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| French Narrator
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| General Information
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| Gender:
| Male
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| Occupation(s):
| Narrator
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| Series Information
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| First appearance:
| Help Wanted
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| Portrayer:
| Tom Kenny
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The
French Narrator is a man with a heavy French accent who speaks at the beginning, and sometimes middle and/or end, of most episodes. His only physical appearance was in "
No Free Rides", where he run over by Spongebob and is shown to be a human in a wet suit. The French narrator is based on
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the world-famous sealife expert who died in 1997. On the November 16, 2004 episode of
Fresh Air with Terry Gross,
Tom Kenny admitted that Cousteau was the inspiration for the French narrator, as
SpongeBob SquarePants creator
Stephen Hillenburg considers Cousteau an idol. The voice of the French Narrator is done by
Tom Kenny, who also does the voices of
SpongeBob SquarePants and
Gary the Snail, among others. In "
Can You Spare A Dime?", a
Time Card with the text "So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting and they had to hire a new one," being read by an unknown narrator with an English accent, is shown, jokingly claiming that the French Narrator quit. However, this is not permanent. \
