Patrick Star is the dim-witted pink starfish and best friend of SpongeBob SquarePants in the long-running Nickelodeon animated series that first aired in 1999. His distinctive laugh, performed by voice actor Bill Fagerbakke, has become one of the show's most recognisable sounds over decades of reruns and clips shared online. As short-form video and meme editing grew, creators lifted the laugh out of episodes and used it as a standalone reaction, which kept it circulating far beyond the original show and made it a familiar shorthand for goofy, unbothered amusement.