
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, passed away yesterday at the age of 57 after a battle with ALS.
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Welllll, I've always viewed Sponge Bob as a Ren & Stimpy-lite fused with Rocko's Modern Life. R&S certainly seems to have heavily influenced both of them, but SBSP's structure takes more after RML. Not to take anything away from it, of course.Calamity Panfan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:51 pmThis sucks. 57 is way too young and ALS is just an awful, awful disease. Like millions of others, I grew up watching Spongebob (it premiered when I was 4) and have seen the first few seasons probably hundreds of times. It's such a great and influential show, unlike any other cartoons that came out around the same time. Probably one of the most influential shows period of the past 20 years if not all time. DEFINITELY the most influential cartoon since The Simpsons. I mean, there's a reason that every other meme that goes viral is a Spongebob meme. It still resonates with people in a way that other shows of the era haven't.
In fact, Rocko's Modern Life was Hillenburg's first job after graduating from CalArts.Calamity Panfan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:01 ami mean, even very influential shows are influenced by other things. Plus Hillenburg was a director on RML.