Original air date: 7/26/23
The Patrick Show is out of budget for its second season. In a desperate attempt to get more funding, Patrick and Squidina are ready to slap their brand on everything and sell it to kids.
The Patrick Show Cashes In contains examples of:
- Adjacent to This Complete Breakfast: Patrick Show Cereal is part of a "complete breakfast" that has an absurd amount of food and would feed a family of four.
- Adults Dressed as Children: In the cereal commercial, Cecil is dressed as a stereotypical skateboarder kid and Bunny wears a pink flower bonnet and overalls. Patrick outright refers to them as adults dressed as children because they couldn't afford more child actors.
- All for Nothing: At the end, Patrick shreds all the money the family earns from their advertising.
- An Aesop: TV shows aren't about brand recognition, making money, or what you sell to people.
Just doing something you love that makes people happy is enough.Squidina: You know, maybe there's a lesson here?
Patrick: Yeah. Maybe TV shows shouldn't just be about sellin' stuff and making money.
Cecil: Maybe they're really about making art!
Bunny: Right! And making people happy... - Animation Bump: The shot of Patrick's rocket flying through the air is noticeably more fluid than it would normally be.
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: Much of the episode jokes about brand recognition and Misaimed Marketing, showing that companies are willing to slap their brand on anything to get money out of kids. Nickelodeon is particularly infamous for pushing SpongeBob as their Cash-Cow Franchise. The episode ends with the moral that the franchise needs to stop being milked and should just be about Doing It for the Art.Squidina: GrandPat, you just figured out how to fund season two!
GrandPat: Stealing from children?
Squidina: No, we'll sell official Patrick Show merchandise!
GrandPat: What's the difference? - Continuity Nod: The phone setup on the shopping channel is the exact same one from "Pat-a-thon". Much like in the previous episode, Bunny is one of the operators. You can also see Fentin there, too.
- Cross-Referenced Titles: The episode's title is a reference to "The Patrick Show Sells Out", another episode dealing with branding and merchandise.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Patrick sees a man hit by Perch's Bermuda shorts cannon, he dramatically holds him and talks to him as though he's been badly wounded by a gunshot.
- Faux Horrific: Bunny wants to do a Halloween Episode about the horrors of dust.
- Free Prize at the Bottom: Exaggerated. Patrick makes a cereal that only consists of toys. Of course, this means you can't actually eat it.
- Funny Background Event: During the two shots of the audience in the season premiere, you can see that Bubble Bass is the only one not excited for it.
- Improbable Weapon User: Perch Perkins fights Patrick with a cannon that fires Bermuda shorts.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: The kids in the Bobby Babbington toy commercial have fun using it to fill out paperwork. It also comes with its own built-in pen and stapler, which are highlighted as awesome features.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The episode addresses the Patrick Show in-universe having budget problems and needing to raise money for another season. Cecil and Bunny also suggest their own episode ideas.
- Medium-Shift Gag: When Squidina shows off Patrick's paintings, her arm is a live-action puppet edited in.
- My Little Panzer: The Pat the Hapless and Beelzebass toys are equipped with real battle axes and lasers. Much of the Patrick Show merch is similarly dangerous, such as DIY tattoo kits, a uranium playset, and a plush toy with nails sticking out of it.
- Opening Shout-Out: When Cecil suggests doing an "all-Cecil episode", we see a thought bubble with Cecil's part of the theme song in it, except Patrick doesn't run in.
- Shout-Out: Patrick's Oopsie Doodle!! Just Prizes cereal is styled and named after the Cap'n Crunch "Oops! All Berries" cereal.
- Violence Discretion Shot: The episode cuts away before we can see Pat-Tron fire a laser at GrandPat's butt.
Original air date: 7/27/23
Patrick puts his family through a variety of unexpected and dangerous Game Shows.
The Star Games contains examples of:
- Achievements in Ignorance: When Patrick wakes up and falls onto a game show stage, he wearily asks, "What's going on?" This turns out to be the name of the game show, What's Going On?, and he wins a prize for it.
- Combining Mecha: The Star family combine parts of a giant robot to fight off a mutant dinosaur-coffee cup hybrid.
- Didn't Think This Through: After chasing Patrick out of the house for his dangerous antics, the Stars go back to their usual game show hosting. Cecil declares himself the host, but it turns out that now that Patrick's gone, they don't have an official host, and each of them wants to be it. They decide to resolve the problem through Audience Participation.
- Fake Interactivity: The Star family, minus Patrick, want you to yell at your screen to tell them who should be the host of the game shows for the rest of the episode. Text flashes on the screen telling you to keep screaming and be louder.
- For Want Of A Nail: Squidina is challenged to go back in time and cause one ordinary object to be changed in the future: in this case, a coffee cup. She goes to various time periods and tries messing up what she thinks will change coffee cups, but nothing happens... until the cup suddenly mutates into a dinosaur/coffee cup hybrid.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When the Stars decide to let "the audience" decide who should be the next host, it's akin to Audience Participation on an actual game show. However, they're looking directly at the camera and assert that "you, at home!" can do it.
- Literal Metaphor:
- Cecil and Bunny fix "TV dinners". As in, dinners literally made from a TV set.
- The "lightning round" involves Patrick being shocked with lightning when he answers a question wrong.
- Malaproper: Patrick mispronounces "Cretaceous" as "crustacean".
- Thinker Pose: Parodied when a sculptor is carving a statue of a coffee cup. Squidina smashes it with a club and turns it into The Thinker. The sculptor asks what happened, and the statue responds, "I'm-a thinkin'!"
- Way Past the Expiration Date: Patrick has Cecil and Bunny go on Expired, where they eat disgusting expired food and guess what it was, and when it expired. Both of them guess wrong and end up passing out from the food.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The rest of the family chases Patrick down and call him out for the game shows he put them on.Cecil: Don't you regret making your parents eat that rotten food?
Patrick: A little, but it got good ratings!
Cecil: Wrong! (shocks Patrick with lightning) Next question!
GrandPat: Don't you got anything better to do than hide bombs in my sensitive skin?
Patrick: Uh, not usually! (gets shocked)
