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Nickelodeon has made a SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween special called The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom and they've even released a trailer for it that you can watch below. The best thing about this is that it's all done in stop-motion animation!

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom tells the tale of the Flying Dutchman (Brian Doyle-Murray), who shows up in Bikini Bottom and he is looking to scare everyone. Since SpongeBob thinks that scary things funny, the Flying Dutchman has met his challenge.

There will be all kinds of changes to the show to give it that fun Halloween vibe:

Bikini Bottom is decked out for Halloween and features Sandy’s treedome as a mad scientist’s lab, including a giant remotely operated Acorn Monster; Mr. Krabs’ restaurant as “The Horrors of the Chum Bucket,” displaying scenes of Plankton torturing food; and Plankton’s restaurant as “The Horrors of the Krusty Krab,...

Since he made his Nickelodeon debut in 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has had countless adventures (some of them quite trippy, in fact) and his latest looks to be another memorable one for the show's scrapbook, as SpongeBob meets his backbone in the trailer for The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom, a new stop-motion animated special airing on October, Friday the 13th.

Watch the new trailer for The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom below, and in case you missed it, watch a Comic-Con clip from the special.

"See Sponge-boo Scare-Pants in a brand new stop motion special! It’s spooky! It’s spongey! It’s stop motion-y! Don’t miss the brand new SpongeBob special, The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom, this Friday the 13th! (Insert evil laugh here!)

The production features 27 unique sets, across five stages, where 15 boxes of breakfast cereal were used to create texture on Bikini Bottom's coral reefs; eight pounds of glitter...

Last year Mondo brought out the fun horror side of SpongeBob Squarepants with their Hash Slinging Slasher poster, and now Nickelodeon is giving horror fans who enjoy a little pineapple under the sea another reason to rejoice, as they've announced a stop-motion SpongeBob Halloween special premiering this October, and you can watch the first clip right now:

Press Release: Fans filled the room to the gills at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 for Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants: The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom panel on Saturday, July 22. During the panel, series’ notable voice actors Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy) Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs) and surprise guest Brian Doyle Murray (Flying Dutchman) performed a live table read of a fan-picked classic episode, “Shanghaied.”

Moderated by Claudia Spinelli (Executive in Charge, SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon), a look at the upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants stop-motion special was given from Nickelodeon...

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The Henson name is synonymous with puppets, or rather, Muppets. Not so much animation, but everyone deserves a shot at it these days, right? According to THR, The Jim Henson Co. has joined forces with a team from Screen Novelties to begin production on Monster Safari. The team includes scribes Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman as well as directors Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh. Based on a previous Screen Novelties short, the movie will be stop-motion animated and will likely revolve around monsters on some sort of safari, probably in the jungle. I'm not familiar with any of their previous work, but Screen Novelties seems to have a pretty interesting style going and working with Henson will only help that. Although I'm skeptical about anything stop-motion that isn't done by Aardman, this should be an interesting addition to the genre. Check out their website here for an idea...

I hope this is a sign that the Jim Henson Company is coming back in a big way. The Screen Novelties short film Monster Safari is being adapted into a feature stop-motion project for the Jim Henson Co. Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman, who started the site Homestar Runner, will be working with three directors from Screen Novelties, Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh, to create the feature version of Monster Safari. The story revolves around what happens when the Earth's monsters come out of hiding and a pair of bumbling crypto-zoologists spring into action to save them from a ruthless big-game hunter. "What's great about Screen Novelties is their look and feel is very Henson-esque," Henson Co exec Jason Lust said. "There was a stylistic similarity." It's great to see them break out like this, especially at a place like the Jim Henson Co. "They have a wry,...

Screenwriters Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman and three directors from the effects/production company Screen Novelties -- Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh -- will create the stop-motion animation project Monster Safari for the Jim Henson Co. The story revolves around what happens when the Earth's monsters come out of hiding and a pair of bumbling crypto-zoologists spring into action to save them from a ruthless big-game hunter.

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman are writing and creating Monster Safari.

The screenwriting duo as well three directors from the effects/production company Screen Novelties, they are Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh, will all join forces to create this stop-motion animation project for the Jim Henson Co.

Originally, the film started as a short from Screen Novelties. Henson executives Lisa Henson and Jason Lust decided the short should be feature.

"What's great about Screen Novelties is their look and feel is very Henson-esque," Lust stated. "There was a stylistic similarity."

The story looks at what happens when the Earth's monsters decide to stop hiding and two crypto-zoologists rush to save them from an evil big-game hunter.

"They have a wry, witty sense of humor that fits perfectly with the Henson and the Screen Novelties approach to comedy," Lust offered.

Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman are going on a "Monster Safari."

The screenwriting pair and three directors from the effects/production company Screen Novelties -- Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh -- will create the stop-motion animation project for the Jim Henson Co.

"Safari" began life as a short film from Screen Novelties that Henson execs Lisa Henson and Jason Lust decided to spin into a feature.

"What's great about Screen Novelties is their look and feel is very Henson-esque," Lust said. "There was a stylistic similarity."

The "Safari" story revolves around what happens when the Earth's monsters come out of hiding and a pair of bumbling crypto-zoologists spring into action to save them from a ruthless big-game hunter.

Zobel and Chapman, who founded the animation site Homestarrunner.com with Chapman's brother Mike, had been shopping an animation spec titled "Ron Planet." The Henson execs read it, liked it...