I always interpreted Patrick as just some guy content with his life. His dumbness is just a side effect of his total settling down. Spongebob's life is always moving and changing while Patrick is literally under a rock, just moving with a flow. A lazy man who just lets his brain go in favor of being happy.
Its actually what was funny about their relationship early on. Where Patrick in season 1 would act like he was so wise and knew stuff (when he didnt) but spongebob likely believed him because he was always calm and sure about everything he said, which is the sign of that contentment with his lazy life. And the humor came from the fact, Spongebob was the only character who thought he was smart. While everyone else knew he wasnt.
Alex bale proved that Patrick never actually got his brain back instead he just found a robotic brain made by plankton so technically he brain washed Patrick
@@GeteMachine He was somewhat Spongebob's chill stoner mentor who he looked up to in season 1/early season 2 before becoming more of an equal friend who they both kind of jab at sometimes.
@@GeteMachine exactly. i love patrick being a moron, it early seasons usually executed it well. he was an idiot, but he still had moments of brillance, paid for his mistakes, or usually meant well. when you write a negative character, they need a positive to care about. in patrick's case, it was trying to be a good friend or his occasional smartness when the gears would finally work for a few seconds. now, he is either a massive jerk or unfunny moron. part of why his spin-off show and planet sheen fail. the beauty of characters like patrick and sheen is they had "straight men" to play off of, characters who were relatively smart by comparison and (like the audience) were sometimes left in confusion by said moron.
I never realized or appreciated it as a kid but Patrick and Sandy weren't really friends at all, which I now think is an interesting nuanced take on a cartoon trio of friends. Pretty much every early episode with both will have them get on each others nerves. They only hung out due to their mutual liking of Spongebob. I really miss Sandy and Patrick's rivalry, it was such a fun dynamic. It also had the effect of making Spongebob more likable, as both friends showed off his personality range. He's naive and silly but skilled and competitive at what he enjoys.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 Rocko's Modern Life had a similar dynamic, which is understandable when you realised Stephen Hillenburg was also the producer on that show before Spongebob
I think thats an interesting detail, and its made a lot more clear in the Episode where Spongebob doesn't want to leave his house. Sandy and Patrick only work together for Spongebob, but Sandy snarks at Patrick a lot in the episode and shows that she isnt actually friends with him but just coincidentally working with him for the same goal. To help Spongebob. It feels very sitcom-y too. A lot of the time she is only interacting with Patrick because he is usually with Spongebob. Squidward and Patrick are similar as well, where they only interact because he is usually with Spongebob, and his neighbor, but outside of that, they never interact without Spongebob at the center of them. Or how Patrick and Mr. Krabs rarely ever interact but Mr. Krabs knows who he is. Its kind of funny, because Patrick is the guy who is usually just there at the time other characters are interacting with Spongebob and merely know of him as a local.
@@dunkanbulk14 Some writers on Rocko eventually moved onto Spongebob as well, and you can tell. Both in why Rocko is so funny, and Heffer being kind of similar to Season 1 or Season 2 Patrick. Heffer is the only character that is dumb but didnt get ruined over the years by exaggeration.
He’s stupid because after the second movie ended I feel like the OGs writers of SpongeBob quits because of Nickelodeon and not Stephen he wants to end after season three with a movie
Patrick had different phases. Season 1 Patrick: Well meaning guy who wasn't very smart but would often try to give advices to Spongebob, even though some of his advices were bad though like in Suds. Season 2-3 Patrick: Patrick started to get dumber around that era but was still a supportive friend and still had his charm Season 4-5 Patrick Season 6-8 Patrick: The infamous Jerkass Patrick era Season 9-10 Patrick Season 11-14 Patrick: The era defined where Patrick's only trait is that he's a very stupid idiot with barely enough braincells for eating.
One thing i always thought about is that if modern Patrick were in help wanted when SpongeBob thought he couldn’t do it, he would just be like "oh sorry you couldn’t do it" instead of hyping him up for the job.
Modern Spongebob would have had Patrick probably eating the building, crush Spongebob under his ass, cover him in saliva and destroy the building by the end of the episode.
@@YSNostalgia If he did in old Spongebob he would have apologized and made up for it. In Modern Spongebob, if he never got the job. The episode would just end it off like that.
I would point out that in the episode "The Bully", it's revealed that Patrick is one of only three main characters that we confirm went to college, the other two being Sandy and Plankton, albeit a community college.
@@Slimerror No they are infact young adults. Squidward and Mr. Krabs are middle aged adults. Because SpongeBob's parents and Patrick's parents all near or around Mr. Krabs age. But Squidward's Mom and Mr. Krabs mom are both elderly. And if you don't believe me watch the very first SpongeBob movie. They even explain it there.
@jasonrandom372 dude, you're wrong... like I get you don't wanna feel wrong but I know what I'm talking about. The employee of the month episode in combination with several others prove he's around mid thirtys to fortys
@@Slimerror No you are wrong buddy! Didn't it ever occur to you that SpongeBob's parents and Patrick's parents don't have grey hair but Squidward's mom does? In the first SpongeBob movie Mr. Krabs gives the manager position at the second Krusty Krab to the less deserving employee Squidward. Mr. Krabs even says he didn't give the promotion to SpongeBob because Squidward was older, more experienced, and more mature than SpongeBob. For all I know that employee of the month easter egg that was explained in the video could have just been not cannon or just an estimate from as far back since the pilot episode had aired. Besides the employee of the mouth episode in the first season said he only worked at the Krusty Krab for 26 months.
I learned that dumb doesn’t equal stupid in recent years. I made my OC Finley less of a dumbass and more of someone who lets his ego get in the way more.
Its definitely hard to explain, why old Patrick worked and why new Patrick doesn't. I think its due to the rule of 3, where a joke has to establish, tone, context and an ironic punchline for it to be funny. While later Spongebob just doesn't really do that, and goes for the immediate "loudness = funny" belief. Its what they fail to do with modern Patrick, yet still nail with Mr. Krabs and Squidward, who are always funny.
I think "Karate Star" (Season 7, Episode 19) is another good example for phase 5, similar to "Rule of Dumb" where Patrick can't handle the responsibility of learning karate, eventually getting out of hand and destroying the city. Makes me think of the final scene of the episode where he takes his hand off and that hand generates a new body, also similar to how he replaces his head in SmartyPants. There might be more to his character than it seems, could be related. Great video btw
I thought this guy was super popular with like 80k subs, I was wrong, you need way more subs and view. Nice analaysis, you earned a sub. Edit: the logic of u people is messed up, he gained 7k subs in the time of the making of it and now, and people assume he didn’t make any subs saying he was already “popular”. He wasn’t when I wrote it
Original Patrick: Greatests Spongebob's friend, who also happens to be a fool Modern Patrick: Greatest fool, who also happens to be Spongebob's friend (kind of 💀)
1999 Patrick: Smart but funny 2001 Patrick: Little dumb but funny too 2012 Patrick: Dumb but ok I guess? 2020 Patrick: Nick ruined Patrick 2023 Patrick: Full Billy-ness
I feel like golden age Patrick was realistically dumb, like I could see him being a real person in real life, modern Patrick is so cartoony dumb that if he was in real life, he would need to be a mental hospital, it goes way to overboard
You forgot a episode for like one of the phases where he’s a jerk I don’t know what it’s called but it’s weird. Patrick gets a crabby patty toy and doesn’t share it.
Maybe the "That's not my wallet" was a play from patrick to see if Mantaray (Is this the Original name?) stays friendly or if he becomes evil again. :D
To me, i think there's a tell with the kind of episode you'll get. If you see frames where Patrick is displaying huge dimpled cheeks, accompanied with a single-(baby)toothed overbite, - you're in for a bad time.
“For a character to exist, they must surrender to the fact that, if given enough time, they _will_ become a caricature of themself. They’re most memorable traits will envelop their most important ones and they will lose themself in their own development, or lack thereof.” - Sun Tsu
Reminds me a lot of Simpsons. SpongeBob has run for so long the characters have become mostly caricature of their most notorious qualities. Homer was slow in the early seasons but was sensitive about it and tried his best despite his shortcomings. Similar to how Patrick wasn't smart but he tried to support his friend in helpful ways sometimes showing that when he's around people who believe in him like SpongeBob he can be helpful. Now he's just stupid turned up to 10.
I mean he literally lost his brain and it got replaced with fragments of it still appearing such as memory so he could have kept part of the brain corral so basically it's canon at least in a weird roundabout way
I disagree with season 9-10, it was the time where Stephen Hillenburg came back, and Patrick honestly got better. He has funny moments in Sold, where he said "He gonna learn how to learn", or the line MY PERSONALITY, Pull up a Barrel. And they were episodes where he was his original personality, in What's Eating Patrick, he participated to an eating competition to make a little kid happy. In the Whole Tooth, he's scared to go to the dentist to get his tooth removed, AND IT'S RELATABLE. And the episode Mimic Madness where he has funny moments. I think it's later in season 11-onward, and the PSS where they ruined him and made him dumber
About the episode "Driven to Tears" where Patrick got a boat and driving license, can only vaguely rememebr it but for me, It was SpongeBob that was being the main antagonist there. SpongeBob couldn't be happy for Patrick, he grew jealous, he then even proceeded to sabotage Patrick. Patrick on the other was mainly enjoying himself and even tried to share his joy with SpongeBob. Between, the two of them there, yeah. Granted that's from what I can vaguely recall anyways. SpongeBob isn't exactly a good fellow all the time either, if anything, he tends to be a menace to many under the guise of a happy go lucky and nice fellow. Well, That's my take on that bit anyways. Interesting vod, though kinda got lost towards the end since there were so many phases that were just relapses really that it just seemed like bloat content.
I'll just put it out there. Patrick seriously needs to get a doctor. the showing of his deteriorating personality is actually sad to see. Chances are he might have some neurological condition that worsens overtime. actually... he already had the chance to find a doctor... and now he is barley functional, or not at all functional. when putting this in a medical sense, it's almost as scary as Alzheimer's disease.
The jerkass Patrick arc. What I liked about his character was how well-meaning he truly was. How much SpongeBob looked up to him as his best friend without knowing he was just as - if not more - naive as/than him. Sad to see how he's been Flanderized to the point of being braindead
Like for Mr. Krabs, it could be "when did Mr. Krabs become so cheap?" For SpongeBob, it could be "When did SpongeBob become so Childish or annoying". For Squidward it could be "When did Squidward become so miserable or pessimistic?"
I also would’ve brought up the episode “stuck in the ringer” as it shows off both his stupidity and selfishness as well as the rest of the town’s stupidity at the end of the episode when SpongeBob finally snaps on Patrick for pretty much ruining his life and the rest of the towns people gets mad at SpongeBob for it.
I was noisily eating Doritos and goldfish crackers throughout this video, so I didn't actually hear most of what you said, but since I've been binge-watching character analysis videos about _SpongeBob SquarePants,_ I'm going to assume your video made valid points.
I'm sure you skipped some episodes to avoid the headache, but it's obvious that it needs to be brought up. The episode "Yours, Mine, and Mine" shows Patrick at his absolute worst. To me, this was the episode that showed me not only Patrick's stupidity but his selfishness. The title alone would be a red flag to what you would see. We see Patrick buying a kiddy meal and because he's a broke piece of crap, SpongeBob out of kindness buys the kiddy meal in order to "share it" with Patrick. After taking SpongeBob's money and paying for it, he eats the whole meal without considering SpongeBob. After he throws a bitch fit over not getting a toy with the meal, and after SpongeBob pays for the toy, he becomes antagonistic and demands to take the toy because it's the concept of "sharing" that SpongeBob was talking about earlier. After an annoying length of both characters wanting the toy because Patrick is selfish enough to keep it for himself, he eats the toy declaring, "If I can't have it, no one can." It doesn't end there, after Mr. Krabs makes the first "toy", he makes a lot more toys and offers one each to SpongeBob and Patrick, charging them a ridiculous amount and Patrick takes SpongeBob's wallet. SpongeBob calls him out, saying that it was his wallet he was using to pay for another thing for himself, and Patrick responds, "Have you learned nothing about sharing?" This episode was what made me HATE Patrick, and it's still that way to this day from every episode since then. From his jerky/selfish moments to brain-dead stupidity, the one thing that solidified my loathe towards Patrick was the episode, "SpongeBob, You're Fired". He didn't play a big part in the episode, but one line made me so disgusted with Patrick that it's never recovered. After SpongeBob gets fired so Mr. Krabs can save a nickel, he is obviously sent into depression at losing his job. Patrick tries to be supportive, but this one line cemented my hatred for Patrick forever. The next day after telling Patrick that he got fired, he says, "Hey, buddy! Are you ready? Ready for your first day of glorious unemployment? Or as I like to call it 'fun-employment'." When he called unemployment "fun-employment", I never had a stronger urge to kill a character more at that moment in time. As someone who had been unemployed for four years, there was NOTHING fun about being unemployed. Yeah, you don't get to worry about job responsibilities and you get money while you look for work, but unemployment funds run out, they don't last forever. So to hear that line while I was unemployed, and the unemployment money was dried out, it pissed me off big time. I could go on a bigger rant about this, but it would go a lot longer if I did. The ScumBob era was when Patrick was at his worst, the two episodes I mentioned are prime examples of it.
the first spongebob movie was the last time I watched Spongebob, I knew that if they continued they'd run the show into the ground and that's exactly what they did.
I think "Rise and Shine" fits well with the multiple personality theory. We're witnessing the "Birth" of a new personality of Patrick who is utterly oblivious to his surroundings.
Patrick throughout the entirety of the first few seasons is so lovable because he is oblivious, but he’s also genuine. In later seasons, Patrick has neither of these traits. He’s just stupid to be stupid, and not for the sake of a joke. His character has been watered down and “flanderized” in order to be recognizable to modern audiences.
Even as a child, I never liked Patrick. He was always "too stupid" for me. I never enjoyed his jokes and such. But I loved SpongeBob! So yeah. Patrick is stupid xD
I saw a comment once that described Patrick in the earlier seasons as dim but not brain dead. He didn't have much to do throughout the day, so he doesn't really exercise his brain all that often. He did however have his moments of wisdom, in addition to some funny dumb moments. The one example I remember from the comment of him being dumb but not completely moronic was Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost. Patrick did basically exactly what he was asked to, bringing fruit to Squidward, he just went about it in a rather silly manner, dropping a whole watermelon on Squidward. Technically, he's still doing what he was told, just doing it wrong. Modern Patrick would somehow fumble it so bad you'd wonder if he actually heard what he was told to do.
One episode Patrick made a smart plan, the episode was when Squidward had the end of his clarinet in his throat and Patrick and Spongebob shrunk Sandy’s helicopter to get it.
Patrick was stupid and oblivious but not outright mentally challenged. And he was still, very much supportive and a good friend. He might not know much but he will do everything he can to help SpongeBob
I like this video, it’s a great analysis I think there’s a few improvements you can make to structuring your video like being more concise labeling the phases. Anyways I super enjoyed it.
in the episode driven tears they sent spongebob to because he littered. spongebob didnt take the fall for anyone if anything that was one of Patrick’s non selfish moments but spongebob came clean and told the judge that he was the one who threw the paper on the ground
early seasons patrick was also a jerk and very much so i was wondering why sb was even friends with him wich is wierd, because it shifts so much from episode to episode
Ink lemonade is one of the first spongebob episodes I ever watched. I was around seven or eight, and I for some reason LOVED it. Looking back at it, yes it is horrible, but I woulden't call it the worst in the whole show. I'm not a big Spongebob nerd ( I prefer Invader Zim) but, I have watched quite a few episodes, and in my opinion, A pal for Gary is easily the worst.
One episode you kind of forgot to mention is The Card. In that episode, he reveals that he purposefully acts stupid to keep SpongeBob on his toes. Also, you would think him being a huge Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy fan that he would cherish those holographic cards and want to keep them in good condition.
If you ask me. Patrick was made more or a jerk during the dark age of show. Especially when he was made just to be rude to others or screw everything up. Patrick really fell off after season 3 and the first movie came out. And when the show was going through hard and dark times. They decided to make everyone in the show rude and stupid. Patrick is the one who most likely got hit the hardest with this. For example. He managed to get SpongeBob stuck in a wringer and hurt him. And when SpongeBob yelled at him for causing so much trouble. People turned against SpongeBob. Even though Patrick was the cause of all the damage. And then all the squidward torture eps. Most of them if not all was caused by mainly Patrick. SpongeBob sometimes had a part but it was mostly Patrick. That ink lemonade was the worst that Patrick was gone into being a jerk and not caring for anyone. But if we look at this. Patrick became a… rude unlikeable bloak who just was being used to either make people made,used for stupidity and or cause extreme amounts of damage to people. Heck. When Stephen was not at the helm. The show took a horrible turn. And when he passed away. It went dark again for a bit for Patrick and the others.
I always interpreted Patrick as just some guy content with his life. His dumbness is just a side effect of his total settling down. Spongebob's life is always moving and changing while Patrick is literally under a rock, just moving with a flow. A lazy man who just lets his brain go in favor of being happy.
Naw g you smokin fent
Holy Spirit was in Patrick. Wasn't going to be long before he got ruined as a character by the Worldly spirits.
Its actually what was funny about their relationship early on. Where Patrick in season 1 would act like he was so wise and knew stuff (when he didnt) but spongebob likely believed him because he was always calm and sure about everything he said, which is the sign of that contentment with his lazy life. And the humor came from the fact, Spongebob was the only character who thought he was smart. While everyone else knew he wasnt.
@@GeteMachinei missed those times Season 1 Patrick and Spongebob were Awesome
Alex bale proved that Patrick never actually got his brain back instead he just found a robotic brain made by plankton so technically he brain washed Patrick
Thinking about it now, Patrick in the older seasons acted more like Spongebob’s stoner friend.
According to Stephen, Patrick is supposed to be the well meaning, but trouble making friend
He even kind of sounded like one. Like in the first Treedome episode. The way he would give Spongebob advice, with his slow, lower-pitched voice.
@@GeteMachine He was somewhat Spongebob's chill stoner mentor who he looked up to in season 1/early season 2 before becoming more of an equal friend who they both kind of jab at sometimes.
Stoner, spot on
Frfr it was goated
Another thing people don't talk about much is how Patrick in the beginning was more chill and laidback as well as stupid but supportive.
It was his better years, before now Patrick became very childish and is nothing but horribly overdone faces and slobbering.
@@GeteMachine exactly. i love patrick being a moron, it early seasons usually executed it well. he was an idiot, but he still had moments of brillance, paid for his mistakes, or usually meant well. when you write a negative character, they need a positive to care about. in patrick's case, it was trying to be a good friend or his occasional smartness when the gears would finally work for a few seconds. now, he is either a massive jerk or unfunny moron. part of why his spin-off show and planet sheen fail. the beauty of characters like patrick and sheen is they had "straight men" to play off of, characters who were relatively smart by comparison and (like the audience) were sometimes left in confusion by said moron.
if season 1 patrick stayed in the whole show he would be a good character today
We would have never gotten its not my wallet
@@Friedjojo he was lowkey smart for that though to show that manray won't actually change
I think all the characters and the show itself was pretty good up until that first movie came out
@@Friedjojo true ok we can have that to
@@lizzzzyizhere ya
Patrick sweeping with the wrong side of the Broom never fails to make me smile or laugh.
"Hey, pal. You just blow in from Stupid Town?"
I never realized or appreciated it as a kid but Patrick and Sandy weren't really friends at all, which I now think is an interesting nuanced take on a cartoon trio of friends. Pretty much every early episode with both will have them get on each others nerves. They only hung out due to their mutual liking of Spongebob. I really miss Sandy and Patrick's rivalry, it was such a fun dynamic. It also had the effect of making Spongebob more likable, as both friends showed off his personality range. He's naive and silly but skilled and competitive at what he enjoys.
@@Dalton_Boardman2000 Rocko's Modern Life had a similar dynamic, which is understandable when you realised Stephen Hillenburg was also the producer on that show before Spongebob
I think thats an interesting detail, and its made a lot more clear in the Episode where Spongebob doesn't want to leave his house. Sandy and Patrick only work together for Spongebob, but Sandy snarks at Patrick a lot in the episode and shows that she isnt actually friends with him but just coincidentally working with him for the same goal. To help Spongebob. It feels very sitcom-y too. A lot of the time she is only interacting with Patrick because he is usually with Spongebob.
Squidward and Patrick are similar as well, where they only interact because he is usually with Spongebob, and his neighbor, but outside of that, they never interact without Spongebob at the center of them. Or how Patrick and Mr. Krabs rarely ever interact but Mr. Krabs knows who he is. Its kind of funny, because Patrick is the guy who is usually just there at the time other characters are interacting with Spongebob and merely know of him as a local.
@@dunkanbulk14 Some writers on Rocko eventually moved onto Spongebob as well, and you can tell. Both in why Rocko is so funny, and Heffer being kind of similar to Season 1 or Season 2 Patrick. Heffer is the only character that is dumb but didnt get ruined over the years by exaggeration.
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This is a great point. I forgot about that! Now, he acts like her bff or at least a groupie.
Patrick before: Stupid, but friendly, kind, supportive and sometimes smart
Partick now: *MAXIMUM STUPIDNESS*
He’s stupid because after the second movie ended I feel like the OGs writers of SpongeBob quits because of Nickelodeon and not Stephen he wants to end after season three with a movie
Patrick was kind of a dick early on tho ngl
@@crimsonfps1873especially in “I’m with stupid” episode.
Yeah and he's still a good friend
Patrick had different phases.
Season 1 Patrick: Well meaning guy who wasn't very smart but would often try to give advices to Spongebob, even though some of his advices were bad though like in Suds.
Season 2-3 Patrick: Patrick started to get dumber around that era but was still a supportive friend and still had his charm
Season 4-5 Patrick
Season 6-8 Patrick: The infamous Jerkass Patrick era
Season 9-10 Patrick
Season 11-14 Patrick: The era defined where Patrick's only trait is that he's a very stupid idiot with barely enough braincells for eating.
One thing i always thought about is that if modern Patrick were in help wanted when SpongeBob thought he couldn’t do it, he would just be like "oh sorry you couldn’t do it" instead of hyping him up for the job.
Modern Spongebob would have had Patrick probably eating the building, crush Spongebob under his ass, cover him in saliva and destroy the building by the end of the episode.
@@GeteMachine Or would have stopped Spongebob from getting the job by getting him in trouble.
@@YSNostalgia If he did in old Spongebob he would have apologized and made up for it. In Modern Spongebob, if he never got the job. The episode would just end it off like that.
@@GeteMachine That is true, i also don't think Spongebob would have tolerated Patrick's bad behavior eather.
I would point out that in the episode "The Bully", it's revealed that Patrick is one of only three main characters that we confirm went to college, the other two being Sandy and Plankton, albeit a community college.
People would always ask if SpongeBob and Patrick were either kids or teenagers. They are neither, they are both young adults.
Which is relatable
They're actually middle aged adults but they definitely act like young adults lol
Very relatable now that I'm also a young adult
@@Slimerror No they are infact young adults. Squidward and Mr. Krabs are middle aged adults. Because SpongeBob's parents and Patrick's parents all near or around Mr. Krabs age. But Squidward's Mom and Mr. Krabs mom are both elderly. And if you don't believe me watch the very first SpongeBob movie. They even explain it there.
@jasonrandom372 dude, you're wrong... like I get you don't wanna feel wrong but I know what I'm talking about. The employee of the month episode in combination with several others prove he's around mid thirtys to fortys
@@Slimerror No you are wrong buddy! Didn't it ever occur to you that SpongeBob's parents and Patrick's parents don't have grey hair but Squidward's mom does? In the first SpongeBob movie Mr. Krabs gives the manager position at the second Krusty Krab to the less deserving employee Squidward. Mr. Krabs even says he didn't give the promotion to SpongeBob because Squidward was older, more experienced, and more mature than SpongeBob. For all I know that employee of the month easter egg that was explained in the video could have just been not cannon or just an estimate from as far back since the pilot episode had aired. Besides the employee of the mouth episode in the first season said he only worked at the Krusty Krab for 26 months.
Honestly im surprised you didnt mention, imo, Patrick's WORST episode as a "friend", Stuck in the Wringer
Patrick is one of my favorite characters, but oh my GOD that episode made me rip my hair out. Even when I was five I didn’t like it.
In seasons 6 to 8(maybe even in season 4, 5 and 9) Patrick had those moronic jerkass moments
Patrick in the first season was just realistically dumb, in the newest seasons he is just straight up brainless.
I learned that dumb doesn’t equal stupid in recent years. I made my OC Finley less of a dumbass and more of someone who lets his ego get in the way more.
Most of my OCs are psychotic villains. Tread lightly.
Now I want to read about your OC Cubey.
I strongly believe that Patrick's "stupidity" works the best when his joke can still work as sarcastic/ironic joke if said by Sans.
Its definitely hard to explain, why old Patrick worked and why new Patrick doesn't. I think its due to the rule of 3, where a joke has to establish, tone, context and an ironic punchline for it to be funny. While later Spongebob just doesn't really do that, and goes for the immediate "loudness = funny" belief. Its what they fail to do with modern Patrick, yet still nail with Mr. Krabs and Squidward, who are always funny.
I think "Karate Star" (Season 7, Episode 19) is another good example for phase 5, similar to "Rule of Dumb" where Patrick can't handle the responsibility of learning karate, eventually getting out of hand and destroying the city. Makes me think of the final scene of the episode where he takes his hand off and that hand generates a new body, also similar to how he replaces his head in SmartyPants. There might be more to his character than it seems, could be related. Great video btw
I thought this guy was super popular with like 80k subs, I was wrong, you need way more subs and view. Nice analaysis, you earned a sub.
Edit: the logic of u people is messed up, he gained 7k subs in the time of the making of it and now, and people assume he didn’t make any subs saying he was already “popular”. He wasn’t when I wrote it
I also thought he was Awe for some reason, but I agree with you.
SpongeBob is what got him to 900 subs tho lol do u not see all the theory channels ?
Wow you're right! I just subbed too!!
@@SpeedyGz_ Ik
Small spongebob theory channels are always the best ones
When ever Patrick has the one tooth he’s gonna need unbearable
I thought you were Awe for a second, and I didn't realize that you were someone completely different. You are criminally underrated with this editing.
Original Patrick: Greatests Spongebob's friend, who also happens to be a fool
Modern Patrick: Greatest fool, who also happens to be Spongebob's friend (kind of 💀)
14:13 i think this is a reference to the movie "A Christmas Story" where a character is dared to put their tongue on a pole and it gets stuck
1999 Patrick: Smart but funny
2001 Patrick: Little dumb but funny too
2012 Patrick: Dumb but ok I guess?
2020 Patrick: Nick ruined Patrick
2023 Patrick: Full Billy-ness
Patrick has the Drax effect where he was originally overly serious and over time that evolved into stupidity.
I feel like golden age Patrick was realistically dumb, like I could see him being a real person in real life, modern Patrick is so cartoony dumb that if he was in real life, he would need to be a mental hospital, it goes way to overboard
I disagree
@@FiremanSamBoy2008ok
@FiremanSamBoy2008 WDYM you disagree, he's 100% right lmao
@@astralorygd thanks for agreeing dude 👍
@thebombingsoda No worries bro 🙂
0:30 tree at the treedome 💀
You forgot a episode for like one of the phases where he’s a jerk I don’t know what it’s called but it’s weird. Patrick gets a crabby patty toy and doesn’t share it.
I think the episode your talking about is, Yours, Mine and Mine! Correct me if I’m wrong
Patrick: Usses a fake box with a string in it to hide a photo of SpongeBob
Harvard: Bro, do you want a scholarship?
Maybe the "That's not my wallet" was a play from patrick to see if Mantaray (Is this the Original name?) stays friendly or if he becomes evil again. :D
It had to be, because Spongebob just ignores that Patrick was what caused Man-ray to get mad.
It’s also a well-engineered joke.
Patrick is a homeowner with good friends in town. That's not that bad nowadays
What an amazing video by such a small creator! You earn all the views and subs!
To me, i think there's a tell with the kind of episode you'll get. If you see frames where Patrick is displaying huge dimpled cheeks, accompanied with a single-(baby)toothed overbite, - you're in for a bad time.
“For a character to exist, they must surrender to the fact that, if given enough time, they _will_ become a caricature of themself. They’re most memorable traits will envelop their most important ones and they will lose themself in their own development, or lack thereof.”
- Sun Tsu
Remember when the whole point of Spongebob and Patrick's dynamic was that Spongebob was smart but naive but Patrick was a bit dumb but not naive?
*_The moment the writers did._*
When he got hit by the wrench and said where’s the leak ma’am?
Patrick: NO! I'm Pinhead!
Reminds me a lot of Simpsons. SpongeBob has run for so long the characters have become mostly caricature of their most notorious qualities. Homer was slow in the early seasons but was sensitive about it and tried his best despite his shortcomings. Similar to how Patrick wasn't smart but he tried to support his friend in helpful ways sometimes showing that when he's around people who believe in him like SpongeBob he can be helpful. Now he's just stupid turned up to 10.
ive seen a theory that states that patrick has dual personality disorder, meaning that he quite literally has a dumb side and a smart side
Nah. They just ruined him in the newer episodes. Like they ruined everyone and everything in the show.
@@j.m.2110 yeah i know, but this is like a canon, non-meta explanation of why patrick changes so much
I mean he literally lost his brain and it got replaced with fragments of it still appearing such as memory so he could have kept part of the brain corral so basically it's canon at least in a weird roundabout way
The image “from 1999” was in the episode Frankendoodle which came out in 2002 while the image “from 2024” was in Ink Lemonade which came out in 2018.
Came here to say this lol
Nice catch on that
you are so underrated this video is amazing
"patrick doesnt have a grow phase on season 9"
what eating patrick, patrick the game and goodbye krabby patty?: we are a joke for you, right?
Had anyone noticed that the episodes aired in February 19 2007 are mostly focused around Patrick?
That Big Sister Sam episode certainly is the icing on the cake of his stupidity.😂
I disagree with season 9-10, it was the time where Stephen Hillenburg came back, and Patrick honestly got better.
He has funny moments in Sold, where he said "He gonna learn how to learn", or the line MY PERSONALITY, Pull up a Barrel.
And they were episodes where he was his original personality, in What's Eating Patrick, he participated to an eating competition to make a little kid happy. In the Whole Tooth, he's scared to go to the dentist to get his tooth removed, AND IT'S RELATABLE. And the episode Mimic Madness where he has funny moments.
I think it's later in season 11-onward, and the PSS where they ruined him and made him dumber
Average SpongeBob complainer doesn't even know Stephen cake back
About the episode "Driven to Tears" where Patrick got a boat and driving license, can only vaguely rememebr it but for me, It was SpongeBob that was being the main antagonist there.
SpongeBob couldn't be happy for Patrick, he grew jealous, he then even proceeded to sabotage Patrick. Patrick on the other was mainly enjoying himself and even tried to share his joy with SpongeBob. Between, the two of them there, yeah. Granted that's from what I can vaguely recall anyways.
SpongeBob isn't exactly a good fellow all the time either, if anything, he tends to be a menace to many under the guise of a happy go lucky and nice fellow.
Well, That's my take on that bit anyways.
Interesting vod, though kinda got lost towards the end since there were so many phases that were just relapses really that it just seemed like bloat content.
How come I keep finding these amazing videos with low views? This should be way more popular
This is a video I'd expect from someone with over 100k subs, but you dont even have 1k?! You're SUPER underrated my guy!
I'll just put it out there. Patrick seriously needs to get a doctor. the showing of his deteriorating personality is actually sad to see. Chances are he might have some neurological condition that worsens overtime. actually... he already had the chance to find a doctor... and now he is barley functional, or not at all functional. when putting this in a medical sense, it's almost as scary as Alzheimer's disease.
0:59 I'm just going to say this is one rich sponge based on the telescope alone.
patrick will always be my favorite character though. as someone who isn’t the most bright, i can relate to him (no im not that dumb) but i 🩷 patrick
Flanderization.
Corny
@@dxmbro Yes yes you are
Explain
And the show getting more and over over-the-top, over the years.
Patrick's selfish side of his character really started in season 1"Valentines Day" When he almost hurt Spongebob destroyed a whole carnival.
He obviously went to Jupiter to get more stupider
The jerkass Patrick arc.
What I liked about his character was how well-meaning he truly was. How much SpongeBob looked up to him as his best friend without knowing he was just as - if not more - naive as/than him.
Sad to see how he's been Flanderized to the point of being braindead
Patrick is Peter griffin 😭🙏
Wow incredibly underratted channel, really good video analysing patricks dumbass 😭Can't wait to see your channel grow ❤
You should do this for all the other main characters also
Like for Mr. Krabs, it could be "when did Mr. Krabs become so cheap?" For SpongeBob, it could be "When did SpongeBob become so Childish or annoying". For Squidward it could be "When did Squidward become so miserable or pessimistic?"
More like when did patrick become brainless. Patrick was always stupid but after a certain point he reached a level beyond that.
another good thing to see to me is how Mr. Krabs become a simple greedy jerk without more substance
I am looking forward to your next SpongeBob video!
I also would’ve brought up the episode “stuck in the ringer” as it shows off both his stupidity and selfishness as well as the rest of the town’s stupidity at the end of the episode when SpongeBob finally snaps on Patrick for pretty much ruining his life and the rest of the towns people gets mad at SpongeBob for it.
"Is mayonnaise an instrument?"
In the 1999 he maybe dumb but at least he's layback and loyal.
I was noisily eating Doritos and goldfish crackers throughout this video, so I didn't actually hear most of what you said, but since I've been binge-watching character analysis videos about _SpongeBob SquarePants,_ I'm going to assume your video made valid points.
Damn, I want some Doritos and Goldfish
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My boss apparently thinks I'm stupid. She practically insulted my learning disability
That’s rough buddy
This video felt personal lol
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I'm sure you skipped some episodes to avoid the headache, but it's obvious that it needs to be brought up. The episode "Yours, Mine, and Mine" shows Patrick at his absolute worst. To me, this was the episode that showed me not only Patrick's stupidity but his selfishness. The title alone would be a red flag to what you would see. We see Patrick buying a kiddy meal and because he's a broke piece of crap, SpongeBob out of kindness buys the kiddy meal in order to "share it" with Patrick. After taking SpongeBob's money and paying for it, he eats the whole meal without considering SpongeBob. After he throws a bitch fit over not getting a toy with the meal, and after SpongeBob pays for the toy, he becomes antagonistic and demands to take the toy because it's the concept of "sharing" that SpongeBob was talking about earlier. After an annoying length of both characters wanting the toy because Patrick is selfish enough to keep it for himself, he eats the toy declaring, "If I can't have it, no one can." It doesn't end there, after Mr. Krabs makes the first "toy", he makes a lot more toys and offers one each to SpongeBob and Patrick, charging them a ridiculous amount and Patrick takes SpongeBob's wallet. SpongeBob calls him out, saying that it was his wallet he was using to pay for another thing for himself, and Patrick responds, "Have you learned nothing about sharing?" This episode was what made me HATE Patrick, and it's still that way to this day from every episode since then.
From his jerky/selfish moments to brain-dead stupidity, the one thing that solidified my loathe towards Patrick was the episode, "SpongeBob, You're Fired". He didn't play a big part in the episode, but one line made me so disgusted with Patrick that it's never recovered. After SpongeBob gets fired so Mr. Krabs can save a nickel, he is obviously sent into depression at losing his job. Patrick tries to be supportive, but this one line cemented my hatred for Patrick forever. The next day after telling Patrick that he got fired, he says, "Hey, buddy! Are you ready? Ready for your first day of glorious unemployment? Or as I like to call it 'fun-employment'." When he called unemployment "fun-employment", I never had a stronger urge to kill a character more at that moment in time. As someone who had been unemployed for four years, there was NOTHING fun about being unemployed. Yeah, you don't get to worry about job responsibilities and you get money while you look for work, but unemployment funds run out, they don't last forever. So to hear that line while I was unemployed, and the unemployment money was dried out, it pissed me off big time. I could go on a bigger rant about this, but it would go a lot longer if I did.
The ScumBob era was when Patrick was at his worst, the two episodes I mentioned are prime examples of it.
the first spongebob movie was the last time I watched Spongebob, I knew that if they continued they'd run the show into the ground and that's exactly what they did.
If I'm being completely honest, in season 1 Patrick was indeed stupid but STILL smart enough to figure out issues. Nowadays, though...
I think "Rise and Shine" fits well with the multiple personality theory. We're witnessing the "Birth" of a new personality of Patrick who is utterly oblivious to his surroundings.
Imagine season 1 Patrick had its own show😭
No hate just pointing out a mistake 8:51
Patrick throughout the entirety of the first few seasons is so lovable because he is oblivious, but he’s also genuine. In later seasons, Patrick has neither of these traits. He’s just stupid to be stupid, and not for the sake of a joke. His character has been watered down and “flanderized” in order to be recognizable to modern audiences.
I love patrick and modern spongebob episodes even though seasons 1-3 will always be peak.
When I first watched you, you had 800 subscribers keep up the good work
I love that damn wallet scene with the evil ray guy 😂
patrick is more an enemy than a friend.. change my mind.. you CAN"T!
this is not "stupid" patrick is 100% brainless. patrick never had charm, patrick was never a friend, patrick was always an enemy
Even as a child, I never liked Patrick. He was always "too stupid" for me. I never enjoyed his jokes and such. But I loved SpongeBob! So yeah. Patrick is stupid xD
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14:07 Fungus AMOGUS
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I saw a comment once that described Patrick in the earlier seasons as dim but not brain dead. He didn't have much to do throughout the day, so he doesn't really exercise his brain all that often. He did however have his moments of wisdom, in addition to some funny dumb moments.
The one example I remember from the comment of him being dumb but not completely moronic was Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost. Patrick did basically exactly what he was asked to, bringing fruit to Squidward, he just went about it in a rather silly manner, dropping a whole watermelon on Squidward. Technically, he's still doing what he was told, just doing it wrong. Modern Patrick would somehow fumble it so bad you'd wonder if he actually heard what he was told to do.
One episode Patrick made a smart plan, the episode was when Squidward had the end of his clarinet in his throat and Patrick and Spongebob shrunk Sandy’s helicopter to get it.
Bro changed a cartoon show to a patrick documentary
2:52
patrick basically became sheldon from big bang theory
Patrick was stupid and oblivious but not outright mentally challenged. And he was still, very much supportive and a good friend. He might not know much but he will do everything he can to help SpongeBob
Spongebob also became more stupid tho which is saddening.
He doesn't talk back anymore, no great skills besides cooking, etc.
Professor Lawrence Piers of the University of Chicago says: "I think Patrick gets stupider every year"
Sheesh i watched this video in the morning and you had 980 subs, now you're up to 1120. Congrats man
I like this video, it’s a great analysis
I think there’s a few improvements you can make to structuring your video like being more concise labeling the phases.
Anyways I super enjoyed it.
This was an excellent video cool information
in the episode driven tears they sent spongebob to because he littered. spongebob didnt take the fall for anyone if anything that was one of Patrick’s non selfish moments but spongebob came clean and told the judge that he was the one who threw the paper on the ground
SpongeBob and Patrick where a duo but now its not the same any more.
0:10 "I told you, dad, it's NOT a phase!"
I've never seen Ink Lemonade and I never thought I would get repulsed by a Spongebob episode
early seasons patrick was also a jerk and very much so i was wondering why sb was even friends with him wich is wierd, because it shifts so much from episode to episode
despite patrick being stupid rise and shine is one of my favorite sponge bob episodes
Cool Video Bro.
Ink lemonade is one of the first spongebob episodes I ever watched. I was around seven or eight, and I for some reason LOVED it. Looking back at it, yes it is horrible, but I woulden't call it the worst in the whole show. I'm not a big Spongebob nerd ( I prefer Invader Zim) but, I have watched quite a few episodes, and in my opinion, A pal for Gary is easily the worst.
One episode you kind of forgot to mention is The Card. In that episode, he reveals that he purposefully acts stupid to keep SpongeBob on his toes. Also, you would think him being a huge Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy fan that he would cherish those holographic cards and want to keep them in good condition.
If you ask me. Patrick was made more or a jerk during the dark age of show. Especially when he was made just to be rude to others or screw everything up. Patrick really fell off after season 3 and the first movie came out. And when the show was going through hard and dark times. They decided to make everyone in the show rude and stupid. Patrick is the one who most likely got hit the hardest with this. For example. He managed to get SpongeBob stuck in a wringer and hurt him. And when SpongeBob yelled at him for causing so much trouble. People turned against SpongeBob. Even though Patrick was the cause of all the damage. And then all the squidward torture eps. Most of them if not all was caused by mainly Patrick. SpongeBob sometimes had a part but it was mostly Patrick. That ink lemonade was the worst that Patrick was gone into being a jerk and not caring for anyone. But if we look at this. Patrick became a… rude unlikeable bloak who just was being used to either make people made,used for stupidity and or cause extreme amounts of damage to people. Heck. When Stephen was not at the helm. The show took a horrible turn. And when he passed away. It went dark again for a bit for Patrick and the others.