Can't he reproduce by budding?

• Yes, he can _AMK152 02:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• So, I'm basically a novice when it comes to this show, but I'm not very sure about the height put in. 4cm??? I dont know if this counts, but i remember seeing the episode where he got the suds and when that hans guy or whatever took him for his "treatment" that he was at least big enough to hold in a hand. but ultimatly, i dunno, it just came to mind. Something crazy 00:18, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Well yeah, there was another episode where he was using a giant pencil (which was just a regular sized pencil to a human). Either way, we know they're small.

• Also, his driver's license on "Sleepy Time" -AMK152

You'll have to forgive me, since this is the first time I've reported vandalism. Edit on 15:55, 9 November 2005 was pornographic vandalism - posted pics of gay porn in article. Replaced with previous version.

Is it appropriate to count Squidward among Spongebob's friends? He always seems to make it rather clear that he's irritated by the latter's presence. -- knoodelhed 07:23, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Maybe it would be better to put that Spongebob always tries to be Squidward's friend? Evil saltine 07:33, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Indeed. That would seem to work better. -- knoodelhed 19:15, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Actually, you would say that SpongeBob thinks that he and Squidward are friends. User: Crocker, 19 February, 17:22.

In The Graveyard Shift, Squidward actually admits he has sort of liked SpongeBob. In SB-129, he missed SpongeBob when he was time traveling. In some other episodes, SpongeBob and Squidward actually got along great. -AMK152 02:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

does anyone know where I can find some??? munster_66@hotmail.com

• You can find the original SpongeBoy/SpongeBob pictures and concept art dating as far back as 1996 in the book, SpongeBob Exposed: The Insider's Guide to SpongeBob SquarePants, you can find this book at your nearest Borders, Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble, or B. Dalton book store.

• Does anyone know the shape of spongebob's wall clock? is it a boat, blowfish, lobster , or a snail???

• It's a snail -AMK152 02:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• It seems strange that this article has anything on SB's age, as Mr. Hillenburg has stated he wanted Spongebob to be ageless, like many classic cartoons. -- Bottles98

• If Spongebob has indeed been Employee of the Month 374 times that would make him about 44 years old.

• SpongeBob has been Employee of the Month 374 times, but that's in the movie. His age is 19 now, but around 44 in the movie, obviously stating that the movie is somehow set in the future. Hugh Jass 00:51, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• He was hardly working there from birth! Raemie 12:41, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Why is everyone taking time so literally here? Perhaps he's merely ageless. That's probably the more likely possibility. It's a bloody cartoon.

• Agreed, comicbook writers frequently use a sliding timeline. A variation thereof could allow SpongBob to have a life spaning multiple intersecting and cronological story arcs without any need for age. More likely however is that the 374 employ of the month awards were merely placed into the episode to highlight SpongBob's work ethic.

• The section in Job and Leisure ("However, in the real world, sea sponges can live a few hundred years, so fifty-two is pretty young for a sea sponge.") is extraneous and poorly worded. He's a cartoon character, and his winning the award 374 times is clearly hyperbole for comedic intent. There's no sense in justifying or speculating about his real age. As noted above, the creator wanted an ageless character, and it ought to be rewritten. I think AMK152 was entirely inappropriate in reverting my edit, and we ought to keep ambivalence like "pretty young for a sea sponge" out of this article. Yale2010

• Does SpongeBob really have an Uncle Sherm??
  

If so, which episodes does he appear in? -- Bobman123 20:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• From Krab Borg - (SpongeBob just watched a movie and he is thinking who might be a robot) He eventually gets to the part, "What if Uncle Sherm is a robot?" -AMK152

Are you people serious? What the hell is Wikipedia coming to? Pacific Coast Highway 01:50, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC) (9:50PM Brooklyn, NY Time)

I am disappointed with Pacific Coast Highway's comment above. It is NPOV. I would like to propose it be deleted. User:SpongeBob

This article, and even this discussion page is rather surreal in parts. A description that feels like it is coming from someone with a grip on reality would be more useful.

To be clear, I'm not trying to put down anyone. I quite enjoyed the article... great fun. But utterly surreal. --70.49.119.107 03:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I second that. -Anonymous

This is a horribly written op-ed. Can we get someone over the age of twelve to rewrite certain parts of the article?

Lets think about this shall we? If you can find a great number of people over the age of 12 that have any level of expertise on SpongBob approacing, or equal to, that of the show's obsessive primary demographic by all means let them make changes. If you can't lets people who qualify as experts on the subject write the article.Symmetric Chaos 14:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm 21, thank you very much!! Druworos 20:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SpongeBob has become an icon among homosexuals in the United States as well as a huge hit with children, according to the Wall Street Journal. BBC NEWS

Also: A "Sponge"-Worthy Gay Icon? E!Online

I couldn't find the WSJ article free online, but was able to get it in a premium subscription database. It's called There Is Something About 'SpongeBob' That Whispers 'Gay' by Sally Beatty, and was published on page A.1 (front page!) of the Wall Street Journal on 10-08-2002.

Use of Category:Gay icons here is not "pointless." -- Norvy (talk) 02:36, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spongebob is first and foremost a children's character. Spongebob's creator stated that he is asexual, as quoted in this article. A paragraph on some people mentioning him as gay would be fine, but I don't think he belongs in the category of gay icons. Do most grown gay men really sit and watch this afternoon children's show?-- Phantom784 18:24, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if they watch the show, but that's beside the point. They don't need to for SpongeBob to be an icon. The beauty of categories is that something can fall in many of them. Incidently, a google search just for "gay icon" lists him third, behind the Wikipedia list of gay icons, and Judy Garland. -- Norvy (talk) 19:21, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yah i agree. Spongebob isn't a gay icon. Thats just rediculous, if you think otherwise. BANi 03:27, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand. If SpongeBob is favoured by gays because of his asexuality (rather ambiguous sexuality) and see a 'symbol' on his face, doesn't this qualify him as a gay icon? no matter what the creator intended, icons are for the public to use. Pictureuploader 09:52, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, but one might argue that his image has been distorted. I can think that the majority of the non-gay public doesn't see him this way in the first place (And if they did, it's because of the supposed accusations of Spongebob promoting homosexuality). For cryin' out loud, he's a children's show character. Because a few fundamentalists saw him as a homosexual (and thus the gay community adopted him as such), doesn't mean he's such an icon to the general public. I think I share the common opinion that it's absolutely absurd...sure, you can state the particular groups that treat him as such...but don't treat him as a universal icon.

He's somewhat of a general pop icon I believe. Note to self: find references and return to topic. Druworos 20:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spongebob has yet to keep a boating license (analogous to a driver's license) because he fails every driver's test at Mrs. Puff's driving school, mainly due to a tendincy to become nervous once behind the wheel (he has been shown to know what he's doing everywhere but inside the boat).

I know I saw proof in one episode, I think the first to feature Mrs. Puff. Does anybody know the name? --Wack'd About Wiki 05:19, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, Boating school, right?

i dont think this Spongebob article should be merged with the Spongebob Movie. Its about two completly different topics. BANi 06:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Me either. Or else we should merge Neo with The Matrix and do this to all fictional characters Pictureuploader 13:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Oops, what I meant to propose was a merge of the Spongebob Movie (which is a pretty bad article right now) into the Spongebob Series page (which already talk about the movie a bit). What do you think about that?
• I think it should have its own pages, just like the episode pages. -AMK152 02:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody screwed up the SpongeBob SquarePants (character) section, Please fix this.

There seems to be a problem near the end of the "Job and Leisure" section; the image overlaps the last line of text, and there's a large blank portion that seems to be out of place. I'm not overly experienced in Wikipedia formating, or else I'd fix this. Caligari 87 19:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does anybody have a citation for the quote about the voice description? It's a bit funny, but it seems to be a POV statement for the purposes of humor... ß 20:11, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The trivia section needs a general clean-up, I'm tempted to get rid of it altogether, it doesn't meet any wiki guidelines for citations, verifiability, etc. --Easter Monkey 03:08, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One quick comment (I'll let someone else with more experience and better english skills decide wether to add it or not). The article says that the UK and US versions have a different voice for the song in spanish. Most likely the UK version has the song from Spain, while the US one must have the latinamerican version. It's very common for the spanish dubbing to be different between Latinamerica and Spain (actually, while I visited Spain, except for some very old stuff like the flintstones and dumbo that I saw there, it's the norm to have a localized spaniard dubbing).

• As you se, I'm an avid SpongeBob fan and the month and year the movie takes place in is June 2004, not March 2031.

  I can prove your theory wrong: Spongebob won 374 consecutive employee of the month awards. which is 31 years, and 2 months. Spongebob joined the Krusty Krab in 1998. So, 31 years and 2 months would basically be around, well, 2029/2030. and IF The movie took place in June 2004, SpongeBob would have started working there in April 1973. 1973 is 4 years BEFORE the Krusty Krab opened, 13 years BEFORE SpongeBob was born, and 20 years before Squidward started working there. The calender in Spongebob's bedroom AND the calender at the Krusty Krab both are in March: March 7th has a drawing of the Krusty Krab 2 in Spongebob's room. When he updates the Krusty Krab calender, Plankton says: "March 14! No wait, it should say the day that Krabs fries!" -AMK152

  Change everything to March 14, 2031, the show is TIMELESS! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.21.41.177 (talk • contribs)

  Um, I think you're assuming that every date and time mentioned is literally true, when they probably just pick dates that either sound right or funny. This isn't Star Trek, where they actually do try to keep chronology consistent. tregoweth 03:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  The years are not canon with the movie or tv show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpongeJustin4 (talk • contribs)

  And a helpful tip for everyone: you can sign talk pages by typing four tildes: ~~~~ . tregoweth 05:24, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  I think someone's looking into this too deep. Obviously, you'd also have to count the 30-something times he took a drivers test...dude. They don’t take time too seriously. It’s mostly all for comedic effect. It's meant to be inconsistent.

Sir Sponge Bob is not Sponge Bob's ancestor. I's just what they call him when he travels back in time. Eric 10:17, 21 January 2006 (EST) ____________________________________________________________________________________________- i wanted to try an experiment put your name down here and the date and time if you like spongebob:

Josh 7:48, March 16, 2006

Druworos 20:36, 17 March 2006 (UTC) SpongeBob!!![reply]

AMK152 02:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to correct some disturbed freaks vandalism, but don't know how succesful i've been, if someone else can check it that'd be great. There's a lot of very POV statements in this article, especially in the first section. It needs a heavy edit to get it up to Wikistandards. If anyone has the knowledge to attempt it, it'd be a great service. --Brideshead 13:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]