SpongeBob SquarePants

* Current (Season 7-present)
* Former (Seasons 1-6)

Retrieve King Neptune's crown to save Mr. Krabs' life, and free Bikini Bottom from Plankton's tyranny (first movie).
Retrieve the Krabby Patty Secret Formula from Burger-Beard, and save Bikini Bottom (second movie).
Save Gary from King Poseidon (third movie; all succeeded).

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

He is extremely annoying in certain episodes, especially the episodes in Season 6-Season 9a, which is the worst time period of SpongeBob because of the highest amount of flanderization, but even after the fladnerization decreased after Season 9a, SpongeBob has still retained some of his unlikable annoying characteristics.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

People like SpongeBob's generally positive attitude, how SpongeBob is nice to most people even his enemies most of the time, and his silly energetic personality.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Energetic Sponge

**SpongeBob SquarePants** is the titular protagonist of the 1999 Nickelodeon animated show with the same name. He is a yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea and works at Bikini Bottom, he is a fry cook at The Krusty Krab, and is best friends with Patrick.

He is voiced by Tom Kenny.

## What Makes Him a Base-Breaking Character?

### What do People Like About Him?

* He is one of the most iconic cartoon characters (and to some extent, one of the most iconic fictional characters) in existence, and made (and currently is making) several people's childhoods better, with *SpongeBob SquarePants* (especially Seasons 1-3) being a nostalgic watch for several people, who enjoy the dynamic cast of technicolored fish humanoids doing wacky shenanigans.
	+ People were sad in 2018 after Stephen Hillenburg died, posting how much he helped make their childhoods deluge of positive sentimentalities.
* SpongeBob being genuinely kind to other fish most of the time, even when they are outright villains or his enemies.
* His nurturing care for Gary, his pet snail, feeding him plenty of food and treating him like his best friend.
	+ The Season 4 episode titled *Have You Seen This Snail?* expands upon his care for the snail, as he was at first neglectful out of being distracted and focused on the Dirty Bubble challenge, requiring him to do 29,998,559,671,349 hits with the paddle ball, but after a week, he finally remembers to feed Gary, only for him to be gone. SpongeBob and Patrick go looking for Gary, putting up posters, and a montage song goes on called *Gary's Song*, until SpongeBob gives up and Gary coincidentally finds him while he was lamenting about his neglectfulness, thrilling SpongeBob in excitement.
* SpongeBob's whimsical shape shifting, turning into supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Euclidean geometric 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional entities as well as non-Euclidean 3-dimensional circles sometimes.
* When Stephen Hillenburg returned to the series in the latter half of Season 9, SpongeBob was saved from becoming a total scrappy as his characterization got mostly reset back to how it was during the pre-movie era of the show not long after Hillenburg's return.

### What do People Dislike about Him?

* SpongeBob has always been annoying to people, but he was not Base-Breaking until after his flanderization, which started in Season 6 (although some episodes before Season 6 contained flanderization), and some of the worst of SpongeBob's flanderization are:
	+ The Season 4 episode *Good Neighbors*,
	+ The Season 5 episode *Waiting*,
	+ The Season 5 episode *Fungus Among Us*,
	+ The Season 5 episode *To Love a Patty*,
	+ The Season 5 episode *What Ever Happened to SpongeBob*,
	+ The Season 5 episode *SpongeHenge*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *Gone*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *The Splinter*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *Bubble Buddies*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *Choir Boys*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *The Card*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *Pet or Pests*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *Pet or Pests*,
	+ The Season 6 episode *Truth or Square*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *Stuck in the Wringer*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *A Pal for Gary*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *Yours, Mine and Mine*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *Summer Job*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *One Coarse Meal*,
	+ The Season 7 episode *Big Sister Sam*,
	+ The Season 8 episode *Pet Sitter Pat*,
	+ The Season 8 episode *Smooth Jazz at Bikini Bottom*,
	+ The Season 8 episode *Restraining SpongeBob*,
	+ The Season 8 episode *Are You Happy Now?*,
	+ The Season 8 episode *Face Freeze*,
	+ The Season 8 episode *Demolition Doofus*,
	+ The Season 9 episode *Squid Baby*,
	+ The Season 9 episode *Little Yellow Book*,
	+ The Season 9 episode *SpongeBob You're Fired*,
	+ The Season 11 episode *Ink Lemonade*,
	+ The Season 12 episode *SpongeBob's Bad Habit*,
	+ The Season 13 episode *Twas the Night Before Spongemas*,

## Trivia

* Because of the flanderization of SpongeBob SquarePants and other characters in Season 6-Season 9a, a whole wiki is dedicated to the terrible aspects and episodes of the show, that wiki being called ScumBob.
	+ All of the worst flanderizations listed are episodes the ScumBob Wiki considers the worst and universally hated, calling them "HYPER-infamous episodes".
* Fans who only like Seasons 1-3 and the first SpongeBob SquarePants movie are called "SpongeBoomers", who are always gonna view the post-movie SpongeBob negatively.

## External Links

* SpongeBob SquarePants on the Heroes Wiki
* SpongeBob SquarePants on the Antagonists Wiki
* SpongeBob SquarePants on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
* SpongeBob SquarePants on the Nickelodeon Wiki
* SpongeBob SquarePants on the Encyclopedia SpongeBobia Wiki

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