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Star Cruise

"Star Cruise" is a The Patrick Star Show episode from season 2. In this episode, the Star family is abducted by aliens.

Characters

Synopsis

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The Stars are driving late at night to go on a family fun cruise. When Patrick unveils the brochure to show off the activities, it covers Cecil's eyes and makes him drive off a cliff. Noticing some eerie fog, they figure they have made it to the pier. They then see a tractor beam from a UFO, abducting various citizens, and drive in. The abductees are put into jars to be harvested, as the gray alien captain of the ship tells his crew about his plans for world domination.

Looking for a parking spot, Cecil ends up smashing the jars and frees the people trapped inside. He crashes into a crew of aliens and parks the car in the airlock. An alien gets angry, but Cecil mistakes him for the bellhop and gives him his bags. Cecil tries to use the elevator to find his room, but he opens the airlock by mistake and sends the alien and his car shooting outside. Walking through a hallway, he cannot identify what each room is, and ends up going into the engine room as their cabin. GrandPat tries to take a nap on the "vibrating bed," which is actually an engine, and smashes it up to make himself comfortable. The rest of the family split up before meeting back for dinner.

Patrick and Squidina come across an arcade. Patrick plays what he thinks is a game, but he is actually shooting another alien ship. Another brown alien race asks Patrick why he is shooting at them, claiming they were meant to invade the Earth along with the gray aliens. They try to stop him, but Patrick presses a button that ends up charging a laser at the other ship, then goes to leave. When the captain arrives to check in with the brown aliens, he finds that Patrick's laser cannot be stopped, and nervously shuts the blinds after seeing the wreckage.

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Cecil and Bunny stumble into what they believe to be a shuffleboarding court. They launch the trapped passengers out and back to Earth, sending some of the aliens out into space once they interrupt. Patrick and Squidina come by, and they decide to go for breakfast. Elsewhere in the ship, the captain is having a queen breed an army of super-soldiers. Patrick and the family come by and think it's a breakfast buffet, eating all the eggs. The captain, enraged with the family, throws them out and sends them through the airlock. However, they get launched directly into their car.

The captain believes everything is over, until he returns to the arcade and finds that the brown aliens now see him as a traitor due to Patrick's accidental attack. They get revenge and blow the ship to pieces, after which the captain cries to one of his crewmates. The Stars drive home until they accidentally crash into the S.S. Super Minnow. When Quasar asks Cecil for insurance information, he awkwardly claims to have left it on the ship, then sends the car into reverse. It crashes into a black hole, which sucks them all in.

Production

This episode was confirmed on October 2, 2023, and it was completed sometime during the aforementioned year.[4]

The episode was added to the United States Copyright Office on February 15, 2024.[4]

On February 22, 2024, Eliza Herndon posted on Tumblr that she and her team worked on the episode, making Tim Prendergast this episode's supervising director.[5]

On its premiere day, Herndon confirmed who storyboarded, and thus, by technicality, two of the three people who wrote this episode.[6]

Promotional art

  • Drawn by Kenny Pittenger.[7]

Art

  • Drawn by Eliza Herndon in response to an anonymous Tumblr AMA (ask me anything), recreating a moment from "Porky Pig's Feat" with SpongeBob, Patrick, and the shark salesman.[8] She quote tweeted this art in a Twitter post she made featuring storyboards from this episode.[9]

Storyboards

  • Supervised by Tim Prendergast, directed by Gabe Del Valle,[10] storyboarded by him and Mike Pelensky,[11][12] plussed by Eliza Herndon.[13][14]

Mike Pelensky uploaded storyboards from the second half of the episode to his Slideshare account on July 6, 2024.[1]

Prop design

Edited scenes

  • The original ending of the episode featured Patrick hopping out of the Star car in space, afraid of Captain Quasar and Pat-Tron, believing they are aliens. He runs away and gets eaten by the black hole.

Production notes

Mike Pelensky:

  • Pelensky said that "Star Cruise" was one of his favorite episodes from the second season to write and storyboard alongside Gabe Del Valle, "being hard enough to choose a favorite." He described the episode as "[showing] the Star Family stumbling into a family fun cruise that turns out to be an alien abduction," and believed that it was "was stuffed to the gills with great character moments, hilarious acting, and some pretty fantastic sight gags."[11] Pelensky stated that it "was a ton of fun developing the alien commander's arc, especially since he was smarter and shorter-tempered than the Stars (but evidently less capable)." He believed that he and Del Valle got "so much mileage" out of the character.[12]

Eliza Herndon:

  • Herndon said that this was "another incredibly fun episode to work on, and a good challenge to help get out of my comfort zone," as she had to draw tons of incidentals. She said that she crossed "[working] on an episode that has Kevin Michael Richardson" off my bucket list," and hoped everyone enjoyed the show.[14]

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Timekeeper - Larry Ashmore [Title card and opening.]
 ‣ Breezing Around - Edward White [Patrick reading the cruise brochure.]
 ‣ Clowns - Dick Walter [Cecil crashes the car.]
 ‣ Tense Moments - Alan Wynn ["Sure is a thick fog."]
 ‣ Variety Link (D) - Dick Walter ["That means we made it to the pier!"]
 ‣ Hello Sailor (B) - Richard Myhill [Bunny spots the "cruise."]
 ‣ Space Critters A - Gregor F. Narholz [The Stars get pulled by a tractor beam.]
 ‣ One Zero Zero - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Bikini Bottomites on conveyor belts.]
 ‣ Six Powerful Cues (A) - Wilfred Burns [Alien captain cackles.]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (5) - Ivor Slaney [Cecil drives on the conveyor belt.]
 ‣ Fusee Dans Le Ciel - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey ["Oh, this parking situation is a mess."]
 ‣ Latin Lesson - Rolf Asberg ["Let the vacation commence!"]
 ‣ Approaching Danger - Ronald Hanmer [Alien gets sucked into space.]
 ‣ Horror Cue 5 C - Gregor F. Narholz [Car crashes into the alien.]
 ‣ Droopy - Arthur Wilkinson ["Well, the elevator's broken."]
 ‣ Bossamania - Marc Durst [The Stars look for their cabin.]
 ‣ Bal Campagnard - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [The Stars explore their "cabin."]
 ‣ Dachshund Walk - John Fox, Max Prindy [GrandPat trying to take a nap.]
 ‣ La Panthere Cosmique - Jean-Jacques Perrey [Patrick and Squidina find an "arcade."]
 ‣ Attack of the Giant Robots - Cris Velasco [Patrick attacks a fuzzy alien's ship.]
 ‣ Bouncy Fingers - Dieter Reith [Aliens entering the "arcade."]
 ‣ Attack of the Giant Robots - Cris Velasco [Aliens try to stop Patrick.]
 ‣ One Zero Zero - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Bunny and Cecil at the "shuffleboard court."]
 ‣ Showpizz A - Otto Sieben [Cecil sends the Bikini Bottomites back to Earth.]
 ‣ Attack of the Giant Robots - Cris Velasco [Alien gets thrown into space.]
 ‣ Comical Logos - Jean-Jacques Perrey ["You guys hungry?"]
 ‣ Planet Xz-3 - Gregor F. Narholz [Queen alien lays an egg.]
 ‣ Space Voyagers C - Gregor F. Narholz ["Isn't it beautiful?"]
 ‣ Jaunty Joe - Tommy Reilly, James Moody ["All-day breakfast buffet?"]
 ‣ Terror Sequence (I) - Dave Hewson [The Stars eat the alien eggs.]
 ‣ The Great White (A) - Gregor F. Narholz [The Stars eat the alien eggs.]
 ‣ Death Clock A - Dick De Benedictis [Alien captain gets mad at everyone.]
 ‣ The Great White  - Gregor F. Narholz [The alien captain kicks them out into the airlock.]
 ‣ The Tale of Ben Hur 1 [#39] - Gregor F. Narholz [Alien captain throws the Stars into the vacuum chamber.]
 ‣ Planet Surface - Gregor F. Narholz ["Well, saboteurs, any last words?"]
 ‣ Bossamania - Marc Durst [The Stars give feedback.]
 ‣ Suspense And Tension B - Alan Wynn [The Stars get sucked into space.]
 ‣ Parallel Dimension - Gregor F. Narholz [The Stars fly back into their car.]
 ‣ Emotional Retribution Main Slow Strings Only - Daryl Griffith ["There's the traitor who destroyed our ship!"]
 ‣ Attack of the Giant Robots - Cris Velasco [Fuzzy aliens destroy the other aliens' ship.]
 ‣ One Zero Zero - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey ["Look out the back window, kids."]
 ‣ Weird Bridge - Roger Roger [Cecil crashes into Captain Quasar's ship.]
 ‣ Rush Hour-Traffic Jam - Harry Breuer, Jean-Jacques Perrey [Ending.]

Trivia

General

  • This is the third episode of the show to feature Patrick and the family confusing one location for something else, following "Gas Station Vacation," where they considered the gas station a vacation resort, and "Family Plotz," where they confused the cemetery for the park.
  • Patrick, Squidina, and GrandPat were previously abducted by aliens at the end of "A Space Affair to Remember."
  • Gabe Del Valle previously wrote and storyboarded another cartoon about a character getting abducted by aliens: the Looney Tunes Cartoons short "Abducted Bunny," where Bugs Bunny is abducted by Marvin the Martian.
  • When Lady Upturn says "I am offended." before being shoved into a pod, the audio is reused from the episode "Neptune's Ball."
  • This episode was omitted from airing on Nickelodeon Global, Nicktoons Global and Nickelodeon Asia for unknown reasons.

Episode references

  • A Patrick plush and the radioactive toaster from "The Patrick Show Cashes In" can be seen as one of things flying out into space when Cecil initially confuses the ship evacuator for an elevator.
  • The aliens from "FarmerBob" and the fuzzy brown aliens from "A Space Affair to Remember" reappear in this episode.
  • This is the third episode not to feature the Star house in any capacity. The previous two were "Klopnodian Heritage Festival" and "Movie Stars."

Cultural references

  • The title card uses the large-letter postcard style, almost bearing a resemblance to the Gravity Falls logo.
  • One of the aliens carrying Cecil's stacked luggage references the 1943 Looney Tunes cartoon, Porky Pig's Feat, where Daffy carries his and Porky's luggage in the same way.[13]
  • When Cecil looks to see how far he "shuffleboarded" various aliens and Bikini Bottomites out of the ship evacuator, his pose is a nod to one that Tom makes in the 1945 Tom and Jerry cartoon, Tee for Two.[13]
  • Before Cecil shuffles an alien out into space, the alien's angry back-and-forth walking movements are an homage to Marvin the Martian's in the 1952 Looney Tunes cartoon, The Hasty Hare.[16]

Errors

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  • When Bunny leaves the engine room, her lipstick is missing.


Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Russian Звёздный круиз
Zvyozdnyy kruiz		 Star Cruise
Spanish (American) Crucero Estelar Star Cruise

References

  1. ^ a b The Patrick Star Show- Star Cruise (Storyboards) | PPT
  2. ^ Nickelodeon UK - May 30, 2024
  3. ^ a b c Nick Press Schedules
  4. ^ a b From the United States Copyright Office catalog: Public Catalog - Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) - Basic Search [search: "Patrick Star Show"]. United States Copyright Office.
  5. ^ "#next Wednesday at 5 also airs Star Cruise which our team did too so look forward to it!!" - Pig & Duck Nip-n-Tuck Delivery Service
  6. ^ Eliza Herndon on Twitter - "TONIGHT AT 5PM!..."
  7. ^ Kenny Pittenger on Instagram - "Good ratings for last..."
  8. ^ Eliza Herndon on Tumblr - "WE MEET ON THE FIELD..."
  9. ^ Eliza Herndon on Twitter - "WE MEET ON THE FIELD..."
  10. ^ Gabe Del Valle on Twitter - "Happy S̶t̶.̶ Patrick's Day! Speaking of...
  11. ^ a b Mike Pelensky on Instagram - "Star Cruise" -- one of my..."
  12. ^ a b Mike Pelensky on Instagram - "Part 2 of rough board..."
  13. ^ a b c Eliza Herndon on Twitter - "Board thread in coming..."
  14. ^ a b Eliza Herndon on Tumblr - "Assorted storyboards from..."
  15. ^ Prop Design | digitalcrayonbox.com
  16. ^ Eliza Herndon on Twitter - "One more for the road"