46 Facts About SpongeBob

SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon.

SpongeBob began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series in 1996, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon.

The network's executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenburg preferred SpongeBob to be an adult character.

SpongeBob was prepared to abandon the series, but compromised by creating Mrs Puff and her boating school so SpongeBob could attend school as an adult.

SpongeBob SquarePants has won a variety of awards including six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, 19 Kids' Choice Awards, and two BAFTA Children's Awards.

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SpongeBob SquarePants is an energetic and optimistic yellow sea sponge who lives in a submerged pineapple.

SpongeBob has a childlike enthusiasm for life, which carries over to his job as a fry cook at a fast food restaurant called the Krusty Krab.

SpongeBob has a pet sea snail with a pink shell and a blue body named Gary, who meows like a cat.

Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob's next-door neighbor and co-worker at the Krusty Krab, is an arrogant, ill-tempered octopus who lives in an Easter Island moai.

SpongeBob enjoys playing the clarinet and painting self-portraits but hates his job as a cashier.

SpongeBob dislikes living between SpongeBob and Patrick because of their childish nature.

SpongeBob is a single parent with a teenage daughter, a grey sperm whale with red lipstick and a yellow ponytail named Pearl, to whom he wants to bequeath his riches.

SpongeBob's lives in a tree enclosed in a clear glass dome locked by an airtight, hand-turned seal and is an expert in karate, as well as a scientist.

When SpongeBob is not working at the Krusty Krab, he is often taking boating lessons from Mrs Puff, a paranoid but patient pufferfish.

SpongeBob is Mrs Puff's most diligent student and knows every answer to the oral exams he takes, but he panics and crashes when he tries to drive a real boat.

SpongeBob created a precursor to SpongeBob SquarePants: a comic book titled The Intertidal Zone used by the institute to teach visiting students about the animal life of tide pools.

SpongeBob began to develop some of the characters from The Intertidal Zone, including the comic's "announcer", Bob the Sponge.

SpongeBob then considered modeling the character after a kitchen sponge and realized this idea would match the character's square personality perfectly.

SpongeBob eventually compromised by adding a new character to the main cast, Mrs Puff, who is a boat-driving teacher.

Drymon said, "The scene where Patrick is running to Mr Krabs to tattle, with SpongeBob chasing him, is pretty much how it happened in real life".

SpongeBob physically portrays Patchy the Pirate in live-action segments of most special episodes.

SpongeBob forgot how to perform the voice initially and did not intend to use it afterward.

SpongeBob's was in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, with a friend who knew SpongeBob SquarePants casting director Donna Grillo.

SpongeBob's decided to reflect the character's size in her voice by making it deep and full in tone.

Since 2004, the SpongeBob crew has periodically collaborated with the LA-based animation studio Screen Novelties to create stop-motion sequences for special episodes.

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Kenny joked this is "about as close of a glimpse as most SpongeBob fans are ever going to get of Steve Hillenburg", because of his private nature.

SpongeBob had considered a career change before Hillenburg offered him the job.

SpongeBob wanted these scores to be composed by unknowns, and a group of twelve was assembled.

SpongeBob SquarePants was credited with helping Nickelodeon take the "Saturday-morning ratings crown" for the fourth straight season in 2001.

Juenger noted SpongeBob could affect the ratings of other Nickelodeon programming because children often change channels to find their favorite programs, then stay tuned to that network.

However, seasons five through eight of SpongeBob are still available to stream on Netflix in Canada.

SpongeBob SquarePants is one of the longest-running series on Nickelodeon.

SpongeBob SquarePants has been widely praised particularly for its appeal to different age groups, and the show has earned numerous awards and accolades throughout its run.

SpongeBob SquarePants has received many awards and nominations; among these are four Emmy Awards ; six Annie Awards; and two BAFTA Children's Awards.

Television critic Matt Zoller Seitz included the series in his 2016 book with Alan Sepinwall titled TV as the 22nd greatest American television series of all time, saying that "SpongeBob SquarePants is an absurdist masterpiece that Salvador Dali and Groucho Marx would have watched together in their smoking jackets".

SpongeBob became the first animated character sculpted entirely out of wax.

In October 2018, it was announced the movie will be an origin story of how SpongeBob came to Bikini Bottom and how he got his square pants.

SpongeBob SquarePants appears at the Mall of America's Nickelodeon theme park re-branded from the Mall of America's Park at MOA, formerly Camp Snoopy, to Nickelodeon Universe in the Minneapolis-St Paul suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota.

SpongeBob SquarePants was adapted as a stage musical in 2016 by director Tina Landau.

SpongeBob speculated that nostalgia for the past, alongside the cartoon's young audience, contributed to the SpongeBob Squarepants's outsized presence in Internet meme culture.

Popularity of SpongeBob SquarePants inspired merchandise from T-shirts to posters.

SpongeBob is viewed in 170 countries speaking 24 languages, and has become "a killer merchandising app".

SpongeBob has gained popularity in Japan, specifically with Japanese women.

Skeptics initially doubted that SpongeBob could be popular in Japan, as the character's design is very different from already popular designs for Hello Kitty and Pikachu.

Ratings and merchandise sales showed SpongeBob SquarePants has caught on with parents and with college audiences.

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Pictures of SpongeBob SquarePants began to appear on the labels of 8 ounce cans of Green Giant cut green beans and packages of frozen Green Giant green beans and butter sauce in 2007, which featured free stickers.