i love watching spongebob. whos your favorite?
You mean sponge Bob cartoon on cartoon network ?
spongebob squarepants was created for nickelodeon
Thats my kids favourite cartoon,not me.
 it was going to be named spongeboy ahoy
Ahoy! That sounds like the term used in Jake and the Neverland pirates. Ahoy means...Do you want to join my pirate crew? Lol!
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Many of the ideas for the series originated in an unpublished educational comic book titled "The Intertidal Zone", which Hillenburg created in 1989.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
"SpongeBoy Ahoy!". However, the Nickelodeon legal department discovered that the name "SpongeBoy" was already in use for a mop product. This was discovered after voice acting for the original seven-minute pilot was recorded in 1997. 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 "SpongeBob". He chose "SquarePants" as a family name as