Pet Sitter Pat

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ANTI-SCUMBOB DONE WRONG! This episode contains a plot/story that is considered a worse version of Dumped for the following reason(s): The Patrick and Gary dynamic is far more mean-spirited and cruel

GARY TORTURE! This contains torture to Gary the Snail, so if you're a fan of him, look away NOW.

Pet Sitter Pat
Did someone order another animal abuse episode? No? Well too bad.
Season	8
Episode No.	164b
Main Reason for being ScumBob	Patrick is a completely negligent and ignorant pet sitter. Gary torture The ending makes no sense at all. Textbook definition of animal abuse.

Pet Sitter Pat is a HYPER-infamous episode from Season 8 of SpongeBob SquarePants. In this episode, SpongeBob asks Patrick to pet-sit Gary while the latter attends a birthday party for his grandmother.

Why No One Would Like to Look After This Pet

1. The episode lazily takes elements from both A Pal for Gary from the seventh season, I Was a Teenage Gary from the first season, and Pet or Pests from the sixth season.
2. It is also nothing more than another physical abuse episode for Gary.
3. Patrick has hit Rock Bottom here (alongside Stuck in the Wringer), as his flanderization has gone too far, evident when:
   • He drops Gary on the ground, causing him to splat.
   • He ignores SpongeBob's instructions whilst he is away at his grandma's birthday party.
   • The most infamous example is the part where Patrick shows Gary a flamethrower that spews out actual fire (yes, he intends to trick Gary into getting into the bath, but it's still cruel and idiotic to use a freaking flamethrower out of all things.)
     • It should be worth noting that while in previous seasons, Patrick did have moments like this, but those were never this extreme!
   • He forgets to feed Gary his food causing Gary to starve, and eats said food in front of Gary.
   • He then pours snail food into the tub because "he had to get the water to stay in there somehow".
   • He sprays Gary water with a FIRE HOSE, and while that's happening Gary is moaning.
     • There's a random moment after Patrick gave Gary "a bath" a can falls on Gary's stomach as if poor Gary wasn't tortured enough.
   • He initially intended to dry Gary off with salt, something that actually kills snails upon contact. When that plan fails, Patrick painfully dries Gary with a hairdryer, causing the latter to shrivel up.
     • The episode tries to portray all of this as funny. But tormenting someone in the ways Patrick does to Gary isn't funny at all, in any way, shape, or form.
4. It is also predictable, as it is easy to tell that Patrick is going to screw up due to his exaggerated stupidity. Even the humor is predictable, notably when Patrick opens Gary's snail food and you can easily tell that he is going to eat all of it, and it falls flat as a result.
5. Gary being tortured so much and Patrick almost killing him is just so sad to see which can make you feel bad for him.
6. Despite having been treated horribly by Patrick throughout the episode (at least from his perspective), Gary makes up with him for some reason and is even shown reading him a bedtime story when he’s asleep. It was a quite contrived and mediocre way of trying to pretend this all didn't happen just to end the episode.
7. Much like "Rule of Dumb" and "Yours, Mine and Mine" previously, Patrick gets off scot-free and faces no consequences for his actions against Gary.
8. Mediocre Ending: At the end of the episode, once SpongeBob returns to his pineapple, he doesn't seem to question the fact that the house looks like it had flooded earlier and that around half of it is in ruins.

Promising Qualities

1. It at least shows SpongeBob caring for the safety of Gary, unlike in A Pal for Gary.
2. This episode contains some good jokes:
   1. Notably SpongeBob's grandma struggling to blow out her birthday candles.
      • A funny joke involving SpongeBob's grandma's candles were if she were any older, the house would be in danger of burning down.
   2. The scene where Gary attacks Patrick after the snail food sinks in the tub was satisfying.
   3. Patrick throwing the phone out of the window as he says "I GET IT!" repeatedly, only to get painfully hit in the back of his head.
   4. "Snail Tails" I thought it was called: Meow, Meow, Meow".
3. Gary, SpongeBob and his grandma are likable characters.
4. The first and last few minutes of the episode were decent. Sadly, most of the episode is what brings it down.

Clips

Opposite of a Wet Watery Bath (SpongeBob Clip)

One of Patrick's most infamous moments, using a flamethrower.

Gallery

SpongeBob's Face may be cute here but this episode isn't

Note to self: Next time Patrick when you're gonna take a shower, don't break off the shower head, just DONT BREAK IT...

Hey, if we're underwater, how can there be a- you know what? Nevermind.

"Oh, dear! Look at all those candles! Why, if I were any older, we'd be in danger of burning down the house!"

PATRICK!!! THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!! (No, Gary, it's just the Northern Lights.)

"What is happening to them?! They need my help!" Obviously!

Maybe Gary isn't the only one who needs a bath.

Run, Gary, run!

Reception

• Rated 4.9/10 on IMDB.
• Mr. Enter considers this the worst SpongeBob episode.
  • Adding to this, Mr. Enter originally reprimanded some of the writers severely and way too harshly which was not well received with the viewers as it led to his fans infamously attacking one of the writers Casey Alexander on Twitter after Mr. Enter showed his Twitter account in his review.
  • He also considers Patrick his most hated character, along with Brian Griffin.
• PIEGUYRULZ considers this a ScumBob, but he thinks this is not as bad as what everyone says.