Inflatable Pants

Patrick's Inflatable Pants

Patrick's Inflatable Pants are a pair of pants that appeared in the episodes Patty Hype, The Sponge Who Could Fly, and Karate Star.

Looks

They resemble Patrick's normal shorts exactly, except that these have a built in function that allows them to instantly inflate outwards a few feet, easily enveloping most of Patrick.

In Patty Hype, they have a pull function that, when pulled, causes the pants to expand hugely, like a balloon. The pants also come with a self-destruct feature that makes them irrepairably burst off of Patrick, however, the way this feature is activated is unknown, as the first pair of inflatable pants that Patrick wears seem to burst apart right after Spongebob finishes stating his idea for dyed patties. It's made obvious that the random popping was intentional on Patrick's part, as after his pants burst off of him and he is left naked, he exclaims "Forget my dumb idea! That's great!", implying that he thought his pants were a poor invention compared to Spongebob's Pretty Patties, so he decided to pop them. Since he had no visible means of doing so, this might prove he did the deed with psychic powers.

In The Sponge Who Could Fly and Karate Star, however, Patrick somehow managed to fly without even touching them, providing even more proof towards Patrick's psychic powers.

Features

Made to look exactly like his normal shorts, but very likely made from a different fabric

Has a handle that sticks out of the back, that causes the pants to inflate to massive proportions if pulled

They also have a (so far) unknowingly triggered self destruct feature that causes them to quickly over-inflate and explode into nothingness, although they do leave a patch of fabric on Patrick for modesty's sake. The fact that this feature is the only way to exit the pants (which is a weird mistake to make on Patrick's part, since due to his usual stupidity he forgot to put in some sort of deflation function, but he for some reason decided to give the pants a self-destruct system so that he could exit them without hassle. The mistake is that he isn't intelligent enough to even put in any method of deflation, self-destruct or otherwise feature that would allow him to exit the pants, yet he puts in an (albeit wasteful) exiting system for ease-of-exit. It's a demonstration of both genius and stupidity, typical Patrick), and Patrick wearing an intact pair later in the episode (that Patrick does not pop, however they do forcibly deflate back to normal after being cramped inside Spongebob) goes to show that the inflatable pants are disposable, and only allow one use per pair. Therefore, it's likely that Patrick owns multiple pairs of them. 2 pairs are confirmed to exist, one being the pair that explodes, the other's fate unknown, likely also burst off of Patrick sometime after the events of the episode. Either that, or he made a plentitude of them for his wardrobe, and one (or two, potentially) destroyed pairs would not have affected him.

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