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Many of the ideas for the show came from a unpublished book of Hillenburgs called "The Intertidal Zone".