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SpongeBob SquarePants
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| Also known as | SpongeBob |
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| Created by | Stephen Hillenburg |
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| Narrated by | Tom Kenny |
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| Opening theme | "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song" (performed by Patrick Pinney and the kids) |
| Ending theme | "SpongeBob Closing Theme" (composed by Steve Belfer) |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 311 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 22–51 minutes |
| Production companies | United Plankton Pictures Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
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| Network | Nickelodeon[a] |
| Release | May 1, 1999 – present |
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SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It first aired as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999. It chronicles the adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.
Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.[4] Hillenburg joined Nickelodeon in 1992 as an artist on Rocko's Modern Life.[5] After Rocko was cancelled in 1996, he began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series that same year, 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.[6] He was prepared to abandon the series, but compromised by creating Mrs. Puff and her boating school so SpongeBob could attend school as an adult.[7]
In only a month after its premiere in 1999, the show became the highest-rated and most viewed animated Saturday morning program that year, beating Pokémon.[8] The series received worldwide critical acclaim, and had gained more popularity by its second season. As of 2019, the series is the fifth-longest-running American animated series. Its popularity made it a multimedia franchise, the highest rated Nickelodeon series, and the most profitable intellectual property for Paramount Consumer Products. By 2019, it had generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue.[9] The series has run for a total of fourteen seasons, and has inspired three feature films: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Sponge Out of Water (2015), and Sponge on the Run (2020). Two spin-off series, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show, premiered in 2021. As of February 2022, four additional films are planned: three character spinoff films for Paramount+ and Netflix, and a theatrical SpongeBob film. The fourteenth season of the main series was announced in March 2022,[10] and premiered in November 2023. In September 2023, the show was renewed for a fifteenth season,[11] which premiered in July 2024.
SpongeBob SquarePants has won a variety of awards including six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Children's Awards, and a record-breaking twenty-one Kids' Choice Awards. A Broadway musical based on the series opened in 2017 to critical acclaim.[12] The series is also noted as a cultural touchstone of Millennials and Generation Z.[13][14]
- ^ Meet the Creator: Stephen Hillenburg (Video). Nick Animation. July 27, 2015. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
- ^ Seitz, Matt Zoller (November 27, 2018). "SpongeBob SquarePants and the Indestructible Faith of Imagination". Vulture. Archived from the original on November 27, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Why, one of the stars of the most brilliantly imagined and sustained display of surreal humor in pop culture, that's who.
- ^ Emily Yahr (October 18, 2012). "CBS sets Spongebob Christmas for November". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 22, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ^ "Casetext". casetext.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ Neuwirth 2003, p. 50
- ^ White, Peter (October 27, 2009). "SpongeBob SquarePants' creator Steve Hillenburg". Television Business International. Informa Telecoms & Media. Archived from the original on May 11, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2023.
- ^ Hillenburg, Stephen (May 29, 2012). "Big Pop Fun #28: Stephen Hillenburg, Artist and Animator–Interview (clip)" (mp3). Nerdist Industries (Podcast). Interviewed by Thomas F. Wilson. Archived from the original on August 9, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
- ^ Montgomery, Ashley (May 1, 2024). "The iconic SpongeBob SquarePants made his TV debut 25 years ago". NPR. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
- ^ "Nickelodeon Marks 20 Years of SpongeBob SquarePants with the "Best Year Ever"". www.businesswire.com. February 12, 2019. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
- ^ Del Rosario, Alexandra (March 24, 2022). "SpongeBob SquarePants, Paw Patrol, Blue's Clues & You! Renewed By Nickelodeon". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Otterson, Joe (September 29, 2023). "SpongeBob SquarePants Renewed for Season 15 at Nickelodeon". Variety. Archived from the original on September 29, 2023. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
- ^ Gold, Michael (May 2, 2018). "Before the Tonys, SpongeBob Seized the Culture With Memes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Most Important Show to Generation Z and their Popular Culture". Bryan-College Station Chronicle. Archived from the original on May 8, 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
- ^ Fuller, Benjamin (2019). "The SpongeBob Franchise: Pop Culture Fixture, Reboot Culture Artifact". Studies in Popular Culture. 42 (1): 77–102. ISSN 0888-5753. JSTOR 26926333. Archived from the original on May 8, 2023. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
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