Patrick Star (born August 17, 1984) is the one of the ten main characters of the animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the main character of his own spin-off, The Patrick Star Show. He is SpongeBob's best friend as well as one of his two neighbors. He is a naive and overweight pink sea star. He is voiced by Bill Fagerbakke and first appears in Help Wanted. He lives under a rock in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob and Squidward are his two neighbors, and, when viewed on the front side, are to the right of his residence. He and SpongeBob both tend to bother Squidward; though they do it unknowingly and have good intentions. In the original series, Patrick is the son of Herb and Margie Star and the brother of Sam Star. In The Patrick Star Show, Patrick has a different family: parents Cecil and Bunny, grandfather GrandPat, and adoptive sister Squidina. Patrick is an overweight, coral-pink starfish (whose exact shade of pink is designated by Pantone to be Patrick Star Pink) with a pointy head, thick eyebrows, lavender eyelids, and red dots across in his body. In season 1, due to unsteady or cel-animation, his eyebrows were thin, and in the shape of 2 sideways "M" shapes in the form of a pink unibrow. The flowers on his pants were also dark purple instead of light. SpongeBob and Patrick have a very loyal relationship. They have been best friends ever since they were born. They have spent a large majority of their life together and are very close to one another. Patrick cares about SpongeBob very much as shown in a multitude of episodes. He often tries to give SpongeBob the best advice he has even if it's very illogical. He also is shown to go to great lengths for SpongeBob such as trying to make SpongeBob his "trophy" just so that he and SpongeBob could be together again. He also shows great sorrow when not around SpongeBob, which he has mentioned frequently. He even followed SpongeBob to the bitter end on their journey to Shell City. Though he has been on bad terms with SpongeBob many times throughout the series, they always come back together as best friends.
