Sponge Bob

SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS - classic children quartz watch

This is a vintage Sponge Bob classic watch.
It is in excellent working order and condition - joy to any child.

• Quartz movement
• Case size = diameter Ø 2.5 cm
• Total length with wristband = 20 cm
• Sky blue tone rubber band with Sponge Bob and friends featured
• Stainless steel back
• Japan movement
• Battery included

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About Sponge Bob - Ten years ago today, Sponge Bob Square Pants and his Bikini Bottom cohorts became movie stars. The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie made $140 million worldwide and is the fifth-highest grossing animated TV adaptation ever. How did an anthropomorphic sponge that lives in a pineapple become a children's icon?

1. The idea for the series was from an actual marine biologist.
Stephen Hillenburg has a degree in natural resource planning with a marine resources emphasis, and he used to teach Marine Biology at the Orange County Marine Institute. Hillenburg also liked to draw, and created a comic book called Intertidal Zone* for the Institute, which starred an early version of SpongeBob. When he worked as creative director for the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life, fellow animators saw the potential appeal of SpongeBob.

*The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore and seashore and sometimes referred to as the littoral zone, is the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide – in other words, the area between tides marks.

2. Spongebob’s original name was spongeboy.
And the show's title was initially Sponge Boy Ahoy! Sponge Boy was a copyrighted name for a mop, however, but Hillenburg made sure to keep the sponge in the name of his protagonist as he was worried that children might mistake him for a block of cheese.

3. Spongebob’s personality was influenced by: Jerry Lewis, Pee-wee Herman and Stan Laurel.
SpongeBob creative director Derek Drymon remembered Hillenburg wanting to create a character with a young, boyish attitude, with Lewis, Herman, and Laurel specifically in mind. Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, said that Hillenburg initially described the talking sponge as a half child half adult, kind of like a munchkin, before also mentioning the same three comedy legends. The creator also told Kenny to try to do a similar voice that the Mr. Show alum once did for a background character in a long-forgotten scene in Rocko's Modern Life. Kenny described the nameless character he did not even recall as a squeaky, helium-voiced elf guy, just a total throwaway voice.