How could SpongeBob do this?! !?!!?!? on the Run follow SpongeBob as he tries to track down his beloved snail Gary who has been taken by Poseidon to be his new skincare, yes you read that right. Over the course of one day, the tweet gained roughly 66,800 likes (shown below). On July 25th, 2023, the Nostalgia Critic posted a video to the Channel Awesome Twitter page in which he reacted to the 'Bubble Bass Reviews' episode. Reactions and content about the episode started to spread across social media going into late July 2023, additionally spreading to platforms like TikTok. Other discourse surfaced about the 'catgirl' scene in the episode, such as in a Reddit post to /r/NonPoliticalTwitter in which the Redditor (cookie_tree4) shared a tweet screenshot and wrote, 'the biggest takeaway for me is that anime catgirls are now canon in SpongeBob,' gaining roughly 1,800 upvotes in one day (shown below, right). For instance, on July 24th, Twitter user tweeted a screencap from the episode, writing, 'Never in a million years would I see SpongeBob make an entire fucking episode on making fun of The Nostalgia Critic,' gaining roughly 35,700 likes in one day (shown below, left). Going into the evening of July 24th, 2023, various Twitter users amplified awareness of the episode in viral tweets and memes. This is the greatest episode ever made /lEMhvmzoIv Soon after the aforementioned tweet on July 24th, Twitter user tweeted a clip from the episode, writing, 'this is the greatest episode ever made,' gaining roughly 7,800 likes in one day (shown below). EST on July 24th, Twitter user posted the first known reaction to the episode, writing, 'NO WAY NOSTALGIA CRITIC REFERENCE IN SPONGEBOB?!' The tweet received roughly 23,200 likes in one day (shown below). Bubble Bass resembled YouTuber Nostalgia Critic in his outfit and mannerisms.

In the episode, Bubble Bass played the part of a critic who was reviewing Patrick's show. On July 24th, 2023, season one, episode 26a of The Patrick Star Show titled 'Bubble Bass Reviews' aired on American television.

Moving sponge bob