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SpongeBob SquarePants

This article is about the television series. For the character, see SpongeBob SquarePants (character). For other uses, see SpongeBob SquarePants (disambiguation).

SpongeBob SquarePants
Also known asSpongeBob
Genre
Created byStephen Hillenburg
Developed by
Showrunners
Creative directors
  • Derek Drymon (seasons 1–3)
  • Vincent Waller (seasons 4–9)
Voices of
Narrated byTom Kenny
Theme music composer
  • Derek Drymon
  • Blaise Smith
  • Mark Harrison
  • Stephen Hillenburg
Opening theme"SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song" (performed by Patrick Pinney, Devin Johnson, Sara Paxton, and Camryn Walling)
Ending theme"SpongeBob Closing Theme" (composed by Steve Belfer)
Composers
  • Steve Belfer
  • Nicolas Carr
  • Sage Guyton
  • Jeremy Wakefield
  • Brad Carow
  • The Blue Hawaiians
  • Eban Schletter
  • Barry Anthony Trop
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons15
No. of episodes319 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Stephen Hillenburg[a]
  • Paul Tibbitt (seasons 6–9)
  • Marc Ceccarelli (season 13–present)
  • Vincent Waller (season 13–present)
Producers
  • Donna Castricone
  • Anne Michaud
  • Helen Kalafatic
  • Dina Buteyn
  • Jennie Monica
Running time22–51 minutes
Production companiesUnited Plankton Pictures
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon[b]
ReleaseMay 1, 1999 (1999-05-01) –
present
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SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy 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 the titular character 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Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.[5] Hillenburg joined Nickelodeon in 1992 as an artist on Rocko's Modern Life.[6] 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 executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenburg preferred SpongeBob to be an adult character. 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]

SpongeBob SquarePants has received widespread critical acclaim from television critics, who praised its characters, surreal humor, writing, animation, Hawaiian soundtrack, and music, with the show's first three seasons often referred to as its "golden era". Since then, the series has received criticism for a perceived decline in quality, particularly after Hillenburg departed from the series starting with the show's fourth season. It is considered to be one of the greatest animated series of all time.[8][9] The series was an immediate hit for Nickelodeon, beating Pokémon as the highest-rated and most viewed animated Saturday Morning program from its premiere onward in 1999.[10] From then onward, SpongeBob continued to be Nickelodeon's highest-rated program, only getting surpassed briefly in viewership several times throughout its run. 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-two Kids' Choice Awards. The show has been noted as a cultural touchstone for Millennials and Generation Z,[11][12] becoming ubiquitous with internet culture and spawning many viral internet memes.[13]

The series has ran for fifteen seasons, its fifteenth being confirmed in September 2023,[14] and premiering in July 2024. A sixteenth season will premiere on June 27, 2025.[15] SpongeBob is the fourth longest-running American animated series in history, and the longest-running American children's animated series as of 2025, surpassing PBS Kids' Arthur.[16] The series' popularity has made it a multimedia franchise, and Paramount Global's most profitable intellectual property. By 2019, it had generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue.[17] Since its debut, it has inspired four theatrical feature films (starting with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004), two feature films for streaming, a Broadway musical, a comic book series, and video games.[18] The series eventually expanded into spin-off series, with a CGI-series Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and traditionally-animated series The Patrick Star Show both premiering in 2021, while the former ended in July 2024.

  1. ^ Meet the Creator: Stephen Hillenburg (Video). Nick Animation. July 27, 2015. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Gornael, J.S. (April 17, 2025). "A Pineapple Under the Sea! Every Season of 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' Ranked". Collider.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Casetext". casetext.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Neuwirth 2003, p. 50
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Francisco, Eric (September 13, 2024). "The 32 greatest animated TV shows of all time". GamesRadar+. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  9. ^ Top 100 Animated Series - IGN.com. Retrieved June 1, 2025 – via www.ign.com.
  10. ^ Montgomery, Ashley (May 1, 2024). "The iconic SpongeBob SquarePants made his TV debut 25 years ago". NPR. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Romano, Aja (May 1, 2019). "20 years into Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob memes rule internet culture". Vox. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Milligan, Mercedes (June 2, 2025). "Nickelodeon Kicks Off "Summer of F.U.N." with New SpongeBob Crossover Special". Animation Magazine. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  16. ^ "SpongeBob Beats Arthur to Become the Longest Running Animated Kids Show". ComicBook.com. February 22, 2025. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ 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.


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