"Welcome to Bikini Bottom Inquirer, where investigative thrills are packed to the gills. Here's your host, award-wanting anchorman, Perch Perkins!"
Bikini Bottom Inquirer is a SpongeBob SquarePants webseries from the series' official YouTube page, releasing with its first episode on November 19th of 2022. The shows a Bikini Bottom news station delivering a series of in-universe reports based on events from SpongeBob episodes, hosted by Perch Perkins, a recurring news anchor on the original show.
The miniseries sees voice actor Dee Bradley Baker reprising his role as Perch Perkins, as well as Squilliam Fancyson, who hasn't been in an episode of SpongeBob since 2010, for a few voice cameos.
The series can be found here
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I'm Perch Perkins, and here are tonight's top tropes:
- Air Quotes: Perch does this when he calls SpongeBob a hero for being honorary town rookie of the day instead of him.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Perch is notably more rude and cynical than he was in the show.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Perch is shown as a cynical, often-rude and envious reporter who goes on rants when people are more fortunate than him. Notable example is when he went on an angry rant when SpongeBob received honorary town rookie of the day instead of him:Perch Perkins: In other news, honorary rookie of the day was once again given to someone who other than me. Local hero SpongeBob SquarePants shed his disguise as local frycook SpongeBob SquarePants earlier today, and took to the streets to retrieve a stolen... sandwich, or... something. I mean, who cares? Meanwhile, I sit here everyday, working tirelessly to keep Bikini Bottom informed, without so much as a "thank you." But it's good to know that these types are awards are going to the real heroes out there, for protecting... SANDWICHES. I'm sure this guy must be so brave to take on a criminal half the size of his own pinky finger. Way to go, SpongeBob, you DEFINITELY deserve this award more than ME.
- The Bus Came Back: Squilliam Fancyson returns for this series, albeit in voice-only cameos for the "Perch Phone" segments.
- Butt-Monkey: Lurch Lurkins.
- The Cameo: Squilliam Fancyson makes a few vocal cameos on the Perch Phone segment.
- Deadpan Snarker: Perch Perkins, noticeably moreso than in the original show.
- Dysfunctional Family: Lurch hints at this in the first episode:Perch Perkins: Hey, Lurch, how's the family?Lurch Lurkins: Well, they left.
- Jerkass to One: Perch to Lurch. Perch calls Lurch Bikini Bottom's "second best reporter."
- Limited Animation: Being a YouTube-based web series, there isn't that much in terms of animation.
- Sarcasm Mode: Perch launches into this during his angry rant about not receiving town rookie of the day.
