Squaring off with 'SpongeBob'

RIC FRANCIS

KENNY

Tom Kenny, the voice of the undersea cartoon counterculture icon "SpongeBob SquarePants," poses for a photograph, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004, in Santa Monica, Calif. Kenny was a standup comic who worked with "SpongeBob" creator and director Stephen Hillenburg on the 1993 animal cartoon series "Rocko's Modern World." (AP Photo/Ric Francis)