Patchy the Pirate is a pirate who appears in many SpongeBob SquarePants specials and major events as the host of them. He is also the president of the SpongeBob SquarePants Fan Club and often gets annoyed by his pet parrot, Potty.
Personality[]
Patchy is an intentional stereotypical pirate character. He has a black eye patch and hook, which he frequently switches between eyes and hands, respectively. Patchy has a black beard and wears many pirate accessories, like a hat with a skull-crossbones symbol on it and a purple pirate jacket. One of his teeth is usually blacked out to look like he is missing one. In "The Sponge Who Could Fly," it is inferred that he must remove his hook and peg leg in order to take a shower. Patchy even has a spare foot, for when he goes outside.
He resides in a small home in Encino, California. His bedroom is filled with SpongeBob-themed items such as plush toys, collectibles, bedspreads, and pillows. He also wears SpongeBob underwear. He has a pet parrot, Potty, a string puppet whose strings are clearly shown and is known for poorly being controlled by the puppeteer. They tend to not get along, such as in Ugh where they fight over whether prehistory or the future is better. His next door neighbor, an elderly woman named Mrs. Johnson, has been known to make cookies for him, and he requests they be put in a doggy bag. He says he became president of the Fan Club by electing himself and accepting graciously.
History[]
He co-hosts specials with his pet parrot, Potty, a string puppet whose strings are clearly shown. Potty is known for being poorly controlled by the puppeteer. They tend to not get along, such as in "Ugh," where they fight over whether prehistory or the future is better. His next door neighbor, an elderly woman named Mrs. Johnson, has been known to help him out and is shown to be a motherly figure to him and Potty. Patchy says he became president of the SpongeBob fan club by electing himself and accepting graciously.
The live-action segments featuring Patchy and Potty typically appear at the beginning and end of the show, as well as immediately before or after commercial breaks. A logo sequence featuring Patchy appears at the start of several episodes of seasons 4 and 5, identifying the episode as "a SpongeBob SquarePants special." Often, Patchy's segments will reflect the theme of SpongeBob's story; in "Ugh," Patchy attempts to host the show in a prehistoric setting but is invaded by Potty's futuristic technology, and in "Friend or Foe," Patchy and Potty work in a fast-food restaurant where they end up becoming enemies.
The live-action segments featuring Patchy and Potty typically appear at the beginning and end of the show, as well as immediately before or after commercial breaks. A logo sequence featuring Patchy appears at the start of several episodes of seasons 4 and 5, identifying the episode as "a SpongeBob SquarePants special." Often, Patchy's segments will reflect the theme of SpongeBob's story; in "Ugh," Patchy attempts to host the show in a prehistoric setting but is invaded by Potty's futuristic technology, and in "Friend or Foe," Patchy and Potty work in a fast-food restaurant where they end up becoming enemies.
Other times, Patchy does things to seem more natural reflecting the episode. In "Christmas Who?," he gets ready for Christmas. In the first airing of "Shanghaied," he hosts a voting contest in which the viewers get to pick the ending, via the phone or the Internet. After the voting ended, it got changed to "Patchy's Pick," where he announces the episode's name and opens fan mail. In "Truth or Square," he tries to find some celebrities for his "10th Anniversary of SpongeBob" special, an event that was happening at the time.
Apart from special episodes themselves, Patchy has appeared in an extremely wide variety of Nickelodeon special events. He was a regular cast member on Nickelodeon's show U-Pick Live, where he would often help the hosts Brent and Candace introduce episodes of Nicktoons. Leading up to the premiere of "Have You Seen This Snail?," Patchy and Tony Hawklooked for Gary by following a slime trail. Patchy ended up on Friday Night Slimetime, while Tony ended up in Times Square.
For the 2004 Kids' Choice Awards, Patchy appeared in a variety of promotional bumpers. In one, he was talking on the phone and being interviewed at the same time, and did his best to multitask. However, he ended up letting the interviewers know too much about his phone conversation. He did these bumpers from Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and later appeared during the actual ceremony.
Patchy hosted the Best Day Ever marathon on a boat in New York City harbor. In his opinion, Chicago is the best city ever. While hosting the marathon, he played chess with his teddy bear and lost, read magazines (including one about Jessica Alba), and wrote in his diary with a seahorse pen. He also revealed that he had a terrible childhood fear of seahorses, and was thereby frightened by his pen. He also drank hot cocoa and ate cookies. He fell asleep at midnight, and missed episode #85, "Shell of a Man."
He was still asleep after this episode, with his hook in his mouth. In the middle of the night, Patchy woke up to announce #61, "Suds," and came up with the excuse that he was "resting his eyes." However, he was mumbling and stumbling over his words in the process as a sign that he was half-asleep, accidentally skipping numbers 62-73. After that, he went back to sleep and did not fully wake up until after #43, "Nature Pants," when his alarm clock rang at 8 a.m. He had Pirate Flakes cereal and orange juice for breakfast. He also got a back massage and told the viewers about the Empire State Building.
Patchy hosted the Z to A countdown from the Bahamas starting at 5:00 p.m. on November 12, 2007. It was revealed that he cannot swim, but he still went through with an underwater talk show to present "Atlantis SquarePantis." He put on a glass diving helmet and jumped into a giant aquarium fish tank with Devon Werkheiser. He stayed underwater for the remainder of the event, and even Potty came down in a scuba mask to co-host. In The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash, Patchy was the DJ at a party.
atchy is notable for being the only SpongeBob character ever to cross over into another scripted Nickelodeon show. He appeared in the Big Time Rushspecial, "Big Time Beach Party," searching for his family's lost treasure. Carlosand Logan, two members of Big Time Rush, join his treasure hunt. They find out that it is buried under the beach house of Griffin, the evil owner of Big Time Rush's record label. When they manage to dig it up, Griffin shows up and collects the treasure as compensation for the damages they caused in their search. In a behind-the-scenes promo for the special, it was revealed that Patchy is a big fan of Big Time Rush's music.
One of Patchy's biggest adventures occurred in January 2011 during the Legends of Bikini Bottom miniseries. At night, he and Potty boarded an old pirate ship that housed an ancient book of underwater legends. Patchy read each legend to Potty as a bedtime story. Although these segments only appeared in the original airings of the episodes, Patchy's book still appears at the beginning of each episode in the miniseries.
Also in 2011, Nickelodeon's website Nick.com launched a feature called "Patchy's Dispatchy." It involved Patchy giving fans decodable poems that tied into upcoming episodes. To promote the premiere of "Frozen Face-Off" on July 15, Nick.com featured snow-themed poems from Patchy that gave clues about the abominable snow mollusk. They were advertised in on-air commercials, and viewers could visit Nick.com to guess what Patchy's clues meant. If they guessed correctly, they unlocked virtual items for their Nick.com club accounts.
"It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" features Patchy and Potty in their usual host roles, but this time, they are fully animated in stop-motion. In the episode, Patchy steals a mail truck to drive to the North Pole and make sure that Santa Clausgrants his Christmas wish: to meet SpongeBob. When the truck hits a literal fork in the road, Patchy has to stop and make a campfire. Out of a sense of hunger, Patchy hallucinates and imagines Potty as a platter of buffalo wings. Patchy nearly eats Potty, only to snap out of it. Potty also hallucinates and imagines Patchy's head as a suet cake topped with birdseed and pecks on him.
For the second stop-motion special, "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom," a new wraparound starring Patchy was storyboarded and scripted.[10] However, the episode filled itself out with so much material that various segments had to be trimmed and cut. Patchy's wraparound was removed from the final episode.[11]
In 2018, Patchy joined the I ♥ SpongeBob week celebration. He talked about his favorite things regarding SpongeBob. He also talked about Mr. Krabs and the Krabby Patty secret formula. Patchy complimented Mr. Krabs, saying that he is tight with a dollar but knows how to run a good restaurant. Patchy then revealed that he has considered helping Plankton and Karen steal the secret formula. He later joined a bunch of other Nickelodeon stars to imitate SpongeBob's "Imagination!" line and sing a rendition of the show's theme song. When Patchy said "Imagination," he started using SpongeBob's voice, then backtracked and used his normal voice. Afterwards, he laughed and winked.
During "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout," he goes out to deliver his idol's present and goes through a series of events, while ironically missing SpongeBob. At the end, he is able to give the present, which is his head in a box. Patchy finally meets SpongeBob in person and wishes him a happy birthday, to SpongeBob's gratitude. After he states he is unsure of what to do now, SpongeBob suggests singing the birthday song and this inspires Patchy along with SpongeBob's friends to perform.
Trivia[]
- In some adventures, Patchy is the host.
- He is played by Tom Kenny.
- He and Potty are the only major live-action characters in Spongebob Squarepants.
- Patchy is currently the only character in the franchise to guest appear in another series(Big Time Rush)
- Patchy has a hook hand very much like Captain Hook from the Disney film, Peter Pan.
- It is revealed in "Feral Friends" that Patchy knows the French narrator.
- In "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout," he finally meets SpongeBob in person and interacts with him.
- As shown in an issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, Patchy owns a lot of SpongeBob comic books, which are obviously spoofs on actual comics.
- According to an issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, Patchy admires pirates like Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Hook, and more.