Pizza Delivery (SpongeBob SquarePants)
"Pizza Delivery" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the first season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on August 14, 1999. The segment was written by Sherm Cohen, Aaron Springer, and Peter Burns, and the animation was directed by Sean Dempsey. Cohen also functioned as storyboard director, and Springer worked as storyboard artist.
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SpongeBob (right) beatboxes while he and Squidward (left) deliver the pizza on foot in the middle of a desert after losing their boatmobile
SpongeBob SquarePants season 1
The first season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from May 1, 1999, to March 3, 2001, and consists of 20 half-hour episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The show features the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. Among the first guest stars to appear on the show were Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway voicing the superhero characters of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively.
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Stephen Hillenburg became an animator during his period of study at the California Institute of the Arts.
Ray Bradbury wrote the book Zen in the Art of Writing, which Merriwether Williams used to conceive an exercise for writing meetings that could generate ideas for possible episodes.
Image: Ernest Borgnine Apr 10