I love SpongeBob it was created by Stephen Hillenburg a animator/marine biologist. 
Boy that show sure does remind me of my childhood. It had a lot of really funny writing too that you don't notice until you're older.
O yeah! I remember reading that in 2017 is had made over 13 billion in revenue for Nickelodeon.
That's crazy, but I definitely believe it. There's so many wacky shows on Nickelodeon.
Many of the ideas for the show came from a unpublished book of Hillenburgs called "The Intertidal Zone".
I had no idea, do you know more about that book by any chance?
Unfortunately not since it  was never made available to the public. But SpongeBob was almost names SpongeBoy instead.