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Contents 1 Peer Review 2 Arachniphobia? 3 Sea Star? What is a Sea Star? 4 parents 5 Family?

[edit] Peer Review

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[edit] Arachniphobia?

Is it possible that Patrick has arachniphobia? In the episode entitled "Home Sweet Pineapple", he apparently has a dream where spiders are crawling around everywhere, and yells "SPIDERS! SPIDERS!" like he would die if didn't kill them. After that, he smashes his rock on what he thinks are spiders (it's actually Spongebob). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.224.109.21 (talk) 15:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Sea Star? What is a Sea Star?

Is a sea star the name of a star fish in some foreign country? The show is made in America so I think we should change all references to Sea Star to "Starfish" since that is what Patrick is. Also it is stated he sleeps attached to the roof of a rock just like sea stars. What? Starfish lay flat on the bottom of the ocean. It should be pointed out that sleeping under a rock attached to the bottom of it is unusual and not the normal for a starfish. At least point out that how Patrick sleeps is not normal behavior for a starfish. It may be normal for a sea star but Patrick isn't one. MBCF 22:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I think seastar is the "official" name used by scientists to describe starfish, but I agree that we should use starfish, since this is an article about a tv show character and should use a normal term.

• Stephen Hillenburg calls Patrick a "sea star" in a special bonus feature of the Movie DVD. -AMK152^{(Talk • Contributions • Send message)} 02:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] parents

i believe the on the main page, it says Partick Star's parents are margie and herb, which is wrong. in one episode, partick believes them to be his parents, but in fact they were not, they were stupid and relized they did not have childern. i do not know the exact names of the parents or the episode this took place in. yet i could be wrong and the picture on the main page is wrong. b/c the picture is the wrong one.

70.158.29.46 07:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC) ♠

You are correct, they just showed up to his house. His real parents came later. Ootmc ^{Signme!Talktome}

[edit] Family?

Where'd the whole family tree come from? How is Patrick related to Gary? Where did it come from? Ootmc ^{Signme!Talktome} 22:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)