SpongeBob SquarePants is an American children's television series created by Stephen Hillenburg on Nickelodeon. Its first episode was released on July 17th, 1999. There was a preview on May 1, 1999.
Characters
The show gets its name from its main character, SpongeBob SquarePants, a yellow sponge. He looks more like a kitchen sponge used for cleaning the dishes than a sea sponge. His best friend is a pink starfish named Patrick Star. His 4-legged grumpy tall neighbor is an aquamarine octopus named Squidward Tentacles.
SpongeBob and Squidward work as employees at a restaurant called the Krusty Krab in the underwater town of Bikini Bottom. The Krusty Krab, which is run by a red crab named Mr. Krabs, is famous for its Krabby Patty burgers. The recipe for Krabby Patties is top secret. The owners of a competing restaurant called the Chum Bucket, Plankton and Karen, often try to steal the recipe.
SpongeBob SquarePants is a yellow sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea. He is a fry cook in the Krusty Krab. He is very cheerful and sometimes annoys his selfish neighbor, Squidward. His favorite things to do are jellyfishing (catching jellyfish with a net) and blowing bubbles. He's voiced by Tom Kenny.
Patrick Star is a pink starfish who wears green shorts with purple coral spots on them. He is SpongeBob's best friend who lives under a rock. Patrick is goofy, but is a fun-loving character and eats a lot. He is unemployed but has worked at several places before. He's voiced by Bill Fagerbakke.
Squidward Tentacles is a light turquoise 4-legged octopus with a brown shirt. He plays the clarinet and he is not good at it, even though he always thinks so. He works at the Krusty Krab as the cashier. He says he does not like SpongeBob, but SpongeBob thinks they're friends. Squidward isn't friendly or he thinks that he is better than almost everyone. He's voiced by Rodger Bumpass.
Mr. Krabs is a crimson-red ghost crab who is the owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant and SpongeBob and Squidward's boss. He is a single father with one daughter, a whale named Pearl. He and Pearl live in a big anchor. He's greedy and he loves money. He never wants to spend a lot of his money, and he sometimes cheats to make more of it. He's voiced by Clancy Brown.
Sheldon J. Plankton is a tiny green copepod only with 1 yellow and red eye. He is an evil genius and he's Mr. Krabs' rival. His goal's to take the secret recipe for Krabby Patties. He runs a metal restaurant called the Chum Bucket with all the help of his computer wife named Karen. The Chum Bucket is unpopular. They never get customers. He is always trying to steal the secret Krabby Patty Formula. Despite his statue, he speaks with a low-pitched voice. He's voiced by Mr. Lawrence.
Karen Plankton is a light blue and metal talking computer who is Plankton's wife. She gives him his evil plans to steal the Krabby Patty recipe. She lives in the laboratory of the Chum Bucket which is labeled from the outside as the "kitchen." Karen does not have a face, but her screen shows a wavy green line that moves when she talks. She's voiced by Jill Talley.
Sandy Cheeks is a brown squirrel from the state of Texas. She lives in a glass house called a Treedome that lets her breathe underwater. When she is out of the dome, she wears a space suit and a glass helmet around her head filled with fresh air. She is very athletic and works as a scientist. She is voiced by Carolyn Lawrence.
Mrs. Puff is a prickly peach pufferfish who is SpongeBob's teacher at the underwater driving school, Mrs. Puff's Boating School. She is old and easily scared. She wears a blue sailor hat and a yellow wig. SpongeBob really wants to pass Mrs. Puff's class, but he always fails his driving test. She is voiced by Mary Jo Catlett.
Pearl Krabs is a big gray sperm whale with blonde hair who is the daughter of Mr. Krabs. She is sixteen years old and has a job at the Bikini Bottom Mall. When she grows up, her dad will give his restaurant and his money to her. She wears a pink shirt with a dark pink letter P on the front, a purple skirt, and white boots. She is voiced by Lori Alan.
Gary the Snail is SpongeBob's pet blue snail who meows like a cat and he is smart. He is also voiced by Tom Kenny.
MuscleBob BuffPants/Squidward, the Unfriendly Ghost
Scaredy Pants/I Was a Teenage Gary
SB-129/Karate Choppers
Sleepy Time/Suds
Valentine's Day/The Paper
The Chaperone/Employee of the Month
Arrgh!/Rock Bottom
Texas/Walking Small
Fools in April/Neptune's Spatula
Hooky/Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II
Season 2
Your Shoe's Untied/Squid's Day Off
Something Smells/Bossy Boots
Big Pink Loser/Bubble Buddy
Dying for Pie/Imitation Krabs
Wormy/Patty Hype
Grandma's Kisses/Squidville
Prehibernation Week/Life of Crime
Christmas Who?
Survival of the Idiots/Dumped
No Free Rides/I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III/Squirrel Jokes
Pressure/The Smoking Peanut
Shanghaied/Gary Takes A Bath
Welcome to the Chum Bucket/Frankendoodle
The Secret Box/Band Geeks
Graveyard Shift/Krusty Love
Procrastination/I'm With Stupid
Sailor Mouth/Artist Unknown
Jellyfish Hunter/The Fry Cook Games
Squid on Strike/Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm
Season 3
The Algae's Always Greener/SpongeGuard on Duty
Club SpongeBob/My Pretty Seahorse
Just One Bite/The Bully
Nasty Patty/Idiot Box
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV/Doing Time
Snowball Effect/One Krabs Trash
As Seen on TV/Can You Spare a Dime?
No Weenies Allowed/Squilliam Returns
Krab-Borg/Rock-a-Bye Bivalve
Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video
Party Pooper Pants
Chocolate with Nuts/Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V
New Student Starfish/Clams
Ugh
The Great Snail Race/Mid-Life Crustacean
Born Again Krabs/I Had an Accident
Krabby-Land/The Camping Episode
Missing Identity/Plankton's Army
The Sponge Who Could Fly
SpongeBob meets the Strangler/Pranks a Lot
Main places
The show takes place in a fictional city called Bikini Bottom, which is in the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The citizens are mostly fish who live in ship funnels and boatmobiles. It is based on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
SpongeBob's pineapple house is SpongeBob's home. It has many big rooms even though on the outside it looks just like a small pineapple. It has a large library with many books.
The Krusty Krab is a restaurant in the city of Bikini Bottom. It is run by a crab, Eugene H. Krabs. SpongeBob SquarePants works there as a fry cook, and Squidward Q. Tentacles works as the cashier. The fast food items that are sold include the popular Krabby Patty (which is similar to a burger), fries, and drinks.
The Chum Bucket is a restaurant across the street from the Krusty Krab. It is owned by Sheldon J. Plankton and Karen Plankton, but it is very unpopular because the food is very bad. Plankton and Karen are always trying to steal the secret recipe for the Krabby Patty, which only Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob know how it is made.
Mrs. Puff's Boating School is the driving school where SpongeBob often goes to try to get his driver's license. SpongeBob is normally not good at driving and can never get his license without help from a friend. Whenever he gets his license, he soon loses it for different reasons.
Patrick's boulder is Patrick's home where Patrick lives and sleeps in. In some episodes, Patrick falls out of his boulder.
Squidward's house, an Easter Island head owned by Squidward. In his house, Squidward practices his clarinet and paints pictures.
Mr. Krabs and Pearl's anchor house, a hollow anchor with lots of paintings on the walls. Mr. Krabs and Pearl live inside of it.
Sandy's Treedome is where Sandy Cheeks lives, she needs a helmet to breathe underwater. However, in her treedome she does not. All sea creatures need a helmet in her treedome to breathe.
Goo Lagoon is a popular beach. Even though the beach is underwater, the water on the beach is called "goo." In some episodes, it is just a lake but in some, it is an entire ocean.
Patchy's House is the residence of Patchy the Pirate and Potty the Parrot. It is located at 6248 Agnes Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 91606. It first appears in the episode "Christmas Who?". It is in Encino, California.
Reception
The movie was announced On march 17, 2021
Ratings and run-length achievements
Within its first month on air, SpongeBob SquarePants passed Pokémon as the highest-rated Saturday-morning children's series on television. It held an average national Nielsen rating of 4.9 among children aged two through eleven, denoting 1.9 million viewers.[4][5] Two years later, the series had firmly established itself as Nickelodeon's second highest-rated children's program, after Rugrats. SpongeBob SquarePants was credited with helping Nickelodeon take the "Saturday-morning ratings crown" for the fourth straight season in 2001.[6] The series had gained a significant adult audience by that point—nearly 40 percent of its 2.2 million viewers were aged 18 to 34.[7] In response to its weekend success, Nickelodeon gave SpongeBob SquarePants time slots at 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM, Monday through Thursday, to increase the series' exposure.[7][8] By the end of 2001, SpongeBob SquarePants boasted the highest ratings for any children's series, on all of television.[9][10][11] Weekly viewership of the series had reached around fifteen million, at least five million of whom were adults.[9]
Controversies
In 2009, several groups, including the American Family Foundation, attacked SpongeBob for being homosexual. The character had recently appeared on a music video with other kids' show characters to promote diversity and tolerance. However, the creator said in 2002 that SpongeBob is asexual, meaning that he does not seek sexual partners at all.
