120 Conch Street is the address of Patrick Star's house. It first appears in the pilot episode "Help Wanted."
Description
The house is a large brown rock with a tan arrow-shaped weather vane on top. Like a door, the rock has hinges to open and close.Early in the series, Patrick had nothing in it except a gray TV and a green chair with a lamp beside it. Later on, he has everything made of sand.
Patrick also is known to pick up or carry the entire rock. It also has a backyard that is rarely shown. The front yard has a long black path connecting the front of the rock and Conch Street. Patrick has one large room in his house that he changes according to the time of the day.
In the episode "Home Sweet Pineapple," Patrick reveals that his house is extremely easy to make and he built it all by himself.
In the "Truth or Square TV Guide," a comic reveals that Patrick's house was once his small pet rock who grew up to be a large rock and he puts an arrow on it, but the wooden arrow broke and fell. Patrick's house is usually pinkish brown or very dark brown. Patrick is not good at making a house, so this is why his house is just a rock, but Patrick did manage to build the rooms and put his stuff in it.
It is revealed that Patrick's parents kicked him out and got rid of him, so he had to make his own house. .[1]
In the episode "The Card," Patrick is revealed to have a landlord who constantly changes the lock on him.
In the episode "I'm with Stupid," it is revealed that Patrick's house has two rooms, including the kitchen. Sometimes there is also a bathroom in the house, as seen in "The Donut of Shame."
In the episode "The Pink Purloiner," the house is revealed to have a staircase.
In "Growth Spout," he is revealed to own a sand refrigerator full of fake sand food items in his kitchen.
In "Shell Games", it is revealed that Patrick's house is a shell that belongs to a sea turtle named Tony. Tony have been asleep for over 30 years and his shell slowly became covered in the substance, giving it a rock like appearance.
Destruction
- "Plankton!" - SpongeBob, while being controlled by Plankton, breaks through the walls.
- "The Gift of Gum" - Patrick smashes it to get Gummy out.
- "Big Sister Sam" - Sam Star throws the rock in a fit of rage.
- "New Fish in Town" - Squidward throws the house off a cliff with a forklift, along with SpongeBob's pineapple and Howard's trailer.
- "The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom" - Rrarrg throws the house because of laughter followed by SpongeBob's house then Squidward's house.
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water - Patrick himself vandalizes it.
- "The Ballad of Filthy Muck" - His house melts from Patrick's foul stench.
- "Shell Games" - Gets destroyed after him and Tony crash into a giant rock after fighting, then they begin to cry.
Changes
- "Big Pink Loser" - Patrick makes his rock look like SpongeBob's house.
- "Patrick SmartPants" - Patrick remodels it into a laboratory.
- "Rule of Dumb" - Patrick remodels it into a castle.
- "Sun Bleached" - SpongeBob and Patrick turn it into a tanning bed.
- "Big Sister Sam" - Patrick's sister moves his house and builds a sand version instead.
- "Patrick's Staycation" - SpongeBob remodels it into a hotel for Patrick.
- "It's a SpongeBob Christmas" - Patrick adds a chimney to his rock as a trap for Santa.
- "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"- In place of Patrick's rock is a multistory high rise.
Trivia
- In some episodes, Patrick's rock looks larger with separate rooms.
- Patrick's rock in some episodes has one room and in others, it has a lot of rooms, a stairway, and even a basement. However, in some other episodes, under Patrick's rock is simply flat ground.
- Running gags:
- The weather vane falling off the house in multiple episodes.
- Another running gag, that was mainly used in season 1, is that while lying on it, Patrick falls off his rock upon opening it every time.
- In "The Donut of Shame," Patrick repeatedly forgets his house does not have an attic.
- In one of the theme songs in "Truth or Square," Patrick is described as "liv[ing] like a barnacle." This references how barnacles often live on hard surfaces like rocks.
- Patrick sleeping on the bottom of his house is a parody of the idiom "living under a rock", meaning one does not understand what is around them.
- The pet rock Patrick owns in "The Great Snail Race" is similar to his house.
- Almost like the inside of Patrick's house in the show, the LEGO version has a chair and a TV, the only exception being it has a table with a red cup on it.
- "Shell Games" reveals Patrick's rock house is a turtle shell, but Tony has never been seen in the entire series until now.
References
- ^ "Home Sweet Pineapple." SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon. August 14, 1999. Television.