SpongeBob SquarePants

"Well, he's ready, he's ready, he's ready... to fight these evil Coalition of the Red Star bastards that get into our way. Now we're at the brink of total control between the ASEAN and China. Better help this guy out, along with Patrick and Sandy. That's Team SpongeBob of course."

--Su Ji-Hoon, South China Sea

SpongeBob SquarePants is the main protagonist and eponymous character of the Nickelodeon animated comedy series of the same name, SpongeBob SquarePants. He was designed by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, and is voiced by Tom Kenny. He first appears in the series' pilot episode "Help Wanted."

SpongeBob is a childish, joyful, eccentric sea sponge who lives in a pineapple on 124 Conch Street with his pet snail Gary and pet scallop Shelley in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. He works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, a job in which he is exceptionally skilled. He attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, though has yet to receive a driver's license due to his inability to drive a boatmobile. SpongeBob lacks a lot of knowledge and is a constant annoyance to those around him, but he is very good-natured.

He appears in all of the episodes in the series, except for a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "The Algae's Always Greener," in which his alternate-universe counterpart appears instead. He was soon to be Nickelodeon's main mascot.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he is the leader of Team SpongeBob.

Description
SpongeBob is a sea sponge, but he is drawn to resemble a kitchen sponge, being rectangular and light yellow with a light olive-green outline. In earlier episodes, he is wider near the top and gets skinnier going further down. However, in the more recent episodes, he is more of a regular square shape. SpongeBob has large light blue eyes, a long, slightly curved nose, a large mouth with two prominent front buck teeth, dimples with three freckles on each cheek, and light olive-green pores. Although vaguely seen in the series, he has light yellow hair, as seen on his driver's license and in a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "The Sponge Who Could Fly."

He typically wears a white shirt with a scarlet-red tie, black leather shoes with white shoelaces, white socks with blue and red stripes, and brown rectangular pants with a black belt (the entire outfit is sometimes referred to as his "pants," hence his name). While working at the Krusty Krab, he wears a tall, white hat with a small blue anchor on it as a uniform. SpongeBob usually sleeps in his underwear, and at other times, pajamas (beginning with SpongeBob SquarePants season 5 [five]). However, he occasionally sleeps with his entire outfit on, which was more common in the show's earlier seasons.