Sponge. Bob Square. Pants (season 1) - Wikipedia. The first season of the American animated televisionsitcom. Sponge. Bob Square. Pants, created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired from May 1, 1. April 8, 2. 00. 0, and consists of 2.

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Created by Stephen Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, Tim Hill. With Tom Kenny, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Bill Fagerbakke. The misadventures of a talking sea sponge who. Watch full episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at TVGuide.com. SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the. Creator Stephen Hillenburg initially conceived SpongeBob SquarePants in 1984, while he was teaching and studying marine biology at what is now the Orange County Ocean.

The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The show features the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. Among the first guest stars to appear on the show were Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway voicing the superhero characters of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively. Hillenburg initially conceived the show in 1.

Rocko's Modern Life in 1. To voice the character of Sponge. Bob, Hillenburg approached Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on Rocko's Modern Life.[3] The show was originally to be called Sponge. Boy Ahoy!, but the name Sponge.

Boy was already in use for a mop product.[4] Upon finding it out, Hillenburg decided to use the name "Sponge. Bob". He chose "Square. Pants" as a family name as it referred to the character's square shape and it had a "nice ring to it".[5]Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were released. The Sponge. Bob Square.

Pants: The Complete 1st Season DVD was released in Region 1 on October 2. Region 2 on November 7, 2. Region 4 on November 3. The pilot episode, "Help Wanted", was not included on the DVD due to copyright issues with the song "Living in the Sunlight" by Tiny Tim, which appears in the episode, but was later released as a bonus feature on various series DVDs, including that of the third season.

The season received positive reviews from media critics upon release. Development[edit]Creator Stephen Hillenburg initially conceived Sponge. Bob Square. Pants in 1.

Orange County Ocean Institute.[6] During this period, Hillenburg became fascinated with animation, and wrote a comic book entitled The Intertidal Zone ,starring various anthropomorphic forms of sea life, many of which would evolve into Sponge. Bob Square. Pants characters,[7] including "Bob the Sponge", who was the co- host of the comic and resembled an actual sea sponge, as opposed to Sponge. Bob, who resembles a kitchen sponge.[1] In 1. Hillenburg left the institute to pursue his dream of becoming an animator,[1][7] and began to envision the possible concept of a project involving anthropomorphic sea life.

He then later started drawing several rough sketches.[1] In 1. Hillenburg began to attend the California Institute of the Arts to study animation, having been accepted into the institute by Jules Engel, who was impressed with Hillenburg's previous work.[7][8]While attending animation school, Hillenburg received a job on the children's television series Mother Goose and Grimm, and worked on the series from 1.

During his time at the California Institute of the Arts, he made his thesis film entitled Wormholes,[1] which was funded by the Princess Grace Foundation and was later displayed at various animation festivals.[1] In 1. Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, met Hillenburg at an animation festival, and offered him a job as a director of the series.[1][9][1. Rocko's Modern Life ended in 1. Shortly following this, Hillenburg began working on Sponge. Bob Square. Pants, teaming up with several Nickelodeon veterans and Rocko crew members,[1] including creative director Derek Drymon, writers and directors Sherm Cohen and Dan Povenmire,[1. Tim Hill, actor and writer Martin Olson, animation director Alan Smart, and story editor Merriwether Williams.[2] To voice the character of Sponge. Bob, Hillenburg approached Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on Rocko's Modern Life.[3] Originally the character was to be named Sponge.

Boy and the show would be called Sponge. Boy Ahoy![1. 4][1. However, the Nickelodeon legal department discovered that the name Sponge. Boy was already in use for a mop product.[4][1. This was discovered after voice acting for the original seven- minute pilot was recorded in 1. Upon finding this out, Hillenburg decided that the character's given name still had to contain "Sponge" so viewers would not mistake the character for a "Cheese Man".

Hillenburg decided to use the name "Sponge. Bob". He chose "Square. Pants" as a family name as it referred to the character's square shape and it had a "nice ring to it".[5]Production[edit]The first season featured Tom Kenny as the voice of the title character Sponge. Bob Square. Pants and his pet snail Gary. Sponge. Bob's best friend, a starfish named Patrick Star, was voiced by Bill Fagerbakke,[1. Rodger Bumpass played the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill- tempered octopus.[1. Other members of the cast were Clancy Brown as Mr.

Krabs, a miserly crab obsessed with money and Sponge. Bob's boss at the Krusty Krab; [1. Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival; [1.

Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; [2. Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; [2. Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, Sponge. Bob's boating school teacher; [2.

Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter.[2. While Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, and Tim Hill were writing the pilot "Help Wanted", Hillenburg was also conducting auditions to find voices for the show characters.[2. He had created the character of Sponge. Bob with Tom Kenny,[3][2. Kenny's and other people's personalities to help create Sponge.

Bob's personality.[1. The voice of Sponge. Bob was originally used by Kenny for a minor female alligator character named Al in Rocko's Modern Life. Kenny forgot the voice initially as he created it only for that single use. Hillenburg, however, remembered it when he was coming up with Sponge. Bob and used a video clip of the episode to remind Kenny of the voice.[1. Kenny says that Sponge.

Bob's high pitched laugh was specifically aimed at being unique, stating that they wanted an annoying laugh in the tradition of Popeye and Woody Woodpecker.[2. Hillenburg originally had Mr. Lawrence for the role of voicing Squidward.[2.

Drymon said "We knew Doug from Rocko, where he was a storyboard director and where he also did the voice of Filburt. We were showing Doug the storyboard, and he started reading back to us in his Tony the Tiger/Gregory Peck voice. Watch The Alphabet Killer HD 1080P. It was really funny, and we wound up having Sponge.

Bob use a deep voice when he entered the Krusty Krab for the first time."[2. Hillenburg loved the voice and decided to let Lawrence play a variety of incidental characters, including Plankton.[2. In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. Former Mc. Hale's Navy actors Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway reunited for their first joint TV project in 3. Sponge. Bob's favorite superheroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively.[2. Borgnine said "We [he and Conway] played off each other. Tim's such a performer - a little more caustic than I am.

We were making all sorts of noise. People outside the room were guffawing. We're supposed to be underwater, you know."[2. They would reprise their role in the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II", which also guest starred Charles Nelson Reilly as their nemesis, the Dirty Bubble.[2.

In the episode "Scaredy Pants", a Halloweenspecial, American band the Ghastly Ones performed a special musical performance,[3. Brian Doyle- Murray voiced the Flying Dutchman.[3. American country guitarist and singer Junior Brown made a vocal cameo, performing the song "Texas" in the episode of the same name.[3. In "Neptune's Spatula", John O'Hurley appeared as King Neptune.[3.

John Lurie and Jim Jarmusch (who collaborated to make the films Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law) made a cameo as themselves in the episode "Hooky",[3. Bravo serial, Fishing with John.