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"Something Stupid This Way Comes" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 3. In this episode, Madame Hagfish shares tales of Pat-Tron, Pat the Hapless, and Pat-gor.
Characters[]
- Patrick Star
- Squidina Star
- Cecil Star
- Bunny Star
- GrandPat Star
- Madame Hagfish
- Captain Doug Quasar
- Grand-Tron
- Bun-Bot (pictured)
- Cecil-5000 (pictured)
- Pat-Tron
- Pat the Hapless
- Beelzebass
- Dr. Plankenstein
- Pat-gor
- SpongeMonster
- Incidentals
Synopsis[]
At Goo Lagoon, Patrick is burying his family in the sand when he sees a run-down Goofy Goober selling ice cream. He runs off to follow him, passing through thick fog and arriving at Madame Hagfish's fortune-telling tent. She removes the Goofy Goober costume and offers to tell Patrick's fortune with her crystal ball, although Patrick is disappointed by the lack of ice cream.
In the first story, Pat-Tron accidentally blows up the S.S. Super Minnow's emergency forcefields by using it to make nachos. When a spacecraft approaches, he blasts it, only to be told it is actually the mail ship. The mailman arrives, fining Quasar a million dollars for attacking the ship. Pat-Tron has received an inheritance to cover the fine, as long as he and Quasar spend one night in Grandroid's estate. The estate is a haunted house full of booby traps, scaring Quasar. Both of them go into their guest rooms, with Pat-Tron plugging himself in for the night.
When Quasar goes to brush his teeth, a skull virus escapes from the medicine cabinet and chases him away. Quasar runs into Pat-Tron's room, where the virus possesses Pat-Tron through his plug, making him turn evil and shoot at Quasar. Quasar gets chased throughout the house, until the plug comes loose, freeing Pat-Tron. The virus moves into the house's circuitry.
Quasar declares that they must put a stop to the virus, and they go to find the mainframe in the basement. The basement's boiler tries to eat Quasar, and Pat-Tron frees him by rebooting the power. When the lights come back on, they run into Al, their xenomorph friend, who was also in the will. The three sleep together and wake up the next morning, where Grandroid appears as a spirit and gives them their inheritance. However, they realize that Pat-Tron forgot to set the house's orbit after the reboot, sending the house straight into the Sun.
Patrick is disappointed by the prediction, and Madame Hagfish takes out some tarot cards for her next one. The next prediction involves Pat the Hapless, who beheads all the monsters and citizens in his village to keep their heads as trophies. During the night, the heads begin pestering him with requests for food and things to do.
Pat spends the night hanging out with the heads, left very exhausted. He decides to get Beelzebass to put the heads back on their bodies. Rather than granting the wish, Bubble Bass smugly tells Pat to keep saying please, and Pat beheads him. He teleports away, and the heads catch up to him. Pat runs away and winds up in a guillotine, with his head getting launched away and into a circle of monster heads, who all want to hang out with him too.
Patrick does not like this prediction either, so Madame Hagfish tries reading his palm. This starts a new segment, "The Cravin'", set in Dr. Plankenstein's castle. Patgor is hungry and wakes up to have a snack, dumping the contents of the fridge onto a sandwich. He cooks it with lightning, turning the sandwich into a monster. Patgor runs from it, and Dr. Plankenstein and SpongeMonster try to stop the monster, but it eats them both. Patgor traps the sandwich by stabbing it with a toothpick, then eats the rest of it. He spits out SpongeMonster and Dr. Plankenstein, and Plankenstein locks up the fridge.
Patrick is sad that there is no ice cream in his future, between the three predictions. Madame Hagfish goes outside, where the characters from her predictions are waiting, and has Pat the Hapless grant Patrick's prediction. Pat the Hapless, as the Gruesome Goober, serves up Patrick's family's heads on an ice cream cone. They all bid the audience a happy Halloween.
Production[]
This episode was confirmed by Animation Magazine on September 18, 2024.[2]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• ? - Ego Plum [Title card and opening.]
‣ Old Creepy Feeling - John Scott [Patrick looks through opera glasses.]
• ? - Ego Plum [Patrick sees the Gruesome Goober.]
◦ Goober Rag - Andrew Goodman, Ego Plum [Patrick runs after the Gruesome Goober.]
‣ ? [Patrick runs onto a bridge.]
‣ Secrets Of The Night - Magnum Opus [Patrick in fog.]
• ? - Ego Plum [Ice cream jingle.]
‣ Secrets Of The Night - Magnum Opus [Madame Hagfish appears.]
◦ Space Nachos - Ego Plum, Kaz [Pat-Tron sings this.]
‣ Andy Anorak - Christopher Marshall [Spacecraft covered in nachos.]
‣ Space Horizons - Wolf Helling ["Spacecraft approaching."]
‣ Andy Anorak - Christopher Marshall [Space mail arrives.]
‣ Bridge H - Gregor F. Narholz ["We're being fined a million space bucks!"]
‣ One Over the Eight - Len Stevens ["He left me one million space bucks in his will!"]
‣ Tales From The Swamp (B) - Ron Goodwin [Haunted house.]
‣ Tales From The Swamp (D) - Ron Goodwin [Pat-Tron looks at the address.]
‣ Curley Shirley - Otto Sieben [Pool house.]
‣ Terror by Night - Hubert Clifford [Grand-Tron's house.]
‣ ? [Pat-Tron explains the house's oddities.]
‣ ? [Captain Quasar and Pat-Tron walking through the mansion.]
‣ Comic Capers B - Charlie Brissette, Norman Mamey [Moose tramples Captain Quasar.]
‣ Say it with a Smile (e) - Dick Walter ["Let's get you to bed."]
‣ Planet Surface - Gregor F. Narholz [Captain Quasar and Pat-Tron enter the guest rooms.]
‣ Death Clock F - Dick de Benedictis [Captain Quasar in the bathroom.]
‣ Death Clock G - Dick de Benedictis [Captain Quasar opens the medicine cabinet.]
‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford [Virus appears.]
‣ Flight In Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz [Captain Quasar fleeing from the virus.]
‣ Sleepy City - Max Saunders [Captain Quasar in Pat-Tron's room.]
‣ Flight In Panic 1 - Gregor F. Narholz [Virus possesses Pat-Tron.]
‣ Monster Bug C - Gregor F. Narholz [Pat-Tron glowing red.]
‣ Hot Pursuit [#9] - Edmund Koetscher [Pat-Tron firing his death ray at Captain Quasar.]
‣ Evil Wizard B - Udi Harpaz ["You got possessed by an evil robot glitch."]
‣ ? [Virus goes from one candle to another.]
‣ The Jovial Buccaneers [#33] - John Fox ["We've got to burn this house's corrupted operating system before we get killed!"]
‣ Death Clock E - Dick de Benedictis [Captain Quasar and Pat-Tron enter the basement.]
‣ Attack of the Giant Robots - Cris Velasco [Boiler tries to eat Captain Quasar.]
‣ ? [Pat-Tron turns off the light.]
‣ Shock (F) - Dave Hewson [Al appears.]
‣ Comic Capers B - Charlie Brissette, Norman Mamey [Captain Quasar and Pat-Tron scream.]
‣ Andy Anorak - Christopher Marshall ["It's our old buddy, Al!"]
‣ Blue Dawn - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Captain Quasar, Pat-Tron, and Al sleeping.]
‣ Locomotion - Clive Richardson [Grand-Tron gifts his inheritance money.]
‣ Ballet Elegante - Albert Ketelbey [House flies into the sun.]
‣ Simply Magical - Magnum Opus [Tarot cards.]
‣ Sword Fight - Sam Fonteyn [Pat the Hapless beheading everyone.]
‣ Medieval Dance 3 - Norbert Condar [Townsfolk thank Pat the Hapless.]
‣ Fun Sting F - Gregor F. Narholz [Pat the Hapless beheads the townsfolk.]
‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz ["Whoops."]
‣ Medieval Dance 3 - Norbert Condar ["No problem!"]
‣ Jalopy - Ron Aspery [Pat the Hapless walking home.]
‣ Death Clock E - Dick de Benedictis ["Is there anyone I haven't beheaded?"]
‣ Swinging Cocktail [#94] - Stephane Huguenin, Christian Padovan, Yves Sanna [Pat the Hapless arrives home.]
‣ I Sleep So To Dream - Carl Bach, Ed Lewis, Gerhard Kanzian [Pat the Hapless goes to bed.]
‣ ? [Head wakes Pat the Hapless.]
‣ Dachshund Walk - John Fox, Mac Prindy [Heads want to hang out with Pat the Hapless.]
◦ Moonlight Bay - Ego Plum [Barbershop quintet.]
‣ Review 1 - Steve Gray [Bowling.]
‣ ? [Montage of Pat the Hapless and the heads hanging out.]
‣ Folli the Foal - Andrew Fenner [Rooster crows.]
‣ Havoc And Desolation - John Hastings ["Gotta get their heads back on their bodies."]
‣ Tales From The Swamp (A) - Ron Goodwin [Beelzebass' castle.]
‣ ? [Beelzebass steals someone's pizza.]
‣ Evil Wizard B - Udi Harpaz [Pat the Hapless enters Beelzebass' castle.]
‣ Tricks and Traps - James McConnel ["Did you say you need my help?"]
‣ Suspense And Tension A - Alan Wynn [Beelzebass beheaded.]
‣ Tricks and Traps - James McConnel [Beezlebass teleports away.]
‣ Shock (F) - Dave Hewson ["There you are!"]
‣ La Muette De Portici - Daniel Auber [Pat the Hapless' head launched out of the castle.]
‣ Tales From The Swamp (B) - Ron Goodwin [Monster heads want to hang out with Pat the Hapless.]
‣ Secrets Of The Night - Magnum Opus [Palm reading.]
• ? - Ego Plum ["The Cravin'" segment.]
‣ Secrets Of The Night - Magnum Opus [Madame Hagfish steps outside.]
• ? - Ego Plum ["You're getting what you want."]
‣ Fight for Ol' Schaefer U. - Will Schaefer [Patrick runs out of the tent.]
• Spooky Antics Revisited - Ego Plum [Ending.]
Trivia[]
General[]
- This is the second Halloween special of The Patrick Star Show, following "Terror at 20,000 Leagues."
- This is the first special since season 1, since there were no specials in season 2.
- This is also the first double-length episode to be made by the storyboard-driven crew the show has had since "The Patterfly Effect."
- The episode was uploaded on the Nickelodeon UK YouTube channel on October 1, 2024, although it is region-locked, meaning only people living in the UK or Ireland can view it.
- Starting from this episode, Stephen Hillenburg is now credited as the creator of the series.
- In addition, Kenny Pittenger is now credited as a co-executive producer instead of a supervising producer.
Episode references[]
- Patrick and his family's Halloween costumes (with the exception of Cecil for unknown reasons) are the same ones they wore to Neptune's party in "Neptune's Ball."
Cultural references[]
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1962 novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes.
- Coincidentally, "Something Narwhal This Way Comes" - an episode from the main show - also references the novel in the title.
