Sandy Cheeks

Sandy Cheeks is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

She was born a twin to her brother Randy Cheeks, to Ma and Pa Cheeks in Houston, Texas, USA.

Sandy's mother Mrs. Cheeks once told her to "karate them with kindness."

Although they first met in "Tea at the Treedome" as adults, *Kamp Koral, SpongeBob's Under Years* will contradict this event and instead have them meet at Camp Coral as children. Sandy's younger self will be shown wearing braces, which she got removed sometime during her adulthood.

When she was learning to drive, she took a driving course called, "Driving You Nuts!"

When she was an adult, she joined a company called Treedome Enterprises. This company sent her down to Bikini Bottom to study the undersea life.

In Bikini Bottom, she met SpongeBob SquarePants while she was fighting a giant clam. She also met Patrick Star the next day when he tried to save SpongeBob who was at Sandy's treedome for tea and SpongeBob was all dried up because there is no water in her treedome. She has also met many other sea creatures since she arrived at Bikini Bottom.

Outside of Bikini Bottom, she is also a member of The New Action Squad.

## **APPEARANCE**

Sandy is most commonly seen wearing her suit for oxygen when she is outside of her treedome. The suit is white and has a yellow patch with an acorn on it. It also has two red, and a blue, ring(s) on each sleeve. The suit comes with a big glass helmet with a pink and yellow flower on it. She also wears grey boots with one red dot on each side of them.

When Sandy appears inside her treedome, she wears purple clothing, primarily a purple bikini top and a purple and green skirt-like bottom. In "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy," when her fur pelt is off, she wears a purple bra and purple panties.

When she is on her exercise hamster wheel, she can be seen wearing a white hoodie and blue workout sweats.

## **PERSONALITY**

Sandy is usually kind and caring for SpongeBob and is known to help him out when he's feeling lost, as seen in many newer episodes, such as "Lost in Bikini Bottom." However, in older episodes, she is shown to be much crazier. In "Prehibernation Week," she is shown to be crazier than ever when she forces SpongeBob to play dangerous games, thus leading to him running away. She then forces all Bikini Bottomites to search nonstop for days on end looking for him, to the point when they all run and hide from her just like SpongeBob did. In "To Save a Squirrel" she makes SpongeBob and Patrick almost eat each other just to see if they can survive out in the wild.

Sandy takes full pride in her Texas heritage and shown with her Texan accent. She had a lot of experience there and won't stand any insults of it, as shown in "Texas," where she cries several times throughout the episode because she missed her old homeland and even made a song dedicated to it. SpongeBob and Patrick then make fun of the state. She is offended by them mocking Texas, and thus she chases both of them down and brutally attacks Patrick.

She has also been shown to have a strong competitive streak and a high opinion of herself. In "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm," she completely ignores SpongeBob's warnings about the Alaskan Bull Worm and tells him that she is "too Texas tough," only to discover the hard way that the Bull Worm is indeed too much for her to handle. In "Pressure," she continuously brags that land creatures are better than sea creatures and nearly drowns herself in an attempt to "prove" it. In "Squirrel Jokes" she almost kills SpongeBob just because he kept making jokes about her.

## **TRIVIA**

* Stephen Hillenburg stated in 2014 that he created Sandy as "a strong female character that could be a friend to SpongeBob but not a love interest."
	+ Tim Hill, who helped Hillenburg write his series pitch bible, supposedly wanted to introduce a romantic element to the show. This never ended up happening.
* SpongeBob is seen imitating Sandy in "Gone," "Mimic Madness," and "Squirrel Jelly."
* Mrs. Puff has more episode appearances than Sandy in season 3, season 10, and season 12.
* "Salsa Imbecilicus" and "Surf N' Turf" are the only episodes where Sandy plays a major role without SpongeBob *also* playing a major role.
* Sandy is called "Sandy Squirrel" for the first time in "SpongeBob's Last Stand." She would be called this again in the N.E.R.D song "Sandy Squirrel" from the music of *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water*.
* Although Sandy and Mrs. Puff only have two lines each in the 2004 movie, they are both billed under the "Main Cast" in the film's credits because they are main characters in the series.
* She was called "Arenita" in the Latin American dub of the series. "Arenita" means "little sand" in Spanish, making it a fairly accurate translation. She is still called this in the Spanish dub of the series.
* In the Finnish dub, she is called "Santa Sanna." "Santa" is one synonym for "hiekka" which means "sand."
* In the very last shot in "MuscleBob BuffPants," paw pads are visible on the underside of Sandy's feet. This the only episode to show her having them; in all other episodes, she has a beige or brown surface on the bottoms of her paws.
* Sandy was responsible for introducing Christmas to Bikini Bottom. This happens in the episode "Christmas Who?"
* In the episode "Stanley S. SquarePants," a Scottish relative of Sandy with the same name is shown.