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- SpongeBob SquarePants is an American multimedia franchise created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. Being the fifth-longest-running American animated series, its high popularity has made it a media franchise consisting of three animated television series, three animated feature films, comics, books, video games, home media, and soundtracks. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon as well as the most profitable property for Paramount Consumer Products, having generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue as of 2019. Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational comic book that Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life. He began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series in 1996, 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. He was prepared to "walk out" on Nickelodeon and abandon the series, but he compromised by creating Mrs. Puff and her boating school, so that SpongeBob could attend school as an adult. (en)
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- The series' logo. It features the word "SpongeBob" written in a yellow sponge-like font, with the word "SquarePants" written below in a white font on a blue wooden board. A light blue splash of water is behind the words. (en)
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- Sandy's Blasting Bronco (en)
- SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D (en)
- SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue (en)
- SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge (en)
- Bikini Bottom Crosstown Express (en)
- Dutchman's Deck Adventure Course (en)
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- SpongeBob's Jellyfish Jam (en)
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- SpongeBob SquarePants (en)
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- Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (en)
- The Patrick Star Show (en)
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- Text version of the first series and franchise logo, used from 1999 to 2008 (en)
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- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (en)
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- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (en)
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (en)
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- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (en)
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- SpongeBob SquarePants (en)
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- 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. (en)
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- SpongeBob SquarePants is an American multimedia franchise created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. Being the fifth-longest-running American animated series, its high popularity has made it a media franchise consisting of three animated television series, three animated feature films, comics, books, video games, home media, and soundtracks. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon as well as the most profitable property for Paramount Consumer Products, having generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue as of 2019. (en)
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- SpongeBob SquarePants (franchise) (en)
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