During a spectacularly dull halftime show for a spectacularly dull Super Bowl LIII (Patriots win, big whoop), there was an unexpected guest who interrupted Adam Levine: Squidward, the anthropomorphic ...
Fans of SpongeBob signed a change.org petition to compel the Super Bowl to honor the show's creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died last year, with the cartoon's rendition of "Sweet Victory." It worked.
Nickelodeon's megahit show "SpongeBob SquarePants" made its TV debut on May 1, 1999. Fans of the cartoon span generations and the animated series has become a multi-billion-dollar franchise.