All main characters in SpongeBob SquarePants have houses with very unique designs, but Sandy Cheeks’ is the only one who also serves a special purpose: keeping her alive underwater. However, there have been many inconsistencies throughout the series when it comes to her house, as many aspects of it are constantly changing. SpongeBob SquarePants was created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg and made its debut on Nickelodeon in 1999. The series was a big hit from the beginning, and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

SpongeBob SquarePants follows the daily adventures of the title character in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom alongside his best friends and a couple of enemies that SpongeBob sees as potential friends. Among his closest friends is Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel living under the sea and who needs a special suit to survive there, as well as a special house that can simulate her natural habitat. Sandy’s house is best known as the Treedome, and like the houses of other characters in the show, it changes quite often.

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The Treedome has a nearly impenetrable airtight dome around it that prevents water from entering and thus allows Sandy to survive without her special suit. Inside is a tree, a picnic table, a hamster wheel, and a birdbath, and inside the tree is Sandy’s house. The tree is not only there to serve as her house but also to provide the dome with oxygen and acorns, and exactly what type of tree it is is one of the details about Sandy’s Treedome that has changed over the course of the show. In season 1’s episode “Tea at the Treedome”, which was Sandy’s introduction in the series, she explains the dome is made of “the finest polyurethane” a.k.a. plastic and the tree is an oak, but in the episode “A Flea In Her Dome”, it’s an apple tree. As for the dome, in “Feral Friends” Sandy mentions it’s made of 10 tons of pressure-proof glass.

The dome of Sandy’s house is not as indestructible as it should, and the Treedome has been destroyed a couple of times throughout the show. Although it can resist the pressure of being underwater, it has been destroyed by robots, submarines, Squidward transformed into a giant octopus, and Patrick himself, who once punctured a hole on the roof and caused the Treedome to flood. Inside the tree, there are some things that have also changed, such as the size of the garage and her lab (both in size and location), and the overall Treedome seems larger sometimes, depending on the adventures going on there.

Of course, there’s no reason for SpongeBob SquarePants to change Sandy’s house so often, mostly how it’s built and how much it can resist, but that’s a big part of the absurdity of the show. The magic of cartoons is that they are not subjected to the rules of logic (look no further than at SpongeBob’s use of water) and thus are free to do whatever they want and change things as they please, and Sandy’s treedome will continue to change to better fit the stories the show wants to tell – though no one can deny that it’s a very interesting and impressive house.

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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was also a contributor for FanSided’s BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.

When she’s not writing, you can find her trying to learn a new language, watching hockey (go Avs!), or wondering what life would have been like had Pushing Daisies, Firefly, and Limitless not been cancelled. Breakfast food is life and coffee is what makes the world go round.

Guillermo del Toro said “hi” to her once. It was great.

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