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SpongeBob SquarePants
is an American
animated television series
created by
marine science
educator and animator
Stephen Hillenburg
that aired on
Nickelodeon
as a sneak peek after the
1999 Kids' Choice Awards
on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999. It chronicles the adventures of
the title character
and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The series received worldwide critical acclaim, and has gained popularity by its second season. As of 2019, the series is the
fifth-longest-running American animated series
. Its popularity made it
a multimedia franchise
, the highest rated Nickelodeon series, and the most profitable intellectual property for
Paramount Consumer Products
. By 2019, it had generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue.
[4]
Many of the series' ideas originated in
The Intertidal Zone
, an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.
[5]
Hillenburg joined Nickelodeon in 1992 as an artist on
Rocko's Modern Life
.
[6]
After
Rocko
was cancelled in 1996, he began developing
SpongeBob SquarePants
into a television series that same year, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. The network's executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenburg preferred SpongeBob to be an adult character.
[7]
He was prepared to abandon the series, but compromised by creating a boating school so SpongeBob could attend school as an adult.
[8]
The series has run for a total of fourteen seasons, and has inspired three feature films:
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
(2004),
Sponge Out of Water
(2015), and
Sponge on the Run
(2020). Two spin-off series,
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
and
The Patrick Star Show
, premiered in 2021. As of February 2022, four additional films are planned: three character spinoff films for
Paramount+
and
Netflix
, and a theatrical
SpongeBob
film. The
fourteenth season
of the main series was announced in March 2022,
[9]
and premiered in November 2023. In September 2023, the show was renewed for a fifteenth season.
[10]