I'm ready. I'm ready. I...
[laughing]
[music playing]
You know, I guess every character's voice morphs
and changes over the-
You know, I think he was a little-
He was a little more down here when he- when he started.
Maybe because he was a little more
in the grown up world.
And I, you know, sort of working at the- you know, working
at the restaurant and stuff.
And then, sort of without us noticing his voice
as he became more childlike in the scripts
and as he became more of a kid in some of the stories.
He just sort of, sort of went-
There was just- There was only so much
that you could do in this range down here.
Wow, Gary.
You know, then we started getting more excited
and more up here.
And- and just like, "Whoa" you know?
And so- so I think he just became
more hyperactive, more child.
And just- just, I think I felt like I needed someplace
to go where I have more wiggle room.
You know, as his character developed,
you know, as- as he got more layers,
It doesn't seem right... but it feels so good.
It's not, and nobody, you don't even really notice it.
You know, nobody notices.
It just sounds like erosion, you know,
it's just kind of slow process, positive erosion.
[music playing]
Oh, okay. So let's see.
Sometimes you've got to reverse engineer stuff.
I'm ready. I'm- I'm ready. I'm ready.
Okay, so let's get a cold.
He's got the suds. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
[coughing]
[music playing]
Oh. Oh, I better turn my mic down for this.
I have been wanting to say this for a long, long time!
I'm ready!
Oh, cool. I'm ready.
I r... eady.
I'm ready.
[slow motion] I'm ready.
[laughing]
♪ I'm ready I'm ready ♪
♪ I'm ready ♪
[laughing]
I'm... ready.
That stuff is so- you guys are weird.
Oh, so, like a valley girl SpongeBob.
Uh, hello. I'm ready.
Great. Wow, let's see.
So a pro wrestler would say, "I'm ready."
[unintelligible]
I'm ready.
[music playing]
Well, you know, there's a lot, you know,
and, uh, what's-
what I love about SpongeBob is that was once
one of those catchphrases becomes, uh, kind of iconic,
they are sort of reticence to reuse it.
Even I'm ready,
yeah, you know, it doesn't get overused, you know.
It's a "I'm ready",
you know, he'll say it here and there.
But that was kind of like the first words he uttered,
You know, when he- when he op- when he slammed out
of his pineapple in that pilot.
I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
I'm ready. I'm ready.
It's funny, the ones that people ask for
are sometimes surprising. You know, they'll come to you
at a Comicon and they'll just go,
"My sister's favorite line is,
Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?"
Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?
I'm feeling a warm spot.
Sorry.
That's her favorite line?
And they'll go, "Yeah", you know,
so, uh, yeah, there's a lot of them, you know.
Could- Could you say "He was number one"?
It was his hat, Mr. Krabs!
He was number one.
You know, it's like- it's like,
"Wow, that's- out of 20 seasons, that's your favorite line?"
And they're like, "Yeah, I love that."
Yeah, there's so many.
You like Krabby Patties don't you, Squidward?
Do I have a favorite? There's a Patchy line.
This is a really obscure one, but Patchy the Pirate
in one of the earlier appearances.
Potty the Parrot,
the marionette parrot is bugging him.
Uh, and- and he just looks at me, he goes,
"You, I'm ignoring."
[squawking] Man overboard.
You, I'm ignoring.
So it's funny, like I've never heard
anyone else love that line.
But I use that one a lot. You know what I mean?
Still, yeah, when my kids- when they're bugging me.
You, I'm ignoring You know what I mean?
And, uh, it just comes in handy.
It's like [unintelligible] pirate.
You know, you, I'm ignoring.
That's right, Potty.
So, if I could make a line more iconic than it is,
it would be, "You, I'm ignoring."
I just found that line so funny,
and I've never found anybody else
who even remembers it, you know?
[laughing]
Well, I liked it.
[music playing]
[laughing]
You know, sometimes when you're talking to kids,
you know, they- they generally know.
But I know, like when I'm reading stuff
like these- these are- these are scripts.
that I'm, um, I'm dealing with right now.
So a lot of times when I'm reading-
When I'm reading the script,
I won't know my kids are behind me.
They're like Dad, "You're- you're talking out loud",
you know, like, but- but, like quiet, like I'm talking
like a crazy guy on a bus.
[grumbling]
[laughing]
[making weird noises]
Yeah, yeah, you're just- You're just kind of read it
in everybody's voice.
They're like, "Dad, you're doing it again."
It's like I have to hear it that way.
But a lot of times, yeah, most of the time I don't-
I- I won't do it unconsciously, like slip into it.
But, uh, kids, yeah, kids wanna hear it.
You know, especially- especially kids, you know,
and- and 20, when I say kids, I mean 20 somethings.
I mean everybody from like four year olds
up to, like 34 year olds.
So, uh, so, that's, uh, yeah, that's true. Yeah.
[music playing]
Wow, 100% impacted my life in unforeseen ways.
You know, being this- the vocal component,
of this thing that makes people happy, makes them laugh.
Yeah, you know, they associate it
with positive things. in their life.
You know, people that they watched it with,
so, uh, that kind of stuff is really impactful to me,
like- like, just to be the connective,
little part of that connective tissue.
You know, just to be one cell in that organism.
Like I- You know, I think the biggest movie stars
might not ever get to feel that.
We're having so much fun. Doesn't that make us winners?
Thanks for watching.
[laughing]
Boom!