SpongeBob SquarePants
It's from 1999, before you were born.
- Network
- Nickelodeon
- Genre
- Animated comedy
- Creator
- Stephen Hillenburg
- Premiered
- 1999
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About
As of 2026, it's 27 years old.
SpongeBob SquarePants is a relentlessly optimistic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple, flips burgers with religious devotion, and has somehow become one of the most quotable, meme-generating entities on the entire internet. Aimed at kids since 1999, it's secretly beloved by adults who communicate primarily through its screenshots.
Its surreal humor, indestructible cheerfulness, and bizarre supporting cast made it a cultural juggernaut spanning generations and an infinite supply of reaction images.
Absurd, joyful, and eternally meme-able, SpongeBob is the cartoon that conquered childhood and then quietly took over adult group chats too.
SpongeBob SquarePants season by season
SpongeBob SquarePants has run for 17 seasons (1999–2026) across 652 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
