Gary the Snail

Gary the Snail is a character in the Nickelodeon series, SpongeBob SquarePants and is the pet of SpongeBob. He is known to love books and other educational stuff and is more mature than Squidward. He also hates taking baths as shown in Gary Takes a Bath. In the television series, Gary is SpongeBob's loyal pet, although his behavior in several aspects resembles a snail. As revealed in Rule of Dumb, Gary is the rightful king of Bikini Bottom and is related to Patrick. Gary is shown to be very bored and massively cheeky, although, being a pet, he lacks the communication skills to convey this. In Gary's dream in Sleepy Time, he is able to talk, has a humanoid body, and resides in a massive library.

Appearance
Gary has a blue body and green-yellow slime and eye stalks, big green eyes, red irises and black pupils, and a orange/pink-peach shell with purple spots and red swirl and a large tumor in his lower stomach area. He has what looks like to be a room under his shell, which he has said to have had a New Years Eve party in.

Biography
Young SpongeBob and young Gary are featured in SpongeBob's scrapbook in the episode Have You Seen This Snail? In the episode Rule of Dumb, it is revealed that Gary is the rightful king of Bikini Bottom and Patrick's cousin, although interestingly snails and starfish are very far off from each other on the evolutionary line.

Trivia

 * Gary has been shown to be able to levitate (granted, he is underwater), teleport, play a violin and tie his shoes.
 * SpongeBob readily admits, on several accounts in Jellyfish Hunter, that Gary pays most of his bills.
 * SpongeBob has been shown on numerous occasions to frequently fail to feed Gary; this fact features in the episodes Clams, Have You Seen This Snail?, Doing Time and I Was a Teenage Gary.
 * In The Great Snail Race, it is revealed that Gary isn't a purebred snail. This is probably due to the fact that his father, Sluggo, is a leech.
 * In Rule of Dumb, it is revealed that he and Patrick are related. According to the family tree given in that episode, they are first cousins.
 * In SpongeBob's Last Stand, Gary is shown to have ten toes.
 * In Shell Shocked, Gary's shell was broken, and was seen with a hideous bruise on him. But in other episodes, he is seen without his shell, but is perfectly fine.
 * The inside of Gary's shell is shown to have various appearances.
 * Gary resembles a cat as how SpongeBob resemble a human and worms are like dogs.
 * Gary's favorite food is Snail Nibbles.
 * He has had a few crushes and one relationship.