SpongeBob SquarePants (character)

Spongebob Superpants Z. The company Swissguide AG provides additional business information on all Swiss companies. The Misadventures of Spongebob Squarepants. In Switzerland the company Swisscom Directories AG produces and distributes directories in several forms including internet-based yellow pages in four languages, including English.
. In Sweden it's called Gula Sidorna, distributed by Eniro AB. He also likes to blow bubbles, surf, sun bathe, play the ukulele, watch his favorite TV show, The New Adventures of Mermaidman and Barnacleboy and do his job at the Krusty Krab. In Spain it's called Páginas Amarillas, distributed by Telefónica Publicidad e Información, S.A.

Many times he sings some songs in a different voice, probably by a different voice actor. In December 2005 the Norwegian Supreme Court decided that Findexa holds an exclusive right to the trademark. In several episodes, most SpongeBob video games, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, it is suggested he has brilliant guitar and singing skills. Yellow Pages) which is a registered trademark belonging to Findexa, which is owned by Eniro. She then takes it back realizing how much chaos he could cause with his license. In Norway the directory is called "Gule Sider" (i.e. Puff becomes so frustrated she gives SpongeBob his boating license by allowing him to do "extra credit". The company Xybertek Systems provides additional business information on all Nigerian companies.

At one point, Mrs. In Nigeria, the Nigerian Yellow Pages is produced as internet-based yellow pages in English language by the company Xybertek Systems. Puff. In Netherlands the equivalent directory is titled Gouden Gids; within the district concerned it is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. Despite this, he perpetually and continuously attends boating school in an attempt to get his license (and because he enjoys it), much to the woe and frustration of his boating instructor Mrs. The Sección Amarilla is distributed yearly and free of charge by the homonimous company in association with Telmex; older issues are returned to the company, recycled, and used to print the latest issue. Puff's Boating School, mainly due to a tendency to become nervous once behind the wheel (he has been shown to know what he's doing everywhere but inside the boat). In Mexico the commercial phone directory is called Sección Amarilla (Yellow Section), while the personal phone directory is called Sección Blanca (White Section).

SpongeBob has yet to keep a boating license (analogous to a driver's license) because he fails every driver's test at Mrs. The phone book is updated regularly (typically every six months or a year) and is published in various editions (depending where the book is published). To date, he has caught (and let go) every jellyfish in Bikini Bottom. The phone book consisted of white pages and yellow pages. He spends his free time with his friend Patrick Star (a rather dimwitted Starfish), and especially enjoys practicing karate with his other friend Sandy Cheeks (a squirrel from Texas who wears a space suit to breathe underwater), as well as catching jellyfish at Jellyfish Fields. Infomedia Nusantara (one of its subsidiaries), regularly publishes phone books. And SpongeBob has never been a minute late ever for his job (except in "Hooky" he was two minutes late because he got hooked, and in "Have You Seen This Snail" he was fifteen minutes late because he was so tired from searching for Gary.). In Indonesia, the telecommunication company TELKOM with PT.

In another episode, he is offered a job as Neptune's fry cook, but turns it down because Patrick couldn't come too. In Germany a directory titled Die Gelben Seiten is distributed free to each subscriber, by the Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile. In an episode where SpongeBob and Squidward go on strike, he is referred to as a "legend" by a young fry cook who wants to take his job and is asked to sign the young boy’s spatula. In Finland the directory is called Keltaiset sivut. SpongeBob, in some episodes, seems to have attained a celebrity like status in Bikini Bottom for his masterful fry cooking. In Denmark the equivalent directory is titled De Gule Sider is distributed free to each subscriber, by TDC Forlag. Eugene Krabs. In Colombia, the standard yellow and White Pages are published and distributed every year free of charge by Publicar, a Colombian subsidiary company of Carvajal, which also publishes and distributes yellow and white pages in other Latin American countries.

He works alongside Squidward (much to Squidward's dismay), who manages the cash register for his money obsessed boss, Mr. By early 2005, there were a number of independent local and international yellow pages operators in numerous cities including Yilong Huangbaoshu, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province with operations in Hangzhou and Ningbo. Because of labor laws, this puts his minimum age around 52 years, 2 months. Later, another mainly state-owned telecom operator, China Netcom began to produce, either directly or on a sub-contracted basis, yellow pages in selected cities around the country. Then, in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, he has had 374 consecutive employee-of-the-month awards, which would mean he has worked there for at least 31 years and 2 months. In China, the modern yellow pages industry was started in the late 1990’s with the formation of two international joint ventures between US yellow pages publishers and China’s telecom operators, namely: a joint venture started in Shenzhen between RHDonnelley and China Unicom (later including Hong Kong’s PCCW and InfoSpace); and a joint venture between China Telecom Shanghai and what later came to be known as the yellow pages operations of Verizon Communications Corp.(NYSE:VZ). He was employee of the month over twenty six times, which would mean he has worked there at least two years. In Czech Republic and Slovakia the equivalent directory is titled Zlaté stránky and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber.

He takes his job very seriously and is very good at it. Competitive local directories often include commercial directories on yellow paper, but cannot use the Yellow Pages brand. SpongeBob has a career as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant, home of the Krabby Patty. Other ILECs such as MTS and SaskTel publish their own directories and use the Yellow Pages name under licence. Gary and SpongeBob live together in a pineapple under the sea. Yellow Pages Group is the market leader in print and online commercial directories and one of the largest media companies in Canada, producing the official directories of Bell Canada, Telus and Aliant. Gary's meows are generally understood by most all residents of Bikini Bottom. It produces and distributes directories in both English and French.

SpongeBob has one pet, a snail named Gary (the analogous of a cat on land, it is also thought that a worm is the analogous of a dog on land). In Canada the company Yellow Pages Group owns the trademarks Yellow Pages and Pages Jaunes. His skeleton varies from a simple spine to a perfect square. In Belgium the equivalent directory is titled Pages d'Or (French) or Gouden Gids (Dutch), and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. when he appears 'dead' in some future 'flashbacks'), but every time they appear different. In (The Republic of) Ireland the equivalent directory is titled Golden Pages while in Northern Ireland it is "yellow pages". SpongeBob's insides and skeleton have been shown various times (eg. More competition is expected in November 2005 from the libralisation of "12", the former unique "4-1-1" number of Renseignements Telephoniques, french for Directory Inquiry.

Normally though he can function at a reasonable level. Another French editor of Yellow Pages is Bottin. He has been known to have enormous difficulty lifting even the lightest of objects. Since the liberalization of .fr domains in May 2004, the domain yellowpages.fr has been registered by Phonebook of the World.com. Although malleable, SpongeBob's body is generally incredibly weak. Vivendi Universal moved to enter the French Yellow Pages market in 2001 with scoot.fr, but the attempt was a killed by a reorganisation of the struggling company. Puff and Squidward Tentacles. Previously, many former state monopoly telecom companies outside the US had tried to ban competition by claiming the term "yellow pages", or the translation of "yellow pages" into the vernacular, as their exclusive trademark.

This, along with his repetitive talking and loud dolphin-like laughter makes him a huge annoyance to others, especially Mrs. This court decision defended by the Parisian Lawyer, Andre Bertrand, was path-setting for the whole European Yellow Pages industry, as it decided that the phrase "Yellow Pages" cannot be considered the property of a single company. SpongeBob is very easily overexcited about almost everything, like many different or simple/regular tasks, or even things he doesn't know what they mean (like when Squidward invited him to a strike, SpongeBob celebrated for it although he never heard the word before). pagesjaunes.com, the .com version of Pages Jaunes, was the issue of a major court case at WIPO; the original registrant, an individual from Los Angeles, won against France Télécom. Although a good-natured and loving sponge, many characters seem to avoid him. They are distributed free by Pagesjaunes.fr, a company affiliated with France Télécom. Although he is an adult, he has a very childish nature. In France Yellow Pages are referred to as Pages Jaunes.

He dislikes scary things and stinky things. The most famous of these immortalised the phrase 'Not happy, Jan!' in the Australian vernacular. However, he has been known to shout and curse (even "obscenities") when angry or frustrated. The Yellow Pages have for many years produced some of Australia's most popular television commercials, often highlighting the perils of not placing an advertisement in the directory on time. SpongeBob will rarely knowingly do wrong or harm to anyone and never without remorse. Today, the Yellow Pages is produced by Sensis, a wholly-owned advertising subsidiary of Telstra. He has a buck-toothed grin, tremendously expressive face and square body that complement his pure and good nature. The directory was originally produced by the Postmaster General, and continued to be produced by the government, as the telephone system transferred to Telecom Australia and now Telstra.

SpongeBob is extremely sweet, generous, friendly, and most of all, trusting. Australia's business directory was first published in its own volume in 1973 as the Yellow Pages. He also wears a red bowtie in exchange for his necktie on special occasions, such as his house party or at the Krusty Krab telling Squirrel Jokes. After the one year "no competition" clause expired BT too went into competition with the Yellow Pages, re-entering the market by adding similar content to their existing "The Phone Book", adding a classified section to the traditional alphabetical domestic and business listings. When he goes "swimming", he wears a pair of blue swimming trunks (although he still wears his underpants underneath). Yell was bought by venture capitalists in 2001, and in 2003 was floated on the Stock Exchange. At night, he sometimes has a green bathrobe on but mostly goes to sleep with his underwear and nothing else. In the mid-1990s the Yellow Pages business was re-branded as Yell, although the directory itself continued to be known as the Yellow Pages.

He usually wears a pair of white briefs underneath his pants, although he has been seen wearing blue, green, and red briefs (all at the same time, nonetheless) and even pink to honor his best friend, Patrick. In 1984, the year that BT was privatized, the department producing the directory became a stand alone subsidiary of BT, named Yellow Pages. As a part of the attire, his shoes are shining black, with a spheric bulge at the front (although still a part of the shoe proper, unlike the balls of the clown shoes). At the same time, The Thomson Corporation formed Thomson Directories Ltd, and began to publish the Thomson Local directory, which would remain the Yellow Pages' main, and often sole, competitor in the UK for more than the next two decades, and would be the competitive driving force behind such changes to Yellow Pages as the adoption (in 1999) of colour printing and "knock-out-white" listings. SpongeBob typically wears a white business shirt, red tie and brown pants, although he has been known to run naked or in his underwear. The Yellow Pages directory continued to be distributed to all telephone subscribers by BT. Like the rest of SpongeBob's body (excluding his eyes, mouth and brain), his hands and feet are made of sponge. Thomson Yellow Pages was sold by The Thomson Corporation in 1980, at the same time as Post Office Telecommunications became the (then) state-owned British Telecom (BT).

He has six long black wiry eyelashes, and his eyes have sky-blue irises with very dilated pupils. The Thomson Corporation formed Thomson Yellow Pages in 1966 to publish and to distribute the directory to telephone subscribers for the GPO, and later for The Post Office. His arms can become variable in length and shape at will, are retractable, and can be re-grown at will. With the encouragement of The Thomson Corporation, at the time an advertising sales agent for the nationalised General Post Office's telephone directory, a business telephone number directory named the Yellow Pages was first produced in 1966 by the GPO for the Brighton area, and was rolled out nationwide in 1973. SpongeBob has the ability to transform into other shapes at will, absorb physical blows as well as large amounts of water, and reassemble pieces which fall off of him. Los Angeles telephone users can select from telephone directories published by SBC, Verizon, and several independent advertising companies. He has disproportionally thin and short extremities extending from his body (arms and legs), and resembles a kitchen sponge more than a sea sponge. For example, SBC Communications is the dominant local telephone service provider in California, but since Verizon acquired GTE, it now provides service in many pockets such as West Los Angeles.

SpongeBob is an anthropomorphic, yellow, porous, sponge with a face. Others are telephone companies who provide local telephone service elsewhere. . Some of these publishers are pure advertising operations with no phone infrastructure. The character was designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, and is voiced by Tom Kenny. Since the Bell breakup, other companies publish directories that compete with those of local telephone companies for advertising business. SpongeBob SquarePants is the principal character in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, which first aired in July 1999 on Nickelodeon. Then and since, phone companies or their agents sell the right to place advertisements within the same category, next to the basic listings.

The Spanish theme song on the British SpongeBob DVD is not the same as the American DVD Spanish version of the theme song. Directories were published on behalf of the component Bell companies by the various publishing companies. Before he was drawn like a luffa. At least until the anti-trust breakup of the Bell System in the late 20th century, the term "Yellow Pages" was a trademark for commercial directories and the commercial portions of the by-commercial-category sections of directories that also include by-name listings. SpongeBob wasn't always a square. In 2004, the search engine A9.com added a similar feature for many cities in the United States when it launched its Yellow Pages feature. The creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, Stephen Hillenburg says he didn't want SpongeBob to just be named Bob, because then people would confuse him with a piece of cheese. Thus, French Yellow Pages users can see a photograph of a business along with its phone number and street address.

SpongeBob was originally going to be called SpongeBoy, but the name was already trademarked. In 1999, a new tactic was pioneered by France Télécom's Pages Jaunes, which dispatched photographers to record nearly every possible view in front of nearly every address in certain French cities. SpongeBob's character was influenced by Jerry Lewis, Pee Wee Herman, and Charlie Chaplin. The information contained in the Yellow Pages is essentially a commodity, so publishers often engage in product differentiation tactics like bragging that their listings are more comprehensive or up-to-date. SpongeBob's voice is described as a combination of the mayor of Munchkinland from The Wizard of Oz and Elroy Jetson from The Jetsons. Many publishers now make their listings available on the World Wide Web, on "Yellow Pages" Web sites. SpongeBob's name is written in the CamelCase word style. When an advertisement is printed with a white background, its part of the page does not receive yellow ink - so the white is actually the natural color of the paper.

It should be noted, however, that in this case "Esponja" is the character's last name, while the "Squarepants" portion of the original english name is dropped altogether. Interestingly, most yellow pages are not printed on yellow paper; rather the yellow is printed onto the paper. In the Latin America version of the show, SpongeBob's name is "Bob Esponja", which is a literal translation of the English name. Many publishers also offer the option to have advertisements appear with a white background to make them stand out more. In the French version of the show, SpongeBob's name is Bob L'éponge, which literally means Bob the Sponge. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a trend among Yellow Pages publishers to add four-color printing for some advertisements. In the German version of the show, SpongeBob's last name is "Schwammkopf" meaning "SpongeHead". Yellow Pages publishers make their profits by selling special value-added features to businesses such as a larger font size for their listing, or an advertisement box next to the listings in a category.

Sherm SquarePants, SpongeBob's uncle (also voiced by Tom Kenny). The majority of listings are in plain small black text. Grandma SquarePants, SpongeBob's grandmother (voiced by Marion Ross). Yellow Pages directories are usually published annually and distributed for free to all residences and businesses within a given coverage area. Grandpa SquarePants, SpongeBob's grandfather (also voiced by Tom Kenny). . SquarePants, SpongeBob's mother (voiced by Sirena Irwin). As the name suggests, they are usually printed on yellow paper.

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