A Root Galoot

Characters

• Patrick Star
  • Daydream Patrick
• Squidina Star
• Bunny Star
  • Superhero Bunny
• Cecil Star
• GrandPat Star
• Shmandrake Template:Single appearance
• Genie Template:Single appearance
• Evil lightbulb Template:Single appearance
• Gross detailed fly Template:Single appearance
• Flower Template:Single appearance

Synopsis

Patrick and Squidina are recording a "Pardon My Garden" segment for The Patrick Show!, where Patrick does in-home gardening. Squidina suggests to do the segment outside, where Patrick attempts to plant a seed, but the seeds are repeatedly taken by a root underground. Patrick fishes out the root, who introduces himself as Shmandrake. Cecil, Bunny, and GrandPat come to investigate Shmandrake, who offers the family a wish on the condition of staying at their house.

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The Star family meeting Shmandrake.

The family attempt to impress Shmandrake to get the wish out of him. Shmandrake soon requests sleep, as the family leave, with Squidina observing him. GrandPat, Cecil, and Bunny fantasize about their wishes, while Patrick struggles to think of his. A thought bubble Patrick gives the actual one the idea to talk to Shmandrake before the rest of the family can.

Shmandrake tries to watch TV, but finds Patrick on every channel. Patrick continues to think of his wish while GrandPat, Bunny and Cecil try to impress him. Shmandrake, however, refuses to offer a wish to any of them. The Star family feed Shmandrake several things to eat, hoping that he will offer them the wish, but Shmandrake still does not give the wish to any of them.

Patrick asks Squidina for help to impress Shmandrake, but Squidina reveals that Shmandrake does not offer any wishes and tricks people into thinking he does. Patrick misinterprets what Squidina says and attempts to pamper Shmandrake, offering him to use a tanning bed. Patrick becomes tired later on, with the rest of the family already sleeping. They are waken up by a smell, revealed to be steam coming from the tanning bed, as Shmandrake ends up cooked.

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The Star family eating Shmandrake.

The Star family eat Shmandrake, as his head soon revives. Shmandrake heads outside of the house in disbelief, but walks into Squidina, who threatens to bury him if she does not get a wish. She wishes that the family did not find Shmandrake to begin with, which Shmandrake is relieved at, and grants the wish. Things are reset to when Patrick is gardening, except Patrick finds a genie lamp this time. Squidina groans at this and wishes that "this cartoon was over," and the wish is granted, ending the episode.

Production

This episode was in production during 2022.

This episode was confirmed on December 20 of the aforementioned year.

Promotional art

• Drawn by Gabe Del Valle and Mike Pelensky.

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Model sheets

• By Chris DeRose.

• Evil lightbulb model sheet
  Evil lightbulb model sheet
• Gross detailed fly model sheet
  Gross detailed fly model sheet
• Starry-eyed Cecil, Bunny, and GrandPat model sheet
  Starry-eyed Cecil, Bunny, and GrandPat model sheet
• GrandPat in his spacesuit model sheet
  GrandPat in his spacesuit model sheet
• Superhero Bunny model sheet
  Superhero Bunny model sheet
• Deflated GrandPat model sheet
  Deflated GrandPat model sheet
• Exhausted Bunny model sheet
  Exhausted Bunny model sheet
• Exhausted GrandPat model sheet
  Exhausted GrandPat model sheet

Art

Background design

• Art direction by Marta Knudsen, layout designed by Tim Allen, traditionally painted by Amy Lewis with line and edits drawn digitally on top.

• A modern house
  A modern house

Prop design

• Designed by David Brueggeman.

• Sushi
  Sushi

Storyboards

• Rough boarded by Gabe Del Valle and Mike Pelensky, plussed by Ron Bradley and other storyboard artists on Gabe Del Valle and Mike Pelensky's team.

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Production notes

Mike Pelensky:

• Pelensky thanked Bob Camp and Tim Prendergast for their "sterling storyboard supervision!"

Ron Bradley:

• Besides providing plussing work for this episode, he also pushed the character posing, added backgrounds and the "evil lightbulb" gag.

Bob Camp:

• Camp said "he love[d] this episode" and said it was "very fun to supervise."
  • Gabe Del Valle (one of this episode's writers and storyboard directors) thanked him for making it shine.

Release

Format	Title	Region
DVD	The Patrick Star Show Season 1, Volume 2	United States

Trivia

General

• When Shmandrake resets everything back to normal, and Patrick ends up finding a genie's lamp during his gardening show, Squidina exclaims that she wishes "this cartoon was over already," and it ends, breaking the fourth wall.

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The face as seen in "Stair Wars."

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The face as seen in "A Root Galoot."

• Bunny's tired face that is seen when handing out pancakes to Shmandrake is similar to the face she makes when she is seen lying on the stairs about to give the family jam sandwiches in "Stair Wars," seemingly having taken a blow.

Episode references

• Cecil hits Patrick with a flyswatter and says "Foinsapp!". This is a reference to "Klopnodian Heritage Festival," where "foinsapp" is the tradition of swatting flies.
• Patrick's Pat's Jelly Rock Shack outfit from "The Patrick Show Sells Out" returns while trying to bribe Shmandrake on TV. He also appears in his chef outfit from "Pearl Wants to Be a Star."
• Patrick's poorly drawn thought bubble self is similar to how he imagines Bunny in "Just in Time for Christmas."

Errors

• Whenever this episode airs in the UK and Ireland as a standalone, TV sources have the summary of the plot incorrectly. Instead, the summary says "The Crew has a mishap while building a skatepark," when it was actually from an episode of Rubble and Crew.
  • The summary is shown correctly if it was to air with its sister episode, and its premiere.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Russian	Корень проблемы Koren' problemy	Root of the Problem
Spanish (American)	Una simple raíz	A Simple Root
Spanish (European)	Una raíz la mar de bruta	A Very Crude Root