J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

"I'm ready!" After 25 years, SpongeBob SquarePants has done what few cartoons have been able to do and grow with generations and trends.

Finish this tune: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? If you answered correctly with "SpongeBob SquarePants!" you've likely heard of the square, sponge cartoon who made his TV debut 25 years ago ...

Who would have thought a show about a sentient sponge with brown pants of a particular shape would prove to be one of the defining, maybe the defining, show of Nickelodeon? Debuting in 1999, SpongeBob ...