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TIL that Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, planned for the character of Plankton to only appear in a few episodes, but Plankton's voice actor, Doug Lawrence, loved Plankton so much that he wrote his own ideas for the character, and Plankton became a major character.

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