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SpongeBob SquarePants
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This article is about the series. For the title character, see SpongeBob SquarePants (character).

SpongeBob SquarePants

The current "off-screen" logo, enacted in 2007.
Genre Animated comedy
Created by Stephen Hillenburg
Developed by Derek Drymon
Tim Hill
Nick Jennings
Written by Aaron Springer
Paul Tibbitt
Mr. Lawrence
Casey Alexander
Zeus Cervas
Richard Pursel
Derek Iverson
Dani Michaeli
Luke Brooksheir
Nate Cash
Sean Charmatz
Steven Banks
Tuck Tucker
Tom King
Vincent Waller
Directed by Aaron Springer
Paul Tibbitt
Creative director(s) Derek Drymon
(Season 1-3)
Vincent Waller
(Season 5-present)
Starring Tom Kenny
Bill Fagerbakke
Clancy Brown
Rodger Bumpass
Carolyn Lawrence
Mr. Lawrence
Dee Bradley Baker
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 7
No. of episodes 292 (total) 152 (full) (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Stephen Hillenburg
Paul Tibbitt
(Season 5-present)
Producer(s) Paul Tibbitt
(Supervising)
Running time 22–23 minutes
Production company(s) United Plankton Pictures
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Distributor MTV Networks
Broadcast
Original channel Nickelodeon
Picture format SDTV 480i (1999–2009)
HDTV 1080i (2009-present)
Audio format Advantage Audio Services (1999–2009) (NTSC)
Advantage Audio Services 8.0 (2009–present)
Dolby Surround 5.1 (2009–present) (NTSC)
Original run May 1, 1999 – present
Status Renewed for an eight & ninth season[1]
External links
Website
SpongeBob SquarePants (often referred to simply as SpongeBob) is an American animated television series, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. Much of the series centers on the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city "Bikini Bottom". The series' popularity has prompted the release of a media franchise, contributing to its position as Nickelodeon's highest rated show, the most distributed property of MTV Networks, and among Nicktoons' most-watched shows.[2]
The basis for SpongeBob SquarePants was formed by Hillenburg in 1984 while teaching and studying marine biology at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California, where he wrote the comic strip The Intertidal Zone, which starred various anthropomorphic forms of sea life, many of which would evolve into SpongeBob SquarePants characters. He left the institute to become an animator in 1987, and later attended the California Institute of Arts in 1992. In the institute, he made his thesis film Wormholes (1992), which led to his hiring as a director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and executive producer of the series Rocko's Modern Life by creator Joe Murray. He started to develop the series in 1996 following Rocko's Modern Life's, and pitched the series to Nickelodeon in 1998 and was later greenlit for a first season.
The pilot episode of SpongeBob SquarePants first aired episodes in the United States on Nickelodeon on May 1, 1999, following the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The first episodes were called "Help Wanted", "Reef Blower", "Tea at the Treedome". The "official" series premiere followed on July 17, 1999, with the second episode, "Bubblestand/Ripped Pants." The show reached enormous popularity by 2000 and has remained popular since. A feature film of the series was released in theaters on November 19, 2004. The series is currently in its seventh season and celebrated its tenth anniversary on July 17, 2009. SpongeBob was renewed for a ninth season on January 3, 2011,[3] and the traditional definition of season is different for this series and defines more that episodes are ordered for future airing rather than they will be aired throughout one calendar year.