What do you think about the article, “Patchy (portrayed by Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob) appears …”?
Patchy the Pirate is a live-action character appearing in many SpongeBob SquarePants specials and major events, as the “host” of these. He is the president of the SpongeBob SquarePants Fan Club and is portrayed by Tom Kenny. He resides in a small home in Encino, California. His bedroom is filled with SpongeBob-themed items such as plush toys, collectibles, bedspreads, and pillows. He also wears SpongeBob underwear. He has a pet parrot, Potty, who is also his sidekick. They tend to not get along, such as in “Ugh” where they fight over whether prehistory or the future is better. His next door neighbor, an elderly woman named Mrs. Johnson, has been known to make cookies for him, and he requests they be put in a doggie bag. Patchy is a stereotypical, intentionally corny pirate character. He has an eyepatch and hook, which he frequently switches between eyes/hands. Patchy also has a black beard and wears a hat and other pirate accessories. In “The Sponge Who Could Fly”, it is inferred that
Seasons 1 and 2 are inarguably the best seasons of the five seasons included on this disc. Most of the staff that worked on SpongeBob in its early years had worked on The Ren and Stimpy Show or Rocko’s Modern Life before taking on the sponge, and it almost goes without saying that their experience on those superlative shows rubbed off on SpongeBob in a major, positive way. Almost every episode is jam-packed with witty dialogue, amazingly funny sight gags, “wink-wink” jokes that escaped Nickelodeon’s notoriously scissors-crazy BS&P department, and all sorts of little, idiosyncratic touches. Rewatching these episodes reminded me of how lucky we are that it was SpongeBob that became an international cultural smash instead of, say, CatDog or Rocket Power. Season 3 starts off almost as strongly as Season 2, but has the most “gimmick” episodes of the show’s pre-movie run, resulting in a surfeit of Patchy the Pirate. Patchy (portrayed by Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob) appears in live-acti
