the first episode of spongebob was released on may 1, 1999.
when was the first episode of spongebob released?
may 1 , 1999
in addition to the show's regular cast of voice actors, guest stars have been featured on "spongebob squarepants", an american animated television series created by marine biologist and animator stephen hillenburg for nickelodeon. "spongebob squarepants" chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of bikini bottom. many of the ideas for the show originated in an unpublished, educational comic book titled "the intertidal zone", which hillenburg created in the mid-1980s. he began developing "spongebob squarepants" into a television series in 1996 upon the cancellation of "rocko's modern life", which hillenburg directed. the pilot episode first aired on nickelodeon in the united states on may 1, 1999. the show's eleventh season premiered in 2017, and episodes of "spongebob squarepants" have aired. a series of feature-length theatrical films based on the show began in 2004 with "the spongebob squarepants movie", followed by a and a third installment set for 2020.
list of spongebob squarepants guest stars
the characters of "spongebob squarepants" have appeared throughout popular culture. in 2007, the amsterdam-based company boom chicago created a "spongebob" parody called "spongebob squarepants in china", in which a stereotypically chinese patrick refuses to go to work and advocates freedom of speech, rights of leisure, and income. during the same year, production company camp chaos created a "spongebob" parody titled "spongebong hemppants", which features five of the series' characters parodied in the form of various drugs. the show was seen on vh1 and comedy central, both owned by nickelodeon's parent company viacom. comedy central's "drawn together" also features a parody of spongebob named "wooldoor sockbat" whose theme tune is inspired by "spongebob"s hawaiian-style background music. two animated series that former "spongebob" writer dan povenmire worked on have incorporated references to the characters; the "phineas and ferb" special "" features a joke in which phineas flynn holds up inanimate representations of spongebob and patrick, and the "family guy" episode "road to rupert" includes spongebob's "campfire song song" from "the camping episode". spongebob, patrick, mr. krabs, pearl, and squidward all appear in "major league of extraordinary gentlemen", an episode of the sketch comedy "robot chicken". a segment of the episode, animated in stop motion with "spongebob" toy figures, features mr. krabs using crab legs as the secret ingredient for krabby patties. spongebob has also made cameo appearances in "the simpsons", "mad", "the loud house", "south park", and "futurama".
list of spongebob squarepants characters