My kids sure watch a lot of SpongeBob.
Haha!  Even my husband still watches this with our teenagers - I had no idea that it was created by a marine biologist.
I didn't know that, either.  It is a funny show, the character names really crack me up. Who was the creator?
Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist and animator, developed it for NIckelodeon.
That is wild.  I wonder what motivated a marine biologist to develop a cartoon?  That is definitely a cool fact.
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Many of the ideas for the series originated in an unpublished educational comic book titled "The Intertidal Zone", which Hillenburg created in 1989.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
Sandy Cheeks
Sandra "Sandy" Cheeks is a fictional character in the American animated television series "SpongeBob SquarePants". She is an anthropomorphic squirrel who wears a diving suit and lives underwater. Sandy is voiced by Carolyn Lawrence and first appeared in the episode "Tea at the Treedome" that premiered on May 1, 1999. Sandy was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, the show's creator.
Character.
Character Role in "SpongeBob SquarePants".
Sandy is a close friend of SpongeBob