Dad's Stache Stash

Characters

• Patrick Star
• Cecil Star
• Bunny Star
• Squidina Star
• GrandPat Star
• Rube Goldfish
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 166
  • Incidental 174
  • Lenny
  • Incidental 150

Synopsis

Patrick finds some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, and offers it to the family to eat. Cecil is the only one who does not eat any spaghetti, which Patrick takes notice to. Cecil eats lasagna and chowder stored in his mustache. Patrick looks at Cecil in awe about his mustache, and becomes sad that he does not have one, after noticing that the rest of the family does.

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Cecil showing Patrick the Star family "stache stash."

Cecil shows Patrick the family "stache stash," where the Star family's ancestors have their mustaches stored. Cecil offers Patrick to wear any of the mustaches, except for one, leaving Patrick curious as he leaves. Patrick, unsupervised in the stache stash room, tries on various mustaches, going through all of them, until he sees the forbidden mustache. Patrick steals the mustache, not knowing of its effects, and becomes evil. Patrick, under the evil mustache, ties Squidina, Bunny, and GrandPat to railroad tracks.

On The Patrick Show!, Patrick does a segment with Rube, asking him his thoughts on trains. After hearing that Rube loves trains, he unleashes a trap and ties Rube to the train tracks. Patrick then performs a "magic trick," to the rest of the audience, with results in them being tied to the tracks as well. Cecil is later shown grooming his mustache, as the mustache alerts him to danger.

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Cecil using his mustache to go to the train.

Cecil's mustache takes him to the train tracks, with Cecil determined to help everyone. Patrick's train arrives to run all of them over, as Cecil chases the train down. Cecil arrives on the train and finds Patrick, asking him to take off the mustache, only to be punched by it. Patrick and Cecil's mustaches get into a fight, with the train still rushing towards everyone tied to the tracks. Cecil's mustache soon ties Patrick up, and Cecil shaves off Patrick's mustache.

Patrick turns back to normal, with the train still moving. Cecil tries to stop the train, but pulls the brake off. However, he manages to stop the train just in time, with the force of his mustache on the tracks stopping the train's movement. Cecil gets the family together for a photo after they are untied. Rube tries to take the picture, but the picture only gets the bottom half of the family, as Rube gets run over by a train.

Production

This episode was confirmed on December 20, 2022.

Art

Object design

• Designed by Aaron Painter.

• The train that threatens to run over everyone
  The train that threatens to run over everyone
• Locomotive section 1
  Locomotive section 1
• Locomotive section 2
  Locomotive section 2
• Locomotive section 3
  Locomotive section 3

Release

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

Trivia

General

• This episode aired on the main series' 24th anniversary.
• This was the first episode to use "Cha Cha Nova" since "Unreal Estate."
  • Between those two episodes, it took five and a half years for the track to return.
• This episode was paired up with a rerun of "Neptune's Ball" during the original American airing.

Cultural references

• The villain that Patrick turns into is a homage to Snidely Whiplash from Dudley Do-Right.
• One of the mustaches is labeled "plumber," which is a reference to Luigi from the Super Mario series.
• When Patrick turns into a melting clock after wearing a mustache labeled "surrealist," it is a reference to Salvador Dalí's surrealist painting, The Persistence of Memory.
• The 4-6-0 steam locomotive and red steam locomotive in the end are based on Sierra Railway No. 3.
• The whistle of the 4-6-0 steam locomotive and red steam locomotive in the end was Frisco 1522's CB&Q 5 Chime.

Videos

File:Patrick's Mustache Turns Him EVIL 😱 The Patrick Star Show - Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe

File:Patrick tries on mustaches! 🥸 -shorts

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Russian	Папины усы Papiny usy	Father's Mustache
Spanish (American)	El escondite de bigotes de papá	Dad's Mustache Stash
Spanish (European)	Los mostachos secretos de papá	Dad's Secret Mustaches