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49. Something Stupid This Way Comes


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Interesting fact about this episode, it's the first episode to have a "Created By Stephen Hillenberg" title credited at the series title card. I mean, he technically DID create SOME of the base characters; but the show? I highly DOUBT that! In any case, this was probably the FIRST time that the cutaway segments to the OTHER Patrick related segments actually MADE some sense from a story stand-point, as they were all stories being told by Madame Hagfish to Patrick. In the first one, Captain Quasar and Pat-Tron have to spend a night at Pat-Tron's creepy ghost house planet, which has been infected by a virus; in order to earn a $1,000,000 inheritance. Of course, they don't get to keep the money for long, but not for the set-up reason that everyone is LOGICALLY expecting! Next, Pat the Hapless finds out that their are CONSEQUENCES for constantly BEHEADING everything he comes across, especially when said heads can STILL talk! And finally, we get a REALLY creepy parody of "The Raven", narrated by Maurice LaMarche no less; about Patgor who accidentally creates a LITERAL monster sandwich, who keeps screaming "Hungry more!" It's also the FIRST Patgor short I've legitimately impressed by. Of course, Patrick is sad that through all of the tales, there's no ice cream in HIS future! Fortunately, Madame Hagfish seems to be of the "Everybody Has Standards" variety, as she decides to at least TRY to give Patrick what he wants by giving him ice cream...too bad she asks Pat The Hapless to do it, as he ends up BEHEADING the REST of the Star Family, and putting them on ice cream cones! Thank GOODNESS for negative continuity on this one! All in all, I'd give this special an 8.5 out of 10. (It lost a lot of points for all the characters that got beheaded). Enough said, true believers!

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