SpongeBob is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant, at which he has won employee of the month many times. He attends Mrs. Puff's Boating School, analogous to a driving school, but cannot pass the boating test. SpongeBob lives with his pet snail Gary in a large "pineapple-house" on 124 Conch Street in fictional Bikini Bottom,which is located beneath the real tropical isle of Bikini Atoll. His neighbors are Squidward, who is a squid and SpongeBob's co-worker at the Krusty Krab,and Patrick, a star fish and SpongeBob's best friend.

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