Memes on Instagram: "😂 SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-present) - The creator of the show, Stephen Hillenburg, was a real-life marine biologist before he became an animator. He originally created a comic book titled The Intertidal Zone to teach his students about tide pool animals, which featured a precursor to SpongeBob named “Bob the Sponge.” Unlike the square kitchen sponge we know today, the original Bob was a round, natural sea sponge. Hillenburg later changed the design to a square shape beca