Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

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Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
"SpongeBob! I'm off to summer camp!"
Genre: Comedy
Surreal comedy
Slapstick
Dark comedy
Animated Sitcom
Running Time: 22 Minutes
Country: United States
South Korea (Animation production)
Release Date: March 4, 2021 - July 10, 2024
Network(s): Paramount+
Created by: Stephen Hillenburg (characters)
Luke Brookshier
Marc Ceccarelli
Andrew Goodman
Kaz
Mr. Lawrence
Vincent Waller (series)
Distributed by: ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks
Starring: Tom Kenny
Bill Fagerbakke
Rodger Bumpass
Clancy Brown
Mr. Lawrence
Jill Talley
Carolyn Lawrence
Mary Jo Catlett
Lori Alan
Dee Bradley Baker
Grey DeLisle
Carlos Alazraqui
Kate Higgins
Episodes: 39 (75 segments)
Next show: The Patrick Star Show

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years is an American CG-animated television series that premiered on Paramount+ on March 4, 2021. The series is a spinoff of SpongeBob SquarePants, featuring the main cast as aged-down children attending a summer camp, and is considered a prequel to the original series. It was quietly cancelled on July 10, 2024, presumably as part of Paramount Global's efforts to save costs (though unlike other shows formerly available on Paramount+, it wasn't written off for taxes and remains on the service).

Synopsis

A 10-year-old SpongeBob goes to a summer sleepaway camp called Kamp Koral, with younger versions of his friends.

Good Qualities

  1. Great voice acting, just like the main series it's based on.
  2. The theme song is catchy.
  3. Despite some lighting issues during the first half of Season 1, the animation is solid and captures the expressiveness of the main show's recent seasons.
    • It got better in the second half of the first and second seasons when the lighting was less harsh, the colors were brighter than before, and 2D artwork and animations are now appearing more in Season 2.
  4. The characters are still charming and lovable as always.
    • SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy have extra charm to them. For example, SpongeBob still has his love for jellyfish when he tries to catch them for good grades, Patrick has funny behavior such as when he takes one of SpongeBob's jellyfish to make toast with jelly, and Sandy is a little dumb and clumsy to make her funnier.
    • The show even introduces a baby version of Pearl Krabs, which is cute.
    • The show introduced that was from the original series (like one-off, or old and new), as Mo, Craig Mammelton (even though he was unlikable in his debut episode, Sun Bleached), Nosferatu (tho named as Kidferatu), Nurse Helga, Rea and Roh, Lady Upturn
    • Even Kevin C. Cucumber has a recurring role, and his first major role since the SpongeBob second season episode "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic".
  5. The designs of the characters look cute.
  6. Hilarious, well-done gags.
  7. The time cards are carried over from the main series and are as hilarious as ever.
  8. As with the main series, the APM tracks are used here, and the show still has a fitting Hawaiian-esque soundtrack.
  9. Unlike Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, Teen Titans Go!, Bob the Builder (2015), The Powerpuff Girls (2016), and Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (despite the latter being created by the same guy who made the original Ren and Stimpy), it respects its source material and the formula set up by it.
  10. The second half of Season 1 and Season 2 had started to get better as the side characters started to have spotlights and the plots were getting creative.
  11. There are a handful of creative and good episodes, as to be expected from a SpongeBob SquarePants TV show.
  12. Its TV movie in the main series, "Kreepaway Kamp," is amazing.

Bad Qualities

  1. There are some mediocre/bad episodes such as:
    • Season 1:
      • "Night of the Living Stench"
      • "Kamp Kow"
      • "Reveille Revolution"
      • "Patrick Takes the Cake"
    • Season 2:
      • "The Taste of Defeat"
      • "Dig This"
      • "Swimmin' Holed"
  2. Some minor retcons such as
    • Sandy meeting SpongeBob as kids when they meet each other as adults in "Tea at the Treedome", which was explained in the episode "Kitchen Sponge" as Sandy's adult self sending her younger self to Kamp Koral to prevent Plankton from stealing the Krabby Patty formula.
    • Another inconsistency is that in the regular series, Squidward is older than SpongeBob and Patrick and is a similar age to Mr. Krabs.
      • This can be proven in “The Curse of Bikini Bottom” when SpongeBob and Patrick refer to him as “Old Man Squidward” and Squidward having worked at the Krusty Krab long before SpongeBob.
    • Mr. Krabs is a rival with Plankton despite being friends in the main series episode "Friend or Foe".
  3. Sometimes, it may be too similar to Camp Lazlo, though it shared the same writer, Kaz.
  4. The animation, while still solid, isn't perfect and has some issues.
    • It can be a little off, dim, and uncanny, and can give people a negative impression of the look of the animation.
    • Despite the character designs being cute, they don't match up to their Sponge on the Run designs.
    • The lighting looks quite off due to bad light rendering during the first half of Season 1.
      • There are also some weird/strange storylines (whether good or bad) such as "Five Times the Fun", "Nite Owls", "Parasite Pals" and "The Suit Suits You".
  5. While the voice acting is good as mentioned above, all of the characters have the same voices as their adult counterparts in the main show, although they had kids do the voices in Sponge on the Run.
  6. The Squidward Torture trope is still a consistent problem throughout a lot of this show, with "Reveille Revolution" being the worst offender.
  7. This show aired on Nick Jr. at one point, although this show is not a preschool show. Though this can be excused as some parents and toddlers may think this is a preschool show, especially with the fact that this show uses CGI animation and most of the characters in the show are kids, so parents may think the kids look like children from preschool shows.

Good And Decent Episodes Of The Show

Season 1

  1. "The Jellyfish Kid" (a great start to the series, a great way to start double-length episodes, and a great way to start airing the episodes on Nickelodeon)
  2. "Sugar Squeeze" (Narlene and Nobby's debut)
  3. "Tag, You're It"
  4. "Quest for Tire"
  5. "Cabin of Curiosities"
  6. "In Search of Camp Noodist"
  7. "Kitchen Sponge"
  8. "The Treasure of Kamp Koral"
  9. "Camper Gary"
  10. "Midnight Snack Attack"
  11. "What About Meep?"
  12. "Pat's A Li'l Sinker"
  13. "Camp SpongeBob"
  14. "Squisery"
  15. "Game Night"
  16. "My Fair Nobby"
  17. "Gimme a News Break"
  18. "Wise Kraken"
  19. "Squatch Stop"
  20. "The Ho! Ho! Horror!" (a great way to start the holiday-themed episodes, as well as airing the last episodes as the episode was the last episode to air on Nickelodeon and 2021 and the episode ended that stuff on a great note.)
  21. "Outhouse Outrage"
  22. "Are You Afraid of the Dork?" (a great way to end the episodes releasing on Paramount+ in 2021 as well as a great way to end the holiday-themed episodes releasing on Paramount+ in 2021.)
  23. "Help Not Wanted" (a great way to start the episodes releasing on Paramount+ in 2023 and the episode starts the episodes releasing in 2023 on a great note and the episode has water to make it more as it was in underwater as well as Brandon Warren's career in this show)
  24. "Camp Spirit"
  25. "Hill-Fu"
  26. "Sun's Out, Fun's Out"
  27. "First and Last Aid"
  28. "Camp Crossbones"
  29. "Lake Crashers"
  30. "Boo Light Special" (which bring back Mike Bell)
  31. "Painting with Squidward"
  32. "Helter Shelter"
  33. "The Switch Glitch"
  34. "Prickly Pests"
  35. "Are You Smarter Than a Smart Cabin?"
  36. "Deep Sea Despot"
  37. "Regi-Hilled"
  38. "The Perfect Camper"
  39. "Eye of the Hotdog"
  40. "Scaredy Squirrel"
  41. "Hats Off in Space"
  42. "In a Nut's Shell" (a great way to end season 1 of which the episodes were released on Paramount+ in 2023.)

Season 2

  1. "Mad Science Squirrel" (a great way to start season 2 and a great way to start the episodes were released on Paramount+ in 2024.)
  2. "To Pop a Bubble"
  3. "High and Dry"
  4. "The Beardsman"
  5. "Five Times the Fun"
  6. "Nut Madness"
  7. "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boys"
  8. "A Tale of Two Roxies"
  9. "Nite Owls"
  10. "Calling Some Monsters"
  11. "Krabsy the Klown"
  12. "Lords of the Larp"
  13. "Mascot Mayhem"
  14. "Putt Up or Shut Up"
  15. "Patrick's Star"
  16. "A Finful of Sand Dollars"
  17. "Cretins of the Night"
  18. "The Suit Suits You"
  19. "End of Summer Daze" (a great way to end the show, the episodes that were released on Paramount+ in 2024, and a great way to end season 2 with a banger.)

Reception and Controversy

When Kamp Koral was announced, a lot of people did not take the then-new spin-off well and expected Kamp Koral to be bad due to rumors saying "Hillenburg did not want any spin-offs to be made or connected with SpongeBob", especially to the point where the spin-off received many negative reviews and feedback on IMDb before it was ever released. Two years later, the complaints mostly subsided once it was revealed that Hillenburg knew about the series before he died in 2018, and what he said in one of his interviews is that "he didn't see any potential spin-offs for SpongeBob", not that he has a dislike or bias against spin-offs in general, which proves this whole "Hillenburg was against spin-offs" rumor was all a big misunderstanding from the start.

Since then, the show received mostly mixed to positive reviews from critics and fans of the original series despite some still not liking the show due to what is listed below.

However, despite getting more positive reviews, it currently has a 3.6/10 on IMDb, which makes it review-bombed, just like The Patrick Star Show. This is likely due to the fans that think Kamp Koral and The Patrick Star Show "disrespect Stephen Hillenburg's Legacy" although Stephen Hillenburg worked on this show before his death unlike The Patrick Star Show.

NICKtendo put it as the third place, as it had more spotlights than The Tidal Zone, it wasn't strong enough compared to Saving Bikini Bottom.

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Trivia

  • According to the official SpongeBob timeline, Kamp Koral is likely set between 1996 and 1999.
    • However, NICKtendo said that it takes on the alt timeline.
  • Some of the characters such as Narlene, Nobby, Elwood, Harvey, and Mo later make their appearances in "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "The Patrick Star Show" as well as the SpongeBob SquarePants special "Kreepaway Kamp", though having their older appearances, besides Elwood.
    • Some characters who only appear in the original series, like Craig Mammelton, Nosferatu did appear in their young versions.

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