Top 10 Most Interesting SpongeBob SquarePants Facts

1The seven main characters are based off of the seven deadly sins


2SpongeBob was born on July 14, 1986


3The creator of "Spongebob", Stephen Hillenburg, is actually a marine biologist


4The beta form of Spongebob was named "Spongeboy" and always wore a green hat with a long brim


5Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, and Jill Talley, the voice of Karen, are married in real life


6There is a fungi discovered in 2011 named after Spongebob, Spongiforma Squarepantsii


7The Krusty Krab is a lobster or crab trap


8Bikini Bottom is a fictional underwater city beneath the real island of Bikini Atoll


9Larry the Lobster is a restaurant


10The fish in the running gag that yells "my leg!" is named Fred


11Mr. Krabs is 71 as of November 30th, 2013


12Squidward is actually an octopus, not a squid


13The reason why The Chum Bucket is so unpopular in the show is that chum is actually mashed up fish


14There was a series of SpongeBob shorts called Astrology with Squidward that lasted from 2000-2001 and featured Squidward giving horoscopes for the zodiac


15Despite being kid friendly, the show has multiple adult jokes hidden in some episodes


16Pearl was adopted


17SpongeBob's grandma is his father's mother


18The show was originally supposed to be aired on Adult Swim


19The Flying Dutchman is named after the legendary ghost ship of the same name. A ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever


20There is an actual Krusty Krab restaurant being built, and it looks totally identical. It is called Salta Burgers, and it is located in Palestine


21A character resembling Squidward makes a cameo appearance in the Japanese anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann


22Pantera were featured on Prehibernation Week


23Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) also voiced Heffer from RML and Dog from Catdog


24Carolyn Lawrence, who is Sandy in SpongeBob, was also the voice of Cindy in Jimmy Neutron


25The Flying Dutchman is voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray's older brother


26Squidward's voice is often compared to that of American comic actor Jack Benny's


27Mr. Krabs is voiced by famous actor Clancy Brown, whose known for his roles in The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander, Carnivàle, and Starship Troopers


28Squidward's name is a Portmanteau; it is composed from "Squid" and "Edward"


29Mindy, King Neptune's daughter, is voiced by Scarlett Johansson


30There was a surrealist who went by the same name as Man Ray


31Stephen Hillenburg worked at a marine sanctuary in Orange County


32Stephen Hillenburg made an early comic book version of SpongeBob SquarePants called The Intertidal Zone


33SpongeBob SquarePants was originally going to be called SpongeBoy Ahoy!


34The SpongeBoy name had to be changed because it was the copyrighted name of a mop


35SpongeBob was inspired by comedians like Pee-Wee Herman