A Patty in Time

"A Patty in Time" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 3. In this episode, Patrick time-travels in a race for the Krusty Krab's newest menu item.

Characters

• Patrick Star
• Squidina Star
• Bunny Star
• Cecil Star
• Bubble Bass
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Mrs. Puff
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Gary the Snail
• French Narrator
• Larry the Lobster
• Tool belt worker
• Underbite worker
• Scallops and clams
• Incidentals
  • Fred
  • John
  • Tom
  • Priscilla
  • Incidental 14
  • Incidental 97
  • Incidental 102BABY
  • Incidental 103
  • Steve
  • Dale
  • Incidental 116
  • Incidental 151
  • Incidental 152
  • Incidental 153
  • Incidental 171
  • Incidental 173
  • Incidental 183 ^{(intended to be Incidental 184)}

Synopsis

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The commercial for the new Patty Kake item.

Patrick is watching TV when he sees an advertisement for the Krusty Krab's new Patty Kake, a layered dessert patty where the first customer in line will be featured in a promotional poster. The restaurant opens in 10 minutes, and Patrick thinks it will take him 5 minutes to get there, so he takes a 5-minute nap: which ends up taking 6 hours. He rushes to the Krusty Krab, only to find SpongeBob exiting, saying that they ran out of Patty Kakes four hours ago, and he was the first one to try them.

SpongeBob's comments make Patrick realize he can use the time closet to travel back in time to this morning and be the first in line. He arrives at sunset, seeing SpongeBob running down the street. He stops SpongeBob and shoves him under a sidewalk tile. SpongeBob thinks they're playing and chases him down, and when Patrick gets free, he finds that Bubble Bass got the first Patty Kake.

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Mrs. Puff with the first Patty Kake.

Patrick goes back in time again and stops Bubble Bass by locking him in a cage. Bubble Bass declares that as a prisoner, he still has rights, and holds up Patrick by demanding various expensive things. By the time he's done, he sees that Mrs. Puff has got the first Patty Kake.

He goes back in time again and sees Mrs. Puff driving up, so he revs a boat himself, crashes it, and flies through her windshield, flaying the skin off her face. Mrs. Puff screams and crashes into a building, exploding his car. Patrick returns to the Krusty Krab to see that Larry got there before him, so he goes back in time to stop him. In the meantime, Squidina is able to get the Patty Kake. Traveling back in time, someone always manages to get there before him, so he ends up trapping everyone. The last person he runs into is Gary, whom he distracts with a laser pointer tied to a clam.

Then, another Patrick shows up from the time closet and sees the amount of Patricks from previous timelines. To see who is most deserving, he holds a "Top Patrick" contest, with the judges being the caged entirety of Bikini Bottom. However, since all the Patricks are also busy, nobody comes to get the Patty Kake. Mr. Krabs tastes it himself, disgusted by it, then throws it away, questioning what he was thinking as the promotional poster ends up showing the Patty Kake on top of the garbage.

Production

This episode was confirmed on July 22, 2024.

Storyboards

• Rough boarded by Andy Gonsalves and Miggs Perez, supervised by Bob Camp, plussed by Dylan Bozic and Yeardley Wells, with revisions by Wells.
• The rough boards from the first half of this episode are available on Andy Gonsalves' website.

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Workprint

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Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Bobbins and Spindles - Ronald Hanmer [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Whistling Cancan - Jacques Offenbach, Scott Taylor [Patty Kake commercial./"But wait, it gets better!"]
 ‣ Beach Beat - Eric Spencer [Patrick rushes to the Krusty Krab.]
 • You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob exits the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Circus Parade (B) - Dick Walter [SpongeBob on the poster,]
 ‣ Drama Link (O) - Hubert Clifford [Patrick wishes he could travel back in time.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet letters.]
 ‣ Tense Moments - David Francis [Time closets spinning above Patrick's head.]
 ‣ Comical Logos - Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick runs home.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert ["Back to the Krusty Krab this morning."]
 ‣ L'Horloge Hantee - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [SpongeBob walking towards the Krusty Krab.]
 ‣ Russian Rump - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [SpongeBob tickling Patrick.]
 ‣ Plaisir D'Amour [#12] - Florence Caillon, Xavier Demerliac [Bubble Bass on the poster.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick enters the time closet again.]
 ‣ Russian Rump - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick scurries out of the time closet.]
 ‣ Plaisir D'Amour [#12] - Florence Caillon, Xavier Demerliac [Patrick tries to push Bubble Bass.]
 ‣ Jungle Baby - Hans Ehrlinger [Bubble Bass in a cage.]
 ‣ Mini Mischief - Johnny Pearson [Bubble Bass demanding items.]
 ‣ Dramatic Cue (A) - Ronald Hanmer ["Not again!"]
 ‣ Variety Link (D) - Dick Walter [Mrs. Puff on the poster.]
 ‣ Sunshine Whistle March D - H C Mylla, Niels Holland ["If first you don't succeed, fail, fail again!"]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick reenters the time closet.]
 ‣ Russian Rump - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [SpongeBob tickling past Patrick.]
 ‣ Mini Mischief - Johnny Pearson [Past Patrick giving Bubble Bass items.]
 ‣ Suspense And Tension A - Alan Wynn [Patrick looking for Mrs. Puff.]
 ‣ Karate Funk [#61] - Dominic Glynn, Martin Smith [Patrick revving up a boat.]
 ‣ Marvellous Singers [#2] - Marc Durst [Mrs. Puff listening to music.]
 ‣ Too Fast to Die - Hermann Skibbe [Patrick approaching Mrs. Puff.]
 ‣ Marvellous Singers [#2] - Marc Durst [Mrs. Puff humming.]
 ‣ Too Fast to Die - Hermann Skibbe [Boat crashes into a rock.]
 ‣ Marvellous Singers [#2] - Marc Durst ["Oh yeah."]
 ‣ Too Fast to Die - Hermann Skibbe [Patrick closing in on Mrs. Puff.]
 ‣ Marvellous Singers [#2] - Marc Durst [Mrs. Puff snapping.]
 ‣ War Statement 3 - Laurie Johnson ["Stop the car."]
 ‣ Chaos - Cecil Milner [Mrs. Puff driving erratically.]
 ‣ Alien Terminator A - Moritz Bintig, Lukas Blecks [Larry on the poster.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick shuts the time closet door.]
 ‣ Russian Rump - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick bothering Larry.]
 ‣ Variety Link (D) - Dick Walter [Squidina on the poster.]
 ‣ Whistling Cancan - Jacques Offenbach, Scott Taylor ["This sponsorship is gonna make us both a lot of money!"]
 ‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Patrick's head explodes.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick in the time closet again.]
 ‣ Rush Hour-Traffic Jam - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick stopping other people from being on the poster.]
 ‣ Variety Link (D) - Dick Walter [Overlays "Rush Hour-Traffic Jam"]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Overlays "Rush Hour-Traffic Jam"]
 ‣ Battle March Link (3) - Keith Mansfield [Patrick distracts Gary with a laser.]
 ‣ The Tale of Ben Hur 1 [#41.02] - Gregor F. Narholz [Patrick uses a clam to distract Gary with the laser.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet appears.]
 ‣ Marvellous Singers [#40] - Marc Durst [Patrick comes out of the time closet exhausted.]
 ‣ Fierce Fight - Gerhard Trede [Patricks start fighting.]
 ‣ First Lady - Mladen Franko ["Violence is never the answer."]
 ‣ Variety Performance - Cedric Palmer [Top Patrick contest.]
 ‣ Bratwurst Polka B - Lars Kurz, H C Mylia ["Who wants to see me smash a banana with a hammer?"]
 ‣ Whistle Western - Lucien Laroze, Ludovic Serval ["No one showed up for you, little Patty Kake."]
 ‣ Variety Link (D) - Dick Walter [Ending.]

Trivia

General

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The 2024 Nickelodeon Productions logo, seen at the end of the credits. Notice the lack of copyright info.

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Copyright info is placed in the actual credits rather than the Nickelodeon Productions logo.

• Along with its sister episode, this is the first episode of The Patrick Star Show to use the 2024 Nickelodeon Productions logo at the end of the credits to represent the splat rebrand.
  • Because of the Paramount byline in the Nickelodeon Productions logo, the copyright info is baked onto the credits, after the Executive in Charge of Nickelodeon credit.
• This is the first episode of season 3 to use the normal bubble transition. This is also the first usage of the bubble transition since "Best Served Cold."
• This episode has an extremely similar premise to the Uncle Grandpa episode "Back to the Library," which revolves around a time loop of Uncle Grandpas fighting each other to try to get a library book first. Both episodes were co-written by Andy Gonsalves.
• This is the final episode Bob Camp teamed up with Sean Dempsey.

Episode references

• One of the Patricks wears the same outfit from "The Starry Awards" during the Top Pat scene.

Cultural references

• This episode's title is a pun of the 1962 science fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time. The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "A Skin Wrinkle in Time" and The Patrick Star Show episode "A Tinkle in Time" also reference this.

Errors

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Black outline.

• When Patrick talks to SpongeBob about him getting the Patty Kake first, his hand's outline is black for a frame.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Der Zeitschleifen-Kuchen	The Time Loop Kake
Italian	Il Patty Kake	The Patty Kake
Russian	Бургер на все времена Burger na vse vremena	Burger for All Time
Spanish (Latin America)	Una cangrebúrguer a tiempo	A Krabby Patty in Time