What would everything be like if Spongebob ended after Season 3 like it was initially intended?

What would everything be like if Spongebob ended after Season 3 like it was initially intended?

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>man, remember Spongebob? It’s such a shame it got cut so early in its prime.

Spongebob would be a cult classic then then thenif5u5fg aaaaaaaaa

>like it was initially intended?
It was?
The showrunners and other prominent staff would probably hop onto highly derivative cartoons with mixed success. Like Adventure Time's. Though whether or not it'd be another children's animation dark age is something we wouldn't know.
Oh and Nick would be scrabbling to find another cash cow and generally be in as dire straights as CN frequents.

Nickelodeon would've died during the live-action sitcom takeover. It would still cancel shows like El Tigre, MLAATR, and Danny Phantom, while barely scraping by with Avatar, before falling in the 2010's.

It would be like Avatar, Rocko, MLaaTR, ,Zim and Jimmy Neutron.

Still fondly remembered for the best, and we could have probably got more shows with variety.

Hillenburg probably would have made another show

Nickelodeon would have a more diverse schedule

we'd get people talking about how it ended so soon and how they want a revival/reboot. honestly I wish I live in that timeline

There would probably be better shows(than there are now) and people would remember spongebob as one of the best cartoons of all time, which it still is(at least seasons 1-3). Mr enter wouldnt exist because he wouldn't be pissing and shitting on youtube about squidward torture porn or Patrick being cruel. So, it would've started and ended amazingly, remembered fondly, still made shitloads of money, mr center's channel wouldnt exist which means neither would his clowns- I mean clowns. The world would have been a better place.

The entire cartoon industry would be different since Spongebob created a new definition of successful cartoon that everyone tried to copy but failed.

Think there's an argument for the opposite. They might look back on cancelling Spongebob as a mistake and do their best to support promising new series (IIRC El Tigre's premiere did better than Spongebob's own)

Isn't the industry trying to copy Avatar? It made the first "villain turned hero in Any Forums" and made "lore and serialized episodes" popular. Way before Adventure Time's influence.

I also dislike Mr enter

Nickelodeon would have suicided Hilenburg sooner to get the rights to do more spin offs early on.

A lot of youtubers would have never existed.

>It was?
Yes, the 2004 movie was supposed to be the series finale. Stephen Hillenburg wanted to quit and start a new show, then Nickelodeon paid him a shitton of money to retire and hand Spongebob over to other people. Almost all the original writers and producers left, except for Paul Tibbitt and a few others who stayed and proceeded to run the show into the ground.

>Camp Lazlo is more successful (Cartoon Network only greenlit it to be SpongeBob's successor)
>A more desperate Nick greenlights Adventure Time, which ends after 3 or 4 seasons with Princess Bubblegum and Marceline both implying to be waiting for Finn to turn 18

Honestly sounds like the best decision Nick ever made.

People would be begging for a reboot

And it would get it. Either that or Sponge Out of Water would’ve been the big comeback, around the time they did the Arnold, Zim, and Rocko specials.

Spongebob feels like a living fossil.

Financially, it was. Artistically, it was the worst.

There was no sitcom takeover, live action sitcoms have always been a large part of Nick's history as long as Nicktoons have been. Most aren't as fondly remembered as even the most obscure Nicktoon though.

The moon would be closer. I mean, why not?