Stephen Hillenburg was a marine biologist, turned famous cartoonist. And he provided millions of children and adults laughter with those strange little creatures who lived within the ocean. Thank you Mr. Hillenburg for your brilliance and silliness~

  (source CBS4 Indy. featured image from Tomas Castelazo [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons)