Patrick Star's Wallet Meme Generator
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What is the Patrick Star's Wallet meme?
Patrick Star's Wallet is an eight-panel SpongeBob SquarePants sequence in a dark undersea cave. Man Ray, the red-and-blue supervillain, holds up a wallet and Patrick's driver's license, gets Patrick to cheerfully agree that he is Patrick Star and that this is his ID, and then offers him the wallet. Patrick, still smiling, refuses because it isn't his wallet. The meme reuses that maddening logic for anyone who accepts every step of an argument and then rejects the obvious conclusion, with Man Ray's growing frustration shown in each panel.
Origin: The scene is from "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", a 2001 SpongeBob episode in which Man Ray tries to learn honesty by returning a wallet to Patrick. It later became a popular exploitable for logic jokes.
Also known as: Patrick Wallet, Man Ray Wallet, It's Not My Wallet, Patrick ID Meme.
How to use the Patrick Star's Wallet meme
There are eight boxes, read left to right, top to bottom. The odd-numbered boxes are Man Ray building his case and the even-numbered ones are Patrick's replies. Steps one to six establish facts Patrick happily agrees with, box seven is Man Ray's conclusion, and box eight is Patrick refusing it anyway.
Follow the original rhythm: short yes answers from Patrick, then a confident refusal at the end. It lands best on debates where someone agrees with every premise and still won't accept the result, such as a coworker's code review, a sports argument or a budgeting excuse.
Patrick Star's Wallet meme ideas
- you wrote this function? / yup / and this is the bug report? / yup / the bug is in your function / makes sense / so fix it / it's not my bug
- you're tired? / yup / and it's 2 a.m.? / yup / and you have class at 8 / that's true / so go to sleep / one more video
- you want to save money? / yup / this is your bank statement? / yup / you spent $300 on takeout / sounds right / so cook at home / no thanks
- you lost the match? / yup / this is the replay? / yup / you missed every shot / I did / so you played badly / it was lag
About the Patrick Star's Wallet meme template
The Patrick Star's Wallet template (wallet) supports 8 lines of text. A classic example reads “Aren't you Patrick Star? / Yup. / And this is your ID? / Yup. / I found the ID in this wallet so it must be yours. / That makes sense to me. / Then take it! / It's not my wallet.”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/wallet/Aren't_you_Patrick_Star~q/Yup./And_this_is_your_ID~q/Yup./I_found_the_ID_in_this_wallet_so_it_must_be_yours./That_makes_sense_to_me./Then_take_it!/It's_not_my_wallet..png
