0_Apprentice
My kids sure watch a lot of SpongeBob.
1_Wizard
Haha!  Even my husband still watches this with our teenagers - I had no idea that it was created by a marine biologist.
0_Apprentice
I didn't know that, either.  It is a funny show, the character names really crack me up. Who was the creator?
1_Wizard
Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist and animator, developed it for NIckelodeon.
0_Apprentice
That is wild.  I wonder what motivated a marine biologist to develop a cartoon?  That is definitely a cool fact.
1_Wizard
He wrote an educational comic book caled The Intertidal Zone and many of the ideas originated from this.
0_Apprentice
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?