SpongeBob SquarePants (also merely described as SpongeBob) is an American animated comedy television series developed by marine science teacher and also animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The collection narrates the adventures of the title personality and also his aquatic good friends in the imaginary undersea city of Swimwear Base. Being the fifth-longest-running American animated collection, its high popularity has made it a media franchise. It is the greatest ranked collection to air on Nickelodeon in addition to one of the most rewarding home for ViacomCBS Consumer Products, having actually produced over $13 billion in retailing profits since 2019. Most of the collection suggestions came from The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished academic publication that Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his trainees regarding undersea life. He started developing SpongeBob SquarePants right into a tv series in 1996, as well as in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. The...