Driven to Tears

"Driven to Tears" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.

Brief Summary: Patrick goes to Mrs. Puff's boating school and passes a driving test, but SpongeBob becomes jealous.

Time/Date:

July 14, 2015

• 10:00 AM:SpongeBob gets ready for the test.
• 10:02 AM:SpongeBob starts crying.

July 15, 2015

• 3:00 AM: SpongeBob is awoken by Patrick fixing his boatmobile.
• 4:00 AM: Patrick shows up at SpongeBob's door.
• 7:00 AM: SpongeBob's alarm saxophone rings.
• 1:25 PM: SpongeBob arrives at the Krusty Krab.
• 4:30 PM: Patrick gets arrested.
• 4:40 PM: SpongeBob by bars.
• 5:15 PM: Survival.

Time Cards Shown:

• One minute, thirty seven seconds later...
• One debt to society later...

Characters Present:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Mrs. Puff
• Narrator
• Gary the Snail
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Mrs. SquarePants
• Mr. SquarePants
• Bikini Bottomites

Plot

SpongeBob and Patrick are going to Mrs. Puff's Boating School. SpongeBob is once again going to take his driving test, but, despite encouragement from Patrick, he fails miserably. Then Patrick decides to take the driving test, believing that SpongeBob's tests were actually being manipulated by Mrs. Puff. He comes up to SpongeBob and says that he passed and got a driver's license. At first SpongeBob is happy, however people start treating Patrick like a celebrity. He even gets his own hot rod, something which makes SpongeBob envious. SpongeBob gets angrier because Patrick's boat's engine keeps him up at night, Patrick has to drive SpongeBob to work, and Patrick is talking all the time about driving. Mr. Krabs sets up a drive-thru window for Patrick, and even SpongeBob's own parents are talking more about Patrick than himself. However, when Patrick starts breaking some traffic laws (including driving through an orphanage and three red lights, as well as driving half a mile over the speed limit), SpongeBob finally bursts and rips up Patrick's license, tossing the shreds out of the car. A police officer catches the shreds and Patrick and SpongeBob are chased by the police. Patrick has do some time in the slammer for not having his driver's license. However, SpongeBob begs to go in his place, and his request is granted. When he gets out of jail, SpongeBob and Patrick realize what Patrick's position did to their friendship, and make up. SpongeBob makes a plate for Patrick's car, but Patrick says that he threw it out because the needle was on E, which meant that his gas tank was empty, but thought it said that the car had died on him.

Transcript

Driven to Tears (transcript)

Trivia/Goofs

• When Patrick is driving circles around his own house, the camera is faced to Patrick, so you should've seen his house. It should've been faced to Spongebob.
• The police cars crash in a similar way as in "Doing Time".
• SpongeBob's seatbelt goes through his arm.
• When Patrick plays his hotrod's horn, it's a parody of the Dukes Of Hazzard's 'General Lee'.
• This is the only Season 4 appearance of SpongeBob's mom and dad.
• Patrick weighs two ounces and it is revealed in earlier episodes SpongeBob weighs just one ounce.
• Third time Patrick mistook one of SpongeBob's family relatives for him, the first was for Grandpa Squarepants from The Sponge Who Could Fly, and Grandma's Kisses were he thought Spongebob's grandma was his grandma. When Mr.Krabs showed SpongeBob the drive-thru it's there, but when SpongeBob walks out of the Krusty Krab it disappears.
• This is the second time the police called SpongeBob a "tattletale". The first time is "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler". It is also the second time SpongeBob is the litterbug. Also, the fourth time Patrick has been put in jail (Life of Crime for a couple seconds)
• Patrick's driver's license claimed that Patrick's eyes were black, but in Wormy, Patrick's eyes were green.
• German Title: Eine Träne im Schlagloch. In English this translates to "A Tear In The Pothole" which may be a pun on the German saying "Eine Träne im Knopfloch" (a tear in the butthole).
• SpongeBob said that he had failed 57 (now 58) times, but in Mrs. Puff, You're Fired he had failed 1,258,056 times. However, near the end of the episode, Mrs. Puff said that SpongeBob's dossier was destroyed in an explosion that destroyed the school and that since the dossier was gone it seemed like he never took the tests, so he may have taken the test 57 times between "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired" and "Driven to Tears" that may have never been added to the record 1,258,056 tests.
• When the guards escort Patrick away, he says to SpongeBob, "Don't forget to feed Gary. Sometimes you forget to feed him," a reference to the episode Have You Seen This Snail?
• When Patrick's hotrod is first seen, the front wheels were not completely attached. Later, the axle, if it actually exists, would have been at the bottom of the car, not attached to anything.
• Throughout the episode, the car slopes forward more and more.
• The waltz from Rock-a-Bye Bivalve can be heard in one scene.
• Patrick changes color during the close-up near the end.
• When Patrick started fixing his boatmobile late at night, it made a really loud noise. Usually Squidward is the one opening his window to see what was going on, but he never did, and at the Krusty Krab he did not show up to work. He might have gone out of town for a vacation.
• When Patrick leaves Spongebob's parents, they sigh and say "even Patrick has a license" hinting that, like Spongebob, they are horrible drivers and don't have licenses. However this conflicts with No Free Rides , where Spongebob's parents drives his new boatmobile to his house. (Reader Edit: they are probably refering to spongebob, not themselves. They're saying even Patrick can get a licence when their son still can't.)
• 33rd time Squidward doesn't appear.
• This episode marks the fifth time SpongeBob and Patrick had a fight. First was in Naughty Nautical Neighbors, second was in The Fry Cook Games, third was in Rock-a-Bye Bivalve, fourth was in New Student Starfish, the sixth was the battle of bikini bottom when they fought over clean and dirty and the seventh was in Yours, Mine, and Mine, the eighth was in Karate Star, and the ninth was in You Dont Know Sponge. This is also the second they've fought over Boating School, as in New Student Starfish.
• When a close up of Patrick's license comes up, after he tells Mr. and Mrs. SquarePants about it, his glove turns pink.
• In the scene where Patrick is fixing his boat, we see SpongeBob in his bedroom sleeping barefoot with his underwear on.
• This is the eighth episode between SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs; the first seven were Suds, Arrgh!, Neptune's Spatula, Squirrel Jokes, Life of Crime, The Fry Cook Games, and The Pink Purloiner.
• This episode marks the second and third time Patrick mistakes a SquarePants member as part of his family. The first time in "The Sponge Who Could Fly".
• Patrick was not arrested for the crimes he committed in the car, such as running three red traffic lights.
• In this show, SpongeBob's superheroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were sick.
• In Brazil, the title for this episode is "License for Patrick"
• When Patrick sees Mr. and Mrs. SquarePants, the title card music for Squirrel Jokes is playing.
• In the scene where Patrick is fixing his boat, he goes to Spongebob's house and says "Guess what happened to me today" But, the scene before that, SpongeBob is woken up by Patrick and it is 4 AM. When Patrick got his license, it was daylight. So, actually he got his license the day before.
• SpongeBob's eyelashes were not shown for most of the episode.
• The drive-thru window from Patty Hype is shown.
• Also the Patty Wagon's horn in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game is the same as the boatmobiles.
• This is the second time Patrick was in Mrs. Puff's class. The first was New Student Starfish.
• Patrick has driven before. In Wormy he drove the Krusty Krab's cash register boat and in Slide Whistle Stooges while SpongeBob was warning SquidWard that he was going to fall off the cliff you could see Patrick Driving. This probably means that Patrick must of gotten a new boat after this episode.
• This was episode was a new episode for Patrick for President,along with Sing a Song of Patrick,Waiting,Gift of Gum,Rule of Dumb,andRise and Shine.

Cultural References

• When the announcer said that Crust Blaster 3000 is the ultimate boating machine, it's the allusion to BMW when it's called an ultimate driving machine.
• The Announcer for Patrick's new car says "Women will love you. And men will want to be you" This is a quote from Austin Powers.
• A Police Officer says "Oww, I got me a runner!". This line is from the science fiction movie Logan's Run.
• Patrick's horn plays the song La Cucaracha.

Music

APM Music

• 1st Achterhoek Dance - Spongebob and Patrick walk to boating school.
• Astronauts March - "Well, then, 58 is your lucky number!"
• Hawaiian Link (b) - "Let's just go home, Patrick."
• {#31} Romantic Ending - Spongebob tries to stop Patrick from taking the driving test.
• Horlepiep - Patrick takes the test.
• Marching to Honolulu - "Come on, I'm gonna get my picture taken for my new license."
• Star Prizes (a) - "Congratulations, Mr. Star! You're the one millionth person to pass the test!"
• Wooden Bear - Patrick fixes his boatmobile at night while SpongeBob is trying to sleep.
• Tomfoolery - "Hey, buddy, need a ride to work?"
• The Orkney Rope Waltz - "SpongeBob, you're manning the drive-thru."
• Andy Anorak - Patrick stops his boatmobile when he sees SpongeBob's parents.
• Trafficscape - Patrick breaks the speed limit.
• Screw on the Loose - Patrick goes past three traffic lights.
• Police Car - Patrick and SpongeBob get chased by a police boat.
• People's Court - #1: Patrick's is sentence to prison.
• O Makalupua B - "What have I done? Patrick can't survive in prison! He's too soft!"
• People's Court - #2: Spongebob is sentenced to prison in Patrick's place.
• Great Moments - Spongebob Patrick reunite outside the prison.

External links

• Watch German episode here