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SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a knack for getting into all kinds of trouble without really trying. When he's not getting on the nerves of his cranky next door neighbor Squidward, SpongeBob can usually be found smack in the middle of all sorts of strange situations with his best buddy, the simple yet lovable starfish, Patrick, or his thrill-seeking surfer-girl squirrel pal, Sandy Cheeks.
Dani Michaeli
Writer · Known for Little Big Awesome
Dani Michaeli (born December 12, 1969) is a writer and producer known for SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Herbey Beaks (2015), and The Aquabats! Super Show (2012).
Dee Bradley Baker
Cast · Known for American Dad!, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Seven Havens
Dee Bradley Baker (born August 31, 1962) is an American voice actor. Noted as his long-running-role as Squilliam Fancyson and other various characters in the hit TV series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is best known for his voice-work on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Codename: Kids Next Door, Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, American Dad!, Ben 10, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Halo, Gears of War, Portal 2, and Left 4 Dead. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dee Bradley Baker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tom Kenny
Cast · Known for The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa, Futurama
Thomas James "Tom" Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian, known for his long-running-role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the television series of the same name, as well as the live-action character Patchy the Pirate, Gary the Snail and the French narrator based on Jacques Cousteau. His other voice acting roles include the Narrator and Mayor in the Powerpuff Girls, Heffer in Rocko's Modern Life, Dog in CatDog, Ice King in Adventure Time and Spyro in the Spyro the Dragon video game series. Aside from voice acting, Kenny also starred in the short-lived Fox sketch show The Edge and was a cast member of the HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show, where he worked with Jill Talley, whom he subsequently married. He also hosted Friday Night Videos on NBC for one year in 1983, and Funday Night at the Movies on TCM in 2007.
Jill Talley
Cast · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants, Uncle Grandpa, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Jill Talley (born December 19, 1962) is an American actress and comedian. She is a main cast member on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, in which she voices Karen Plankton. Her other voice roles include Sarah Dubois on Adult Swim's The Boondocks and Rita Loud on The Loud House. She is married to fellow voice artist Tom Kenny, a co-star from SpongeBob SquarePants.
Alan Smart
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Smart (born October 10, 1963) is a retired animator and animation director best known for his work as the supervising director on SpongeBob SquarePants, which he has been involved with since the pilot, and as assistant director and layout artist on the Simpsons (he has also received credit as a director in the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's"). He has done animation for the Nicktoons CatDog, Hey Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and Sanjay and Craig and on five animated films: The Little Mermaid, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Oliver & Company and The Chipmunk Adventure. Alan Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog, as an animation director on Clone High and the first season of Rugrats.
Bob Jaques
Robert Paul Jaques (born November 2, 1956) is a Canadian-American animator and animation director. He is best known for the television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Baby Huey Show and SpongeBob SquarePants. He also was nominated for two Emmys in 1992 and 1993 for his contributions to The Ren & Stimpy Show.
Ethan Slater
Cast · Known for Wicked, Wicked: For Good
Ethan Samuel Slater (born June 2, 1992) is an American actor and singer. He played the character of SpongeBob SquarePants in the 2016 musical of the same name, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He played Boq Woodsman / The Tin Man in the musical films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025). As a singer, he has released the extended plays Wanderer (2019) and Life Is Weird (2020).
Rodger Bumpass
Cast · Known for The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, The Emperor's New Groove, Monsters, Inc.
Rodger Albert Bumpass (born November 20, 1951) is an American character actor and voice actor Noted as his long-running-role as Squidward Tentacles on the hit series SpongeBob SquarePants. He also voiced Professor Membrane on Invader Zim, created by Jhonen Vasquez. Bumpass had many other credits in animated films, animated television series, and video games. Bumpass' voice acting credits go back as far as a 1962 episode of The Jetsons. He has repeatedly denied that his name is, in fact, a joke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rodger Bumpass, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Nate Cash
Executive Producer · Known for Adventure Time: Side Quests
Nathan Shawn "Nate" Cash is an American writer, artist and director. He was born in Utah, and his most well-known works are SpongeBob SquarePants, Adventure Time, and Over the Garden Wall. In addition to that, he has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction in an Animated Program" in 2012.
Jay Lender
Director · Known for Phineas and Ferb
Jay Lender is an American television writer, storyboard artist and director. He is a former writer and storyboard director for SpongeBob SquarePants. Previous to his work on SpongeBob, Lender designed and drew backgrounds for Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!. He is the son of the founder of Lender's Bagels, Murray Lender. Since leaving Nickelodeon, Lender has written scripts for video games with his writing partner Micah Wright, and continues to develop animated series concepts as well as drawing the occasional SpongeBob comic strip for Nickelodeon Magazine. Most recently, the duo worked together on Robocalypse, a real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS. Lender spent two years studying at the Rhode Island School of Design before transferring to CalArts where he specialized in animation. Lender has also directed two seasons of Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb.
Carolyn Lawrence
Cast · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Carolyn Lawrence (born February 13, 1967) is an American actress and voice actress, who is known for her long-running voice role as Sandy Cheeks on the Nickelodeon TV Show SpongeBob SquarePants. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carolyn Lawrence, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sean Charmatz
Cast · Known for Penguins of Madagascar
Sean Charmatz (he/him) is an artist and animator from California and is currently a codirector at DreamWorks. He has worked in the animation industry since 2005 and has most notably served as a writer and director on SpongeBob SquarePants and as the director of Orion and the Dark, in addition to designing, storyboarding, and developing shows for Disney and DreamWorks.
Zeus Cervas
Director · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants
Zeus Cervas was born on 19 September 1974 in Walnut, California, USA. He is a writer, known for SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2012), and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).
William Reiss
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, William Arthur Reiss (born May 4, 1976) is an American animator, storyboard artist, and writer. Reiss first worked on the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants as an assistant storyboard artist in Season 1 as Bill Reiss, then got promoted to a writer and storyboard artist in Season 2 while still being called "Bill Reiss" by other crew members. Reiss left the show during the fourth season in 2005, but briefly returned in 2009 to storyboard the main title for the 10th Anniversary special, Truth or Square. After SpongeBob, he went to work for Cartoon Network and worked as a storyboard artist for certain shows at that network. He is best known for teaming up with former SpongeBob writer C.H. Greenblatt to serve as creative director on his cartoon Chowder. They later worked as directors for Fish Hooks, which he co-developed with Alex Hersch for Noah Z. Jones for Disney Channel. After Fish Hooks, he worked on Mickey Mouse as a writer, storyboard artist and director. In 2016, Reiss worked on C.H. Greenblatt's new series for Nickelodeon, Harvey Beaks.
Eric Shaw
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eric Shaw (born June 8, 1973) is an American television writer whose credits include Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants. Originally from Jericho, NY, he attended Jericho High School and graduated from Columbia University. He has been an animation writer since 2003 and has also written Skunk Fu, Krypto the Superdog, Sid the Science Kid, My Friends Tigger & Pooh and many other animated hit shows. He is known for writing on SpongeBob SquarePants seasons five and six. As a staff writer, Shaw had written 10 SpongeBob episodes. In 2007, Shaw served as the President of the International Jury and the Cartoons on the Bay Animation Festival in Salerno, Italy. Shaw was Head Writer on the PBS animated series WordGirl starring Tom Kenny, Maria Bamford, Patton Oswalt, Jeffrey Tambor, and others. Shaw ran the writing on Season 5 (26 episodes), from Soup2Nuts's Watertown, Mass studio. On June 14, 2013, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 40th Annual Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards.
Jim Schumann
James Reginald "Jim" Schumann (born August 2, 1968; age 56) was a former SpongeBob SquarePants crew member. He was credited in only three episodes of the series.
Carson Kugler
Carson Kugler is an American screenwriter, animator, and storyboard artist. He got his start by working on Nickelodeon for the shows SpongeBob SquarePants, Hey Arnold, and Harvey Beaks.
Stephen Hillenburg
Executive Producer · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 – November 26, 2018) was an American animator, cartoonist, and marine-biology teacher. He was the creator of the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–), which he also directed, produced, and wrote. It has gone on to become the fifth longest-running American animated series.
Bill Fagerbakke
Cast · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants, Coach, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
Bill Fagerbakke was born on October 4, 1957 in Fontana, California, USA as William Mark Fagerbakke. He is an actor, known for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). He has been married to Catherine McClenahan since 1989. They have two children.
Merriwether Williams
Merriwether St. John Williams (born March 28, 1968) is an American television writer, former Nickelodeon executive and actress, who has worked on television shows such as Happy Tree Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Camp Lazlo, and Adventure Time. After leaving the executive ranks at Nickelodeon, she wrote outlines for SpongeBob SquarePants and a couple episodes of The Angry Beavers. In 2003, she developed and became the show-runner and head writer of the short-lived Showtime animated sitcom Free For All. In 2005, she became the head of story for Camp Lazlo at Cartoon Network. More recently, Williams has written several episodes for Adventure Time, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Pig Goat Banana Cricket. She has also written an episode for Johnny Test and Pound Puppies. She is currently co-producer and writer on Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer. She has also co-written the films Good Time Max, The Ape, and Fool's Gold with actor James Franco. From Wikipedia (us), the free encyclopedia
Andrew Goodman
Writer · Known for Little Big Awesome
Andrew Goodman was born on 9 November 1984 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a writer, known for The Patrick Star Show (2021), Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (2021) and SpongeBob SquarePants (1999).
Caleb Meurer
Caleb Meurer (born July 9, 1973 in Amherst, New York, USA) is a director and storyboard artist, known for American Dad! (2005), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) and Charlie and Lola (2005).
John O'Hurley
Cast · Known for Seinfeld, Phineas and Ferb
John George O'Hurley Jr. (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, singer, author, game show host, and television personality. He is known for his portrayal of J. Peterman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, his voice acting as the original King Neptune on SpongeBob SquarePants, and for hosting the game show Family Feud from 2006 to 2010. He also hosted To Tell the Truth from 2000 to 2002 in syndication. Description above from the Wikipedia article John O'Hurley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.