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Section size for SpongeBob SquarePants (53 sections)
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(Top)	12,517	12,517
Premise	12	13,985
Characters	9,187	9,187
Setting	4,786	4,786
Production	15	70,745
Development	18	19,207
Early inspirations	4,022	4,022
Conception	6,689	6,689
Assembling the crew	5,364	5,364
Pitching	3,114	3,114
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Writing	5,084	5,084
Voice actors	22,594	22,594
Animation	10,603	10,603
Music	5,639	5,639
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Broadcast	157	157
Streaming	2,784	2,784
Home video	16,208	16,208
Anniversaries	21	23,683
Tenth anniversary	11,084	11,084
Twentieth anniversary	11,558	11,558
Twenty-fifth anniversary	1,020	1,020
Reception	14	37,979
Ratings and run-length achievements	19,571	19,571
Critical reception	7,343	7,343
Awards and accolades	11,051	11,051
Legacy	14,210	14,210
Criticism	14	27,697
Controversies	20	22,454
Sexuality	11,197	11,197
Other	11,237	11,237
Perceived decline in quality	5,229	5,229
Franchise	99	54,295
Spin-offs	16	7,853
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years	4,993	4,993
The Patrick Star Show	2,844	2,844
Super Bowl	4,954	4,954
Comic books	5,280	5,280
Films	10,083	13,443
Upcoming	3,360	3,360
Music	4,620	4,620
Theme park rides	6,224	6,224
Video games	6,057	6,057
SpongeBob SquareShorts	4,312	4,312
Theater	1,453	1,453
SpongeBob in internet culture	5,212	5,212
Merchandise	17,847	17,847
See also	122	122
Notes	24	24
References	28	1,251
Bibliography	1,223	1,223
External links	3,881	3,881
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Clean Up

The part in the "other media" section is covered in a separate article. SpongeBob SquarePants (franchise). I was thinking erase the part in this article since it's alreadly covered in a different article. Cwater1 (talk) 02:17, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This page has been tagged with "too long" since July 2020. That section could be condensed to just briefly describe the films and spin-offs, since the franchise page goes in-depth about them already. --Squittens (talk) 13:54, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Development

Is the development section in this article really neccesary. It only relates to the original series and it could be easily found on that article. A history on the entire franchise would be more appropriate. For now though, I think it should be removed. Averyfunkydude23 (talk) 18:01, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree - I think it's appropriate. I wouldn't know exactly on how to write about the history of the entire franchise, so I'd say the original show works well. WannurSyafiqah74 (talk) 06:07, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Commons category inline

Would adding the commons-categoryinline for "SpongeBob SquarePants" be any useful on this article? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 22:26, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spongeboy was probably actually a pencil, not a mop.

Tom Kenny, voice actor for spongebob, likely got it wrong in an interview (and subsequent lectures/appearances). Nobody has actually found the mop product in question; This might be because it doesn't exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnKtglBqe78 , 6:43 is the relevant portion of a video, but Eric Weise (storyboard artist/writer s1-5) said it wasn't a mop, but an east coast thing, and it turns out there was a pen made by an east coast company, Coolart, called "spongeboy", that is likely the product in question. Zazzfasd (talk) 19:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing this up. Tom Kenny does say "a mop or something" after all. I've edited the article to just say "another product". We could specify that it was a pencil, but without a more authoritative source to back this up I think "another product" is fine. Jak86 (talk)(contribs) 05:08, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This fact is also brought up in the article about the character, by chance I brought it up on the talk page there just yesterday as well. That change should probably also be made on there 95.90.232.115 (talk) 15:20, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]