Soak up SpongeBob’s Twitter tale

McClatchy Newspapers

NEW YORK

SpongeBob SquarePants is diving into new waters this week — the Twitter-verse.

“The Ice Race Cometh: A Twitter-Tale,” which will run today through Friday on Twitter, marks the first time an original “SpongeBob” story has been created for the social networking site. The tale concocted by the show’s writers begins with a tweet from Bikini Bottom Action News about an anonymous “wealthy entrepreneur” offering 1 million clams to the winner of The Bikini Bottom Great Sleigh Race. That sets off a flood of trash-tweeting by everyone from The Absorbent One himself to his pet snail, Gary (let’s hope that his tweets involve more than his usual “meow”), as they get ready for the big race.

The “Twitter-tale” serves as a prequel to “Frozen Face Off,” a new SpongeBob episode premiering Friday at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon in which the sleigh race takes place. Obstacles along the way include a menacing snow mollusk.

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