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Kenny the Cat is a character who appears in the episode of the same name and the online game How Well Do You Know SpongeBob SquarePants?
Description[]
He has long arms and legs, gray and white fur, a skinny tail with a white tip, yellow eyes with black pupils, and silver eyelids.
Role in episode[]
In Bikini Bottom, Kenny the Cat is renowned as a celebrity due to his supposed extra-biological ability of holding his breath for large amounts of time. SpongeBob and the greater majority of Bikini Bottom idolize him for his talent.
Later in the episode, in the Krusty Krab bathroom, SpongeBob discovers that Kenny uses an oxygen tank to elude his fans of his breathing feats, disappointing him.
At his final autograph signing in the Krusty Krab dining room, Sandy begins to interrogate a pressured Kenny into revealing his secret of using the oxygen tank, revealing to all of his fans that he is, in fact, a phony.
At the epilogue of the episode, Kenny decides that he should change his personality from eluding people to a more candid approach. SpongeBob decides that he should become "the cat that likes water," only for Sandy to launch him back up to the surface before Kenny thinks of any ideas.
Trivia[]
General[]
- Kenny's name was originally going to be Steve according to the episode's original title, "Steve the Cat."[1]
- He is the first character in the series to refer to SpongeBob as "Bob."
- However, this is not the first time he is referred to as "Bob." The first was "SpongeBobMovie.com."
- Kenny is not the first land mammal character to be able to hold his breath underwater without an air helmet. Fuzzy Acorns from the episode "The Way of the Sponge" possesses the ability to go without air for extended periods of time, even better than Kenny. The singing cows from the episode "Rodeo Daze," before either, sing the chorus of "That's a Rodeo" outside Sandy's treedome.
Cultural references[]
- Kenny's original name, Steve, is a reference to series creator Stephen Hillenburg.
- Kenny's appearance and color palette is similar to Tom from the Tom and Jerry franchise.
- Combining Tom and Kenny makes Tom Kenny, SpongeBob's voice actor.
