Ice Cream Headache

"Ice Cream Headache" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 4. In this episode, the Ice Cream Man and Ice Cream King team up to capture a mysterious ice cream eating beast.

Characters

• Patrick Star
• Squidina Star
• Cecil Star
• Bunny Star
• Bubble Bass
• Walter the Waiter
• Ice Cream King
• Cop ^(several)
• The Goobfather
• Rube Goldfish
• Incidentals
  • Fred
  • Steven
  • Incidental 6 ^{(normal and yellow)}
  • Incidental 8
  • Incidental 13
  • Incidental 16
  • Incidental 18
  • Incidental 25
  • Joe
  • Tuck Tucker (Inc 37A)
  • Incidental 37B ^{(color palette only)}
  • Scooter ^{(normal and Incidental 37B-colored)}
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 73KID
  • Old Man Walker
  • Incidental 93
  • Gale
  • Incidental 111
  • Incidental 118C
  • Incidental 141
  • Incidental 143
  • Incidental 163
  • Incidental 159
  • Incidental 162
  • Incidental 166
  • Incidental 171
  • Incidental 186
  • Policeman 2 ^(salmon)

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Synopsis

One night at Goo Lagoon, two fish are relaxing and eating ice cream together. When a drop falls into the water, a beast suddenly appears from the water and devours the ice cream, leaving only the cone. The next day, it digs to the supermarket to eat more, and attacks Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat. It then eats all of the ice cream sold to kids from the Goofy Goober truck, and then half the truck itself.

The Goofy Goober salesman hosts a meeting at City Hall regarding what to do about the monster. When the only proposed suggestion is to stop selling ice cream, everyone protests. The Ice Cream King speaks up, stating that he has plotted the sites of the attacks and needs to use the salesman's truck to help bait the monster out. Squidina follows along to record a documentary.

Riding the truck, the Ice Cream King spreads chum as bait, which the salesman protests. When they argue, some ice cream spills out onto the road, attracting the monster again. Their truck is destroyed, leaving them to use the Ice Cream King's upgraded boat. A giant ice cream cone is dragged along the road to lure the beast out, revealing it to be Patrick, to Squidina's surprise. The ice cream ends up eaten and Patrick digs underground, despite the team's efforts.

The Ice Cream King suggests they could take Patrick out if they knew where he lived, worrying Squidina. The salesman reveals he put a tracking chip in the ice cream. When he steps in a puddle of ice cream, Patrick comes out of the hole and swallows him whole. The Ice Cream King picks up the tracker and goes to the Star house.

To Squidina's horror, the Ice Cream King is insistent on taking Patrick down. He puffs up his suit to more closely resemble ice cream and locks himself in a cage as bait, then goes beneath Patrick's room. He runs into the salesman, and Patrick leaps at the Ice Cream King. When he sees Squidina, he reverts back to his regular self. The Ice Cream King wants to attack Patrick, but Squidina suggests they settle it with an ice cream-eating contest, where the loser forfeits their ice cream.

After an intense competition, the Ice Cream King wins. Patrick says he cannot give all the ice cream back because he has eaten it, although the Ice Cream King has a solution: using Patrick as the ice cream dispenser in the Goofy Goober truck.

Production

This episode was confirmed by Dave Cunningham on Twitter on February 13, 2025.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Hawaiian Breeze - Jon Jelmer [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Shark Attack - Anselm Kreuzer [Beast chases Tuck and Scooter.]
 ‣ Horror Cue 1 A - Gregor F. Narholz [Tuck's ice cream is gone.]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.1] - William Farran [Scooter is gone.]
 ‣ Shark Attack - Anselm Kreuzer [Beast goes to the supermarket.]
 ◦ Goober Rag - Andrew Goodman, Ego Plum [At Goofy Goober's.]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Ice cream man serves ice cream.]
 ‣ Horror Cue 1 A - Gregor F. Narholz ["A monster took my ice cream!"]
 ‣ ? ["This town has a problem."]
 • ? - Ego Plum [At city hall.]
 ‣ Drum Rolls (C) - Dick Walter [Ice Cream King appears.]
 ‣ Untitled Tune - Jack Shaindlin [Ice Cream King's plan.]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Ice cream man leaving a trail for the beast.]
 ‣ Planet Surface - Gregor F. Narholz [Close-up of chum.]
 ‣ Drama Link (D) - Hubert Clifford [Tub of ice cream spills.]
 ‣ Shark Attack - Anselm Kreuzer [Beast reappears.]
 ‣ Rush Hour-Traffic Jam - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Beast pursues the ice cream truck.]
 • ? - Ego Plum [Ice cream truck is destroyed.]
 ‣ Approaching Danger - Ronald Hanmer ["We're gonna need a bigger boat."]
 ‣ Six Powerful Cues (A) - Wilfred Burns [Upgraded ice cream truck.]
 ‣ Cyber Termination Full Mix - Mark Adao, Mirk Markus [Patrick latches onto the ice cream truck.]
 ‣ Jaunty Joe - Tommy Reilly, James Moody [Bubble Bass' ice cream.]
 ‣ Creatures in the Closet - Cris Velasco [Patrick tunnels underground.]
 ‣ Dismal Gloom - Wilfred Burns ["The beast got away."]
 ‣ Tales Of The Pharaohs - Gregor F. Narholz [Tracking device.]
 ‣ The Conquerors - Robert Foster [At the beast's lair.]
 ‣ Wargames Linking Section (D) - Keith Mansfield [Ice Cream King enters Patrick's room.]
 ‣ Once Upon a Time - Gregor F. Narholz [Ice Cream King explores Patrick's room.]
 ‣ Shark Attack - Anselm Kreuzer [Patrick tries to eat the Ice Cream King.]
 ‣ La Bas - Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gilbert Sigrist ["Oh, hey Squidina."]
 ‣ Symphony No 1 D major The Titan [#4] - Gustav Mahler ["Surely we can settle this like gentlemen."]
 ‣ Sport Fanfare - Gerhard Trede ["Whoever gives up first has to forfeit all their ice cream!"]
 ‣ Drum Rolls (A) - Dick Walter [Countdown.]
 ‣ The Can Can - Andrew Pilmer [Ice cream eating contest.]
 ‣ ? [Ice Cream King eating elegantly.]
 ‣ The Can Can - Andrew Pilmer ["I can't eat another bite."]
 ◦ Goober Rag - Andrew Goodman, Ego Plum [Ending.]

Release

• This episode premiered as part of the 2025 event "Friday Night Hits."
• This episode along with its sister episode, "The Dated Game," were originally scheduled to premiere on Friday, April 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM, but was pulled and instead moved to Friday, March 28, 2025.

Trivia

General

• The design of the supermarket is identical to "Pet or Pests." The interior design is heavily referenced from "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?"
• This is Stephen Herczeg's first episode credited as a storyboard director, after previously being credited as a storyboard artist starting with "Blorpsgiving" in season 1.
• When this episode and "The Dated Game" were released on Nick.com, the episodes had no vocal track, only music and sound effects.

Cultural references

• This episode is a homage to the 1975 movie, Jaws. The Ice Cream King getting the city hall's attention by scratching an ice cream cone against a chalkboard, and later saying "We're gonna need a bigger boat," are direct references to the movie.

Errors

• In the first shot of everyone at City Hall, Incidental 6 is yellow. In the next, he is colored brown like usual.
• When the Ice Cream King walks in front of the podium, Incidental 13's eyes are white instead of yellow. They are colored correctly in the previous scenes.

Video

File:You watching a new The Patrick Star Show Spot - March 28, 2025 (Nickelodeon U.S.)

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Mandarin (Taiwan)	冰淇淋危機 Bīngqílín wéijī	Ice Cream Crisis
Russian	Встревоженное мороженое Vstrevozhennoye morozhenoye	Anxious Ice Cream