![]() ![]() On January 2, 2020, a SpongeBob marathon was run that had trivia panels transparenly covering half of the screen.Like the Nick Studio 10 popups, viewers complained over social media and it ended after the 1PM hour. Over Christmas Eve 2019, Nickelodeon and its sister channels were airing a popup that crunches the show you're watching to half of the screen inside a snowglobe, which lasts the whole show.For example, during the premiere of The Loud House episode "Roll Model", an animated wrecking ball smashed through the screen and cut into a promo for All That. Beginning in June of 2019, Nickelodeon would have a distracting graphic cover the last few seconds of the show to promote other programs.An ad for the Nickelodeon phone app sometimes would (translucently) cover the entire screen during some shows.As of 2018, Nickelodeon now airs commercials and promos right after a show's intro ended.When Sanjay and Craig premiered, Nick had a promo cut in immediately after the show's intro ended.Even though it only affected reruns that most viewers had seen hundreds of times before, they weren't happy to see a network messing with programming they paid for, and Nick quickly did away with the intrusions (and eventually the block). During repeats of SpongeBob and The Fairly OddParents! reruns were interrupted with random "comedic" videos for the first couple weeks and a mocking voice stating that "Nick Did It!", often at the funniest point in the episode (for instance, the Leif Erikson Day gag in the SpongeBob episode "Bubble Buddy"). Nickelodeon's Nick Studio 10 block was a rather infamous instance of this trope.It's even become a meme where SpongeBob laughs at other sad moments in movies and TV shows. In the first airing of the The Legend of Korra episode "And the Winner Is.", a bug of SpongeBob laughing shows up just as Korra is shown falling, making it look like he was laughing at her misery, (as pictured on the main page image).They later did much subtler promotions for shows, such as having a character from The Thundermans freezing the Nick channel bug, then moments later have it thaw. When Tak and the Power of Juju and Back at the Barnyard were originally premiering, Nick would promote the show by either having a giant splat of milk suddenly appear on-screen, or having Tak appear and summon a giant yellow tornado, thus scaring the crap out of viewers watching the network.The bug that was the most noticeable was a pole-vaulting brain-thing which happily runs across the entire screen, usually during a climactic scene, but their habit to smush the credits to start showing trailers goes wrong during the longer-running season finales. This happened during the UK Nicktoons airings of Avatar: The Last Airbender.An early airing of Dora the Explorer containing a scene in which the titular character counts five objects had the fifth one obscured by the Nick Jr. first added a permanent logo to the corner of the screen, it wasn't exactly transparent, sometimes covering details in a scene. The bugs actually ran by as part of a contest: Name what show, episode, and scene the baby ran by in, send it to Nick, and you'd be in the runnings for a treehouse. Nick actually did a whole marathon where the Rugrats would randomly run through parts of the show, too.However, unlike the puppets, it replaced an actual part of the episode, and often times, the punchline of the show's best joke. ![]()
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