Production
Atlantis SquarePantis was written by longtime SpongeBob writers, Casey Alexander, Zeus Cervas, Steven Banks, and Dani Michaeli. Directed by Andrew Overtoom, it is the first made-for-television film of the series. Atlantis SquarePants originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on November 12, 2007, preceding a 12-hour SpongeBob marathon.
English musician and artist David Bowie guest starred as the voice of the Atlantean King, Lord Royal Highness. Writing on his blog, David Bowie said:
It's happened. At last. I've hit the Holy Grail of animation gigs. Yesterday I got to be a character on…. tan-tara… SpongeBob SquarePants. Oh Yeah!! We, the family, are thrilled. Nothing else need happen this year, well, this week anyway. My character in this special longform (I think a half hour special) show is called 'Lord Royal Highness'. Alrighteee!!
" an adventurous quest kind of a story," says Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, "about SpongeBob and his friends journeying and discovering the lost continent of Atlantis, which is ruled by a character voiced by David Bowie." Kenny added, "the people who are often surprising to me and unexpected. You don't picture David Bowie, the Thin White Duke, sitting on the couch in his pajamas eating Cheerios watching SpongeBob cartoons. our little basic-cable budget we could never afford to pay a legend like David Bowie what he's worth, but the fact he wants to be in something his kid likes is what gets the ball rolling." Tom Kenny described Bowie's performance as "wonderfully convincing It almost sounded real."
On November 13, 2007, the episode was released on the DVD compilation of the same name in the United States and Canada, and on October 27, 2008 in region 2. The episode was also released in the series' season five DVD, alongside 21 other episodes.
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