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Patrick Star Riding a Seahorse refers to a clip from SpongeBob SquarePants in which Patrick Star rides a seahorse kiddie ride in his dream. The footage of Patrick has been edited into multiple parody videos meant to emphasize the surreal and existential nature of the image.

Origin

The image comes from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sleepy Time," which aired January 17th, 2000.^[1] In the episode, SpongeBob visits the dreams of his friends and meddles with their fantasy worlds. In the case of Patrick, he simply finds Patrick riding a seahorse kiddie ride, even though, as SpongeBob notes, he could do anything.

Spread

The video began seeing parodies beginning in 2017. On July 19th, 2017, YouTuber M de Mario posted a 10 Hour edit of the scene, gaining over 5.3 million views (shown below, left). On March 19th, 2018, YouTuber Looer posted an 11 minute illustration of the scene, gaining over 29,000 views (shown below, right).

The clip began seeing more popular use as an exploitable when the scene was paired with Fly Me To The Moon from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The video was created by YouTuber Jake のGod, who first posted it on Facebook before it was deleted. He reposted it to YouTube on January 24th, 2019 (shown below, left). On July 16th, YouTuber Mr. Ambience set the scene to "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong (shown below, right).

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