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The second season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBob's best friend, a starfish named Patrick Star, was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke, [10] while Rodger Bumpass played the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus. [11]
Nevertheless, SpongeBob SquarePants was ranked ninth on TV Guide's top 50 cartoon characters. [44] The show's characters have received recognition from celebrities and well-known figures in media. Barack Obama named SpongeBob his favorite television character in 2007 and admitted that SpongeBob SquarePants was "the show I watch with my daughters."
[2] [3] As of February 14, 2025, 312 episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants have aired, currently in its fifteenth season. The fifteenth season consists of 20 episodes. [4] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters on November 19, 2004, and grossed over US$140 million worldwide. [5]
Patrick Star is a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is voiced by actor Bill Fagerbakke and was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. He first appeared in the series' pilot episode "Help Wanted" on May 1, 1999.
For the series, the writers wanted to bend the rules of the original SpongeBob series even further and divert away from traditional story structures. In March 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on July 26, 2023. The second half of production season 2 began airing as the third season, which premiered on July 29, 2024.
In the episode, Squidward and SpongeBob are forced to work 24 hours a day by their boss Mr. Krabs. Squidward soon becomes bored, and tells SpongeBob a ghost story to scare him off the night shift. When SpongeBob begins to panic, Squidward tells him that the story is fictional. However, later that night, the events of the story begin to occur.
For the voice of SpongeBob, the main character, Hillenburg approached Kenny, who previously worked with him on Rocko's Modern Life. [3] Drymon said, "Steve [Hillenburg] wanted to find an original sounding voice [for SpongeBob]." [2] Hillenburg utilized Kenny's and other people's personalities to help create the personality of SpongeBob. [4]
TV Guide listed SpongeBob SquarePants at number nine on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list. [ 37 ] James Poniewozik of Time magazine considered the character "the anti- Bart Simpson , temperamentally and physically: his head is as squared-off and neat as Bart's is unruly, and he has a personality to match–conscientious ...