Topic: SB's Age

[ti89titanium]

All I need to know is if they are old or young.

[ernest310]

I remember a much earlier thread talking about how Spongebob exhibits both the qualities of children and adults.  I mean, he sure acts like a kid, but then again he lives on his own and holds down his own job.  I think that's what the SB producers are purposely doing: putting Spongebob in sort of this "netherworld" in between childhood and adulthood.

How do we know Patrick is 23? (Just wondering.) We know from "The Bully" that he went to junior college, so that should suggest something--and it's not too likely that he skipped any grades, if you know what I mean!

You can also see from the episode "Sleepy Time" that Mr. Krabs was born in the 1940s (can't remember the exact year.)  So you could say he's meant to be a character in his late 50s/early 60s.

[ti89titanium]

One of the producers called SpongeBob a manchild.

[Cupid_Kirby]

spongebob goes to school and has a job

[Vicky]

well he goes to school, but its no real school, its boating school, so that he can drive

[spongehead1991]

He's about 19-20 now, but when the show first started it said something about him only being 13-14  

[yorgyschmorgy]

Continuity doesn't really...exist in SpongeBob,so you aren't going to get just one correct answer.

[ti89titanium]

but in some episodes you see him as a kid with a lollipop, and then currently and then old, so perhaps suggesting he is in his 20's in personality, though his license ways he is 19. It doesn't seem right that he goes to get a job at 13 and doesn't go to school, at all. There seems to be no high school or college at all.

[spongegor]

It's Kinda really hard to tell, you kinda havta reflect on former episodes.

[ssj4gogita4]

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