@stonerhumor247 on Instagram: "SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist turned animator, and first aired on Nickelodeon on May 1, 1999. Hillenburg had once taught marine biology and made a comic called The Intertidal Zone to explain sea life, and from this work the idea of a sponge character grew. SpongeBob was first called SpongeBoy, but the name was taken, so Hillenburg renamed him SpongeBob SquarePants and gave him a home in a pineapple under the sea in the