"Sing a Song of Patrick" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 5. In this episode, Patrick writes a song and submits it to a record label.
Characters[]
- Near Mint Comic Books cashier (debut)
- Comic book characters
- Patrick Star
- Inaudible Lad (mentioned)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Gary the Snail
- Coach (debut)
- Squidward Tentacles (cameo)
- French Narrator
- Unnamed band (debut)
- Undertaker (debut)
- Margie Star (mentioned)
- Harold SquarePants (cameo)
- Margaret SquarePants (cameo)
- K-BLUB DJ (heard only)
- Incidentals
- Incidental 31
- Dale
- Incidental 42
- Steven
- Incidental 105
- Incidental 20 (yellow)
- Incidental 27
- Incidental 64
- Lenny
- Incidental 13
- Incidental 107 (dark green)
- Incidental 14
- Harold
- Incidental 48
- Incidental 92
- Sandals
- Scooter (purple)
- Incidental 155
- Harris
- One of the nerds
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 118
- Incidental 37A
- Incidental 37B
- Old Man Walker (cameo)
- Tom
- Fred
- Incidental 1B
- Incidental 46
- Incidental 39
- Incidental 40
- Incidental 102
- Incidental 103
- Incidental 106
Synopsis[]
![Sing a Song of Patrick 041](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/a/a2/Sing_a_Song_of_Patrick_041.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/200?cb=20190814223648)
Patrick's flashback.
SpongeBob and Patrick are at Near Mint Comic Books, and Patrick sees an ad for a mail-in offer promising to adapt a poem into a song. Patrick has a flashback while he is trying to write his poem at SpongeBob's house. He remembers a time from when he was younger in which he recited the poem: "Roses are blue. Violets are red. I have to go to the bathroom." The gym teacher told him that he had told him repeatedly that it was gym class, so he had the class throw dodgeballs at him.
Nonetheless, he has a plan to write his song fast so it would be a masterpiece and he would not get hit by dodgeballs again. Patrick takes SpongeBob's comic book money to enter $100 and submits an entry called "I Wrote This." The song does not make much sense, and it is so awful that even the paper smells terrible when he submits it and the band that plays it die after recording it. When the two listen to the song through a large loudspeaker, it turns out to be so bad that it melts down SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob, however, assures Patrick that it is the greatest song ever made, so he and Patrick try to get the song on the radio.
![Sing a Song of Patrick 083](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/2/26/Sing_a_Song_of_Patrick_083.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/200?cb=20190814224007)
"A-one and a-two.."
At the K-BLUB radio station, they are immediately kicked out, so, finding a different method, they climb up the radio tower and use a piece of chewed gum to stick the record player to the top of the antenna. The song is heard throughout the town, which causes rioting, literal head explosions, and a plane crash into a fireworks storage building. The town hates the song so much that they form an angry mob, which is headed by Fred. They yell about how much they hate the song and run SpongeBob and Patrick down to the ground.
While it looks like they are getting beat up, it turns out that SpongeBob and Patrick are making random noises with musical instruments and a chainsaw. Patrick said that was his new song called, "Aargh!" which the mob admits is not that bad, and is better than the first one Patrick made. Patrick starts to sing the song in front of everyone until his old gym teacher arrives, saying that Patrick never learned his lesson, which leads to the two getting humiliated as the angry crowd pelts them with dodgeballs as punishment.
Production[]
Art[]
Model sheets[]
Music[]
( ‣ ) Production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
‣ Hilo Rag - Guy Fletcher [Title card]
• 12th St Rag Slo - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick reading comic books]
• Vibe Q Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Mm-hmm... hmm..."]
‣ Beach Boy - Hilmar Doetsch, Karl Heinz Kroll [SpongeBob reads an ad]
• Gator - Steve Belfer ["I want to send in a poem!"]
• Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob gets kicked out]
• Goofy Conversation 2 - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony ["I wish not to be disturbed, SpongeBob."]
• SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [Start of flashback]
• Toy Piano - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Flashback to Patrick in school]
‣ Drama Link (D) - Hubert Clifford [Dodgeballs thrown at Patrick]
• SpongeBob Flashback Vibes - Nicolas Carr [End of flashback]
‣ Drama Link (B) - Hubert Clifford ["Oh, Patrick..."]
‣ Emotional Drama [#4] - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin ["I've never told anyone this."]
‣ Alekoki - Kapono Beamer ["I'm worried my poem's not gonna be any good."]
‣ Factory Workers - Harry Bluestone [Patrick struggling]
‣ Wah Wah (a) - Richard Myhill ["What is that horrible smell?"]
‣ Puffing Along - Harry Bluestone ["I'm making art!"]
• Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [Shot of envelope]
◦ Cookie, Wookie, Teddy Bear - Tom King, Eban Schletter [Bigshot Records exterior]
• Steel Licks 22 - Jeremy Wakefield [Band manager gags]
• Wig Struck - Nicolas Carr [Guitarist's eyes disintegrate]
• Funeral Parlor Music - Nicolas Carr [Band members' tombstones]
• Seaweed 1 - Steve Belfer [Back at home...]
• Wig Struck - Nicolas Carr ["Are you ready to rock?"]
◦ Twinkle, Twinkle, Patrick Star - Luke Brookshier, Tom King, Eban Schletter [Plays on record]
• Wahini Wobble No Lead - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["That was the best song I ever heard!"]
• Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Patrick kicked out of the radio station]
• Parting of the Clouds Sting - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob gets an idea]
‣ Tomfoolery - David Snell [Climbing the antenna]
◦ Twinkle, Twinkle, Patrick Star - Luke Brookshier, Tom King, Eban Schletter [Plays on record]
• I'm Ready Fanfare - Nicolas Carr ["Patrick Star, musical genius!"]
‣ From the Dead - Ronald Hanmer [Angry mob chases SpongeBob and Patrick]
• Pat's Really Bad Song - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob and Patrick play like crazy]
• Steel Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield ["You know, it's not that bad."]
• Pat's Bad Guitar Playing - Nicolas Carr [Patrick plays his song on the guitar]
• Grass Skirt Chase - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is available on the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis, SpongeBob's Pest of the West (UK version), Season 5 Volume 1, The Fifth & Sixth Seasons, The SpongeBob Super Square Collection, Really Big Box Set, SpongeBob's Legendary Adventures, The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set, The Best 300 Episodes Ever, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Time Travel, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, Favorite Episodes Volume 2, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 7, Simply Patrick, From the Beginning, Part 2, Complete Fifth Season, and First 100 Episodes DVDs.
Reception[]
- "Sing a Song of Patrick" was ranked #75 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode first aired with "Rise and Shine"/"Waiting" during the "Patrick For President" marathon, but it has since been re-airing with "The Krusty Sponge."[2]
- This episode along with "Rise and Shine" and "Waiting" are the only season 5 episodes to premiere with a TV-Y rating.
- The braces-wearing orange nerd fish, first seen in the episode "No Weenies Allowed" and later seen in "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture," appears at the comic shop in the beginning of this episode.
- This episode was paired with "Bubblestand" during Best Buddies Week.
- The scene where the gears in Patrick's head turn was previously seen in "Patrick SmartPants."
- This along with "The Krusty Sponge" are the last episodes to use the static Nicktoons splat logo on a black background in the end credits. The remaining season 5 episodes use the remaining static Nickelodeon splat logo on a black background in the end credits.
- Patrick has three fans who actually like his song: SpongeBob, Old Man Walker, and Harold.
- Patrick accurately describes a riot as an "angry mob with pitchforks and torches," but SpongeBob mistakes it for a fan club, marking another moment of Patrick's brief high intellect.
- This is the first episode since "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm" in season 2 to use the track "Hilo Rag" as the title card music and also the last episode to use it until "Friendiversary."
Dub facts[]
- In the Malay dub, Patrick's song is instrumental.
Cultural references[]
- The title is a play on the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence."
- The title of the song, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Patrick Star," is based on the children’s song, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
- One of the comics in Near Mint Comic Books contains an image of a creature that looks similar to Godzilla.
- There is a comic in Near Mint Comic Books called Atom, which is a reference to Atom, a DC Comics character.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick climb up the radio tower, the space object that passes them resembles Sputnik 1, the Soviet Union's, and the world's first artificial satellite that was launched in 1957.
- The radio mast on the K-BLUB radio station looks exactly like the Warsaw Radio Mast in Poland, which was the world's tallest structure until it collapsed in 1991.
- When the Band Manager at Bigshot Records explains to the band about having 17 more songs to finish in the hour, in the background is an album that references the 1994 Weezer album, the Blue Album.
Errors[]
- When Patrick's brain is working, the door is nowhere in sight. However, moments later, SpongeBob is knocking on the door.
![Fred's pants color error in Sing a Song of Patrick](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebob/images/e/ea/Fred%27s_pants_color_error_in_Sing_a_Song_of_Patrick.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/260?cb=20201225072711)
Fred with blue pants.
- When the record producer gives SpongeBob and Patrick the single copy of "I Wrote This," it is a CD. Later, when SpongeBob and Patrick are at the top of the radio tower, it is a vinyl record.
- When Fred says, "Who's re-," from his line "Who's responsible for that song on the radio?" Incidental 27 lip syncs to what Fred says.
- In one scene, Fred wears blue pants instead of brown pants.
- In some countries, for example Indonesia, the "The Next Day" time card is cut for unknown reasons. The same error also happens in "Le Big Switch."
- In the Welsh dub, Tom Yasumi is credited as an animation director instead of Alan Smart.