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 | | “I really wanted to do something about one character, based on an innocent who is surrounded by more cynical beings
sort of awkward, nerdy, goofball, oddball,” he said. |
 | | Helium voice: Tom Kenny, who supplies SpongeBob’s high, nasal voice, was a standup comic who worked with Hillenburg on the 1993 animal cartoon series “Rocko’s Modern World.” When “SpongeBob” started in 1999, Hillenburg remembered an obscure character Kenny did years earlier, and envisioned it as the voice of his sea hero. |
 | | The result, he said, is an audible version of the fat/skinny look of comedy teams like Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello — Patrick is the immense rumbler and SpongeBob is the high-pitched whiner. |
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