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Spongebob Squarepants Analysis

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Spongebob Squarepants is a cartoon made in 1999 created by Stephen Hillenburg. Even Though it was created more than a decade ago it is still Nickelodeon’s most successful show ever made and is one of the most popular cartoons to date. Spongebob Squarepants centers around Spongebob, a walking talking sponge, and his misadventures in his hometown Bikini Bottom. The characters consist of mainly sea-creatures such as, Spongebob’s best friend, Patrick Star, his neighbor Squidward Tentacles, his boss,Mr.Krabs, and his friend Sandy Cheeks. Every episode is different so you never know what to expect.
There are currently 1,600+ episodes with each season having 20 or more episodes. The cartoon takes place in multiple settings but some of the main ones are Bikini Bottom, Goo Lagoon, The Krusty Krab and Spongebob’s house.The voices of the characters are Tom Kenny (Spongebob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward) and Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), and those are just the main characters! Some fun facts most people don't know are that the show was originally going to be named Spongeboy Ahoy! but they scrapped that for unknown reasons. …show more content…

The music in the show was composed by Mark Harrison but the lyrics were made by the creator of the show. The cartoon’s popularity spawned bucket loads of merchandise both official and bootlegs. Some merchandise includes Spongebob Legos and dolls. One of the more popular Spongebob merchandise are all the videogames, the first video game Spongebob starred in was “Nicktoons Racing” released in 1999 for multiple consoles such as the PS1 and the GameBoy

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