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SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob stock art
Gender: Male
Species: Sea Sponge
Birthday: July 14, 1986
Eye color:       Dodger Blue
Personal Information
Affiliations:
  The Heroes
Occupation:
  Fry Cook at The Krusty Krab
Cashier
Waiter
Manager of The Krusty Krab 2
Creator and short-term owner of the Pretty Patties Store
Owner of the Krusty Krab
Director of The Real Mermaid Man and Baracle Boy Movie
Manager of the Krusty Krab
Prison guard
Driver's ed instructor at the Bikini Bottom Jail
Chocolate bar salesman
Residence:
  124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
Homeworld:
  Earth
Aliases:
  Giant Block of Cheese (Timmy called him this when he met SpongeBob)
Friends:
  Almost everybody he meets

Patrick Star (best friend)
Sandy Cheeks (2nd best friend)
Squidward Tentacles (One sided; SpongeBob's side)
Timmy Turner
Cosmo and Wanda
Jimmy Neutron
Mr. Krabs
Danny Phantom
Mrs. Puff (One sided; SpongeBob's side)

Enemies:
  Sheldon J. Plankton
Denzel Crocker
Vlad Plasmius
Professor Finbarr Calamitous
The Mawgu
Globulous Maximus (formerly)
Other Villains from his universe
Squidward Tentacles (one sided;Squidward's side)
Mrs. Puff (one sided; Mrs. Puff's side)
Interests:
  Jellyfishing Jellyfish Fields
Music
Blowing bubbles
Krabby Patty flipping at The Krusty Krab
Dancing
Hanging out at Goo Lagoon
Sandboarding
Karate training
reading
spending time with his friends
Goal:
  To be the best fry cook in the world
Family
Parents:
Harold SquarePants and Margaret SquarePants
Grandparents:
Grandpa SquarePants and Grandma SquarePants
Grandchildren:
SpongeBob's grandson (appears at the end of "The Great Patty Caper")
Pets:
Gary the Snail
Others:
Blue and Sherm SquarePants (uncles)
BlackJack, Stanley S., Todd, and Larry SquarePants (cousins)
SpongeGar, SpongeBuck,Primitive Sponge (ancestors)
SpongeTron (Descendant)
Production Information
First Appearance:
  Holiday Party, How The You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What!, and The 12 Days of Nickmas
Help Wanted (In his series)
Last Appearance:
  Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots

Never (In his series)

Voiced by:
Tom Kenny
Main article: SpongeBob SquarePants at the Encyclopedia SpongeBobia.

SpongeBob SquarePants is the main protagonist, and the eponymous character, of the Nickelodeon animated comedy series of the same name.

He has starred alongside characters from "The Fairly OddParents!" in the Nicktoons video games, "Nicktoons Unite!", "Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island" and "Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots". He also has appeared in several of the Nickmas Shorts.

He and his show have been referenced several times in the show.

Background[]

In his Series[]

SpongeBob is a sea sponge with a rectangular shape. He is light yellow (whose exact shade of yellow is designated by Pantone to be SpongeBob Yellow[18]) with a light olive-green outline. In earlier episodes, he is wider near the top and gets skinnier going further down, akin to that of a trapezoid. However, in the more recent episodes, he is more of a regular square shape. SpongeBob has light olive-green pores, dimples with three freckles on each cheek, a large mouth with two prominent front buck teeth, a long, slightly curved nose, and large light blue eyes. Moreover, his eye color seems to be, uniquely, a shade of pacific blue (or Crayola cerulean,) complimenting the blue ocean background. Furthermore, he has three exceptionally wide, exposed, and effeminate eyelashes on each eye, which have sometimes - during close-ups in particular - been shown to be numerous eyelashes akin to a human, which is best prominent in "Tutor Sauce" when he is seen breathing heavily during a close-up. Although rarely seen in the series, he has light yellow hair that goes hand-in-hand with his skin color, as seen on his driver's license, the spin-off series "The Patrick Star Show," and in the episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly." However, in the episode "Krusty Krab Training Video," he instead has a simple strand of black hair.

He typically wears a white shirt with a scarlet-red tie, black leather shoes with white shoelaces, white socks with blue and red stripes, and brown rectangular pants with a black belt. While working at the Krusty Krab, he wears a tall, white hat with a small blue anchor illustration on it as a uniform. SpongeBob usually sleeps in his briefs, and at other times-beginning with Season 5-pajamas. However, he occasionally sleeps with his entire outfit on, which was more common in the show's earlier seasons.

In various spin-off media, he's slightly redesigned. In Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years , his outfit stays mostly the same as in the original show, but now he wears a red cap and a handkerchief, as well as brown boots. In The Patrick Star Show, SpongeBob has a bit of yellow hair on his head, wears a bow tie and black and white saddle shoes.

Though SpongeBob has always been voiced by Tom Kenny, his voice has changed throughout the series; his voice is lower than normal in Season 1; after the first movie, his voice noticeably changes, increasing in pitch, along with other changes. After Season 7, his voice slightly decreases in pitch.

Even though he's a sea sponge, he has legs and is able to move, just like the other sponges in the show. This is pointed out in "I Had an Accident," when he says that he will stay in his house forever, and he shouldn't have even been walking in the first place because he's a sponge.

Legacy[]

Throughout his show's run, SpongeBob SquarePants became very popular with viewers of all ages. His popularity spread from Nickelodeon's original demographic of two- to eleven-year-olds, to teenagers and adults, was popular on college campuses and with celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis Salon.com's Stephanie Zacharek feels that the unadulterated innocence of SpongeBob is what makes him so appealing. SpongeBob also became popular with gay men, despite Stephen Hillenburg asserting that none of the series' characters are homosexual, attracting fans with his flamboyant lifestyle and tolerant attitude.

In July 2009, the Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York unveiled a wax sculpture of SpongeBob, the first fictional character to be featured there. In May 2011, a new species of mushroom, Spongiforma squarepantsii, named after SpongeBob, was described in the journal Mycologia. The authors note that the hymenium, when viewed using scanning electron microscopy, somewhat resembles a "seafloor covered with tube sponges, reminiscent of the fictitious home of SpongeBob." Although the epithet was originally rejected by Mycologia's editors as "too frivolous", the authors insisted that "we could name it whatever we liked." Since 2004 (with the only exception being 2007), SpongeBob has appeared as a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The character also became a fashion trend. In 2008, American fashion designer Marc Jacobs donned a SpongeBob tattoo on his right arm. He explained that, "I just worked with Richard Prince on the collaboration for Louis Vuitton and Richard has done a series of paintings of SpongeBob. He had brought up in our conversation how he saw the artistic value of SpongeBob as the cartoon and I kind of liked it, so I did it." He added that "It's funny." In the same year, A Bathing Ape released SpongeBob-themed shoes. Singer Pharrell Williams backed a line of SpongeBob T-shirts and shoes targeted at hip adults. In 2014, the character was among the popular culture icons referenced by American fashion designer Jeremy Scott in his Moschino debut collection at the Milan Fashion Week

In Egypt's Tahrir Square, after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, SpongeBob became a fashion phenomenon, appearing on various merchandise items from hijabs to boxer shorts. The phenomenon led to the creation of the Tumblr project called "SpongeBob on the Nile", founded by American students Andrew Leber and Elisabeth Jaquette, that attempts to document every appearance of SpongeBob in Egypt. Sherief Elkeshta cited the phenomenon in an essay about the incoherent state of politics in Egypt in an independent monthly paper titled Midan Masr. He wrote, "Why isn't he [SpongeBob] at least holding a Molotov cocktail? Or raising a fist?" The phenomenon has even spread to Libya, where a Libyan rebel in SpongeBob dress was photographed celebrating the revolution.

Nicktoons Unite! Series[]

When SpongeBob discovers Plankton had taken over the Bikini Bottom, a porthole opens and Goddard comes out right in front of him and Gary, scaring him. His screen opens and Jimmy Neutron appears on it and explains to SpongeBob that Plankton teamed up with the rest of the Nickelodeon villains, Vlad Plasmius, Professor Finbarr Calamitous and Denzel Crocker. SpongeBob then follows Goddard through the porthole to Jimmy's Lab. SpongeBob arrives in Jimmy's Lab where he meets Jimmy, Danny Phantom and Timmy Turner. SpongeBob then teams up with the other Nicktoons on their mission to stop the villains and save their worlds. After the villains were defeated and their worlds were saved, SpongeBob says Jimmy can visit him in the Bikini Bottom anytime and they become friends. SpongeBob meets Timmy and his GodParents again a couple more times in the other Nickoons games. In Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island, SpongeBob, Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda and the other Nicktoons team up to stop an evil enemy called the Mawgu. Jimmy Neutron is the only Nicktoon that's not a playable character but instead the one who always makes contact with SpongeBob, Timmy, his GodParents and the other Nicktoons. In Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots, he, Patrick and Tak find Timmy and his Fairy GodParents in Calamitous' Toybot Factory and save them. He, Patrick and the rest of the Nicktoons then battle their way to fight of Calamitous' Toybot army.

Other Appearances[]

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While he has does not officially appear in-series, a human look-a-like briefly appears on-screen in a Fairly OddParents episode of App Trap.

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