If nautical nonsense be a thing you desire, this year’s Super Bowl will satisfy your would like.
Confident, you could watch the electrical power trio of Jim Nantz (perform-by-participate in), Tony Romo (analyst), and Tracy Wolfson (sideline reporter) phone this year’s significant video game on CBS—and you’d be effectively knowledgeable. If you want, you can watch on the Paramount+ streaming services, which expects to have its greatest-ever viewers. Or, if you’re much more a supporter of the unhinged, you can tune in to Nickelodeon, wherever SpongeBob and Patrick Star will be signing up for the broadcast crew.
Super Bowl LVIII Stay from Bikini Bottom will element the Nickelodeon stars alongside CBS Sports’ Nate Burleson and play-by-enjoy announcer Noah Eagle in serious time, combining a classic broadcast with the animated show, making use of improved graphics and augmented actuality. Technically, of system, it is Tom Kenny (the voice actor at the rear of SpongeBob) and Invoice Fagerbakke (Patrick) who will be in the booth, but viewers will only see and hear the distinctive characters.
The strange presentation of the Tremendous Bowl comes as SpongeBob celebrates its 25th anniversary on Nickelodeon—and 21 consecutive decades of staying the most-watched animated sequence. It is essentially not the initially time Patrick/Fagerbakke has broadcast a match, both.
In 2022, the not-so-shiny starfish made available examination of the Broncos vs. Raiders game on Christmas Working day.
The weirdness doesn’t halt with the broadcast booth. Sandy Cheeks (voiced by Carolyn Lawrence) will act as a sideline reporter. Larry the Lobster (voiced by Mr. Laurence) will supply are living commentary. And fellow Nickelodeon stars Dora the Explorer and Boots the monkey will aid reveal penalty phone calls all through the activity.
You can also be expecting appearances from anyone from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to, natch, SpongeBob’s nemesis, Plankton. And, yes, the slime cannons in the finish zone will be on hand as well to celebrate touchdowns.
Downside? You won’t see many of the finest commercials that are scheduled to air for the duration of the video game.
When there will be a good deal of adults seeing, just to see how Nickelodeon handles a Tremendous Bowl, the broadcast is largely meant for young children, of course. The Taylor Swift impact has increased curiosity in the NFL between some young lovers, who are probably to get dropped in the common protection of the game.
Nickelodeon initial aired an NFL game back in 2021. That Wild Card match in between the New Orleans Saints and the Chicago Bears was the most viewed exhibit on the community in 4 decades, with around 2 million viewers.
Before this year’s video game, the song “Sweet Victory,” from the lover preferred episode, “Band Geeks,” will play. That song was so common that in 2018, admirers petitioned the NFL to include it in the halftime clearly show following SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg handed absent. The upcoming 12 months, Maroon 5 gave it a nod at halftime, but didn’t engage in the track.
This 12 months will be various.
CBS is leaning closely into the Nickelodeon programming, as very well. A pre-video game display, NFL Slimetime, will air on the broadcast community (and Nickelodeon) at 11:30 a.m. ET on Super Bowl Sunday. And for folks who choose to enjoy the additional regular broadcast, but have a nagging curiosity about how Nickelodeon’s coverage went, Nick will supply NFL Slimetime “Super Bowl LVIII Slimelights” on Monday, February 12, at 7 p.m. ET, a recap of the highlights from the video game via the Nickelodeon lens.
Super Bowl LVIII will air this Sunday, February 11—with kickoff set for 6:30 p.m. ET.
