Basket Sponge/FAQ

The official FAQ page for Basket Sponge! Written by The Imperial Ghost, Basket Sponge co-creator and writer.

Overall Series
Question: What is the series?

Answer: The series is a basketball comedy drama that stars NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Byrant and SpongeBob SquarePants as they beat up the remaining teams in the POBA to become the champions of underwater baskeball!

Question: Who created the series?

Question: A combination of Mike-Doctor Bugs, Luis-SCBA and myself, Adam-The Imperial Ghost.

Question: Who owns the series now?

Answer: Me, Luis (not that much) and Jasbre2002, previously Mike and my cousin James have co-owned it but due to something happening, both of them have left.

Question: Why did the series end?

Answer: I needed a break and the series was falling apart as I was the one who owned it, so in early-early 2016, I wrote a 'final' episode to kill off LeBron and finish the series.

Question: Any chance of it coming back?

Answer: We tried many times later in 2016, BUT... it has sort of come back as a revival in it's (current) fourth season which saw new ownership and new in-experienced writers of the genre.

Question: I've been looking at the early episodes lately and sometimes some people have been editing the episodes afterwards? Who does this?

Answer: Usually, I never did notice this until late on in the first season. But, it was actually Mike-Doctor Bugs. He was a sort of 'script editor' for the first two and a half seasons, which was then followed up Luis and then myself for the third season. Currently this job is now owned by Jasbre2002 and myself, sometimes other writers do supervise on editing the script but sometimes they don't.

Question: Are the rival team, the Toon Tomahawks based on anyone?

Answer: Yes, they are based on a team I used to be in during my high school years, this even fed into some of the time when spent on Basket Sponge itself but the team disbanded when exams came up in 2016, we do meet up however... But yeah, it's based on a team that I nicknamed 'The Toon Tomahawks' after the nature of how in my area of the country, we substitute the word 'toon' for 'town' due to accents.

Question: Where do I start in the series?

Answer: Season One, Episode One... A Legend Begins. If not, I would say... Season 1, Episode 5.

Question: I don't follow the rules of basketball, does this matter?

Answer: Not really, most of the humour doesn't rely on the rules. One of the best episodes ever was Leaked Footage Reel and it didn't follow much on the rules, but just let itself be funny for it's worth. Season two and three decided to step away from basketball, so if you don't know the rules by then... they don't depend that much.