Tuesday, October 31, 2006

This is really good:

In 1998 Viacom Inc. attempted to launch the children's television channel Nickelodeon in Germany, but failed. In order to turn a profit out of the situation, Viacom sold the rights of certain Nickelodeon shows to a local children's channel called Super RTL. One of those shows happened to be the wildly popular SpongeBob Squarepants, although in German it's called SpongeBob Schwammkopf, translated as SpongeBob Spongehead. (HAHAHA!)



Look at how spongey that fuckin' head is!


Now, in the year 2006, Viacom is once again trying to establish Nickelodeon in Germany, but it already sold SpongeBob Spongehead to the more established German competitor Super RTL. So, in an effort to gain viewers, German Nickelodeon is trying to one up Super RTL by showing SpongeBob Spongehead eight times a day, compared to the three episodes a day that Super RTL broadcasts. As a result of this ratings struggle, SpongeBob Spongehead is aired 28 hours a week in Germany.

(I bet my Aunt Mary Ann, who lives in Germany, is having a blast right now watching so much SpongeBob Spongehead. Shit, I don't even get one episode of spongeBob Sponghead a week.)

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