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This is the page about the channel. For other uses, see Nickelodeon (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the cartoons themselves.

Nicktoons (spelled nickTOONS on TV broadcasting), also known as Nicktoons Network from 2005 - 2009 or Nicktoons TV from 2002 - 2003, is an American television channel that broadcasts reruns of original animated series from the sister network Nickelodeon along with some other animated shows and feature films. The channel has aired reruns of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes since May 1, 2002. After the Nick rebranding, as of September 28, 2009, the channel reinstated their old name, Nicktoons.

Trivia[]

  • As of July 2022, Nicktoons runs a marathon of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes weeknights from 9:00PM to 2:00AM (and again from 2:50AM to 4:45AM), Saturday nights from 1:00AM to 4:45AM, and on Sunday nights from 9:00PM to 12:00AM (and again from 1:00 AM to 4:45AM). The network mostly airs episodes from seasons 1-11 and the first 9 episodes of season 12, barring all the three TV movies.
    • From June to August 2020, Nicktoons ran a marathon of the show every morning from 7:00AM to 11:00AM.
    • From March to September 2021, Nicktoons aired episodes for an hour at 9am. From September 2021 to June 3, 2022, the block was expanded to run every weekday morning from 8:00AM to 11:30AM.
    • As of May 2024, Nicktoons airs the show daily and is promoted as “Non-Stop SpongeBob. All Day. Every Day.” which is shown on the top right during broadcasts of the show.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants is the only 1990's Nickelodeon cartoon that still regularly airs in reruns on Nicktoons.
  • In the UK and Ireland, the end credits on shows do not appear; they only appear when a new episode premieres.
    • New episodes from the SpongeBob universe has discontinued since 2021/22. The last new episode to premiere on this channel was "Squidward's Sick Daze."
    • Starting from September 2022, Nicktoons UK and Ireland have a temporary service called NickSpongeBob, a channel that airs re-runs of the SpongeBob universe.
Nicktoons International Logo 2014

Nicktoons logo (Internationally).

Nick Premium logo

Nick Premium logo.

  • In countries internationally, the Toons part of the logo is yellow. There are also other versions where Toons is in a different color. Also, the UK and Ireland versions do not run 24 hours a day, until January 2, 2019 when the channel began to run 24 hours a day along with other Nickelodeon channels in the UK, except for Nick Jr., which already ran for 24 hours.
    • Until February 8, 2017, Nicktoons UK and Ireland presented all of their widescreen shows with a slight letterboxing and cropping on the left, and stretched all their TV shows that were originally in 4:3.
      • Starting with February 8th, they fixed the letterboxing issue and now, they crop the 4:3 shows slightly on the top and the bottom.
    • But starting from 2024, episodes on demand and Channel 5 also included, episodes from seasons 5-8 have remastered to fix the 4:3 ratio issue. Because of this, episodes that have a scene cut is added back, but some still have the scenes either cut or slowed down.
  • After 2 A.M. (Eastern), Nicktoons switched from split-screen credits to regular credits until the mornings. An hour of SpongeBob episodes aired at that time on Wednesday and Saturday nights continuing from a marathon that began at midnight (Eastern), with its original unplastered credits intact. Before May 2007, the show's regular credits were used all throughout the day.
    • May 5, 2014 after Nicktoons rebranded again with a new style, with the rebrand also including the addition of on-screen credits, just like its main sister channel Nickelodeon. This ended the daily 2 a.m. Eastern regular credit routine. But the split-screen credits continued to be used on certain shows until 2016.
    • Sometime around 2015, in the UK and Ireland, the Nicktoons URL appeared one or two minutes later until the show ended.
      • Starting from 2019, when the episode actually comes to an end, the URL appears before the next episode from a show starts.
  • In winter of 2016, Nicktoons.com for the United States was shut down.
    • In the UK and Ireland, however, their website Nicktoons.co.uk was still available, until early 2023. The URL is still shown on TV screens available, until the rebrand in May 2024.
    • Attempting to visit Nicktoons.com will redirect to Nickelodeon's website.
  • In Germany, from December 2007 (the channel's local launch date) to March 2010, it was known as Nick Premium.
  • For unexplained reasons, the official Nicktoons Facebook page was removed in 2017.
Every sb ever nicktoons screenbug
  • During the 2019 Every SpongeBob Ever marathon, there was a special version of the Nicktoons screenbug in which "Toons" was in a spongy text and SpongeBob's eyes took the place of the O's.
  • Before 2022, when an episode from this channel in the UK and Ireland has seconds to go before it ends, SpongeBob or The Patrick Star Show is featured in the Next/Later bumpers.
    • The latter show still has the Next/Later bumpers before an episode from this channel ends, but SpongeBob has been discontinued.
    • Thanks to the 2024 rebrand, SpongeBob has been added back in the Next bumper with Patrick still there, but with some minor changes in the channel.

Videos[]

Nicktoons_TV_Launch_Promo_(2002)

Nicktoons TV Launch Promo (2002)

Pogo_-_SquareBob_SpongeMix_(Nicktoons_UK_overnight_filler)

Pogo - SquareBob SpongeMix (Nicktoons UK overnight filler)

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