20 new episodes on order for SpongeBob

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pull up for another meal at the Krusty Krab.
Nickelodeon has ordered 20 additional episodes of "SpongeBob SquarePants."
That will make for a total of 100 adventures for the animated sea creature -- or cash cow as they know him at Nickelodeon -- when the new episodes finish airing in 2007.
Nickelodeon stopped making new episodes while the "SpongeBob SquarePants" feature film was in production, and there was some question at the time whether the series would start up again -- then 20 episodes were ordered last year and are airing now.
Four episodes of the cartoon ranked among Nielsen Media Research's top 15 cable shows.
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