Visual Artifacts Found in SpongeBob

Nautical Nonsense/Sponge Buddies DVD:
Club SpongeBob: very clean
Dying for Pie: very clean
F.U.N.: very clean
Graveyard Shift: very clean
Jellyfishing: very clean
Ripped Pants: very clean
SB-129: very clean
Something Smells: very clean
Texas: very clean
Wormy: very clean

Halloween DVD:
Band Geeks: composite artifacts and overcontrast
Frankendoodle: composite artifacts
Idiot Box: very clean
Imitation Krabs: composite artifacts
I Was a Teenage Gary: composite artifacts
My Pretty Seahorse: very clean
Scaredy Pants: composite artifacts
The Secret Box: composite artifacts and overcontrast
Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost: composite artifacts
Welcome to the Chum Bucket: composite artifacts

Sea Stories DVD:
The Algae’s Always Greener: composite artifacts
Gary Takes a Bath: extremely bad composite artifacts
Hooky: composite artifacts
Jellyfish Jam: composite artifacts
Life of Crime: extremely bad composite artifacts
No Free Rides: composite artifacts
No Weenies Allowed: very clean
Pickles: bad composite artifacts
Sailor Mouth: composite artifacts
Shanghaied: composite artifacts

Tales from the Deep DVD:
Born Again Krabs: very clean (but with antialiasing)
Hall Monitor: extremely bad composite artifacts
I Had an Accident: very clean (but with antialiasing)
Just One Bite: very clean
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy: composite artifacts
Party Pooper Pants: very clean (there's some pixel glitches at some points)
The Paper: composite artifacts
Tea at the Treedome: composite artifacts
Valentine's Day: extremely bad composite artifacts

Lost at Sea DVD:
Boating School: composite artifacts
Bubble Buddy: composite artifacts
The Chaperone: composite artifacts
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II: composite artifacts
Plankton!: composite artifacts
Prehibernation Week: extremely bad composite artifacts
The Sponge Who Could Fly: extremely clean
Suds: composite artifacts
Your Shoe’s Untied: composite artifacts

Tide and Seek DVD:
Big Pink Loser: composite artifacts
Bossy Boots: clean but with pixelization
The Bully:
Dumped: extremely bad composite artifacts
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III: composite artifacts
Opposite Day: composite artifacts
Rock-a-Bye Bivalve: clean
Sleepy Time:
Squidville: clean but with pixelization
Squirrel Jokes: composite artifacts

Christmas DVD:
As Seen on TV:
Chocolate with Nuts: very clean
Christmas Who?: very clean
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV:
Pizza Delivery: haloing and composite artifacts
Procrastination: very clean
Snowball Effect: composite artifacts
Squeaky Boots: composite artifacts
Survival of the Idiots:

The Seascape Capers DVD:
Artist Unknown:
Bubblestand: composite artifacts
The Fry Cook Games: composite artifacts
Grandma's Kisses: clean but with pixelization
Krab Borg: very clean
Krusty Love: composite artifacts
Pranks a Lot:
The Smoking Peanut: composite artifacts
SpongeBob Meets the Strangler:
Squid's Day Off:

SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric DVD:
Fools in April:
The Great Snail Race:
I'm With Stupid: composite artifacts plus dim colors
Nature Pants:
Patty Hype: very bad composite artifacts
Plankton's Army: very clean
Squid on Strike: very clean
Squilliam Returns: very clean
Ugh: very clean

SpongeGuard on Duty DVD:
Clams: Season 2 DVD-tier color destruction (PaleBob) plus composite artifacts
Doing Time:
Jellyfish Hunter: composite artifacts
Nasty Patty: Season 2 DVD-tier color destruction (PaleBob) plus composite artifacts
Naughty Nautical Neighbors: composite artifacts
Pressure:
SpongeGuard on Duty: composite artifacts and Season 2 DVD-tier color destruction (PaleBob)
Walking Small: composite artifacts

Sponge for Hire DVD:
The Camping Episode:
Can You Spare a Dime?:
Krabby Land: composite artifacts
Krusty Krab Training Video: composite artifacts
Mid-Life Crustacean: composite artifacts
Missing Identity: composite artifacts
New Student Starfish: composite artifacts
Wet Painters: composite artifacts

Home Sweet Pineapple DVD:
Band Geeks:
Culture Shock:
Employee of the Month:
Home Sweet Pineapple:
MuscleBob BuffPants:
Ripped Pants: very clean
Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm: composite artifacts
Sandy's Rocket: composite artifacts

Fear of a Krabby Patty DVD:
Arrgh!: composite artifacts
Fear of a Krabby Patty: clean but with bad haloing
I'm Your Biggest Fanatic: composite artifacts:
Karate Choppers: very clean
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V: very clean
Neptune's Spatula: extremely bad composite artifacts and oversaturation
One Krabs Trash: very clean
Shell of a Man: clean but with bad haloing

I need help with how every episode looks like on the DVDs after Lost at Sea (Tide and Seek-Fear of a Krabby Patty) and the Halloween DVD (not sure if Idiot Box and My Pretty Seahorse actually look clean)
 
The traditionally animated seasons of Family Guy also have the rainbow effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfX35o7v6XY

Depsite the fact that these episodes had the dot crawl and the CRT artifacts, Family Guy looked so much better when it was done on paper
 
spongebranch said:
I heard all of Season 3 and half of Season 2 got new copies on iTunes. Anyone seen them?
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I haven't checked them out unfortunately I don't have iTunes since I have a Samsung device.
Do you remember where you heard Seasons 2-3 got new copies?
 
LARRY22 said:
I haven't checked them out unfortunately I don't have iTunes since I have a Samsung device.
Do you remember where you heard Seasons 2-3 got new copies?
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on the lost media wiki discord
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Do the episodes still have VHS effect, or they're razor sharp
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they are razor sharp
LARRY22 said:
OK thanks. Do you think they will fix Dumped and Survival of the Idiots? I haven't seen a single clean copy of those episodes except for the German prints.
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perhaps they will
 
Anyone notice how shows made in the 70s or ealier don't have the VHS effect, the VHS effect is only prominent in shows that were made in the 80's through 2001. Speaking of 2001:

Ewwwww, early season 3 of dexter's lab has some NASTY dot crawl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8zqlikkDLk&t=1s
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Show us screenshots
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Various episodes, but not all, have been upscaled to pillarboxed widescreen with MUCH improved quality. Here's an overview of which episodes (the ones with the black bars in the preview thumbnails):
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Sadly, Survival of the Idiots and Dumped haven't been updated (yet?). But who knows...

Anyway, here's a few screenshots from the vastly improved episodes:
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The image that started it all (almost)...
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And, guess what episode pair is no longer dull-colored :D
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But more importantly...
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Looks like Nickelodeon is secretly accepting our requests for restored prints of these episodes :) Either that or they just simply looked at the episodes, wondered how the heck they were airing such low quality prints, and decided to tidy them up on their own. Or perhaps they're doing this to gear up for some sort of special 20th anniversary re-release... Either way, this is a really good thing.
 
JaiSponge said:
Various episodes, but not all, have been upscaled to pillarboxed widescreen with MUCH improved quality. Here's an overview of which episodes (the ones with the black bars in the preview thumbnails):
Nw7bSL9.png

niN4Uje.png

lntaMTC.png
h22G4IA.png
1cAmLza.png
Y0dCSZH.png


Sadly, Survival of the Idiots and Dumped haven't been updated (yet?). But who knows...

Anyway, here's a few screenshots from the vastly improved episodes:
7SBmIXg.jpg
gC9sZi5.jpg


The image that started it all (almost)...
ylpWnYd.jpg



And, guess what episode pair is no longer dull-colored :D
QUsATzw.jpg
G6tDtqY.jpg


But more importantly...
A7iigqP.jpg
OZr75Di.jpg
AfdaIoM.jpg


Looks like Nickelodeon is secretly accepting our requests for restored prints of these episodes :) Either that or they just simply looked at the episodes, wondered how the heck they were airing such low quality prints, and decided to tidy them up on their own. Or perhaps they're doing this to gear up for some sort of special 20th anniversary re-release... Either way, this is a really good thing.
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Is nick still broadcasting the dot crawl episodes, or both iTunes and Nick HD have clean prints. I wouldn't know since I haven't had cable since 2015
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Is nick still broadcasting the dot crawl episodes, or both iTunes and Nick HD have clean prints. I wouldn't know since I haven't had cable since 2015
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sadly Nickelodeon probably won't because they've sped up their old broadcast tapes beyond even PAL/SECAM standards on the main network and Nicktoons prefers it's older versions that weren't sped up (Survival of the Idiots/Dumped is noticeably softer on Nicktoons)

I wonder if iTunes' updated prints have the Nickelodeon comet tail?
 
spongebranch said:
sadly Nickelodeon probably won't because they've sped up their old broadcast tapes beyond even PAL/SECAM standards on the main network and Nicktoons prefers it's older versions that weren't sped up (Survival of the Idiots/Dumped is noticeably softer on Nicktoons)

I wonder if iTunes' updated prints have the Nickelodeon comet tail?
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They should just air pre-movie episodes on the splat. Nick butchered the prints of classics anways
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Is nick still broadcasting the dot crawl episodes, or both iTunes and Nick HD have clean prints. I wouldn't know since I haven't had cable since 2015
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judging by the haloing they must be international prints (I meant to quote the images)
 
Off topic from SpongeBob, I noticed how the ChalkZone episode "Snap Out of Water" is hit with on and off composite effects for the first 4 or 5 minutes so hard that it's even in international prints and even affects the intro in that episode (you can see dot crawl around the Nickelodeon speech bubble added in international prints if you look hard enough)
ChalkZone_international_transfers.jpg

as i'm typing this, Nickelodeon USA's western feed is airing the SpongeBob episodes "Penny Foolish/Nautical Novice" in 4:3
 
spongebranch said:
Off topic from SpongeBob, I noticed how the ChalkZone episode "Snap Out of Water" is hit with on and off composite effects for the first 4 or 5 minutes so hard that it's even in international prints and even affects the intro in that episode (you can see dot crawl around the Nickelodeon speech bubble added in international prints if you look hard enough)
ChalkZone_international_transfers.jpg

as i'm typing this, Nickelodeon USA's western feed is airing the SpongeBob episodes "Penny Foolish/Nautical Novice" in 4:3
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Many 2000s shows have the on and off composite artifacts
 
In Just One Bite, Spongebob is drawn with two designs:




I find it hysterical how the cerain Toonz Prenium era episodes alternate between art styles throughout the episode.


Anyone notice how various art directors can still storyboard episode in different art styles:

Look at the Algea's Always Greener, it has the normal thin-line season 3 animation, it was storyboarded by CH Greenblat:



Then look at Wet Painters, also boared by CH Greenblat, but it's a markerbob episode:







Which Season 2/3 style do you guys prefer?

Normal thin lined animation:
https://www.sbmania.net/pictures.php?img=dCVPKJumV61X2wuyhBekYb1MJBBIF/r7uKAm3LW0XrQ=

Markerbob:
https://www.sbmania.net/pictures.php?img=O3x7ErjgSIhScG3+32++nzkrjjK+E2EyyFoFqNsw0oI=
 
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