IT IS FRED.įred's name was revealed in the episode "Patty Hype." He is known in various episodes, spanning seasons and years, for crying "My leg!" while under duress. The animators decided to not give the pessimistic cephalopod the proper number because any more than six legs would "weigh him down too much visually." 6.
Tentacles has been referred to as both a squid and an octopus throughout the series run, but he only has six tentacles.
But before there was the lovable dummy Patrick Star, the starfish in the first story had a "huge chip on his shoulder because he was pink." He owned a roadside bar and was a "bully." Bill Fagerbakke, known mostly as Dauber from Coach and/or Marshall's dad on How I Met Your Mother, voices Patrick by slowing his speech and pretending that his mouth is in his chest. PATRICK WAS INITIALLY CONCEIVED AS AN ANGRY BAR OWNER.Ī starfish character first entered the picture while Hillenburg and Drymon were storyboarding the pilot. Kenny described the nameless character he did not even recall as a "squeaky, helium-voiced elf guy. Show alum once did for a background character in a long-forgotten scene in Rocko's Modern Life. The creator also told Kenny to try to do a similar voice that the Mr. Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, said that Hillenburg initially described the talking sponge as a "half child half adult, kind of like a munchkin," before also mentioning the same three comedy legends. SpongeBob creative director Derek Drymon remembered Hillenburg wanting to create a character with a "young, boyish" attitude, with Lewis, Herman, and Laurel specifically in mind. SPONGEBOB'S PERSONALITY WAS INFLUENCED BY JERRY LEWIS, PEE-WEE HERMAN, AND STAN LAUREL. SpongeBoy was a copyrighted name for a mop, however, but Hillenburg made sure to keep the "sponge" in the name of his protagonist as he was worried that children might mistake him for a block of cheese. SPONGEBOB'S ORIGINAL NAME WAS SPONGEBOY.Īnd the show's title was initially SpongeBoy Ahoy!. When he worked as creative director for the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life, fellow animators saw the potential appeal of SpongeBob. Hillenburg also liked to draw, and created a comic book called Intertidial Zone for the Institute, which starred an early version of SpongeBob. Stephen Hillenburg has a degree in natural resource planning with a marine resources emphasis, and he used to teach Marine Biology at the Orange County Marine Institute. THE IDEA FOR THE SERIES WAS FROM AN ACTUAL MARINE BIOLOGIST. How did an anthropomorphic sponge who lives in a pineapple become a children's icon? Some of these tidbits may explain its success and longevity. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie made $140 million worldwide and is the fifth-highest grossing animated TV adaptation ever. Ten years ago today, SpongeBob SquarePants and his Bikini Bottom cohorts became movie stars.
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