SpongeBob SquarePants (Albanian)

SpongeBob SquarePants
General information
Other names:	SpongeBob me pantallona me kuadrate (episode 1) SponxhBob SkuerPents (Albanian transliteration) SfungjerBob PantallonKatrori (on Bang Bang)
Network:	Top Channel Bang Bang
Broadcast area:	Albania
Country:	Albania
Language:	Albanian
Seasons:	7
Episodes:	141 (11 skipped)
Dubbing studio:	Top Channel
Distributor:	MTV Europe
Original run:	Top Channel: July 14, 2007 - September 11, 2011 (original premiere) August 2, 2020 - April 10, 2021 Bang Bang: Late 2011/early 2012 - 2013

SpongeBob SquarePants (also known as SfungjerBob PantallonKatrori on Bang Bang) is an Albanian dub of SpongeBob SquarePants. It is part of International SpongeBob SquarePants. It has previously aired on Bang Bang and Top Channel.

Broadcast history

Top Channel

SpongeBob SquarePants (pronounced as SponxhBob SkuerPents) premiered on Top Channel on 2007-07-14, and aired on weekends. This was until 2009-02-14 when it was moved to airing every day while they reaired season 1-5. This would be reversed later in the year.

Starting with the premiere of season 7 on 2011-01-16, episodes started airing every Sunday only. Sometime during season 7's initial airing, its timeslot was replaced with DreamWorks Dragons. The show came back on 2011-09-11, where season 6 began reairing. The first premiere again would be on 2011-12-04, when Greasy Buffoons premiered, and the show continued to air episodes again until 2012-02-12. It would come back for the final time on 2012-12-08. On 2013-05-11, season 7 concluded.

On 2013-06-29, episodes started airing biweekly. On 2013-09-29, episodes starting airing triweekly. On 2013-11-10, the show aired for the final time in 7 years and was officially replaced after shows had cycled through the timeslot by The Nimbols on 2013-12-29.

After a seven year hiatus, the dub returned on 2020-08-02. It aired daily until 2020-09-06, when it was moved to airing on weekends. From 2021-01-09 until 2021-03-27, it was moved to just airing on Saturdays. On 2021-04-04 the show aired again on a Sunday and the following week it only aired on Saturday before stopping altogether. The next Sunday and the following week the Top Channel dub of Avatar: The Last Airbender aired instead. It is unknown if the remaining episodes of season 7 were dubbed.

Bang Bang

The dub reaired on Bang Bang, this time titled SfungjerBob PantallonKatrori. It started airing on late 2011, about 4 years after it initially started on Top Channel.

After a hiatus, the show came back on 2012-06-19, and season 5 was aired until 2012-07-08. There would be another hiatus until 2012-11-10.

The show stopped airing on the channel some time around late 2013.

Cast

• Alert Çeloaliaj - SpongeBob SquarePants, French Narrator (seasons 1-6), and DoodleBob
• Lulzim Zeqja - Patrick Star, Sheldon J. Plankton ("Imitation Krabs"), Karen Plankton ("Plankton"), Patchy the Pirate ("Friend or Foe"), Barnacle Boy ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" and "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob"), King Neptune (season 5), Perch Perkins ("Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob"), Harold SquarePants ("Culture Shock"), Man Ray (season 3), and Dirty Bubble (beginning of "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V")
• Orion Halili - Squidward Tentacles, Potty the Parrot ("Atlantis SquarePantis"; part 1), Mermaid Man ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II", "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" and "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture"), Barnacle Boy (seasons 1-2, "Shuffleboarding"), Larry the Lobster ("MuscleBob BuffPants" and "Party Pooper Pants"), Painty the Pirate ("Your Shoe's Untied"), Harold SquarePants (seasons 1-2, "BlackJack"), Man Ray ("Ditchin'"), Squilliam Fancyson (seasons 2-6), Con Man ("20,000 Patties Under the Sea"), and Tom ("Chocolate With Nuts")
• Xhelil Aliu - Eugene H. Krabs, Patchy the Pirate ("Shanghaied"), Mermaid Man ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy"), Flying Dutchman ("Your Shoe's Untied"), and Larry the Lobster ("Ripped Pants")
• Piro Malaveci - Sheldon J. Plankton (seasons 1-"Goo Goo Gas"), Patchy the Pirate ("Christmas Who?", "The Sponge Who Could Fly", season 4 and "SpongeBob vs. The Patty Gadget"), Flying Dutchman (seasons 1-5), King Neptune (season 1), Bubble Bass, Sergeant Roderick, and Dirty Bubble ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II")
• Manjola Merika - Karen Plankton (seasons 1-3, 6-7, "Best Frenemies"), Sandy Cheeks, Mrs. Puff (season 1, "Krusty Love", "New Student Starfish", and "Driven to Tears"), Pearl Krabs (seasons 1-2), and Margaret SquarePants (seasons 1, 4, 5)
• Devis Muka - SpongeBob SquarePants (episodes 88a-91b, "Gullible Pants" and "Overbooked"), Patrick Star (episode 13a-14a), Squidward Tentacles ("Penny Foolish"), Sheldon J. Plankton ("Atlantis SquarePantis" to the rest of this dub), Gary the Snail ("Sleepy Time", library scene), Patchy the Pirate ("Ugh", "Atlantis SquarePantis"; part 1), Potty the Parrot ("Party Pooper Pants"), Mermaid Man ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV", seasons 5-6), Barnacle Boy ( "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II" and "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V"), Flying Dutchman (season 6), Larry the Lobster (first line in "Band Geeks" and season 3), Perch Perkins ("Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?" and season 6), Man Ray (seasons 2 and 5), Hans, Flats the Flounder, Monty P. Moneybags, and Con Man ("Chocolate with Nuts)
• Bledi Leka - Patchy the Pirate ("Atlantis SquarePantis"; part 2), French Narrator (seasons 6–7, starting with "Chum Bucket Supreme"), Mermaid Man ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III" and "Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob"), Barnacle Boy (season 7), Larry the Lobster (seasons 1–2, 5–7, in "The Sponge Who Could Fly"), Perch Perkins (season 4 and "Komputer Overload"), Harold SquarePants (seasons 4-5), Squilliam Fancyson (season 7), Jack Kahuna Laguna, Stanley S. SquarePants, BlackJack, Captain Blue SquarePants, and Gunther Fitz
• Aldion Kola - SpongeBob SquarePants (singing in "SpongeBob's Last Stand"), Patrick Star (singing in "Pest of the West" and "SpongeBob's Last Stand"), Sheldon J. Plankton (singing in "Single Cell Anniversary"), Mrs. Puff (singing in "Pest of the West"), Barnacle Boy ("Night Light"), Painty the Pirate ("Truth or Square"; part 2, singing), Man Ray (season 7), and Hans (season 6)
• Besmir Bitraku - Squidward Tentacles ("SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One", "Pet or Pests", "Komputer Overload" and "Gullible Pants"), Barnacle Boy ("Ditchin'"), Larry the Lobster ("Pet or Pests"), and Man Ray ("Shuffleboarding")
• Nigela Ruka - Karen Plankton ("Plankton's Army" and "Bucket Sweet Bucket"), Sandy Cheeks ("Patrick SmartPants", "SquidBob TentaclePants" and "To Love a Patty"), Mrs. Puff (seasons 2-3), and Pearl (season 3 and in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture")
• Evis Trebicka - Karen Plankton (seasons 4–5, "Krabby Road", "Spongicus" and "Komputer Overload"), Mrs. Puff ("Party Pooper Pants", "Pranks a Lot", seasons 4-5, "Nautical Novice", "Boating Buddies", "The Krabby Kronicle"), Pearl ("Squeaky Boots", "Culture Shock", "Sleepy Time", "As Seen on TV", "Party Pooper Pants" and seasons 4-6), and Margaret SquarePants (season 2)
• Anisa Dervishi - Karen Plankton ("Buried in Time"), Pearl (season 7), and Margaret SquarePants (season 6)
• Mimoza Zotaj - Mrs. Puff (seasons 6-7), Margaret SquarePants ("New Digs"), and Queen Amphitrite
• Ksenofon Ilia - Patchy the Pirate ("Party Pooper Pants"), Potty the Parrot ("Ugh"), and Dirty Bubble (at the end of "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V")
• Florian Agalliu - Patchy the Pirate ("Truth or Square"; part 2), Painty the Pirate ("Truth or Square; part 2, talking), and Harold SquarePants (season 6)
• Sokol Angjeli - French Narrator ("Help Wanted" and "Jellyfishing"), Customer, and announcer fish ("Tea at the Treedome)
• Ervin Bejleri - Mermaid Man (season 7), Flying Dutchman (season 7), King Neptune (season 6), and Larry the Lobster ("SpongeBob's Last Stand)
• Erjon Beci - Barnacle Boy ("Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture")
• Irgen Çela - Dirty Bubble (season 7)

Gallery

From humble beginnings from "Krusty Krab Training Video"

The Krusty Krab today

Training

Personal hygiene

Your work station

Interfacing with your boss

"The money is always right"

Twenty minutes from "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"

Six Hours Later from "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler"

Trivia

General

• The theme song was only localized in the Bang Bang version, because some changes were made to the dub.
• The Top Channel version didn't have the pirate part and the theme song was in English.
• Nickelodeon and United Plankton Pictures, Inc. were cut at the end of the credits of Top Channel airings.
• SpongeBob's laugh and other similar sounds aren't consistent. Sometimes they're performed by Albanian actors, sometimes they're left in English.
• In the first three seasons, songs would either get cut or be subtitled. Starting with season 4, songs like "The Feeling of Greed" from "Selling Out" or the songs from "Dunces and Dragons" are dubbed, although very poorly adapted and sang. Starting with "Together" from season 5, songs would be either dubbed by a separate actor or cut. "Bee Line for the Tree Line" was left in M&E.

Cuts

Various scenes of a few seconds were cut from several episodes for unknown reasons. For example:

• In "Pickles," the scene with customers complaining was removed. 
• In "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm," the scene when Patrick says, "We should take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else" is also removed.
• In the episode "The Algae's Always Greener," the whole scene where a krabby patty with gross-out items is removed as well.

Missing episodes

• In the 2020-2021 airing, episode S02E18a ("Sailor Mouth") was replaced with a reair of S02E01b ("Squid's Day Off"). The episode was likely not dubbed due to its theme.
• Episodes S06E20, S06E21 didn't air either. It is unknown if these episodes were dubbed.
  • The same happened with episodes S07E14-S07E16 and S07E20-S07E26. Before those could air, the show was replaced with Avatar. However, the 2013 schedules suggest those episodes may have been dubbed.

Videos

SpongeBob- Top Channel Intro (Full Version) (Albanian)

SpongeBob SquarePants ending-credits (Albanian - Top Channel) S4-5

SpongeBob - 2011 Albanian credits - Top Channel dub