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Characters

Synopsis

The Dartfish family wake up.

The Dartfish family are sleeping, but they are soon sucked out of their beds due to Bunny vacuuming near the entrance to their home. The Dartfish are about to be sucked out of their home, but Bunny finishes vacuuming in time. After getting ready, the Dartfish leave their home and split around the Star house to look for food.

Teensy Tom goes into the kitchen to find Patrick making a sandwich. The fridge crushes Patrick after he places it on the sandwich, and Teensy Tom tries to help him. Patrick, not noticing him, thanks the kitchen cactus and finishes making his sandwich. One of the crumbs lands for Teensy Tom, but the fridge soon falls afterwards.

Cecil is working on his car in the garage as Daddy Dartfish notices a burrito out in the open. Cecil takes a bite of the burrito, as a bean falls out of it. He reaches for the burrito again, but accidentally grabs the buzzsaw. Daddy Dartfish notices a switch and flips it to turn off the buzzsaw before Cecil eats it. Cecil blames his burrito for almost eating the buzzsaw and throws it into the fire as Daddy Dartfish dismounts from the burrito wrap.

Sister Dartfish goes into the stage room and finds Squidina doing some cleaning for the show. A sprinkle falls out of Squidina's donut while she is cleaning, which Sister Dartfish finds, but she soon notices that Squidina is about to fall off the ladder, so she goes to save her. Squidina, while tied on the rope as she is saved from her fall, gets the idea for a new segment for the show. As Squidina falls off the rope, the sprinkle from the donut falls into a crevice.

The Dartfish family meet up after being unable to get any food, as Daddy Dartfish devises a plan to target GrandPat's beard. GrandPat falls asleep after eating a slice of cake, so the Dartfish attempt to sneak up on him. The Dartfish notice Slappy taking GrandPat's cake, so they wake him up, only for him to fall asleep again. The Dartfish use GrandPat's beard to start chasing after Slappy and the cake.

The Dartfish family are led to a room containing the other stuff that was stolen from the Star family, including Patrick himself. The Dartfish ask Slappy why he has stolen everything, to which he responds that he wants to complete his personal collection. Slappy proceeds to target the Dartfish family and he chases them down. The Dartfish first stop Slappy by using their heads to trip him, as Slappy afterwards grabs them and tries to put them in a bag, only for them to fall through.

File:Day of the Dartfish 194.png

Slappy with all of Patrick's stuff.

Slappy stops chasing the Dartfish since he hears that The Patrick Show! is about to start, but the show is unable to start since Patrick and the set are gone. Daddy Dartfish signals Squidina to give a message to the audience, stating that the show can only be enjoyed by everyone if it is shared. Slappy realizes that the message was referring to him, as he returns everything that he stole. Slappy apologizes to Patrick, as Patrick and Squidina prepare for the show. Squidina thanks the Dartfish for their help, as the Dartfish receive leftovers from the cake that Patrick ate.

Production

This episode was confirmed on July 22, 2024.^[1]

Storyboards

This episode's rough storyboards were finished on June 1, 2023.^[2]

File:Day of the Dartfish time lapse.mp4

Time lapse of Myke Chilian plussing the episode.^[2]

Music

Trivia

General

Nickelodeon posted three clips of this episode on Instagram the morning before it premiered.

Cultural references

Slappy's line, "I can't help it!", and his pose while saying it, reference Peter Lorre's character doing the same in the 1931 German film M.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Der Tag der Schwertgrundeln	Day of the Dartfish
Russian	День Стрелоглавов Den' Streloglavov	Day of the Arrowheads, portmanteau of the words стрела ("arrow") and глава (obsolete word meaning "head")
Spanish (American)	Día del dardo	Day of the Dartfish

References

↑ The Patrick Star Show - TV Insider
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 |sisterep = Pat-per Route
-|writer = [[Dave Tennant]]<br>{{W|Myke Chilian}}
+|writer = [[Dave Tennant]]<br>[[Myke Chilian]]
 |storyboard artist =
 |supervising producer = [[Kenny Pittenger]]
 |supervising director = [[Brett Varon]]
 |line producer = [[Kristen Caplan]]
-|director-storyboard = {{W|Myke Chilian}}
+|director-storyboard = [[Myke Chilian]]
 |director-animation = [[Sean Dempsey]]
-|briefsummary = in the midst of a typical day of scavenging, [[The Dartfish Family]] discovers a thief in the [[Star home]]
+|briefsummary = in the midst of a typical day of scavenging, the [[Dartfish family]] discovers a thief in the [[Star house|Star home]].
-|image=Day of the Dartfish tc.png}}
+}}
 ===Characters===
 *[[Patrick Star]]
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 *[[Cecil Star]]
 *[[Squidina Star]]
-*[[The Dartfish Family]]
+*[[Dartfish family]]
 *[[Ouchie]] {{Sup|(photo framed)}}
-*[[Slappy Laszlo]]
+*[[Slappy]]
 *{{Link|Incidentals}}
+**[[Incidental 109]]
+**[[Incidental 111]]
+**[[Incidental 168]]
+**[[Incidental 185]]
+==Synopsis==
+[[File:Day of the Dartfish 007.png|thumb|200px|The Dartfish family wake up.]]
+The Dartfish family are sleeping, but they are soon sucked out of their beds due to Bunny vacuuming near the entrance to their home. The Dartfish are about to be sucked out of their home, but Bunny finishes vacuuming in time. After getting ready, the Dartfish leave their home and split around the Star house to look for food.
+Teensy Tom goes into the kitchen to find Patrick making a sandwich. The fridge crushes Patrick after he places it on the sandwich, and Teensy Tom tries to help him. Patrick, not noticing him, thanks the kitchen cactus and finishes making his sandwich. One of the crumbs lands for Teensy Tom, but the fridge soon falls afterwards.
+Cecil is working on his car in the garage as Daddy Dartfish notices a burrito out in the open. Cecil takes a bite of the burrito, as a bean falls out of it. He reaches for the burrito again, but accidentally grabs the buzzsaw. Daddy Dartfish notices a switch and flips it to turn off the buzzsaw before Cecil eats it. Cecil blames his burrito for almost eating the buzzsaw and throws it into the fire as Daddy Dartfish dismounts from the burrito wrap.
+Sister Dartfish goes into the stage room and finds Squidina doing some cleaning for the show. A sprinkle falls out of Squidina's donut while she is cleaning, which Sister Dartfish finds, but she soon notices that Squidina is about to fall off the ladder, so she goes to save her. Squidina, while tied on the rope as she is saved from her fall, gets the idea for a new segment for the show. As Squidina falls off the rope, the sprinkle from the donut falls into a crevice.
+The Dartfish family meet up after being unable to get any food, as Daddy Dartfish devises a plan to target GrandPat's beard. GrandPat falls asleep after eating a slice of cake, so the Dartfish attempt to sneak up on him. The Dartfish notice Slappy taking GrandPat's cake, so they wake him up, only for him to fall asleep again. The Dartfish use GrandPat's beard to start chasing after Slappy and the cake.
+The Dartfish family are led to a room containing the other stuff that was stolen from the Star family, including Patrick himself. The Dartfish ask Slappy why he has stolen everything, to which he responds that he wants to complete his personal collection. Slappy proceeds to target the Dartfish family and he chases them down. The Dartfish first stop Slappy by using their heads to trip him, as Slappy afterwards grabs them and tries to put them in a bag, only for them to fall through.
+[[File:Day of the Dartfish 194.png|thumb|200px|Slappy with all of Patrick's stuff.|left]]
+Slappy stops chasing the Dartfish since he hears that ''[[The Patrick Show!]]'' is about to start, but the show is unable to start since Patrick and the set are gone. Daddy Dartfish signals Squidina to give a message to the audience, stating that the show can only be enjoyed by everyone if it is shared. Slappy realizes that the message was referring to him, as he returns everything that he stole. Slappy apologizes to Patrick, as Patrick and Squidina prepare for the show. Squidina thanks the Dartfish for their help, as the Dartfish receive leftovers from the cake that Patrick ate.
 ==Production==
 This episode was confirmed on {{Time|July 22}}, {{Time|2024}}.<ref name="tvinsider">[https://www.tvinsider.com/show/the-patrick-star-show/ ''The Patrick Star Show'' - TV Insider]</ref>
+===Storyboards===
+This episode's rough storyboards were finished on {{Time|June 1}}, 2023.<ref name=chilian/>
+[[File:Day of the Dartfish time lapse.mp4|thumb|center|250px|Time lapse of [[Myke Chilian]] plussing the episode.<ref name=chilian/>]]
 ===Music===
 {{MLegend}}
 {{APM|i|I Sleep So To Dream|Carl Bach, Ed Lewis, Gerhard Kanzian|Title card and opening.}}
-{{APM-article|Suspense And Tension#Suspense And Tension A{{!}}Suspense And Tension A|Alan Wynn|Furniture getting sucked out of the Dartfish hole.}}
+{{APM-article|Suspense And Tension#Suspense And Tension A{{!}}Suspense And Tension A|Alan Wynn|Furniture getting sucked out of the Dartfish home.}}
+{{APM-article|Pirate Ship|John Hastings|The Dartfish get sucked out of their home.}}
+{{APM|b|Bouncy Fingers|Dieter Reith|"What's for breakfast, mom?"}}
+{{APM|c|Champagner Perlen|Werner Von Overheidt|Patrick making a sandwich.}}
+{{APM-article|Horror Cues#Horror Cue 5 C{{!}}Horror Cue 5 C|Gregor F. Narholz|Fridge crushes Patrick.}}
+{{APM-article|Suspense And Tension#Suspense And Tension B{{!}}Suspense And Tension B|Alan Wynn|"Patrick!"}}
+{{APM|d|Dramatic Pursuit|John Hastings|Teensy Tom saves Patrick from the fridge.}}
 {{APM-article|Boys and Girls|Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gilbert Sigrist|Patrick thanks the kitchen cactus.}}
+{{APM-article|Comic Capers#Comic Capers C{{!}}Comic Capers C|Charlie Brissette, Norman Mamey|Fridge lands on the breadcrumb.}}
+{{APM-article|Say it with a Smile#Say it with a Smile (E){{!}}Say it with a Smile (E)|Dick Walter|Transition to next scene.}}
 {{APM|s|Sur Ma Peau Dorée [#12]|Stephane Huguenin, Christian Padovan, Yves Sanna|Cecil working in his garage.}}
-{{APM-article|Killer Birds|Gregor F. Narholz|Daddy Dartfish saving Cecil from eating his own buzzsaw.}}
+{{APM-article|Heaveny Info|Paul Arnold, Andrew James Barnabas|Daddy Dartfish sees Cecil's burrito.}}
+{{APM||||Cecil reaches for his burrito.}}
+{{APM-article|Killer Birds|Gregor F. Narholz|Daddy Dartfish saves Cecil from eating his buzzsaw.}}
 {{APM|s|Sur Ma Peau Dorée [#12]|Stephane Huguenin, Christian Padovan, Yves Sanna|"Hey, who turned off my burrito?"}}
 {{APM-article|Tales From The Swamp (C)|Ron Goodwin|"It's all your fault, you delicious burrito!"}}
-{{APM-article|Flight in Panic 1|Gregor F. Narholz|"I should have never ordered a breakfast burrito at night!"}}
+{{APM-article|Flight in Panic 1|Gregor F. Narholz|Cecil throws his burrito.}}
+{{APM|b|Bassoon Link (B)|Richard Myhill|Transition to next scene.}}
+{{APM-article|Madder Than Mad|Jean-Jacques Perrey|Squidina on the phone.}}
+{{APM|f|Future Train|Etienne Cap, Jan Paul Hulsens|Sister Dartfish saves Squidina from being injured.}}
+{{APM-article|Fun Sting F|Gregor F. Narholz|Squidina falls.}}
 {{APM-article|Nippy Nipper{{!}}Nippy Nipper - Remastered|Tommy Reilly|Sprinkle falls down a crevice.}}
 {{APM-article|Lovely Scenery C|Mladen Franko|"And now we're even hungrier than before."}}
-{{APM-article|Tabu|Daryl Griffith|"We couldn't help but notice you've stolen the Star family's belongings."}}
+{{APM-article|Clumsy A|Bernd Gesell|GrandPat eating a cake.}}
+{{APM|4=GrandPat sleeping.}}
+{{APM|m|March to Conquest (a)|Robin Jeffrey, Roderick Skeaping|Dartfish family in GrandPat's beard.}}
+{{APM|f|Fun Bridge 23|Ilan Harel|Slappy steals GrandPat's cake.}}
+{{APM-article|Short Drama Cue 8 B|Gregor F. Narholz|GrandPat wakes up.}}
+{{APM|d|Desolate Danger|Cecil Milner|"We got a dirty, no good cake-stealing thief on our hands."}}
+{{APM|p|Pirate Salute [#12]|Con Ardt|"Someone is breaking the dartfish code!"}}
+{{APM-article|Life on the Wild Side|Sam Spence|Dartfish family follows Slappy.}}
+{{APM-article|Mysterious|Stuart Crombie|Slappy's stash.}}
+{{APM-article|Short Drama Cue 8 B|Gregor F. Narholz|"Excuse us."}}
+{{APM-article|Tabu|Daryl Griffith|"We couldn't help but notice you've stolen all of the Star family's belongings."}}
+{{APM-article|Evil Wizard#Evil Wizard B{{!}}Evil Wizard B|Udi Harpaz|"All that matters is that I complete my precious collection!"}}
+{{APM-article|Four Evil Men#Four Evil Men (c){{!}}Four Evil Men (c)|Trevor Duncan|Slappy realizes that they're the Dartfish family.}}
+{{APM-article|Hot Pursuit{{!}}Hot Pursuit [#10]|Edmund Koetscher|Slappy chases the Dartfish family.}}
 {{OM|The Patrick Star Show Theme Song|Ego Plum|"''The Patrick Show!'' is about to start!"}}
+{{APM-article|Show Fanfare#Show Fanfare 1{{!}}Show Fanfare 1|David Lindup|Daddy Dartfish magnified.}}
+{{APM|s|State Processional|Barry Hingley|Daddy Dartfish's speech.}}
+{{APM-article|Horror Cues#Horror Cue 5 C{{!}}Horror Cue 5 C|Gregor F. Narholz|Slappy returns everything.}}
 {{APM-article|Kitsch Latin Cool|Malcolm Lockyer|Ending.}}
-{{List-incomplete}}
 ==Trivia==
 ===General===
-*Nickelodeon posted three clips of this episode on Instagram the morning before it premiered.
+*[[Nickelodeon]] posted three clips of this episode on Instagram the morning before it premiered.
+===Cultural references===
+*Slappy's line, "I can't help it!", and his pose while saying it, reference {{W|Peter Lorre}}'s character doing the same in the 1931 German film ''{{W|M (1931 film)|M}}''.
+==Names in other languages==
+{{Foreign names
+|Ger = Der Tag der Schwertgrundeln
+|GerM = Day of the Dartfish
+|Rus = День Стрелоглавов
+|RusR = Den' Streloglavov
+|RusM = Day of the Arrowheads, portmanteau of the words ''стрела'' ("arrow") and ''глава'' (obsolete word meaning "head")
+|SpaA = Día del dardo
+|SpaAM = Day of the Dartfish
+}}
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
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