Tom is olive green and wears a lavender shirt with light blue shorts and has a solid body. He also has green-golden fins and legs. His eyes are quite big and the pupil is small, but the surrounding area of the eye is golden brown, and he has light salmon colored lips.

Personality
Tom is a person with a good life and he enjoys being married to Martha. Tom can also be a bit insane. In the episode "Chocolate With Nuts," he got extremely mad. Tom is never upset when he eats at the Krusty Krab and the Shell Shack. Tom has been seen at the Bikini Bottom Hospital with a butt machine and looked aggravated. Tom also appears to have some obsessive compulsive disorder about his food. In most episodes such as "Chocolate With Nuts," "Pizza Delivery," "Fools in April," "No Weenies Allowed," and possibly others, he is seen obsessing almost violently over his food or his drinks.

Biography
Tom appeared in the episode, "Plankton!" where he eats a Krabby Patty. He is friends with Fred. Tom is a bartender in Goo Lagoon in "MuscleBob BuffPants." In "The Lost Mattress," Tom has a job as a mattress salesman. He is also a mattress salesman in "Ghost Host," but he has a mustache. He is also a cameraman for the Bikini Bottom News. In "Chocolate with Nuts," it is revealed that Tom is a chocoholic, constantly yelling "Chocolate!" whenever he saw SpongeBob and Patrick. Tom is a regular customer of the Krusty Krab, where he is seen most often. It was revealed in "Pranks a Lot" that Tom drives a tour bus in Bikini Bottom. In "I Had an Accident," Tom is seen in an "iron butt" complaining, "Oh man, it itches!" as Dr. Gill Gilliam or Purple Doctorfish shows SpongeBob how he might be treated if he "broke" his butt again. Like many other fish in Bikini Bottom, Tom serves mainly as a background character. In "Party Pooper Pants," he was the last guest to arrive at SpongeBob's party with only one bag of chips. Tom appears as a background character in "Something Smells" while Fred says the famous "Deauueaugh!"