Tom Kenny confirmed the fictitious city of Bikini Bottom is named after Bikini Atoll. Premise Setting File:Bikini Atoll.pngīikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Pacific Ocean.
SpongeBob SquarePants has won a variety of awards including: six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, 18 Kids' Choice Awards, and two BAFTA Children's Awards. As of July 30, 2020, all prior seasons of the show are available on Paramount+. In 2018, the series began airing its twelfth season it was renewed for a thirteenth season on July 17, 2019, which began airing in October 2020. A third film and prequel to the television series, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, was released in Canadian theaters on Augfollowed by a premiere on video-on-demand and Paramount+ on March 4, 2021.
A second film adaptation, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, followed on February 6, 2015. A feature film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, was released in theaters on November 19, 2004. It has received worldwide critical acclaim since its premiere and had gained enormous popularity by its second season. The series officially premiered on July 17, 1999. Nickelodeon held a preview for the series in the United States on May 1, 1999, after it aired the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. SpongeBob was originally going to be named SpongeBoy, and the series called SpongeBoy Ahoy! both of these were changed as the name was already trademarked. He turned to Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on that series, to voice the title character.
He began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series in 1996 following the cancellation of Rocko's Modern Life, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational book that Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.
The media franchise has generated more than $13 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon and it is the most distributed property from ViacomCBS Networks International. The fifth-longest-running American animated series, its popularity has made it a media franchise. The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants (also simply referred to as SpongeBob) is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years Read the transcript