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The Patterfly Effect

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"The Patterfly Effect" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 1. In this episode, Patrick messes with the space-time continuum.

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Synopsis[]

Patrick has a multi-layered dream consisting solely of himself sleeping, and recalls it as the greatest dream of his life when he wakes up. He wants to get back to sleep, and takes his head off to rock it to sleep, but this does not work. He tries to hit his head with a hammer to fall unconscious, but he misses and his body runs away. Patrick's body eats breakfast while Squidina puts make-up on his head.

Patrick's head and body reunite, and he tells Squidina that he will not start the show until he relives his dream. Bunny tells Patrick that, as a little girl, she dreamed of being a race car driver -- however, Patrick cuts her off early and thinks she wanted to be a race car. He goes off to make Bunny's "dream" come true.

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Young Bunny as a race car.

Patrick enters the time closet to go to Klopnod, 30 years into the past. He meets Bunny as a child and proves that he is her son from the future. He takes her to the speedway and has her race on foot against a car. She fails to beat the car, so Patrick and Bunny train to turn her into a car herself. Bunny wins a race and Patrick decides to return to the present.

In the present day, Patrick finds that he and Squidina now have wheels and treads instead of feet. He learns that after a race car accident, Bunny ended up becoming a street sweeper. He retreats into the time closet and tells child Bunny not to be a race car, interrupting his past self. As Patrick drives away, he runs over a lamppost and causes a fire. In the present day, his legs are back, but the entire house is on fire, with Squidina greeting him while wearing a fireproof suit.

Patrick tries many times to fix the past, but every time, something ends up wrong. He returns to find that the family is normal, except for a mouth on his stomach. Bunny serves him food, but it is dinner instead of breakfast, to Patrick's horror. Patrick tries to go back in time, but the time closet has now become a regular closet in this universe.

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Patrick restores the time closet.

Patrick tries to reinvent the time closet by taping a clock to a cardboard box. Squidina laughs at him and says that inventing a real one would require decades of research and education. Patrick heads to college and ends up inventing time travel himself, then re-instating the time closet.

An older Patrick goes back in time and prevents himself from ever using the time closet in the first place. Younger Patrick shrugs it off and says he will do something else instead. Older Patrick asks about breakfast, and younger Patrick says that it was 15 minutes ago. They agree to go back in time 15 minutes for breakfast. However, both of them end up being part of the eggs that Bunny cooks for breakfast.

Production[]

This episode was in production as early as November or December 2021.[2]

This episode was confirmed by Cartoonlounge.de on March 7, 2022,[3] and was completed some time during the aforementioned year.[4]

As early as August 31, 2022, model sheets and other pieces of art from this episode were leaked, such as a prop for Patrick's SpongeBob Comics book, and the Stars' warped universe toilet house.

The episode was added to the United States Copyright Office on March 9, 2023.[4]

Promotional art and images[]

Model sheets[]

Art[]

Background design[]

Prop design[]

Storyboards[]

Production notes[]

Dylan Bozic:

  • Bozic said that he "had the pleasure of co-boarding it with the crazy talented Andy Gonsalves and Brett Varon and his team did an amazing job polishing it up." Bozic said that fans "won't want to miss what we've been cooking up this season!"[10]

Andy Gonsalves:

  • Being Gonsalves' first episode, he "co-wrote and storyboarded "The Patterfly Effect" with Dylan Bozic based on a GREAT outline by Jacob Fleisher. [Their] boards were then turned into eye candy under the supervision of Brett Varon."[2]

Arielle Phillips:

  • Phillips said that the episode was "directed by my fellow awesome Looney alumni Andy Gonsalves and supervised by the uber talented Brett Varon!"[15]
  • This was the first time Phillips had drawn Patrick in 4 years at that point, with the last episode she worked on being "SpongeBob's Bad Habit."[16]
  • While plussing a scene featuring Patrick in an angry pose, she decided to keep it the way it was done in the rough storyboards, as "it made [her] giggle."[17]

Music[]

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • ? - Ego Plum [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Rainbow Delights - Magnum Opus ["I dreamed that I was dreaming that I was having the greatest dream of my life!"]
 ‣ Emotion Blues - Eric Gemsa, Francois Fournet ["It's not working!"]
 ‣ Try On and On A - Hans Ehrlinger [Patrick takes his head off his body.]
 ‣ ? [Patrick tries to lull his head to sleep.]
 ‣ Soccer Stars - Gerhard Narholz ["In case of not asleep, break glass!"]
 ‣ Target - Hans Ehrlinger ["Too warm!"/Patrick's body running down the hall.]
 ‣ Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz [Bunny making breakfast.]
 ‣ Target - Hans Ehrlinger [Patrick's body is about to hit Bunny with a mallet.]
 ‣ Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz [Patrick's body eats breakfast.]
 ‣ Forever and a Day (d) - Raun Burnham, Jerry Burnham [Patrick wearing makeup.]
 ‣ Piano At The Plaza (a) - Paul Reeves ["Y'know, I had a dream once."]
 ‣ Wave Running A - Charlie Brissette [Bunny describes her dream.]
 ‣ ? ["My mother is going to be a race car!"]
 ‣ Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz ["I dreamed of being a race car driver, not a race car!"]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Patrick pulls a button on the time closet.]
 ‣ German Dizzy Dance - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [Time closet is set to travel to Klopnod from 30 years ago.]
 ‣ Bratwurst Polka A - Lars Kurz, H C Mylla ["Future Mom, you're meant for better things."]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Transition to next scene.]
 ‣ Bad Game - Anthony Luisi [Patrick and Bunny at the racetrack.]
 ‣ Future Train - Etienne Cap, Jan Paul Hulsens [Bunny trying to race a race-car.]
 • More Hawaiian Steel Stings 9 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh boy."]
 • ? - Ego Plum ["We got a lot of work to do."]
 ‣ Quest For The Best 1 - David Reilly [Patrick coaches Bunny in working out to become a race-car.]
 ‣ Pirates of the Sky - Udi Harpaz [Bunny becomes a race-car.]
 ‣ Mini Mischief - Johnny Pearson ["Are you sure this is what I told you I wanted?"]
 ‣ In the Twilight - Stuart Crombie [Everyone has wheels when Patrick returns home.]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Patrick travels back in time again.]
 ‣ Bratwurst Polka A - Lars Kurz, H C Mylla ["Klopnod, 30 years ago, again."/"Okay. Love you. Bye!"]
 ‣ Tense Moments - David Francis ["Don't ruin anything else. Don't ruin anything else."]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Patrick goes back through his time closet.]
 ‣ Many Good Wishes - Alfred Jack, Peter Esching [Patrick returns home again.]
 ‣ Bobsled - Caesar Giovannini, Wayne Robinson [Mountain timeline.]
 ‣ ? [Plaid timeline.]
 • Elbbow Inihaw - Ego Plum [Upside down timeline.]
 ‣ California Baby A - Jerry Burnham, Wayne Cook  [Fast food timeline.]
 ‣ Idyll in the Clouds - Ludo Philipp ["Maybe?"]
 ‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor Narholz [Maybe not."]
 ‣ ? ["Many attempts to fix the past later..."]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Patrick nervously walks around the house.]
 ‣ Glockenspiel Gavotte - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey ["Life is normal again!"]
 ‣ Death Clock C - Dick De Benedictis ["What's breakfast?"]
 ‣ Death Clock B - Dick De Benedictis ["What's a time closet?"]
 ‣ Steve's March - Sam Spence [Montage of Patrick learning how to create a time closet.]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Past Patrick runs towards the time closet.]
 ‣ Finger of Suspicion - Alan Wynn [Future Patrick warns past Patrick not to go into the time closet.]
 ‣ Glockenspiel Gavotte - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Ending.]

Release[]

Trivia[]

General[]

Episode references[]

Cultural references[]

  • This episode's title is a parody of the butterfly effect.
  • When Patrick gets a degree in understanding time, his haircut is similar to that of Albert Einstein.

Names in other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Russian Мечты сбываются вновь и вновь
Mechty sbyvayutsya vnov' i vnov'		 Dreams Come True Again and Again
Spanish (Latin America) El Efecto Desastroso The Disastrous Effect
Spanish (Spain) El efecto Patri Mariposa The Patterfly Effect

References[]

  1. ^ Nickelodeon UK - May 11, 2023
  2. ^ a b c Andy Gonsalves on Instagram - "For the past year, and four..."
  3. ^ DIE PATRICK STAR SHOW - EPISODE GUIDE
  4. ^ a b From the United States Copyright Office catalog: Public Catalog - Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) - Basic Search [search: "Patrick Star Show"]. United States Copyright Office.
  5. ^ Amanda Donahue on Tumblr - "I've been real MIA..."
  6. ^ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "A bunch of "The Patrick Star Show" episodes..."
  7. ^ Brad Sutton on Instagram - "Been painting some watercolours..."
  8. ^ a b The Patrick Star Show - Background Paintings
  9. ^ Prop Design | digitalcrayonbox.com
  10. ^ a b Dylan Bozic on Instagram - "Wanted to share some rough..."
  11. ^ Trey Chavez on Twitter - "Here are some of my..."
  12. ^ Arielle Phillips on Twitter - "Quite a few of the..."
  13. ^ Arielle Phillips on Twitter - "Patrick is pointing at you..."
  14. ^ Arielle Phillips on Twitter - "Out of context clip, I'm sure..."
  15. ^ a b Arielle Phillips on Instagram - "Some of my favorite..."
  16. ^ Arielle Phillips on Twitter - "These were the first Patricks..."
  17. ^ Arielle Phillips on Twitter - "I had to keep the..."
  18. ^ Nickstory - April 17, 2023

Notes[]

  1. ^ Also listed as "PAT038" in the segment's storyboards, and simply "038" in its model sheets.
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