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SpongeBob SquarePants

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

SpongeBob SquarePants
Title card
Also known asSpongeBob
Genre
Created byStephen Hillenburg
Developed by
Creative directors
Voices of
Narrated byTom Kenny (various episodes)
Theme music composer
  • Derek Drymon
  • Mark Harrison
  • Stephen Hillenburg
  • Blaise Smith
Opening theme"SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song" (performed by Patrick Pinney)
Ending theme"SpongeBob Closing Theme" (composed by Steve Belfer)
Composers
  • Steve Belfer
  • Nicolas Carr
  • Sage Guyton
  • Jeremy Wakefield
  • Brad Carow (1999–2004)
  • The Blue Hawaiians (1999)
  • Eban Schletter (2000–present)
  • Barry Anthony Trop (2005–2014)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons14
No. of episodes299 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Donna Castricone (1999–2002)
  • Anne Michaud (2001)
  • Helen Kalafatic (2002–2004)
  • Dina Buteyn (2005–2010)
  • Jennie Monica (2010–2022)
Running time
  • 11 minutes
  • 22–44 minutes (specials)
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNickelodeon[b]
ReleaseMay 1, 1999 (1999-05-01) –
present
Related
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SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg that premiered on Nickelodeon 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 title character and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The series received worldwide critical acclaim, and has gained 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.[4]

Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.[5] Hillenburg joined Nickelodeon in 1992 as an artist on Rocko's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 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.[7] He was prepared to abandon the series, but compromised by creating a boating school so SpongeBob could attend school as an adult.[8]

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,[9] and premiered in November 2023. In September 2023, the show was renewed for a fifteenth season.[10]

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 Kids' Choice Awards. A Broadway musical based on it opened in 2017 to critical acclaim.[11] The series is also noted as a cultural touchstone of Generation Z.[12][13]

  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. ^ "SpongeBob SquarePants and the Indestructible Faith of Imagination". Vulture. November 27, 2018. 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. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Casetext". casetext.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Neuwirth 2003, p. 50
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Wilson, Thomas F. (Interviewer); Hillenburg, Stephen (Interviewee) (May 29, 2012). "Big Pop Fun #28: Stephen Hillenburg, Artist and Animator–Interview (clip)" (mp3). Nerdist Industries (Podcast). Archived from the original on August 9, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  9. ^ Alexandra Del Rosario (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.
  10. ^ Joe Otterson (September 29, 2023). "SpongeBob SquarePants Renewed for Season 15 at Nickelodeon". Variety. Archived from the original on September 29, 2023. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "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.
  13. ^ 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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