Sometimes, Patrick sleeps on the ceiling of his rock, although far more often he sleeps in a regular bed. SpongeBob lets Patrick play with it until the morning, and when the morning arrives SpongeBob tells Patrick to give him a turn, but Patrick hogs the toy and refuses to share it with SpongeBob. In " Sandy's Nutty Nieces," Patrick was able to beat all three of Sandy's nieces at once in an arm-wrestling match.

Series composers include Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield and Nicolas Carr, who also serves as music editor. In " Squidtastic Voyage," he shocks SpongeBob and Sandy by coming up with a brilliant solution to refuel their empty gas tanks to escape Squidward's stomach. In " The Fry Cook Games," he goes berserk when SpongeBob erases a part of his name tag to make it say "Rick. A younger version of the Nickelodeon icon can be seen in the bottom left corner cheering Patrick on as he embarks on his first solo adventure.In addition, certain episodes tend to depict the surface below the rock to be completely flat, while in others there is a considerable amount of depth below it. She is often seen performing household chores, cooking meals, and has a day job as a prison greeter. He wants to spend time dwelling in his rock and lacks common sense, which often means that he is incapable of doing things right, as explained when he was briefly employed at the Krusty Krab while trying to earn an award in " Big Pink Loser. Patrick's jealousy is also a driving point on the plot in " No Nose Knows," where he expresses his insecurity over being in the minority of citizens without a nose, prompting him to get one through plastic surgery. Sometimes, Patrick has sudden brief outbursts of intelligent responses, as seen in the episode " SpongeBob's Last Stand," he tells SpongeBob how the Shelly Superhighway will destroy the ecosystem, seemingly out of nowhere, because he has no prior knowledge of ecology.

As revealed in " Home Sweet Pineapple," Patrick was kicked out of his parents' house at one point and never allowed to come back. Patrick's personality is similar to SpongeBob's, but they are not interchangeable, as SpongeBob is a lot more intelligent, responsible, optimistic, mannerly, and down-to-earth than Patrick. Regeneration: In " Karate Star," Patrick goes completely crazy and rips his arm off which a new Patrick grew from.The concept of Patrick being stupid is based on the appearance of the sea star; slow and dumb, but in fact, they are crafty and bright. Krabs thinks Patrick is too dumb to be bothered with, although he sometimes takes him as an employee and occasionally acts as a father figure toward him, as seen in " Sailor Mouth" and " Hooky. In " Pet Sitter Pat," he can smell, because he thinks Gary has a bad odor even though he smelt his armpit, not Gary. Jeff Hutchins, the show's sound designer said, "[Going] barefoot makes it tough to have much presence, so we decided that Patrick would be performed with shoes on.

The sound of Patrick's footsteps is recorded by the show's Foley crew, with a Foley talent wearing a slip-on shoe. In the episode " Bucket Sweet Bucket," Patrick, along with SpongeBob, attempts to help Plankton renovate the Chum Bucket. It is revealed in " Escape from Beneath Glove World" that SpongeBob first told Patrick that he was his best friend on the Glove Flume ride at Glove World! In " Life of Crime," he gets mad at SpongeBob and blames him for eating his chocolate bar when he already ate his. While creating the show and writing its pilot episode in 1997, Hillenburg and Derek Drymon, the show's then creative director, were also conducting auditions to find voices for the show's characters.Patrick and Plankton have only interacted a few times, but the times they do interact Plankton often despises his idiocy. Patrick's voice is provided by actor Bill Fagerbakke, who also does the voices of several other characters on SpongeBob SquarePants. Staring: Patrick is good at staring with SpongeBob in their staring contest game in various episodes. Driving: Patrick has shown to be an excellent driver, unlike SpongeBob as seen in " Driven to Tears. However, in "I'm with Stupid," he can immediately recognize his parents and it's implied they are not long-lost.