SpongeBob SquarePants (character)
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| SpongeBob SquarePants character | |
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| General Information | |
| Gender: | Male |
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| Color: | Yellow |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Birthday: | July 14, 1986 [1] |
| Height: | 4 in (102 mm)[2] |
| Weight: | 1 oz (28 g) |
| Interests: | Jellyfish hunting, flipping Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab, karate, blowing bubbles, watching The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy and The New Adventures of MermaidMan and BarnacleBoy, visiting his friends, Squidward Tentacles, Patrick Star, and Sandy Cheeks, singing rock and roll music (only in "Band Geeks" and "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie") |
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SpongeBob SquarePants is the eponymous character of the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. He was designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, and is voiced by Tom Kenny.
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[edit] Creation
Hillenburg intended to create a series about an over-optimistic sponge that annoys other characters. Hillenburg compared the concept to Laurel and Hardy and Pee-wee Herman. As he drew the character, he decided that a "squeaky-clean square" fit the concept. Originally he intended to name the character Sponge Boy.[3] In an interview he said that he created the name as adding "Boy" to a name of an inanimate object "and it becomes alive." The first concept sketch portrayed him as wearing a red hat with a green base and a white business shirt with a tie. The name "SpongeBoy" did not make it into the show since the name was already officially trademarked by Bob Burden, creator of Flaming Carrot. When Hillenburg discovered an existing copyright on the name, he decided that his given name still had to contain "Sponge" so viewers would not mistake the character for a "Cheese Man." Hillenburg created "SpongeBob." He decided that "SquarePants" would fit as a family name as it referred to the character's square shape and his "funny name". [4]
[edit] Appearance and characteristics
SpongeBob is a porous yellow sponge with large blue eyes, a mouth with prominent front buck teeth, dimples and freckles. He is also, at times, shown to have hair, although usually this is a wig. In one episode when his hair has naturly grown longer, he has blond hair, something quite obvious because of his blue eyes and "light" skin that further 'develop' the image of spongebob having blond hair[citation needed]. He typically wears a white shirt with a red tie and brown square trousers (the entire outfit is sometimes referred to as his "pants") - hence his family name - and black leather shoes. When he works at the Krusty Krab, he wears a hat with an anchor on it as a uniform. He replaces the necktie with a chokie bow tie for special events. He sleeps in pajamas or in underwear, with shoes, or barefoot in various episodes, in the movie he sleeps wearing socks.
SpongeBob is a sea sponge, but he is drawn to resemble a kitchen sponge. Due to his soft, pliable frame, he is capable of shape shifting and has shown a degree of super "human" durability. He is sometimes shown to have a skeleton, but he is mainly portrayed as soft, squishy, and boneless. Being a sponge, he is also absorbent, as shown by engulfing the entire TreeDome after Sandy force-fed water to him. When he cries, he often reabsorbs his tears.
SpongeBob lives with his pet snail Gary in a large "pineapple-house" on 124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom. The house has been shown to be edible in some episodes.
Although his drivers license says he's born in 1986, SpongeBob creator, Stephen Hillenburg explains in an interview that he is fifty in "sponge years" as a joke. He explains that SpongeBob actually has no specific age, but that he is old enough to be on his own and still be going to boating school. [5] [6]
[edit] Trivia and goofs
In Mrs. Puff, you're fired, it was revealed that SpongeBob had failed boating school 1,258,056 times.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ SpongeBob's driver's license seen in the episode "No Free Rides", states his birthday as July 14, 1986. His birthdate is absent from the driver's license in " Gone".
- ^ As seen on a freeze frame of SpongeBob's driver's license
- ^ "SpongeBob Exposed! The Insider's Guide to SpongeBob SquarePants" book
- ^ Makin' Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies.51
- ^ SpongeBob Exposed: The Insider's Guide to "SpongeBob SquarePants", Page 92, An Exclusive Interview with the One and Only STEPHEN HILLENBURG!
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/13878970@N06/2500622370/
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