Don't Be A Jerk, It's Christmas

Don't Be A Jerk, It's Christmas is a TV movie produced by The Krusty Krab Pizza Productions, which aired on Nickelodeon on December 10, 2011 and 8:00 PM EST.

Plot
During Christmas time, everyone is only buying gifts for themselves, and are being rude to one another. SpongeBob doesn't want the Bikini Bottom to act like jerks.

SpongeBob gathers all the Bikini Bottomers to talk to them about how being a jerk isn't the Christmas spirit. They don't listen to him, and they contunie to act like jerks.

SpongeBob then runs into a Christmas Fairy, which will grant him one Christmas wish which will last until Christmas. SpongeBob wishes that the Bikini Bottermers had nothing, so they can learn the true meaning of Christmas.

That night the Bikini Bottom citizens loose everything, so they have to go to a homeless shelter. SpongeBob hopes this will show them, that they could see that there are people who also have nothing, but they still act like jerks. SpongeBob is mad at them, he decides to leave the Bikini Bottom.

As SpongeBob tries to look for cities without jerky people, he is out of luck. He days in the cold weather looking for an honest place and then, on Christmas Eve, he finds it. Paradise Bottom. Everyone there is friendly, and they people ive their Christmas presents to the orphans and homeless. SpongeBob decideds to live there and leave the Bikini Bottom in the past.

Back in the Bikini Bottom, the spell wears off and the Bikini Bottom citizens get their stuff back. However, they find themselves feeling bad about the homeless people, and they give their presents to them. SpongeBob's friends have been missing him, so they go on a hunt for him.

Back at Paradise Bottom, SpongeBob is getting kind of tired about how nice the people are. They are too nice. SpongeBob decides to go back to the Bikini Bottom, and on the way he runs into his friends. They tell him how sorry they are about being jerks. SpongeBob accepts their apology and goes back to the Bikini Bottom.

Production
This was the first TV movie produced by the company. The movie had a length of 93 minutes, filling in 4 half-hour time slots.This movie took 8 months to produce. Most scenes were filmed simultaneously. The movie started production in February 2011 and finished production in October 2011. Post-production finished November 15th. The instrumental version of Don't Be A Jerk was heard in the movie, and the song, with the lyrics, were played in the end credits.

Reception
The original premiere of the movie on December 10th gained 8.18 million viewers. A rebroadcast on the day after at 11:00 AM got 4.681 viewers. It finished the week of December 5 - 11, 2011 as the number 1 scripted program. This movie recieved mostly posotive reviews from critics.