Original air date: 4/15/2022
Pearl's got a guest spot on the Patrick Show, but no matter what the does, she can't win the audience over. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs and GrandPat play games and brag about their war stories.
Pearl Wants to Be a Star contains examples of:
- Jerkass Ball: Squidina is uncharacteristically insensitive in this episode, constantly making Pearl feel worse. While she's meant to come off as Innocently Insensitive, some of the stuff she says is actually pretty terrible.
- Lower-Deck Episode: This episode focuses on Pearl, in her only starring role for The Patrick Star Show.
- Lyrical Dissonance: Pearl's "sad song" is a List Song of unfortunate events and how she's disappointed at not being able to get the audience to like her. It's sung in a very upbeat style and she does a dance with a hat and cane to it.
- Riding the Bomb: When Mr. Krabs fires a bomb out of a cannon, he rides on it and swings his hat, a la Dr. Strangelove.
Original air date: 4/10/2023note
SpongeBob and Patrick travel back in time to the nursery where Mermaid Man, Barnacle Boy, their sidekicks, and their villains were raised.
Super Sitters contains examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Super Sitters.
- Art Shift: We get a full look at a Mermaid Man comic, which goes panel by panel as the characters read out dialogue and sound effects.
- Create Your Own Villain: If it weren't for SpongeBob and Patrick traveling back in time and revealing Man Ray, Dirty Bubble, The Coral Creep and Exo-Woman that they are destined to be villains as adults, they probably would not become what they destined to be.
- Chased Off into the Sunset: Upon realizing how much they angered the heroes and villains, SpongeBob suggests to Patrick that, even though they love Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy so much, to run away from them as the eight promptly chase after them.
- Getting the Boot: The daycare director kicks SpongeBob and Patrick out for getting the babies to fight each other.
- High-Pressure Emotion: When the daycare director yells at SpongeBob and Patrick, his face turns red.
- Jerkass Ball: Patrick drinks baby Man Ray's juice box and wants the babies to fight each other.
- Laser-Guided Karma: SpongeBob and Patrick split the babies into teams between heroes and villains and taught the two sides to fight each other, undoing the director's hard work of the eight getting along. At the end of the episode, the superheroes and villains show up in front of SpongeBob and Patrick and promptly chase after the two as payback.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The super babies all got along until SpongeBob and Patrick told them some were good and some were bad, and had them fight. The daycare director isn't happy; and even the villains point out they're now just stuck fighting the heroes all day instead of doing cool stuff or working together.Daycare director: It means you've completely undone all my hard work TRYING TO TEACH THESE KIDS TO GET ALONG!
- Out of Focus: SpongeBob and Patrick are the only major characters in this episode, with none of Patrick's other family members showing up.
- Remember the New Guy?: Some of the babies, like Mermaid Man, Barnacle Boy, the Dirty Bubble, and Man Ray are established. Rubber Bandy, Go-Woman, Exo-Woman, and the Coral Creep are brand new.
- Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: SpongeBob and Patrick have watched a tape of a Mermaid Man marathon 1,374 and 5 times.
- Stable Time Loop: SpongeBob and Patrick made sure that the babies will become what they destined to be as adults.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The daycare director and the superheroes and villains both call out SpongeBob and Patrick for starting the never-ending battle between good and evil.
