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Family Plotz

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Characters

Synopsis

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Cecil making soup.

Cecil is cooking the family a batch of soupestroni, but it needs to simmer for 11 minutes. Cecil suggests passing time at the park, but while driving there, a tornado spins the street signs around, pointing the park at the cemetery instead. Despite Squidina's worry, they go in away. Cecil sets up a picnic for himself, Bunny takes her yoga classes, Patrick and Squidina play hide-and-seek, and GrandPat's wholesome, yet disturbing games with Tinkle end him up in Slappy's mortuary warehouse, where he gets embalmed.

After Cecil eats his cheese sandwich, he decides to play with some "fun blocks for kids," not realizing they're gravestones. Meanwhile, Patrick and Squidina play continue their game of hide-and-seek, and a seeker Patrick accidentally crosses paths with burglars robbing a grave. They ask him to keep going in order to see much loot they've racked up. Elsewhere, Bunny looks for her yoga classes, where she ends up following an angel statue in silence.

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The zombies coming out of their graves.

GrandPat's embalming is now complete, freezing into a golden statue. In the cemetery, Cecil creates a gravestone playground and Squidina hides from Patrick in a pit dug up for a coffin in an ongoing funeral. Patrick eventually seeks her, and the two get into a fight. Cecil gives them mallet mittens to play with, causing more chaos, while an embalmed GrandPat looks on which the attendees confuse for a zombie. One of them crashes into various cemetery statues and destroys them, causing Bunny to mimic the inanimate creations and split herself into pieces. All of this causes actual zombies from the dead to awaken, and they terrorize the Star family to a near death.

Suddenly, the gang is saved because Cecil's soupestroni is now ready. The Stars and the zombies ride back to the Star home, where they all eat up, with the zombies slobbering up the soup with extra formaldehyde. At the very end, GrandPat wakes up from a coffin back at the cemetery, saying that it's just right for him, not without being attacked by a sea bear.

Production

This episode's existence was hinted at on October 31, 2022, when storyboard artist Amanda Donahue stated on Tumblr that there was an "great episode coming up that had the Star family being extra kookie and giving [her] Addams vibes," inspiring her to draw art of the series' characters as members of The Addams Family.[7] The episode continued production throughout the year.[8]

Its plot, title, and packaging code were all confirmed on May 1, 2023.

Promotional art

  • Drawn by Amanda Donahue[7] and Kenny Pittenger.[9]

Model sheets

Art

  • Art direction by Marta Knudsen, designed by Aaron Painter, painted by Chu-Hui Song.[10]

Background design

  • Art direction by Marta Knudsen, layouts by Tim Allen,[11] and traditionally painted by Amy Lewis[12][13] with line and edits drawn digitally on top.[8]

Storyboards

Production notes

Chris DeRose:

  • DeRose had "so much fun" designing all the incidentals as zombies.[4]

Music

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Trivia

General

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Simulcasting. By the time Nick had started the episode, Nicktoons was already airing it.
  • This episode's premiere, alongside the other three in its premiere week were simulcasted on Nicktoons.[14] Due to Nicktoons' spacings of commercial breaks, the episode effectively debuted on that network first.
  • This episode was initially supposed to premiere on August 24, 2023 at 1:00pm, later 5:00pm, but was later pulled for unknown reasons.
    • On its new date, it was originally going to premiere at 5:00pm, but it was moved to 4:00pm.
  • The fourth wall is broken when Cecil says that it'll take eleven minutes for his soupestroni to be ready, referencing the average length of a SpongeBob episode.

Episode references

  • Cecil's cheese sandwich references the one that Patrick, and later GrandPat made in "Stuntin'," and the way he drops down from space to eat it references how he looked when falling down to camp in "Help Not Wanted."
  • The zombie that appears under Bunny's yoga mat is the same one seen in Slumber Party Zombie Attack in "The Slumber Party."

Cultural references

  • The title of this episode is a reference to the song of the same name from the 1991 Addams Family film.
  • When GrandPat reminisces about the last time he got stuck in a warehouse, he remembers playing victim to three sea-bears in a parody of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
    • At the end of the episode, GrandPat, dressed up as Goldilocks, says that his coffin is just right, referencing Goldilocks' own line in the middle point of fairy tale. He also encounters a sea bear whom he refers to as "Papa Bear."
  • Old Man Walker's zombie design is a reference to Frankenstein's.

Errors

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Cecil's eyebrows are missing.
  • After Squidina runs off of Cecil's back to hide and Cecil looks back with his shirt burnt, his eyebrows are missing.


Videos

File:The Patrick Star Show - New Episodes - Official Promo (Starting November 6, 2023)
File:Catch Up Now on Your DVR or Nick OnDemand Promo (November 9, 2023)

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Russian Семейный обед
Semeynyy obed		 Family Dinner
Spanish (American) Panteón familiar Family Graveyard
Spanish (European) Sepulcros familiares Family Graves

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chris DeRose on Twitter - "My character designs for yesterday's..."
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chris DeRose on Twitter - "My character designs for yesterday's..."
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chris DeRose on Twitter - "My designs for yesterday's..."
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Chris DeRose on Twitter - "My designs for yesterday's..."
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named insta2
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chris DeRose on Instagram - "My character designs for yesterday's..."
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Amanda Donahue on Tumblr - "I've been working on..."
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named amy
  9. ↑ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "Oh man, shoulda told you sooner..."
  10. ↑ Aaron Painter on Instagram - "Another title card from..."
  11. ↑ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "Art direction by..."
  12. ↑ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "BG I painted..."
  13. ↑ Amy Lewis on Twitter - "This one without..."
  14. ↑ The Patrick Star Show - Nicktoons G.L.O.B.E. Archives
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