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SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon, is an American animated series that premiered July 17, 1999, set in Bikini Bottom; it has run 17+ seasons, 339+ episodes, four films, and $16 billion in retail sales.
SpongeBob SquarePants (character)
SpongeBob SquarePants is the title sea sponge of Nickelodeon's 1999 animated series, voiced by Tom Kenny, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg from his 1989 comic character Bob the Sponge, living in a Bikini Bottom pineapple and frying Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab.
SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)
SpongeBob SquarePants film series: four theatrical movies based on the Nickelodeon series (2004, 2015, 2020, 2025), from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie to Search for SquarePants.
SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)
The SpongeBob Musical is a 2016 Chicago-premiered, 2017-2018 Broadway stage adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants with a book by Kyle Jarrow, songs by Bowie, Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, and others, 12 Tony nominations, and a 2019 Nickelodeon TV version.
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone, also called The Tidal Zone, is Nickelodeon's first SpongeBob Universe crossover special, a Twilight Zone-style anthology premiering January 13, 2023, linking SpongeBob SquarePants, Kamp Koral, and The Patrick Star Show through GrandPat's dimension-hopping frame story.
SpongeBob SquarePants season 15
SpongeBob SquarePants season 15, the Nickelodeon series' fifteenth season announced September 29, 2023, aired July 24, 2024 to June 20, 2025 in 13 half-hour episodes after being cut from 26, premiering with "Sammy Suckerfish" and ending with "Captain Quasar: The Next Iteration".
SpongeBob SquarePants season 17
SpongeBob SquarePants season 17 is the 2026 Nickelodeon season of the animated series: 26 eleven-minute episodes from June 12 to November 20, 2026, executive producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller, streaming on Paramount+.
SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout
"SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" is a 2019 Nickelodeon live-action and animated special made for the twentieth anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants, with the voice cast playing live-action versions of their characters.
Spontaneous (film)
Spontaneous (2020) is a science fiction romantic black comedy, Brian Duffield's directorial debut, adapted from Aaron Starmer's 2016 YA novel, starring Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer as seniors whose classmates explode; released by Paramount October 2020.
Spooks (TV series)
Spooks (MI-5 in the US) is a BBC One spy drama about MI5's Counter-Terrorism section, created by David Wolstencroft, produced by Kudos, 2002–2011, 10 series, 86 episodes, Bafta-winning, famous for killing lead characters.
Spooks: The Greater Good
Spooks: The Greater Good (MI-5 in the US) is a 2015 British spy film directed by Bharat Nalluri, a spin-off of the BBC series Spooks, starring Peter Firth as Harry Pearce and Kit Harington as Will Holloway.
Spooky Encounters
Spooky Encounters (鬼打鬼, Gui da gui), aka Encounter of the Spooky Kind, is Sammo Hung's 1980 Hong Kong kung fu horror-comedy about a cuckolded cart driver fighting black magic, and the film that launched the jiangshi hopping-vampire genre.
Spooky in Love
Spooky in Love (오싹한 연애, Ossakhan Yeonae, also Chilling Romance) is a 2026 tvN Korean horror-romantic-comedy series, a remake of the 2011 film Spellbound, starring Park Eun-bin and Yang Se-jong, 12 episodes, streamed on Netflix and TVING.
Spooky Pictures
Spooky Pictures is the American horror production company founded March 2, 2020 by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider under Vertigo Entertainment, backed by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, known for Watcher, Late Night with the Devil, Strange Darling, and Hokum. Distinct from Jason Stutter's New Zealand company of the same name.
Sportacus
Sportacus (Íþróttaálfurinn, the Athletic Elf) is the health-hero of the Icelandic children's show LazyTown, created and played by Magnús Scheving from the 1995 book Áfram Latibær through the 2004–2014 TV series, with real stunts, the number 10, and a sugar allergy.
Sports Night
Sports Night is Aaron Sorkin's American half-hour comedy-drama about producers of a nightly cable sports newscast modeled on ESPN's SportsCenter; it ran two seasons on ABC (1998-2000), 45 episodes, won 3 Emmys, and was canceled for low ratings.
Sportsnet
Sportsnet is Rogers' Canadian sports media brand, launched in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. It holds Canadian NHL national rights ($11 billion deal through 2037-38), Blue Jays broadcasts, and the Sportsnet+ streaming service.
SporTV
SporTV (sportv) is Grupo Globo's Brazilian pay-TV sports channel, launched as Top Sport in November 1991 and renamed SporTV in the mid-1990s. It leads Brazilian pay-TV sports audiences, runs channels SporTV through SporTV 5 plus 4K, and carries Brasileirão, Copa do Brasil and national team football.
Spotlight (film)
Spotlight (2015), directed by Tom McCarthy and written with Josh Singer, dramatizes the Boston Globe Spotlight team's 2002 exposure of Catholic Church abuse cover-up; it won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars.
Sprague Grayden
Sprague Grayden (born 1980, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) is an American actress known for Jericho, 24, Sons of Anarchy, and as Kristi Rey in Paranormal Activity 2 and 3; Barnard College graduate, married to Alexis Cassar.
Spread (film)
Spread is a 2009 American comedy-drama-romance directed by David Mackenzie, starring Ashton Kutcher as LA hustler Nikki, with Anne Heche and Margarita Levieva; it premiered at Sundance, grossed $12 million worldwide, and scored 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sprechstück
Sprechstück is the term Peter Handke used for his early 1960s stage works, in which language itself rather than plot is the content of the theater.
Spree (film)
Spree is a 2020 American satirical thriller, also described as a horror comedy, directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko and co-written with Gene McHugh. Joe Keery plays rideshare driver Kurt Kunkle, who livestreams killing his passengers to go viral; premiered at Sundance 2020, released August 14, 2020 by RLJE Films.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (1998 film)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1998 Japanese anime film by Studio 4°C, directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo, adapting the Takashige and Minagawa manga about ARCAM agents defending Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (manga)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1989–1996 Shogakukan Weekly Shonen Sunday SF action manga by Takashige Hiroshi (story) and Minagawa Ryoji (art), 11 volumes, about ARCAM agent Ominae Yu protecting ancient-civilization OOPArts; adapted as a 1998 film and 2022 Netflix anime.
Spring (2014 film)
Spring (2014) is a horror-romance film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, starring Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker, about an American in Italy who falls for a woman with a monstrous secret.
Spring Awakening (play)
Spring Awakening (Frühlings Erwachen, 'A Children's Tragedy') is Frank Wedekind's 1891 German play about adolescents confronting sexuality against repressive adults; banned and censored, staged 1906 by Max Reinhardt, and adapted into the 2006 Tony-winning rock musical.
Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is Harmony Korine's 2012 crime film starring James Franco as Alien and Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as college girls who rob a restaurant, hit Florida spring break, and enter crime; A24's third release, $5M budget, $30M+ gross.
Spring Byington
Spring Byington (Spring Dell Byington, 1886–1971), American character actress: Oscar-nominated as Penny Sycamore in You Can't Take It with You (1938), Marmee in Little Women (1933), and star of CBS's December Bride (1954–59).
Spring in a Small Town (2004 film)
Spring in a Small Town (小城之春, Springtime in a Small Town) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2002 color remake of Fei Mu's 1948 classic, written by Ah Cheng, shot by Mark Lee Ping-bing, premiered at Venice 2002, US release 2004, San Marco Prize winner.