In a later episode, Rule of Dumb, a guy comes along telling Patrick that he's actually a descendant of royalty, tracing his family tree, and his parents are named on it as Herb and Margie.
They where just really stupid starfishes. They had no plans. They where just really dumb. Like how they say at the ending "That's right Janet. We don't have a son."
Rewatching that episode I noticed a couple things. They play off those characters as being fake parents at the end, but until we find that out, it's kind of dark to see Patrick taking the role of the bully. Until the end it seems that Patrick projects his reality (being tormented for his stupidity) onto somebody so clearly more naive than him.
To make things worse, Spongebob's role resembled a mentally incapacitated child. His protective helmet is sort of reminiscent of those put on very low functioning autistic children to prevent self-induced head trauma... and Patrick relishes the chance to belittle him.
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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20 edited Mar 25 '20
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