Merriwether St. John Williams (born March 28, 1968) is an American television writer, former Nickelodeon executive and actress, who has worked on television shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants , My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , Camp Lazlo , and Adventure Time .
After leaving the executive ranks at Nickelodeon, she wrote outlines for SpongeBob SquarePants [1] [2] [3] and a couple episodes of The Angry Beavers . In 2003, she developed and became the show-runner and head writer of the short-lived Showtime animated sitcom Free For All . In 2005, she became the head of story for Camp Lazlo at Cartoon Network.
More recently, Williams has written several episodes for Adventure Time , Littlest Pet Shop , My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , and Pig Goat Banana Cricket . She has also written an episode for Johnny Test and Pound Puppies . She is currently co-producer and writer on Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer . [4] [5]
She has also co-written the films Good Time Max , The Ape , and Fool's Gold with actor James Franco.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996-1997 | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | Story Editor | Seasons 3-4 |
Rugrats | Story Consultant | Season 4 | |
1997-2000 | The Angry Beavers | Story Editor & Writer | |
1998-2000 | The Wild Thornberrys | Story Editor & Story Consultant | |
1999 | Fashionably L.A. | Actress | Receptionist |
KaBlam! | Additional Writing | Segment: Stewy the Dogboy | |
1999-2004 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Story Editor, Writer, & Executive Story Editor, Actress, Story | Actress of Subliminal Message Girl |
2003 | Free For All | Developer, Writer, & Executive Producer | |
2005-2008 | Camp Lazlo | Story & Story Editor | |
2010-2011 | Adventure Time | Story & Story Editor [6] | Seasons 1-2 |
2011 | Johnny Test | Writer | Episode: "Johnny's World Record" |
2011-2013 | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Writer & Songwriter | Seasons 2-4 |
2012 | Pound Puppies | Writer & Songwriter | Episode: "Salty" |
2012-2014 | Littlest Pet Shop | Writer: Story & Teleplay | Seasons 1-3 |
2013 | SheZow | Writer | Episode: "SheZon's Greetings" |
2015–2017 | Pig Goat Banana Cricket | Writer, Story | |
2017 | Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer | Co-producer, Writer and Story Editor | TBA |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2005 | The Ape | Writer: Screenplay | |
2005 | Fool's Gold | Writer: Screenplay | |
2007 | Diggs Tailwagger | Writer | Pilot |
2007 | Where's Lazlo? | Story | TV movie |
2007 | Good Time Max | Writer | |
2016 | Toasty Tales | Writer & Story Editor |
Eugene Harold Krabs, better known as simply Mr. Krabs, is a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is voiced by actor Clancy Brown and first appeared in the series' pilot episode "Help Wanted" on May 1, 1999. The character was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg.
Derek Drymon is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian, and producer. He has worked on numerous animated cartoon productions of the 1990s and 2000s, best known for his work on Rocko's Modern Life, SpongeBob SquarePants and Adventure Time.
"Sailor Mouth" is the first segment of the 18th episode of the second season, and the 38th overall episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on September 21, 2001. In the episode, SpongeBob reads a "bad word" off a dumpster behind the Krusty Krab, but does not know what it means, which gets him into trouble with others.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated comedy television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. It chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. As of 2019, the series was the fifth-longest-running American animated series. Its popularity made it a media franchise, the highest rated Nickelodeon series, and the most profitable property for Paramount Consumer Products. By 2019, it had generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue.
Kaz is an American cartoonist, animator, writer, storyboard artist, and illustrator. In the 1980s, after attending New York City's School of the Visual Arts, he was a frequent contributor to the comic anthologies RAW and Weirdo. Since 1992, he has drawn Underworld, an adult-themed syndicated comic strip that appears in many alternative weeklies.
"The Sponge Who Could Fly", also known as "The SpongeBob SquarePants Lost Episode", is the 19th episode of the third season and the 59th overall episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It was written by Paul Tibbitt, Kent Osborne, and Merriwether Williams, with Andrew Overtoom and Tom Yasumi serving as animation director and Mark O'Hare as the director of the walk cycles in the beginning of the episode. The episode was produced in 2002 and aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on March 21, 2003.
Aaron Paul Springer is an American cartoonist, animator, artist, writer, director, and voice actor. He is the creator of the Disney XD original series Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer, in which he voices the main character, Billy Dilley. He is best known for his work on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, for which he contributed to as a writer, storyboard artist and storyboard director for eight seasons, as well as co-writing and storyboarding its 2004 film adaptation.
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are a duo of fictional characters in the American animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants. They were respectively voiced by guest stars Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway, who both previously starred in the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy first appeared in the eponymous season one episode that premiered on August 21, 1999, and have since been featured as recurring characters. Following Borgnine and Conway's deaths in 2012 and 2019 respectively, the characters have been relegated to non-speaking cameos after creator Stephen Hillenburg requested not to recast the characters.
Vincent Paul Waller is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, and technical director. He has worked on several animated television shows and movies, the most notable ones being The Ren & Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants.
The first season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from May 1, 1999, to March 3, 2001, and consists of 20 half-hour episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The show features the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. Among the first guest stars to appear on the show were Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway voicing the superhero characters of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively.
The second season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from October 20, 2000, to July 26, 2003, and consists of 20 half-hour episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg, who also acted as the showrunner.
Free for All is an American animated series created by (Randall) Brett Merhar for Showtime. The series, set in Colorado, follows the day-to-day life of Johnny Jenkins, an innocent 19-year-old college student who has to deal with a bitter, cigarette smoking grandmother and a coarse, sometimes-violent, alcoholic father, in a rather dysfunctional family while his friend, Clay, is living large with the settlement money he got from suing a taco restaurant for personal injuries.
"Help Wanted" is the pilot episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on May 1, 1999, following the television broadcast of the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. The episode follows the series' eponymous protagonist, an anthropomorphic young sea sponge, attempting to get a job at a local fast food restaurant called the Krusty Krab.
Patrick Star is a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is voiced by actor Bill Fagerbakke and was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. He first appeared in the series' pilot episode "Help Wanted" on May 1, 1999. In addition to his supporting role on SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick also serves as the main protagonist of The Patrick Star Show, which premiered in 2021.
Brian Darrell "Luke" Brookshier is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and director known for his work on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants and he was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program" for writing the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Wigstruck". After SpongeBob, Brookshier went on to work as writer and storyboard artist in the first season of Cartoon Network's Uncle Grandpa. He studied animation at the California Institute of Arts. He was also a storyboard artist for the animated series Kim Possible and worked on the character layout for King of the Hill. He also had one of his shows turned into a Golden Book: Mr FancyPants!. He storyboarded the Gravity Falls episode, "The Hand that Rocks the Mabel" and the Wabbit episode, "Sun Valley Freeze".
John Andrew Overtoom is an American animation director, writer, photographer, and cinematographer. Recent credits include Nickelodeon’s The Patrick Star Show as well as the animated feature film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, where he served as CG animation director and head of character animation. He was supervising animation director on the Cartoon Network series Clarence, as well as the Disney animated television series Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer where he was a writer and animation supervisor. In 1999, after two years as an animation timer on The Angry Beavers, Overtoom was hired as an animation director on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011. My Life with Morrissey is Overtoom's first award-winning live action feature as a writer/director/cinematographer and is distributed by MVD. Other credits include Family Guy and American Dad for Fox TV, and Phineas and Ferb and Dave the Barbarian for Disney.
Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer is an American animated television series created by Aaron Springer. The series lasted for one season and aired on Disney XD from June 3 to June 15, 2017.
Casey Raymond Alexander is an American cartoonist, animator, storyboard artist, writer, director, and producer known for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants, Uncle Grandpa, Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
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SpongeBob SquarePants is an American multimedia franchise created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character and his aquatic friends in the fictional underwater town of Bikini Bottom. Being one of the longest-running American animated series, its high popularity has made it a media franchise consisting of three animated television series, three animated feature films, comics, books, video games, home media, and soundtracks. It is the highest rated series to air on Nickelodeon as well as the most profitable property for Paramount Consumer Products, having generated over $13 billion in merchandising revenue as of 2019.
Cartoon Network management decided to hire some experienced help in several key position to nudge the production toward smoother operation. Derek Drymon was brought on as an executive producer. Merriwether Williams was hired as story editor. Nick Jennings was hired as art director. All three were veterans of SpongeBob SquarePants