Super Star (Episode)

Super Star is the first episode of the third season of Super Sponge. The episode premiered on 7/27/24 and was written by Not-Joe. The next episode is Enter: Arsenal.
== Plot ==
Patrick's evil father, RickPat, attacks Bikini Bottom! 
== Transcript ==
(On a rainy night in Bikini Bottom…)
A police boat parked in front of a small suburban home. Two police officers got out of the boat and knocked on the door…
A middle aged couple, Herb Star and Margie Star, opened the door.
Herb: “Hello?”
Margie: “Is there something wrong?”
Officer #1: “Are you two related to RickPat Star?”
Herb: “Yes. That’s my cousin.”
Officer #1: “Recently, he was arrested for attacking civilians…”
The other officer (“Officer #2”) was holding onto a child starfish.
Officer #2: “Would you 2 be kind enough to adopt RickPat’s 7 year old son… Patrick?”
Herb and Margie looked at each other, nodding their heads…
Herb: “We’d be happy to adopt him.”
‘Present day…’
(At the Bikini Bottom Jail.)
A prison worker was carrying a plate of food to a cell.
Prison worker: "Your daily meal is ready, RickPat."
He opened up the cell, and inside it stood a very tall and buff looking, orange starfish, RickPat…
RickPat: "I've had enough of that slop!"
RickPat punched the worker in the face so hard he suddenly became dizzy and fell over!
RickPat: "But maybe you can take my place…"
He picked the prison worker up and threw his body against a wall in the cell! 
RickPat then walked out of the cell, as he slammed it shut, locking the prison worker inside it!
RickPat smirked…
RickPat: "I'm out of here…"
(Super Sponge intro is played.)
(Morning.)
Patrick was sitting in the living room, at his rock house.
Patrick: "I wonder why SpongeBob hasn't been at his pineapple in a few weeks."
An opening sequence similar to the 1966 Batman TV show's opening sequence, but with a starfish wearing a red ninja mask and a blue cape, started playing on Patrick's TV.
Patrick: "Oh boy! I love this show!"
(In the tv show.)
The caped starfish was standing around, on a sidewalk.
Off screen, he heard a man yell: "HELP ME!!!"
Caped starfish (talking in third person): "STARFISHMAN to the rescue! Up, up, and away!"
Starfishman flew into the sky, and then the scene transitions to showing him landing to the ground in a completely different location, where someone used a rope to tie an almost naked male starfish to a bunch of train tracks!
A train was coming!
Starfish: “I CAN’T MOVE!”
Starfishman: “Don’t worry, citizen. I will save you!”
Starfishman jumped right in front of the train and held his arms out! With his super strength, Starfishman successfully stopped the train from moving! 
Patrick (while eating popcorn): "This episode is just like the video game!"
Suddenly a ringtone went off on a shell phone, sitting next to Patrick on the couch!
Patrick picked it up and answered it.
Patrick: “I’ll be right there.”
The scene cuts to Patrick entering the computer room at the Hall of Heroes, where all of the I.J.L.S.A. members were gathered up, in front of a big screen computer.
Patrick: “What’s the emergency?”
Sandy: “Some villain pet-napped a bunch of snails and took them to Seashell Park!”
Super Sponge: “Well, let’s get over there and save them!”
(Bubble transition.)
The team of heroes showed up, running in a grass field at the park… Where 5 snails were locked inside a dog cage, and there was a little device tied to the cage, which had a ticking clock…
Miss Appear: “Oh no! It’s a bomb!”
Mermaid Girl: “Can someone here diffuse it?”
Green Harpoon took out a knife.
Green Harpoon: “I’ll try.”
He started looking at the bomb and there were a bunch of different colored wires attached to it.
Green Harpoon: “Hmm… Red wire… No, green wire… Or yellow wire… Wait…”
Patrick heard what sounded like far away whispering, behind him…
Patrick: “Huh?”
Patrick walked off, a far distance away from the team. He looked around but didn’t see anyone else there with him.
Just then, a big bulking figure appeared from out of nowhere, grabbed Patrick’s body, and leaped high into the sky! The figure let go of Patrick as they both landed on top of a really tall city building. Patrick fell on his face, when landing on the rooftop. He then looked up, and standing right in front of him, he saw…
Patrick: “DAD?!”
RickPat (while menacingly smiling): “Hello son…”
RickPat was twice the height of Patrick!
Patrick: “I haven’t seen you in years. I thought you were still in jail!”
RickPat: “I was… Until I heard that you’ve been hanging out with a bunch of superheroes lately… Figured I need to knock some sense into you!”
Patrick: “No! I’m out of here!”
Patrick jumped and started to fly away, but RickPat grabbed Patrick’s leg, stopping him from leaving!
RickPat: “You’re not going anywhere!”
RickPat threw Patrick onto the hard roof!
Patrick laid there, on his back… RickPat towered over him, laughing… 
RickPat: “Admit it, son! I’m still better than you in every single way!”
Mermaid Girl: “Leave him alone!”
Mermaid Girl appeared out of nowhere and threw a water ball at RickPat!
RickPat dove to the side, off the rooftop!
Mermaid Girl and Patrick ran over to the edge of the roof, to see where RickPat went.
Mermaid Girl: “I don't see him! He's gone!”
Patrick: “He’ll be back…”
Mermaid Girl: “Who was that?”
Patrick: “It's a long story.”
Mermaid Girl: “I bet he was the one who kidnapped those snails!”
Green Harpoon used a harpoon with a long rope attached to it to get up on the same rooftop Patrick and Mermaid Girl were standing on.
Green Harpoon: “Speaking of which… I have successfully defused the bomb.”
Mermaid Girl: “Great job, Green Harpoon! Let's head back to the Hall of Heroes.”
Bubble transition to all the members of the I.J.L.S.A. back at the Hall of Heroes, sitting at a big table in a conference room.
Mermaid Girl: “Alright, guys… We may have saved the snails, but now we need to figure out how we’re gonna find that criminal, since he got away…”
Elastic: “We could keep monitoring the park cameras.”
Miss Appear: “I don’t think the criminal is gonna strike the same place twice.”
Mermaid Girl: “Anyone else have any ideas?”
Patrick: “Oh! I have an idea!”
Green Harpoon: “Let me guess… Does it have something to do with mayonnaise?”
Patrick turned red out of embarrassment.
Patrick: “Well, uh… Somewhat, but-”
Green Harpoon: “I knew it! You always have the dumbest ideas. You make me laugh! HAHAHA-”
Everyone else started laughing. Patrick put a fake smile on his face and pretended to chuckle.
Patrick: “Yeah…”
The scene cuts to Downtown Bikini Bottom at night.
“Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M. starts playing over the scene, as Patrick uses his inflatable shorts to slowly float around, high in the sky, by himself… 
Patrick had a very sad frown on his face, as he was looking down at all the people walking around below him, who weren’t looking back up at him, or even noticing him. 
Someone accidentally flew a little drone into Patrick, popping his inflatable pants, sending him falling all the way down to the sidewalk… Landing on his face and stomach.
Patrick got up and started walking, as the song continued playing over the scene…
There were a bunch of other fish outside on the sidewalk and they were all just walking past him. It was like he was invisible.
He looked at a brick wall on a building in Downtown Bikini Bottom. There was a poster taped to the wall, showing all of the current members of the I.J.L.S.A…. Except for Patrick.
He kept trudging forward. Then, he stopped again, to look into a small shop’s front windows. 
It was a TV store, and through the windows, Patrick could see a display of a bunch of televisions, playing a live news broadcast.
Perch Perkins (on the TVs): “Just today, a bunch of snails were saved by the heroes known as… Super Sponge… Mermaid Girl… Sandy Cheeks… Miss Appear… Elastic… And Green Harpoon. What would we do without those great heroes?”
A lady fish asked Patrick: "Hey… Can I get an autograph?"  
Patrick got excited.
Patrick: "You want my autograph??!!" 
The lady handed him a sheet of paper and a pen. 
Lady: "Yes. Can you sign it 'Super Sponge'? My son wants a Super Sponge autograph for his birthday, but I don't know how to get it for him and he knows what my handwriting looks like, so I can't easily fake it."
Patrick (saddened): "Oh… Okay."
Patrick wrote 'Super Sponge' on the paper, then wandered off, back to walking by himself in the middle of the night…
Patrick heard the voice of the mother echoing in his head: “Can you sign it ‘Super Sponge’?”
Then, Green Harpoon’s voice: “You always have the dumbest ideas.”
As Patrick was walking by himself, it started raining. 
Then, some guy in a boat drove right through a puddle of mud, causing a bunch of mud to get all over Patrick.
The song “Everybody Hurts” stops playing, as the scene fades to the next day… 
Every member of the I.J.L.S.A., except for Patrick, were in the Hall of Heroes computer room.
There was an alert on the big computer screen!
Sandy: “The supervillain is back!”
Mermaid Girl: “Alright, everyo-”
Super Sponge: “Alright, everyone… Let’s get over there and apprehend him!”
Miss Appear: “Where’s Patrick?”
Super Sponge: “He’s probably sleeping under his rock or something. But we gotta go now!”
The heroes headed out the building.
Bubble transition to a small breakfast restaurant inside the Bikini Bottom Mall, where Patrick was sitting by himself, with a table and a small TV in front of him.
Patrick was still feeling down in the dumps.
Behind Patrick, Incidental 24B and Don the Whale were standing around, talking to each other.
Incidental 24B: “Hey Don, are you going to the festival today in Downtown Bikini Bottom?”
Don the Whale: “There’s a festival today?”
Incidental 24B: “Yeah. Didn’t you hear? They’re celebrating Bikini Bottom’s 100th 1st day of Summer.”
Don the Whale: “Oh, I forgot about that. I’ve just had so much on my mind, like doing some LIFTING.”
Incidental 24B: “I can tell, man. Your abs are abbing, bro.”
They both walked off screen.
The TV in front of Patrick was showing Starfishman using a telephone box to talk to his assistant.
Starfishman: “I can’t beat the Dreaded Patrick! I don’t know what to do! He’s too powerful!”
Assistant: “No! You’ve got this, Starfishman! Don’t give up now. Think about how awesome you are… All the awesome things you’ve already done…”
Starfishman (thinking out loud): “Hmm… Already done... THAT’S IT!”
Starfishman (to the assistant): “Thank you, Mr. Phone Guy! You’ve given me an idea!”
Patrick just finished eating a breakfast sandwich and took a sip from a cup of soda, while watching the show.
Patrick: “Man, what a hero…”
Suddenly, the program was interrupted by Perch Perkins on the TV!
Perch Perkins: “We’re coming to you with an emergency broadcast! Chaos in Downtown Bikini Bottom! A supervillain calling himself RickPat interrupted the Summer festival, showing up with a giant balloon float which appears to have the I.J.L.S.A. tied to the top of it!”
The news broadcast cut to live footage of a giant balloon shaped as an American football floating high in the sky, above a big crowd of Bikini Bottom citizens. Super Sponge, Sandy, and all the other members of the I.J.L.S.A. could be seen squirming, as a rope was keeping them tied to the top of the balloon!
RickPat was floating right below the balloon, on a black colored hoverboard that looks [like this], laughing maniacally!
Perch Perkins: “If there are any other heroes out there… Bikini Bottom needs your help."
(End of news broadcast.)
Patrick: “My friends are in trouble!”
Patrick looked forward into the distance, at a superhero comic book store with a bunch of merchandise, across from the breakfast restaurant…
Patrick: “I know what I have to do!”
The scene cuts forward in time to Patrick running out of the breakfast restaurant and into the comic store at the Mall, as an even chubbier guy in charge of the restaurant was chasing Patrick, in the distance, yelling: “HEY! YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR FOOD!”
The owner had to catch his breath, so he stopped running and gave up.
“The Lineman” starts playing as the scene cuts forward in time to Patrick grabbing some gadgets for sale at the comic store, and putting on a costume with a red cape, red shirt, and green pants… The costume made Patrick look like a superhero, and also somehow made him look skinnier. 
The scene then cuts to Patrick standing in the parking lot outside the Mall.
Patrick: "Up, up, and away!"
Patrick jumped but then fell to the ground, on his face. 
He stood back up.
Patrick: "Maybe I should just take a taxi."
(Bubble transition, as “The Lineman” stops playing.)
“Hey, RickPat!!!” Yelled Patrick, as he appeared in Downtown Bikini Bottom, flying towards RickPat, on a different black colored hoverboard!
Patrick jumped off his hoverboard, grabbing onto RickPat’s arms, and pulling him down to the ground, as the two hoverboards crashed into each other and exploded!
Patrick landed in an epic superhero landing pose, and RickPat landed on his feet, a short distance in front of Patrick!
Patrick took a handful of tiny smoke bombs out of his pocket and threw them at RickPat, and when they went off, a thick cloud of smoke appeared right in front of RickPat, making him start coughing!
Green Harpoon: “Woah!”
Mermaid Girl: “He’s saving the day by himself!”
The cloud of smoke went away… Then, RickPat lunged at Patrick, and punched him so hard Patrick went flying ALL THE WAY backwards and hit his back on a brick wall, right before falling to the ground, on his stomach!
RickPat walked over to him. 
RickPat: “Look at you, SON… I’m still able to beat you in combat like the old days… And you’re still just as pathetic as ever.” 
Patrick tried to get up, but he didn’t have the strength to.
RickPat (condescending): “You're not a scientist… You're not a world famous fry cook… You don’t even have powers like I do… What makes you so super?”
Patrick laid there, looking off to the side.. 
He could hear Starfishman’s assistant echoing in his head: “You’ve got this, Starfishman! Don’t give up now…”
Patrick (to RickPat): “You’re right… I am dumb, I am clumsy… I don’t have any superpowers, and I am not a fry cook… BUT THAT’S OKAY!!!”
Patrick got back up!
Patrick: “I AM WHO I AM AND NOBODY’S GONNA CHANGE THAT… NOT EVEN YOU… DAD!!!”
Patrick went to punch RickPat in the jaw, but RickPat leaped back, dodging the attack!
Patrick took out a grappling hook and shot it into the air! RickPat ducked for a second!
RickPat: “You missed!”
Patrick: “Look again.”
RickPat: “Huh??”
RickPat turned his head, and saw that the other end of the grappling hook had latched onto a big donut shaped sign that was on top of a restaurant nearby! 
Patrick yanked on the grappling hook, causing the sign to detach from the building as it then fell right on top of RickPat, making it so he can't move his arms or legs and is now trapped!
RickPat: "GRR! You've bested me, son! But I'll be back!'
Patrick: "Tell that to the cops."
Police officers showed up to take RickPat away.
Fireworks started going off, in the sky, shining bright colors onto everyone and everything in the area.
Patrick started walking away from where the fight took place, victorious, as he looked around at a huge crowd of citizens surrounding him… All of which were loudly cheering.
Patrick smiled and waved at the crowd.
The people in the crowd started chanting: “SUPER STAR… SUPER STAR… SUPER STAR…”
(Later that night.)
Patrick was sitting by himself, in the living room at the Hall of Heroes, as he was watching the news. (Now, he’s back to just wearing his regular shorts and not a superhero costume.)
Perch Perkins (on the TV): “The whole town of Bikini Bottom owes its deepest gratitude to the hero that saved its 100th 1st day of Summer, who some people are now calling… Super Star.”
Super Sponge entered the room.
Super Sponge: “Hey, Patrick… Me and the other members of the team are really sorry for laughing at you the other day. You're not just the funny one… You're one of the most important members of the team.”
Patrick: “Thank you, SpongeBob.”
Super Sponge: “You're welcome, Pat. You know, I never knew your Dad is a supervillain…”
Patrick (sad): “Yeah…”
Super Sponge: “Hey! How ‘bout some ice cream sundays to cheer you up?”
Patrick: “I LOVE ICE CREAM!!!”
Super Sponge: “Well, I've got plenty of ice cream in the freezer, buddy!”
The scene zooms out… Showing live footage of Super Sponge and Patrick talking to each other playing on a television screen, inside a dimly lit room somewhere…
A tall figure was watching the tv screen, wearing a black colored armored suit and a black mask with a v-shaped red line on it, where a person’s eyes are meant to look through the mask…
Armored figure: “Of course you do, “Super Sponge”...”
The End? 
== Trivia ==
* This episode pays homage to the video game "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab", and directly references the first Starfishman level in the game.
* This episode (unlike The Patrick Star Show) doesn't fully retcon the original continuity of the Nickelodeon SpongeBob SquarePants series, where Patrick Star already had 2 canon parents. This episode explains that Herb Star and Margie Star, his parents in the original series, are still technically considered Patrick's parents, but not biological parents. This episode explains that they are Patrick's adopted parents, and his real father is the fanon character RickPat.