Patrick SmartPants (Episode)

Patrick SmartPants
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Episode No.:	68a
Season:	4
Airdate:	21 October 2005
Previous Episode:	Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture
Next Episode:	SquidBob TentaclePants
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
Sandy Cheeks	Carolyn Lawrence
Patrick finally gets smart... for once © Viacom

"Patrick SmartPants" is an episode from Season 4.

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are jellyfishing in Jellyfish Fields until Patrick falls into the Brain Coral Fields. SpongeBob sees what is wrong and places Patrick’s head back on and he suddenly possesses greater intellect and greater intelligence. This eventually tears their friendship apart because they both want to do different things. Patrick tries to help people such as Sandy and Squidward but Patrick becomes more hated, because of his arrogant attitude. Eventually, Patrick tells SpongeBob that they have to go separate ways and both are sad.

Then Patrick wants to try to become friends with SpongeBob again by using science. This is unsuccessful and then Patrick tells SpongeBob to tell him when the fun went away. So Patrick jumped off the cliff into Brain Coral fields and duplicates his actions. SpongeBob looks around for Patrick’s head and they find a Brain Coral Field where brain coral lies. SpongeBob gets Patrick's real head and Patrick is back to normal!

Trivia/Goofs

Real brain coral is actually shaped like brains and not cones.
The first few times this episode was shown, it had scrolling captions. This was later changed.
Smart Patrick is so upset that he makes a solution to get SpongeBob back he makes his hair grow, just so that he can pull it out in his anger. This is ironically the answer to Squidward's dream to have hair.
Patrick calls SpongeBob "Robert" (the name "Bob" is short for "Robert"), which indicates that SpongeBob's real name may be SpongeRobert SquarePants. However, Robert as his full name is not confirmed by Stephen Hillenburg. Also, in the scene where Patrick is in Sandy's treedome, Patrick calls her "Sandra", which indicates that Sandy's real name may be Sandra Cheeks, as "Sandy" is short for "Sandra". However, Sandra as her full name is not confirmed by Hillenburg either. There could always be the possibility that SpongeBob and Sandy's parents wanted their names to be the short versions, and not short for anything in their particular cases.
SpongeBob and Patrick both have a talent for belch-talking.
This is the second time Plankton appears without Mr. Krabs. The first was Walking Small.
In the scene where Patrick is sitting and meditating on top of his rock, the burning sticks around him are called incense.
Patrick might be Chinese because the incense are often used by Chinese monks.
Plankton makes a cameo in this episode, saying, "I'll show you subspecies!"
This is the first episode pair to end with the word pants in both episodes.
How does brain coral come with a plug to make Patrick smarter?
The top of Patrick's head is not a vital body part as it does not affect him in any way when replaced with the brain coral, thus shows that Patrick could not ordinarily use his brain.
When Patrick fell off the cliff, the spot exactly where he fell is where the brain coral is. But shouldn't that have been Patrick's head? How did the brain coral get pushed over to where Patrick fell?
Patrick's brain is a cone-shape in this episode, but in Shanghaied, his brain was a toaster (in Patrick's wish ending), and then later in The Battle of Bikini Bottom, his brain is a real brain.
If a starfish can grow its head back, then why does Patrick need a brain coral?
Patrick's voice when he was smart are different than usual.
Patrick and SpongeBob's burp-talking from this episode was used in the Burping Contest during Kid's Choice Awards 2009.
When Patrick leaves Squidward's house, SpongeBob's house isn't seen.
When Patrick says "The rest of me is up here." and the top of his head is missing, it doesn't make him moan and unable to do anything, but later in the episode when Patrick's head gets taken off again, he just stands there like when he cleared his mind in Stanley S. Squarepants
This episode is sort of like A Breath of Fresh Squidward where something about a character becomes the opposite.