"The Haunting of Star House" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 1. In this episode, Patrick hires cheap ghosts to haunt his house, but he ends up getting just what he paid for.
Characters
- Patrick Star
- Patrick's pupils
- FlimFlam Brothers (debut)
- Pepper on a bottle of ghost pepper sauce (debut)
- Flying Dutchman
- Squidina Star
- Cecil Star
- Bunny Star
- GrandPat Star
- Squidward Tentacles
- Phone
- Incidentals
Synopsis
This episode starts as Squidward walks up to the star house and knocks on the door.
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Production
Music
( ‣ ) Production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Waltz Scherzo - Jack Shaindlin [Opening]
‣ Green Gnu - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["Hello, friendly neighborhood paper boy!"]
‣ Increase B - Dick De Benedictis [Cecil screams and runs away]
‣ Horror Comic - Dennis Farnon [Squidward falls down the house]
‣ Dramatic Menace - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["Bunny! There's a prowler on the loose!"]
‣ In the Darkness - Alan Wynn [Patrick notices the "ghost"]
‣ Cartoon Cameo 6 - Ronald Hanmer ["This would be great on my show!"]
‣ Spooky - Steve Gray [Squidina decides to do a ghost peeker segment]
‣ Cartoon Cameo 7 - Ronald Hanmer ["Now it's your turn."]
‣ Peek-A-Boo - Jack Shaindlin ["Peek-a-boo!"]
‣ Romantic Man 3 - George Fenton, John Leach ["Gosh darn it! I wanted a peek at ghosts."]
‣ Crazy Goof - Jack Shaindlin [Flying Dutchman's Get-A-Ghost commercial]
‣ Cartoon Cameo 7 - Ronald Hanmer [Patrick calls the service]
‣ ? - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator] ["Oh boy! They're here!"]
‣ Grotesque #2 - Jack Shaindlin [Ghosts try to haunt Patrick's family]
‣ ? - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator] [Ghost screams after eating hot sauce]
‣ Ghost Party - Sam Fonteyn [Ghosts try to scare Bunny while she mows the carpet]
‣ Cat Burglar - Ronald Hanmer [Squidward tries to sneak into the house]
‣ Burlesque - Jack Shaindlin ["Your family's just too dumb to scare."]
• ? - Nicolas Carr
‣ Minutiae 2 - Sam Sklair, Otto Sieben ["We can't compete with that. That spooky kid is a ringer!"]
‣ ? - [ProjectSAM Symphobia Colours: Animator]
‣ Fast Colour - Peter Dennis [Makeover show]
• Funeral Parlor Music - Nicolas Carr [The cheap ghosts die as ghosts]
‣ Unknown Track 24 - The FlimFlam brothers come back to life
• Breathing Underwater - Nicolas Carr ["Wow, we're alive again!"]
‣ Comic Look - Marc Durst [FlimFlam Brothers decide to live in Patrick's house]
‣ Ghostly Presence - Ronald Hanmer
• ? - Nicolas Carr
‣ Minute Mile - Dennis Farnon [GrandPat chases the FlimFlam Brothers]
‣ Tijuana Tap Dance - Larry Ashmore [Squidina gives Patrick an extra skin suit]
• ? - Nicolas Carr
‣ ?
‣ Crazy Goof - Jack Shaindlin [Ending]
Release
- This episode is available on The Patrick Star Show Season 1, Volume 1 DVD.
Trivia
General
- This episode was paired with a rerun of "Stair Wars" during the original airing.
- This makes this the first episode of The Patrick Star Show and any SpongeBob spin-off to premiere without its sister episode.
- If the FlimFlam Brothers borrowed $10 from GrandPat in 1926, adjusted with inflation, that is equal to $145.52 (in today's money). If they owed $420,000.09 (in today's money), they would have borrowed $28,862.77 in 1926.
- This is the sixth episode of the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise where SpongeBob is completely absent, as he does not make an appearance and he is not mentioned.
- This episode marks the first appearance of the Flying Dutchman in The Patrick Star Show.
Episode References
- The phone becoming sentient as Patrick chokes it to death is very similar to how the hotline became sentient and growled at SpongeBob in the episode "Little Yellow Book."
Cultural references
- The episode's name is a reference to the novel and eventual film The Haunting of Hill House.
- When GrandPat and Squidward yell "You owe me restitution," it is a quote Sally Brown used from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
- The FlimFlam Brothers are named like the Flim Flam Brothers (and their introductory song) from My Little Pony.