INDEX: Sponge Store Merchandising Display Fixtures

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BACKSTORY: Sponges or sea sponges are primarily marine invertebrates of the animal phylumPorifera^[4] (/pəˈrɪfərəˌ pɔː-/; meaning ‘pore bearer’),^[5] a basal clade and a sister taxon of the diploblasts.^[6] They are sessile filter feeders that are bound to the seabed, and are one of the most ancient members of macrobenthos, with many historical species being important reef-building organisms.

Sponges are multicellular organisms consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells, and usually have tube-like bodies full of pores and channels that allow water to circulate through them. They have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. They do not have complex nervous,^[7]digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes, usually via flagella movements of the so-called “collar cells“.

Sponges are believed to have been the first outgroup to branch off the evolutionary tree from the last common ancestor of all animals,^[6] with fossil evidence of primitive sponges such as Otavia from as early as the Tonian period (around 800 Mya). The branch of zoology that studies sponges is spongiology.^[8] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburgfor Nickelodeon. It first aired as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids’ Choice Awards on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999. It chronicles the adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.

Many of the series’ ideas originated in The Intertidal Zone, an unpublished educational comic book Hillenburg created in 1989 to teach his students about undersea life.^[4] Hillenburg joined Nickelodeon in 1992 as an artist on Rocko’s Modern Life.^[5] After Rocko was cancelled in 1996, he began developing SpongeBob SquarePants into a television series, and in 1997, a seven-minute pilot was pitched to Nickelodeon. The network’s executives wanted SpongeBob to be a child in school, but Hillenburg preferred SpongeBob to be an adult character. He was prepared to abandon the series, but compromised by creating Mrs. Puff and her boating school so SpongeBob could attend school as an adult.^[6]

The series immediately became popular since its premiere in 1999, becoming the highest-rated and most viewed animated Saturday morning program that year, beating Pokémon.^[7] It has received worldwide critical acclaim for its humor, art style, characters, writing, and music, and has been noted as a cultural touchstone of Millennials and Generation Z.^[8]^[9] The series is the fourth longest-running American animated series and the longest-running American children’s animated series.^[10] The series has run for a total of fourteen seasons, and in September 2023, was renewed for a fifteenth season,^[11] which premiered in July 2024.

The series’ popularity made it a multimedia franchise, the highest rated Nickelodeon series, and Paramount Global‘s most profitable intellectual property. By 2019, it had generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue.^[12] Since its debut, it has inspired three theatrical feature films (starting with the first in 2004, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), two feature films for streaming, a Broadway musical, a comic book series, and video games.^[13] Two spin-off series, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Yearsand The Patrick Star Show, premiered in 2021.