*This episode is available on the [[Tide and Seek]], [[The Complete 2nd Season|Complete 2nd Season]], [[The First 100 Episodes|First 100 Episodes]], [[The Complete Second Season]], [[Laugh Your Pants Off (DVD)|Laugh Your Pants Off]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection]], [[Sponge Crazy]], [[The Best 300 Episodes Ever]], [[The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set]], [[Your Shoes are Loose]], [[Imitation Krabs (DVD)|Imitation Krabs]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection]], [[Friend Is The Best]], [https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/spongebob-squarepants-vol-2/id517092988 SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 2], [[From the Beginning, Part 1]], [[Simply Patrick]], [[SpongeBob and Friends: Patrick SquarePants]], [[The First & Second Seasons]], and [[The Best 200 Episodes Ever]] DVDs.
*This episode is available on the [[Tide and Seek]], [[The Complete 2nd Season|Complete 2nd Season]], [[The First 100 Episodes|First 100 Episodes]], [[The Complete Second Season]], [[Laugh Your Pants Off (DVD)|Laugh Your Pants Off]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection]], [[SpongeBob on DVD]], [[Sponge Crazy]], [[The Best 300 Episodes Ever]], [[The Ultimate SpongeBob Box Set]], [[Your Shoes are Loose]], [[Imitation Krabs (DVD)|Imitation Krabs]], [[The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection]], [[Friend Is The Best]], [https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/spongebob-squarepants-vol-2/id517092988 SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 2], [[From the Beginning, Part 1]], [[Simply Patrick]], [[SpongeBob and Friends: Patrick SquarePants]], [[The First & Second Seasons]], and [[The Best 200 Episodes Ever]] DVDs.
*This episode is also available on the [[Tide and Seek (VHS)|Tide and Seek]], [[Big Pink Loser (VHS)|Big Pink Loser]], and [[Laugh Your Pants Off (VHS)|Laugh Your Pants Off]] VHS tapes.
*This episode is also available on the [[Tide and Seek (VHS)|Tide and Seek]], [[Big Pink Loser (VHS)|Big Pink Loser]], and [[Laugh Your Pants Off (VHS)|Laugh Your Pants Off]] VHS tapes.
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As Patrick wakes up one morning, a parcel is shoved into his mouth. Curious, he opens it and finds a large, shiny trophy inside. Excited, he starts showing everyone his new award, including the jellyfish and even the Bikini Atoll Island. He shows it off to SpongeBob, who then realizes that the trophy is actually for him after spotting his name on it.
Patrick is disappointed as he hands the award to SpongeBob, feeling even more disappointed when he unwittingly opens a closet filled to the brim with SpongeBob's awards. SpongeBob tries to help him find a way to win an award, and eventually, Patrick decides to get a job working alongside SpongeBob at the Krusty Krab. Squidward quits in response.
First, Patrick is assigned to take some food to a customer. However, every time he brings it to the customer, he eats it, even as SpongeBob breaks down the process for him. A simpler task SpongeBob gives Patrick is to answer the phone, but he ends up getting angry when he thinks people are calling the wrong number when they are calling the "Krusty Krab" (he says "No, this is Patrick!" after 3 calls) which SpongeBob then tells him is the actual name of the restaurant. At this point, Patrick is almost completely demoralized, but SpongeBob urges him on. Patrick follows up with sweeping dust from under the floor near table 3, but uses the wrong end of the broom and while sweeping, a customer approaches him to ask "Hey, pal, you just blow in from Stupidtown?" which saddens Patrick further. Suddenly, a delivery man comes in with a load of awards for SpongeBob. This greatly infuriates Patrick to the point where he whacks the floor with the broom eight times, making dust fly everywhere and all the customers cough. Patrick loses control and laments that he will never win a trophy.
After rushing the frustrated and disheartened Patrick off into the kitchen, SpongeBob presents him with the extremely simple and basic task of opening a jar. When even this proves to be difficult at first, SpongeBob instructs him to do it exactly as he does. This mantra prompts Patrick to open the jar successfully. However, for a second, Patrick thinks he broke it. SpongeBob tells him he did it right, and he and SpongeBob begin celebrating. Patrick now feels more confident and poised, and he controls his temper by telling SpongeBob how he opened the jar. SpongeBob tells Patrick to do what he does, and he will have an award someday.
The next day, Patrick starts taking even more cues from SpongeBob. He ends up wearing the same outfit as him and copying every single one of SpongeBob's actions and mannerisms in the hope of achieving the same success as his friend, much to the surprise of the Bikini Bottom citizens, who think they are seeing double of SpongeBob. In annoyance towards Patrick's imitation, SpongeBob seemingly places his hand on a hot grill to prove Patrick was copying him. Patrick takes the bait, and once he cries out in pain, SpongeBob reveals that he was using a decoy hand. As he and Patrick run back to their neighborhood, Patrick's hat flies off, and Squidward picks it up while returning to work. SpongeBob tries multiple antics to convince Patrick to stop copying him, all of which are unsuccessful. SpongeBob even notices that Patrick has painted his rock to look almost exactly like SpongeBob's pineapple.
SpongeBob resorts to dressing up as Patrick, but it only makes Patrick more certain of the fact that his old self was nothing but a "big pink loser." As it turns out, however, the next award to arrive, which Patrick initially thinks is for SpongeBob again, is actually for a person who won it for "doing absolutely nothing longer than anyone else." This award turns out to be for Patrick, and SpongeBob is proud of him. Overjoyed, Patrick decides to protect his new title by going back under his rock and falling fast asleep, returning to his old, lazy self after he realizes that it was the reason why he got an award in the first place.
Production
This episode's storyboard was completed on November 22, 1999.
The scene where Patrick says, "No! This is Patrick!" on the phone in response to people asking if they are calling the Krusty Krab has become a popular internet meme.
Additionally, this meme was also referenced in Nickverse as a title of a quest.
SpongeBob's line "Patrick, that's a pickle." has become a popular meme on YouTube, usually replacing both the pickle itself and SpongeBob's mention of it with something else, but every "You need a jar." is replaced with the exterior of the Krusty Krab either getting blown up or being shot at and with several screams. SpongeBob's screams comes from "Graveyard Shift."
Incidental 41 saying "Hey, pal, you just blow in from Stupidtown?"
This is the only season 2 episode to use the track "Cream Pie."
This is also the first episode to use that track as title card music.
This is the first episode for a few things:
The first episode to reveal Patrick Star's last name.
Jay Lender's first episode as a storyboard director instead of a storyboard artist.
The second episode where Patrick gets a job at the Krusty Krab and is later fired or just quits. The first was "Arrgh!" although, in that episode, it was only for a few seconds before getting fired.
The second episode where SpongeBob shrinks. The first was "Nature Pants."
This time, however, he seems to be able to shrink and grow at will.
The second episode where the arrow on top of Patrick's rock falls off, after "Home Sweet Pineapple."
In some versions, at the beginning of the episode, the audio sound of the parcel being shoved into Patrick's mouth is heard before the mailman shoves it into his mouth.[citation needed] This version can be seen in the UK for example.
Oddly, even though this is a season 2 episode, SpongeBob and Patrick have their season 1 designs.
Although this episode, "Your Shoe's Untied," and "Squid's Day Off" are season 2 episodes, Patrick had his original sideways "M" shaped eyebrows from season 1, instead of his new "Z" shaped ones.
On the Complete 2nd Season Audio Commentary for this episode, it is mentioned by one of the people in the commentary that this episode was made around the time when Patrick's eyebrows were not fully colored in yet. That meant this episode was made before "Something Smells." His new "Z" shaped eyebrows first appeared in "Your Shoes Untied" during the "Loop de Loop" musical number, when he got a shoe as a scoop of ice cream. His "Z" shaped eyebrows appear again in this episode when he is reminiscing how he finally was able to open the jar, suggesting that these scenes were the last from their respective episodes to be animated.
This is the last episode to feature Patrick's sideways "M" shaped eyebrows. However, they still appear in some episodes through errors only, like "Patty Hype" for example.
This is the first episode of season 2 to feature the Krusty Krab without Mr. Krabs, although he is mentioned by Patrick and SpongeBob when they enter said Krusty Krab.
The scene where SpongeBob helps Patrick open the jar was used on Nicktoons as a "Rockin' Nicktoon Moment."[citation needed]
However, in some countries (like Australia), the audio of "Party Pooper Pants" was affected.
When Patrick jumps out of the water to show his award to Bikini Atoll, he quickly begins suffocating. However, in "Pressure" and "Rodeo Daze," he breathes on dry land without any issue.
When SpongeBob fully shrinks, he has a high-pitched, nasally voice. But when he says "Yeah" just before he returns to his normal size, his voice has already gone back to normal.
Patrick mentions the episode's title when he says, "What's so great about being a Big Pink Loser?"
The title is also mentioned by Squidward in the season 12 episode "Shell Games" when he says, "So long, you big pink loser!"
This episode's working title was "Single Pink Starfish."[2]
The tactic of imitating the imitator to restore them to their old self is later used in "Mimic Madness." In that episode, Patrick (alongside Template:Data:Links, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Template:Data:Links) all imitate SpongeBob.
Dub Facts
In the Dutch dub Patrick says: "Tartar Sauce!" instead of "Fishpaste!"
This episode's working title, "Single Pink Starfish" is a reference to the film series' title Single White Female.
Errors
When Patrick comes into SpongeBob's house and ruins his Gary-shaped house of cards, the sounds of a door opening and closing can be heard, but the door in the background is not animated; Patrick "pops" into the screen behind the house of cards.
After 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. A few shots later, SpongeBob and Patrick point at each other, but the spatulas are nowhere to be seen.
File:Notooth.pngSpongeBob without teethWhen SpongeBob tries to tell Patrick not to open his award closet, he has no buck teeth. They reappear a few frames before Patrick opens the door.
When SpongeBob and Patrick are running down the road to the Krusty Krab shouting "I'm ready" together, specifically, when SpongeBob looks suspiciously at Patrick, his buck teeth disappear for one frame. His bottom lip is also duplicated in the frame prior to this.
While Patrick is being shocked after showing the award to a herd of jellyfish, a visible pink star flashes in and out of view in the top-right corner.
When SpongeBob becomes smaller, there is nothing behind them, but when Patrick picks him up, there is a table behind him.
When SpongeBob's nose pops back out when he is pretending to be Patrick, his buck teeth are not shown when he is frowning. However, in the next scene, he still has the same frown and his teeth are now visible.
After Patrick eats the customer's food while delivering the tray, one of SpongeBob's eyes is briefly colored yellow.
When Patrick answers the third caller asking if they've called the Krusty Krab, the symbol on the Krusty Krab employee hat disappears for a few frames and then reappears.
For a split second, while Patrick is running with SpongeBob, the right side of SpongeBob's shirt turns yellow.
The Chum Bucket is missing in this episode.
In the Latin American Spanish dub, the part where the delivery man says "Trophy Delivery!," is undubbed.
When SpongeBob and Patrick are thinking of jobs, Patrick suggests the Krusty Krab. However, Patrick doesn't know the name of the restaurant when he's on the phone.
