A Day With Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie

About

A Day With Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie (UNAUTHORIZEDMOCKUMENTARY), often shortened to A Day With Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie or just ADWSS is a supposed 2011 unreleased direct-to-DVD film by Reagal Films and distributed by MVD films starring Spongebob Squarepants. Since 2014 the film has gained a large internet following from sites like The Lost Media Wiki, Reddit, and 4chan due to its elusive nature and the lack of any information or proof of its actual existence, any verifiable clips or stills of the movie, or any actual physical copies known to exist. All that is known about the movie is a 5 sentence summary on the film’s entry on Amazon.^[1] As of today the film is mostly known for the ongoing search efforts for any evidence of its existence.

Origin

ADWSS was supposedly released on Amazon on November 22nd, 2011. Up to that point there had been little coverage on the film. The film was supposedly available for a day before going out of stock. The description for the film read:
“In this mockumentary, SpongeBob lives above ground like all Hollywood superstars. Afraid that SpongeBob is becoming old news, his boss runs a contest called “Spend a Day with SpongeBob.” The contest makes SpongeBob the talk of the town, as thousands of kids enter to win. The lucky winner is Seth, and he is ecstatic about his day with SpongeBob. However the day becomes a rollercoaster ride as things don’t go quite the way they planned."^[1]

Spread

On 2014 Wiki user LarryInc64, found the film on Amazon, finding little to no information about it anywhere else, created a page for it on the Lost Media Wikia(the original Lost Media Wiki).^[2]^[3] But even then it didn’t receive much coverage.^[2] The first real notable coverage of the film came from the film being mentioned on the Youtube video “Top 20 Lost Kids Films” by user blameitonjorge on July 1st, 2015, which to date has over 1 million views(shown below).

The search for the movie gained further popularity when famous Youtuber RebelTaxi uploaded a video on the subject on September 8, 2016, which to date has over 300,000 views(shown below)^[3]

A post on Reddit’s r/unsolvedmysteries board about the film and recovery efforts for it was posted that same month and recieved 100 upvotes and 85 comments before being archived.^[4] On November 4th, 2015 Gawker published an article on its “Weird Internet” section detailing the ongoing search efforts for the film.^[5] The next day French newspaper La Monde published an article on the subject.^[6] As of today the Lost Media Wiki’s forum for the film has over 2,000 posts.^[7]

Hoax Images/Videos

Following the film’s sudden increase in popularity, an influx of videos and images came from people who claimed them to be from the actual film itself. Most of these images and videos were declared false, but only spread the infamy of the film as a result.^[2]^[5]