SpongeBob's Hype Stand

About

SpongeBob's Hype Stand is a four-panel comic series based off several screen captured images from the children's animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants depicting Spongebob being swarmed by customers while manning a vending stand. The screenshots are typically edited to appear as if the character is selling a much-anticipated product.

Origin

The images in the left column of the comics originate from the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Bubblestand" and the right column images are taken from the episode "Patty Hype."^[1][2] On July 26th, 2014, the earliest known instance of the four-panel comic was submitted to the Spanish-language Facebook humor page Jose-JP (shown below).^[5]

Spread

On September 12th, 2014, Redditor jmannation submitted a Super Smash Bros.-themed version of the comic to the /r/funny^[3] subreddit, where it gained over 4,000 votes (92% upvoted) and 220 comments prior to being archived (shown below, left). That week, the image was reposted on 9gag,^[6] gaining more than 23,000 points and 150 comments in the next seven months. On January 20th, 2015, Redditor CraftZ49 submitted a different Super Smash Brothers-themed comic to the /r/spongebros^[4] subreddit (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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