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- A square yellow sponge lives in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.
- 5. Tango Tangle; Necro-Nom-Nom-Nom-I-Con Feb 20, 2024
- Plankton and Karen take dance lessons; SpongeBob cooks up chaos in the Krusty Krab kitchen.
- 4. Momageddon; Pet the Rock Feb 14, 2024
- The Krusty Krew get lazy when their moms take over; Patrick's new pet rock garners interest.
The Patrick Star Show. SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg that aired on Nickelodeon as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999.
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- 290 (list of episodes)
- May 1, 1999 –, present
- Nickelodeon
- 23 min
- SpongeBob. SpongeBob Squarepants is your favorite patty-flipping, jellyfishing, Bikini Bottom buddy. He and his pet snail, Gary, live in a pineapple under the sea!
- Patrick Star. Patrick Star is SpongeBob’s best friend and neighbor. The inner machinations of his mind are an enigma, and this pink starfish is the ultimate pal who loves to nap, blow bubbles, and eat ice cream!
- Squidward. Spongebob’s next-door neighbor and Krusty Krab co-worker, Squidward Tentacles is a mean, whiny, stick-in-the-mud octopus who thinks he’s better than everyone else.
- Sandy Cheeks. Despite being a squirrel, Sandy Cheeks lives under the sea in her oxygen-filled treedome. She’s a born-and-bred Texan thrill-seeker and adrenaline junkie.
- Overview
- History
- Biography
- Appearance
- Relationships
- Songs sung by SpongeBob
- Trivia
SpongeBob SquarePants is the titular protagonist of the Nicktoon of the same name. He is voiced by Tom Kenny and first appeared on television in the series' pilot episode, "Help Wanted", on May 1, 1999. SpongeBob was created and designed by former marine science teacher Stephen Hillenburg, who originally used the character in an educational book he wrote in the 1980s. Thanks to the popularity of the franchise, SpongeBob has become a household name and one of Nickelodeon's best-known characters.
As shown in "The Secret Box", SpongeBob has known his best friend Patrick since they were both babies. SpongeBob moved into his sunken pineapple house with his pet snail, Gary, one day after moving out of his parents' house. He later met his next-door neighbor, Squidward. His teacher is Mrs. Puff and his boss is Mr. Krabs.
After graduating in 1984 from Humboldt State University with a degree in marine biology, Stephen Hillenburg was teaching the subject at California's Orange County Marine Institute when he created Intertidal Zone, a campus comic book about sea life. Among the characters: a joyfully dim sponge creature. Hillenburg eventually moved on to pursue animat...
Education
Much of SpongeBob's early education is unknown; however, it was mentioned that his kindergarten teacher was Mrs. Shell. Also, he encountered a fellow elementary classmate named Dennis in "The Sponge Who Could Fly". He also mentioned that he was voted most clumsy in high school, and was never able to get a date for his junior prom. SpongeBob is currently in boating school, run by his dedicated teacher Mrs. Puff. He knows every answer to Mrs. Puff's oral exams and is the most committed student in her class. However, SpongeBob's anxious nerves always take over when he gets behind the wheel of a boat, leading to his very frequent failures at passing the driving exam. He still doesn't have his boating license.
Employment
For a long time, SpongeBob held a desire to work at the Krusty Krab. After a pep talk from Patrick, he decided to apply for a job as a fry cook to the restaurant's owner, Eugene Krabs. SpongeBob, being an excellent fry cook himself, wanted to master the art of creating a Krabby Patty. Mr. Krabs hired him, but first wanted to see how capable he was. He sent him to buy a hydro-dynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments (which would be seen occasionally in later episodes). To Mr. Krabs' shock, SpongeBob returned with said spatula in the nick of time (the Krusty Krab had been invaded by anchovies). SpongeBob fed all of them with Krabby Patties, and Mr. Krabs was extremely pleased. SpongeBob was hired soon after. He is also responsible for keeping up the good work at making Krabby Patties for the customers so he can satisfy Mr. Krabs with money he'll get when the people pay for the food.
Leisure
He frequently gets days off at the Krusty Krab Restaurant, and as a result he spends his free time with his best friend Patrick Star, and especially enjoys practicing karate with his other friend Sandy Cheeks. He also likes eating jelly, and collecting the jellyfish at Jellyfish Fields. To date, he has caught, named, and let go every jellyfish in Jellyfish Fields at least once, except the blue jellyfish, until the end of the episode "Jellyfish Hunter". SpongeBob also likes to blow bubbles, surf, sun bathe, and play the ukulele. His favorite TV show is The New Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. SpongeBob is such a fan of the show that he and Patrick together brought them out of retirement. They also pretend to be Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
SpongeBob is a yellow sea sponge with olive green holes. He wears brown pants, a white polo shirt, red necktie, white knee-high socks with red and blue stripes, and black leather shoes. He also has light blue eyes, with 3 eyelashes on each one, rosy cheeks with three freckles on each one, and a pink chin. His underwear consists of white cotton low-...
•Patrick Star - SpongeBob has been best friends with Patrick for as long as he can remember. Even though Patrick is dim-witted, SpongeBob often looks at him as a genius. Patrick lives under a rock two houses away from SpongeBob. The pair love jellyfishing, bubble-blowing, playing childish games. However, neither one notices the fact that they are incredibly naive, and both are optimists.
•Sandy Cheeks - Sandy and SpongeBob became friends upon their first meeting. They like to practice karate together as well as hang out in Goo Lagoon. Sandy often looks at SpongeBob as immature, but laughs at his brand of humor. In "Truth or Square", SpongeBob revealed that they once starred in a play with each other, pretending to marry each other.
•Pearl Krabs - Pearl is another one of SpongeBob's good friends. They have ended up in romantic situations (like going to prom and going on a love-themed ride together), but the two are just friends. Pearl thinks SpongeBob is stylish, fashionable and very helpful (even with dull tasks like helping her get rid of barnacles).
•Squidward Tentacles - SpongeBob is always under the impression that Squidward and he are great friends, but Squidward thinks otherwise. He has even stated to SpongeBob (directly) that he hates him, but SpongeBob never takes him seriously and thinks he is joking. He and Patrick also love to play with him, but always end up making "every 11 minutes of his life" (which is how long an episode segment is) filled with misery due to them unknowingly annoying him.
•Eugene Krabs - Mr. Krabs is SpongeBob's boss and fatherly figure, carrying with him tales of the sea and warnings. Occasionally, SpongeBob has gotten in trouble with him (such as playing with Hooks in Hooky and using bad word number 11 without knowing it until Mr. Krabs lets him know it is a bad word), but Mr. Krabs is proud of him nevertheless.
•Mrs. Puff - SpongeBob idolizes Mrs. Puff as a teacher and she frequently acts as a motherly figure to him. SpongeBob longs to be Mrs. Puff's best student, trying his hardest to gain "Good Noodle" stars and ace every oral exam. Unfortunately, his helplessness behind the wheel can leave Mrs. Puff exasperated which can cause Mrs. Puff to attempt to murder him due to her instability.
From the show
•"Ripped Pants" (voiced by Peter Strauss) •"F.U.N. Song" •"Sweet Victory" (voiced by David Glen Eisley) •"Campfire Song Song" •"If Only I Could Join You" •"He's Flying" •"All You Need Is Friends" •"Oh Baby" •"Down The Well" •"The Bubble Song" •"Fueling The Bus" •"Good-Bye, Atlantis" •"Attitude of Gratitude" •"A Day Like This" •"Oh Krusty Krab" •"Santa Has His Eye On Me" •"Don't Be a Jerk (It's Christmas)" •"It's High Tide Time We Went On Tour" •"Never Give Up" •"Who Am I?"
From the movies
•"Goofy Goober Song" •"Now That We're Men" •"Goofy Goober Rock" (voiced by Jim Wise) •"The Best Day Ever" •"Thank Gosh It's Monday" •"Teamwork"
From SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
•"Bikini Bottom Day" •"No Control" •"BFF" •"When the Going Gets Tough" •"Just a Simple Sponge" •"Hero Is My Middle Name" •"Tomorrow Is" •"Chop to the Top" •"(I Guess I) Miss You"
•SpongeBob is one of the only two characters who is playable in every installment of the Nicktoons Unite! video games (the other being Danny Fenton).
•In 2002, SpongeBob was ranked #9 in TV Guide's Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters list (which also included Angelica Pickles at #7 and Ren and Stimpy at #31). He was notably the most recent character featured on the list at the time of its publication.
•In the Welcome to the Wayne episode "Like No Market on Earth", SpongeBob briefly appears as one of Equimorph's transformations, referred to as "SpongeRobert RectangleShorts".
•In the Bubble Guppies Halloween episode "Trick or Treat, Mr. Grumpfish!" during the song Trick or Treat, Spongebob is the "somebody from TV" that Gil was dressed as (using Spongebob's actual image).
•Since The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, SpongeBob was featured pulling the switch to activate the Nickelodeon Movies logo.
•According to Stephen Hillenburg, SpongeBob is asexual, meaning he has no sexual desire, though he could fall in love.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series and the tenth major Nicktoon created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. The series premiered with a sneak-peek preview consisting of its pilot, "Help Wanted", and the episodes "Reef Blower" and "Tea at the Treedome", after the Kids' Choice Awards on May 1, 1999. Its official debut was on July 17th of the same ...
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Stephen Hillenburg based SpongeBob on Bob the Sponge, a character he had created for his educational book The Intertidal Zone in 1984 . SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob is a childish, joyful, hardworking, and sometimes clumsy sea sponge who lives in a pineapple with his pet snail Gary in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.
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May 1, 2024 · SpongeBob SquarePants, often shortened to SpongeBob, is an American animated television series created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It is chronologically the tenth Nicktoon to debut. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and United Plankton Pictures, Inc. The series focuses on an optimistic sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants ...
SpongeBob SquarePants: Created by Tim Hill, Stephen Hillenburg, Nick Jennings, Derek Drymon. With Tom Kenny, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown. The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple.
