I'm With Stupid

"I'm With Stupid" is the second segment of the thirty-seventh episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
== Sypnosis ==
The episode starts with Patrick cleaning his house up for his parents to spend the day. SpongeBob, hoping to go jellyfishing with Patrick, finds him frantically cleaning, and making furniture out of sand. Distressed, Patrick informs SpongeBob that the following day is Starfish Day, and his parents are planning to visit. Patrick sadly reveals that his parents consider him to be really dumb, and he can not bring himself to face their condescension. Patrick and SpongeBob come up with a plan: SpongeBob will act stupid, so Patrick's parents will see their son as comparatively smarter, which Patrick ultimately accepts.
The next day (Starfish Day), a married starfish couple arrives at Patrick's house, and Patrick thinks they are his parents. Patrick shows them inside his house, where they proceed to treat him like a child after he brings them drinks. Outside, after Gary questions SpongeBob about pretending to be stupid, and SpongeBob wonders what could go wrong. He soon makes his entrance, while wearing his karate helmet, only to look stupid and to act in a weird manner. As Patrick's parents look upon SpongeBob's peculiar antics, they start to give Patrick a lot more credit for keeping his supposedly “stupid” friend in check. At dinner, as SpongeBob's shenanigans escalate, Patrick begins to lob personal insults at him for his parents' amusement. This annoyed SpongeBob so much that he brings Patrick to the kitchen to talk. As it turns out, Patrick forgot that SpongeBob is only pretending to be dumb, now believing that SpongeBob really is stupid. 
SpongeBob confronts Patrick in the kitchen over forgetting the plan, but Patrick refuses to believe him and assumes he was only imagining the whole thing. Patrick then bets SpongeBob can impress his parents better than him, and SpongeBob vows to prove so and gives Patrick his helmet. SpongeBob confesses to Patrick's parents that he lied about being stupid and was only behaving like an idiot, so they would appreciate Patrick more, but to no avail, as Patrick's parents think that Patrick coached SpongeBob into mimicking basic skills such as talking in complete sentences and even math. Their derision and laughter bring SpongeBob to where he can not take it anymore, driving him to scream at the top of his lungs in rage and shock; and crashed through the wall in Patrick's house to get out. 
With no "idiot" present, Patrick's parents praise him on his newfound intelligence. However, when they state their names to be Janet and Marty, Patrick, suddenly confused, shocked, and outraged, realizes that they are not his real parents (they are just two random starfish), and demands to know who these strangers are. Janet says "Marty, I'm scared!", but just before things could get any worse, Squidward comes to Patrick's house with two other starfish, who have been asking him for Patrick all day which has been driving Squidward crazy. Patrick gleefully recognizes the starfish couple as his real parents, and they are happy to see him as well, especially with his pants on. At that moment, Janet and Marty then accepts the fact that they do not even have a son, and they leave Patrick to share a laugh with his real family.
==Home video releases==
;DVD
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 2nd Season
== Trivia ==
* This marks the first SpongeBob episode to use the music track "Flop and Go A".
* Herb and Margie Star would later be redesigned and renamed as Bunny and Cecil Star by the time when The Patrick Star Show premiered. Despite this, they would reappear with their original designs and names in a later SpongeBob episode, "Patrick's Tantrum".
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