July 17

SpongeBob SquarePants made its official premiere on Nickelodeon.

July 17th is the 198th (or 199th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 167 days remain until the end of the year.

Television

• 2014:
  • The 1st Annual Kids' Choice Sports
  • Inside the Action: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Special
• 2016: The 3rd Annual Kids' Choice Sports premiered.
• 2021: iCarly (2021) airs for the only time on Nickelodeon.

Episode premieres

Year	Show	Episode(s)
1993	Roundhouse	"Trouble"
	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	"The Tale of the Dream Machine"
1995	Legends of the Hidden Temple	"The Royal Torque of Queen Boadicea"
1996	Rocko's Modern Life	"Closet Clown" / "Seat to Stardom"
1999	SpongeBob SquarePants	"Bubblestand" / "Ripped Pants"
2000	Blue's Clues	"Occupations"
	Little Bear	"Mister Nobody" / "Who Do I Look Like?" / "Little Bear Talks to Himself"
2004	All Grown Up!	"Susie's Choice (Runaround Susie)"
2008	Avatar: The Last Airbender	"The Southern Raiders"
2009	SpongeBob SquarePants	"To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants"
2010	The Troop	"The Wrath of the Wraith"
2012	Splatalot!	"Outplayed, Outnumbered & Outwetted"
2013	Lalaloopsy	"Dyna-mic Duo"
2014	Sam & Cat	"#GettinWiggy"
2015	Lalaloopsy	"No Laughing Matter"
2016	Henry Danger	"I Know Your Secret"
2018	PAW Patrol	"Pups Save the Snowshoeing Goodways" / "Pups Save a Duck Pond"
	Double Dare	"Who Runs the World vs. 2 Hype"
2019	The Loud House	"Present Tense"
	Butterbean's Café	"The Missing Veggies!"
2020	SpongeBob SquarePants	"Boss for a Day" "Pineapple RV"
2021	Side Hustle	"Mouth Noise"
	Danger Force	"Drive Hard"
	iCarly (2021)	"iStart Over" (TV premiere)
2022	Kiri & Lou	"Meteorite" / "Purple Mountain" / "One Summer's Morning" / "Mighty Forest" "Nonsense Day" / "Super Sniffer" / "What's Art For?" / "Rainy Day"
2023	PAW Patrol	"Pups Save Their Digi Tal Friends" / "Pups Save the Rainbow"
	The Smurfs	"Brainy Gets Ghosted!"
	SpongeBob SquarePants	"Plankton and the Beanstalk"
	Santiago of the Seas	"Nacho Supreme"
2024	SpongeBob SquarePants	"Mooned!"
	Rock, Paper, Scissors	"The Other Rock Paper Scissors"
2025	The Thundermans: Undercover	"Summer Secrets" "I Know What You Did This Summer"
	Vida the Vet	"ZigZag's Snail Service"
	The Smurfs	"Gargamel's Doggy"

Comics

• 2019: Invader Zim #45

People

Births

• 1917: Phyllis Diller †
• 1952: David Hasselhoff
• 1953: Elizabeth Hess
• 1965: Alex Winter
• 1988: Summer Bishil
• 1992:
  • Harrison Chad
  • Billie Lourd
• 2006:
  • Lilly Bartlam
  • Calvin Zwicker

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