SpongeBob Squarepants is so funny!
Yes it is! For a show that came out nearly 20 years ago, it's done a great job holding up over the years
My mother-in-law thinks it's obnoxious, but it kind of grows on you when you figure out all of the characters.
It's very popular. It's the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon, and the most distributed property of MTV Networks
I'm not really sure why.  Maybe people just really like how colorful it is.  The characters are well-developed, too.  I suppose that everyone likes a good vs evil plot.
Sometimes i think it's just the comedy. The first episode I watched was the "I ripped my pants" one, and I was instantly hooked.
Lol.  I've heard people say that there is a lot of references that go over the kids' heads.  I like how joyful and innocent SpongeBob is, and the music is catchy.
-optimistic sea sponge living in an underwater town. Hillenburg compared the character's personality to Laurel and Hardy and Pee-wee Herman. As he drew the character, he decided that a "squeaky-clean square" like a kitchen sponge fit the concept. The character's name is derived from "Bob the Sponge", the host of Hillenburg's comic strip "The Intertidal Zone" that he originally drew in the 1980s while teaching marine biology to visitors of the Ocean Institute. SpongeBob is a naïve and goofy sponge
years later and once the purity rings were no longer around, it was very funny to me and I've actually watched the episode a few times." "I loved it. When it first came out I was so pumped". Joe said. "I know that Nick was really kind of not into watching it, but I thought it was the funniest thing at the time and it's kind of a compliment because obviously if you go to a comedy show and they pick you out and make fun of you