Original air date: 2/13/2024
Patrick has a Potty Emergency during his show and runs into the bathroom, right as Cecil is in the middle of fixing the doorknob. Now, everyone who enters the bathroom can't get out — until Patrick gets help from an unexpected source.
The Commode Episode contains examples of:
- Burning Rubber: Patrick runs into the bathroom so fast that a trail of fire follows him.
- Chekhov's Gun: Strangely inverted. Daddy Dartfish suggests that Patrick send a message for help with "that bottle he's been juggling the whole time," causing Patrick to note that he has really been juggling one. However, in all of the earlier scenes, he's not actually juggling a bottle.
- Extremely Short Timespan: The episode takes place over a single episode of Patrick's show, which is an hour at most.
- Foreshadowing: Parodied. Patrick starts the episode by juggling a blowtorch, axe, and chainsaw, which are all things he could use to escape after he gets locked in the bathroom. When Daddy Dartfish comes in as Patrick is juggling, he suggests that Patrick... use "that bottle he's been juggling the whole time" to send a Message in a Bottle and get help. Patrick realizes that he "HAS been juggling a bottle the whole time!", even though he never actually was.
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with Patrick again being locked in the bathroom by a girl he forced to take his place on the show while he was gone.
- Incredibly Lame Fun: According to Cecil, "there's no greater thrill in life than installing a new doorknob!"
- Locked in a Room: Patrick, his family, his neighbors, and even random people get trapped in the bathroom because there's no doorknob.
- Malaproper:
- Patrick asks for a "volume-teer" from the audience.
- Patrick pronounces "Open Sesame" as "open recipe!"
- Medium Awareness: To get rid of everyone so he can reach the toilet, Patrick removes the background layer with all the characters on it. He then pulls it back down after flushing Daddy Dartfish:Patrick: [to characters on layer] How about you guys? Doin' alright?
- Message in a Bottle: Patrick uses a bottle he's been juggling to get help when he's trapped in the bathroom. He has Daddy Dartfish act as the messenger and flushes him in the bottle down the toilet. He comes back with Tinkle, who gives him the doorknob to escape.
- The Oner:
- The shot of the family entering the bathroom as Patrick tries to get help runs for 97 seconds.
- There's also a 44 second shot of random people going into the bathroom.
- Open Sesame: Patrick tries to open the bathroom door by shouting "OPEN RECIPE!"
- Rhyming Title: "Commode" and "episode" rhyme.
- Surprisingly Creepy Moment: An intense close-up of the skeleton randomly screaming "you'll never get out!" as lightning flashes.
- Waiting Skeleton: Subverted. When Patrick wonders how long it is before he starves to death in the bathroom, we see a "ten minutes later" time card and then a skeleton taking his place. Then Patrick walks in and says:Patrick: Glad I was able to kill ten minutes with this arts-and-crafts skeleton made from bar soap and toilet paper rolls!
Original air date: 2/15/2024
When Cecil and Bunny celebrate their anniversary by watching their wedding videos, Patrick goes back in time and eats their wedding cake, invalidating their marriage. Now he and Squidina have to orchestrate an official Klopnodian wedding before sundown or else Bunny will be forced to return to Klopnod.
Tying the Klop-Knot contains examples of:
- Continuity Nod: Many to "Klopnodian Heritage Festival".
- In the Old-Timey Cinema Countdown, the number 1 is replaced with an image of a sausage. "Klopnodian Heritage Festival" established "phony-baloney", an identical-looking sausage, as a staple of Klopnod's Foreign Queasine.
- In the wedding video, Bunny is wearing the same outfit she came to the festival in.
- The Klopnodian flag, which is just a tablecloth, can be seen hanging on the tent that Patrick and Squidina set up for the wedding. Patrick wears this same pattern on his underwear.
- Many of the wedding guests previously appeared as background characters in "Klopnodian Heritage Festival".
- A Day in the Limelight: Squidina plays a bigger role than Patrick here, being the main wedding planner. Cecil and Bunny also get a lot of focus.
- Happily Married: Cecil and Bunny are both very happy with their marriage. Both of them dread needing to return to their unmarried lifestyles, and Squidina is determined to help get them married again.
- Hope Spot: The second wedding is crashed by a future Patrick "from the year 3 million." He tells Patrick not to eat the wedding cake, to Squidina's relief... because that's meant for the future Patrick to do.
- Let's Meet the Meat: Patrick hallucinates the wedding cake trying to convince him to eat it.
- Long List: The list of Klopnodian wedding traditions is so long that it unspools on the floor and covers Squidina's face.
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: Klopnodian wedding dress traditions are for something old, bruised, stuffed, and confused. This winds up being Patrick's grandfather, who had been eating a sandwich and locked in the trunk where Bunny keeps her actual nice wedding dress.
- Old-Timey Cinema Countdown: The episode opens with a countdown to Cecil and Bunny's wedding video: 3, 2, then a sausage (a staple of Klopnodian cuisine).
- Race Against the Clock: The wedding has to be completed before sundown, or else Cecil will return to his bachelor lifestyle and Bunny will be taken back to Klopnod.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: Squidina fears that the wedding is ruined when Patrick's future self travels back in time to fight him over the wedding cake. Turns out she actually just completed the latest tradition, earning the Klopguardians' approval.Squidina: Oh! (giggles) Yeah, well, y'know, that was, totally on purpose... (smiles nervously)
- We Are Not Going Through That Again: Squidina sees Patrick drooling at the wedding cake during the second wedding. She is not having it.Squidina: Patrick, remember how we got in this mess in the first place! [...] Don't eat the cake!
- Wedding Episode: Patrick and Squidina have to set up a second wedding for their parents after Patrick's Time Travel shenanigans invalidate their first one.
