Big Pink Loser

Template:Infobox episode Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Squidward Tentacles (2 cameos)
• Gary the Snail
• Mailfish

Plot

As Patrick wakes up, a mailfish gives him a package. Curious, he opens it, and finds a trophy inside. Excited, he starts showing everyone that he has a trophy (even the jellyfish and Bikini Atoll). He shows SpongeBob, who realizes that the trophy is actually for him. Patrick is disappointed, even more so when he sees the contents of SpongeBob's award closet. SpongeBob tries to help him find a way to win an award, and eventually Patrick decides to get a job at the Krusty Krab.

However, Patrick is unable to perform even the simplest tasks properly, and after he fails in every possible position of work, SpongeBob presents him with the extremely basic task of opening a jar, which Patrick still finds difficult. Eventually, however, Patrick succeeds in opening the jar, and he and SpongeBob begin celebrating. The next day, Patrick begins copying SpongeBob at work in hope of achieving the same success as his friend. When SpongeBob realizes this, he attempts to make him stop, but is unsuccessful until he dresses up as Patrick, which makes Patrick realize the error of his ways, and that he is a loser in every sense of the word. However, Patrick is then suddenly given an award for "doing absolutely nothing longer than anyone else." He then goes back under his rock to "protect (his) title."

Trivia/Goofs

• When Patrick throws the broom on the ground in the kitchen, it disappears after he opens the jar.
• When Patrick copies SpongeBob in the kitchen, they "drop" their spatulas. Afterwards, SpongeBob and Patrick point to each other, but the spatulas are nowhere to be seen.
• This is the second time a phone appears at the cash register in the Krusty Krab. The first time was in Pizza Delivery, and the next time will be in Graveyard Shift.
• This episode was voted by fans as the best episode of Season Two.
• The title card music was later reused in "The Inmates of Summer", "Gone", "Ditchin'" and "Professor Squidward".
• In some versions, at the beginning of the episode, the sound of the parcel being shoved into Patrick's mouth is heard before the mailman actually shoves it into his mouth.
• Patrick yells at the wrong half of the phone when he says "No! This is Patrick!" for the second time.
• When Patrick jumps out of the water to show his award to the island, he begins suffocating. However, in the episode "Pressure", Patrick and the other characters were able to survive on land for a while.
• When Patrick arrives at SpongeBob's house, the door does not open.
• When SpongeBob's nose pops back out when he is pretending to be Patrick, his buck teeth aren't shown when he is frowning. However, in the next scene, he still has the same frown and his teeth are now visible.
• The subtitles for this episode are incorrect at times, such as "And make sure the food gets to the customer" being shown as "and be sure the tray gets to the customer.", and when SpongeBob says to Patrick "No, you have to bring the tray to the customer.", the subtitles say "custom".
• There is a CD storybook based on this episode named "And The Winner Is..."
• 20th episode with its name in it.
• Even though Patrick says he has never won an award, he took the Dirty Bubble Challenge and won but lost the trophy they sent him, thus proving he will win the Dirty Bubble challenge after this episode.
• This is the second time the Krusty Krab appears without Mr Krabs. The first being in SB-129.
• Though this is a season two episode, it utilizes elements of the animation from season one, namely, Patrick having 3s for eyebrows, instead of Z's.
• It is revealed that SpongeBob and Patrick have mind reading abilities between themselves.
• The part where "No! This is Patrick!" was mixed in with a scene from 300 on YouTube as a parody. When the Spartan yells out "THIS IS SPARTA", Patrick would then say "No! This is Patrick!".
• When Patrick is picking up the stuff he thinks is a jar, he picks up Spongebob from by his feet. However, SpongeBob is across the room just a few second before.

APM Music Identification

• Aloha - Opening scene of Patrick sleeping by his rock.
• Dancing the Hula - Patrick shows SpongeBob his award.
• Stack of Leis - Patrick wants an award.
• Hawaiian Link A - "FISH PASTES!!"
• Killer Birds - Patrick gets upset.
• Cierre Bob Esponja - SpongeBob teaches Patrick how to take the lid off the jar.
• Hilo, March - SpongeBob and Patrick celebrate when Patrick removed the lid from the jar.
• Furtive Footsteps - Patrick mimics every single thing SpongeBob does.