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Time to Eat

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"Time to Eat" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 2. In this episode, Patrick hosts a time-travelling food show.

Characters

Synopsis

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Patrick goes back two days to eat dinner again.

Patrick is holding a paint-drying race, to the boredom of Squidina and the audience, when he runs out of snacks and goes to his room to look for more. A comment he makes gives him the idea to go back in time and get snacks, so he makes the show about that instead. He first goes two days in the past to eat dinner again, where he pays his past self 500 bucks for his dinner and immediately gets it back. He then goes to 18th century France, where he finds one of Lady Upturn's ancestors. She promises cake to a demanding audience, but when she lets them in, Patrick has eaten all of it. The townsfolk are angry and Upturn's ancestor is beheaded.

Patrick then goes to the far future, where he boards the S.S. Super Minnow and eats some of the dehydrated food Quasar has. Quasar tells him he has eaten too much, and Pat-Tron gives him water to wash it down with, causing him to inflate to be larger than the ship. Pat-Tron opens a door to eject the food out of Patrick, leaving him hungry again. He then goes to the Donner Party, mistaking "Donner" to be a fancy word for dinner, until Squidina convinces him to leave.

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Patrick tries to eat the woolly clammoth.

Patrick then heads to prehistoric times, where he sees a group of cavefish hunting down a wooly clammoth. Patrick catches it and is about to eat it, but Squidina pleads for him not to because it is an endangered species, and he begins to feel sympathy for the animal. He saves it from the cavefish and sends them back in time to the Donner Party. Patrick realizes the episode is almost over and heads back to the present day, bidding the woolly clammoth farewell. However, when he goes to watch the paint drying again, the entire audience—and slowly Squidina and then him—have been transformed into woolly clammoths because he allowed them to keep living in the first place. The audience throws food at Patrick in frustration, and he is happy to finally have something to eat.

Production

This episode was confirmed on July 2, 2024.[3][4]

On July 16, 2024, Gabe Del Valle posted storyboards from the episode and confirmed he directed it, although it was unknown what episode these clips were from at the time.[5]

Promotional art

  • Drawn by Gabe Del Valle.[6]

Art

Model sheets

  • Designed by Chris DeRose.[1]

Background design

Storyboards

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Sporting Triumph - Ronald Hanmer [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Lazybones - Xavier Edmunds, Zoltan Biscotti [Lawnies falling asleep.]
 ‣ Funeral March of a Marionette - Charles Gounod, Ron Ronsted [Patrick looking for snacks in his room.]
 ‣ Alert Cue A - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick gets an idea.]
 ‣ Rush Hour-Traffic Jam - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey ["A time travelogue food show."]
 ◦ Time to Eat - Eban Schletter, Mike Pelensky, Gabe Del Valle [Patrick sings this.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick shuts the time closet door.]
 ‣ Kiyouli Le Clown - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey ["Our kitchen from two days ago!"]
 ‣ Krazy Cat Rag - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey ["Coming up next on Time to Eat..."]
 ‣ Royal King - Jean-Pierre Fouquey [18th century France.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet appears in France.]
 ‣ Harp Glissando (K) - Jim Rattigan ["Holy Spumoni!"]
 ‣ Heaveny Info - Paul Arnold, Andrew James Barnabas ["Now that's what I call a cake!"]
 ‣ Royal King - Jean-Pierre Fouquey [Patrick eating the cake.]
 ‣ Show Fanfare 1 - David Lindup ["Let them eat cake!"]
 ‣ Murder Plot - Patrick Hawes [Peasants angry at Lady Upturn.]
 ‣ Dead March 1 - Frederic Chopin, Alfred Kluten [Lady Upturn decapitated.]
 ‣ Speed Trials (a) - Rod Argent, Robert Howes ["You're watching Time to Eat."]
 ‣ Parallel Dimension - Gregor F. Narholz [At Captain Quasar's rocket.]
 ‣ Space Voyagers C - Gregor F. Narholz [Pat-Tron trying to fix the food machine.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet appears in Quasar's rocket.]
 ‣ La Bas - Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gilbert Sigrist ["Our next tasty destination is the future."]
 ‣ Mini Mischief - Johnny Pearson [Patrick eating a bunch of dehydrated feast pellets.]
 ‣ Murder Plot - Patrick Hawes ["Great Scott, Patrick Star!"]
 ‣ Cocktail - Johnny Patrick ["I'm actually full for once!"]
 ‣ One Over the Eight - Len Stevens ["Squidina, I'm so hungry."]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Patrick and Squidina enter the time closet.]
 ‣ Synopsis - Frank Harlow [Patrick licking ice cream.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet arrives at a snowy forest.]
 ‣ Champagner Perlen - Werner Von Overheidt ["That reminds me of my favorite cold foods."]
 ‣ Funny Banjo - Tony Tape [Donner party.]
 ‣ Planet Surface - Gregor F. Narholz [George in a stew.]
 ‣ Funny Banjo - Tony Tape ["I'd die for some Donner."]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Squidina shoves Patrick into the time closet.]
 ‣ ? ["Time to Eat" interstitial.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Time closet appears in the pre-historic era.]
 ‣ ? [Pterascallop grabs a GrandPat-like lizard.]
 ‣ Jungle Baby - Hans Ehrlinger [Wooly clammoth appears.]
 ‣ Stand Off (a) - Gregory Allan, Doug Bossi, Anthony Elfers [Patrick catches the wooly clammoth.]
 ‣ Tabu - Daryl Griffith ["How could you eat an endangered species?"]
 ‣ Moogy Boogy - Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick puts mustard on the wooly clammoth.]
 ‣ Tabu - Daryl Griffith [Patrick crying.]
 ‣ Alert Cue B - Hermann Langschwert [Cavefish arrive at the snowy forest.]
 ‣ Funny Banjo - Tony Tape ["Oh boy, delivery!"]
 ‣ Galleon - Sam Fonteyn ["It looks like our friend, the wooly clammoth, will live on."/"So long, wooly clammoth."]
 ‣ Kiyouli Le Clown - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick and Squidina arrive home.]
 ‣ Kitsch Latin Cool - Malcolm Lockyer ["Welcome back, paint heads!"]
 ‣ Approaching Danger - Ronald Hanmer [Wooly clammoth lawnies.]
 ‣ Death Clock E - Dick de Benedictis ["We caused the wooly clammoth population in the present to explode."]
 ‣ Rush Hour-Traffic Jam - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Ending.]

Production notes

Amanda Donahue
  • On the song sequence, Donahue said, "This was another instance of totally updating a section and having to do rough boards-to-clean up on them. It was also my first time doing a musical section. You can see in the final cut some changes were made; mood ring ended up not clear enough to read quickly and we wanted something more "time travely" for the picnic"[13]
  • In the France scene, Donahue said, "This was another design heavy section, as well as referencing real portraits of Marie Antoinette for the paintings. My FAVORITE part though is the reference to A Tale of Two Cities I was able to get in; Old Man Walker knitting by the guillotine ala Madame Defarge. Get literate you nerds <3"[13]
  • "My little gremlin self was so hype to get this Donner Party section heheheh."[13]

Trivia

General

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The phone from FitzPatrick
  • The title card is similar to the shot of the phone in Patrick's stomach from "FitzPatrick."
  • This marks Steve Downs' returns to SpongeBob SquarePants series.
  • The credits roll of Patrick's show is as follows:
    • Director: Squidina
    • Producer: Squidina
    • Editor: Squidina
    • Musical Director: Squidina
    • Art Director: Squidina
    • Set Dresser: Squidina
    • Camera Operator: Squidina
    • Best Boy: Squidina
    • Catering: Squidina
    • Medic: Squidina
    • 'Continuity': Squidina
    • Host: Patrick
    • Executive Producer: Squidina

Episode references

Cultural references

  • Lady Upturn's French ancestor, named Marie, who promises the townsfolk cake, is a reference to Marie Antoinette and her association with the phrase "let them eat cake!" Real portraits of Antoinette were referenced to design the background art for the scene.[13]
  • Old Man Walker knitting next to the guillotine is a reference to Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities.[13]
  • Patrick crosses into the Donner Party, an event in the 1840s where migrant pioneers resorting to cannibalizing each other to survive.
  • The "Viewers Like You" text and the scrolling credits are a reference to PBS shows, which end with the same phrase. The text itself uses an extremely similar font to the credits of Arthur.
  • One of the intermissions has Patrick dress up like Guy Fieri.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Russian Пора поесть
Pora poest'		 It's Time to Eat
Spanish (Latin America) Hora de comer Time to Eat

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chris DeRose on Twitter - "Some of my work from last week's episode..."
  2. ↑ Nickelodeon UK - September 6, 2024
  3. ↑ The Patrick Star Show - TV Insider
  4. ↑ Nick Press Schedules - BDTYA
  5. ↑ Gabe Del Valle on Facebook - "Grab your popcorn, cause next week..."
  6. ↑ Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Soon, it'll be TIME for a new Patrick Show..."
  7. ↑ The Patrick Star Show - Caue Zunchini
  8. ↑ Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Grab your popcorn, cause next week..."
  9. ↑ Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Gonna start a Storyboard to final pic comparison thread..."
  10. ↑ Eliza Herndon on Tumblr - "Assorted storyboard panels from 'Time to Eat'..."
  11. ↑ Eliza Herndon on Instagram - "Assorted storyboard panels from 'Time to Eat'..."
  12. ↑ Eliza Herndon on Twitter - "Catchin' up on my board posting..."
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 https://www.amandandonahue.com/season-2
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