Patrick Star, the goofy pink sidekick of cultural icon was moved to CBS All Access, signaling the floodgates of Spongebob spin-offs have fully opened.
The towering force that is the Spongebob IP has dominated the pop culture landscape, between the show itself, the movies, the action-platformer video game(s), and even the memes. Any individual character probably could have held up their own spinoff. Likely the second most popular character in Bikini Bottom (although certainly not the smartest), Patrick is as well-known for his huggable design and dopey nature, helped greatly by Fagerbakke's instantly recognizable voice acting. His voice will be doing most of the heavy lifting in a newly announced spin-off.
The Patrick Star Show will follow in the footsteps of other fictional talk shows like The Larry Sanders Show or Comedy Bang! Bang!, according to Deadline. The premise is that Patrick Star has his own talk show, and the series would revolve around him and his family, perhaps occasionally breaking the format of an actual talk show the way The Larry Sanders Show did. There's no immediate word on whether the entire cast would be animated, or if guests will often be real people as they were on Space Ghost Coast To Coast, another animated character who was given his own late-night talk show.
The series comes from the creative team behind Spongebob Squarepants, with a whole slew of new voices ing, and some of the original cast expected to reprise their roles at some point or another. Voice recordings have reportedly already started, with an expected season run of 13 episodes, should all things go according to the current plan.
Nickelodeon has been busy the last year after a long lull in their animated programming, with the Spongebob spinoffs and a CG-animated coming to the channel sometime in 2021. Still, this premise is pretty out there for the world of Spongebob. It's a formula that's worked well with many unique spins, most recently with HBO Max's The Not Too Late Show with Elmo, but Patrick doesn't seem like the right character for it. His naive and bumbling nature could get tiring if it clashes too much with the format of a talk show. Then again, the otherworldly success of Spongebob probably seemed out there when it was pitched over 20 years ago, so maybe The Patrick Star Show is just another goldmine waiting to happen.
Source: Deadline