Original air date: 7/9/2021
In the series pilot, Patrick misses breakfast and goes around the house trying to find something to eat. When that doesn't work, he makes something on his own cooking show.
Late for Breakfast contains examples of:
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Patrick is excited to eat Bunny's "trasherole": a casserole made with garbage.
- Bookends: The episode begins and ends with Patrick and Ouchie going to sleep, complete with Ouchie's thorns getting stuck on Patrick.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Being the pilot episode, some things hadn't entirely been ironed out yet.
- This episode's Random Events Plot nature is unusual compared to the rest, which — as silly as the premises get — usually don't have as many disconnected scenes as this one.
- The episode repeatedly says that Patrick's show is imaginary; it's the subject of a song, Squidina sums up her phone calls with "they said their imaginary people are going to call my imaginary people", and it's specifically said she called on a toy telephone. And rather than seeing Patrick's song, an unfortunate passerby only witnesses Patrick rubbing his butt against the TV screen. Similarly, Bunny even questions if she was able to see Patrick's show. Later episodes would establish that the Patrick Show is very real.
- Throughout the episode, Bunny and Cecil repeatedly forget who Patrick is, and none of them can remember GrandPat. This would be dropped afterwards.
- Patrick's bedroom door keeps taking him to other places by accident. This never happens again, with the door later changing destinations only at Patrick's request.
- The Cave Patrick segments have their own Art Shift like the others; they have Line Boil and a more washed out color scheme. Later episodes would have them animated normally.
- Eye Scream: After Patrick plays with Ouchie, he gets one thorn stuck in his eyeball, and another impaled through his eyelid.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The rapidly scrolling credits for Patrick's show include a lot of Punny Names, parodies of people who worked on the show, and nonsensical disclaimers.
- Go-to-Sleep Ending: The family is satisfied with their dinner, and Patrick happily goes to bed. Cecil and Bunny look in... and forget who he is.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: There's a detailed close-up of Patrick's disgusting, thorn-covered face after his kisses Ouchie.
- Noodle Incident: Squidina recaps everything that's happened on the show, including a hula number with a cast of thousands, which we didn't get to see. Patrick waves goodbye to the exiting hula dancers, noting to the viewers that he doesn't remember that part.
- Nonsense Classification: The available flavors of chum: "moist", "soggy", and "pumpkin spice".
- Oven Logic: On Patrick's cooking show, he piles an assortment of trash into a pan and then cooks it at 1000 degrees for one second. It completely nukes everything in the pan, reducing it to gray dust.
- Pet the Dog: Even though he's hungry, Patrick refuses to eat the Dartfish Family's offering of food because they'd starve otherwise.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: To Late for Dinner.
- Self-Deprecation: The scrolling list of credits for the Patrick Show includes strange jobs like "GrandPat's personal nurse" and "Ouchie's body double". The people supposedly in these roles are slightly altered versions of real names of people who worked on the show.
Original air date: 7/9/2021
After Patrick's parents go to work, Patrick and SpongeBob try out various jobs.
Bummer Jobs contains examples of:
- Can't Tie His Tie: Cecil ties his tie, but ends up making it too tight. Later on, Patrick tries to put on a tie himself, but ends up getting it wrapped around his arms and legs and strangling himself with it.
- Comical Coffee Cup: When Patrick is pretending to act like Cecil, he sits at a desk with a tie and a "Best Son Ever!" coffee cup.
- Cue Card: When SpongeBob and Patrick want to know how to get their paper delivery money from Cecil, Squidina reminds them with a cue card.SpongeBob: What do we do?
Patrick: Uhh...
[Squidina clears her throat and shows them a cue card]
Patrick: Oh, we gotta be like those tough guys on TV! - Distinction Without a Difference: Patrick learns that both he and SpongeBob are looking for jobs. SpongeBob says "Oh, what a coincidence!", and Patrick follows with:Patrick: It's not a coincidence, SpongeBob. It's just two similar things happening at the same time.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: We get two incredibly disgusting close-ups of Patrick's enormous, scabby rash.
- Lampshade Wearing: Cecil quickly puts a lampshade over his head so Squidward can't find him. It doesn't work.
- Literal Metaphor: SpongeBob and Patrick quickly get fired from their first job. As in, the manager loads them into a cannon and fires them away from the store.
- Metaphorgotten: To remember how to tie his tie, Cecil recites a phrase about a sea bunny and a barracuda going in different places. Patrick tries to recite it himself, later on, but doesn't remember how it goes:Patrick: And the bunny and the barracuda go out for coffee and the boat gets a flat!
- Mondegreen Gag: Patrick hears that a job can give his life purpose, so he turns to a porpoise, who says, "Don't look at me, I ain't got it!" The porpoise reappears throughout the episode as a Running Gag.
- New Job Episode: SpongeBob and Patrick decide to be grocery baggers, taxis (not taxi drivers; actual taxis), house painters, and newspaper delivery boys. They only succeed at the last one.
- Oblivious to His Own Description: When Squidina mentions the Patrick Show, Patrick says that he loves it because "that pink guy is so dumb!"
- The End: At the end of the episode, Patrick has a rash with "The End" on it.Patrick: "The End" is so itchy!
- The Talk: Parodied. Patrick isn't sure why his parents have to leave the house, and Bunny tells him it's time for "the talk". Cecil gives him a speech on how jobs work.Cecil: You see, Patrick, when an employee and an employer love each other very much, a brand-new job is born!
- Unnamed Parent: Parodied and discussed when both SpongeBob and Patrick think their dads are just named "Dad".Squidward: It's very simple. Just collect my newspaper money from Mr. Star.
Patrick: Who's Mr. Star?
Squidward: Cecil. Your father?
Patrick: Oh, him! Oh, but his name's not Seashell. It's Dad.
SpongeBob: That's my dad's name, too!
Patrick: No way!
[the two high-five] - What, Exactly, Is His Job?: We have no idea where Patrick's parents actually work. Cecil has to wear a tie for work and Patrick imitates him with a generic office setting, but he comes home from work wearing a football helmet. As for Bunny, she doesn't appear after she leaves for work, but her job as a prison greeter wouldn't be revealed until "Bunny the Barbarian".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: After Patrick's parents leave for work, Bunny doesn't appear for the rest of the episode. What makes this weirder is that we do see Cecil coming home from work, and that sets up a conflict later.
