The second season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBobs best friend, a starfish named. SpongeBob SquarePants born July 14, 1986 age 30 is the main protagonist, and the eponymous character, of the Nickelodeon animated comedy series of the same name. The first season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character SpongeBob SquarePants and his pet snail Gary. SpongeBobs best friend, a starfish named. Its the best day ever Today, Nickelodeon reviewed the animated SpongeBob SquarePants TV show for a tenth and eleventh season. Marine biologist and animator. When SpongeBob cooks at home, Mr. Krabs customers leave his restaurant and head for SpongeBobs Place. When Plankton gets kicked out of the house, its up to. The Oral History of Sponge. Bob Square. Pants. More than a decade has passed since Stephen Hillenburgs porous protagonist established Bikini Bottom as a must see outpost of popular culture. Tom Heintjes gathered insights and reminiscences from some of the people behind Sponge. Bob Square. Pants to illuminate the making of a cultural phenomenon. TfepJn2ICerwvPiop5e5EvOqM.jpg' alt='Spongebob Squarepants Season 2 Episode 35' title='Spongebob Squarepants Season 2 Episode 35' />Its Sponge. Bobs ocean we just swim in it. When the first Sponge. Bob Square. Pants episode Help Wanted aired on May 1, 1. If the formulaa goofy na. Sponge. Bobs rise to animations pantheon, not to mention his longevity, made his creator Stephen Hillenburg very wealthy and practically a household name, thanks to Sponge. Bob merchandise bearing his signature. Hillenburg, a marine biologist by training, created Intertidal Zone, a comic book for his employer, the Ocean Institute. Spongebob Squarepants Season 2 Episode 35' title='Spongebob Squarepants Season 2 Episode 35' />The comic book featured a sponge named Bob that was the first incarnation of the spongiform sprite. But his passion for animation led him to a role as creative director of Joe Murrays cartoon, Rockos Modern Life. On that program, Hillenburg became acquainted with the group of people who would become central to helping him realize his vision of a porous protagonist and his subaquatic friends, chief among them Derek Drymon, Nick Jennings and Tom Kenny. They bought into Hillenburgs vision of Sponge. Bob as the eternal child who could see only the bright side of even the most oppressively punishing situation and who finds only the good in the most ill intentioned people. From the beginning, Hillenburg emphasized that the stories should focus on the characters, never striving for the archly ironic, self aware cool that might fleetingly catch viewers fancy but which inevitably wears out its welcome. The second season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from October 26, 2000, to July 26. SpongeBob SquarePants TV Series 1999 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. SpongeBob learns that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery too bad no one told him how to stopWhen worms move in to SpongeBobs holes, its up to him to. Coleman It was all there from the very first pitch. This is SpongeBob, this where he lives, this is who his best friend is, this is the cranky neighbor who lives in. To this day, long after Hillenburg handed his characters off to others, that approach remains the shows credo. Sponge. Bobs evolution can be broken broadly into two distinct periods prior to the movie, and after it. The first period began with its debut on May 1, 1. Hillenburg had been developing the concept for years some evidence shows it had been gestating since 1. The series started strongly in a vote of early confidence, parent network Nickelodeon aired its debut immediately following the broadcast of its highly rated Kids Choice Awards, and it found a loyal audience among children as well as adults who appreciated its whimsy and slyly deceptive sophistication. Hillenburg announced that he was putting the series on hiatus while he focused on the theatrical movie. At the time, no one knew if more Sponge. Bob episodes would be forthcoming. The movie, released on Nov. However, Hillenburg and creative director Derek Drymon chose to leave the show, allowing other hands to take the wheel. Hogans Alley spoke with some of those people who offered their insights and reminiscences about their experiences in animating the worlds most famous sponge. Are you ready, kidsTom HeintjesI was just blown awayThe odds of a property getting picked up and produced are remote, but Stephen Hillenburg had honed his chops on the critically acclaimed Rockos Modern Life. Just as importantly, Hillenburg had become acquainted with the coterie that would help him bring his vision to fruition. A Hillenburg drawing of the character when he was going by his early working name. We worked together on Rockos Modern Life, a Nicktoons show created by Joe Murray. Steve was the creative director on that, and it was my first voice over of any significance. He and I met there, as did a few other guys who would go on to become seminal in the birth of Sponge. Bob. Lawrence now does the voice of Plankton and writes for Sponge. Bob. Nick Jennings also worked on Rocko. Watch Online Watch Stalled Full Movie Online Film here. He was one of Sponge. Bobs early graphics mentors and a close collaborator of Steves. Derek Drymon, creative director, 1. I met Steve at my first job in television animation on a show called Rockos Modern Life. Nickelodeon was producing it under the name Games Animation. Rocko was a storyboard driven show, which meant the storyboard teams would work from an outline and would create the episode by drawing it out. Storyboarding was the best job you could imagine and I really wanted to do it, but I had no experience. I started self publishing a comic book called Funnytime Features to show the shows creator, Joe Murray, what I could do. When Steve was promoted to creative director of Rocko, I was bumped me up to storyboard artist largely based on what I did in my comic book. Kenny Rockos Modern Life was just one of those shows that were the first break for a lot of people who went on to do other stuff in the business. A few years later, when Steve was ready to pitch a character of his own, he remembered me and thought Id be good for his new character, Sponge. Bob. He asked me to look at some stuff, and it was a very well thought out, well conceived bible, the only difference being that the character was called Sponge. Boy. But there were character drawingsnot really model sheetsbut drawings of the characters, personality profiles, graphic studies of Sponge. Bobs pineapple house and Squidwards tiki head house, the Krusty Krab, a lobster trap shaped structure. It was typical Steve fully realized before he even mentioned it to anyone. By the time I saw it, I was just blown away by the groundwork. And he learned a lot of those lessons from Joe Murray on Rocko. Joe was a very smart and creative guy. Drymon I was teamed up with the storyboard director Mark OHare, who had been Steves storyboard artist for the first three seasons of. Mark was one of the top guys on Rocko, and I was thrilled to be working for him. I was so excited to get the jobit was the first time I was getting paid for my ideas. I remember driving home on the day I got the promotion and thinking somehow it would all go wrong. I envisioned myself dying in a car crash on the way home. I was sure the universe wouldnt let me be happy. The job only lasted one season. The show was being canceled, and Nickelodeon was moving away from storyboard driven shows like Rocko and Ren and Stimpy. I was very disappointed I wouldnt be able to write any more. Steve was. The Sponge. Bob cast as shown in Steve Hillenburgs series bible. I remember his bringing it up to Mark in our office and asking him if hed be interested in working on it. Mark had just sold a comic strip. I was all ready to say yes to the offer but Steve didnt ask he just left the room. I was pretty desperate to keep writing so I ran into the hall after him and basically begged him for the job. He didnt jump at the chance. I had hardly any experience, and Steve and I didnt know each other very well, so I couldnt blame him. Of course, Steve was never one to make a quick decision he must have thought it over because he eventually offered me the job. When Rocko ended, I went on to work as a storyboard artist on another Nickelodeon show. Steve and I would meet at his house after work a few times a week to work on the pitch for Sponge. Bob. It would have been 1. Steve wanted to develop a character who had a very young, boyish attitude and cited Jerry Lewis, Pee Wee Herman and Stan Laurel as inspiration. The first time I went over there we sat on his bed and watched The Office Boy. Steve talked all through it, pointing out things he liked about the character Jerry was playing. The scene that was most Sponge. Bob in hindsight was the one where Jerrys boss gives him the job of putting out hundreds of folding chairs in a giant auditorium. It looks like it will take hours. The boss steps out for a minute, and when he walks back in, Jerry had magically filled the place with chairs. We also watched a Laurel and Hardy short called Towed in a Hole where Stan is annoying Ollie and gets put in a little room as a punishment. Steve loved how Stan entertained himself by drawing on the wall and playing tic tac toe all alonehe was like a kid being put in the corner. Steve really wanted to capture that innocent, kid like humor.