The Patrick Star Show
Series, 2021, Spin-offs, Set in Patrick's home TV show
The Patrick Star Show is #6 of 9 in release order and #6 of 9 in chronological order in the SpongeBob SquarePants.
The story
Follow a younger Patrick Star living at home with his family, where he hosts his own variety show for the neighborhood from his television-turned-bedroom.
The Patrick Star Show recap
A spin-off in which a young adult Patrick Star hosts his own variety show, broadcast from his family's house using equipment he has rigged up. The show within the show mixes sketches, fake commercials, games, cooking segments and interviews, and often collapses into chaos. His family make up the crew: his father Cecil, his mother Bunny, his grandfather GrandPat, and his adopted younger sister Squidina, a squid who is smarter than everyone else and really runs the production. Their pets are a sea urchin called Ouchie and a living toilet called Tinkle. Squidward's grandmother lives next door, and SpongeBob, Squidward, Sandy, Mr. Krabs and Plankton drop in as guests. The humour is more surreal and random than the main series, with alternate versions of Patrick, segments starring other characters, and running gags about his family. It is set at an unspecified time before the main series, when Patrick still lives at home. It premiered on Nickelodeon in 2021 and has become the longest-running of the spin-offs.
The Patrick Star Show ending explained
It has not ended. The show is still running, with its fifth season airing in 2026 and a sixth season due on October 30, 2026; in June 2026 it was renewed for a sixth and seventh season. There is no overall storyline, so each episode ends with the household back to normal for the next broadcast, and the show sets up nothing for the main series beyond more of the Star family.
Where to watch The Patrick Star Show
The Patrick Star Show is streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Philo, YouTube TV, and Spectrum On Demand in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 3.6/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, before Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.
- Chronological order: after The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, before Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.
What to watch before The Patrick Star Show
In release order, the essentials before The Patrick Star Show (2021) are SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020). The Patrick Star Show itself is optional in the SpongeBob SquarePants order.
Cast
- Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star (voice)
- Thomas F. Wilson as Cecil Star (voice)
- Cree Summer as Bunny Star / Grandma Tentacles (voice)
- Jill Talley as Squidina Star (voice)
- Dana Snyder as GrandPat Star (voice)
- Tom Kenny as Ouchie / Worm / Crowd (voice)
- Rodger Bumpass as Capt. Doug Quasar / Commercial Guy (voice)
- Mr. Lawrence as Rube (voice)
- Dee Bradley Baker as Sea Bear / Tinkle (voice)
- Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs / Audience / Soldiers (voice)
- Sirena Irwin as Janet (voice)
- Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy (voice)
Created by Luke Brookshier, Marc Ceccarelli, Andrew Goodman, Kaz, Mr. Lawrence, Vincent Waller.