We have enjoyed watching all the action from the begining to the end. My item wasn't packed quite properly as the plastic case was cracked and unusable but the dics were in fine condition.

The kids love SpongeBob but it seems like they were always watching the same episode so I decided to fix that! Excellent price, Excellent shipping, perfect product.

I bought this set a year ago for my son, and it is still a part of our daily activities! And since it is so well organized I don't find myself watching the same episode twice in one week.
the thick plastic case protects the disc from tinny hands, and each individual case comes complete with colorful artwork of your favorite bikini bottom residence. over all it was a great buy and i will be buying the 101-200 when it releases.

Excellent collection will provide hours of entertainment. I especially enjoyed being able to see the first SpongeBob episode plus the bonus features were allot of fun too!

Of all the cartoon worlds that exist out there, Bikini Bottom is the place I would visit if I could!

Every night my family gathers around the living room television set to watch the misadventures of Spongebob, Patrick, Squigward and the gang and we love it! Watching the same episodes over and over is certainly not a problem.

Spongebob is goofy, silly and his laugh is ridiculous, and it just makes us love him more! I am hoping to purchase this particular DVD set for the holiday season. It's a must have for all Spongebob fans.

If you haven't tried Spongebob, if you love laughing at the ridiculous...then give this a try. If you aren't sure about it, pop on Nickolodeon channel, there are always Spongebob episodes on everyday.

It helps me to unwind after a day of the serious, adult world. I like being silly, and I'm not ashamed to admit I watch cartoons! Spongebob makes me feel like a kid again!