Sandy Cheeks

"Sandy Cheeks. She's not your ordinary squirrel... because she lives underwater, yet she's got a underwater suit, and an oxygen-filled dome-shaped house of her own. Not to mention, she's the high-ridin'est, rootin'-tootin'-est Texan girl who is good at science, karate... or should I say kah-rah-tay, rodeo, and most importantly of all, extreme sports. Now she's with SpongeBob and Patrick as they fight against the Redcoats and the Chinese."

--Su Ji-Hoon, South China Sea

Sandra "Sandy" Cheeks is a main character in the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise. She is a squirrel from the surface. She is usually a friend to SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, and Squidward Tentacles. Sandy is notable for her Texas characteristics and knowledge of karate and science. She is voiced by Carolyn Lawrence and first appears in the episode "Tea at the Treedome."

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, she is a member of Team SpongeBob. Throughout the story, she dresses up as a SWAT team member, despite not being on a SWAT team of a specific city.

Description
Sandy comes from the US state of Texas, known from a SpongeBob SquarePants episode of the same name, but she exhibits many characteristics of a cowgirl character by going to every city in Texas. She speaks with a heavy Southern accent and uses typical Southern slang words and phrases, such as "howdy" and "y'all." She is very fond of her homeland and its culture, as most notably seen in a SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Texas," in which she grows homesick for it and considers leaving Bikini Bottom to return to Texas. In that same episode, she takes great offense at SpongeBob and Patrick's negative insults about Texas and violently attacks them when they continue to insult it. Sandy is one of the most intelligent and levelheaded characters on the show. She is a multi-talented scientist and inventor and originally came to Bikini Bottom to study sea creatures and their lifestyles. In a SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Chimps Ahoy," it is revealed that she is employed by a trio of chimpanzees from the surface, named Professor Percy, Dr. Marmalade, and Lord Reginald. As an inventor, Sandy is capable of creating extremely advanced devices with ease. Her inventions include a manned spaceship, a teleporter, a submarine that can shrink to microscopic size and go inside a person's body (specifically, Squidward Tentacles'), a robot in another SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?," and even a Protogenerator 2000 cloning device in another SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Overbooked."