Patrick Star

Patrick Star

Patrick Star is a fictional animated character in the hit Nickelodeon animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. He is voiced by Bill Fagerbakke. He is an obese, pink, friendly, well-meaning but really stupid (though he did attend a community college) sea star with good intentions. Starfish are said to have no brains, and Patrick lives up to that image, as his head has been seen deflating. However, SpongeBob himself frequently attests to the "genius" of Patrick's harebrained ideas.

Biography

Character

Patrick is somewhat jealous of SpongeBob's various awards and once tried to imitate everything he did by trying to be a fry cook, therefore hoping to get awards for it. Finally, he got an award for doing nothing longer than anyone else, which he was pleased with. Patrick once completed the Dirty Bubble Challenge many years ago and then he lost the trophy they sent him, which reveals one of his talents, having an excellent skill at paddleball. Patrick Star, like his pal SpongeBob is a big fan of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. Patrick loves to eat food (especially ice cream, cheese, and donuts, which probably contributes to him being overweight), and riding on fishing hooks.. When writing a movie script, he suggested the characters should drink "Cheese Coffee", and he requested that his room at the Krusty Towers be filled with cheese. In an older episode entitled "Hooky", he risked his life for cheese. Patrick has also shown that he likes seanut brittle as seen in the episode "Pranks a Lot" One of the most difficult experiences of Patrick's life was when he had to open a jar in order to copy SpongeBob. He overcame his immense stupidity and was able to pull it off with flying colors thanks to SpongeBob's instructions and Patrick's perseverance. Unfortunately, after his success at jar-opening, he "spiked" the glass jar through the floor in jubilation.

In the early episodes, Patrick simply wears his trunks to bed. Later on he appears in pajamas. In the newer episodes, including the one that showed his 3 a.m. eating habit, he is seen wearing underwear to bed, just like his friend SpongeBob.

It can be assumed Patrick has a driver's license. In the episode "Boating School", he manages to navigate SpongeBob perfectly around the course via a walkie-talkie in his body, until the last moment, when SpongeBob realised he was cheating, and crashed. Also, in Driven to Tears, he had his license for a while until SpongeBob ripped it up out of jealousy. Patrick is also usually shown during a conflict, notcing something, but turns out to not know wabout the conflict as in "Have You Seen This Snail?"

Patrick Star will often appear to get really excited about a particular thing, then later the viewer realizes he was excited about something completely unrelated to what he originally appeared to be in a tizzy about. Examples of this include "Have You Seen This Snail?", and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, in which SpongeBob and Patrick are driving in the "patty wagon" through a threshold of fish skulls, to which he is oblivious; it seems he starts to notice his surroundings, when in reality he was only going to shout "Make my ice cream a chocolate!" In the aforementioned episode, "Where's Gary?", Patrick sees that SpongeBob is on the floor, shouting "Darn it!" when he failed his paddleball challenge. Patrick appears to be shocked and startled about the way SpongeBob is acting, but it was then revealed 5 seconds later, that he was worried about a picture on the pineapple wall being crooked.

Patrick is left-handed. He writes with his left hand, as seen in "The Camping Episode". He also holds a jellyfish net in his left hand, as seen in "Jellyfishing"

Leisure

Patrick Star is SpongeBob's best friend and has quite a lot of things in common with him. Like SpongeBob, Patrick is an invertebrate. He often walks into the Krusty Krab with the greeting "Good morning, Krusty Krew!". Patrick has crazy ideas that often get SpongeBob and himself into trouble such as alien hunting, acting as adults with sideburns and not as babies in front of SpongeBob's grandma, sneaking into Sandy's Treedome in the winter, riding on fishing hooks, raiding girls underpants,and many other situations such as going after King Neptune's crown. He fancies himself quite the jellyfisher, and loves many of the same things that SpongeBob loves. His erstwhile goal in life was to defeat the giant monkey-man and save the ninth dimension, but SpongeBob convinced him to aim lower.

Patrick is a fan of the underwater rock band, "Stingray 5000", as hinted in "Missing Identity". The band is a reference to the heavy metal band Powerman 5000, as they sang a song entitled "When Worlds Collide" which was also the name of the song played in SpongeBob B.C.

In the episodes "Band Geeks" and "The Camping Episode", and video game, Lights, Camera, Pants!, it is revealed that Patrick is able to play drums.

Education

Very little is known of Patrick's education. Patrick attended Mrs. Puff's Boating School in the episodes, "New Student Starfish" and "Driven to Tears". However, this was only because he was lonely and wanted to go with SpongeBob. He even thought it was Spanish class, and not driver's education. Additionally, in Sing a Song of Patrick, it is revealed that Patrick had a gym teacher and possibly went to school (although it is uncertain which school system he attended.) In "The Bully" it is said that Patrick went to community college.

Occupation

Patrick has never had a long-standing occupation. However he has had various jobs, mostly at the Krusty Krab. He has worked there a total of five times, as seen in the episodes "Arrgh!," "Big Pink Loser," "Squilliam Returns," "That's No Lady," and "Bummer Vacation."

Patrick once got a job working at the Chum Bucket when Plankton was searching for a tough competitor for the Krusty Krab in the Olympic-esque Fry Cook Games. The audience was at first fooled into thinking an enormous purple championship wrestler fish would be the competitor, when in reality he was only carrying the real contestant, Patrick Star (a parody of a scene in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls). He then reveals to SpongeBob that he only worked for five minutes.

On February 19, 2007, Patrick defeated Larry the Lobster in a Presidential Election. What he is president of, or if he kept it remains unclear.

In "Sing a Song of Patrick," Patrick gets a job from a comic book to sing a song of his own. However, Patrick never wanted to sing since his childhood when singing in P.E. and having dodgeballs thrown at him. Also, the band who performed his song died.

Residence

Patrick lives under a rock, literally, on 120 Conch Street — two doors down from his best friend and 400 yards away from the Krusty Krab. Unlike most starfish, he sleeps on the ceiling (although he is shown sleeping in a bed in at least five episodes). When he is not jellyfishing, or adventuring with his friends, he's sleeping under his rock. There are many inconsistencies in the depictions of his house due to the nature of the cartoon and utility treatment of backgrounds; in one episode, his house is depicted to be nothing but a bed and a chest of drawers, yet in others he appears to have a kitchen and a living room. Also, certain episodes tend to depict the surface below the rock to be completely flat, while in others there is a considerable amount of depth below it.

Antagonistic side

Although he is unintelligent and is usually carefree, magnanimous, and generally detached, Patrick has demonstrated a cold, shrewd, even sociopathic side at times. For example, in "I'm With Stupid", SpongeBob volunteered to act stupid around Patrick's parents in an attempt to improve their opinion of Patrick. In the end, Patrick ended up betraying the favor by denying that this was a part of an agreement, and that he was indeed the intelligent one who has been trying desperately to educate his poor hopeless friend. It is a transgression he has still never apologized for, although SpongeBob seems to have forgiven him anyway.

Patrick has shown a disregard for oaths and promises by going back on a vow to Mr. Krabs. While he had agreed to put himself under Mr. Krabs's "sailor promise" to not go near a nearby area filled with fishing hooks, he changed his mind under the justification that he "had crossed his fingers". As SpongeBob pointed out, this was impossible due to the fact that Patrick has no fingers.

Patrick has been known to become violent when he feels that his interpersonal relationships are crumbling. After SpongeBob fails to present a gift to him on "Valentine's Day," he concludes that SpongeBob must hate him (especially after finding out that SpongeBob gave gifts to everyone else, including somebody he had just met that morning). Patrick went as far as to declare his intentions to harm his yellow friend (as well as some random bystanders who also failed to give him a gift) for this horrible crime. Once Patrick finds out that SpongeBob has indeed gotten him a gift, his anger is forgotten.

In "Nature Pants." when SpongeBob decides to live away from home, a hurt and crazed Patrick attempts to capture him and keep him in a jar on his mantle.

Patrick's fickle disrespect for others may stem from delusions of his own superiority over those around him. In "Something Smells", he fears that he has become ugly and expresses that he was "...one of the beautiful people", and that SpongeBob gave him "the ugly". In the episode mentioned earlier during which he denies that SpongeBob is only pretending to be foolish, he easily took the opportunity to declare that he was in fact a genius, a possible revelation of his inner subconscious desire to be better than SpongeBob. In "The Fry Cook Games", he decided to join the competition (despite not being a fry cook) for the sole purpose of defeating SpongeBob. This may, however, be simple rivalry. It was one of the few occasions upon which Patrick actively sought to gain SpongeBob's forgiveness.

Even though Patrick is usually foolish and "behind the game", he has had moments in which he has become the mastermind of many devious plots that display his opportunism. In one of the many episodes during which SpongeBob attempts to get his driver's license, Patrick not only devises a system that allowed him to give SpongeBob the answers to the exam, but he found a way to conceal it from others, giving SpongeBob a cowboy hat to wear over the antenna that was attached to him, though SpongeBob later revealed that he was in fact "cheating".

Video Game Appearances

He appears in the game Lights, Camera, PANTS!. In the PC Version, he owns a lemonade stand. His roles in the episode of "The New Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" are Barnacle Boy and the Sneaky Hermit. In the second version, available for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox consoles, he auditions for roles he can gain in the episode of "The New Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy". He also appears in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. In a Nicktoons crossover video game, he is a playable character. Patrick is a superhero called StarfishMan in the game SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab. Patrick, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Sheldon J. Plankton also appeared in Nicktoons Racing.

Patrick is seen but un-playable in Nicktoons Unite!