Before answering to the question that how old is SpongeBob first we must know details about the cartoon charater. SpongeBob Square Pants is a much liked animated series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, and is voiced over by Tom Kenny for Nickelodeon. This series shows on screen the activities and adventures of the title character and his marine friends living in an imaginary underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The popularity of this fifth largest animation series has made it a media franchise. It is the highest rated series to be aired on Nickelodeon. First aired on May 1, 1999, until 2017 this media franchise has generated $13 billion in producing revenue for Nickelodeon
Success of this animated series
SpongeBob Square Pants has been one of the largest hits that Nickelodeon has ever seen. This animated show has fascinated viewers of a variety of generations, and the overwhelming response of fans is the cause of the success of this series. Children of all age groups have devotedly tuned in to this program ever since its debut in 1999. Generations of fans have grown up watching SpongeBob’s familiar face together with the different adventures go on board.
How is the Spongebob character
The character SpongeBob is a sea sponge living in a pineapple in the Bikini Bottom, along with his pet snail Gary. He is as a fry cook at the fast food restaurant named the Krusty Krab, next to his neighbor, Squid ward Tentacles. SpongeBob being the best friend with Patrick Star, enjoys blowing bubbles and jelly fishing. SpongeBob is also a boating school student at Mrs. Puff’s Boating School.
SpongeBob has a good natured, he is youthful and enthusiastic sea sponge living happily in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom along with other anthropomorphic aquatic beings. Working as a fry cook at a local fast food restaurant, the Krusty Krab, he is obsessively attached to his work place, working with devotion more than the other restaurants. His boss is is a greedy crab named Eugene Krabs, who however takes care of SpongeBob like a son. Squidward Tentacles is an octopus, and he is SpongeBob’s ill mannered, proud neighbor working as the restaurant’s cashier. Hobbies of the SpongeBob include fishing for jellyfish, practice karate along with his friend Sandy Cheeks who is a squirrel from Texas, and he also loves blowing bubbles.
SpongeBob’s character is filled with kindness and cheerfulness and every one easily falls in love with his way of thinking and overall personality. There is really something about his character that is exceptionally related to fans that are spread across the globe falling within various age groups.
Appearance of SpongeBob Square Pants
‘SpongeBob’ has a look of a porous yellow sponge with big blue eyes, his mouth shows prominent front teeth, dimples and freckles. He looks more like a kitchen sponge than a sea sponge, because in a rough idea about the show, Stephen Hillenburg decided that it looks funnier to show him as an ordinary kitchen sponge. SpongeBob can mould into other shapes as well, and can also grow back pieces often that fall off of him. In an episode named Graveyard Shift, it was exposed that SpongeBob’s limbs could apparently regenerate at once. Also, they were somewhat edible, as SpongeBob was witnessed chewing a container full of them while he was listening to Squid ward’s tale of the Hash Slinging Slasher. SpongeBob characteristically wears shiny black shoes with an almost sphere shaped bulge in the front although still a part of the proper shoe, different from the balls of clown shoes, the shoes produce screeching sound when he walks. He frequently wears a white underwear underside his pants, although at sometimes he has been seen wearing blue, green, and red under wears with hearts on them all at the same time, however and even in pink also to tribute his best friend, Patrick. At night, he often wears a green bathrobe, but more often than not he goes to sleep with his underwear, socks and shoes on. Whenever he goes swimming at the Goo Lagoon, he uses to wear a pair of blue swimming trunks although still wearing his underpants, socks and shoes. He also uses to wear a red bow tie in place for his necktie on special occasions.
Some interesting facts about Spongebob
• SpongeBob Is The Longest Running Series On Nickelodeon
The New York Daily News has reported that SpongeBob is the longest and best ever running series ever featured by Nickelodeon. It attracts viewers of all ages, and families are keen on the fact that they can all sit around the television and have the same choice on one program. The success of this show is that it has been copied into some movies, a lot of commodities, toys and much more. SpongeBob is an attractive character that is continually breaking records since 21 years after its origin.
• A Restaurant named Krusty Krab Opened Up In The Middle East
Good things are always immitated! Many unbelievable scenes disclosed in the Krusty Krab restaurant, as a result it is not astonishing that there is a replica of this restaurant somewhere in the world! It has just happened so that this SpongeBob themed restaurant has opened up in the West Bank City of Ramallah. If you wish to enjoy the complete Spongebob experience, it appears that this venue has produced the perfect opportunity for all your dynamic dreams to come true!
• SpongeBob Lives In The Sea, But Can’t Swim
In October of 2014 an interesting episode was aired, which revealed that SpongeBob really does not know how to swim. It was shocking taking into account that he lives in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The show is proud for being relatable to young viewers, but in this case, this is a strange disclosure. It looks like that SpongeBob can easily live in the sea, yet due to some reasons he cannot solve how to swim at all.
• Delicate nature of Spongebob
Possibly the most long running contradiction in terms of this character is his strength. He has been known to have immense difficulty in lifting even the lightest of the objects. Despite the fact that he can’t lift light things like stuffed animals, he can still turn over Krabby Patties and has been identified to tote Patrick around which does not seem an easy task.
• Power of Spongeball to bear vicious bullies
Spongebob has an incredible power of not eing able to e defeated or overcome by the opponents. When viciously hit by a bully, SpongeBob is not hurt; instead of striking back, he keeps on going through his day normally, until the bully has worn out too much to keep hurting.
• His other qualities
In numerous episodes he seems to have a talent for singing. SpongeBob is ambidextrous; in the episodes like “Procrastination” and “I’m with Stupid”, he can be observed using his left hand for write. And in the episode of “I Was a Teenage Gary”, he clarifies that he is “lefty anyway” as he loses his right arm. In other episodes he mostly uses his right hand as his dominant.
Try to guess the age of SpongeBob?
Spongebob’s fans may be surprized to know that SpongeBob is in fact much older than most people think he is! If truth be told, one source tells that taking in account to his driver’s license, he actually born on July 14th, 1986. Apart from the fact that how old he is, he goes on displaying his childish personality and holds on his fans as he continues his journey.
There are some comments and evidences estimating about his age collected and shared by his fans and viewers that are collected here. You can just have an idea about the age of your favorite animated character by looking at them.
Creator Stephen Hillenburg has always wanted SpongeBob to stay ageless, but the show has revealed unreliable information about SpongeBob’s age. In the season one episode “Sleepy Time”, on aired in January 2000, SpongeBob had a dream in which he is receiving his drivering license. The license shows a birth date of July 14, 1986 written on it. Hillenburg declared afterward in an interview, that was only a dream and cannot be established.
The same birth date could be seen in his provisional driver’s license in the episode “No Free Rides”. He also takes a driving test more than a million times. SpongeBob talked about this in the episode “The Chaperone” that he could not get a date to his junior formal dance at a school. In the episode “Party ■■■■■■ Pants,” who is SpongeBob’s school classmate is made known to be married and owns a house; SpongeBob on the other hand lives by himself. Thinking about SpongeBob as a kid or ayoung man was also a main part of the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie’s plot. In the commentary of this film on DVD, it was said he is an adult that behaves like a kid.
• Brandon Cordy is an animator artist and designer he answered the questionabout the age of Spogebob on March 17, 2014 and commented that Spongebob’s age is uncertain, but he is given the rights and responsibilities of a person somewhere between 18 and 20 we are not concerned here that whether he uses or executes them properly or not. He owns a home, a job and has taken driving lessons, etc. to show that he is an adult person.
• Emilia Rosé a fan of the animated series answered to the question of age that in the episodes of SpongeBob musical, he moves up his hand as in he is eligible to vote. This means that he is 18 or over. She says that she has heard the creator of SpongeBob saying that he is a young adult, therefore his age can be 18–21.