u/SummerAndTinkles

I've heard this story a few times, and that whenever SpongeBob does his deep voice, it's actually Tom Kenny imitating Lawrence's original audition.

But this story never made sense to me. Isn't SpongeBob supposed to be this hyperactive childish dork similar to Pee-Wee Herman? Why would anyone look at this character and picture him with a deep villainous Tony the Tiger voice, as opposed to the high nasally voice Tom went with?

I know the crew said that Krabby Patties are vegan, but I don't really buy that.

I was fourteen when The Princess and the Frog came out, and I remember refusing to see it because I was still in my "Disney princesses are stupid and girly" phase, since the trailers were really playing up the whole theme of magic and wishes and dreams coming true and other corny princessy stuff.

Conversely, I DID see Tangled a year later because the trailers made it look like a Dreamworks-style slapstick comedy, only to be surprised when it was a straightforward princess musical...and even more surprised when my brothers liked it, which made me realize there was nothing to be ashamed of for watching Disney Princess films. (Ironically TPatF was less of a straightforward princess movie than Tangled was despite being advertised as such.)

Meanwhile, while I loved Pooh as a kid, I was fifteen when the 2011 Winnie the Pooh film came out, and I didn't want to see it because I still saw Pooh as a "baby" franchise.

Putting aside the fact that both films came out at unfortunate times (with TPatF competing with Avatar, and Pooh competing with the last Harry Potter film), keep in mind that both franchises weren't exactly aimed at older boys like myself, with Disney Princesses being marketed exclusively to young girls throughout the 2000s and Pooh being marketed to toddlers in that time. So I personally think Disney kiddifying their 2D franchises during the 2000s combined with Shrek taking the piss out of Disney is what caused audiences to think "2D is for kids, 3D is for both kids and adults" and thus lose interest in 2D films.

What do you guys think? Do you think if Disney had marketed TPatF more like Tangled, it would've been more successful? (Keep in mind, it didn't bomb, it just wasn't as big a hit as Tangled.)

It's one thing when a community is mostly positive about a show with a few negatives here and there, but with the FIM fandom it feels like the opposite. where positive opinions are harder to find.

(On an irrelevant note, TIL Quibble has his own Wikipedia page. Seriously.)