Margaret SquarePants

**Margaret** **Claire Gretchen** **SquarePants** (née **BubbleBottom**) is SpongeBob's mother and Harold's wife. Unlike SpongeBob, who is a squared-off tube sea sponge, Margaret and her husband are designed as round sea sponges. Although both SpongeBob and his parents are modeled after real-life species of sea sponges, it has not been explained why they are different kinds.

The decision to have SpongeBob's parents resemble round sea sponges was a reference to SpongeBob's original design.

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## Description

She has black hair and is dressed in a purple matchbox dress with matching sleeveless pantalettes with purple high heels and wears a pearl necklace. She is an orange sea sponge with light brown pores and light blue eyes.

## Biography

She was born as Margaret BubbleBottom to Mr. and Mrs. BubbleBottom.

She married Harold SquarePants and changed her name to Margaret SquarePants.

She had one known child, named SpongeBob SquarePants.

She once told SpongeBob to never run with a broom.

She now lives only with her husband since SpongeBob moved out.

## Role in series

### "Home Sweet Pineapple"

She and her husband come to pick up SpongeBob after nematodes eat his pineapple house.

### "Culture Shock"

Margaret and Harold watch their son (among others) perform at the Krusty Krab talent show.

### "No Free Rides"

Margaret and Harold give their son a boatmobile for "passing" his driver's test.

### "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV"

After SpongeBob shrinks everyone in Bikini Bottom, she tells him that he needs to admit his mistakes.

### "Driven to Tears"

She and Harold seem disappointed that SpongeBob does not have his driver's license, seeing that even Patrick has a license.

### "Sing a Song of Patrick"

Harold and Margaret are seen in a photo hung on SpongeBob's wall. When Patrick blasts his song "I Wrote This," the photo comes to life and Harold swipes the photograph of him and his wife behind the wall out of disapproval for the song.

### "New Digs"

Margaret and Harold come to visit SpongeBob ever since he started living at the Krusty Krab.

### "Sing a Song of Patrick"

Harold and Margaret are seen in a photo hung on SpongeBob's wall. When Patrick blasts his song "I Wrote This," the photo comes to life and Harold swipes the photograph of him and his wife behind the wall out of disapproval for the song.

### "A SquarePants Family Vacation"

She drives SpongeBob and Patrick to the Great Barrier Reef as part of the vacation.

### "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout"

She and her husband attend their son's birthday party.

## Trivia

* "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV" is the only episode where Margaret SquarePants is seen without her husband.
* In "A SquarePants Family Vacation," it is revealed that she likes knitting.

* In the closing credits, she has been listed variously as "Mom," "Ma Sponge," and "Mrs. SquarePants."
* In the episode "Sailor Mouth," after SpongeBob uses a swear word imprinted on the dumpster graffiti, Incidental 119 asks if he kisses his mother with that mouth, to which SpongeBob, not realizing what the garbage collector actually meant, replies that he sometimes does but has not recently.
* In older seasons up to "The Slumber Party," she appeared wearing a purple hat. Starting in "Truth or Square" and onward, she now appears wearing a black hat which is the same color as her hair.
* According to Sirena Irwin, her voice is inspired by June Cleaver from the 1950s sitcom *Leave It to Beaver*.