SpongeBob's zany charm is obvious and infectious, but his lasting popularity with children and grown-ups of all kinds - demonstrated by the ratings and the global sales of SpongeBob T-shirts, video ...

SpongeBob SquarePants will be flipping burgers well into 2007. Nickelodeon programmers have ordered 20 more episodes of the cartoon, bringing the total series count to 100. “SpongeBob” is the ...