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{{NC|the show's live-action host, [[Patchy the Pirate]]}}
{{Cquote2|<center>Arr, I be just a paintin' of a head.</center>|Painty the Pirate|"[[Your Shoe's Untied]]"}}
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{{Character
|name = Painty the Pirate
|image = <gallery>
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|residence = Painting
|gender = Male
|eye-color = Green
|species = Painting (human likeness)<br>Dummy ("[[Truth or Square]]")
|pets = [[Painted parrot|His parrot]]
|first-appearance = "[[Help Wanted]]" (intro)<br>"[[Your Shoe's Untied]]" (in-series)
|portrayer = [[Stephen Hillenburg]] (live-action lips)<br>[[Patrick Pinney]] (voice)<br>[[CeeLo Green]] ("[[Truth or Square]]")<br>[[Bob Joles]] ("Truth or Square" [[List of theme songs in "Truth or Square"|the "rejected" theme songs]])<br>[[Peter Shukoff]] (during part of the [[Rap Battle]])<br>[[Joe Whyte]] (''[[Employee of the Month (video game)|Employee of the Month]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Flying Dutchman]]'', and ''[[Battle for Bikini Bottom]]'')
}}
'''Painty the Pirate''',<ref>"[[Backstage Pants]]"</ref><ref>"[[Behind the Scenes of the SpongeBob Opening]]"</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160208171825/https://twitter.com/paultibbitt/status/494940304600862721</ref><ref>[[Unreal Estate and Code Yellow (credits)]]</ref> also referred to as '''Painting'''<ref>[[Your Shoe's Untied and Squid's Day Off (credits)]]</ref> and as '''Captain''', is a painting of a pirate's head with a [[Painted parrot|parrot]]. He appears at the beginning of the show's opening sequence and sings the [[SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song|''SpongeBob SquarePants'' theme song]] in every episode.

==Description==
His painted mouth is replaced by a live-action mouth, giving him the appearance of talking. According to the "[[Backstage Pants]]" special feature on the [[Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies]] DVD and the "[[Behind the Scenes of the SpongeBob Opening]]" special feature on the [[SpongeBob's Truth or Square (DVD)|SpongeBob's Truth or Square DVD]], it's stated that the real-life lips in the painting are the lips of [[Stephen Hillenburg]], the show's creator.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/tv/spongebob-cast-reveals-late-creator-stephen-hillenburg-secretly-appears-in-every-episode/|title=''SpongeBob'' Cast Reveals Late Creator Stephen Hillenburg Secretly Appears in Every Episode|date=2019-07-20|publisher=People|author=Ashley Boucher}}</ref>

He has curly light brown hair, green eyes, a black patch over his left eye, an orange jacket, green eyes, a white shirt, a black skull-and-crossbones hat, a red bandanna, and of course, a green parrot on his left shoulder. He also has a West Country pirate accent with a slight lateral lisp.

==History==
If counting the intro, Painty the Pirate has appeared in every episode. He also appears in [[The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water|the second movie]], but not [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie|the first movie]] or [[The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run|the third movie]].

Painty the Pirate also sends the riders into the attraction after responding to the answer if they’re ready for the adventure by reaching and grabbing onto them on [[SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D: Ride]], saying, "Good! In you go!"

He is voiced by [[Patrick Pinney]] in most appearances. However, in the episode "[[Truth or Square]]," the original painting of Painty the Pirate is replaced by a talking fortune teller dummy and was voiced by [[CeeLo Green]]. Also in "Truth or Square" during [[List of theme songs in "Truth or Square"|the "rejected" theme songs]] for [[Squidward Tentacles]], [[Patrick Star]], and [[Eugene H. Krabs]], Painty the Pirate was voiced by [[Bob Joles]].

===Major appearances===
Besides being in the theme, he also makes appearances in "[[Your Shoe's Untied]]," "[[Wet Painters]]," (although he only appears as an inanimate painting) and "[[Unreal Estate]]."

==Trivia==
===General===
*In the recent episodes of the [[네모바지 스폰지밥|Korean dub]], the face on the painting of Painty the Pirate is replaced by a live action face of {{W|Eun Ji Won}}, who sings the theme song in the dub.
*Painty the Pirate is often mistaken for Patchy the Pirate due to the similarities in each other's names. There is even a set of official {{W|Top Trumps}} cards in which Patchy's card has a picture of Painty the Pirate instead.
*It was painted by Calvin Liang, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160208171825/https://twitter.com/paultibbitt/status/494940304600862721 according to an archived tweet on Paul Tibbitt's twitter account].
*"Truth or Square" is the only time that Painty the Pirate has appeared without his parrot or his eye patch.
*His dummy version is much different than his painting. It is very similar to Patchy's stop-motion version that later appears in "[[It's a SpongeBob Christmas!]]"
*Painty appears in a major role for the first time in commercials for [[Paramount+]]. He first appears in an ad where Aang from ''{{W|Avatar: The Last Airbender}}'', the titular character from ''{{W|Big Nate}}'', and various {{W|Nick Jr.}} and Paramount characters enter a cave. {{W|Peppa Pig}} discovers him saying that he really "speaks to her," then he starts talking in response, causing the characters to scream and run away, leaving the lantern in the cave. He then appears in an ad where he sings the ''{{W|Halo (franchise)|Halo}}'' video game series theme song (along with other Paramount+ characters) by doing his "Ooooooooooooooh!," which he does in the ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' theme song. He later appears in an ad promoting the Hide and Peek Sweepstakes, but this time having pirate-related stuff as arms and legs and another parrot on top of himself.
**This is the first time a character who does not appear in the main show appears in a Paramount+ ad. The second would be Mr. Garvey from ''{{W|Key & Peele}}''.
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A Mountain of Entertainment - Cave Painting - Paramount+
Halo Theme Song Paramount+ Commercial
Paramount+ Super Bowl Commercial
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==References==
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[[pl:Pirat Painty]]
[[ru:Пират Пэйнти]]
[[Category:Pirates]]
[[Category:Live-action characters]]
[[Category:Minor characters]]