Happy Birthday to #SpongeBob creator, Stephen Hillenburg! 🎉 | SpongeBob SquarePants

🍔 Interesting fact: SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) — The creator of the show, Stephen Hillenburg, was actually a marine biologist before he became an animator, and the original “SpongeBob” was just a drawing in a comic book he made to teach students about tide pools. In the original sketches, SpongeBob was actually called “SpongeBoy,” but the name was already trademarked by a mop company. Hillenburg insisted on keeping the word “Sponge” in the name because he was afraid people would mistake the y

1K views · 74 reactions | Hoy se cumple un año del fallecimiento de Stephen Hillenburg, el creador de Bob Esponja. En Canal 5 estamos eternamente agradecidos con él por iluminar al mundo con risas y alegría  | Canal 5 | Facebook