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Because of the tiki influence on the show, the background painters use a lot of pattern.' Pittenger said the sky flowers were meant to 'evoke the look of a flower-print Hawaiian shirt'.

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When series background designer Kenny Pittenger was asked what they were, he answered, 'They function as clouds in a way, but since the show takes place underwater, they aren't really clouds. The series features 'sky flowers' as a main setting material. Transitions between scenes are marked by bubbles filling the screen, accompanied by the sound of rushing water. The idea was 'to keep everything nautical', so the crew used plenty of rope, wooden planks, ships' wheels, netting, anchors, boilerplates, and rivets to create the show's setting. When the SpongeBob crew began production of the series' pilot episode, they were tasked with designing stock locations, to be used repeatedly, where most scenes would take place like the Krusty Krab and SpongeBob's pineapple house. Puff's Boating School, which includes a driving course and a sunken lighthouse the Treedome, an oxygenated glass enclosure where Sandy lives Shady Shoals Rest Home a seagrass meadow called Jellyfish Fields and Goo Lagoon, a subaqueous brine pool that is a popular beach hangout. Recurring locations within Bikini Bottom include the neighboring houses of SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward two competing restaurants, the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket Mrs. Its citizens are mostly multicolored fish who live in buildings made from ship funnels and use 'boatmobiles', amalgamations of cars and boats, as a mode of transportation. The series takes place primarily in the fictional benthic underwater city of Bikini Bottom located in the Pacific Ocean beneath the real-life coral reef known as Bikini Atoll. Tom Kenny confirmed the fictitious city of Bikini Bottom is named after Bikini Atoll. 7.1.3 Untitled Netflix spin-off series and filmsД«ikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Pacific Ocean.7.1.1 Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years.4.1 Ratings and run-length achievements.2.2 Executive producers and showrunners.A Broadway musical based on the series opened in 2017 to critical acclaim. SpongeBob SquarePants has won a variety of awards including six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, 18 Kids' Choice Awards, and two BAFTA Children's Awards.

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An additional spin-off style movie was announced for the character Sandy Cheeks in May 2021. An additional spin-off, an untitled project based on the character Squidward Tentacles, is in development as of 2020. Two spin-off series, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years and The Patrick Star Show, premiered in 2021. The series has inspired three feature films: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Sponge Out of Water (2015), and Sponge on the Run (2020). The thirteenth season began airing in October 2020.

It has received worldwide critical acclaim since its premiere and had gained enormous popularity by its second season. The series officially premiered on July 17, 1999.

Nickelodeon held a preview for the series in the United States on May 1, 1999, after it aired the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. Puff and her boating school, so that SpongeBob could attend school as an adult. He was prepared to 'walk out' on Nickelodeon and abandon the series, but he compromised by creating Mrs. The network's executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenburg preferred SpongeBob to be an adult character. He began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series in 1996, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. Many of the series' ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational book that Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon as well as the most profitable property for ViacomCBS Consumer Products, having generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue as of 2019. Being the fifth-longest-running American animated series, its high popularity has made it a media franchise. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants (also simply referred to as SpongeBob) is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon.

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