since you were a kid???? what is the Spongebob show like 3 years old?????? LOL ripe old man of what 17 now????????
The pilot episode of SpongeBob SquarePants first aired in the United States on Nickelodeon on May 1, 1999, following the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. The "official" series premiere followed on July 17, 1999, with the second episode, "Bubblestand/Ripped Pants."
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