{"id":376752,"date":"2026-09-02T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376752"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:36:09","slug":"spongebob-and-one-piece-will-have-a-crossover-no-one-asked-for-it-but-in-2026-anything-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/spongebob-and-one-piece-will-have-a-crossover-no-one-asked-for-it-but-in-2026-anything-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SpongeBob\u2019 and \u2018One Piece\u2019 will have a crossover. No one asked for it, but in 2026 anything goes."},"content":{"rendered":"

People talk a lot about how long-running One Piece is, but the truth is that SpongeBob has been with us even longer: it premiered on Nickelodeon three months before Luffy and company\u2019s anime<\/strong>, although (to be fair) it has a quarter as many episodes: 342 compared to 1,176 and counting. It was only a matter of time before these two titans of animation, recognized all around the globe, came together in an impossible crossover.<\/p>\n

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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Monkey D. Luffy!<\/h2>\n\n

They won\u2019t do it in a special episode or a theatrical release, but in a collaboration for McDonald\u2019s in several countries\u2026 which doesn’t include Japan, for some reason. Apparently, they haven\u2019t reached a licensing agreement, and it\u2019s strange, because this is one of the most Japanese things possible. Something kawaii mixed with One Piece?<\/strong> If you take a stroll through Tokyo, you\u2019ll see that it\u2019s nothing unusual.<\/p>\n\n

The collection, available in Happy Meals since September 15, has SpongeBob as Luffy (both normal and in Gear 5), Patrick as Zoro, Plankton as Usopp, Sandy as Nami, Gary as Chopper, Squidward as Sanji, Pearl as Robin, Larry as Franky, Smitty as Brook and Mr. Krabs as Jinbe. As you can see, in the end they were running out of characters, but even so they\u2019ve made it to 15 by pulling in strange mashups like the Flying Dutchman as Blackbeard and Mermaid Man as Garp. It\u2019s going to be a huge hit, right?<\/p>\n\n

we\u2019ve truly entered the great Happy Meal era. SpongeBob x One Piece coming 9.15 pic.twitter.com\/W4sT4KhulZ<\/p>\n\n

\u2014 McDonald’s (@McDonalds) August 31, 2026<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s pretty incredible, honestly. And considering that right now on the kids\u2019 menu in half the world they\u2019re handing out a crossover between Hello Kitty and Godzilla<\/a><\/strong>, they\u2019ve clearly reached the obvious conclusion: to sell more burgers, they need more impossible crossovers. That way, anyone can sell a product of questionable quality.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People talk a lot about how long-running One Piece is, but the truth is that SpongeBob has been with us even longer: it premiered on Nickelodeon three months before Luffy and company\u2019s anime, although (to be fair) it has a quarter as many episodes: 342 compared to 1,176 and counting. It was only a matter … Continue reading “\u2018SpongeBob\u2019 and \u2018One Piece\u2019 will have a crossover. No one asked for it, but in 2026 anything goes.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":376751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-376752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376753,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376752\/revisions\/376753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376752"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376752"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376752"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}