My kids sure watch a lot of SpongeBob.
Haha!  Even my husband still watches this with our teenagers - I had no idea that it was created by a marine biologist.
I didn't know that, either.  It is a funny show, the character names really crack me up. Who was the creator?
Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist and animator, developed it for NIckelodeon.
That is wild.  I wonder what motivated a marine biologist to develop a cartoon?  That is definitely a cool fact.
He wrote an educational comic book caled The Intertidal Zone and many of the ideas originated from this.
I would bet that he doesn't have to do any work anymore.  I wonder how much money SpongeBob has earned him over the years?
Well, it's one of the longest-running American tV series and the highest rated show ever on Nickelodeon, so I'd imagine he does pretty well