At a festival in Germany, when six women walked by wearing specially-created “SpongeBob SquarePants” shirts, Stephen Hillenburg’s wife nudged him: Why don’t you tell them who you are? Hillenburg, who created SpongeBob and all his undersea friends at the Krusty Krab, declined. “I thought that it was so surreal, they probably wouldn’t believe me,” he recalled Monday
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