Name: Was SpongeBob Based On Real Life Nuclear Testing?
Uploaded: 2022-07-01T00:15:33.000Z
Duration: 7 min 36 s
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there's a great chance that you're familiar with

but what have I told you that this beloved show

is the product of man's most evil, horrific history.

For the last 23 years SpongeBob SquarePants

of children and adults all over the world.

It's legacy includes, hundreds of episodes,

But many believe that the funny little characters

are not merely products of one man's innocent imagination,

but instead born from something much, much darker,

The basis of this theory is the claim that

the region of the ocean SpongeBob takes place in,

Bikini Bottom is based on a Bikini Atoll,

a real group of islands housed within the Marshall Islands,

which were used for nuclear testing in the 1940s and 50s.

would mean that SpongeBob and his colorful friends

Instead, it would make them mutated beings

all side effects of man's most horrific achievement.

But was this always the intention of the creator

To start let's briefly discuss the history of Bikini Atoll.

Bikini Atoll specifically refers to a small group of islands

located about halfway between Hawaii and Papua New Guinea.

Atoll refers to the shape of the island, which is ring like

with a central body of water called a lagoon.

after taking the Marshall Islands following World War II,

the US decided to use Bikini Atoll and a few other islands,

in 1946, 167 Bikinians were removed from the island

in order to begin nuclear testing in the area.

during various tests between 1946 and 1958.

Bikini Atoll alone was the site of 23 nuclear tests.

On March 1st, 1954, the Castle Bravo bomb was tested.

the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

and was the largest hydrogen bomb ever tested.

But was the site of such horrific destruction

used as inspiration or perhaps even the setting

for the lighthearted world of imagination

SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Steven Hillenburg.

Before his career was focused on the show,

at the Orange County Marine Institute in 1989.

That year he created a comic book to teach children

with black sunglasses and no arms or legs.

Eventually Hillenburg moved into animation.

He said, quote, "I studied natural resources planning

and thought I could get a job at some marine park.

But I was great at art and so-so at marine biology.

It's funny how the two eventually came together."

Hillenburg attended California Institute of the Arts

to study Experimental Animation and earned his MFA in 1992.

on the Nickelodeon show, Rocko's Modern Life,

where he would meet voice actor, Tom Kenny.

One of his coworkers saw the educational comic book

and told Hillenburg he should develop it into his own show.

He created a cast of characters and made some changes

an artificial sponge instead of a natural sponge

But surprisingly, no mention of Bikini Atoll at all.

So how did this fan theory become so popular?

According to Screen Rant the theory began on Reddit.

One user pointed out the similarity between the names

drawing a connection to the SpongeBob character, Sandy,

may be a crater explaining why those that lived there

were even stranger and more mutated than the creatures

that point out an explosion in one episode

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Was SpongeBob Based On Real Life Nuclear Testing?

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