I LOVE Spongebob Squarepants! It's my favourite show. I tune in to Bikini Bottom at least once a day.
Haha, yeah it's a pretty funny show. There's also a surprising amount of hidden adult humor for a kids show!
I think it's popular with a lot of people - kids and adults alike. Apparently it made 13 BILLION dollars in merchandise revenue for Nickelodeon last year. That's crazy! 
Wow! Sign me up... those companies really know how to market their products. I wonder how this will change in the future. It seems like more and more people are using streaming sites like Newflix.
13 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon.
Many of the ideas for the series originated in an unpublished educational comic book titled "The Intertidal Zone", which Hillenburg created in 1989. He began developing "SpongeBob SquarePants" into a television series in 1996 upon the cancellation of "Rocko's Modern Life", and turned to Tom Kenny, who had worked with him on that series, to voice the title character. SpongeBob was originally going to be named SpongeBoy, and the series was to be called "SpongeBoy Ahoy
, she wrote:
"Yeah. What I love about "SpongeBob SquarePants" is that it's very watchable for an adult. But kids like it because they don't feel like they're being pandered to. That was what we were looking to do with "The Mighty B" [...] We wanted to do a show that had a strong female character who didn't have too many rainbows and unicorns."
Production Voice cast.
Former SNL cast member Amy Poehler voices Bessie Higgenbottom, a 9¾-year-