SpongeBob SquarePants would, in concept, have little use for stamps. They might get soggy in that pineapple below the ocean.
Neither would Patrick Star (no fingers on the ends of these arms), Mr. Crabs (claws) or Squidward Tentacles (his identify says all of it). One might argue that even the followers of “SpongeBob SquarePants” wouldn’t have a lot use for stamps. That crowd doesn’t go in for snail mail — though Gary the Snail would possibly.
However, the entire gang from Nickelodeon’s long-running animated present — even Sandy Cheeks, the squirrel within the diving go well with — is featured on a brand new set of commemorative Without end stamps, in keeping with the U.S. Postal Service.
However the level isn’t to make use of them however to gather them, and maybe have a look at the yellow, smiling, gap-toothed face of SpongeBob while you want a fast pick-me-up.
Should you occur to be in New York Metropolis’s Occasions Sq. on Aug. 1 from 8 to 10 a.m. Jap, you may get your palms on the brand new stamps. The occasion is free, however the stamps you’ll should pay for. (A sheet of 16 will price you $12.48. They’re 78 cents apiece.)
That’s 40 cents greater than every stamp would have price when “SpongeBob” premiered 26 years in the past.
The USPS artwork director, Greg Breeding, designed the stamps with Nickelodeon paintings to information him, in keeping with the Postal Service. He’ll be readily available for autographs.
The world of Bikini Backside was launched in Could 1999, and the present started a full run two months later. Creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died in 2018 at age 57 after battling Lou Gehrig’s illness, was — appropriately — a trainer of marine biology in Southern California earlier than switching to animation. He created colourful educating instruments in addition to wrote and illustrated tales with the characters who got here to populate the present, as The Occasions wrote in Hillenburg’s obituary.
To set the document straight, stamps have, in actual fact, been utilized in Bikini Backside.
One instance: Within the Season 13 episode “Patrick the Mailman,” the starfish delivers a letter to SpongeBob and asks him, “Are you aware the place this Spon-gee-Boob Squir-pa-Nants lives?” He then makes SpongeBob his postal pal.
