SpongeBob SquarePants, an animated sponge from a popular children's television series, may have been wrongly implicated in a Pasadena fire that has temporarily closed a Burger King restaurant.

"Does anybody here know SpongeBob?" Dr. James Dobson ... the conservative Christian group that first sounded the alarm, might have been confused because of an unrelated Web site belonging to ...

Standard procedure requires a thorough search of all fire buildings. While conducting the search, firefighters discovered an 11' tall inflatable icon of "Spongebob Squarepants" in a rear room.