Bob Esponja
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label: Svampbob Fyrkant @sv
label: SpongeBob SquarePants
label: スポンジ・ボブ @ja
label: Spongebob v kalhotách @cs
label: Bob l'éponge @fr
label: SpongeBob
label: SpongeBob Kanciastoporty @pl
label: Bob Belaki @eu
label: سبونج بوب سكوير بانتس @ar
label: Spongabobo @eo
label: Μπομπ Σφουγγαράκης (σειρά) @el
label: 네모바지 스폰지밥 @ko
label: Губка Боб Квадратні Штани @uk
label: Губка Боб Квадратные Штаны (мультсериал) @ru
label: SpongeBob Schwammkopf @de
label: 海綿寶寶 @zh
subject: Category:2020s Nickelodeon original programming
subject: Category:2020s American children's comedy television series
subject: Category:2020s American animated television series
subject: Category:2020s American animated comedy television series
subject: Category:Television shows adapted into plays
subject: Category:Television shows adapted into video games
subject: Category:American animated sitcoms
subject: Category:American children's animated musical television series
subject: Category:Television shows adapted into films
subject: Category:Postmodern television
subject: Category:2000s American satirical television series
subject: Category:2010s American satirical television series
subject: Category:2000s American children's comedy television series
subject: Category:2010s American children's comedy television series
subject: Category:2000s American animated comedy television series
subject: Category:2010s American animated comedy television series
subject: Category:American children's animated comedy television series
subject: Category:2010s American sitcoms
subject: Category:2000s American animated television series
subject: Category:2010s American animated television series
subject: Category:1990s American satirical television series
subject: Category:2010s Nickelodeon original programming
subject: Category:Underwater civilizations in fiction
subject: Category:2020s American sitcoms
subject: Category:2020s American satirical television series
subject: Category:American children's television sitcoms
subject: Category:1999 American animated television series debuts
subject: Category:Animated television series about animals
subject: Category:Nicktoons
subject: Category:2000s Nickelodeon original programming
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subject: Category:2000s American sitcoms
subject: Category:Animated television series about fish
subject: Category:American television series with live action and animation
subject: Category:2010s American surreal comedy television series
subject: Category:Television series by Rough Draft Studios
subject: Category:Television shows adapted into comics
subject: Category:Surreal comedy
subject: Category:SpongeBob SquarePants
subject: Category:2000s American surreal comedy television series
subject: Category:Nickelodeon sitcoms
subject: Category:2020s American surreal comedy television series
subject: Category:Animated television series about squirrels
subject: Category:Television shows set in the Marshall Islands
subject: Category:Television series created by Stephen Hillenburg
subject: Category:1990s American animated comedy television series
subject: Category:1990s American surreal comedy television series
subject: Category:American English-language television shows
subject: Category:1990s American animated television series
subject: Category:1990s American children's comedy television series
subject: Category:1990s American sitcoms
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quote: [The music has gone] from mostly sea shanties and Hawaiian music à la Roy Smeck meets Pee-wee Herman—still the main style for the show—in the early episodes, but it now includes film noir, West Side Story to [Henry] Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and [Steven] Spielberg. There's Broadway-type scores and plain old goofy, loopy, weird stuff. I try to push the envelope on this show without getting in the way of the story, and I try to push it up and way over the top when I can get away with it, all the time keeping it as funny and ridiculous as possible.
quote: The execs from Nickelodeon flew out to Burbank, and we pitched it to them from the storyboards. We had squeezy toys, wore Hawaiian shirts, and used a boom box to play the Tiny Tim song ['Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight'] that comes on in the third act. We really went all out in that pitch because we knew the pilot lived or died by if the execs laughed. When it was over, they walked out of the room to discuss it. We figured they would fly back to New York and we'd hear in a few weeks. We were surprised when they came back in what seemed like minutes and said they wanted to make it.
quote: It reached a point where I felt I'd contributed a lot and said what I wanted to say. At that point, the show needed new blood, and so I selected Paul [Tibbitt] to produce. I totally trusted him. I always enjoyed the way he captured the SpongeBob character's sense of humor. And as a writer, you have to move on—I'm developing new projects.