It’s been seven years since SpongeBob Squarepants creator Stephen Hillenburg died – and it’s not just his creations that live on; it’s his memory, too.
“I still think of him every day,” Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob says. “Literally, every day.”
In part, that’s because of how much Hillenburg transformed both Kenny's life and that of Bill Fagerbakke, who has played SpongeBob’s best friend Patrick Star alongside him since the show had its premiere in 1999. But more so, it’s because he misses his friend.
SpongeBob's voice came to life on the back of that friendship. It was not intentionally crafted in an audition room – it wasn’t even created on purpose.
Years before Hillenburg conceived of the show – when they were just
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