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Gary the Snail is SpongeBob SquarePants's pet snail. He is voiced by Tom Kenny. Gary's first appears in the pilot episode, "Help Wanted".

Description[]

Gary is a sea snail with a pink shell (which turns purple in the dark) with indigo spots and a red spiral. He has eye stalks that hold together his scarlet-green eyes with vermillion pupils. His quote is "Meow" and the sides of his body are light blue and his belly is chartreuse. He is known to create trails of slime when crawling. Even though he is typically seen without legs, "Your Shoe's Untied" reveals that he has legs and wears shoes. He is shown with legs again in "SpongeBob's Last Stand', and this eventually becomes a plot point of "Gary's Got Legs". He also has teats, revealed when SpongeBob milks him in "New Digs".

Being a snail, which is to Bikini Bottom what cats are to the real world, Gary is only able to communicate by saying "Meow".

His shell is known to store various items, as seen in "Have You Seen This Snail?", "Karate Island", and "Pineapple Invasion" among others.

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  • The scene from "Help Wanted" in which SpongeBob SquarePants wakes up and greets Gary originally ended with Gary taking a bite from a cactus, about garden snails' tendency to feed on succulent plants. The book Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons! features the original storyboard of this scene.
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