"Tying the Klop-Knot" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 2. In this episode, Bunny and Cecil need to get married again.
Characters[]
- Patrick Star
- Squidina Star
- Bunny Star
- Cecil Star
- GrandPat Star
- Future GrandPat
- Klopguardians (single appearance)
- Klopguardian 1 (single appearance)
- Klopguardian 2 (single appearance)
- Slappy Laszlo (cameo)
- Minister (cameo)
- Sam Star (cameo)
- Octavius Rex (cameo)
- Sea bear
- Argle Gargles (single appearance)
- Incidentals
- Incidental 7
- Incidental 14
- Incidental 27
- Incidental 37B
- Incidental 45
- Incidental 64
- Incidental 81
- Incidental 96
- Incidental 101
- Incidental 104
- Incidental 110
- Incidental 111
- Incidental 118A
- Incidental 118C
- Incidental 161
- Incidental 162
- Incidental 174
- Incidental CM13
- Klopnod 7
- Unknown "Klopnod" 1
- Unknown "Klopnod" 3
- Unknown "Klopnod" 4
- Unknown "Klopnod" 5
- Unknown "Klopnod" 9
- Klopnod elder man 1
- Klopnod elder man 2
Synopsis[]
Squidina pleads for the Klopguardians to not take her mother away.
To celebrate their anniversary, Bunny and Cecil watch a video of their wedding. Klopnodian marriages have many odd traditions, the last being the kissing of the wedding cake. When Patrick sees the cake in the video, he travels back in time and eats it. Two Klopguardians break the door of the house down to take Bunny back to Klopnod, since her wedding is no longer valid. Squidina bargains with the Klopguardians to complete a wedding by sunset so her parents can stay together. She is given a wedding law book, with the guardians making sure she does everything right.
First, Bunny and Squidina go to the attic. Bunny has a nice wedding dress prepared, but the Klopnodian laws call for something "old, brusied, stuffed, confused." GrandPat, who had been hiding in the clothing trunk eating a sandwich, matches these descriptions, and Bunny wears him as a dress. The next rituals involve Cecil spinning plates on a unicycle over a fire pit, and Bunny tossing a sink backwards.
After more traditions, the wedding tent has been set up in the front yard. Patrick gets the lawnies out of the tent to make room for the Klopnodian guests. With twenty minutes left until sunset, Squidina starts the wedding. Patrick is the ring bearer, until Squidina double checks her laws and sees that it is actually a ring bear she needs. The bear mauls Patrick, who then goes to play a traditional wedding march on whoopie cushions.
Bunny makes her entrance and walks down the aisle, with GrandPat being subject to pinches, smites, and torchings by the guests. Cecil has to deliver the cake to the end, but Klopnodian warriors try to attack him. He successfully makes it to the end. Patrick takes his seat but starts drooling when he sees the wedding cake. Squidina makes Patrick swear not to eat the cake and ruin the wedding again. Patrick is ultimately unable to resist the temptation and rushes down the aisle to it, but is stopped by the time closet suddenly appearing in front of him.
Bunny and Cecil complete their wedding.
A future Patrick comes out of the closet and tells Patrick he cannot eat the cake, because future Patrick wants to. The two Patricks get into a fight, to Squidina's horror. However, this winds up solving the latest Klopnodian tradition: the battle of the time-traveling children. The last ritual is to kiss the cake, which Cecil and Bunny do.
In the year three million, the future Stars are rewatching their wedding. The two Patricks come in through the time closet and fight over the cake, which lands between future Cecil and Bunny's hands. They kiss the cake, ending the episode with an explosion.
Production[]
Ben Kurzrock "pitched this springboard and wrote the outline in [the] summer of 2022."[2]
The final 11 scenes of this episode were plussed on January 25, 2023.[1]
This episode was confirmed in August 2023 by Scott Bern.[1]
Its official title, plot, and packaging number were confirmed on October 2, 2023.
This episode was added onto the United States Copyright Office on February 15, 2024, along with its sister, "Chum Bucket List," "Big Baby Patrick," "Is There a Director in the House?," and "Star Cruise."[3]
Promotional art[]
Art[]
- Drawn by Bob Camp.[6]
Storyboards[]
- Outlined by Ben Kurzrock, directed by Gabe Del Valle,[7] storyboarded by him and Mike Pelensky, and written by all three. Supervised by "cartoon verteran" Bob Camp,[2][8][9][5] and plussed by Scott Bern[1] and Jennifer Gleeson.[10]
Production notes[]
Benjamin Kurzrock:
- Kurzrock said this was "the weirdest wedding episode Mike Pelensky[,] Gabe Del Valle and [he] could write."[2]
Gabe Del Valle:
- Del Valle called it a "merry marital episode of The Patrick Star Show"[5] and called it one of his personal favorites from season 2.[11]
Mike Pelensky:
- Pelensky said this was a "very ROMANTIC episode of [the series]", and said there were "so many boards and gags [he] was gushingly proud to contribute [to]."[8][9]
Jennifer Gleeson:
- Gleeson said that this episode "was such a fun one, and a great way to get more aquanited with this wacky Star family," getting "to work off the fantastic boards of Gabe Del Valle and Mike Pelensky".[10]
- Gleeson said that they "absolutely loved" working with GrandPat as a veil. She believed that the sequence was "so challenging yet rewarding to figure out" and was "so happy with how this sequence turned out".[12]
- Gleeson said she couldn't take credit for GrandPat's close-up when Bunny finds him and decides to use him as a veil, (as Mike Pelensky provided rhe "funny roughs" for it) but she said she made it "slightly prettier."[13]
- Gleeson hoped everyone enjoyed this episode.[14]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Fart Song v1 - Ego Plum [Title card and opening.]
‣ L'Horloge Hantee - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick travels back from the wedding.]
‣ The Melancholy Mule - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Klopguardians arrive.]
‣ Tabu - Daryl Griffith ["But that's our mom! You can't do this!"]
‣ Apocalyptic Shredder - Mark Alberts, Morgan Sansous, Kenny Serane [Cecil's bachelor photo.]
‣ Planet Xz-3 A - Gregor F. Narholz [Klopguardians start to leave with Bunny.]
‣ The Melancholy Mule - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Klopguardians laugh.]
‣ Hollywood Christmas [#70] - Gregor F. Narholz [Bunny's wedding dress.]
‣ Fun Sting F - Gregor F. Narholz [Klopguardians pop up from the attic door.]
‣ One Over the Eight - Len Stevens [Klopnodian wedding dress guidelines.]
‣ Wedding March - Ed Wernov, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [GrandPat as Bunny's wedding dress.]
‣ Charivari Clowns - Daniel Jean Jeannin [Pre-wedding rituals.]
‣ Bratwurst Polka B - Lars Kurz, H C Mylla ["Many heartfelt traditions later..."]
‣ The Melancholy Mule - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick rounds up some Klopnoidan guests.]
‣ Yodel Of Joy - Renato Bui, Martha Wild ["Twenty minutes 'till the sundown!"]
‣ Pirate Salute [#12] - Con Ardt ["Let's get this wedding started!"]
‣ Wedding March - Ed Wernov, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy [Patrick as the ring bearer.]
‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford [Ring Bear attacks Patrick.]
• ? - Ego Plum [Patrick plays "Bridal Chorus" on the traditional Klopnodian windpipe.]
‣ Bridal Chorus [#22] - Geoff Bastow, Richard Wagner [Bunny walks down the aisle.]
‣ Battle March Link (1) - Keith Mansfield [Argle Gargles appear.]
‣ Evil Wizard E - Udi Harpaz [Cecil charges towards the Argle Gargles.]
‣ News Title - Jack Shaindlin [Live-action audience cheers.]
‣ In Ancient Times (a) - Gregor F. Narholz ["Hey Squidina, what'd I miss?"]
‣ Heaveny Info - Paul Arnold, Andrew James Barnabas [Patrick sees the wedding cake.]
‣ Wedding March - Geoff Bastow, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ["Now we join these two, in holy marskepony."]
‣ Mystery Solved - Alan Wynn ["I can't take it anymore!"]
‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Time closet appears.]
‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet appears.]
‣ Evil Wizard B - Udi Harpaz [Cyberpat appears/"Because I wanna eat the cake!"]
‣ Eight Dramatic Bridges - Remastered - Ronald Hanmer ["Oh no you don't!"]
‣ Dramatic Sea Battle - Gerhard Trede [Patrick and Cyberpat fight over the cake.]
‣ Killer Birds - Gregor F. Narholz ["Oh no!"]
‣ Apocalyptic Shredder - Mark Alberts, Morgan Sansous, Kenny Serane ["The bachelor-ification has already begun!"]
‣ Killer Birds - Gregor F. Narholz ["It's all ruined!"]
‣ The Melancholy Mule - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Every tradition has been completed in record time.]
• ? - Ego Plum [Bunny and Cecil kiss the cake.]
• Fart Song v1 - Ego Plum ["Sweetie, when you've survived the robot apocalypse, you don't remember a darn thing."]
‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick and Cyberpat still fighting over the cake.]
‣ Approaching Danger - Ronald Hanmer [The cake falls.]
• Fart Song v1 - Ego Plum [Ending.]
Reception[]
- Kenny Pittenger said this episode received "good ratings" on its premiere thanks to the series' audience.[15]
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode's working title (according to a filename sourced from Scott Bern's website) was "PatrickShowKLOPNOD."[1]
- This episode was put on the schedules and was going to premiere with its sister episode on Nicktoons on February 13, 2024 at 9:15pm, but "Dr. Smart Science" aired in its place instead.
- Benjamin Kurzrock, who outlined this episode, implied that it took one year and a few months to produce.[2]
- GrandPat said he had experienced a more glossy version of the future in "The Yard Sale," and there was no sort of futuristic counterpart for him in that universe.
- Despite being copywritten in 2024, this episode was produced, completed, and released in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.
- This is the second time GrandPat has been used to cover something, following "Home ECCH!," where he was used to make up a bed for Squidina's home ec. show.
- The title of this episode is a pun of the expression "tying the knot."
- This episode was accidentally listed on Prime Video Canada, along with its sister episode. It was also accidentally listed with the name "Tying the Kop-Knot."
- Gabe Del Valle referred to this episode as "Tying the Klopknot" when posting storyboards from this episode.[7]
- According to Mike Pelensky, this episode is a belated Valentine's Day special.[8][9]
- This episode was paired up with a rerun of "The Commode Episode" during the original American airing.[16]
Episode references[]
- This episode is a follow-up to "Klopnodian Heritage Festival," which also revolved around the strange traditions of Klopnod culture. In the wedding video, Bunny wears the same outfit she did to the festival, and the Klopnodian flag can be seen flying from the tent the wedding takes place in.
- Bunny saying "Fresh!" after the stuffed ferret flirts with her is a nod to "Mid-Season Finale."
- Bunny and Cecil's wedding cake is the same cake that the former Star tried to sneak into the movie theaters in "Movie Stars." Both episodes were directed by Bob Camp.
Cultural references[]
- The four things that Bunny needed for her Klopnodian wedding are something "old, bruised, stuffed and confused," which is a reference to the wedding tradition "Something old" that all brides have on their wedding day.
- One of the time-traveling children fish on the Yekkle Gleek poster is wearing a suit and is holding a laser gun, alluding to the crewmates' designs in the 2018 video game Among Us. In the rough boards, the fish was directly modeled off of said characters,[11] but the in-joke was likely scrubbed off during the plussing and prop designing stages.
- Originally, Cyberpat, the "Patrick from the Year Three Million") was written to originally be from the year "3000 XD," but Gabe Del Valle said that the "reference got lost down the process".[17] The "XD" bit references the emoticon symbol used in digital communication to represent extreme laughter, and its usage here is in of itself a pun on the term "A.D.," (short for "Anno Domini") which is used to mark years after the birth of Jesus.
- Bob Camp redrew the fart bag instrument to take influence from Dr. Seuss.[6]
Errors[]
- When Squidina first picks up the Klopnodian wedding law guidebook, her arm detaches from her sleeve.
Video[]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e Storyboard PDFs - Scott Bern
- ^ a b c d Benjamin Kurzrock on Instagram - "Loved last night's new..."
- ^ The Patrick Star Show : 206. Catalog.org Public Catalog
- ^ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "2 new "The Patrick Star..."
- ^ a b c Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Fashionably late for Valentines..."
- ^ a b Bob Camp on Facebook - "Packing up my studio. Post it gold!"
- ^ a b Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Catching up on Patrick Show..."
- ^ a b c Mike Pelensky on Instagram - "A new and very ROMANTIC..."
- ^ a b c Mike Pelensky on Instagram - "A new and very ROMANTIC..."
- ^ a b Jennifer Gleeson on Twitter - "Some choice cut boards..."
- ^ a b Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "This episode is Among..."
- ^ Jennifee Gleeson on Twitter - "Absolutely loved working..."
- ^ Jennifer Gleeson on Twitter - "Some clean up on Mike's..."
- ^ Jennifer Gleeson on Twitter - "S'more boards! Hope y'all enjoyed..."
- ^ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "Good ratings for last..."
- ^ February 15, 2024 - Nickstory
- ^ Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Originally I wrote he was..."
Notes[]
- ^ Also listed as "PAT212" in the segment's storyboards and simply "212" in its model sheets and background art.