SpongeBob SquarePants: Legends of Bikini Bottom
originally aired on Nickelodeon
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series. It first aired as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999. It chronicles the adventures of SpongeBob and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The series has run for a total of 14 seasons, and has inspired three feature films. The fourteenth season of the main series was announced in March 2022, and premiered in November 2023.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an energetic and optimistic yellow sea sponge who lives in a submerged pineapple. SpongeBob has a childlike enthusiasm for life, which carries over to his job as a fry cook at a fast food restaurant called the Krusty Krab. The owner of the restaurant is a miserly, greedy red crab named Mr. Krabs who talks like a sailor and runs his restaurant as if it were a pirate ship. His best friend is Patrick Star, a dimwitted yet friendly pink starfish who resides under a rock.