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Characters

Main article: List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants is an energetic and optimistic sea sponge (although his appearance more closely resembles a kitchen sponge) who lives in a pineapple under the sea with his pet snail, Gary, who meows like a cat. Although Gary only actually speaks in a few episodes, (mainly in "Sleepy Time" in SpongeBob's dream world, where Gary is portrayed as a librarian with an English accent) the characters have shown an ability to understand him.
• Sandy Cheeks Another close friend of SpongeBob's, a squirrel from Texas. Sandy is an expert at karate and lives in an underwater tree dome. When not inside her tree dome, she wears an astronaut-like suit because she cannot breathe underwater. She is also a scientist who takes trips to the Moon.
• Patrick Star, living two houses down from SpongeBob is his best friend, a dim-witted yet friendly pink starfish who lives under a rock. Even despite his "mental setbacks", Patrick still sees himself as intelligent.
• Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob's next-door neighbor and co-worker, an arrogant and ill-tempered squid who lives in an Easter Island moai and dislikes his neighbors (especially SpongeBob) for their childlike behavior. He enjoys playing the clarinet and painting self-portraits, but hates his job working at the Krusty Krab.
• Sheldon Plankton, a small green copepod who owns a low-rank fast-food restaurant called the Chum Bucket across the street from the Krusty Krab. He's Mr. Krabs’ archenemy. Plankton spends most of his time planning to steal the recipe for Mr. Krabs's popular Krabby Patty burgers to obtain success (occasionally with the assistance of his computer wife, Karen), though his schemes always end in failure.
• Eugene Krabs, a miserly crab obsessed with money, who is the owner of the Krusty Krab restaurant. A former officer cadet for the Bikini Bottom Navy force and war veteran.

Voice cast

Main cast

• Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gary the Snail
• Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star
• Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs
• Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
• Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles
• Mr. Lawrence as Plankton

Recurring cast

• Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff
• Lori Alan as Pearl
• Jill Talley as Karen and various characters
• Dee Bradley Baker as Squilliam Fancyson III, Perch Perkins, various characters
• Tom Kenny as Patchy the Pirate, French Narrator, Harold SquarePants, various characters
• Mr. Lawrence as Larry the Lobster, Johnny-Elaine and various characters
• Bill Fagerbakke as the Mayor of Bikini Bottom and various characters
• Rodger Bumpass as Dr. Gill Gilliam and various characters
• Sirena Irwin as Bubblebottom-SquarePants, Mrs. Betsy Krabs (2005–present) and various characters
• Stephen Hillenburg – Potty the Parrot (2000–2004)
• Paul Tibbitt as Potty the Parrot (2005–present) and Mrs. Betsy Krabs (2001–2002)
• Ernest Borgnine as Mermaid Man (1999–2012)
• Tim Conway as Barnacle Boy
• Marion Ross as Grandma SquarePants
• Brian Doyle-Murray as The Flying Dutchman
• John Rhys-Davies as Man Ray (2001–2002)
• Bob Joles as Man Ray (2005–present)
• Charles Nelson Reilly as Dirty Bubble (2000–2007)^[13]
• Tom Kenny as Dirty Bubble (2010–present)
• John O'Hurley as King Neptune
• Mark Fite as various characters
• Thomas F. Wilson as various characters
• Carlos Alazraqui as various characters

Setting

Center of Bikini Bottom

Much of the series' events take place in Bikini Bottom, an underwater city located in the Pacific Ocean beneath the real life tropical isle of Bikini Atoll.^[14] Stephen Hillenburg has stated that much of Bikini Bottom was based on the real life city of Seattle.^[15] Much of this is supported within the context of the episodes themselves; however, despite implications of the city's location as well as analogies to real life, Hillenburg has stated that he wishes to leave the city isolated from the real world, explaining the Baywatch parody scene from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie as simply a reference to his favorite show of all time.^[15][16] The citizens of Bikini Bottom live in mostly aquatic-themed buildings, and use "boatmobiles", an amalgamation of cars and boats, as a mode of transportation.
Each episode of SpongeBob SquarePants is self-contained, with references to previous episodes being rare. Episodes have ended with the entire town being destroyed, the entire cast being irreparably harmed (Some of which being surprisingly dark for a children's show), characters (particularly Squidward) being sentenced to extended prison or community service sentences, or other catastrophic events, only for everything to return to normal the next episode without any mention of what happened before.