Patrick SmartPants

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""Patrick SmartPants""
Best Day Ever Rank:	#8
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Writer(s):	Casey Alexander Chris Mitchell Tim Hill
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Premiere Order Season 1 May 1, 1999 – April 8, 2000 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 October 26, 2000 – November 30, 2001 21. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 22. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 25. Christmas Who? 26. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 27. Wormy / Patty Hype 28. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 29. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime 34. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 35. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 36. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 37. The Bully / Just One Bite 38. Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm / Squid on Strike 39. Procrastination / I'm with Stupid Season 3 January 21, 2002 – October 11, 2004 40. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 41. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 42. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash 43. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 44. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 45. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 46. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 47. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 48. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 49. Party Pooper Pants 50. Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 51. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 52. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 55. The Sponge Who Could Fly 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Plankton's Army / Missing Identity 58. SpongeBob B.C. 59. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 May 6, 2005 – 2007 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 64. Selling Out / Funny Pants 65. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture / Enemy In-Law 66. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 67. Have You Seen This Snail? 68. Dunces and Dragons 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Chimps Ahoy / Ghost Host 71. Whale of a Birthday / Karate Island 72. All That Glitters / Wishing You Well 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74A. Squidtastic Voyage 75A. Bummer Vacation 76A. Best Day Ever 75B. Wigstruck 74B. That's No Lady 77. The Thing / Hocus Pocus 78. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 79A. The Pink Purloinier 76B. The Gift of Gum 80. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Sing a Song of Patrick 79B. Squid Wood 81. Best Frenemies / Born to be Wild Season 5 2007 – TBA 82. Friend or Foe? 83. Night Light / The Original Fry Cook 84. Fungus Among Us / Spy Buddies Season 6 TBA – TBA Other 2001 – Present 1. Patrick the Snowman 2. Plankton's Holiday Hits 3. 12 Days of Nickmas 4. How You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What 5. Nickelodeon Holiday Party 6. A Chuckie Finster Christmas 6. The Endless Summer 7. Nicktoons Battle
Production Order Season 1 1. Help Wanted / Reef Blower / Tea at the Treedome 2. Bubblestand / Ripped Pants 3. Jellyfishing / Plankton! 4. Naughty Nautical Neighbors / Boating School 5. Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple 6. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy / Pickles 7. Hall Monitor / Jellyfish Jam 8. Sandy's Rocket / Squeaky Boots 9. Nature Pants / Opposite Day 10. Culture Shock / F.U.N. 11. MuscleBob BuffPants / Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost 12. The Chaperone / Employee of the Month 13. Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary 14. SB-129 / Karate Choppers 15. Sleepy Time / Suds 16. Valentine's Day / The Paper 17. Arrgh! / Rock Bottom 18. Texas / Walking Small 19. Fools in April / Neptune's Spatula 20. Hooky / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II Season 2 21. Your Shoe's Untied / Squid's Day Off 22. Something Smells / Bossy Boots 23. Big Pink Loser / Bubble Buddy 24. Dying for Pie / Imitation Krabs 25. Wormy / Patty Hype 26. Grandma's Kisses / Squidville 27. Pre-Hibernation Week / Life of Crime 28. Christmas Who? 29. Survival of the Idiots / Dumped 30. No Free Rides / I'm Your Biggest Fanatic 31. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III / Squirrel Jokes 32. Pressure / The Smoking Peanut 33. Shanghaied / Gary Takes a Bath 34. Welcome to the Chum Bucket / Frankendoodle 35. The Secret Box / Band Geeks 36. Graveyard Shift / Krusty Love 37. Procratination / I'm with Stupid 38. Sailor Mouth / Artist Unknown 39. Jellyfish Hunter / The Fry Cook Games 40. Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm / Squid on Strike Season 3 41. The Algae's Always Greener / SpongeGuard on Duty 42. Club SpongeBob / My Pretty Seahorse 43. The Bully / Just One Bite 44. Nasty Patty / Idiot Box 45. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV / Doing Time 46. Snowball Effect / One Krabs Trash 47. As Seen on TV / Can You Spare a Dime? 48. No Weenies Allowed / Squilliam Returns 49. Krab Borg / Rock-a-Bye Bivalve 50. Wet Painters / Krusty Krab Training Video 51. Party Pooper Pants 52. Chocolate With Nuts / Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V 53. New Student Starfish / Clams 54. SpongeBob B.C. 55. The Great Snail Race / Mid-Life Crustacean 56. Born Again Krabs / I Had an Accident 57. Krabby Land / The Camping Episode 58. Plankton's Army / Missing Identity 59. The Sponge Who Could Fly 60. SpongeBob Meets the Strangler / Pranks a Lot Season 4 61. Fear of a Krabby Patty / Shell of a Man 62. The Lost Mattress / Krabs vs. Plankton 63. Have You Seen This Snail? 64. Skill Crane / Good Neighbors 65. Selling Out / Funny Pants 66. Dunces and Dragons 67. Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture / Enemy In-Law 68. Patrick SmartPants / SquidBob TentaclePants 69. Krusty Towers / Mrs. Puff, You're Fired 70. Ghost Host / Wishing You Well 71. Chimps Ahoy / Whale of a Birthday 72. Karate Island / All That Glitters 73. New Leaf / Once Bitten 74. Bummer Vacation / Wigstruck 75. Squidtastic Voyage / That's No Lady 76. Hocus Pocus / The Thing 77. Driven to Tears / Rule of Dumb 78. Born to Be Wild / Best Frenemies 79. The Pink Purloinier / Squid Wood 80. Best Day Ever / The Gift of Gum Season 5 81. Friend or Foe? 82. Night Light / The Original Fry Cook 83. Rise and Shine / Waiting / Sing a Song of Patrick 84. Fungus Among Us / Spy Buddies Season 6 TBA

"Patrick SmartPants" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.

Brief summary: Patrick suffers a blow to the head, which increases his intelligence substantially, but also makes him unhappy with his life.

Time/Date: Unknown

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles
• Sandy Cheeks
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Jellyfishes

Songs: None

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cultural References 3 Trivia/Goofs 4 Quotes

[edit] Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are jellyfishing at Jellyfish Fields. Patrick accidentally falls down a cliff, and loses his head. SpongeBob accidentally picks up a piece of Brain Coral and puts it on what is left of Patrick's head, from which Patrick suddenly gains intelligence. Patrick seems to be interested in nature, work and almost any music when he is intelligent. He loses interest in all the things he and SpongeBob enjoyed, and actually hangs out with Squidward and Sandy, until driving them both away with his patronizing attitude (he tells Squidward to find himself a new musical mentor and tells Sandy that she does not have the ability to solve remedial equations). Then, since he is too smart even for them, Patrick wants to be friends with SpongeBob again. He tries many solutions to solve his problem, such as comparing himself with SpongeBob, meditating, doing research on Squidward, reading books about fun, and even growing hair, but none of these things work. Eventually he kidnaps SpongeBob and tries doing all the activities he used to do. When this doesn't work, he tries to redo his actions by falling off the cliff again. Patrick survives the fall without losing his head this time, but he is still intelligent. However, with careful measurements by the smart Patrick, SpongeBob then realizes it was the piece of brain coral that he grabbed, so he restores Patrick's old head.

[edit] Cultural References

• The episode is similar in plot to the novel Flowers for Algernon in which the protagonist gains intelligence quickly but then wishes it gone because of the way others see him.
• Squidward plays a song that Patrick identifies to be titled Cornelius Pufferfish's Opus 67 "Symphony In Blue" - a possible reference to a song of the same name on Kate Bush's album Lionheart. It could also be a reference to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
• The first thing Patrick says after having his brain connected is, "I find all this laughter highly illogical," a tribute to Spock's famous phrase on the original Star Trek series (which Paramount also did).

[edit] Trivia/Goofs

• Real brain coral is actually shaped like brains and not cones.
• It is possible that Patrick doesn't have a brain before he placed brain coral on himself. When brain coral was placed onto him, gears in his head start running. This could mean his former head had no brain. Real star fish don't have brains.
• The first few times this episode was shown, it had scrolling captions. This was later changed.
• Smart Patrick is so upset by not understanding SpongeBob's concept of fun that he makes a solution that makes his hair grow, just so that he can pull it out in his anger. This is ironically the answer to Squidward's dream to have hair.
• Patrick calls SpongeBob "Robert", which indicates that SpongeBob's real name may be SpongeRobert SquarePants (longer version of Bob). However, Robert as his full name is not confirmed by Hillenburg. Also, in the scene where Patrick is in Sandy's treedome, Patrick calls her "Sandra", which indicates that Sandy's real name may be Sandra Cheeks (longer version of Sandy). However, Sandra as her full name is not confirmed by Hillenburg. Patrick may be calling them by their "full" names just to sound smart, though. If this is true, than SpongeRobert and Sandra have no middle names.
• SpongeBob and Patrick both have a talent for belch-talking.
• SpongeBob and Patrick both have a scrapbook full of photos of them having fun together.
• During the scene where Patrick is explaining clarinet techniques to Squidward, the dots on his head constantly change from pink to black.
• This episode's working title is "Abracamoron."
• When Patrick puts his head (the brain coral) back on you can hear the orchestra tune-up from the Beatles record A Day in the Life. When the plug slots into the socket, it stops abruptly, just like in the track.
• In the "guitar and jellyfish joke", smart Patrick said that "you can't strum a jellyfish." However, in the episode Jellyfish Jam, jellyfish were being strum. Also, "smart Patrick" strums a jellyfish shortly after the joke is asked.
• When Spongebob first finds Patrick's head (which turns out to be brain coral) he finds it just next to the cliff and Patrick comes in from off stage, but at the end of the episode Spongebob says that Patrick was just next to the cliff and that he found the head further away from the cliff (presumably where Patrick wandered in from).

[edit] Quotes

• (Jellyfish Fields)

SpongeBob: Oh, Yeah!

Smart Patrick: Oh, absolutely.

• Smart Patrick: Would you like to run some statistics or observe phenomenon and create a hypothesis out of said phenomenon?
• Smart Patrick: STOP! ENOUGH! Find yourself a new MENTEUR! (mentor in Smart Patrick's new accent)
• (Brain coral field)

SpongeBob: Are you sure you want to give up being smart and focisticated (sophisticated) to be my friend?

Smart Patrick: Knowledge can never replace friendship. I prefer to be an idiot!

• Smart Patrick: Robert my dear, it's no use, we've just grown apart! I know we've had fun in the past, but we're just not compatible anymore.
• (Sandy's Treedome)

Sandy: Are you suggesting I'm dumb?

Patrick: I'd use a more sophisticated term, like impaired.

• (Patrick's Home)

Patrick: I am just studying this amazing sub-species.

Plankton: (Under Microscope) I'LL SHOW YOU SUB-SPECIES!

• Spongebob: Patrick, look out!

Patrick: Da...an...ger...(crashes through 'DANGER: CLIFF sign) CLIIIIIIIFF! (as he falls over the cliff)

'"Spongebob:'" Patrick!!!

Preceded by "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture"

SpongeBob SquarePants episodes

Followed by "SquidBob TentaclePants"