Jill (Karen): I mentioned we had been like associates, however actually, I feel extra like sisters. Such as you mentioned, Lori, we have been working collectively for therefore lengthy, and we have been by all this life stuff. We misplaced Steve Hillenburg, who was like a member of the family, and all of us went by that collectively. We’ve got misplaced dad and mom, we have had infants born, we have had weddings. I imply Invoice Fagerbakke’s [voice of Patrick] daughter, who was a bit child in the beginning of SpongeBob, is now a mom. We have watched all these items occur, which makes us really feel much more like household.
Mary Jo (Mrs. Puff): Jill additionally introduced me essentially the most magnificent pea soup. We simply do issues like that. Jill, I’ve your ramekins, by the best way.
Jill (Karen): Oh, you may hold them! I’ve every kind of containers, and so they’re the right little dimension for soups.
(All of us snort).
Lori (Pearl): Being females within the enterprise, we maintain one another up. This enterprise is type of loopy and might be aggressive, and this and that, however we’re at all times so genuinely excited to see one another. It is like we’re household from one other lifetime or one thing. We crack one another up, however we actually do control one another. I do know if I had one thing non-related to SpongeBob, whether or not it was a sick canine, a sick father or mother, or one thing occurred, and my husband wasn’t house, I might name these three in the midst of the evening, and I do know you guys could be there. That is very particular.
Carolyn (Sandy): Talking of what you had been saying about ladies within the business — I can not bear in mind what occurred, however I do bear in mind having a file that wasn’t going properly. I used to be taking a break and going to the restroom and sobbing. [Points to Mary Jo] I do not know in the event you bear in mind, however you had been within the restroom, and in that second, you gave me a hug, and I regrouped and went again to work. I feel that is fairly wonderful.
Mary Jo (Mrs. Puff): We’re sisters underneath the pores and skin.