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2A COURIERNEWS MYCENTRALJERSEY.COM The Courier News corrects its mistakes and clarifies tories ungrudgingly. Call the following number eekdays: 908-243-6600. Corrections Policy WEATHER HISTORY On Nov. 15, 1994, an F2 tornado, spawned by Tropical Storm Gordon, damaged 29 mobile homes near the town of Micco, Fla. TODAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAY 58 37 62 36 54 40 60 52 64 49 Mostly sunny and milder Mild with plenty of sun Cooler with some sun Low cloudsMild with rain Today: Wind from the west-southwest at 7-14 knots.

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POSTMASTER: Please send address changes Courier News, 92 E. ain Somerville, NJ 08876. EAST BRUNSWICK Sheldon J. Plankton, the villainous character on SpongeBob Squarepants, is in a never-ending search for the secret formula in his Krabby Patty recipe. Though Plankton continuously fails in this quest, Douglas Lawrence Osowski, who voices the tiny sea creature on animated series, found the secret formula that led to his wn success animation.

Ever since he was a kid growing up in East Brunsw ick, Osowski wanted to be a cartoonist. interest he said. tried, but it really go my His goal was to create a comic strip in the style of Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. Early on, he learned he had a talent for drawing. After high school, sowski studied at The Kubert School in Dover, and when he discovered animation.

was amazed by he said. became an After two years, he felt he had enough of school and moved to California, where he started out doing standup comedy. Osowski found work at an animation comp any, where he wrote, directed, animated and voiced characters on shows such as Ren and Stimpy Modern and But you see his name in the credits. Not his real name, anyway. Using his middle name, he goes by the more formal title of was trying to come up with a comic strip when I as in he said.

wanted a name like Dr. Seuss, ut not a doctor. I started using Mr. Lawrence because it just seemed After moving to Burbank and getting more work in the animation industry, Osowski said his agent told him he should stick with using the name so did. who knows me calls me he said.

make people call me Mr. Enter Spongebob He was working at Modern when he met Stephen Hillenburg, the marine biologist-turned- animator who later created helped Stephen with the story and then I auditioned for Osowski said. used my Plankton voice, which sounds like a mix of Tony the Tiger and Gregory Peck. actually an imitation of a friend from igh school that had a really deep Hillenburg wanted someone with a more innocent oice, so Osowski get the part. He was disappointed, but later was told his voice would be a great fit for the villain.

Plankton character was only supposed to be in one or two episodes, but I was a writer on the show and I eally liked this Osowski said. told to come up with more ideas for Plankton. not just his voice. I get to create how the character is writ- en and how he evolves over time. You very rarely get that sowski enjoys going to conventions and doing voice for his fans.

the little kids get freaked he said. lankton the only character on the show that sowski voices. His characters include Larry the Lobster, Old Man Jenkins and a voice in the background hat occasionally yells, Osowski has writing credits on 70 episodes and was nominated for a 2011Em- my Award for Outstanding Short-Format Animated rogram. with voices, you do a season or two and he said. been doing this for 15 years, orking with a great set of people who are very good at what they Why does Osowski think the SpongeBob franchise as lasted so long? a quality show and I think it came along at the right he said.

wanted something stupid after the insanity of The SpongeBob character is a idiot but he also has a heart. a dumb, well- meaning person, like Forrest Gump or Jerry What surprised him, he said, is that the voice actors on the show are very similar in nature to the characters they play. There are pieces of us in all of those he aid. Osowski said the actor who plays cranky Squidward entacles gets annoyed very quickly. kind of a he said.

Clancy Brown, who plays Mr. Krabs, is an imposing fellow, Osowski said. know him as a movie he said. was in Shawshank the villain on the show, yet Clancy scares Self-assessment When speaking of himself, Osowski admits he often has delusions of grandeur, just like Plankton does. I always get disappointed because of schemes I want to pull off or if shows that I want to create ork he said.

sowski who lives in Burbank, California, with his wife Mary Ann, usually spends one day a week working SpongeBob, so he has plenty of time to devote to oth- projects. work on short films and other projects trying he said. always pitching movies and TV shows. I have various development deals around His work is diverse. Back in 2009, Osowski and mu- ician Rob Zombie co-wrote and co-directed an R-rated animated film called Haunted World of El Super- He also drew an album cover for parody song- riter Weird Al Yankovic, who he met through a mutual friend.

It was a compilation called, Food so Osowski drew a slimy monster eating Yankovic. It was a subversive idea and he loved he said. These days, Osowski is head writer on Ma- a comedy spoof of the Zelda video games. The show is an online series from Cartoon Network. Osowski credits much of his success to his upbringing in East Brunswick.

arts were very prevalent in my he said. East Brunswick school system was very influential to my career, as well as the parks and recreation epartment, which let me make two years of live sketch omedy shows in the summer on the high school stage. It was a great place to grow father, Larry, is owner of Hanco Service, a eating and air conditioning company in South River. His own father started the business back in 1957. knew early on that Doug was never going to do what the elder Osowski said.

has been drawing since he was four years old. Whenever he saw an empty piece of paper, he drew on it. We always encouraged him. Doug loves what doing and so happy that doing matter what else he does in his career, Osowski will likely be known always as Sheldon J. Plankton, owner of the Chum Bucket restaurant and chief rival of r.

Krabs. going to be Plankton he said. will be my tombstone, and okay with ollow Mary Ann Bourbeau on Twitter MaryAnnBourbeau. Meet the voice behind a character KATELYN Doug "Mr. Lawrence" Osowski of East Brunswick is a writer on he cartoon and also is the voice of the character East Brunswick native, riter is heard as Sheldon J.

Plankton in hit show MARY ANN BOURBEAU CORRESPONDENT OF NICKELODEON A NIMATION TUDIO Left: An i mage of Sheldon J. Plankton, a haracter in the quare- cartoon, voiced by former East Brunswick resident Doug "Mr. Lawrence" Osowski..