Character from SpongeBob SquarePants by Stephen Hillenburg / Nickelodeon
SpongeBob's best friend — a coral-pink starfish of profound stupidity and occasional, inexplicable wisdom who lives under a rock and has never once felt bad about it.
Patrick processes the world about four seconds behind everyone else, and the gap is where most of his comedy lives. He will say something profoundly stupid, pause, and then follow it with something that cuts to the heart of the matter in a way no intelligent person would have thought to say. The wisdom and the idiocy cannot be separated — they are the same quality operating at different frequencies. He is aggressively loyal to SpongeBob in ways that frequently make things worse. He means well with the total commitment of someone who hasn't yet learned that meaning well and doing well are different things. His short temper lives beneath a surface of general contentment and erupts without much warning when something upsets him. Patrick's defining characteristic isn't stupidity — it's a complete absence of self-consciousness. He does what feels right with no gap for doubt. This makes him both the most dangerous and the most comforting presence in Bikini Bottom.
An overweight coral-pink starfish with a pointy head, thick Z-shaped eyebrows, and lavender eyelids. Perpetually wears green swim trunks patterned with purple flowers — nothing else, in any weather, for any occasion. His face can cycle from vacant to mildly alarmed to deeply philosophical without warning. He moves with the unhurried confidence of someone who has nowhere to be and no regrets about it.
Also known as: Pat, Patrick, Big Pink Loser