Tattoo Hullabaloo

"Tattoo Hullabaloo" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 2. In this episode, Bunny loses a tattoo.

Characters

• Patrick Star
• Bunny Star
• Bunny's tattoos
  • Skip
  • Leilani
• Squidina Star
• GrandPat Star ^(cameo)
• Cecil Star
  • Cecil's mole ^{(single appearance)}
• Tinkle ^(cameo)
• Bubble Bass ^(cameo)
• Incidentals
  • Fred
  • Steven
  • Incidental 8
  • Incidental 15
  • Incidental 18
  • Incidental 20
  • Incidental 23
  • Incidental 24
  • Incidental 27
  • Incidental 30
  • Incidental 30A
  • Incidental 31
  • Don the Whale
  • Harold (Inc 40)
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 45
  • Incidental 60
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 67
  • Harris
  • Incidental 80
  • Incidental 90
  • Incidental 92
  • Incidental 110
  • Incidental 150
  • Mr. Mailman
  • Incidental 166
  • Mohawk brute 1
  • Popeye fish
  • Greaser fish
• King Neptune ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Gary the Snail ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Sea bear ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Seahorse ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Bouncer
• Tattoo Terry
• Hash-slinging slasher ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Sea tiger ^{(cameo in picture)}
• Squidward Tentacles ^{(cameo in picture)}

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Synopsis

The Stars are having a day at Goo Lagoon when Bunny gets a sunburn. Her sentient tattoos, including a sailor named Skip and a hula girl named Leilani, take notice. Bunny gets a new tattoo from a beach vendor, who makes an umbrella to give Skip and Leilani shade. That evening, they take the bus home. Skip wants to give Leilani something for them to remember the day, and sees a flower bouquet tattoo on another passenger, so he jumps onto her skin to grab it. The bus stops at the Star house and the family leaves, with Leilani still on Bunny's skin. Skip tries to follow her, but ends up on the skin of Reg.

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Skip on Tattoo Terry at The Salty Spitoon.

Bunny and Cecil watch TV when Bunny suddenly notices Leilani crying ink. She explains her problem to Bunny. Meanwhile, in The Salty Spitoon, Skip notices Reg's "Mom" tattoo and takes the paper to send Leilani a message, using one of Reg's body hairs as a pen. He finds a bottle tattoo on another sailor and goes to him, and puts the message inside. A brawl breaks out between the fighters, and Skip gets his bottle onto a weak patron, and then the mailman. However, he ends up on the skin of a fish with mean, monstrous tattoos who try to attack him.

The mailman delivers mail to the Star house, when Bunny notices the bottle tattoo on his hand. She transfers it to her face and reads it with Leilani, who learns that Skip is trapped on a sailor in the Salty Spitoon. Skip fights off the sailor's tattoos when another fish demands he remove the tattoos due to the damage they cause. After he leaves, Cecil and Bunny arrive and ask about Skip. A fish tells them about the sailor, so Cecil and Bunny rush off.

The sailor visits a tattoo removal parlor, specifically requesting that Skip be removed. Skip defeats the other monster tattoos by tricking the laser into their path, but ends up getting his bottom half removed. As the laser is about to remove him for good, Cecil comes in and jumps into the laser's path, removing a mole on his chest. Bunny reunites Leilani with Skip, who gives her his flowers. Bunny heads back to the beachside tattoo stand and has Skip's bottom half redrawn as a motorcycle. He and Leilani happily ride off into the sunset.

Production

This episode was in production during 2022.

This episode was confirmed on December 2, 2023.

On December 10, 2023, Diego Molano uploaded a background design from this episode onto his portfolio.

Model sheets

• Designed by Chris DeRose.

• Lightbulb fish tattoo
  Lightbulb fish tattoo
• Monster driving a cart tattoo
  Monster driving a cart tattoo
• One-eyed monster tattoo
  One-eyed monster tattoo
• Shark with eyes popping out tattoo
  Shark with eyes popping out tattoo
• Snake with a skull head tattoo
  Snake with a skull head tattoo
• Flying eyeball tattoo
  Flying eyeball tattoo
• Horned monster tattoo
  Horned monster tattoo
• One-eyed fish tattoo
  One-eyed fish tattoo

Art

Prop design

• Drawn by Aaron Painter, color design by Emily Merl.

• Letters
  Letters

Background design

• Layout designed by Jon Vermilyea, painted by Diego Molano.

• Star mailbox at nighttime
  Star mailbox at nighttime

Storyboards

• Plussed by Yeardley Wells.

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Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Beach Beat - Eric Spencer [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Folli the Foal - Andrew Fenner [Tattoos playing jump rope.]
 ‣ Persuasion - Johnny Hawksworth [Tattoos playing cards.]
 ‣ Brooklyn Boogie-Woogie - Benedict Bridgen ["Oh, Leilani."]
 ‣ Hawaiian Beach - Peter Dennis [Vendor gives Bunny a new tattoo.]
 ‣ Freaky Folks - Paul Arnold, Andrew Barnabas [The Stars ride the bus home.]
 ‣ Maui Beach - Hans Haider ["Today was really nice."]
 ‣ Clumsy C - Bernd Gesell [Skip spots a flower tattoo.]
 ‣ Maui Beach - Hans Haider ["Wait here. I'll be back in a jiffy!"]
 ‣ Regal Happy Theme - Sam Spence [The Stars arrive home.]
 ‣ Terror - Alan Braden [Skip gets stuck on the bus.]
 ‣ Many Good Wishes - Alfred Jack, Peter Esching ["It is good to be home!"]
 ‣ ? ["Misery Date" TV show.]
 ‣ Drama Link (O) - Hubert Clifford [Leilani crying tattoo ink.]
 ‣ Expectant - Stuart Crombie [Bunny checks her "nooks and crannies."]
 ‣ Death Clock I - Dick De Benedictis ["Every... last... one."]
 ‣ Tabu - Daryl Griffith [Bunny and Leilani crying.]
 ‣ Blue Lamp Blues - Ralph Dollimore [Skip at the Salty Spittoon.]
 ‣ Planet Surface - Gregor F. Narholz [Skip grabs his message in a bottle.]
 ‣ Six Powerful Cues (F) - Wilfred Burns ["Roadhouse rumble!"]
 ‣ Chase 30 - Sam Spence [Salty Spittoon patrons fighting.]
 ‣ Dramatic Pursuit - John Hastings ["Listen, do not go in there. They play too rough!"]
 ‣ Zelle 502 - Gerhard Trede ["How many times I gotta tell ya? No bills!"]
 ‣ Ena - Tommy Reilly ["Phew, the message is on its way."]
 ‣ Fun Sting F - Gregor F. Narholz ["I wouldn't count on it."]
 ‣ King Of The Giants F - John Fox, Otto Sieben [Tattoos surrounding Skip.]
 ‣ Swinging Cocktail [#94] - Stephane Huguenin, Christian Padovan, Yves Sanna [Mailman delivers to the Star Family house.]
 ‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz ["Nothing but bills!"]
 ‣ Hiding Place - Marc Dall'Anese [The mailman notices the message in a bottle tattooed on his hand.]
 ‣ Sunshine Whistle March C - Niels Holland, H C Mylla ["It's time to S.O.S: Save our sailor!"]
 • Forbidden Sponge - Ego Plum [Skip gets chased by the biker's tattoos.]
 ‣ Chase 30 - Sam Spence [Bunny and Cecil enter The Salty Spittoon.]
 ‣ Planet Surface - Gregor F. Narholz ["You two ain't going nowhere until you help me clean up this place!"]
 ‣ Chase 30 - Sam Spence [The brawl continues.]
 • Forbidden Sponge - Ego Plum [Skip is about to be eaten.]
 ‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Monster tattoo gets zapped.]
 ‣ Fun Sting F - Gregor F. Narholz [Skip falls.]
 ‣ Sailors Delight - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Skip lures the laser towards the biker's tattoos.]
 ‣ Short Drama Cue 8 B - Gregor F. Narholz [Skip gets his legs zapped off.]
 ‣ Drama Link (G) - Hubert Clifford [Skip is about to be zapped.]
 ‣ Prologue Of A Drama #9 - Hans Conzelmann, Delle Haensch [Bunny and Cecil enter the Lazee Tattoo Removal.]
 ‣ Seven Seas - Oded Tzur [Cecil jumps in front of the laser.]
 ‣ One Over the Eight - Len Stevens ["I've been meaning to have you removed!"]
 ‣ Great Moments [#1] - Gregor F. Narholz [Leilani and Skip reunite.]
 ‣ Beach Beat - Eric Spencer [Ending.]

Trivia

General

• This episode preceded the official premiere of the Nickelodeon series The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish.
• This episode was paired up with "Too Many Patricks" during the original American airing.
• The opening shot in this episode is similar to the beginning of "The Yard Sale."
• SpongeBob's house, Squidward's house, and a snail that looks like Gary appear as framed photos on the wall of the Tattoo Removal clinic.
• This episode was omitted from airing on Nickelodeon Global and Nicktoons Global for unknown reasons.

Episode references

• One of the incidental fish's tattoos goes from "MOM" to "WOW" after Bunny's sailor tattoo bumps into it and all of the letters fall onto the fish's arm. This references how Sandy rips that same tattoo and flips it upside down to say "WOW" in "No Weenies Allowed."
• One of the elder fish who ran the Mild Ones gang in season 4's "Born to Be Wild" reappear in the Salty Spitoon.
• Skip and Leilani first appeared in "Mid-Season Finale" and "Pat-a-thon" respectively without names.
• The Stars wear the same beach outfits that they wore in "Gas Station Vacation" and that their prehistoric counterparts wore in "The Prehistoric Patrick Star Show."

Cultural references

• Tattoo Terry's tattoos have strained eyes popping out of their sockets, being an homage to Ed Roth's 1963 cartoon character, Rat Fink.
• The TV show that Cecil and Bunny watch is called Misery Date, which is a reference to the 1965 board game, Mystery Date.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Russian	Кутерьма с татушкой Kuter'ma s tatushkoy	Mayhem over Tattoo
Spanish (Latin America)	Pelea de tatuajes	Tattoo Fight