WASHINGTON — The Super Bowl 53 halftime show, headlined by Maroon 5 (and including Travis Scott and Big Boi) offered a medley of hit songs from Adam Levine’s band.
What got the social media universe going, however, was a cameo from SpongeBob SquarePants’ “Sweet Victory” halftime show.
According to the website , the movement to include a cameo of the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea started in late 2018 and included a petition on Change.org, to honor Stephen Hillenburg, the show’s creator, during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Hillenburg died in November, 2018.
Maroon 5 previewed the possibility of a SpongeBob call-out earlier this week.
A brief clip of the character Squidward, acting as the band leader, from the “Sweet Victory” performance, played on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta part-way through Maroon 5’s performance.
One of the halftime show bets leading into Sunday’s game was whether Maroon 5 would actually play “Sweet Victory.” It’s not known whether the brief appearance of a clip from the show was enough to satisfy the bookmakers.
However, a number of ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ Twitter followers did not seem to think the clip was long enough to count.
OK, the question is, does the “Sweet Victory” cameo satisfy the Vegas prop bet line? What do you think?
— ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ (@²ÝÝ®´«Ã½)
