SpongeBob SquarePants

**SpongeBob SquarePants** is an American animated comedy television created by the late Stephen Hillenburg. It chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.

## Characters

* **SpongeBob SquarePants**: A childish, joyful, and clumsy sea sponge who lives in a pineapple with his pet snail Gary in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. He works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, a job in which he is exceptionally skilled at and enjoys thoroughly. He attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, and his greatest dream in life is to receive his boating license. Unfortunately, he tenses up whenever he has to drive a boatmobile, and he drives recklessly by speeding, crashing into buildings, etc. which causes him to fail every time. SpongeBob is very good-natured and loves to hang out with his best friend, Patrick. His teacher is Mrs. Puff and his boss is Mr. Krabs.
* **Patrick Star**: A naïve and overweight pink sea star who is SpongeBob's best friend. He under a rock in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Squidward are his two neighbors, and, when viewed on the front side, are to the right of his residence. He and SpongeBob both tend to bother Squidward; though they do it unknowingly and have good intentions.
* **Squidward** **Tentacles**: SpongeBob's and Patrick's grumpy neighbor and the former's coworker at the Krusty Krab who lives in an Easter Island head. He is a mostly unpleasant artist and musician, and his favorite hobbies are painting self-portraits and playing the clarinet. Although he has the name "squid", he's not a squid, he's actually an octopus.
* **Eugene H. Krabs** (or commonly known as **Mr. Krabs**): a miserly red crab who lives in an anchor with his daughter, Pearl, who is a young whale. He is the owner and founder of the Krusty Krab restaurant as well as the employer of both SpongeBob and Squidward. Mr. Krabs is obsessed with money and goes to great length to increase his wealth, to the point where he occasionally treats money better than his daughter and employees. Mr. Krabs' only business competition comes from the Chum Bucket, a failing restaurant run by Sheldon Plankton and his wife Karen. Plankton and Karen are constantly scheming to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula that makes the Krusty Krab so successful.
* **Sheldon J. Plankton** (or commonly known as **Plankton**): A planktonic copepod who runs the Chum Bucket restaurant alongside Karen, a waterproof computer who is his sidekick and wife. The Chum Bucket is highly unpopular in Bikini Bottom because it serves chum, a type of bait made from fish meat. He is the main antagonist of the franchise. There are also several episodes in which Plankton acts as a sympathetic anti-hero. Plankton despises his rival, Mr. Krabs, for running a successful restaurant because his own business rarely gets any customers. His main goal is to steal Krabs' secret formula for Krabby Patties and running Mr. Krabs out of business. Karen gives him a variety of plans to steal it, but their efforts always end up failing in the process.
* **Karen** **Plankton**: A waterproof supercomputer who lives in the Chum Bucket laboratory. She is Plankton's wife and sidekick who supplies him with evil plans to steal the Krabby Patty formula. As a computer, Karen is the smartest resident of Bikini Bottom and has a clever, analytical personality. She has two main forms: a big monitor on the wall or a portable wheeled computer. Along with her role as co-owner of the Chum Bucket, she works as the chef and cashier. She rarely has to fulfill these jobs due to the Chum Bucket's unpopularity.
* **Sandy** **Che****eks**: An American squirrel from the surface who wears a diving suit and lives in an air-filled glass treedome to survive underwater. Sandy is a thrill seeker who loves extreme sports, and karate. Having come from the state of Texas, she has a Southern drawl and a love for rodeos. She works as a scientist and builds both her treedome and air suit and helmet herself. She is also a member of the Gal Pals along with Karen, Mrs. Puff, and Pearl.
* **Mrs.** **Pu****ff**: SpongeBob's teacher at Boating School, where she teaches students how to drive boats like underwater cars. She is a pufferfish who wears a sailor uniform. Teaching and driving are her passions in life, she is talented at both, having taught every student other than SpongeBob how to drive. She and SpongeBob are always on an "*endless quest*" to get him a driver's license, but due to his reckless boating skills, they never succeed. Mrs. Puff's school is attached to a submerged lighthouse and surrounded by a stunt-driving course.
* **Pearl** **Kra****bs**: A young whale who lives in a hollow anchor with her father, Eugene H. Krabs. When Pearl grows up, Mr. Krabs wants her to continue the family business by inheriting the Krusty Krab and becoming its owner.
* **Gary** **the** **Snail**: A snail who lives with SpongeBob in his pineapple house on 124 Conch Street. He is a domesticated house pet with similar mannerisms to the real-world cat, most notably his "meow" sound, as snails are the underwater equivalent to cats in the show. He also has some abilities of dogs, from fetching to doing tricks. It has been suggested that SpongeBob has had Gary ever since he was a young boy. The episode "Treats!" reveals that Gary was adopted by SpongeBob. In "Plankton's Pet," SpongeBob reveals to have bought Gary at the animal shelter.