The SpongeBob Squarepants logo.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated series that airs on Nickelodeon created by the late marine biologist Stephen Hilenburg.
It is chronologically the tenth of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons and is currently the most-watched show on Nickelodeon. In 2007, it was named by TIME Magazine as one of the greatest television shows of all time. It also broke a record for the most amount of episodes aired in one year, with 45. It is about the misadventures of a talking sea sponge who works at a fast food restaurant, attends a boating school, and lives in an underwater pineapple.
References to Peanuts[]
- In "Walking Small", when Plankton is putting things in his suitcase, he puts in a shirt that looks like Charlie Brown's, except it has a red zig-zag.
- In "Chum Fricassee", when Plankton says "Who took my blue blankie?", the blue blankie is a reference to Linus van Pelt, who always has a blue blanket as a security net.
- In the 48th comic, Snoopy is one of the characters (in snail form) to appear on the cover.
- A comic called "Barnacles" that is a parody of this famous comic strip. The Good ol' SpongeBob SquarePants part is a parody of Good ol' Charlie Brown, the title that is usually on the Sunday strips from the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s.
- In "Plankton’s Old Chum", The scene where SpongeBob explains the meaning of Chum Day is a reference to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
- In "Abandon Twits", Squidward's dance at the start of the episode is a reference to 5's in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
- In the game SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake, whenever SpongeBob is in Halloween Rock Bottom, a child says "I got a rock". This is a reference to the exact same thing Charlie Brown says in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
References in Peanuts[]
- In the Peanuts TV series episode "School Chums", Peppermint Patty's class watches a movie and Peppermint Patty sleeps through it. When Peppermint Patty is asked about the movie, she answers, "I don't suppose it was about SpongeBob, was it?"