Thanks to Redmond company Mobui, SpongeBob SquarePants, erstwhile target of the religious right, is now available for tickling on your iPhone. Released on January 20th, SpongeBob Tickler “creates a virtual underwater iPhone buddy that lives in players’ pockets and allows them to manipulate a virtual SpongeBob by shaking, poking and stretching the iPhone screen.”The app has now reached the top 10 in iPhone application sales. And the morality police can breathe easy: SpongeBob is asexual, so you don’t have to worry about the tickling escalating into something more.
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