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This essay originally ran inTV (The Book)by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall.
Were republishing it today in honor and memory ofSpongeBob SquarePantscreatorStephen Hillenburg, who died Monday.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob:Patrick, youre a genius!
Patrick:Yeah, I get called that a lot.
Youre making me claustrophobic!
Patrick:What does claustrophobic mean?
SpongeBob:It means hes afraid of Santa Claus.
Patrick:Ho ho ho!
SpongeBob:Stop it, Patrick!
), and boats (!!).
Sometimes it rains (!!!)
or snows (!!!!).
So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one.
The hero is a good-natured, wandering peanut-brain, a perforated Gomer Pyle.
[Squidward asks if anyone can play an instrument.]
Patrick:Is mayonnaise an instrument?
Squidward:No, Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument.
[Patrick raises his fin.]
Squidward:Horseradish is not an instrument, either.
Bikini Bottom has its own fables and legends and myths and bedtime stories and detailed mythologies.
It all makes perfect nonsense.
The more demented the visuals become, the more sublimeSpongeBobis.
And then theres the Iron Butt.
(That smell … A kind of smelly smell …
Always hold on to your magic pencil, kids, and remember that mayonnaise is not an instrument.
