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* CareerNotTaken: Bunny confesses to Patrick that she always dreamed of becoming a race car driver until she had children. This leads Patrick to go back in time to make her dream come true.
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* ContinuityNod: One of the alternate versions of Patrick at the party is his college-educated self from "The Patterfly Effect", just one episode prior!
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While previous episodes of the show were written and directed by staff from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', this episode marks the start of the "new crew" era, with ''Patrick'' getting its own team.
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* BehindTheBlack: Patrick returns from the future for the first time, and everything seems normal. However, Squidina has wheels, since Patrick had turned his mother into a race car. It's only then that the screen zooms out and shows Patrick himself on treads.
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* CloseEnoughTimeline: Subverted. After many crazy timelines, Patrick winds up in one where everything is normal -- except he has a mouth on his stomach, and (more horrifying to him) there's no word for "breakfast". He tries to go back in time, but there's a major difference that time travel doesn't actually exist in this universe, forcing Patrick to reinvent it himself.
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* DrosteImage: Patrick is in bed, dreaming that he's in bed, and in his dream, he's [[DreamWithinADream also dreaming that he's in bed]]. The end result is three layers of Patrick sleeping.
* FailureMontage: A brief montage shows Patrick ending up in a variety of different strange futures, each of which having something off about them.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The episode opens with Patrick having a great dream, then trying to get himself to fall back asleep so he can dream it again. This plot gets dropped a few minutes in, where it becomes a TimeTravel episode instead, and the original plot is never brought up again.
* FailureMontage: A brief montage shows Patrick ending up in a variety of different strange futures, each of which having something off about them.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The episode opens with Patrick having a great dream, then trying to get himself to fall back asleep so he can dream it again. This plot gets dropped a few minutes in, where it becomes a TimeTravel episode instead, and the original plot is never brought up again.
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* HopeSpot: During the FailureMontage, Patrick comes across a universe that ''does'' look like his normal one, which makes him think it could be the right one. Then a giant monster steps on his house and crushes it, forcing him to try again.
* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: Patrick has a hammer sealed away in a case that says "In Case of Not Asleep, Break Glass" (so he can hit himself in the head and get a concussion). He smashes it with a hammer and takes out an identical one to it anyways.
* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: Patrick has a hammer sealed away in a case that says "In Case of Not Asleep, Break Glass" (so he can hit himself in the head and get a concussion). He smashes it with a hammer and takes out an identical one to it anyways.
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* LosingYourHead: Patrick's head detaches from his body. It runs wild around the house until Bunny calms it down with some breakfast. Squidina brings his head back into the kitchen while the body is trying to eat.
* RandomlyReversedLetters: Patrick's makeshift TimeMachine has "TIME CLOĈ§ET" prominently written on the front.
* RandomlyReversedLetters: Patrick's makeshift TimeMachine has "TIME CLOĈ§ET" prominently written on the front.
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* SustainedMisunderstanding: Bunny overhears Patrick say that he has a dream he wants to live out, and shares her ''own'' dream that she never had (being a race car driver). However, Patrick was literally talking about a dream he had just that night.
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* SpaceEpisode: The main plot involves Cecil and Bunny at a space station, facing off against aliens in a three-round competition.
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* AesopAmnesia: An older Patrick goes back in time to convince his younger self not to go back in time, after all the trouble it's caused him. But when his younger self suggests going back in time 15 minutes to have breakfast again, Patrick easily agrees to do it.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: An older Patrick goes back in time to convince his younger self not to go back in time, after all the trouble it's caused him. But when his younger self suggests going back in time 15 minutes to have breakfast again, Patrick easily agrees to do it.
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Patrick throws a party while his parents celebrate their anniversary in outer space.
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Cecil and Bunny are celebrating their anniversary. Patrick throws gets them a reservation at a Greek restaurant; but the time closet sends them to an outer-space alien contest instead, which they're determined to win. Meanwhile, Squidina and Patrick throw a party while his parents celebrate their anniversary in outer space.
that quickly escalates out of hand.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: [=GrandPat=] scolds Squidina and Patrick for throwing a party -- and not inviting ''him''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Cecil thinks that a "dinner for two [people]" means you get to eat dinner twice.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: To ''Film/AnAffairToRemember''.
* WildTeenParty: Patrick and Squidina's party escalates as unexpected guests keep showing up. By the end of it, most of the people there are guests Patrick and Squidina don't even know, demanding drinks and wrecking the house.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: [=GrandPat=] scolds Squidina and Patrick for throwing a party -- and not inviting ''him''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Cecil thinks that a "dinner for two [people]" means you get to eat dinner twice.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: To ''Film/AnAffairToRemember''.
* WildTeenParty: Patrick and Squidina's party escalates as unexpected guests keep showing up. By the end of it, most of the people there are guests Patrick and Squidina don't even know, demanding drinks and wrecking the house.
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'''The Patterfly Effect'''
'''Original air date''': 4/17/2023
Patrick's mother confesses that she used to dream of being a race car driver. However, Patrick interrupts her and thinks she wants to be a ''race car'', and goes back in time to make that happen. But every time he tries to change the past, he ends up in a radically altered future.
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* BaitAndSwitch: In a universe where Bunny really is a car and her kids have wheels, Squidina says that she ended up being a street sweeper after an accident. Patrick is horrified, and goes back in time. Turns out Bunny is ''actually'' a street-sweeping machine, and she's very happy with her life.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Patrick goes back in time to turn his mother into a race car. In the future, everyone has wheels. He goes back in time to fix it, but knocks over a lamp and lights a fire. In the future, everything is on fire.
* ContinuityNod: Bunny's Klopnodian heritage was established in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]."
* HardWorkMontage: So he can invent a time machine, we see a montage of Patrick going to college, studying hard, understanding time itself, and graduating.
* IgnoredEpiphany: An older Patrick goes back in time to convince his younger self not to go back in time, after all the trouble it's caused him. But when his younger self suggests going back in time 15 minutes to have breakfast again, Patrick easily agrees to do it.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Patrick has to convince his mother, as a kid, that he's her son in the future. All he does is say, "Your favorite color is ''purple''!" This convinces her, somehow.
* SpinningPaper: A newspaper spins on screen with the news of Bunny winning a race.
* TrainingMontage: In the past, we see a montage of Patrick training his mother to be a race car. It works.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Patrick doesn't have much of a reaction to his future self coming in with a warning.
-->'''Older Patrick''': You are ''not'' going in there!\\
'''Younger Patrick''': Who are you?\\
'''Older Patrick''': I'm you! As an older, smarter sea star. I'm here to tell you that going back in time could impact your future in horrible, unspeakable ways!\\
'''Younger Patrick''': Oh! Guess I'll go do something else, then!
* VisualPun: One of the experiments Patrick does in college to understand time is dropping some worms into a hole. Or, in other words, a wormhole.
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'''A Space Affair to Remember'''
'''Original air date''': 4/18/2023
Patrick throws a party while his parents celebrate their anniversary in outer space.
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'''Original air date''': 4/17/2023
Patrick's mother confesses that she used to dream of being a race car driver. However, Patrick interrupts her and thinks she wants to be a ''race car'', and goes back in time to make that happen. But every time he tries to change the past, he ends up in a radically altered future.
!!The Patterfly Effect contains examples of:
* BaitAndSwitch: In a universe where Bunny really is a car and her kids have wheels, Squidina says that she ended up being a street sweeper after an accident. Patrick is horrified, and goes back in time. Turns out Bunny is ''actually'' a street-sweeping machine, and she's very happy with her life.
* ButterflyOfDoom: Patrick goes back in time to turn his mother into a race car. In the future, everyone has wheels. He goes back in time to fix it, but knocks over a lamp and lights a fire. In the future, everything is on fire.
* ContinuityNod: Bunny's Klopnodian heritage was established in "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E10 Klopnodian Heritage Festival]]."
* HardWorkMontage: So he can invent a time machine, we see a montage of Patrick going to college, studying hard, understanding time itself, and graduating.
* IgnoredEpiphany: An older Patrick goes back in time to convince his younger self not to go back in time, after all the trouble it's caused him. But when his younger self suggests going back in time 15 minutes to have breakfast again, Patrick easily agrees to do it.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Patrick has to convince his mother, as a kid, that he's her son in the future. All he does is say, "Your favorite color is ''purple''!" This convinces her, somehow.
* SpinningPaper: A newspaper spins on screen with the news of Bunny winning a race.
* TrainingMontage: In the past, we see a montage of Patrick training his mother to be a race car. It works.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Patrick doesn't have much of a reaction to his future self coming in with a warning.
-->'''Older Patrick''': You are ''not'' going in there!\\
'''Younger Patrick''': Who are you?\\
'''Older Patrick''': I'm you! As an older, smarter sea star. I'm here to tell you that going back in time could impact your future in horrible, unspeakable ways!\\
'''Younger Patrick''': Oh! Guess I'll go do something else, then!
* VisualPun: One of the experiments Patrick does in college to understand time is dropping some worms into a hole. Or, in other words, a wormhole.
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'''A Space Affair to Remember'''
'''Original air date''': 4/18/2023
Patrick throws a party while his parents celebrate their anniversary in outer space.
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