But have you ever stopped to wonder how on Earth a cartoon about an anthropomorphic kitchen sponge came to exist in the first place and how networks were convinced that it could not only work, but be a worldwide phenomenon? Well the answer is that it took years of planning, being rejected for publication in comic book form, a Hawaiian shirt, and a fish tank.
According to the original creator of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenburg, he first came up with the idea that would eventually become SpongeBob while teaching marine biology at the Ocean Institute in California in the s.
Despite the high quality of the comic, both in terms of content and art Hillenburg majored in marine biology with a minor in art at college , it never really went anywhere, though Hillenburg did pitch it to a number of publishers.
Just none of them were interested. However, creating the comic did ignite a spark in Hillenburg who realised that he enjoyed art way more than he enjoyed marine biology. According to a recent interview with Hillenburg, he made the decision to cast Kenny as the voice of SpongeBob moments after meeting him. You can do whatever you set your mind to.
Starting from the day he barges into the successful restaurant known as the Krusty Krab, SpongeBob is ready to take on any task — even if it involves flipping patties behind the fry cooker. He chants over and over and over again, "I'm ready! I'm ready! And when orders start piling up and the job feels overwhelming, SpongeBob perseveres and saves the day. His not-so-secret secret is not letting other people's doubts discourage him from what he wants to do. SpongeBob believes in himself, and it shows every time we see him wake up loud and proud each morning.
Be kind to everyone but not to the point of death. SpongeBob always has people's best interests in mind. Perhaps, too much at times. SpongeBob can admittedly be overly eager, including when he tries to help an elderly woman quickly cross the street. But he has the best intentions. Some days, SpongeBob wakes up and sets a goal to complete a series of random acts of kindness just to be someone else's hero. On other days, our yellow friend wants to be the change he wanted to see in the world and inspire his friends to do the same.
He is afraid of the dark [21] and clowns [22]. He also hates hot sauce. Another example is " Home Sweet Rubble ," when it takes SpongeBob a few moments to realize that his house is in serious need or repair.
SpongeBob traps Squidward in a bottle in the episode " Employee of the Month. SpongeBob also feels the need to impress Mr. Krabs and to protect the Krusty Krab and the Krabby Patty secret formula at all costs. Krabs impersonate police officers in hopes of retrieving the secret formula. He also likes to impress his boating teacher, Mrs. Puff, despite his reckless driving.
Beginning with " Boating School ," an ongoing plot point is SpongeBob failing his driver's test due to his inability to drive safely. His poor driving skills have caused him to run over pedestrians, rapidly switch lanes, drive on the sidewalk, crashing into buildings and property, harm his passengers, and lastly damage his vehicle.
Despite all the damage he causes, SpongeBob is never arrested or charged for his dangerous driving; instead, Mrs. Puff is, who the authorities believe is failing to educate him.
These actions can often lead to SpongeBob entering by trespassing. SpongeBob and Patrick have a frequent tendency to enter Squidward's house without his consent, which reaches its epitome in " Good Neighbors " and becomes a plot point of the said episode. Additionally, in " Survival of the Idiots ," he and Patrick invade Sandy's treedome during the winter with little regard to the "Keep Out" sign on her door.
SpongeBob also invades the sewers with Squidward in " The Sewers of Bikini Bottom ," although they did it to retrieve the safe, so this can be justified. In " Toy Store of Doom ," SpongeBob and Patrick stay in Toy Barrel past its open hours and hide in a dollhouse so as not to be caught by the security guard.
SpongeBob in jail in the episode " Driven to Tears. SpongeBob's personality trait of wanting to impress others and achieve his goals has to lead to him having a history. He has been arrested a total of seven times: for "stealing" a balloon in " Life of Crime ," attempting to rob a bank in " Doing Time ," failing to invite the police to his party in " Party Pooper Pants ," littering Patrick's driver's license in " Driven to Tears ," playing sitar without a license in " SpongeBob's Last Stand ," falsely accused public disturbance in " Cave Dwelling Sponge ," and unintentionally terrorizing a majority of Bubbletown in the episode of the same name.
Krabs, and Plankton, and he is clumsy. In " Walking Small ," SpongeBob assists Plankton in driving the attendants at Goo Lagoon away to make an unauthorized development to its property.
However, this was done out of manipulation, and SpongeBob regrets his actions after learning Plankton's motive, therefore returning the beach to its previous state. In " Sandy's Rocket ," SpongeBob and Patrick go around capturing everyone in Bikini Bottom and trapping them in the spaceship, believing that the entire population is formed of aliens.
Even though he is generally good-natured and easygoing, SpongeBob can get angered easily. When frustrated and angered, SpongeBob can be sarcastic, rude, and condescending to his friends, even Mr.
Krabs [25] , whom he treats as a father figure. Squidward is the only character whom SpongeBob never insults when he is angry, except for the episodes " Can You Spare a Dime? In " Hooky ," SpongeBob is encouraged by Patrick to ditch work during his shift, which causes the unsupervised grill to produce mass amounts of smoke. In " Hall Monitor ," he lets his rank of hall monitor go to his head and becomes known as the maniac for his destruction of the city before receiving a scolding from his teacher who was arrested for it.
During " Ditchin' ," SpongeBob ditches boating school to attend the Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy meet and greet, which affects his driver's education and eventually gets Mrs. Puff arrested. He believed King Neptune's trident was his spatula and decided to help all of Bikini Bottom when he was destroying the town after going mad with power in " Trident Trouble. Despite his overall kindness, SpongeBob occasionally shows a lack of empathy for others and forces people into situations against their will.
In the episode " Rodeo Daze ," he kidnaps the Bikini Bottomites with bubbles in persuasion for them to save Sandy from a rodeo. Additionally, in the episode " A SquarePants Family Vacation ," he sends his friends letters promising that everything they love will be at his house, only for it to be a hoax and a plea for them to view his slideshow.
Although SpongeBob has several friends, and many of the citizens of Bikini Bottom often treat him quite friendly, most, if not all, citizens of the city have been shown to have some degree of dislike for him. As its name suggests, it is an entire day dedicated to getting away from SpongeBob, where the people leave Bikini Bottom for the day. Even Patrick goes, stating that everyone needs at least one day away from SpongeBob's laughter.
In the ceremony, they build a giant wooden effigy of SpongeBob, burn it down, dance on the ashes, and depart Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob is more honored than insulted by this, as he was the "inspiration" for the holiday.
SpongeBob's broken bones in " I Had an Accident. SpongeGar is distinctly different from the primitive sponge seen in " SB ," being more evolved and closer to his modern counterpart.
For the majority of the series, SpongeBob takes the job of fry cook in the Krusty Krab. Acting like a workaholic, he treats his career seriously and with dignity. Primarily, he works as the janitor and fry cook, but occasionally takes the role of the cashier and manager. Later, the painted food poisoned the many consumers who admired the creation. He also works at Fancy! SpongeBob has a passionate dedication to his job at the Krusty Krab and firmly refuses to let it go. He even views closing time as the saddest part of the day.
His passion for his job often leads to stages of depression and boredom when isolated from it, and he hinders his willingness to give other occupations a chance. In "Bummer Vacation," he pulls off many desperate attempts to return to his job and is reminded of the Krusty Krab with every activity he tries to do while on vacation. In " Welcome to the Chum Bucket ," he is briefly employed at the Chum Bucket but fails to do any successful work.
In " Model Sponge ," SpongeBob seemingly hears he was to be let go but has mistaken himself as the person to vacate his current life.
Throughout his unemployed life during the episode, he tries to apply for many jobs, but is not qualified for them, as he is meant for the fry cook role at the Krusty Krab. His most notable obsession with his job is shown in " SpongeBob You're Fired ," in which, after being fired by Mr.
Krabs over a nickel, SpongeBob enters a long stage of depression and is not cured until Sandy advises him to find a new job. Taking her advice, SpongeBob applies for as a job as the fry cook at four different rest aurants , only to get fired each time for making food in the form of a Krabby Patty.
Throughout the run of SpongeBob SquarePants , the title character has become very popular with both children and adults and has become Nickelodeon's unofficial mascot. The character's popularity has spread from Nickelodeon's original demographic of two to eleven-year-olds, to teenagers and adults, [30] including college campuses and celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis.
The popularity of SpongeBob translated well into sales figures. In , SpongeBob SquarePants dolls sold at a rate of 75, per week, which was faster than Tickle Me Elmo dolls were selling at the time. Parent company Viacom purposefully targeted marketing at women in the country as a method of building the SpongeBob SquarePants brand. Skeptics initially doubted that SpongeBob could be popular in Japan as the character's design is very different from already popular designs.
However, not all reception for SpongeBob has been positive. The publication said that his well-meaning attitude is "extremely annoying. An alternate SpongeBob exists in a world where Plankton was successful. Like his mainstream counterpart, he likes his career, likes promotions, and gets sad when he makes an error in somebody's order. The most significant difference is that he is made co-cashier by Plankton and is employed by him.
Grab a Krabby Patty and dive below the waves to explore some things you probably didn't know about the yellow and absorbent SpongeBob SquarePants.
SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg graduated from Humboldt State University in with a degree in marine biology. He 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 animation full-time, landing a job as creative director of the Nickelodeon series Rocko's Modern Life.
One of the show's animators convinced him to develop Intertidal Zone into its own show, and Hillenburg came up with an underwater city populated with quirky sea creatures. When he pitched it to Nickelodeon in , he reportedly placed a filled fish tank on the conference table and described all the different creatures inside to the assembled suits.
Then he dropped a cartoon drawing of SpongeBob into the tank and said, "This is the star of your new show. When Hillenburg came up with his first ideas and sketches, the main character was named " SpongeBoy " and the show was called SpongeBoy Ahoy!
Hillenburg changed "boy" to "Bob" and made another significant change to the character: he removed his green hat.
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