SpongeBob’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary: Celebrating a Quarter-Century Under the Sea
Introduction Picture this: it’s nineteen ninety-nine, and a bright yellow sponge, sporting buck teeth and an infectious laugh, bursts onto television screens. Little did the world know, this porous protagonist was about to become a global phenomenon. SpongeBob SquarePants, a creation born from the depths of Stephen Hillenburg’s imagination, has been entertaining audiences for a…