The Scientist Patrick meme stems from the iconic Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants, featuring Patrick Star wearing a pair of glasses and looking intensely focused on a piece of equipment or a clipboard. The humor lies in the contradiction between Patrick's well-known lack of intelligence and his sudden, serious scholarly appearance. It first gained traction on social media as a way to mock people who pretend to be experts on a subject or to illustrate someone over-analyzing a simple or nonsensical situation. Whether it's looking for logic in a movie plot or trying to figure out a bank balance, Scientist Patrick is the ultimate symbol for faux-intellectualism and confused research.