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SpongeBob SquarePants
American animated television series
This article is about the television series. For the character, see SpongeBob SquarePants (character). For other uses, see SpongeBob SquarePants (disambiguation).
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Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.[4] Hillenburg joined Nickelodeon in 1992 as an artist on Rocko's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, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. The network's execut
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Stephen Hillenburg: marine biologist who created SpongeBob SquarePants
When he chose animation as a career, Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, was prepared for life as a “starving artist”. The animator and producer, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 57, did not expect his quirky cartoon set in a tide pool to attract anything more than a cult following.
Yet SpongeBob SquarePants is now the fifth longest-running cartoon series in the US and counts former president Barack Obama as a fan. Superstars who have voiced Hillenburg’s characters include Johnny Depp and David Bowie. The series has won four Emmy awards and netted more than $12bn (£9.1bn) in merchandising revenue. Hillenburg didn’t have to starve after all.
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was born in Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma in 1961. His father worked for the US army and his mother was a teacher. A year after young Stephen was born the Hillenburg family moved to Anaheim, California, where his father began a new career in the aerospace industry.
At school in California, Hillenburg showed ear
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How Famous Comedians Inspired Stephen Hillenburg to Create SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg
Are you ready, kids? When first shaping SpongeBob SquarePants' title character's personality, creator Stephen Hillenburg soaked up the works of some pop culture icons. "I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters — kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin," Hillenburg told the Washington Post in 2001. "I think that's why kids like the show — maybe even why adults like the show, adults who wish they were still kids."
The animated series Hillenburg, who died in November 2018 at age 57 following an ALS battle, debuted in May 1999 and became Nickelodeon's highest-rated and, with more than 200 episodes, one of its longest-running series as well. But what exactly went into crafting Bikini Bottom's resident affable, Krabby Patty-flipping sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob was based on other famous comedians
When working on his pitch for Spong
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