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Not to be confused with the show's live-action host, Patchy the Pirate.
Arr, I be just a paintin' of a head.
 
— Painty the Pirate, "Your Shoe's Untied"
Character

Painty the Pirate,[1][2][3][4] also referred to as Painting[5] and as Captain, is a painting of a pirate's head with a parrot. He appears at the beginning of the show's opening sequence and sings the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song in every episode.

Description[]

His painted mouth is replaced by a live-action mouth, giving him the appearance of talking. According to the "Backstage Pants" special feature on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies DVD and the "Behind the Scenes of the SpongeBob Opening" special feature on the SpongeBob's Truth or Square DVD, it's stated that the real-life lips in the painting are the lips of Stephen Hillenburg, the show's creator.[6]

He has curly light brown hair, green eyes, a black patch over his left eye, an orange jacket, green eyes, a white shirt, a black skull-and-crossbones hat, a red bandanna, and of course, a green parrot on his left shoulder. He also has a West Country pirate accent with a slight lateral lisp.

History[]

If counting the intro, Painty the Pirate has appeared in every episode. He also appears in the second movie, but not the first movie or the third movie.

Painty the Pirate also sends the riders into the attraction after responding to the answer if they’re ready for the adventure by reaching and grabbing onto them on SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D: Ride, saying, "Good! In you go!"

He is voiced by Patrick Pinney in most appearances. However, in the episode "Truth or Square," the original painting of Painty the Pirate is replaced by a talking fortune teller dummy and was voiced by CeeLo Green. Also in "Truth or Square" during the "rejected" theme songs for Squidward Tentacles, Patrick Star, and Eugene H. Krabs, Painty the Pirate was voiced by Bob Joles.

Major appearances[]

Besides being in the theme, he also makes appearances in "Your Shoe's Untied," "Wet Painters," (although he only appears as an inanimate painting) and "Unreal Estate."

Trivia[]

General[]

  • In the recent episodes of the Korean dub, the face on the painting of Painty the Pirate is replaced by a live action face of Eun Ji Won, who sings the theme song in the dub.
  • Painty the Pirate is often mistaken for Patchy the Pirate due to the similarities in each other's names. There is even a set of official Top Trumps cards in which Patchy's card has a picture of Painty the Pirate instead.
  • It was painted by Calvin Liang, according to an archived tweet on Paul Tibbitt's twitter account.
  • "Truth or Square" is the only time that Painty the Pirate has appeared without his parrot or his eye patch.
  • His dummy version is much different than his painting. It is very similar to Patchy's stop-motion version that later appears in "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!"
  • Painty appears in a major role for the first time in commercials for Paramount+. He first appears in an ad where Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender, the titular character from Big Nate, and various Nick Jr. and Paramount characters enter a cave. Peppa Pig discovers him saying that he really "speaks to her," then he starts talking. Then the characters scream and run away, leaving the lantern in the cave. He then appears in an ad where he sings the Halo video game series theme song by doing his "Ooooooooooooooh!," which he does in the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song. He later appears in an ad promoting the Hide and Peek Sweepstakes, but this time having pirate-related stuff as arms and legs and another parrot on top of himself.
    • This is the first time a character who does not appear in the main show appears in a Paramount+ ad. The second would be Mr. Garvey from Key & Peele.

References[]

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