The third season of The Patrick Star Show was announced on July 12, 2024.[1] Initially, the episodes of this season were set to be the second half of season 2, but was split "to keep their sizes more consistent with the season lengths currently consumed on streaming services where all shows ultimately get added," according to Nickelodeon.[2]
Season 3 premiered on July 29, 2024 with "The Fun Bucket" and ended on December 24, 2024 with "Day of the Living Dad Jokes."
The season was released on Paramount+ on June 25, 2025, 6 months and 1 day after it completed its broadcast on television.
Production[]
Somewhere in March to November 2023, Michael Moloney become an a freelance storyboard artist in Nora Meek and Zoë Moss episodes. The episodes that he worked on "Legend of the Lost Bathroom," "Patty Poo," "All Out of Idea Bricks," and "Get Ouch."
Between May 2023 and September 2024, Clayton Morrow returned the franchise as a freelance storyboard artist on the main series and The Patrick Star Show, after previously storyboarding on Plankton: The Movie.[3] The first episode he would work on for this season was "Driven to Drive." and the final episode he work on was "Day of the Living Dad Jokes."
Star-Robics was in production during June 2023, as it was the last episode Doyung Lee worked on before he switched to doing storyboard revisions for Big Nate.
The rough storyboards for "Day of the Dartfish" were finished by June 1, 2023.[4]
Nora Meek's storyboards for "All Bot Myself" were finished by August 1, 2023.[5] That month, Jess Nagy left the show.
Zoë Moss and Nora Meek left the series in September and December 2023 respectively. Their final episode was "Get Ouch."
Character design for "A Fool Schooled" was finished in October 2023.[6] This is also the final episode where Brett Varon was in storyboard supervisor in March 2024.
Eddie Trigueros rejoined Brett Varon's crew in November 2023, around the time production on "Thanks But No Thanksgiving" and "Get Ouch" started.
In January 2024, storyboard supervisor Brett Varon was promoted as a supervising director.[7] His first episode in this position would be "Thanks But No Thanksgiving."
Sandra D. Rivas left the series at February 2024. Her final episode that she worked on this season was "Day of the Living Dad Jokes."[8]
On October 18, 2024, an official SpongeBob SquarePants was held at New York Comic Con, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the series. Cast members Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, and Doug Lawrence, as well as executive producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller, served as panelists. At the panel, an exclusive sneak peak clip from "Thanks But No Thanksgiving" was screened, and several first-look images from "Squidina's Holidaze Special" were revealed.[9]
Promotional art[]
- Art by Kenny Pittenger.[10]
List of episodes[]
| Title card | # | Title | U.S. airdate | U.S. viewers (millions)
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40a | "The Fun Bucket" (tr • ga) | July 29, 2024 | |
| The Star family parties at the Chum Bucket. | ||||
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40b | "The Patrick Show After Dark" (tr • ga) | July 30, 2024 | |
| Patrick hosts his show after dark, exploring what Bikini Bottom is like at night. | ||||
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41a | "Chopping Spree" (tr • ga) | July 31, 2024 | |
| Pat the Hapless goes on a barbaric quest to the shopping mall. | ||||
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41b | "All Bot Myself" (tr • ga) | August 1, 2024 | |
| Pat-Tron works for the Star family. | ||||
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42a | "Star-Robics" (tr • ga) | August 5, 2024 | |
| In this fitness variety show, Patrick learns how to exercise. | ||||
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42b | "Who's the Dummy Now?" (tr • ga) | August 6, 2024 | |
| A family of dummies move into the Star home. | ||||
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43a | "Patrick Show Land" (tr • ga) | August 7, 2024 | |
| The Stars run a Patrick Show theme park in their home. | ||||
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43b | "Legend of the Lost Bathroom" (tr • ga) | August 8, 2024 | |
| Patrick and Squidina embark on a quest to find the lost bathroom. | ||||
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44a | "Driven to Drive" (tr • ga) | August 19, 2024 | |
| In a Patrick Show episode about boats, Cecil teaches Patrick how to drive. | ||||
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44b | "A Patty in Time" (tr • ga) | August 20, 2024 | |
| Patrick time-travels in a race for the Krusty Krab's newest menu item. | ||||
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45a | "Pat-per Route" (tr • ga) | August 21, 2024 | |
| Patrick helps Squidward with his newspaper delivery job to compensate for injuring him. | ||||
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45b | "Day of the Dartfish" (tr • ga) | August 22, 2024 | |
| In the midst of a typical day of scavenging, the Dartfish family discovers a thief in the Star home. | ||||
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46a | "Patty Poo" (tr • ga) | December 4, 2024 | |
| Patrick spawns an adorable mini-Patrick who quickly becomes the star of the show, until he outgrows the role. | ||||
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46b | "Swaptoberfest" (tr • ga) | December 6, 2024 | |
| The Star family celebrates the Klopnodian holiday Swaptoberfest by swapping identities with each other. | ||||
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47a | "Patrickle Jokes" (tr • ga) | December 10, 2024 | |
| Patrick and Squidina go undercover to investigate a corrupt novelty product factory. | ||||
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47b | "Pat Roast" (tr • ga) | December 12, 2024 | |
| The Patrick Show! presents the "Roast of Patrick Star." | ||||
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48a | "All Out of Idea Bricks" (tr • ga) | December 16, 2024 | |
| Patrick and Squidina follow their last idea brick into RandomLand. | ||||
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48b | "A Fool Schooled" (tr • ga) | December 18, 2024 | |
| After discovering that Patrick never finished behavioral training, the family home-schools him. | ||||
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49 | "Something Stupid This Way Comes" (tr • ga) | October 14, 2024 | |
| Madame Hagfish shares tales of Pat-Tron, Pat the Hapless, and Pat-gor. | ||||
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50 | "Thanks But No Thanksgiving" (tr • ga) | November 25, 2024 | |
| Patrick's family celebrates Thanksgiving with his mother's side of the family. | ||||
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51a | "Get Ouch" (tr • ga) | December 20, 2024 | |
| After getting rid of Ouchie, Pinkeye takes over the Star house. | ||||
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51b | "Day of the Living Dad Jokes" (tr • ga) | December 24, 2024 | |
| Patrick and Squidina must find safety amidst the dad joke apocalypse. | ||||
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52 | "Squidina's Holidaze Special" (tr • ga) | December 2, 2024 | |
| Squidina has to direct her school holiday play, but her script is mangled by Patrick. | ||||
Trivia[]
- This is the first season of the series (and the franchise) to consist entirely of holdover episodes from a previous production season.
- This is the shortest-running season of the franchise, with it taking only 4 months and 25 days to complete its broadcast on television.
- This is also the first season of the franchise to air all its episodes during one calendar year.
- However, neither of these would have been the case if this season remained part of season 2 instead of being split off.
- This is the first season where Ice cream man and Goofy Manager do not appear.
- Cecil appears in more episodes of this season than Squidina, the secondary protagonist of the show. This is because while Squidina is absent for two episodes of season 3, Cecil is only absent in one.
- This makes season 3 the first season of The Patrick Star Show where a character other than Patrick appears more than Squidina.
- This is the first season of the series (and the franchise) where Squidward has more appearances than SpongeBob (not counting likeness). Squidward appears in six episodes while SpongeBob only appears in five.
- This is the first season in the franchise in which every single episode segment has a unique airdate.
- This is the first season in the franchise to not be publicly revealed by Nickelodeon, as its first few episodes were revealed by a TV guide.
- On Ziggo, a Dutch TV provider, episodes of this season are listed as being part of season 2.
References[]
- ^ The Patrick Star Show - TV Insider
- ^ 'The Patrick Star Show' Renewed for Seasons 4 & 5 By Nickelodeon | NYCC 2024 - NickALive!
- ^ Clayton Morrow | LinkedIn
- ^ https://www.instagram.com/p/DHD_M2IxuAh/
- ^ https://www.slideshare.net/NoraMeek/230allbotmyself
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/harley-huang-bb6b05b2/
- ^ Brett Varon | LinkedIn
- ^ Sandra D. Rivas | Linkedin
- ^ Nickelodeon Celebrates ‘SpongeBob’ with NYCC Panel & Holiday Special Sneak Peeks - Animation Magazine
- ^ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "If you need an escape from the outside world..."
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m SpoilerTV+ ratings sheet
- ^ a b c d 08-13-24 weekly.xlsx - Google Sheets