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How does "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" squeeze even more fun out of our porous little hero and the Bikini Bottom gang? By turning the animated characters three-dimensional for their holiday special.
"It's fun that after all these years we can still do stuff that's a little different. It's like reinventing the wheel a little bit — if you can refer to a square character as a wheel," he added, unable to resist the quip.
"The characters act the same, the recording process is exactly the same. Our job is exactly the same. There's still plenty of the animated mayhem and anarchy that happens in the 2-D version of the show," he said.
