"Something Stupid This Way Comes" is the second Halloween episode of the Nickelodeon animated series The Patrick Star Show, premiering on October 14, 2024.
Plot[]
A nod to Ray Bradbury's dark carnival classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes — Madame Hagfish shares tales of Pat-Tron, Pat the Hapless and Patgor. The half-hour special features 2D and stop-motion animation.
Synopsis[]
At Goo Lagoon, Patrick is burying his family in the sand when he sees a run-down Goofy Goober selling ice cream. He runs off to follow him, passing through thick fog and arriving at Madame Hagfish's fortune-telling tent. She removes the Goofy Goober costume and offers to tell Patrick's fortune with her crystal ball, although Patrick is disappointed by the lack of ice cream.
In the first story, Pat-Tron accidentally blows up the S.S. Super Minnow's emergency forcefields by using it to make nachos. When a spacecraft approaches, he blasts it, only to be told it is actually the mail ship. The mailman arrives, fining Quasar a million dollars for attacking the ship. Pat-Tron has received an inheritance to cover the fine, as long as he and Quasar spend one night in Grandroid's estate. The estate is a haunted house full of booby traps, scaring Quasar. Both of them go into their guest rooms, with Pat-Tron plugging himself in for the night.
When Quasar goes to brush his teeth, a skull virus escapes from the medicine cabinet and chases him away. Quasar runs into Pat-Tron's room, where the virus possesses Pat-Tron through his plug, making him turn evil and shoot at Quasar. Quasar gets chased throughout the house, until the plug comes loose, freeing Pat-Tron. The virus moves into the house's circuitry.
Quasar declares that they must put a stop to the virus, and they go to find the mainframe in the basement. The basement's boiler tries to eat Quasar, and Pat-Tron frees him by rebooting the power. When the lights come back on, they run into Al, their xenomorph friend, who was also in the will. The three sleep together and wake up the next morning, where Grandroid appears as a spirit and gives them their inheritance. However, they realize that Pat-Tron forgot to set the house's orbit after the reboot, sending the house straight into the Sun.
Patrick is disappointed by the prediction, and Madame Hagfish takes out some tarot cards for her next one. The next prediction involves Pat the Hapless, who beheads all the monsters and citizens in his village to keep their heads as trophies. During the night, the heads begin pestering him with requests for food and things to do.
Pat spends the night hanging out with the heads, left very exhausted. He decides to get Beelzebass to put the heads back on their bodies. Rather than granting the wish, Bubble Bass smugly tells Pat to keep saying please, and Pat beheads him. He teleports away, and the heads catch up to him. Pat runs away and winds up in a guillotine, with his head getting launched away and into a circle of monster heads, who all want to hang out with him too.
Patrick does not like this prediction either, so Madame Hagfish tries reading his palm. This starts a new segment, "The Cravin'", set in Dr. Plankenstein's castle. Patgor is hungry and wakes up to have a snack, dumping the contents of the fridge onto a sandwich. He cooks it with lightning, turning the sandwich into a monster. Patgor runs from it, and Dr. Plankenstein and SpongeMonster try to stop the monster, but it eats them both. Patgor traps the sandwich by stabbing it with a toothpick, then eats the rest of it. He spits out SpongeMonster and Dr. Plankenstein, and Plankenstein locks up the fridge.
Patrick is sad that there is no ice cream in his future, between the three predictions. Madame Hagfish goes outside, where the characters from her predictions are waiting, and has Pat the Hapless grant Patrick's prediction. Pat the Hapless, as the Gruesome Goober, serves up Patrick's family's heads on an ice cream cone. They all bid the audience a happy Halloween.
Cast[]
| Voice actor | Character(s) |
|---|---|
| Bill Fagerbakke | Patrick Star Pat-Tron Pat the Hapless Pat-gor Anchovies Bad Guys Heads Villagers Villains Quartet Head Guys |
| Dana Snyder | GrandPat Star Great Grandroid Spirit Monster #3 |
| Cree Summer | Bunny Star Shark Girl #2 Girl Head #1 |
| Jill Talley | Squidina Star Madam Hagfish Anchovies Bad Guys Heads Villagers Villains Quartet Head Guys |
| Tom Wilson | Cecil Star Guy Head #4 Anchovies Bad Guys Heads Villagers Villains Quartet Head Guys |
| Dee Bradley Baker | Mailman Digital Ghost Beelzebass Guy Head #2 Sandwich Monster Anchovies Bad Guys Heads Villagers Villains Quartet Head Guys |
| Rodger Bumpass | Captain Doug Quasar Spooky Narrator |
| Grey DeLisle | Computer Voice Shark Girl #1 |
| Tom Kenny | Frenchie Al SpongeMonster Guy Head #1 Monster #1 Wizard Man Rooster Pizza Eater Anchovies Bad Guys Heads Villagers Villains Quartet Head Guys |
| Maurice LaMarche | Poet |
| Mr. Lawrence | Dr. Plankenstein Monster #2 Monk Ball Head Guy Guy Head #3 |
| Ego Plum | Singer |
| Robin Walsh | Puppeteer |