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Section size for SpongeBob SquarePants (54 sections)
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(Top)	12,253	12,253
Premise	12	14,025
Characters	9,227	9,227
Setting	4,786	4,786
Production	15	70,729
Development	18	19,207
Early inspirations	4,022	4,022
Conception	6,689	6,689
Assembling the crew	5,364	5,364
Pitching	3,114	3,114
Executive producers and showrunners	7,603	7,603
Writing	5,084	5,084
Voice actors	22,600	22,600
Animation	10,589	10,589
Music	5,631	5,631
Broadcast	14	22,458
Episodes	154	154
Tenth anniversary	10,930	10,930
Twentieth anniversary	11,360	11,360
Reception	14	37,926
Ratings and run-length achievements	19,535	19,535
Critical reception	7,343	7,343
Awards and accolades	11,034	11,034
Legacy	14,185	14,185
Criticism	14	27,701
Controversies	20	22,454
Sexuality	11,197	11,197
Other	11,237	11,237
Allegations of declining quality	5,233	5,233
Other media	101	74,272
Spin-offs	16	8,267
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years	5,407	5,407
The Patrick Star Show	2,844	2,844
Super Bowl	4,954	4,954
Streaming	2,771	2,771
Home video	16,171	16,171
Comic books	5,280	5,280
Films	10,083	14,277
In development	26	4,194
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)	1,554	1,554
Spinoff films	1,571	2,614
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024)	1,043	1,043
Music	4,429	4,429
Theme park rides	6,200	6,200
Video games	6,057	6,057
SpongeBob SquareShorts	4,312	4,312
Theater	1,453	1,453
SpongeBob in internet culture	5,217	5,217
Merchandise	17,847	17,847
See also	122	122
Notes	24	24
References	28	1,251
Bibliography	1,223	1,223
External links	3,701	3,701
Total	301,711	301,711

Target audience edit

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

What age groups(s) is this show targeted at? Our article says (buried way down in there) "has been widely praised particularly for its appeal to different age groups", but doesn't say what they are. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 21:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Show has run for FOURTEEN seasons, not thirteen. Typo is in third paragraph. Icymoose (talk) 14:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done Funnyfarmofdoom (talk to me) 15:24, 27 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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2600:1005:B080:9F8E:C4CD:C745:3F27:7804 (talk) 11:47, 16 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

The show is gonna end in 2025, acording to Vailskibum on YouTube

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 13:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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