"Super Stars" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 2. In this episode, the Star family become a legion of superheroes.
Characters[]
- Patrick Star
- Super Patrick (single appearance)
- Squidina Star
- Super Squidina (single appearance)
- Cecil Star
- Super Cecil (single appearance)
- Bunny Star
- Super Bunny (single appearance)
- GrandPat Star
- Super GrandPat (single appearance)
- Granny Tentacles
- President Krabs
- Socky (single appearance)
- Incidentals
- Incidental 73
- Incidental 9
- Incidental 5
- Incidental 67
- Old Man Walker
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 13
- Incidental 36
- Incidental 40
- Incidental 99
- Incidental 30
- Incidental 103
- Incidental 6
- Incidental 25
- Incidental 23 (redesigned)
- Incidental 64
- Incidental 27 (redesigned)
- Incidental 42 (redesigned)
- Incidental 45 (redesigned)
- Incidental 46
- Incidental 49
- Incidental 65
- Incidental 69
- Incidental 151
- Snail 13
Sypnosis[]
Patrick saves Granny Tentacles' bag.
It's a typical day for The Patrick Show!, with Patrick performing gleeful sock puppet antics for his audience. Unfortunately, it comes to Pat's attention that there's a villain afoot - a cold-hearted fish stealing Granny Tentacles' purse. Using a port-a-potty occupied by GrandPat, Patrick turns into Super Patrick and uses his belly button powers to suck in a wrecking ball to defeat the fish, and retrieves Granny Tentacles' purse - much to her dismay. Super Pat then flies off into the sky, crossing paths with Super Squidina, who breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that they aren't the only super-powered ones, bringing forth their "snazzy intro."
The SuperStars' origins are revealed to be thanks to a toxic waste dump in Bikini Bottom, giving them each super powers (Patrick is "stupid," Squidina has "ink," GrandPat has "power naps," Cecil's is "dad," and Bunny's got "heart.") The crew are then called in by President Krabs, who asks them to use their powers to lower crime rates and help his image. They cause chaos and destruction among everyone and everything around town, but after Super Bunny brings down a snail from a tree, the Stars are abducted by a giant doily.
The doily drops them into a secret lair, a mechanically apt version of a pink, teacup house that gets the Stars caught in various fatal contraptions based on typically harmless home appliances. The Stars all seem doomed, but GrandPat's power naps come to use, with his beard tickling the giant foot he's about to be crushed under. All of the Stars break free from their traps, but just before they leave, the villain reveals herself to be Granny Tentacles, who continues to war with the gang. The two parties land onto the ground after an action-filled quarrel, where Patrick still eats Bunny's cookies that she made from Granny Tentacles' tennis ball projectiles during the fight. As Patrick says that her reign of terror is over, Granny smacks the star into a boatmobile. Pat gets an idea and consumes the vehicle with his belly button, with Cecil catching on and transforming into a golf club, flying the boat-consuming star into Granny and causing a massive explosion.
The Star family turns evil.
In the end, Granny T. is defeated, but the citizens aren't taking it too well, as the Stars had only caused destruction throughout the whole thing and instead saw Granny as a hero. When telling everyone that President Krabs hired them to save the town, he gets into his jet and is flown away. All of this causes the Stars to transition to the dark side, gaining evil goatees and going back to their destructive habits. The Patrick Show!'s viewers, however, are left in the dust, with one of them suggesting to change the antenna, as the episode ends.
Production[]
This episode's rough storyboards were completed on July 19, 2022,[1] and the episode continued production throughout the year.[2][3]
This episode was confirmed on May 1, 2023.
Storyboards for the SuperStars' opening sequence were released in August 2023 by Scott Bern.[1]
Promotional art[]
- Drawn by Kenny Pittenger.[4]
Art[]
Background design[]
- Art direction by Marta Knudsen, layouts by Tim Allen and John Seymore,[5] traditionally painted by Amy Lewis,[6] with line/shadows and lighting digitally painted on top,[2][7] and Diego Molano.[3]
Storyboards[]
- The rough storyboards for the first two acts of this episode are available on Andy Gonsalves' website.[8]
- Plussed by Scott Bern.[1]
Production notes[]
Amy Lewis:
- Lewis said that "this show is such a treat to paint for! Its style still shouts 'world of SpongeBob' because of the same shape and design language but has its own unique edge by being painted in watercolour instead of gouache or acrylic like SpongeBob."[7]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Boys And Girls - Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gilbert Sigrist [Title card and opening.]
‣ Return Of The Keystone Cops - David Lindup [Sock Puppet spots Granny Tentacles being robbed.]
‣ Super Hero - Anthony Hymas [Patrick transforms into Super Patrick.]
‣ American Superhero - Frederic Sans [Patrick confronts the robber.]
‣ Super Hero - Anthony Hymas [Patrick returns Granny Tentacles' purse.]
‣ Ghostly Sightings - Wilfred Burns [Barrel of toxic waste turns the Stars into superheroes.]
‣ Fight Or Flight - Frederic Sans ["Super Stars" intro sequence.]
‣ Hail To The Chief A - Will Schaefer [President Krabs calls Super Patrick.]
‣ Toy Town Parade - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Super Patrick still drinking whipped cream.]
‣ Starboard - Sam Spence [President Krabs asks the Super Stars to do good deeds.]
‣ Toy Town Parade - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick agrees to help President Krabs.]
‣ Mischief Makers - Gilbert Vinter [Old Man Walker asks Squidina to help him cross the street/"Young lady, would you take me to the emergency room?"]
‣ Gunning for Danger - Syd Dale [Patrick beats up a vending machine for stealing a dollar.]
‣ Turkey Trot - John Longmire [Bunny helps a snail off of a tree.]
‣ La Muette De Portici - Daniel Auber [The fallen tree causes several buildings to topple.]
‣ The March of the Ants - Sidney Crooke ["Uh, Dad? What's insurance and do we have it?"]
‣ Halloween Antics A - Kevin Riepl [A giant doily approaches.]
‣ Attack of the Giant Robots - Cris Velasco [The Super Stars get abducted by the giant doily and taken to a secret lair.]
‣ American Superhero - Frederic Sans [The Super Stars free themselves from the villain's traps.]
‣ Suspense And Tension C - Alan Wynn [The villain is revealed to be Granny Tentacles.]
‣ Stealth and Capture - Wilfred Burns ["I've always hated your family!"]
‣ Eye Of The Coloss - Frederic Sans [Bunny makes cookies out of Granny Tentacles' tennis balls.]
‣ Dignity - Peter Yorke ["Stop right there, villain!"]
‣ Halloween Antics A - Kevin Riepl [Patrick is hit by Granny Tentacle's purse.]
‣ Pegasus in Action - Assaf Rinde [Cecil hits Patrick towards Granny Tentacles/"The day is saved!"]
‣ Dangerous Seas - Joseph Engleman [The crowd is angry at the Super Stars]
‣ Hail To The Chief A - Will Schaefer ["Um, no. I didn't hire-"]
‣ The Drunkards Song - Viktor Mastoridis ["I'm-a some-a one else-a, not-a President-a Krabs-a!"]
‣ Tabu - Daryl Griffith ["But we're the good guys!"]
‣ Dignity - Peter Yorke ["Since she's the good guy, why don't we just be the bad guys?"]
‣ Return Of The Keystone Cops - David Lindup [Ending.]
Trivia[]
General[]
Simulcasting. By the time Nick had started the episode, Nicktoons was already airing it.
- This episode's premiere, alongside the other three in its premiere week were simulcasted on Nicktoons.[9] Due to Nicktoons' spacings of commercial breaks, the episode effectively debuted on that network first.
- This episode's working title (according to a filename sourced from Scott Bern's website) was "PatrickStarShowSUPERSTARS."[1] It is also possible that this episode may have just been called "SuperStars" without the space, as the filename not only merges the words, but the SuperStars' opening sequence refers to the in-episode superhero group like that.
- This episode's title is a pun on the compound word "superheroes."
- This episode was initially supposed to premiere on August 21, 2023 at 1:00pm, later 5:00pm, but was later pulled for unknown reasons.
- On its new date, it was originally going to premiere at 5:00pm, but it was moved to 4:00pm.
- A different Superhero Bunny previously appeared in "A Root Galoot."
- This episode was paired up with a rerun of "The Star Games" during the original American airing.[10]
- This episode was accidentally listed on Prime Video Canada on August 20, 2023, along with its sister episode.[11]
Dub facts[]
- This is the last episode of The Patrick Star Show and the entire SpongeBob franchise as a whole to credit Luis Pérez Pons as the voice of Mr. Krabs in the Latin American dub before his death on October 24, 2023.
Episode references[]
- The suit President Krabs wears is the same one he wears to the convention in "Kracked Krabs."
Cultural references[]
- The Super Stars' opening sequence is a parody of the Super Friends', with both Super Patrick and Squidina's introductions parodying Superman and Wonder Woman respectively.
- The Oval Office appears in this episode as President Krabs' headquarters, and the Washington Monument can be seen in the office's window.[2]
- Squidina's ink portal power as Super Squidina is similar to Liv Baker's Ghost Portal power as Myst in Ghostforce.
Errors[]
- Patrick has no eyebrows in the signs that the angry crowd are holding.
Squidina's sleeves are yellow instead of white.
- When Squidina ties up Granny Tentacles, her sleeves are yellow for a frame.
Videos[]
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish (American) | Super estrellas | Super Stars |
References[]
- ^ a b c d e Storyboard PDFs - Scott Bern
- ^ a b c d Amy Lewis Art - The Patrick Star Show
- ^ a b c Diego Molano : Background Paint | Layout Design
- ^ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "Oh man, shoulda told you sooner..."
- ^ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "Art direction by..."
- ^ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "BG I painted..."
- ^ a b Amy Lewis on Instagram - "The Patrick Star Show background..."
- ^ The Patrick Star Show - Superstars
- ^ The Patrick Star Show - Nicktoons G.L.O.B.E. Archives
- ^ November 6, 2023 - Nickstory
- ^ The Patrick Star Show - Season 2 | Amazon Prime Video
Notes[]
- ^ Also listed as "PAT203" in the segment's storyboards and simply "203" in its model sheets and background art.