Pet Sitter Pat (SpongeBob SquarePants)
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"Casey, you're an fucking moron."
— Mr. Enter on his infamous og video.
Pet Sitter Pat is the second segment of the twelfth episode of the eighth season of SpongeBob SquarePants, and was greenlit as the third episode of "all about Patrick" bath time.
Synopsis
When SpongeBob gets an invitation to his grandma's birthday party, he asks Patrick to pet-sit Gary. However, SpongeBob gets worried about Patrick's misguided attempts at pet-sitting.
Why It's A Horrible Pet Sitter
- The episode lazily takes elements from both A Pal for Gary from the seventh season, and I Was a Teenage Gary from the first season.
- This is made even lazier because "A Pal for Gary" aired a year ago.
- Given that this episode rips off "A Pal for Gary", one of the worst episodes ever produced in the history of SpongeBob SquarePants alongside "One Coarse Meal", meaning that it is doomed from the start, based off that fact alone.
- It is also nothing more than another torture episode for Gary.
- Patrick is at his absolute worst in this episode as his flanderization has gone way too far, evident when:
- He drops Gary on the ground causing the latter to go splat.
- He ignores and throw out SpongeBob's instructions, because he held it upside down and thought that SpongeBob had terrible handwriting.
- He forgets to feed Gary his food causing Gary to starve and eats said food in front of Gary.
- Then when it's time for Gary's bath he then pours snail food into the tub because "he had to get the water to stay in there somehow".
- The most infamous example is the part where Patrick shows Gary a flamethrower that spews out actual fire. Yes, he intends to trick Gary into getting into the bath, but it's still cruel and idiotic to use a flamethrower, out of all things.
- It should be worth noting that while in previous seasons 1-3, Patrick did have moments like this, but those (that Richard Pursel did) were never this extreme.
- He sprays Gary water with a fire hose, and while that's happening Gary is moaning.
- There's a random moment where after Patrick gave Gary "a bath", a can falls on Gary's stomach, as if poor Gary wasn't tortured enough.
- He initially intended to dry Gary off with salt, something that actually kills snails upon contact. When that plan fails, Patrick painfully dries Gary with a hairdryer, causing the latter to shrivel up.
- The episode tries to portray all of this as funny, but tormenting someone in the ways Patrick does to Gary isn't funny at all, in any way, shape, or form.
- It is also predictable, as it is easy to tell that Patrick is going to screw up due to his exaggerated stupidity. Even the humor is predictable, notably when Patrick opens Gary's snail food and you can easily tell that he is going to eat all of it, and it falls flat as a result.
- Gary smelling Patrick's armpit is just weird and gross.
- Plot hole: How does the flamethrower work, when Patrick mentions that he’s underwater in season 2? or isn't the fire was already seems in other episodes?
- Despite having been treated horribly by Patrick throughout the episode(at least from his perspective), Gary makes up with him for some reason and is even shown reading him a bedtime story when he’s asleep. It was a quite contrived and mediocre way of trying to pretend this all didn't happen just to end the episode.
- Gary was also shown laughing after water fell on him while SpongeBob's house was flooding. This contradicts the fact that Gary hates taking baths, as shown in Gary Takes a Bath.
- Much like, "Rule of Dumb", and, "Yours, Mine and Mine", previously, Patrick gets off scot-free and faces no consequences for his actions against Gary.
- At the end of the episode, once SpongeBob returns to his pineapple, he doesn't seem to question the fact that the house looks like it had flooded earlier, and that around half of it is in ruins.
- Its "Bath Time" rendition is even worse, as it adds laugh tracks to everything that is supposed to be comedy. It even exposes the fact that the Richard Pursel treat controversial scenes as comedy completely.
- It's also but almost ruined Richard Pursel's writing career.
Redeeming Qualities
- At least SpongeBob's character development from "Have you Seen this Snail?" is back as he is very caring for the safety of Gary, unlike in A Pal for Gary, the episode where he faced character derailment.
- Some hilarious attempts at humor, notably SpongeBob's grandma struggling to blow out her birthday candles.
- The scene where Gary attacks Patrick after the snail food sinks in the tub was satisfying and justified.
- Patrick also got hit in the head when he throws the phone out the window, which is also some decent Karma.
- The first few minutes of the episode were decent. Sadly, the rest of the episode is what brings it down.
- At least the title card is creative, which has a lot of Garys in the background.
Gallery
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Cartoon logic.
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Let's be honest, the opening seems cute at least.
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"I don't get these new beguiled shower heads"
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"Oh, dear! Look at all those candles! Why, if I were any older, we'd be in danger of burning down the house!"
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SpongeBob's face here describes how terrible Richard Pursel writing is. (Even though for some reason, why Gary is laughing on the phone tho?)
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*thinks about his house being on fire, and Gary meows in the background*
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Maybe Gary isn't the only one who needs a bath.
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Reception
Pet Sitter Pat received largely negative reviews by Fans and Critics alike, with most criticisms going to the episode's overall plot being deem too similar to "A Pal for Gary", along with Gary being tortured though out the episode, as well as Patrick's overall cruel character in this episode. Along with its sister episode, it holds a 5.1/10 on IMDB.
Casey Alexander Twitter Attacks
Background
On 10 July, 2013, Mr. Enter uploaded his second Animated Atrocities review. In it, he reviewed the SpongeBob episode A Pal For Gary, an episode written by Casey.
In the review, he exemplified that he strongly disliked the episode. On 11 September 2013, he uploaded a review of the SpongeBob episode One Coarse Meal, an episode also written by Casey that he also disliked. Later on, in early 2014, Mr. Enter reviewed Pet Sitter Pat, another episode of SpongeBob. In the introduction of the video, he showed screencaps of tweets made by Casey.
In them, Casey stated that he was actually fond of A Pal For Gary. In response to that, Mr. Enter called him an "idiot" and "a fucking moron." He later went on to reveal that this episode was his least favorite of the series. This sparked the attacks.
Aftermath
Due to the events caused by the original review, Mr. Enter remade his review of Pet Sitter Pat. In it, he addressed the attacks. He apologized, saying that what he did was "a dash of overreaction". In response to what his fans did, he said, "Don't do that. Like, please don't do that. That's not good guys. That's bad."
Later in the review, he asked his fans to "keep [him] in check, directly." He elaborated on this by saying "If I ever do something so stupid as this again, please call me out on it." But by the time Enter made an apology, fans keep harassing Alexander.
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