‘How old is Sponge Bob Square Pants’ is the question being discussed here. but do the cartoons get old with time? no. but the way to calculate their age can be via the year of their first episode’s launch.
Do cartoons have birth certificates?
Cartoons usually don’t age. Cartoons neither have any birth certificate or registration of their birth nor they age with time. Cartoons don’t age with time, their age, efficiency, and youth remain the same even after decades.
About SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants follows the daily adventures of the title character Sponge Bob Square Pants in the underwater town of Bikini Bottom, along with his best friends Sandy Cheeks, Patrick Star, a female sperm whale, and other colorful characters like Mrs. Puff, Mr. Krabs, Squidward Tentacles and more. Like in most cartoons, logic doesn’t really have a place in SpongeBob SquarePants, but there’s one detail about SpongeBob that has become a mystery as it has been revealed before, yet it doesn’t quite fit with the series: his age.
Reference from episodes
The Pilot Episode
According to the date on which the first episode of the series was released (i.e, May 1999), the age of Sponge Bob Square Pants is 21 years. It has been 21 years and 8 months; Sponge Bob Square Pants has not aged since then. It looks and behaves the same, even today. Strange!!
The Hint of Age
The ages of cartoons are always a mystery and suspenseful. However, Sponge Bob Square Pants is a unique case as the makers have given a slight hint at the age of Sponge Bob Square Pants. However, revealing the age leaves the audience a bit confused. The story of the episode in which the makers revealed Sponge Bob Square Pants’ age is:
Sponge Bob Square Pants lives by himself in his own house and owns a pet snail of his own. The name of the pet is Gary. Sponge Bob Square Pants is earning for himself to meet all of his expenditures by working at Krusty Krab. At free time Sponge Bob Square Pants attends a Boating School to get his driver’s license. The Boating School is owned by Mrs. Puffs.
Keeping all this information in mind, one thing is very clear that Sponge Bob Square Pants must be at least 18 years old to get his driver’s license. But Sponge Bob Square Pants doesn’t look that old!!
Episode “Sleepy Time”
In another episode, “Sleepy Time” Sponge Bob Square Pants gets his license which means he is at least 18 years old. This episode was broadcasted in 1986. In another episode “No Free Rides” the date of birthdate of Sponge Bob Square Pants is again the same. This means we can take 1986 as his official date of a birthdate. This means in the year 2020, Sponge Bob Square Pants’ age is 34 years old. This is a bit weird because this means that the series was officially broadcasted when Sponge Bob Square Pants was 13 years old. So if Sponge Bob Square Pants applied for a job at the Krusty Krab at an extremely young age – and he got it. If air dates and time setting in the series correlate and the laws of the United States of America apply to the hometown of Sponge Bob Square Pants which is Bikini Bottom, then Sponge Bob Square Pants wouldn’t have been legally working at the Krusty Krab at the beginning of the series and Mr. Krabs would have been in big trouble for hiring an underage Sponge Bob Square Pants for work. It is not that Mr. Krabs would have cared, though. He just wanted money.
Is this age correct?
Perhaps because both the date of birth didn’t match, that is the main reason why Sponge Bob Square Pants birthdate was removed from any further appearances of his driver’s license or any other document that would have normally included his date of birth. Making it easier for the audience to digest his age and making it normal and easier for the audience to get used to the fact that cartoon characters usually don’t age with time.
Still, there is quite a disparity in Sponge Bob Square Pants’ supposed age, lifestyle, behavior, attitude, and personality. He is old enough to live on his own, have a full-time job, own a pet, to make his expenses meet on his own; yet he is very child-like and immature. For the makers of the show, making Sponge Bob Square Pants attend Boating School is just that he is too determined to get his own driver’s license and he is not at all willing to quit until and unless he gets his driver’s license.
One must feel young
Keeping all the above-mentioned facts, it can be concluded that the saying is quite right which says that age is just a number. To live a happy and contented life you do not need to be specifically young or old or toddler or experienced or immature. Happiness in life can be achieved by wishing for and enjoying the tiniest things in your life. Whatever you get, you need to be happy and contented with it. The same is the mantra of life of Sponge Bob Square Pants or we can say that this is the mantra of life of the makers of the show Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Conclusion about SpongeBob SquarePants’ age
This show does not depict the real age of the main character Sponge Bob Square Pants. The real age of the character Sponge Bob Square Pants is left open-ended for the audience to judge and interpret. It depends on the audience how old or young they think Sponge Bob Square Pants can be. If you are young and lively, Sponge Bob Square Pants is young and lively for you. If you are old and boring, Sponge Bob Square Pants may be old and boring for you. If you are sleepy and sad, Sponge Bob Square Pants may be sleepy and sad for you!! But hey!! Sponge Bob Square Pants can be ageless as well. What if Sponge Bob Square Pants never ages and stays the same so he can be ageless for the ones who Sponge Bob Square Pants to be ageless and young forever and ever.