Squidward’s Voice Rodger Bumpass On 25 Years Of “SpongeBob”

It is uncommon for any tv present, particularly in animation, to have 25 years on the air and proceed to develop. In your individual phrases, what’s that type of “secret components” for the success of SpongeBob?

I all the time draw a parallel to Looney Tunes. Each of our cartoons are shorts. They’re 11-minute cartoons, not full half hours. We use animation the best way I imagine animation needs to be used. For those who get hit with a frying pan, your face takes the form of the frying pan. If SpongeBob has to go on a crying jag, he turns into a garden sprinkler.

With the gags and the jokes, just a little child will get it as a result of it is a colourful cartoon. An older child says, “Oh, I get that reference,” and all ages who watches the cartoon will get a unique joke. It is type of like a parable the place totally different folks in numerous conditions, at totally different ages, will get various things from it.

In that respect, there is no age restrict for this present. You do not outgrow SpongeBob. The issues that individuals at Comedian Cons inform me—one of many first issues they are saying to us is, “Thanks for our childhood.” That is a fully fantastic legacy to be part of. Once I was first beginning my profession again in ’77 in New York, I simply had a easy objective. I needed to do one thing on a nationwide degree, a nationwide stage. This turned out to be not solely nationwide however international.

To be part of one thing that legitimately makes use of the phrase iconic is only a fantastic, fantastic icing on the cake of an individual’s life. I’ll by no means cease being grateful to each Nickelodeon and the followers who give me and all of us this opportunity to be part of this glorious, fantastic factor that brought on a lot pleasure and laughter and good instances for folks’s growing lives. We’re sitting in gratitude.