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SpongeBob Walk Cycle is a video series remixing the walk cycle taken an episode of the animated Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants.

Origin

On the March 21st, 2003 episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly", live-action character Patchy the Pirate purports to find a tape that shows a "lost episode" of SpongeBob. Near the beginning of the episode, he puts in the tape and finds the clip is simply a series of SpongeBob doing walk cycles to upbeat music before abruptly showing a television test card (shown below). After Patchy sees this, he proclaims that "SpongeBob betrayed us!", throws out all his SpongeBob merchandise and runs away.

Spread

On April 17th, 2007, YouTube user magicjames92 uploaded a video called “Spongebob Squarepants Walk It Out Music Video,” which has over 12 million views as of January 13th, 2017.

In the coming years, dozens more remixes appeared on YouTube using various different music clips.

Various Examples

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