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Month: November 2019 (Page 2 of 6)

Gift Guide: Maria M. by Gilbert Hernandez

Next up In The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide we have the long-awaited complete collection of Gilbert Hernandez’s graphic novel, Maria M. The first half of this was originally published over five years ago, with the sequel scheduled for the following year. However, the second half never did get published, and a couple of months ago Fantagraphics finally published this complete collection, which reprints the first half, along with the never-published conclusion.

This is the perfect gift for any fan of intelligent comics and Love & Rockets.

Maria M. (Vol. 1 & 2) (Love and Rockets)
by Gilbert Hernandez
Fantagraphics
ISBN-13: 978-1683960164
$29.99

This is the fourth in Gilbert Hernandez’ series of graphic novel “adaptations” of the fictional B-movies in which his character Rosabella “Fritz” Martinez stars in stories published in Love and Rockets. Maria M. is a departure in that it’s supposed to be an adaptation of a movie that, in Love and Rockets, was based on a “true” story that was presented in the classic Poison River storyline.

Maria M. is the story of the character who was the mother of Fritz, who then starred in the movie of her mother’s life, and that movie is adapted here. What makes this work so well is that the “movie,” though based on a “true” story, is a sensationalized, exploitation “B” movie that gets many details “wrong,” so it’s not like you’re reading the same story that was portrayed in Poison River.

Anybody order a big plate of meta? Let’s see what the publisher says:

This brutal, original crime thriller graphic novel, from the co-creator of Love and Rockets, tells the story of femme fatale Maria M.

Maria M.’s is a sordid tale of sex, drugs, violence, and power. When she comes to America for a better life, she marries a drug kingpin, whose son learns Maria’s darkest secret, leading to the most violent gangland bloodbath in organized crime history. Maria M. collects 2013’s Book One (now out of print), and the never-before-published Book Two, presenting the complete graphic novel for the first time. Longtime readers of Hernandez’s books will recognize a metatwist worthy of Maria M.’s pulpy pages: Maria M. doubles as a “biopic” of the mother of Hernandez’s most beloved character: Luba from Love and Rockets! Black & white illustrations throughout.

A fine gift for any fans of crime, noir, great graphic novels or the previous works of Gilbert. Maria M. can be ordered from any bookseller, the publisher, Fantagraphics, or Amazon. This is not a comic book for children. Maria M. is essentially a sexploitation movie in graphic novel form. There’s nudity and violence and language, and the lead character is exceptionally well-endowed, as you can see below.

Gift Guide: RFC Plus A New Noise Brigade On The AIR

Tuesday’s Radio Free Charleston On The AIR offers up some local music gift suggestions to tie in with The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide.

Also Tuesday on The AIR we deliver a new episodes of NOISE BRIGADE to our loyal listeners as well as a special two-part edition of The Swing Shift. You may point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay on this page, and  listen to this happy little embedded radio player…

Our new episode of Radio Free Charleston at 10 AM and 10 PM brings you double-shots of music by local artists that was either released, or re-released this year, and might just make for a great gift.

We shine the RFC spotlight on music by Beggars Clan, Emmalea Deal, David Synn, Fletcher’s Grove, The Big Bad and Time And Distance. Technical issues are keeping us from posting this show to YouTube, but you can download a copy of it at this link. You should be able to find some of these local artists at local stores like Budget Tapes & Records, Sullivan’s Records or Taylor Books, or click the links in their names to order online.

Radio Free Charleston can be heard Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM, with replays Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM and 7 PM, Saturday at 11 AM and Midnight, Sunday at 1 PM and the next Monday at 8PM, exclusively on The AIR.

At 2 PM, Steven Allen Adams returns with the second episode of NOISE BRIGADE. He’ll be treating our listeners to the best of Third Wave, modern and even Two-Tone Ska music,. Check out this playlist:

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Hans Gruber and the Die Hards “This Flat Earth”
Hans Gruber and the Die Hards “We’re All Gonna Die”
The Aquabats! “Pizza Day”
The Beat “Rotating Head”
Tiger Army “Afterworld”
Reliant K “High of 75”
Punk Shop Boys “I’m not Sick but I’m Not Well”
Matt Skiba & Kevin Seconds “Good F— Goodbye”
Big D and the Kids Table (w/ the Doped up Dollies) “Early to Bed”
Big D and the Kids Table (w/ the Doped up Dollies) “Earthquake and Fire”
Pennywise “Date with Destiny”
Remember Sports “I Liked You Best”
Less Than Jake “The Science of Selling Yourself Short”
Desmond Dekker “Israelites”
Fishbone “Party at Ground Zero”
MxPx “Want Ad”

NOISE BRIGADE will alternate weeks with Psychedelic Shack Tuesday’s at 2 PM, with replays Wednesday at 11 AM, Thursday at 8 AM and 10 PM, Friday at Noon, Saturday at 10 AM, Sunday at 4 PM and Monday at 7 PM.

At 3 PM your PopCulteer returns with a couple of classic episodes of The Swing Shift that brings you Benny Goodman’s legendary 1938 Concert at Carnegie Hall. If you have a true lover of Swing Music on your holiday shopping list, you can’t go wrong with this deluxe 4 CD box set that includes the legendary concert along with two rare Benny Goodman albums from the 1950s. You can find it at Amazon.

You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 7 AM and 6 PM, Thursday at 7 PM and Saturday at 5 PM, only on The AIR. You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.

Please consider giving the gift of music this holiday season. There are many, many more local artists that you can support than I was able to include in this week’s show.

You can also find a lot of great gifts for fans of Ska music, like we recommended last week.

And please support our local music retailers. Budget Tapes & Records and Sullivan’s both have great selections of new music as well as used music and collectible vinyl.

Elk City Records has a fantastic assortment of Jazz, Swing and classic rock. Taylor Books also sells music by local artists, and I believe that all of these retailers offer gift certificates.

I believe that Budget Tapes & Records and Sullivan’s will also be participating in the Black Friday Record Store Day event this coming weekend.

 

Gift Guide: Broadway Novels

Once again we are turning over The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide, to Mel Larch, AKA Mrs. PopCulteer. Mel is the host of Curtain Call, our musical theater program on The AIR, and today, from 7 AM to 3 PM, you can tune in to The AIR and hear eight hours of her show, filled with the best that musical theater has to offer.

Check it out at the website, or on this nifty little embedded tuner.

Now let’s look at Mel’s gift suggestions for the bookworm/theater kid on your holiday shopping list:

When you have a Broadway buff on your holiday gift list, an Original Cast Recording is one way for them to experience the special joys of musical theatre. But there’s certainly other options out there and today, we shine the spotlight on novelizations of two recent Broadway hits which feature teen characters: The Prom and Dear Evan Hansen.

The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical
By Saundra Mitchell, with Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar
Viking
ISBN 9781984837523
$17.99

Seventeen-year old Emma Nolan wants just one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend, Alyssa Greene at their senior prom. But in their small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that’s like asking for the moon.

When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date, it stirs a community-wide uproar that quickly spirals out of control. The school’s PTA, led by Alyssa’s mother (who doesn’t realize her daughter is a closeted lesbian), threatens to cancel the prom altogether.

Enter Barry Glickman and Dee Dee Allen, two Broadway stars who decide to take up Emma’s cause–and gain some positive publicity for themselves in the process. But when they arrive in Edgewater to take up the fight on her behalf, their good intentions quickly go south. Between Emma facing the controversy head-on, Alyssa wavering about coming out, and Barry and Dee Dee basking in all the attention, it makes for a perfect prom storm. Only when this unlikely group comes together do they realize that love is always worth fighting for.

Author Saundra Mitchell, in collaboration with the show’s creative team of Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar (the team behind the musical adaptation of Elf), have crafted an enjoyable novelization of this Tony nominated musical, which is being adapted for Netflix by American Horror Story creator/producer, Ryan Murphy. The story is told from the perspectives of its central couple, Emma and Alyssa, in alternating chapters. There are details that will delight fans of the show, including an interview with Martin, Beguelin, and Sklar, conducted by original cast member, Josh Lamon.

If someone on your gift list has an “unruly heart,” this adaptation of The Prom would be a great gift. Available from bookstores using the ISBN number, or at a discount from Amazon.

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel
By Val Emmich with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul
Poppy/Little Brown and Company
ISBN 9780316420235
$18.99

When a letter than was never meant to be seen by anyone draws anxiety-ridden high school senior, Evan Hansen, into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell: that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.

All of a sudden, Evan isn’t invisible anymore–even to the girl of his dreams (who also happens to be Connor’s sister, Zoe). And Connor’s parents, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend, have taken Evan in like he was one of their own.

As Evan gets pulled deeper into the Murphys’ swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows what he’s doing can’t be right. But then again, if he’s helping people, how wrong can it be?

No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He’s confident. He’s a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself.

Singer/songwriter Val Emmich, in collaboration with the show’s creators Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul have created a wonderful adaptation of this Tony Award winning show It’s a big-hearted coming-of-age story about grief, authenticity, and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation. While readers won’t find the “behind the scenes” information that The Prom offers, the authors provide information about some organizations which offer resources to help those struggling with mental health issues.

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel is available from bookstores, using the ISBN number, or at a discount from Amazon.

Either of these novels would be a wonderful way to introduce the budding theatre fan in your life to the world of musical theatre, using stories to which young people can relate. Due to frank discussions of sexuality, suicide, and mental health issues, you may want to be mindful of the maturity level of the intended gift recipient.

Check back during The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide for two more posts, each one covering books that celebrate theatre in a different way.

Monday Morning Art: Barn Sketch

This week’s art sees your PopCulteer still playing with the Blackwing Palamino pencil This time it was a casual doodle that turned into a drawing of an old barn along a country road. Nothing really deep about this one. I was just trying to keep the fingers nimble and play with lighting..

You can click on the image to see it bigger.

We’ll have notes on today’s Monday Maraton on The AIR a bit later, as part of The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide.

Gift Guide: The Flaming Carrot Omnibus

Flaming Carrot Omnibus Volume 1
by Bob Burden
Dark Horse Books
ISBN-13: 978-1506714127
$24.99

Now The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide points you to one of the most wonderfully bizarre comic books published in the last four decades. If you know somone who loves superhero comics, but doesn’t like it when they take themselves too seriously, this is the graphic novel collection for them. They’ll never forget Flaming Carrot. Let’s see what the publisher says:

The Eisner award-winning, surreal superhero series, The Flaming Carrot, returns with a new omnibus collection!

Before there ever was a Deadpool, Twin Peaks, or Lady Gaga; the Flaming Carrot’s madcap madness, manic mayhem, and impish mischief exploded from the vanguard of the 80s’ New Wave comic revolution, taking us right down the rabbit hole of creativity-gone-off-the-tracks, and over the rainbow.

Propagating dreamlike surrealism, disturbing violence, sexual adventurism, bar-hopping, and a bizarre and nightmarish costume, the world’s first postmodern super man battled Road Hogs From Outer Space, went on drinking binges with Death, bounced around on a nuclear powered pogo stick, and ordered some of that new Brussels sprout flavored ice cream that wasn’t even on the menu yet.

Check out a comic book series that for many years most people believed to be nothing more than a ridiculous legend or an amusing joke. Doctor recommended. Maximum strength formula. New hope for a nation suffocating in the swill of its own mediocrity.

Collects Flaming Carrot #1-2, 4-11, 25-27.

The movie, Mystery Men was based on characters from this comic book, but for some reason the producers chose not to include The Flaming Carrot himself. An added bonus for fans of independent comics of the 1980s is the inclusion of a three-part team up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is part of the reason this Omnibus is not strictly in chronological order.

Burden’s writing style is somewhere between that of classic Jack Cole (Plastic Man) and Bill Griffith (Zippy The Pinhead). His art style straddles the worlds of underground comics and lurid golden age crime comics. The vast majority of his work is black and white here, and the reproduction is crisp and shows off his linework well.

This is the perfect gift for the super hero fan with a strong sense of the absurd on your holiday shopping list. Available from comic shops, bookstores and Amazon.

Gift Guide/Sunday Evening Video: McGear

Our next suggestion for The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide is the perfect gift for any die-hard fan of Paul McCartney and Wings, or just mid-1970s rock in general. McGear is basically a lost album by Wings. “McGear” is also known as Michael McCartney, younger brother of Sir Paul, and his elder sibling either wrote or co-wrote all but one of the songs on the original album, including the song in the video above, “Leave It.”

The McGear album is a real gem of British pop/rock, and this new boxed set brings the original album back into print for the first time in years, and also includes a bonus audio disc, as well as a region-free DVD with new interviews with Mike McGear plus the above promotional video for the album from 1974. Let’s let the label explain:

Esoteric Recordings is pleased to announce the release of a newly remastered and expanded edition of the album, McGear by Mike McGear. This edition features 21 bonus tracks, including 13 previously unreleased outtakes and tracks alongside singles appearing on CD for the first time.

The set also includes a DVD featuring Mike (McGear) McCartney reminiscing at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, an interview with Mike at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool and the 1974 promotional film for the single ‘Leave It’. Originally released in 1974, McGear was the second solo album by Mike McGear (McCartney) and was a more “serious” record than his work with the Liverpool satirical trio Scaffold, or his work with Roger McGough on the McGough & McGear album.

Recorded at Strawberry studios in Stockport, (the musical home of the band 10cc), the album was produced by Paul McCartney (who also played on the album and co-wrote most of the material with Mike) and featured Linda McCartney and members of Wings, Jimmy McCulloch and Denny Laine, along with guests such as Paddy (“Pipes”) Moloney of The Chieftains. The album featured a selection of tremendous songs such as ‘Rainbow Lady’, ‘Simply Love You’, ‘Givin’ Grease a Ride’ and ‘The Man Who Found God on the Moon’. McGear also featured an inspired cover of the Roxy Music song ‘Sea Breezes’, the evocative ‘The Casket’ and the hit single ‘Leave It’. The sessions also spawned a non-album single; ‘Dance the Do’ (which featured Vivian Stanshall).

You get all that in this nicely-packaged box set, which also marks the debut of the full album artwork in the US, and even cleverly morphs the Esoteric Records label design into the mid-70s Warner Brothers Records label from the original release.

You might be able to order this missing link of the Paul McCartney canon from hipper record stores, or you can seek it out at Amazon. It’s a real gem of a record, and will be a great, obscure treat for any fan of Sir Paul. If you’re wondering where this would fall in the Wings timeline, it was recorded between Band On The Run and Venus And Mars, two of Wings highpoints.

Gift Guide: Reincarnation Stories by Kim Deitch

It’s time for an epic graphic novel recommendation, especailly good as a gift for fans of well-crafted storytelling.

Reincarnation Stories
by Kim Deitch
Fantagraphics
ISBN-13: 978-1683962618

Next up In The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide is the new Graphic Novel by legendary underground comix maestro. Kim Deitch. I haven’t had a chance to crack open my copy yet (look for a PopCult Comicx Bookshelf review in January), but as a fan of Deitch’s for 45 years now, I will recommend this to any fan of challenging graphic novels, underground comix, or any non-superhero comic books.

This seems almost like a career-capper, a summation of every theme that Dietch has addressed over his seven decades as a cartoonist. I’ll turn it over to the publisher’s blurb:

The award-winning cartoonist returns with a graphic novel that spans the past, present, and future of human history, in which Deitch himself, in a parallel reality, meets his spiritual nemesis, Waldo the Cat.

Kim Deitch is an underground cartoonist―i.e., a contemporary of Spiegelman, et al.―whose craft just keeps getting better and better. Aesthetically inspired by silent film and 1930s animation, Deitch’s comics are infused with 1960s psychedelia and spiritualism. Reincarnation Stories is a collection of comics narratives that combine into a graphic novel. It spans the past, present, and future of human history, with appearances by Frank Sinatra, monkey gods, a forgotten cowboy star of the silver screen, and a tribe of Native Americans that successfully resettled on the moon. In a parallel reality, Deitch himself is the mega-successful creator of a series of kids books about a superhero called Young Avatar, who helps marginalized souls lead better lives and whose alter ego is a carpenter. Deitch’s spiritual nemesis (an incarnation of Judas Iscariot), Waldo the Cat, makes an appearance. Black & white illustrations.

Sitting on a bench one day, four-year-old Kim Deitch is accosted by an elderly man. Flask in hand, the man exclaims, “Is it possible? Sid! SID PINCUS! Good God, man! You’ve changed!” A lightbulb goes off in the man’s head. “You died, Sidney! And now you live again!” Whisked away by his mother, young Deitch is left to wonder: Was it all just the mad ravings of a drunk or a tantalizing glimpse into reincarnation?

Thus begins Deitch’s quest to piece together the cosmic jigsaw puzzle of creation and reveal his past lives. This sprawling odyssey weaves through time and space, encompassing a dizzying array of oddball characters, including aspiring screenwriter Sidney Pincus, a tribe of moon-dwelling Native Americans, a feline YouTube star, a has-been silver screen cowboy, Frank Sinatra, and the awesome Monkey God! Featuring Deitch’s surreal scenarios and eye-popping psychedelia, Reincarnation Stories is a gripping yarn and a cartooning tour de force.

You ought to be able to order this book from any bookseller, using the ISBN number, and it’s in stock from Amazon and Fantagraphics.

Gift Guide: The Young Bucks AEW Action Figures (Sort of)

All Elite Wrestling is the hot new wrestling company that just started running on national TV a couple of months ago. They nearly sold out the Charleston Colisseum a few weeks ago, and I know that they have loads of fans around Charleston, and across the country. The perfect gift for the young-at-heart fan of AEW would be an action figure or two of their favorite AEW personalities.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any official AEW action figures…yet.  I have a feeling we’ll find out about an extensive line of them at Toy Fair next February, but for now there aren’t any with the official AEW brand.

However, in a cool twist on old-school LJN wrestling figures, The Young Bucks, who are a tag team in AEW and also executive vice presidents of the company, have a limited-edition two-figure set of themselves, done up in the old, non-articulated LJN Toys action figure style made famous by the WWF back in the 1980s.

LJN, which as a corporate entity ceased to exist a couple of decades ago, has seemingly been revived, and with this set, they’ve captured the look, feel and packaging of their iconic 1980s wrestling figures. They have no articulation, but they bring back loads of memories for long-time fans. Let’s check the PR:

Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson surprise the world once again as The Legendary LJN figure line from the 1980’s has been brought back to life in this incredible Young Bucks LJN 2-pack! The Bucks feature their iconic pose, flexing and confident while they both wear black vests with a red design. They are also sporting matching red and black polka dot ring pants and tasseled boots! The packaging is an exact replica of the original LJN 2-Pack packaging even featuring the same exact artwork!

These sturdy 8″ figures are solid rubber, and can stand up to any hard wrestling action that a wrestling fan can throw at ’em.

The LJN Young Bucks (Nick Jackson & Matt Jackson) is sold exclusively by Ringside Collectibles and will set you back $34.95, plus shipping, which isn’t bad for a cool collectible like this. Add fifteen bucks worth of accessories, and you can get free shipping.

If you want your figures to be more compatible with modern wrestling figures, check out Ring of Honor and Rising Stars figures, where you will find many names from the AEW roster, including the Young Bucks. These lines from Figures Toy Company also include a lot of wrestlers who have since gone onto fame in WWE, NXT, Impact and NWA.

This is where you’ll find figures compatible with current Mattel WWE figures, and among these wrestlers you will find folks who are currently in WWE with new names (both of The Viking Raiders are here, as are Kevin Owens, AJ Styles and Luke Gallows), as well as AEW stars The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega; Impact Wrestling stars Joey Ryan, Moose, Brian Cage and Taya Valkerie, and from NXT you’ll find the entire Undisputed Era, plus their announcer, Nigel McGuiness and Chris Hero (Kassius Ohno).

If you’ve got a wrestling fan on your shopping list, chances are they’ll love some of these lesser-known figures.

The Gift Guide, The Money Demo and Stuff To Do

The PopCulteer
November 22, 2019

We’ve got a shorter than usual PopCulteer again this week, partly due to The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide, and partly due to outside work.

Because The Gift Guide is a bit behind schedule, I have decided to extend it from the intended cutoff date of next Wednesday until December 13. I may not have as many posts as I had planned each day, but stretching it out will mean that I can still bring you all the cool gift ideas on my rather extensive list. Look for more today, and all weekend long, as I try to work my way through it.

One of those outside jobs that’s slowed down the Gift Guide involved consutling on a television advertisting campaign, and that made me start to consider something that will likely turn into a much longer and more involved essay in this space after the first of next year, but I’ll give you the gist of it now.

For decades the “money demograpic” for television advertisers has been adults aged 18-49, with an added emphasis on those aged 18-34. Just as societal attitudes have changed and evolved over the decades, I think maybe it’s time that this “money demographic” be reassessed.

Since I started writing PopCult over fourteen years ago I’ve been more active in the local arts scene and I’ve developed a wide range of friendships with people ten, twenty and thirty years younger than I am.  I also have friends ten and twenty years older than me. I know a pretty diverse group of people across many age and class distinctions.

It seems to me that, as a rough generalization, people over fifty have much, much more disposable income people under fifty. It makes me wonder why advertisers don’t try harder to reach that older generation. The average age of a new car buyer is 53 now. Yet, if you watch television aimed at older viewers, you’ll see ads for catheters and prescription drugs more than you see ads for new cars.

Increasingly, even products aimed at kids are being purchased by grandparents, yet the advertising doesn’t seem to acknowledge that anyone over fifty exists. The advertising industry needs to change to address the shift in how long people are working, and how long it’s taking them to reach a point of financial security.

Sometime in January look for a longer essay that will suggest a new “money demographic” that extends the age to 60 or 65 years old, at least for traditional television. Online advertising and cord-cutting has also shifted the money demographic paradigm as more affluent younger viewers are becoming increasingly less likely to watch traditional broadcast or cable television.

In the meantime, check PopCult regularly for more entries in The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide, and look below for some ideas of cool things you can get into in Charleston and Huntington and between this weekend. Keep in mind that there’s all kinds of other things you can do, but these folks were kind enough to post graphics with the necessary info where I could find them.

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Gift Guide: 20 Years Of SpongeBob!

2019 marks 20 years since SpongeBob Squarepants debuted on Nickelodeon, and today in The 2019 PopCult Gift Guide we’re going to look at some of the great consumer products and toys that are out to mark this momentous milestone.

Back in 1989 nobody suspected that Steve Hillenberg’s quirky undersea creation would become a cartoon superstar on par with Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse, but twenty years later, following decades of top-rated TV shows, tons of toys, a Broadway musical and warm spots in the hearts of millions of fans, we all know that SpongeBob Squarepants is a true animation icon. The Broadway musical has been filmed, with most of the original cast, and will be broadcast on Nickelodeon December 7.

To mark this anniversary, Nickelodeon has authorized several cool commemorative items, and they will all make wonderful gifts for the SpongeBob fan on your holiday shopping list. All together, your giftee can combine all of these things into a perfect SpongeBob Squarepants evening!

SpongeBob Slow Cooker

SpongeBob becomes a convenient kitchen companion to all your culinary adventures with the SpongeBob Slow Cooker. Dinner is served after a full day of simmering in this 7-quart capacity family -size slow cooker.

SpongeBob’s most die-hard fans will love any meal prepared in a small appliance with their hero’s face emblazoned on it, and you have to admit that having this on your kitchen counter will add just the right amount of Krusy Krab ambience to your dining experience.

Recommended for Ages 16 and up, since this is a real slow-cooker and not a toy. The suggested retail price is $39.99, Available at Walmart and other select retailers.

SpongeBob Popcorn Maker

Enjoy your favorite movies in style with popcorn worthy of any SpongeBob fan. The all-new SpongeBob Popcorn Maker can make delicious and fresh popcorn in under five minute. Just add oil and kernels and let the popper do the rest! It’s a great after-dinner snack following a slow-cooked dinner of Krabby Patty Stew. You can see this sleekly-designed Bikini Bottom beacon of popcorn at the head of this post.

What better way to enjoy a SpongeBob marathon than with a huge bowl of freshly-popped popcorn that pops right into SpongeBob’s head? Note that this popcorn popper uses oil, which means it’s going to taste fantastic, and give you more flavoring options.

This is also a real appliance and not a toy, so it’s for ages sixteen and up. The suggested retail price is $35.99 and you can find this gem at Walmart.

SpongeBob’s Best 200 Episodes Ever

You’ve got all that SpongeBobery popcorn and now you want a marathon to watch, so how about adding this boxed set of the first nine seasons of the show?

Bikini Bottom is bursting at the seams with the first 200 (and 4) episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants! Soak in every moment of nautical nonsense from the past two glorious decades, including fan-favorite episodes “Pickles,” “Rock Bottom,” “Chocolate with Nuts,” and “Ripped Pants.” Come along for a Krusty Krab pizza delivery, be ugly and proud, prove you’re tough enough for the Salty Spitoon, and ride the Fiery Fist O’ Pain at Glove World. Plus, rock the Bubble Bowl, show Plankton that things are just more F.U.N. with friends, fight EVIIIL with Mermaidman and Barnacleboy, stop on your right foot (DON’T FORGET IT), and more! This nine-season collection of SpongeBob SquarePants will make every day the best day ever!

If you already have the boxed set of the first 100 episodes, you can also find the Next 100 episodes as a DVD box set, to bring you up to par with the 200 episode collection.

Both DVD box sets are available where ever DVDs are sold.

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