Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

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Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are a duo of fictional characters from the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. They were respectively voiced by guest stars Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy first appeared in the eponymous season one episode that premiered on August 21, 1999, and were since featured as recurring characters. Following the deaths of Borgnine and Conway in 2012 and 2019 respectively, the characters have been relegated to non-speaking cameos. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are two elderly human superheroes who live in a retirement home and are stars of SpongeBob and Patrick's favorite television show. The characters also evoke the camp style of the 1960s ‘‘Batman’’ television series, a Silver Age-era portrayal of Batman; this connection was later underlined when Adam West and Burt Ward, who played Batman and Robin in that series, voiced the younger Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in “Back to the Past”. Mermaid Man appears to suffer...

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