Hvornår er det en svampebobjul der kommer i 2017?
23. november 2012
Der blev udgivet en lille trailer for afsnittet i juni 2012. Den 23. november 2012 blev "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" officielt sendt på CBS. Den havde også premiere i Storbritannien og Irland den 2. december 2012. Den 6. december 2012 blev "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" sendt på Nickelodeon i USA, tolv år efter den oprindelige udsendelse af den første SpongeBob Firkantens julespecial "Christmas Who?". Ifølge Caballero kom beslutningen om at gøre episoden til en CBS prime time-special "senere", og holdet "var begejstrede, da [de] hørte nyheden". Han sagde, at det kan skyldes, at "de fleste af de klassiske julespecials som Rudolph [det rødnæsede rensdyr] , Frosty [snemanden] og A Charlie Brown Christmas sendes på den kanal. At blive inkluderet i den række var langt ude!"
November 23, 2012
A sneak-peek trailer for the episode was released in June 2012. On November 23, 2012, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" officially aired on CBS. It also premiered in the United Kingdom and Ireland on December 2, 2012. On December 6, 2012, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" aired on Nickelodeon in the United States, twelve years after the original airing of the first SpongeBob SquarePants Christmas special "Christmas Who?". According to Caballero, the decision to make the episode a CBS prime time special "came along later" and the crew "were stoked when [they] heard the news." He said it may be because "most of the classic Christmas specials like Rudolph [the Red-Nosed Reindeer] , Frosty [the Snowman] and A Charlie Brown Christmas air on that channel. To be included in that line up was far out!"
It's a SpongeBob Christmas!