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"SpongeBob SquarePants" Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies astatine 57
Patrick Star whitethorn not beryllium SpongeBob SquarePants’ champion person aft all.
That rubric whitethorn really beryllium to Tom Kenny, the dependable down the cartoon sponge who has spent the past 25 years learning everything wrong the encephalon of the famed Krusty Krab fry cook—well, everything but the elusive Krabby Patty concealed formula.
“SpongeBob knows it,” Tom exclusively told E! News Oct. 7 astatine The Krabby Patty Kollab, an lawsuit that brought SpongeBob SquarePants’ iconic Krabby Patty into the existent satellite successful solemnisation of the series’ 25th anniversary. “He wouldn't archer Tom Kenny astir it. We're close, but adjacent helium and I aren't that close. He would ne'er archer me. We're arsenic adjacent arsenic 2 radical tin perchance be. But helium inactive would not divulge the Krabby Patty look to me.”
Even if Tom doesn’t cognize what goes into the Krabby Patty—which tin now beryllium recovered connected menus crossed the US, arsenic restaurants similar Wendy’s enactment their ain rotation connected it—he has a hunch astir what the burger does not contain.
“I'm beauteous definite it's not fish-based, due to the fact that that would beryllium cannibalism,” Tom joked. “That's arsenic acold arsenic I tin go. My cognition of Bikini Bottom nutrient civilization is limited.”
However, his costar Carolyn Lawrence—the dependable down SpongeBob and Patrick’s person Sandy Cheeks—feels much assured astir the superior constituent successful the apical concealed Krabby Patty.
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“I cognize it sounds truthful dorky: I truly deliberation it's love,” Carolyn told E!. “Dorky, but true. I deliberation it's the emotion that SpongeBob puts into cooking.”
As for Mr. Lawrence, who portrays The Krusty Krab’s nemesis Plankton, helium quipped that he’s “going to wholly analyze” the look aft tasting the real-life version, due to the fact that helium inactive doesn’t cognize what’s wrong the cartoon comfortableness food.
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But different than his confidential cooking techniques, Tom noted that SpongeBob doesn’t support galore secrets from his chap Bikini Bottom residents, who the dependable histrion sees arsenic “somewhere betwixt 4 and 8 years old” to assistance him get into quality (though Nickelodeon’s authoritative stance is that they are ageless).
“SpongeBob is specified an unfastened book,” Tom continued. “I don't truly cognize that helium has immoderate secrets oregon thing unplumbed due to the fact that conscionable arsenic a character, his full happening is being open. Much to Squidward’s chagrin. SpongeBob lets his freak emblem alert and helium inactive does. He's precise unself-conscious, which I like. So, I don't deliberation SpongeBob has immoderate cards that he's been holding adjacent to his vest for a 4th century. I deliberation it's each retired there.”
While waiting to larn what is really successful the concealed formula, work connected to larn much astonishing facts astir your favourite animated characters.
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Hello Kitty Isn't a Cat
Many fans were near purrrrrfectly confused aft this revelation.
“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” Jill Cook—an enforcement astatine Sanrio, the institution down the character—explained to Today July 18. “She’s really a small miss calved and raised successful the suburbs of London. She has a ma and dada and a duplicate sister Mimmy who’s besides her champion friend. She enjoys baking cookies and making caller friends.”
While the quality whitethorn person amazed some, Cook wasn’t the archetypal to stock this insight. As a substance of fact, Christine R. Yano—a prof of anthropology who penned the publication Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific—had besides antecedently confirmed that Hello Kitty isn’t a feline.
“Hello Kitty is not a cat,” she told the Los Angeles Times successful 2014. “She’s a cartoon character. She is simply a small girl. She is simply a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s ne'er depicted connected each fours. She walks and sits similar a two-legged creature. She does person a favored feline of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”
Other amusive facts astir Hello Kitty? According to Sanrio, she is 5 apples tall, weighs 3 apples, was calved connected November 1 (making her a Scorpio) and dreams of being a pianist oregon poet.
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Goofy Isn't a Dog
Gawrsh! Did you cognize this fact?
Bill Farmer, who's provided the dependable of Goofy for decades, explained wherefore the Disney quality tin speech portion Mickey Mouse's favored Pluto can't.
Goofy is "not a dog, but he's a canine," the dependable histrion said connected an August 2024 occurrence of Popcorn Podcast with Leigh Livingstone and Tim Iffland. "So it's benignant of similar a wolf is not a canine but it's a canine—same thing. Goofus canis, that's what helium is. Or, he's a MOG—he's a man-dog."
However, Pluto, helium added, is simply a "regular dog"—a humor hound arsenic it turns out.
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Squidward Isn't a Squid
You'll privation to get to the (bikini) bottommost of this discovery.
SpongeBob SquarePants' creator Stephen Hillenburg erstwhile revealed that Squidward Tentacles is really an octopus—not a squid.
"This is Squidward the Octopus, SpongeBob's grumpy next-door neighboor," helium shared successful the 2005 Case Of The Sponge 'Bob' video resurfaced by BuzzFeed. "I similar the octopus for this quality due to the fact that they person specified a large, bulbous head, and Squidward thinks he's an intelligence so, of course, he's going to person a large, bulbous head."
But if you're wondering however Squidward tin beryllium an octopus erstwhile helium has lone six legs alternatively of eight, Hillenburg had an reply for that, too—noting "it was truly conscionable easier for animation to gully him" with less tentacles.
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Blue From Blue's Clues Was Originally an Orange Cat
Break retired your useful dandy notebook and jot this 1 down.
"One of the things that cipher knows is that Blue was primitively a cat," the show's co-creator Angela Santomero said successful the 2006 peculiar Behind the Clues: 10 Years With Blue resurfaced by Mental Floss. "First his sanction was Mr. Orange and past we're like, 'Uh, possibly Mr. Blue.'"
But according to the special, Nickelodeon was already moving connected a bid astir a cat—leading animators to flip retired the archetypal thought and redesign Blue arsenic a dog.
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Doug Was Almost Named Brian
Now this truly isn’t funnie, er, funny.
But arsenic it turns out, Doug Funnie from the cartoon bid Doug was astir named Brian. As for what led to the change?
"I conscionable thought Brian was excessively fancy of a name," Doug creator Jim Jinkins told HuffPost TV successful 2014, "So, I geared it down, and started calling him Doug. If you deliberation astir what that sounds like, it sounds incredibly average, and that’s what I was trying to do: explicit from that constituent of view.”
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Boo From Monsters, Inc. Isn’t Her Full Name
This information is truthful bully it’s scary.
In Monsters, Inc.: An Augmented Reality Book, the sanction of Boo—the small miss who accidentally ends up successful Monstropolis and befriends monsters Mike and Sulley—is revealed to beryllium Mary Gibbs, according to BuzzFeed. And if the sanction sounds familiar, it’s due to the fact that it’s the real-life moniker of the histrion who provided the dependable of Boo.
Need much proof? In the movie, there’s really a country wherever Boo is sorting done immoderate of her drawings and fans tin spot the sanction “Mary” scribbled astatine the apical of 1 of the pieces of paper.
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Minnie Mouse Has a Longer Moniker
Speaking of names, portion Mickey Mouse’s woman is often called Minnie Mouse, according to the BBC, it was revealed successful 1942 that her afloat sanction is really Minerva.
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