‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Animator Tuck Tucker Dies at 59

One of SponeBob SquarePants’s most famous animators has died. Tuck Tucker wrote six episodes of the show. He began his career at Disney, and worked on “The Little Mermaid.” In television, Tucker worked on so many of Nickelodeon's iconic shows like “Rugrats” and “Hey Arnold!” “A great friend, a master draftsman, a tireless practical joker, a brilliant storyteller,” described Craig Bartlett the cartoon’s creator.