Bob
I mean one particular Bob: Spongebob Square Pants. I used to watch the show some years ago with my son and found it clever. However, I was a bit perplexed by the Spongebob renaissance I witnessed in Cairo last month. There was almost nowhere you could look without some Spongebob image on a tshirt or a towel or even Sponebob himself making an appearance, walking down the street. I’d love to know why he’s suddenly so popular since I haven’t seen the same sort of iconography in Beirut, for example. Most Egyptians I asked didn’t know why.
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Hoda
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Aug 26, 2012 01:44PM
We don't really like SpongeBob in Lebanon. I have a theory as to why it would be that famous in Cairo, maybe it's running on TV stations that most kids over there watch, like the Arabian Nickelodeon, and some local stations as well; so kids are watching it lately a lot, and suddenly there's a big demand on it. Or, maybe once it's not that hip in The US, then the whole SpongeBob merchandise was sold to third world markets such as Egypt.
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