"Lost in Couch" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 1. In this episode, Patrick loses the remote in the cushions, so he journeys into the couch to track it down, while he gets lost in various other objects along the way.
Characters[]
- Patrick Star
- Squidina Star
- Bubble Bass
- Ouchie
- TV remote (debut)
- Captain Doug Quasar (debut)
- Pat-Tron (debut)
- Live action person bowling (debut)
- Sock-a-dactyl
- Rube Goldfish
- Cecil Star
- Bunny Star
- GrandPat Star
- Perch Perkins
- Larry the Lobster
- Incidentals
- Earth (as a living character)
Synopsis[]
Patrick loses his remote in the couch.
The episode starts with the earth sweating because of the hot sun. The narrator speaks about the S.S. Super Minnow as Captain Doug Quasar looks at space through a telescope. The narrator shows the inside of the ship as Pat-Tron receives a call from Doug telling him that he locked himself out of the ship. Pat-Tron tells him that he cannot because the captain always has his keys with him, but they are still in the ship as he hangs up. Then he wonders if the real captain is lost and goes around looking for him, as every time he turns on the ship, Doug gets burned and hurt. Then it zooms out to see Patrick watching the cartoon. The he says that we will watch his watch cartoons. While Patrick is watching the cartoon, he adds milk to his cereal box, when the TV announcer says that there is a 6-hour bowling marathon. When Patrick tries to change the channel with the remote, he knocks his cereal and milk in a box and the remote slips out of his hands, between the couch cushions, and is gone.
Squidina tells Patrick to go get the remote, and after acting like a dog and being given a bone, Patrick agrees to do it. Patrick then talks to the audience that he will be looking for the remote on today's "lookin around for..." Squidina checks if the rope attached to Patrick is good and works, as she attaches Ouchie, who has a camera on him, on Patrick's head, and implies that Patrick cannot come back empty-handed, and that his whole "audience" is watching, which is only Slappy (who implies that he loves a good failure). As Patrick lowers himself onto the couch, views inside the couch can be seen. Patrick implies that the couch formations have been there for thousands of years (or until bunny reupholstered the couch). He starts floating on a couch cushion, on the river of milk and cereal from his cereal box. He finds a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy comic, loose change, and his yo-yo. After he falls off the cushion from a milk waterfall, he gets to land, and finds himself in a "cushion jungle" as he implies that remoto dragons love to live in them. Patrick finds the remote, a little bigger than before, and growls at him and runs away. After he runs to catch his remote, something is towering over Patrick, and gets closer and closer until it squishes him.
Bubble Bass sits down on his couch to watch the 168-hour-long Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy marathon. Ouchie spikes him, and launches him to the ceiling of the basement. As Patrick thinks that Ouchie saved them, a Sock-a-dactyl takes them away to its nest, but as it does this, the rope keeps going into the couch, and Squidina loses it. Patrick is found in the Sock-a-dactyl's nest, and finds out its lunchtime. Squidina notices that he must have broken out of the couch and gone to a dresser, and she says that she will find him. After looking in a couple dressers, Squidina finds Cecil washing his mustaches, and he implies what is wrong. After she says that Patrick is lost in a dresser, Cecil thinks that Patrick is an imaginary friend, but Squidina says that it is his son, but Cecil thinks that it is his "imaginary son" and that he is in trouble, so he goes into the dresser to find him. As he tries to go into the dresser, Squidina says that they will be back after the word from the sponsor, while Rube is offering eight luxurious days discovery for furniture as never seen before.
Patrick fights the remoto dragon.
After Patrick implies to call the number below the screen, he appears with forks in his head, still looking for the remote. Squidina pushes Bunny and Perch Perkins into the couch, and she tells GrandPat to shout and tug the rope if he finds Patrick, but he does not want to because he wants to take a nap. Squidina implies that the event will be on TV to signal importance. As Patrick inspects a footprint, the remoto dragon steps on it, and it is seen bigger than ever before. After some fighting, Patrick finds out that the low-battery light is flashing, so he finds some batteries, and hopes that they are double A's. As he puts them between the dragon's mouth, he punches them in, and as the light turns green, the remoto dragon becomes smaller, and it becomes the TV remote, again. After he implies that he has got the remote, he wonders how he will get out, so Squidina tells him that she sent the whole town searching for him. Larry the Lobster, Perch Perkins, Bunny, and Cecil claim that they have found Patrick.
As Squidina pulls everyone out of the couch, she finds out it was Ouchie, and implies that Patrick is lost in the couch. Patrick says that someone should look for him, and Squidina says that he is safe, and Patrick says that he is safe and can use the remote again, and everyone cheers weakly. GrandPat, however, is stuck in the wall, and Patrick says that is why it is good to have the remote and changes the channel to the bowling marathon, as GrandPat puts himself in a bowling ball, and knocks down the pins off-screen, and everyone cheers as the episode ends.
Production[]
This episode was likely having its storyboards plussed in October 2020, as that is when Tobias Krebs was hired a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon Animation Studio,[2] and this was his first episode he worked on.[3]
This episode was confirmed on June 24, 2021 by Gracenote.[4]
This episode's character list and transcript were revealed on July 13[5] and 14, 2021,[6] respectively.
Promotional art[]
Art[]
Character design[]
Prop design[]
- Designed by Aaron Painter.[13]
Background design[]
- Layouts by "a Nickelodeon artist," painted by Brad Sutton.[14]
Storyboards[]
- Rough boarded by Ryan Kramer,[15] plussed by Tobias Krebs.[3] The full storyboard for this episode was posted on Ryan Kramer's Speakerdeck.
Production notes[]
Tobias Krebs:
- This was the first Patrick episode that Krebs worked on. "Working on this episode was so surreal and an absolute dream come true!"[3]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Dreamer - Nicolas Carr, Steve Sechi, Kostas Varotsis [Opening]
• Hero's Return - Nicolas Carr, Steve Sechi, Kostas Varotsis [Opening]
• Molecular Science - Nicolas Carr [Pat-Tron refuses to let Captain Quasar aboard]
‣ Le Sedie Elettriche - Ennio Morricone ["The captain always has his keys with him..."]
‣ Light-Hearted Links (1-6) - Eric Spear ["Oh, hey there!"]
• Bowling for Clams - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Spike Herring, Jeremy Wakefield [Bowling for Clams]
‣ Panic - John Fox, Mac Prindy [The remote falls into the couch]
‣ Bowery Boys - Frank Marlow [Patrick acts like a dog]
• In Search of Leonard - Nicolas Carr ["Lookin' Around For..." intro]
‣ Light-Hearted Links (1-6) - Eric Spear [Squidina prepares Patrick to go inside the couch]
‣ Pomp and Glory - Sam Spence [Patrick descends into the couch]
• Dreamer - Nicolas Carr, Steve Sechi, Kostas Varotsis ["These natural sofa formations must have been here for thousands of years."]
‣ Big America - Sam Spence ["Wow! This place is a gold mine!"]
‣ Planetary Oceans - Stuart Crombie [Patrick climbs out of the river]
• New Vibe Hits - Nicolas Carr [Patrick finds the cushion jungle]
‣ Ghostly Presence - Ronald Hanmer ["Remoto dragons love to hide deep in cushion jungles just like these."]
‣ Ambush - Art Heatlie [Patrick chases the remote]
• ? ["Help! I'm being crushed by two of the biggest, roundest, heaviest things I've ever been crushed by!"]
• New Mermaidman & Barnicleboy Fight Theme 1 Full Mix - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Pat Irwin [Bubble Bass watches TV]
• Mentally Confused A - Nicolas Carr, Dick De Benedictis [Patrick captured by a sock-a-dactyl]
• Vertigo Gang A - Nicolas Carr, Dick De Benedictis [The rope falls into the couch]
• Wild and Free A - Nicolas Carr, Dick De Benedictis ["Patrick, I lost the rope! Are you okay? Are you still recording?"]
‣ Psycho 128: Harp & Strings: Loop 2 - Dick De Benedictis ["Still here and still recording, sis."]
• Mystic Insight - Nicolas Carr, Dick De Benedictis ["Ithink some sort of sock-a-dactyl took me to its house."]
‣ Psycho 128: Strings hit - Dick De Benedictis
‣ Minutiae 2 - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben [The sock-a-dactyl comes returns to its nest]
• Sorry No Pets Allowed - Nicolas Carr ["Cool. You do you. I'm gonna keep looking for the remote."]
• Phrases 2 - ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator [Squidina searches through dressers in different rooms]
• New Vibe Hits - Nicolas Carr [Squidina walks into Cecil's room]
‣ Bassoon 4 - Jim Parker [Squidina tells Cecil that she lost Patrick]
• Phrases 3 - ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator ["What? No, he's your son!"]
‣ Triumphant Fanfare - Paul Hart, David Arnold ["My imaginary son is in trouble?!"]
‣ Nifty 1950 - Jonathan Boyle [Squidina introduces a sponsor]
‣ The Barber of Seville - Largo Al Factotum - Gioacchino Rossini, Daniele Benati, Fabio Di Bari, Enrico Prandi [Commercial in Venice]
‣ Bossa Per Gloria - Ennio Morricone [Rube describes a furniture vacation in the commercial]
‣ Oh My Trill! - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator] [Rube screams.]
‣ Bad Slide - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator] ["Aww, there's no remote here either!"]
‣ Homeward Bound - Sam Spence [Squidina sends a team down to find Patrick]
‣ Planetarium - Gianni Safred [Patrick continues to search for the remote]
‣ Passioni Dell'Anima - Bruno Nicolai [The remote steps on its footprint]
‣ Stalking - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Patrick fights the remote]
‣ Passioni Dell'Anima - Bruno Nicolai [The remote pounces on Patrick]
‣ Horror Comic - Dennis Farnon [The remote recharges and shrinks]
‣ Puppies - Claude Carrasu [The remote licks Patrick like a puppy]
‣ Minutiae 2 - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["...But how do I get out of here?"]
‣ Space Cosmos - Fredric Bayco [Larry searching for Patrick]
• Bikini Bottom News Theme - Nicolas Carr [Perch Perkins reports on Patrick]
‣ Bossa Per Gloria - Ennio Morricone ["Where's my big boy? I brought you a change of underwear."]
‣ Triumphant Fanfare - Paul Hart, David Arnold [Cecil claims to have found Patrick]
‣ Pomp and Glory - Sam Spence [Squidina pulls everyone out]
‣ Squirrel - Alec Gould ["That's not Patrick, that's Ouchie!"]
• Zoom D - Nicolas Carr, Dick De Benedictis ["Patrick's lost."]
‣ Morning Stroll - Hendric Haydegg, Sepp Trixi ["Patrick! You're safe!"]
• Bowling for Clams - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Spike Herring, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on The Patrick Star Show Season 1, Volume 1 DVD.
Trivia[]
General[]
- When this episode premiered in the United States, it aired second, while its sister episode "Pat-a-thon" aired first. This segment order also happened in early reruns during the Mega Music Fest event, mainly because of the musical elements in the sister episode. In all subsequent airings and packaging order, the episode segment order is reversed.
- Patrick saying, "Hi, I'm Patrick Star!" was said in the show's theme song.
- Squidina saying, "Patrick, you're saved!" and Patrick replying with "Patrick, I'm save!" is similar to SpongeBob saying, "Patrick, you're back!" and Patrick repeating his words in "Patrick SmartPants."
- This is the first episode of The Patrick Star Show to not begin directly at the Star house.
- The episode is loosely adapted into an event in SpongeBob Adventures: In a Jam!, lasting from October 19 to November 2, 2023. In this event, SpongeBob, instead of Patrick, ventures into Patrick's couch to retrieve Patrick's wallet. The name of this episode is used as the event name. Additionally, Perch Perkins is present much like he was in the original episode.
- This is the third episode of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise where SpongeBob is completely absent, as he does not make an appearance and he is not mentioned. It is also the fourth episode where he does not appear following "The Algae's Always Greener," "Late for Breakfast," and "Enemies à la Mode."
- Rube Goldfish's phone number is RBE-555-01GOLDFISH, or 723-555-0146533474. This is not a legitimate phone number; it contains more than 11 digits, and 723 is not an existing area code.
Cultural references[]
- This episode's title is a reference to the title of the TV series Lost in Space.
- The opening scene parodies the plot of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, with Pat-Tron taking on the role of HAL 9000 in locking the captain out of the spaceship and even delivering HAL's famous line "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
- Also in the opening scene, the spaceship is called the USS Minnow, which references the S. S. Minnow boat from the television series Gilligan's Island.
- This same line is also referenced in the Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years episode "Squisery."
- Bowling for Clams is a take on Bowling for Dollars, a game show on local television stations throughout the United States where contestants bowled to win cash prizes.
- The "Lookin' Around For..." segment is a reference to the television documentary series In Search of..., hosted by Leonard Nimoy. The electronic music track playing during the sequence, as well as Patrick's outfit, are references to the theme song and Nimoy respectively.
- The name "Remoto Dragon" is a reference to the real-life species Komodo dragon.
- The earth sweating from the sun is a reference to global warming.
Video[]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | Perdido en el sofá | Lost in the Couch |
References[]
- ^ Chris DeRose on Twitter - "Designs I did for..."
- ^ Tobias Krebs | Linkedin
- ^ a b c Tobias Krebs on Twitter - "'Lost in Couch' was..."
- ^ The Patrick Star Show - Gracenote
- ^ pats 103a character list - Pastebin
- ^ pats3a transcript - Pastebin
- ^ SpongeBob on Instagram - "SpongeBob better watch his house..."
- ^ SpongeBob on Instagram - "show your true colors..."
- ^ Patrick Star on Facebook - "what's your family..."
- ^ Kaz on Facebook - "HEY PATRICK STAR..."
- ^ Character Design | Joann Chang
- ^ Yasmine Ebeed - Color Styling
- ^ PAINTERDRAWS - Prop Design
- ^ BS Illustrations - Sutton Illustrations: Watercolors from the Patrick Star show
- ^ Ryan Kramer on Twitter - "I got to do..."
Notes[]
- ^ Also listed as "PAT007" in the segment's storyboards, and simply "007" in its model sheets.