Spongebob Squarepants

Spongebob Squarepants is a protagonist and a member of The New Action Squad.

## **BIOGRAPHY**

According to his driver's license in the episode produced around December of "1999", "Sleepy Time," SpongeBob SquarePants was born on July 14, 1986. If episode airdates/production correlated with the time set in an episode, this would make him 13 years old at the time of the episode's airing and production. SpongeBob's license is seen again with this birthdate in "No Free Rides," but all further appearances of it remove the birthdate. He celebrates four respective unspecified birthdays in the episodes "I Had an Accident," "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler," "Waiting," and "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout." However, in the latter, he nearly reveals his age but is narrowly cut off by the episode's ending, making it a mystery. Stephen Hillenburg once joked that SpongeBob is 50 in "sponge years." Taking into account the average lifespan of a yellow tube sponge being just over 100 years, this would make him middle-aged. Jokes aside, Hillenburg explained that SpongeBob actually has no specific age, but that he is old enough to be on his own and still be going to boating school (firmly confirming him to be an adult.) That statement renders his initial birthdate non-canon (it was likely in reference to his conception for *The Intertidal Zone*,) and it would be fair to estimate his age being mid-to-late 20s from the series' start.

He lives with his pet sea snail named Gary in a large pineapple-shaped house on 124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom. His next-door neighbor, Squidward Tentacles, who lives in an Easter Island head, is constantly annoyed by his antics.

SpongeBob is oblivious to this and believes Squidward to be his friend. Beside Squidward's house is the home of SpongeBob's best friend, Patrick Star, who lives under a rock.

SpongeBob works at the Krusty Krab, Bikini Bottom's most popular restaurant, where he is a fry cook and prepares all food served at the restaurant, most notably Krabby Patties.

Outside of Bikini Bottom, he is also a member of The New Action Squad. Throughout the series progression, he has gained a sense of maturity.

## **APPEARANCE**

SpongeBob is a sea sponge with a rectangular shape. He is light yellow with a light olive-green outline. In earlier episodes, he is wider near the top and gets skinnier going further down. However, in the more recent episodes, he is more of a regular square shape. SpongeBob has light olive-green pores, dimples with three freckles on each cheek, a large mouth with two prominent front buck teeth, a long, slightly curved nose, and large light blue eyes. Moreover, his eye color seems to be, uniquely, a shade of pacific blue (or Crayola cerulean,) complimenting the blue ocean background. Furthermore, he has three exceptionally wide, exposed, and effeminate eyelashes on each eye, which have sometimes - during close-ups in particular - been shown to be numerous eyelashes akin to a human, which is best prominent in "Tutor Sauce" when he is seen breathing heavily during a close-up. Although rarely seen in the series, he has light yellow hair that goes hand-in-hand with his skin color, as seen on his driver's license and in the episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly." However, in the episode "Krusty Krab Training Video," he instead has a simple strand of black hair.

He typically wears a white shirt with a scarlet-red tie, black leather shoes with white shoelaces, white socks with blue and red stripes, and brown rectangular pants with a black belt. While working at the Krusty Krab, he wears a tall, white hat with a small blue anchor illustration on it as a uniform. SpongeBob usually sleeps in his briefs, and at other times-beginning with season 5-pajamas. However, he occasionally sleeps with his entire outfit on, which was more common in the show's earlier seasons.

## **PERSONALITY**

SpongeBob is a fun-loving, hyperactive, clueless, abnormal and immature sponge with a happy-go-lucky personality. Despite being portrayed this way, he is somewhat smart and knows about what is right, an example being telling Patrick angrily not to draw his picture of calling Mrs. Puff a "big, fat, meanie" because she's a teacher. He is extremely determined and will often stop at nothing to accomplish a task. He is also somewhat dramatic to the people who are kind to him: for example, to the mailfish. He is also over-confident. Sometimes, though, he shows his devious side when trying to get Mr. Krabs and Plankton to work together. He sometimes makes mountains out of molehills, such as losing his name tag. It is also suggested that he deceived the Tattletale Strangler in an elaborate plot to get him back to jail.

SpongeBob is very kind-hearted and innocent, and very rarely acts openly mean to anyone, even those who find him an annoyance and act cruelly to him. He is a very selfless and loyal person, especially towards those close to him. His selfless nature is most notably shown in "Best Day Ever," where he sacrifices his "perfect day" to help his friends. Despite his well-meaning intentions, SpongeBob's actions often annoy and cause trouble for those around him, most notably his next-door neighbor, Squidward Tentacles.

SpongeBob can become scared easily and usually panics when frightened. He is afraid of the dark  and clowns . He also hates hot sauce. Occasionally, SpongeBob is too ignorant to notice impending danger and his unworldly thinking may put himself or others in peril. He also cannot detect lies or malice as easily as the other characters, mainly due to his naïve nature. In "A Pal for Gary," when Gary is being violently attacked and nearly eaten by Puffy Fluffy, SpongeBob takes no action and instead accuses Gary of harassing Puffy.

## **TRIVIA**

* On some occasions, SpongeBob wears glasses, such as for protection against jellyfishing or reading. These are similar to the glasses worn by his voice actor, Tom Kenny.
* SpongeBob sometimes appears with eyebrows that block his eyelashes. However, they do not appear in every episode.
* In season 1 and season 2, his eyes are larger compared to later seasons, and his pupils are smaller.
* SpongeBob is one of just two Nickelodeon characters, the other being Danny from Danny Phantom, that is a playable character In all four Nicktoons Unite! games.
* In "The Splinter," it is revealed that SpongeBob is ambidextrous .
* If not counting the French Narrator, SpongeBob was the first character to speak in the series.
* "Reef Blower" and "Whale Watching" are the only episodes without a speaking role by SpongeBob.
* SpongeBob plays his smallest role yet in the episode "Mall Girl Pearl," appearing only in one cameo.
	+ He also only has one cameo appearance in "Shell Games."
* In "Help Wanted," it is revealed that SpongeBob's first words were "May I take your order?"
	+ However, his first words as an unborn baby as shown in a flashback in "Truth or Square," are revealed to be "Krabby Patty!"
* Spongebob's voice actor (Tom Kenny) also voices Gibson and Rabbit. Two other members of The New Action Squad.