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  SpongeBob SquarePants (character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spongebob typically wears a private school uniform with a business shirt, red tie and brown pants, although he has been known to run naked or in his underwear.
SpongeBob's voice is described as a combination of the mayor of Munchkinland from The Wizard of Oz and Elroy Jetson from The Jetsons.
SpongeBob's character was influenced by Jerry Lewis, Pee Wee Herman, and Charlie Chaplin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SpongeBob   (1146 words)

  
 SpongeBob SquarePants - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular animated television series created by marine biologist / animator Stephen Hillenburg and first aired in the US on Nickelodeon after The Kids Choice Awards on April 1, 1999.
SpongeBob's house pet is a snail named Gary that only meows like a cat.
Her erratic behavior comes from two fears: the first, being stuck teaching SpongeBob, an annoyingly painful, and yet perfect, student; the other is letting loose a monster like SpongeBob who could destroy Bikini Bottom with his awful driving skills.
open-encyclopedia.com /SpongeBob_SquarePants   (1150 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
SpongeBob and Patrick worry that they won't make it back in time, but are happy to see David Hasselhoff willing to swim them back to Bikini Bottom (For unknown reasons, this scene was a short-time meme on YTMND, where David's face and voice would be replaced by someone else, usually another fad.)!
Spongebob and Patrick try to keep from being stabbed, and they keep the hitman distracted long enough for him to hit the bottom of a boat and fall off.
The first was in Sleepy Time (when SpongeBob in his dream, he speaks English) and the second was in The Secret Box (he says "Me...no!", which was also heard in the 2005 remake of War of the Worlds, which was directed by Steven Spielberg).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-SpongeBob-SquarePants-Movie   (6443 words)

  
 SpongeBob Squarepants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob SquarePants is the nation's No. 1 children's television show, with about 2.6 million homes tuning into it during the week of November 26 through December 2.
SpongeBob makes his home in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a cranky next door neighbor named Squidward.
SpongeBob's best friend is a simple-minded, baggies-clad starfish, Patrick, and his gal pal is Sandy Cheeks, a rootin-tootin' land squirrel whose only complaint about living under the sea is, it ain't her native Texas outback.
www.lisabinns.com /spongebob_squarepants.htm   (2398 words)

  
 Is Spongebob Squarepants Gay?
Hmm, that's what my mom used to say, when I asked why Uncle Albert wasn't married: Honey, your uncle is kind of special, he prefers to stay home and listen to Broadway show tunes, instead of going to bars and picking up floozies.
There's no denying that Ole SquarePants is a wee bit light on his loafers; he has a penchant for holding hands with his bud Patrick and he has a proclivity for sashaying around his pineapple house in his tight briefs.
SpongeBob SquarePants is no Tinky Winky; he's just an average, enthusiastic, live-and-let-live sponge.
www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/dec/article309.html   (382 words)

  
 Movie Spoiler for the film - THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE
SpongeBob knows this will be him because of his insanely long number of consecutive "Employee of the Month" awards.
SpongeBob and Patrick go to the Goofy Goober (a kid's place with Chuck E. Cheese type animatronics) and wind up spending the evening in the "peanut bar" downing sundae after sundae until they pass out on the floor (as if drunk).
SpongeBob orders one and it's discovered that this is actually a huge fish tricking them by using it's tongue as a lure.
www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/spongebob.html   (1556 words)

  
 SpongeBob & the Asexual Crustaceans - Jan 28, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Stephen Hillenburg, the 43-year-old creator of Nickelodeon's hit cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, is setting the record straight regarding the sexuality of his highly absorbent 'toon, days after conservative Christian activists accused SpongeBob of advocating a homosexual agenda by appearing in a video holding hands with pal Patrick the Star Fish.
Hillenberg says that politics have never factored into the show and that the titular sea sponge's sole goal in his porous life is simply to be fun and entertaining--despite the show and its merchandise's obvious popularity among gays.
The religious leader's crusade might also be the result of a mix-up, since the We Are Family Foundation responsible for the video happens to have the same name as an unaffliliated pro-gay and lesbian group.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,15804,00.html   (584 words)

  
 United Church of Christ News Release: SpongeBob welcomed by UCC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob is one of a number of visitors welcomed daily at the UCC's Church House in downtown Cleveland.
SpongeBob meets with the Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC's general minister and president, in his office.
SpongeBob spends a quiet, reflective moment in the UCC's Amistad Chapel with The New Century Hymnal, the nation's first Christian hymnal to use fully inclusive language.
ucc.org /news/r012505.htm   (217 words)

  
 SpongeBob SquarePants | Sponge Facts | Nickelodeon | Patrick Star | Squidwater Tentacles | Cartoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
While most sponges are destined to spend their time wiping up mildew, SpongeBob SquarePants has a blast with his buddies and lives under the sea in a pineapple.
SpongeBob SquarePants is a cartoon for the whole family - even your 'rents.
SpongeBob, Patrick and the rest of their Bikini Bottom pals are back in season three with more crazy antics and lots of laughs.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p2150.htm   (337 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Life's good for SpongeBob   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Nickelodeon's SpongeBob is known for his optimism -— and for a bunch of hot-selling merchandise.
SpongeBob fan clubs are sprouting on college campuses from Texas to Michigan.
SpongeBob SquarePants is also proving a substantial boost to Nickelodeon's advertising base and licensing revenue.
www.usatoday.com /money/covers/2002-05-17-sponge-bob.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Mark Twain Under the Sea - The moral vision of SpongeBob SquarePants. By Virginia Heffernan
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple on the floor of the Pacific Ocean in a city called Bikini Bottom, in which a squirrel cavorts, fires are lit, and the properties of the deep sea as we understand them do not obtain.
SpongeBob is a young adult sponge who lives with his pet snail; he is an excellent short-order cook, and he enjoys his work.
SpongeBob SquarePants has featured cameos by the actor John Lurie and the director Jim Jarmusch (who collaborated to make the films Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law), and it's no surprise that these downtown-art outlaws took to this show.
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 JamesBowman.net | SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The
Of course, you might almost have expected this from a heroic narrative whose heroes are a sponge and a starfish, but it just goes to show you how accustomed we have grown to the weird, po-mo film language of our times that it comes as a bit of a surprise.
Thus the alleged "monsters" — really only cartoon grotesques — that SpongeBob and Patrick are forced to confront prove to be easily entertained and become their friends, and they find and return the crown with the help of a (more-or-less) live-action David Hasselhof, in himself a natural parody of the old masculine ideal.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie thus just makes explicit and unashamed the subliminal message of a great many cartoons, which is that it’s OK not to grow up, to stay a kid while doing all kinds of things that grown-ups have said kids couldn’t or shouldn’t do.
www.jamesbowman.net /reviewDetail.asp?pubID=1573   (701 words)

  
 SpongeBob SquarePants Episode Guide - SpongeBob SquarePants Season Episodes - TV.com
Squidward is annoyed by all the giggling and secretly decides to put in negative messages to SpongeBob and Patrick in his soufflé styled bubbles, thus causing SpongeBob and Patrick to break their friendship.
Pizza Delivery: SpongeBob and Squidward are given orders to deliver a pizza, but the two have a heck of a hard time trying to get the pizza to its destination and before you know it they are in the middle of nowhere.
Sleepy Time: SpongeBob discovers what all his friends are dreaming about, every time he enters a dream he ruins there dream and in the end everyone comes to his house and tells him to stop messing with there dreams.
www.tv.com /spongebob-squarepants/show/3428/episode_guide.html   (2384 words)

  
 A "Sponge"-Worthy Gay Icon? - Oct 08, 2002 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Patrick is often spotted holding hands with SpongeBob, and the two dream of being superheroes when they grow up (just like the crimefighters in their favorite TV show, The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy).
SpongeBob's exploding popularity among the gay community has caused such a stir that Tom Kenny, the comic who voices the star sponge, found himself skirting the issue when making an appearance last month on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, who began his interview with the Journal by saying he is not gay, denies his aim was to portray a homosexual character.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,10647,00.html   (705 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on SpongeBob SquarePants [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular animated television series created by marine biologist/animator Stephen Hillenburg and the pilot episode first aired in the US on Nickelodeon after The Kids Choice Awards on May 1, 1999.
SpongeBob, however, was the leader of all these shows and had by this time started its now famous merchandise line.
SpongeBob is one Nick cartoon in a long line of shows to put in more "adult" refrences, and has become so popular with the adult crowd it has been shown on MTV, Spike TV, and a certain quote by Patrick "It's gonna rock!" has been used as a promo for rock stations.
encyclozine.com /SpongeBob_SquarePants   (2729 words)

  
 RCP interviews SpongeBob SquarePants : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob recently agreed to meet with the RW at his home—a pineapple under the sea—to talk about all the controversy surrounding him and what is at the heart of it.
SpongeBob: Well, with Bush in office again it’s not surprising that these Christian extremists are emboldened to unleash their attacks on whoever they feel is not up to their moral standards.
SpongeBob: Well, if this isn’t a sign of Christian Fascism on the rise, I don’t know what is. And if you don’t mind me citing Lenin, since you’re a communist and all.
la.indymedia.org /news/2005/02/122749.php   (1170 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US right attacks SpongeBob video
But James Dobson, founder of right-wing Christian group Focus on the Family, singled out SpongeBob at a fl-tie dinner in Washington in the run-up to President Bush's inauguration, the New York Times said.
SpongeBob - who appears on the children's cable channel Nickelodeon - is seen as an icon for adult gay men in the US, apparently because he regularly holds hands with his sidekick Patrick.
His creators deny that he is gay, but he is not the first such character to cause controversy.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4190699.stm   (424 words)

  
 Will Spongebob make you gay? - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com
First it was the spate of the SpongeBob rob jobs from local Burger Kings.
Though the revised "SpongeBob and Friends tape," which is to be distributed to the schools, is not supposed to be released until March, we've gotten a hold of the advanced copy from the "We Are Family Foundation," which produced it.
It is a foundation created by the man who wrote the disco hit of 1979, "We Are Family." Below is the whole thing, with the caveat that if the folks from Focus on the Family are right, it could make you, your children or maybe your furniture gay.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6852828   (555 words)

  
 SpongeBob SquarePants TV Show - SpongeBob SquarePants Television Show - TV.com
Relentlessly optimistic SpongeBob SquarePants lives in the undersea township of Bikini Bottom, along with an assortment of zany supporting characters.
So Gary runs away to downtown Bikini Bottom where he is taken in by a kindly old woman who confuses him with one of her many deceased pets.
Meanwhile, as Gary is wrapped in comfy blankets and indulged...
www.tv.com /spongebob-squarepants/show/3428/summary.html   (484 words)

  
 The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004)
With SpongeBob Squarepants, you're either with it or you're not.
Live actions sequences, and plenty of them, are the main reason The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie is an excellent amusement, and something much more than an extended version of the TV series that has ruled the airwaves at Nickelodeon these past few years.
Despite the spare, Flintstone's-style setting of Bikini Bottom, the SpongeBob Squarepants team is clearly setting the genre on its ear with plot twists and sight gags that are nothing short of surreal.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139474   (182 words)

  
 Welcome to SpongeBob SquarePants Trading Card Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob is a really well intentioned sponge, but he always finds himself in hot water without really trying.
When he's not getting on his cranky neighbor Squidward's nerves, SpongeBob is usually smack in the middle of a strange situation with his best starfish buddy, Patrick or his thrill-seeking squirrel pal, Sandy Cheeks.
Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. Created by Stephen Hillenburg.
www.upperdeckentertainment.com /spongebob   (203 words)

  
 United Church of Christ News Release: SpongeBob welcomed by UCC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Rev. John H. Thomas, general minister and president of the UCC, welcomes SpongeBob to the UCC's national offices in Cleveland.
"Absolutely, the UCC extends an unequivocal welcome to SpongeBob," the Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC's general minister and president, said, only partly in jest.
Thomas said, on the contrary, it is Dobson who is crossing the moral line for sending the mistaken message that Christians do not value tolerance and diversity as important religious values.
www.ucc.org /news/r012405.htm   (449 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
SpongeBob (voiced by Tom Kenny), an arrested adolescent in the mold of Pee-wee Herman, works at a fast-food restaurant that serves something called Krabby Patties (as the restaurant owner is himself a crab, it's not clear what exactly they're made of).
Krabs, SpongeBob stands by his boss and vows to find the real culprit, even after just being passed over for the promotion of his dreams.
SpongeBob and Patrick travel for the first time on land to retrieve the crown and clear Mr.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007D5G04   (399 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Spongebob Squarepants Trivia Book (SpongeBob SquarePants): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Yes, the cartoon is for young kids, around 5 - 10, but the producers made it sure that there are jokes that is aimed for mature audiences, to entertain watching parents or to those who are simply looking to feed their inner child.
I gave it 4 stars because for a Spongebob fanatic, there are only a few things that you dont know.
Most of it, you do; and some parts here are taken from episodes, like how to blow a bubble("do this"?, to those who seen it in TV we know its from an episode, but to those who hasnt wont get it - they should have added pictures to those!).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689840187?v=glance   (839 words)

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