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SpongeBob "Behind Closed Doors" Lost Media

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Updated Jul 20, 2023 at 09:51AM EDT by Philipp.

Added Jul 19, 2023 at 05:40AM EDT by Philipp.

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SpongeBob "Behind Closed Doors" Lost Media refers to NSFW pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters done by the show's storyboard artists that were discovered by a lost media researcher in July 2023. Shortly after appearing online, the images went viral on social media, becoming a prevalent subject of discourse and memes.

Origin

On September 21st, 2012, comic art magazine Hogan's Alley published an interview with people who worked on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants titled "The Oral History of SpongeBob SquarePants."[1] In the interview, the show's former writer and storyboard director Kent Osborne describes Behind Closed Doors, a book of crude and obscene drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters drawn by storyboard artists working on the show around 2001. The drawings were done on Post-It notes and placed on the back of the doors, so if the door was open no one would see them (extract shown below).


Osborne: At the end of the season, all the storyboard artists would do these hilarious, crude drawings of SpongeBob on Post-It notes just to make everyone else laugh. And these drawings would go on the back of the door, because if the door was open no one would see them. Sam Henderson took all of these Post-Its and made them into a book and gave a copy to everybody. The name of the book was Behind Closed Doors. He didn't want to put everyone's names in case it fell into the wrong hands, so he made anagrams of everyone's name and put them on the back of the book. They were hilarious. The anagram for me was Tek Bonerson. To this day, when I see Tom Kenny, he lights up and says, "Tek!"

On July 18th, 2023, YouTuber[2] LSuperSonicQ uploaded a video about the book, revealing that he was in correspondence with a person who had a copy of it. In the video, LSuperSonicQ talked about the book and showcased the book's cover and six of the images found in it, most of which depicted SpongeBob SquarePants characters in a sexual manner or engaged in some sort of sexual activity. The video (shown below) gained over 227,000 views in 16 hours.



Additionally, LSuperSonicQ uploaded scans of the drawings to Internet Archive[3] (censored versions shown below).


BEHIND CLOSED DOORS HORRIBLE, FILTHY, VILE, DISGUSTING, INAPPROPRIATE, OFF-MODEL DRAWINGS BY THE CREW OF A POPULAR CARTOON SHOW ADVERTISEMENT W Milk mustaches don't last long when you're a sponge. Which means I may have to drink another glass of yummy chocolate milk. Or two. Or three. Or four. CHOCOLATE got milk? A SpongeBob Squarepants YOU WISH Milk is a sponsor of SpongeBob's "You Wish" event on Nickelodeon. Tune in on March 9 at 8 PM where you can choose the ending. C2001 VACOM INTERNATIONAL INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NICKELODEON, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS AND ALL RELATED TITLES LOGOS AND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS CREATED BY STEPHEN MILLENBURG C2001 AMERICA'S DAIRY FARMERS AND MILK PROCESSORS ti V 0. 114 HOW DO YOU MAKE IT SING LIKE THAT ?? W 26. (1 ITONLY SINGS ADOUND You зало- WARD A 0
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On July 18th, 2023, @LSuperSonicQ tweeted[4] about the discovery, describing it as "the lost SpongeBob Holy Grail." The tweet (shown below) received over 980 retweets and 6,500 likes in one day.


LSuperSonicQ @LSuperSonicQ This is is, the lost SpongeBob HOLY GRAIL youtu.be/mo1xHGhgjZQ ssa In the early 2000s, a dozen of SpongeBob's storyboard artists contributed inappropriate drawings to a book called Behind Closed Doors For over 20 years this was unknown to exist and never been seen until today this is REAL 3:38 PM Jul 18, 2023 1.4M Views YO. :

In the following hours, the discovery became a subject of discussions on Twitter as users posted about Behind Closed Doors and referenced it in tweets. For example, on July 18th, 2023, Twitter[5] user @Q_Review wrote "Congratulations to lost media hunters, but I have never seen something and so quickly thought "This didn't need found." The tweet (shown below) garnered over 1,100 retweets and 20,600 likes in one day.


Various Examples


TRAFON(s Backup Account) @RiseFallNickBck Lost Media Hunters finding the SpongeBob Art Book today: 71 12:02 AM Jul 19, 2023 56.9K Views KAPWING Crimson Mayhem @Crimson_Mayhem_ THE LOST MEDIA COMMUNITY FOUND F------ WHAT!? 5:50 PM Jul 18, 2023 387.9K Views . . DE I don't think any piece of lost media has ever made me laugh harder than this Imao BG BatteryMaster (Comms 5/6) @KennethCrooker1 OFF MODEL ATER IN THE SHOW. ) R AR DIAL KRABS! TRANS AND NOW FOR 4:59 PM Jul 18, 2023 70K Views Scene Panel DIAL THE TRANS Timing CHASER! BG DRE

Search Interest

External References

[1] Hogan's Alley – The Oral History of SpongeBob SquarePants

[2] YouTube – The Darkest SpongeBob Lost Media, Found [Behind Closed Doors]

[3] NSFW Internet Archive – SpongeBob Behind Closed Doors

[4] Twitter – @LSuperSonicQ

[5] Twitter – @Q_Review

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