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As a writer on “SpongeBob”, I’m often asked that question. Really, you say. By who, you ask? When did they ask this alleged question? Where were you when they supposedly asked, you ask? And what were you wearing? Is there any truth to that at all, you ask? ALL RIGHT ENOUGH ALREADY!! I admit it. No one’s ever asked. But this is a blogge, after all and we have to write about something so today’s topic is where do the “SpongeBob” writers get their ideas. Now if anyone has any more questions, I advise calling 1-800-EAT-KELP!!! (Although not really, because I just made that number up.)
Back to the ideas. Sometimes the ideas can be inspired by real life. This is one such tale. One day, my daughter came home from school and told me about a bad experience. It was Picture Day at school and my daughter did not feel like smiling for the picture. The photographer tried everything he could think of to make my daughter smile, but he only succeeded in scaring her. Ultimately, we got no picture. However, we did get a SpongeBob story. Because as I was telling Steven Banks (our noble head writer) about my daughter’s trouble with the scary photographer, we both simultaneously realized this could be a SpongeBob story. We had to change a few things, but the inspiration was a real incident. Did we pay my daughter for her story, you ask? And on that note, we conclude this blogge entry with the closing image from said cartoon and totally ignore your last question because it’s none of your business and someday my daughter will be old enough to read this and we don’t want to get sued.
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