Jill (Karen): I mentioned we had been like buddies, however actually, I feel extra like sisters. Such as you mentioned, Lori, we have been working collectively for therefore lengthy, and we have been via all this life stuff. We misplaced Steve Hillenburg, who was like a member of the family, and all of us went via that collectively. We’ve got misplaced dad and mom, we have had infants born, we have had weddings. I imply Invoice Fagerbakke’s [voice of Patrick] daughter, who was a bit of child at first of SpongeBob, is now a mom. We have watched all this stuff occur, which makes us really feel much more like household.
Mary Jo (Mrs. Puff): Jill additionally introduced me essentially the most magnificent pea soup. We simply do issues like that. Jill, I’ve your ramekins, by the way in which.
Jill (Karen): Oh, you may preserve them! I’ve all types of containers, they usually’re the proper little measurement for soups.
(All of us chortle).
Lori (Pearl): Being females within the enterprise, we maintain one another up. This enterprise is form of loopy and may be aggressive, and this and that, however we’re all the time so genuinely excited to see one another. It is like we’re household from one other lifetime or one thing. We crack one another up, however we actually do control one another. I do know if I had one thing non-related to SpongeBob, whether or not it was a sick canine, a sick dad or mum, or one thing occurred, and my husband wasn’t residence, I might name these three in the midst of the night time, and I do know you guys could be there. That is very particular.
Carolyn (Sandy): Talking of what you had been saying about girls within the business — I can not bear in mind what occurred, however I do bear in mind having a file that wasn’t going nicely. I used to be taking a break and going to the restroom and sobbing. [Points to Mary Jo] I do not know in the event you bear in mind, however you had been within the restroom, and in that second, you gave me a hug, and I regrouped and went again to work. I feel that is fairly wonderful.
Mary Jo (Mrs. Puff): We’re sisters beneath the pores and skin.