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SpongeBob cartoon drafts Dallas in 12-city Krabby Patty Kollab

The Krabby Patty Collab is coming to Dallas.

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In cartoon food news, Dallas will be one of 12 cities serving up "Krabby Patty" sandwiches in a nationwide celebration of Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants.

The beloved cartoon, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, stars an adorable yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants, who lives in the city of Bikini Bottom on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and works as a fry cook at an underwater fast-food restaurant called the Krusty Krab. The Krabby Patty is their signature dish.

The national promotion is called The Krabby Patty Kollab, launched by Viacom/Paramount, which owns SpongeBob SquarePants; they've already created a website.

The official launch date is October 8.

The promotion will feature the participation of numerous restaurants across the U.S. and Canada. Each will create their unique rendition of the famed Krabby Patty sandwich, which they'll serve for a limited time during October.

The promotion will also include a fast-food chain, which has been revealed to be Wendy's; their involvement was leaked via an in-house memo sent to Wendy's franchisees on August 16.

According to the memo, Wendy’s Krabby Patty entry will be a cheeseburger with fresh produce and a secret Krabby Patty sauce. Wendy's will also issue an accompanying limited-edition pineapple-flavored Frosty — their frozen dairy dessert — made from vanilla ice cream and pineapple mango purée. (SpongeBob famously lives in a pineapple home.)

Some Wendy's locations have already begun quietly serving the combo ahead of the October 8 launch.

But in addition to Wendy's, a multitude of independent restaurants across the U.S. have been invited to join the program by submitting their creative Krabby spinoff.

The promotion will take place in a dozen cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle; plus three cities outside the U.S.: London, Mexico City, and Toronto.

Restaurants and support personnel who've been hired to oversee the program in individual markets have all signed nondisclosure agreements, but the roll-out was confirmed by at least one source involved with the promotion who asked not to be identified.

Participants were requested not to use seafood as their entry; in the show, the Krabby Patty is a meatless hamburger, featuring a mystery patty served on seaweed buns.

Paramount did not respond to a request for more information.

The program is part of a SpongeBob revival set for this fall, which began in August with a Netflix film called Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie; it was No. 1 for two weeks.

On Thursday, October 10, Nickelodeon will premiere a new SpongeBob SquarePants two-part special: Called Kreepaway Kamp, it's a story about the entire cast — SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Mr. Krabs, Pearl, Bubble Bass, Kevin C. Cucumber, Larry the Lobster, Mrs. Puff — attending a reunion at Kamp Koral. The episode will also stream on Paramount+.

There's a new film in the works called The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, directed by series veteran Derek Drymon starring the show's regular voice cast plus Mark Hamill, scheduled for release for the Christmas movie season in December 2025. And a new video game, "SpongeBob Squarepants: The Patrick Star Game," coming to Nintendo Switch on October 4.

Previously, there were three SpongeBob films: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water in 2015, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run in 2020.

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Movie Review

Shaun the Sheep gets PG-spooky in new movie for the Halloween season

Photo courtesy of Aardman / Sky UK LTD / StudioCanal 2026

Shaun the Sheep in Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.

Since his introduction over 30 years ago, the Aardman Animations character Shaun the Sheep has been almost as popular as the studio’s flagship characters, Wallace and Gromit. There is never a shortage of trouble Shaun can get into as he leads his flock and proves to be a thorn in the side of his farmer and Bitzer, the farmer’s loyal sheepdog.

His antics lead everyone down some slightly spooky roads in the new film, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom. At first, things are only slightly awry as Shaun and the flock are growing a secret pumpkin patch to have their own jack-o-lanterns. But when the farmer accidentally destroys the pumpkin patch, Shaun tries to regrow it quickly with a Frankenstein-esque experiment.

However, disaster looms when Shaun uses an old bottle of Hair-Gro as the container for the serum he creates. Naturally, the balding farmer uses it on his head, and everyone soon discovers how truly successful it is, with pumpkins growing out of control and the farmer sprouting hair all over his body. Through a series of mishaps, the farmer becomes the titular beast, creating mayhem while Shaun and others try to stop him.

Directed by Steve Cox and Matthew Walker, and written by Mark Burton and Giles Pilbrow, the film goes down just as easy as every other Aardman project has. They get the Halloween vibes started from the opening credits, with things like the sheep doing the “Thriller” dance, and continue the fun throughout, referencing everything from Psycho to Friday the 13th in a nice, PG way.

With no script — every character is mute save for reaction noises — the movie relies on sight gags for its humor, and the Aardman team is endlessly inventive in that respect. Sometimes it’s small things like a sheep using toilet paper rolls as binoculars, and sometimes it’s something like forcing the Bigfoot-like farmer to be shaped into a rectangle as he escapes through a window. But there’s a never-ending stream of such moments, so even if one doesn’t tickle your funny bone, chances are the next one will.

The biggest benefit of the characters not talking is that there’s no need for deep character development. The filmmakers do a great job of giving the basic traits of each character, and then use those attributes to color everyone’s actions for the rest of the film. Shaun is the troublemaker, the farmer is a bumbling fool, Bitzer is preternaturally smart, and the town’s vet is empathetic, and the combination of those characters and others makes for a highly entertaining blend.

Like all Aardman creations, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is a fun lark that doesn’t make its audience think too hard. With just enough references to keep viewers engaged but not so many as to be overbearing, the film puts its well-worn characters to good use once again, delivering a Halloween season story that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is now playing in theaters.

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