Who is best known for writing the show who's pilot episode aired after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards?
Erik Wiese Erik Wiese (aka Eric Eldritch) is a prolific storyboard artist, director and writer who is best known for his work on the animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants", beginning with his character development and design for the pilot episode, "Help Wanted", as well as the co-creator of "The Mighty B!", where he directed all of the episodes, and served as the creative director, executive producer, writer, voice director and storyboard artist for the series. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Wiese has been married to Cynthia True since May 10, 2007.
Television pilot A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its creation, the pilot is meant to be the testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful, and is therefore a test episode of an intended television series. It is an early step in the development of a television series, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity. In the case of a successful television series, the pilot is commonly the very first episode that is aired of the particular series under its own name. A "back door pilot", is an episode of an existing successful series, that features future tie-in characters of an up-and-coming television series or film. The purpose of the "back door pilot" is to introduce the characters to an audience before the creators decide on whether they want to pursue a spin-off series with those characters or not.