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TIL that Ween’s 1997 album “The Mollusk” was a great inspiration to Spongebob creator Stephen Hillenburg due to its underwater theme. In 1997, Hillenburg told Ween the baseline ideas of Spongebob, and asked for a song. The band wrote “Loop de Loop” for Hillenburg, later used in a SpongeBob episode.

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