Review: The Patrick Star Show “House Hunting”

Overview

The Star family house grows legs and runs away from home…

Our Take

In what feels like a Tribute/parody to Kaiju films, Patrick’s family home becomes a living entity and grows legs causing chaos and behaving like a chicken. With much of the humor using cliche tropes here and there during the proceedings.

The opening at first almost felt like a different cartoon with its 1920s Fleischer-like aesthetic which impressed me a bit and in some weird way foreshadowed what was going to happen, while somehow doing its own thing…

Overall, this was your standard wacky episode within the Spongebob universe. The pacing was quick and to the point, The monster jokes were fun in places and didn’t overstay their welcome. And the opening was what easily stood out for me due to almost feeling like a completely different cartoon. Sometimes the Spongebob cartoons know how to throw people off with references that children probably don’t pick up on, yet they somehow appeal to adults on a different level and this is one the better examples of that.