SpongeBob SquarePants was born on July 14, 1986, which would make him 33 years

old.
He lives with his pet snail Gary in a large pineapple-shaped house on 124 Conch
Street, Bikini Bottom. His next-door neighbor, Squidward Tentacles, who lives in
an Easter Island head, is constantly annoyed by his antics.
SpongeBob is oblivious to this, and believes Squidward to be his friend. Beside
Squidward's house is the home of SpongeBob's best friend, Patrick Star, who lives
under a rock.

SpongeBob works at the Krusty Krab, Bikini Bottom's most popular restaurant, where he
is a fry cook and prepares all food served at the restaurant, most notably Krabby
Patties.

The first episode of the series depicts SpongeBob applying for and being hired to this
job. He says that it has been his lifelong dream to join the Krusty Crew, and that only
now is he "ready." When he applies for the job, Squidward and Mr. Krabs, wanting no
part of him, send him on a fool's errand for a "hydro-dynamic spatula with port and
starboard attachments and turbo drive." While he is out searching for one, several
hundred hungry anchovies arrive and overwhelm Squidward and Mr. Krabs. SpongeBob
soon returns, having actually found a hydrodynamic spatula, and saves their lives by
feeding the anchovies, showing off his amazing cooking skills in the process.
SpongeBob's house is an orange pineapple with fully furnished windows and doors, and
has a gas pipe. When he first moved to Bikini Bottom, he viewed many different houses,
but none seemed to his liking. Just as he was about to give up, a pineapple from a boat
above the waterfalls into the sea and lands onto the space that was Squidward's garden
where Squidward was still gardening. He loves the house and buys it, leaving
Squidward in misery by losing his garden and having SpongeBob living next to him.
SpongeBob is not only extremely good at his job, being able to produce a Krabby Patty
within seconds, but has a strong passion and an abnormal love for it; something of a
workaholic, he enjoys his job more than any other activity, and is saddened whenever
he cannot be at work. He is also obsessed with Krabby Patties themselves; on
numerous occasions, he has proclaimed them the best food in the world, and in "Just
One Bite" and "Shuffleboarding," he is shocked and horrified to see one thrown away.
He is apparently very good at his job because he is the "Vice Assistant General
Manager of Certain Things"[33]. He also has been shown making a perfect Krabby
Patty on his first try when he was a baby.
SpongeBob's skills as a fry cook could accurately be described as superhuman; in
episodes such as "Help Wanted" and "Employee of the Month," he is seen making them
at rates of hundreds or even thousands per minute. He has won 374 consecutive
Employee of the Month awards at the Krusty Krab. In "Friend or Foe," it is shown that
SpongeBob, as an infant, made a perfect patty on his first attempt. In "Neptune's
Spatula," he is able to pull the golden spatula from the grease, making him the "chosen
one" of King Neptune. In that same episode, it is shown that the burgers made by
Neptune himself are horrible compared to SpongeBob's.
While not working, SpongeBob spends much of his time playing with his best friend,
Patrick Star. Patrick is childish, moronic, and fun-loving. The two have known each
other since their early childhood, and are members of the "Best Friends Forever
Club."[34]

Their usual activities include jellyfishing, bubble blowing, and various others. The two's
antics are of constant annoyance to their neighbor, Squidward, and he has been
repeatedly put into harm's way as a result of their actions. Because of this, he has tried
to move away numerous times, but always ends up returning.

Despite Squidward claiming to hate SpongeBob and Patrick, they are completely
oblivious to this and believe they are his best friends. Squidward is usually shown to
dislike SpongeBob in particular, but nonetheless, the two share a close relationship. In
fact, Squidward has hinted that he likes SpongeBob a lot more than he lets on. In
"Graveyard Shift," he admits this when he tells SpongeBob, "No matter what I've said, I've
always sort of liked you!" Also, in "SB-129," he misses SpongeBob after becoming trapped in a blank
dimension.
One of SpongeBob's good friends is a squirrel from Texasnamed Sandy Cheeks, who wears a
special suit and helmet to survive underwater. When SpongeBob first met Sandy, she invited
SpongeBob to her airtight home, and SpongeBob, not knowing what air is, accepted. After giving
into his need to breathe water, SpongeBob and Patrick got bowls of water to wear over their heads
from Sandy, which they typically wear whenever they visit the treedome. Sandy enjoys SpongeBob's
company (probably more than Patrick's) and they enjoy doing extreme sports together, most notably
karate.
SpongeBob's skill in karate is shown to vary considerably between episodes. At times, he equals
and even outmatches Sandy in skill, while at other times he is so weak to the point where Sandy can
send him flying a considerable distance with a single punch; in "Karate Island," Sandy openly states
that her karate skills are better than SpongeBob's by "a country mile."
Another of SpongeBob's friends is Pearl the whale. According to "Bossy Boots," she thinks he is "full
of style," "oozes fashion," and most importantly, "is a great pal." Pearl goes to prom with SpongeBob
in "The Chaperone." In "Tunnel of Glove," it is revealed that Pearl's classmates think SpongeBob is
her boyfriend, and SpongeBob inadvertently supports this by saying "Well, I am a boy, and I am her
friend." The two then go on the Tunnel of Glove ride together.
SpongeBob attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, where he is taught by his idolized teacher Mrs. Puff.
He studies extremely hard for school and knows every answer to the oral exam, but he becomes
extremely nervous when actually behind the wheel of a boat, causing him to fail the final exam every
time. According to the episode "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," SpongeBob has failed the exam 1,258,056
times, and is the only creature in the history of the school to fail the test. The book Class
Confusion implies that SpongeBob may be failing on purpose just so that he can keep being taught
by Mrs. Puff forever.
Despite his inability to drive a boatmobile properly, SpongeBob has been shown to be able to
drive/ride various other things capably, including a rock, a rocket ship, a sandwich car, and a
submarine. SpongeBob claims that he does know how to drive, but simply panics behind the wheel
and cannot concentrate. In "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired," SpongeBob receives extremely good training
from Mrs. Puff's very tough military-like replacement and learns how to drive capably, but can only
do so while blindfolded due to the teacher's strict drills and very specific teaching methods.
Description
SpongeBob is a sea sponge with a rectangular shape. He is 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. In addition, he has three exceptionally
wide, exposed, and effeminate eyelashes on each eye, which have sometimes - during close-ups in
particular - been shown to be numerous eyelashes akin to a human, which is best prominent in
"Tutor Sauce" when he is seen breathing heavily during a close-up. Although rarely seen in the
series, he has light yellow hair that goes hand-in-hand with his skin color, as seen on his driver's
license and in the episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly." However, in the episode "Krusty Krab
Training Video," he instead has a simple strand of black hair.

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. While working at the
Krusty Krab, he wears a tall, white hat with a small blue anchor illustration on it as a uniform.
SpongeBob usually sleeps in his briefs, and at other times-beginning with season 5-pajamas.
However, he occasionally sleeps with his entire outfit on, which was more common in the show's
earlier seasons.
Though SpongeBob has always been voiced by Tom Kenny, his voice has changed over the course
of the series; his voice is lower than normal in season 1; after the first movie, his voice gets slightly
higher-pitched. In season 8, his voice gets lower-pitched once again.
Despite the fact that he's a sea sponge, he has legs and is able to move, just like other sponges in
the show. It's pointed out in "I Had an Accident." when he says that he will stay in his house forever,
and he shouldn't have even been walking because he's a sponge.
Health
While SpongeBob is generally lucky in life and healthy, he has on several occasions faced health
problems over the course of the series, which are usually caused by his persistent gullibility to fall for
antagonists' antics or simply by accident. On a side note, he is an invertebrate and thus lacks bones,
making him immune to physical harm; however, this varies greatly by episode, as sometimes
SpongeBob is depicted as having bones and thus prone to suffering injuries, while in other episodes,
most notably "The Bully," he has none and is, therefore, accepting of his aforementioned injuries.
Like most other characters on the show, he has faced many fatal injuries and near-death
experiences. However, due to cartoon physics and negative continuity, he sometimes recovers
immediately afterward without medical support. Such instances are played for comedy and do not
affect the plot, therefore they will be overlooked when taking into account his health. However,
SpongeBob has on more than one occasion faced ongoing medical conditions and injuries that have
even been the core of the plot.
The first prominent instance of SpongeBob's health interference is in "Tea at the Treedome," where
he for the first time enters an air pollution, Sandy's treedome in particular, after having met a new
friend, and due to the insufficient amount of water in her house, starts to shrivel up before eventually
passing out--along with Patrick--on the ground from hypothermia. Both he and Patrick are
subsequently revived by Sandy's new creation, water helmets.
SpongeBob's health interference is also a plot point of "Suds," where he becomes infected by
the eponymous disease which gives him a cold and causes him to sneeze pink bubbles through his
pores. He caught it from accidentally leaving his freezer open overnight and falling asleep in the
kitchen. He is eventually cured by the Purple Doctorfish utilizing a special treatment exclusive to
sponges.
Additionally, in "Prehibernation Week," Sandy takes SpongeBob on numerous increasingly
dangerous adventures in which they participate in extreme sport games, drastically injuring
SpongeBob and taking a toll on his health in the process.
At the end of "Survival of the Idiots," Sandy, having had her fur ripped off by the duo, uses
SpongeBob and Patrick's bodies as a replacement; since the two are in her treedome and have no
provision of water whatsoever, they nearly die from hypothermia.
In "Squirrel Jokes," SpongeBob suffers from hypothermia yet again upon entrance of Sandy's
treedome and is given too much water by her through the provision of a hose, inflating him to the
point of taking up the dome's capacity.
In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V," SpongeBob and the rest of IJLSA (The International Justice
League of Super Acquaintances) team were left injured and thus hospitalized following their battle
with the E.V.I.L. (Every Villain Is Lemons). SpongeBob, in particular, has to use a wheelchair and
wear a cast over his head to counteract his injury.

In Krabby Land, he suffered much harm which included having soap in the eye, being beaten up,
and being forced to eat beans.

In "I Had an Accident," SpongeBob faces a sandboarding accident in which he severely injures his
buttocks and is thereafter sent to the hospital. His injury was nearly fatal as each piece of his
buttocks were glued back together and taped, and he would have been permanently subject to
the Iron Butt under much worse circumstances.
In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, SpongeBob and Patrick are kidnapped by the Cyclops and
placed on a table above which a lamp sits. Due to the pressure of the lamp's heat, SpongeBob and
Patrick start to shrivel up and eventually pass away. However, the tear they shared beforehand finds
its way into a power outlet and thus activates the ceiling sprinkler system, thereafter reviving them.
Sometime during the events of "Funny Pants," SpongeBob underwent surgery to have his laugh
box transplanted to Squidward out of sympathy for the latter rupturing his own.
In "Krusty Towers," SpongeBob alongside Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward are sent to the hospital
and treated in medical beds following the fatal destruction of the eponymous hotel, which the group
was in during the incident.
In "Fungus Among Us," SpongeBob finds a suspicious green substance known as "ick" on his
bedroom floor and attempts to clean it up, but fails and as a result, the ick contaminates him and
becomes contagious. Due to his unhealthy status, the SWAT Team arrives on the scene at the
Krusty Krab and quarantines SpongeBob in a plastic bubble in his house, which is eventually
popped due to Patrick's moronic actions. He is cured towards the end of the episode when Gary
uses his slime to rid everyone of the ick.
In "The Splinter," SpongeBob trips and falls off of the ceiling of the Krusty Krab kitchen in a failed
attempt to retrieve his spatula, therefore falling on the wooden ground and having a splinterlodged
into his thumb. He goes to Patrick to seek medical attention; however, due to the latter's
unprofessional remedies and overall lack of a medical license, only makes matters worse by
hammering it further into his thumb, which not only causes SpongeBob more pain, but also causes
his thumb to swell up severely and produce pus. He is finally cured when Mr. Krabs, with his great
strength and claws, simply pulls it out, essentially inverting his injury and thus returning him back to
normal.
In "A Life in a Day," Patrick's obsession with emulating Larry the Lobster goes to his head and
prompts him to bring SpongeBob along to perform the most extreme stunt yet: crashing into Ripper's
Reef, an island consisting of stalagmites. The aftermath of this stunt lands the duo along with Larry--
who got injured while trying to save them--in the hospital, covered in bandages and wearing casts
over their heads.
In "Stuck in the Wringer," SpongeBob gets stuck in his bathroom wringer while trying to rinse himself
off and thereby calls Patrick for help; however, instead of helping him, he surrounds the wringer with
super glue, impeding his escape. Throughout the episode, SpongeBob uncontrollably moves very
clumsily and interferes with the public due to his disorderly condition. His health continues to
deteriorate as he is unable to consume food or drink due to the wringer's blockage of his digestive
system and gets a black eye at the carnival due to incompatibility with his restraint condition and the
rides' pressure. He is cured at the end of the episode when both he and Patrick cry an abundance of
tears to dissolve the glue, essentially facilitating his escape from the wringer.
In "The Hot Shot," he gets into a boat accident which leads to him getting injured and being in a
body cast at the end of the episode.
Personality
SpongeBob is a clueless, abnormal, immature, fun-loving, and hyperactive person with a happy-go-
lucky personality. He is extremely determined and will often stop at nothing to accomplish a task. He
is also somewhat dramatic to the people who are kind to him: for example, to the mailfish.[35] He is
also over-confident. Sometimes, though, he shows his devious side when trying to get Mr.
Krabs and Plankton to work together.[36]He sometimes makes mountains out of molehills, such as
losing his name tag.[27] It is also suggested he deceived the tattle strangler in an elaborate plot to
get him back to jail.

SpongeBob singing the "Best Day Ever" song

SpongeBob is very kind-hearted and innocent, and very rarely acts openly mean to anyone, even
those who find him an annoyance and act cruelly to him. He is a very selfless and loyal person,
especially towards those close to him. His selfless nature is most notably shown in "Best Day Ever,"
where he sacrifices his "perfect day" to help his friends. Despite his well-meaning intentions,
SpongeBob's actions often annoy and cause trouble for those around him, most notably his next-
door neighbor, Squidward Tentacles.
SpongeBob can become scared easily and usually panics when frightened. He is afraid of the
dark [37] and clowns [38]. He also hates hot sauce.[22] Occasionally, SpongeBob is too ignorant to
notice impending danger and his unworldly thinking may put himself or others in peril. He also
cannot detect lies or malice as easy as the other characters, mainly due to his naïve nature. In "A
Pal for Gary," when Gary is being violently attacked and nearly eaten by Puffy Fluffy, SpongeBob
takes no action and instead accuses Gary of harassing Puffy.
Furthermore, SpongeBob also goes to great lengths to impress others and achieve his goals as
seen in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II," where SpongeBob wrongly attacks an innocent Atomic
Flounder in order to impress Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. SpongeBob attempts to steal Patrick's
box in "The Secret Box." He also tries to steal Betsy Krabs' underwear along with Patrick and Mr.
Krabs in "Mid-Life Crustacean." In "Doing Time," SpongeBob and Patrick force the receptionist of the
local bank to give them all his money. This was done in an attempt to get arrested and free Mrs. Puff
from jail. In "Hall Monitor," SpongeBob enters the window of a couple's house and disturbs them
while on hall monitor duties. In "The Thing," SpongeBob and Patrick break into the zoo at night to
free "Smelly" from his cage. In "Safe Deposit Krabs," he and Patrick break into the local bank at
night to free Mr. Krabs from the safe vault. In "The Great Snail Race," SpongeBob overexerts Gary
as a preparation method for the following snail race. This causes extreme discomfort to Gary and
eventually results in him collapsing on his way to the finish line; however, SpongeBob eventually

noticed the error in his ways.

SpongeBob traps Squidward in a bottle in the episode "Employee of the Month"

In "Employee of the Month," SpongeBob sets up many traps on Squidward in an attempt to sabotage
his Employee of the Month Award. In "Just One Bite," SpongeBob handcuffs himself to Squidward,
forcing him to eat a Krabby Patty. In "Shuffleboarding," he and Patrick, while dressed as Mermaid
Man and Barnacle Boy respectively, go around arresting citizens for actions that do not count as
crimes, such as chewing gum too loudly and being too old. In "SpongeBob's Last Stand,"
SpongeBob and Patrick resist the government-sanctioned construction of the Shelly
Superhighway and encourage the rest of the town to join their protest through a song. The police
eventually notice the boys rebelling against the government's authority and imprison them in the
middle of nowhere. However, on SpongeBob's part, his arrest was for playing sitar without a license.

SpongeBob also feels the need to impress Mr. Krabs and to protect the Krusty Krab and the Krabby
Patty secret formula at all costs. In "Call the Cops," SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs impersonate police
officers in hopes of retrieving the secret formula. He also likes to impress his boating teacher, Mrs.
Puff despite his reckless driving. Beginning with "Boating School," an ongoing plot point is
SpongeBob failing his driver's test due to his inability to drive safely. His poor driving skills have
caused him to run over pedestrians, rapidly switch lanes, drive on the sidewalk, crash into buildings
and property, harm his passengers, and lastly damage his vehicle. In spite of all the damage he
causes, SpongeBob is never arrested or charged for his dangerous driving; instead, Mrs. Puff is,
who the authorities believe is failing to educate him.
These actions can often lead to SpongeBob entering by trespassing. SpongeBob and Patrick have a
frequent tendency to enter Squidward's house without his consent, which reaches its epitome in
"Good Neighbors" and becomes a plot point of the said episode. Additionally, in "Survival of the
Idiots," he and Patrick invade Sandy's treedome during the winter with little regard to the "Keep Out"
sign on her door. In "The Thing," after getting caught by the SWAT Team, SpongeBob and Patrick
hide from them by trespassing into the sewers. SpongeBob also invades the sewers with Squidward
in "The Sewers of Bikini Bottom," although they did it to retrieve the safe, so this can be justified. In
"Toy Store of Doom," SpongeBob and Patrick stay in Toy Barrel past its open hours and hide in a
dollhouse so as not to be caught by the security guard.