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SpongeBob SquarePants
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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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Appearance and characteristics
SpongeBob is a porous, yellow sponge with square pants, hence the name SpongeBob SquarePants. He has large blue eyes, each with three eyelashes, and two prominent front teeth. He also has three freckles on each cheek and dimples. He wears a white shirt with a red tie, brown trousers held up by a black belt and black shoes. He usuallySpongeBob is a sea sponge, like his parents, but he is drawn to resemble a kitchen sponge. It is said that this because Hillenburg found this design to be more amusing. Although in several episodes he is shown to have a spine, he is extremely flexible and can bend in all directions. He can also absorb large amounts of water due to his porous body.
Spongebob was based on Hillenburg's first sponge kid, Bob the Sponge, who was the main star of the comic The Intertidal Zone. Bob the Sponge looked round,wears sunglasses,and looked extremely different from Spongebob. Hillenburg shows the true birth of Spongebob in a audio commentary special feature in Disc 3 in the Spongebob Squarepants Complete 1st Season Set.
Character info
SpongeBob is cheerful, good-natured and always happy to help anyone. He is kind to everyone and is determined to be friends with those around him. When it comes to doing a job SpongeBob completes it to the best of his ability, and
SpongeBob lives in a Pineapple House in the town of Bikini Bottom, with his pet snail Gary. Next-door to him is Squidward Tentacles, who lives in an Easter Island head house. SpongeBob considers him very close friend, although this isn't mutual. Next-door to Squidward is Patrick Star, SpongeBobs very best friend, who lives under a rock.
SpongeBob and Patrick have many hobbies, which will be told later. are both Goofy Goobers, and spend a lot of time at Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat. SpongeBob and Patrick are both very immature adults, as they enjoy activities that are generally favored by children. This means that Squidward shows a strong dislike for both of them, as he considers himself more sophisticated and mature. SpongeBob sees Squidward as one of his closest friends, despite the fact that Squidward obviously does not share the feeling. This means that Squidward usually bears the brunt of SpongeBob's characteristics and actions, and is particularly annoyed by SpongeBob's laugh. Another very close friend of SpongeBob's is Sandy Cheeks. They both share a love of Karate, and are often shown trying to better each other by performing various moves. Squidward actually likes Spongebob in some episodes and SpongeBob is delighted...
SpongeBob is said to be an adult, but he has a very childlike manner-he is not ashamed to enjoy things generally associated with younger children, such as cartoons and homemade cookies. He is not good at discerning sarcasm from sincerity, and, at times, is very literal-minded, which can lead to disaster for those around him. Despite these traits, his lightweight appearance, and his lack of physical strength, SpongeBob considers himself very mature, and has attempted-and failed-to prove his "manliness" on many occasions.
SpongeBob has a career as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant. In spite of his meager salary (he once claimed that he is forced to pay his own boss) and the restaurant's poor working conditions, he is very proud of his trade. He is highly skilled at his job, and has won the Employee of the Month award hundreds of times. SpongeBob is always determined to please his boss, Eugene H. Krabs, who sometimes grows weary of SpongeBob's continuous enthusiasm. However, he is favored by Mr Krabs because he is hard-working, and very good at his job.
A recurring joke in the series reveals that SpongeBob is incapable of getting his driving license. He has attended Mrs. Puff's boating school for many years, and each year, manages to fail his driving test. SpongeBob attributes this to nervousness behind the wheel; despite knowing how to drive, he loses his composure when driving, often ending up in a car accident.
It is also revealed in Big Pink Loser and New Student Starfish that SpongeBob is a very well behaved person and in Big Pink Loser, he has won hundreds awrds for being excellent in excellence. In New Student Starfish, SpongeBob has 74 good noodles stars..
Spongebob's Weaknesses
Because SpongeBob is a Sponge, he can absorb or deflect many things. SpongeBob can absorb things like punches or blows, but even SpongeBob has weaknesses:
- Dehydration, (Tea at the Treedome, The SpongeBob SquarePants movie)
- Lack of Saltwater (Tea at the Treedome)
- Pepper Spray (No Free Rides)
- Hot sauce (Karate Choppers)
- Going into the Perfume Department (Shanghaied)
SpongeBob's Family
Spongebob has many relatives that have looks of sea sponges and sink sponges. Sea sponges look like round cookies and sink sponges look like the washing sponge material in bathrooms and kitchens.
- Uncle Sherm SquarePants
- Grandma SquarePants looks like sea sponge
- Grandpa SquarePants looks like sink sponge
- Gretchen SquarePants (mother) looks like sea sponge
- Harold SquarePants (father) looks like sea sponge
- Uncle Cap'n Blue SquarePants looks like sea sponge
- Uncle Sherm SquarePants unknown sponge look
- Cousin Todd SquarePants unknown sponge look
- Cousin BlackJack SquarePants looks like sea sponge
- Cousin Stanley S. SquarePants looks like sink sponge
Interests
Among his favorite activities besides the one Bubble Blowing and the art Karate also Jellyfishing. He is a member of the Club of Jellyspotters and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy Fanclub. SpongeBob, Together with Patrick, he founded the club SpongeBob, in which both disguised with words communicate, and the Royal Club of good-neighborly Lodge. As we said earlier, Spongebob and Patrick love the Goofy Goober and they also enjoy watching The NEW Adventures Of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy on Tv. He is also interested in Squidwards shirt as seen in: The Paper Spongebob enjoys rock music, sang "Ripped pants" in the episode (Vocals & Guitar) in the spongebob movie sang "Goofy goober rock" to destroy bucket-heads, in Lights, camera, pants! Spongebob plays guitar and has a rock portion in "Atlantis squarepantis" he sings "sweet victory" in band geeks and was the vocals & acoustic guitar in the campfire song song.
Child Like Gags
In one episode called Grandma's Kisses (Episode), Spongebob goes to his grandmas house and does baby things. Such as Licking a spoon, eating Home Made Cookies, Giving granny a 'Kissie Kissie', Wearing a cookie eating hat, getting told stories, having a nap. That is the runnhing gag of the episode.
Other
Controversy
James Dobson of Focus on the Family accused the makers of a video in which SpongeBob appears with other cartoon characters meant to promote diversity and tolerance as promoting homosexuality. Creator of the character, Stephen Hillenburg, has denied that Spongebob is gay and has said that he in fact thinks of him as asexual.
Dobson later clarified his comments by saying his original complaints were not with the video, but with the We Are Family Foundation, who he says make available pro-homosexual material on their website. After the controversy, John H. Thomas, the United Church of Christ's general minister and president said they would welcome SpongeBob into their ministry. He said, "Jesus didn't turn people away. Neither do we." What people do not understand is that it is a joke which kids do not understand so the issue should not be identfied as innapropriate. There are rumors that he is gay.
Original Name
SpongeBob's original name is SpongeBoy, but that name was already copyrighted,
But Hillenburg referenced it once, when Mr. Krabs said "SpongeBoy me Bob!"
Design
As you would know, SpongeBob has had little body changes in the series, there are little changes as the series went on but mainly he is the same. From season 4, SpongeBob seemed a bit bigger and brighter. Near the first season he was quite big and darker. This is a list of many different designs that SpongeBob has had:
Earlier in the series, darker holes
Later in the Series, Lighter
More Wavy design along the sides
- SpongeBob und Krabbenburger.jpg
Earlier, but much brighter
- Küchenchef.jpg
Lighter, but strighter and smaller
Still light but face bigger and a bit taller
The season 2 Stage was a bit darker, but looked good
Pretty much average and in between light and dark, tall and small looks
Note that these are only extremely minor differences, basically he looks exactly the same, it just depends on when it was made, as time goes on, people think of ideas to make SpongeBob better!
In Other Languages
We do not know the origins but anyways, here are the varietys of SpongeBob names:
- Спондж Боб (Spondzh Bob) (Bulgarian)
- SvampeBob Firkant (Danish)
- SpongeBob Schwammkopf (SpongeBob SpongeHead) (German)
- Μπομπ Σφουγγαράκης Τετραγωνοπαντελονής (Mpomp Spouggarakhc Tetragonopantelonhc) (Greek)
- Bob Esponja (Spanish)
- SpongaBobo (Esperanto)
- Bob l'éponge (Bob the Sponge) (French)
- 네모네모 스펀지 송 (Ne-mo Ne-mo Seupeonji Song) (Korean)
- Svampur Sveinsson (Icelandic)
- SpongeBob SquarePants (about five other countries use this!)
- スポンジ・ボブ (SuponjiBobu) (Japanese)
- SvampeBob Firkant (Norwegian)
- SpongeBob Kanciastoporty (Polish)
- Bob Esponja Calça Quadrada (Portuguese)
- Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (Gubka Bob Kvadratnye Shtany) or simply "Спанч Боб" (Russian)
- Paavo Pesusieni (Finnish)
- SvampBob Fyrkant (Swedish)
- Sünger Bob (Turkish)
- 海綿寶寶 (Mian Qiu Fang Kuai) (Mandarin)
- BobSfoge Michnas Meruba (Hebrew)
Quotes
- "I'm ready!"
- "Good morning world and all who inhabit it!"
- "Order up!!!"
- "OOOPPPSSS I GUESS I RIPPED MY PANTS AGAIN"
- "Imaginaaaaaaaaaaaaaation!"
- "Holy Krabby Patties!"
- "Now it's time to bring it around town!"
- "(says and does something) At night!"
- "Another day, another dollar/nickel!"
- "THANK YOU BIKINI BOTTOM!!"
| Main characters |
| SpongeBob SquarePants • Patrick Star • Squidward Tentacles • Eugene H. Krabs • Sandy Cheeks • Gary the Snail • Sheldon J. Plankton |
| The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie |
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Characters: David Hasselhoff • Dennis (eliminator) • Cyclops • Goofy Goober • Karen • King Neptune • Mr. Krabs • Patrick Star • Mindy • Sheldon J. Plankton • SpongeBob SquarePants • Gas Station Attendants • Car Stealer |
