A sponge celebrates his birthday: Happy Birthday, SpongeBob!
14.7.2023
Translation: machine translated
Who lives in a pineapple deep in the sea? Is it his birthday today and is he entertaining us? SpongeBob SquarePants!
It's probably the world's most famous sponge's birthday: Robert "SpongeBob" SquarePants first saw the light of day on 14 July 1986 - and still delights us today with his crazy adventures with his pet snail Gary, Patrick, Thaddeus and Sandy.
So SpongeBob turns 37 today! His inventor, marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in 2018, actually had his first sketches of SpongeBob back in 1986. However, it took a while before the world's cutest sponge could start his triumphal march. It was not until 1998 that Hillenburg presented the show to the US channel Nickelodeon. With success: Nickelodeon broadcast the first SpongeBob episode on 1 May 1999.
Why is 14 July his birthday, you might be asking yourself? SpongeBob's driving licence was actually shown twice in the series: According to it, 14 July is his birthday and 1986 is his birth year.
A hero around the world
With the broadcast of the first episode of SpongeBob, a success story took off. There are now nine seasons with almost 200 episodes, several films for cinema and television - and according to Nickelodeon, there is no end in sight. SpongeBob, who earns his living as a burger fry in the fast food restaurant "Krosse Krabbe", enjoys a huge fan base worldwide, which is by no means just made up of children.
Perhaps the most important honour was bestowed on the yellow sponge with the distinctive front teeth in 2011: in that year, a new type of mushroom was discovered in Malaysia that looks so similar to SpongeBob that it was named "Spongiforma squarepantsii".
If that's not a reason to celebrate - perhaps with our fun party articles:
Cover photo: Unsplash/Todd Kent
A true local journalist with a secret soft spot for German pop music. Mum of two boys, a dog and about 400 toy cars in all shapes and colours. I always enjoy travelling, reading and go to concerts, too.
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