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* ShaggyDogStory: Patrick manages to impress his parents -- at the cost of [[DrivenToMadness poor [=SpongeBob's=] sanity]]. Then, Squidward brings over Patrick's ''real parents'', who'd been standing outside his house all day asking him where their son was. And [=SpongeBob=] didn't get the whole idea.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Patrick manages to impress his parents -- at the cost of [[DrivenToMadness poor [=SpongeBob's=] sanity]]. Then, Squidward brings over Patrick's ''real parents'', who'd been standing outside his house all day asking him where their son was. And [=SpongeBob=] didn't get the whole idea.never learns that he wasted his time impressing random strangers.
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That's a death trope — it only counts if Patrick and his fake parents kill themselves from their own stupidity.
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* TooDumbToLive:
** Patrick lampshades this, feeling this is how his parents view him. It turns out they aren't exactly mistaken about their son, who can't even ''recognize'' them until after he's already mistaken two other people for his parents! Though they themselves don't seem to know where he lives either, and apparently kept bothering Squidward about it.
** On that note, Marty and Janet are ''definitely'' this, for thinking Patrick was their son in the first place and going through the trouble to see him only to remember they have no son.
** Patrick lampshades this, feeling this is how his parents view him. It turns out they aren't exactly mistaken about their son, who can't even ''recognize'' them until after he's already mistaken two other people for his parents! Though they themselves don't seem to know where he lives either, and apparently kept bothering Squidward about it.
** On that note, Marty and Janet are ''definitely'' this, for thinking Patrick was their son in the first place and going through the trouble to see him only to remember they have no son.
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* LanguageFluencyReveal: Happens twice.
** [=SpongeBob=] [[LanguageFluencyDenial pretends to only be able to talk in one to two word sentences]], but drops the act for a moment to tell Patrick to meet him in the kitchen when [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Patrick starts to believe SpongeBob really is dumb]] and starts insulting him while he is in the room.
** Later, when [=SpongeBob=] completely drops the act to tell Patrick's parents that he was just pretending to be stupid to make Patrick look smart, they think Patrick taught him how to talk in complete sentences [[ForgetfulJones even though they already heard him say "Patrick, meet me in the kitchen" earlier]]. [[spoiler:They are actually complete strangers and only thought they were Patrick's parents because he called them Mom and Dad.]]
** [=SpongeBob=] [[LanguageFluencyDenial pretends to only be able to talk in one to two word sentences]], but drops the act for a moment to tell Patrick to meet him in the kitchen when [[BelievingTheirOwnLies Patrick starts to believe SpongeBob really is dumb]] and starts insulting him while he is in the room.
** Later, when [=SpongeBob=] completely drops the act to tell Patrick's parents that he was just pretending to be stupid to make Patrick look smart, they think Patrick taught him how to talk in complete sentences [[ForgetfulJones even though they already heard him say "Patrick, meet me in the kitchen" earlier]]. [[spoiler:They are actually complete strangers and only thought they were Patrick's parents because he called them Mom and Dad.]]
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** Patrick's parents are initially impressed that their son immediately recognizes them (their first line is, "Wow, son! You actually recognized us this time!"), and Patrick doesn't bother to defend himself. As it turns out, they're not his parents. Patrick doesn't realize this because, as hinted at, he frequently forgets what his real parents look like.
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** Patrick's parents “parents” are initially impressed that their son immediately recognizes them (their first line is, "Wow, son! You actually recognized us this time!"), and Patrick doesn't bother to defend himself. As it turns out, they're not his parents. Patrick doesn't realize this because, as hinted at, he frequently forgets what his real parents look like.
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** Patrick acts uninterested when he first sees Janet and Marty.
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* IronicEcho: Patrick’s “parents” say “Wow son, you recognized us this time!” His real parents say the same thing to him.
