“Unmasking the Undersea Phenomenon: The Surprising Secrets Behind SpongeBob SquarePants’ Creation!”
Doug Lawrence, who voices Plankton, explained in an interview that over time Plankton needed to be enlarged so that he could interact with the other characters better. Lawrence also explained that his inspirations for Plankton’s voice are Tony the Tiger, Gregory Peck, and Thurl Ravenscroft, who sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.”
Hillenburg Didn’t Want Anything To Do With Justin Timberlake
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie in 2004 has an epic soundtrack that features a lot of artists who are far from the mainstream and Hillenburg wanted to keep it that way.
When Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips recommended Justin Timberlake for a collaboration, Hillenburg wasn’t having it. “I actually suggested that maybe I could try to get Justin Timberlake to do a duet with us, as an off-the-cuff idea. But [Hillenburg] said, ‘I don’t want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there. I don’t like those commercial people,'” reports Coyne.
SpongeBob Made Certain People Very Angry
For as innocent as SpongeBob SquarePants is meant to be, it was not without its fair share of controversy. When the show first started gaining traction in the early 2000s, kids loved it. Meanwhile, conservative adults were livid, oddly labeling the show “homosexual propaganda.”
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