One last Stew offering before I put this extended theme week to bed.

Stew’s a funny guy. In his website bio, he once referred to himself as a “critically-acclaimed (ie., broke) singer-songwriter.” He has since replaced that with a laundry list of his accomplishments culminating in this sentence:

“But what Stew will ultimately be remembered for is having composed ‘Gary Come Home’ for SpongeBob SquarePants.”

And indeed, today’s SOTD is no doubt the Stew composition that has been heard and loved by more people than any other. It played during the poignant episode in which SpongeBob’s snail, Gary, runs away after feeling neglected. SpongeBob searches for him to the sounds of Stew’s plaintive ode to the love between sponge and snail.

Not a bad way to be remembered.