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SpongeBob SquarePants character
Gary
General Information
Gender:	Male
Color:	Blue/Green/Peach Shell
Eye Color:	Brown/orange
Marital status:	Single
Address:	124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
Political Position:	King of Bikini Bottom (as of "Rule of Dumb")
Aliases:	Gare, The Garebear, Mondrol Mutt, Mrs. Tufftsy
Classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda (Snail)
Family & Friends
Family:	Sluggo (Father) Herb Star (Uncle) Margie Star (Aunt) Ed (Cousin) Patrick Star (Cousin) Billy Bob (Grandfather) Maw Titter (Grandmother) Shriek (Great Grandfather) Princess Tulsa (Great Grandmother) Prince Callows (Great Granduncle) Carl (Great Granduncle) Prince Dingus (Great Granduncle) King Amoeba (2nd Great Grandfather) Queen Mildew (2nd Great Grandmother)
Ancestors:	Tobonga Gary (SpongeBob B.C.) Leech Lost in Time
Friends:	Snellie
Favorites
Food(s):	Snailpo
Series Information
First appearance:	Help Wanted
Portrayer:	Tom Kenny
Other Information
Interests:	Books, playing drums, tying shoes
Powers/Abilities:	Playing drums, playing the violin, making coffee, tying shoes, reading, poetry, making breakfast and solving problems.

Gary the Snail is a character in the Nickelodeon animated series series SpongeBob SquarePants, which first aired in July 1999. Gary is SpongeBob's pet snail, although his behavior in several aspects resembles a housecat.

Gary is an intelligent, fully domesticated snail owned by SpongeBob SquarePants since he was a boy. His intelligence shines through in the fact that he generally has much smarter solutions to SpongeBob's dilemmas than SpongeBob does. Gary tends to disagree with some of SpongeBob's ideas, and usually makes an effort to warn SpongeBob.

Some of Gary's meows are lower pitched, some are higher pitched; these could possibly indicate that Gary uses different tones of his voice to communicate with SpongeBob, who is able to take more meaning out of these than most Bikini Bottomites.

Gary loves pretending to be Squidward, playing music, and reading books among many other activities. He has been seen eating three different brands of snail food: Snail Nip, Snail FUD, and Snailpo. He especially enjoys famous literature such as selected works by Emily Dickinson, and is an accomplished snail-poet himself. He has his own bed, exercise wheel, and water and food bowls, and expects his food bowl to always be full. He also knows how to play the violin, as revealed in the episode "Something Smells". It is also noted that Gary can tie his shoes. SpongeBob mentions in the episode "Jellyfish Hunter" that Gary pays a majority of the bills, if not all. In "Chocolate with Nuts" it is seen that he gets most of the mail. Gary the Snail is inquisitive, curious, and always ready to learn something new. Gary serves SpongeBob his toast and jelly every time he goes to work in the morning, and also serves him coffee. He even reads the daily newspaper. It also seems that he sometimes answers the phone for SpongeBob as hinted at in "Jellyfish Hunter". It is revealed in the episode "Karate Island" that the inside of Gary's shell is a disaster area. He ran away from SpongeBob in one episode because SpongeBob forgot to feed him. He went into an alley, to find a gang of street snails. Terrified, he ran away from them. All they wanted was to give him nachos, though. He was then found by an elderly female owner who fed him a lot, and whatever he wanted. It turned out she had killed several snails through overfeeding.

Gary has been vaccinated for rabies, snailpox, softshelldense, bagitis, lumpy bump trump, and teen angst. This was all revealed in "Once Bitten."

Gary gets bad dreams by eating Krabby Pattys before bed (as revealed in Creature from the Krusty Krab).

• "Meow"
• "hmm... NO" (from "The Secret Box")
• In "Where's Gary?", made a sickening grumbling noise after SpongeBob asked Gary if he wanted food (post-rescue)
• "Meow--Plankton" (from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie)
• "RUFF" ("Opposite Day")
• In "Sleepy Time", Gary talks in plain English with a British accent in his dream:
  • "SpongeBob?"
  • "How dare you invade the sanctity of my dreams?"
  • "In dreams, one is not tethered by earthly limitations."
  • "Come. For ages, dreams have been thought of as windows to another realm. 'Let me not mar that perfect dream by an auroral stain, but so adjust my daily night that it may come again.' Emily Dickinson wrote that."
  • "Here's one you might know. 'There once was a man from Peru who dreamed he was eating his shoe. He woke with a fright in the middle of the night to find that his dream had come true.'"
  • "Did you think my shell was full of hot air?"
  • "Beware of your wandering eye, you little poriferan."

Main article: List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters#Snails

Gary isn't the only mollusk in Bikini Bottom. Gary has various snails who are his friends/enemies/relatives/acquaintances/snails. These snails are all recolors of Gary's design.