SpongeBob Actors Celebrate Memorial for Creator Stephen Hillenburg

SpongeBob Actors Celebrate Memorial for Creator Stephen Hillenburg

SpongeBob actors and Nickelodeon execs joined show creator Stephen Hillenburg’s family to unveil a memorial bench celebrating the late animator.

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SpongeBob Actors Celebrate Memorial for Creator Stephen Hillenburg

The voice cast of SpongeBob SquarePants gathered to celebrate a new memorial for the late series creator Stephen Hillenburg. Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants in 1999, and the animated comedy went on to become one of Nickelodeon’s most beloved series. Enamored with undersea life since childhood, he served as a marine biology educator before pivoting to animation. Before creating SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoonist also worked as a writer on Rocko’s Modern Life and Rugrats. Hillenburg passed away from complications due to ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in 2018.

Three years after Hillenburg’s death, members of the SpongeBob cast and Nickelodeon executives joined the animator’s family to unveil a SpongeBob SquarePants Memorial bench, The Mercury News reports. The bench—painted in a cheery, eye-popping yellow at the behest of Hillenburg’s wife, Karen—sits outside his alma mater, Savanna High School in Anaheim, CA. It was while a student at Savanna that Hillenburg developed his twin interests of marine life and art. A plaque accompanying the bench reads:

“The world’s most lovable goofball and his pals Patrick, Squidward and Sandy are the brainchild of alumnus Stephen Hillenburg, who as a member of the class of 1979, began to refine his inventive and visionary talents at Savanna.”

The actors Tom Kenny (SpongeBob) Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs), Bill Faberbakke, (Patrick Starr), Roger Bumpass (Squidward), and Doug Lawrence (Plankton) all joined the remembrance in Anaheim. Kenny, who’s been voicing SpongeBob since 1999, commented on SpongeBob SquarePants’ multi-generational impact. “The great thing about SpongeBob and being allowed to portray him is that it all came from a brain of the guy who went to this very high school, and he changed all of our lives and it’s so cool being part of something that is so multi-generational,” Kenny said. The voice actor added, “SpongeBob has been around for 20-something years. These guys obviously are younger than that by a good handful of years. SpongeBob has stayed cool. It’s not something that people leave behind them. They take it to high school. They bring it to college.”

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