A Fool Schooled

Characters

• Patrick Star
• Cecil Star
• Bunny Star
• GrandPat Star
• Squidina Star
• Granny Tentacles
• Slappy
• Template:Data:Links ^(mentioned)
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  • Incidental 3
  • John
  • Suzi
  • Tina
  • Priscilla
  • Incidental 30A
  • Tuck Tucker
  • Nat
  • Thaddeus
  • Incidental 93
  • Incidental 110
  • Incidental 163
  • Incidental 171
  • Incidental 174
  • Mr. What Zit Tooya
  • Incidental 179
  • Incidental 186

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Synopsis

On his show, Patrick performs a dive into a pitcher of water, to the audience and Squidina's apprehension. He successfully pulls off the dive, after which Squidina segues into Viewer Mail. The letter she opens is from the Bikini Bottom Bureau of Education, saying that Patrick never passed behavioral skills in kindergarten, and he will need to be homeschooled before he can resume hosting his show.

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Cecil homeschooling Patrick.

Patrick enters lessons with Cecil, who first leads him in a misquoted version of the pledge of allegiance. Patrick struggles to sit in his chair, and then learns what to do if he has to sneeze. Patrick sneezes all over Cecil and wipes the snot off him with the tissue. In the bathroom, Cecil gives Patrick some soap, which he swallows whole, saying it works when SpongeBob does it. When Cecil tells him to brush his teeth, Patrick takes out some loose teeth in his pocket, while his actual teeth are dirty.

Bunny teaches Patrick about lunchroom etiquette, with Granny Tentacles as the lunch lady. He is impolite when getting his food and has bad table manners, even eating the tray and silverware. GrandPat then gives him lessons on manners, with where he is unable to knock before entering a room, properly address GrandPat, and give him a compliment. Next, he goes to recess with the lawnies as his classmates, playing roughly and destroying the playground. Squidina tells him that he failed all his classes and has the behavioral skills of a wild animal.

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The family leaves Patrick behind in the woods.

The family is forced to drive Patrick out into the woods and leave him behind. When they arrive, Patrick is suddenly there, acting very formal and having cleaned the whole house. Once Patrick proves that he is housebroken, Cecil re-grades him to an A+, and Bunny asks how he learned to behave so quickly. Outside, a wolf family who took Patrick in when he was in the woods say that they taught Patrick well, but needs to be with his own kind now. Patrick then crawls outside the house, naked, and howls like a wolf at the moon. Granny Tentacles yells at him to shut up and throws a boot at him.

Production

Character design by Chris DeRose was finished in October 2023

This episode was confirmed on November 14, 2024.

Model sheets

• Designed by Chris DeRose.

• Incidental 186 (ball in face)
  Incidental 186 (ball in face)
• Incidental 186 (burnt, with solar panel arms)
  Incidental 186 (burnt, with solar panel arms)
• Incidental 41 (butt in front)
  Incidental 41 (butt in front)
• Incidental 163 (with false teeth)
  Incidental 163 (with false teeth)
• Schoolboy king Patrick
  Schoolboy king Patrick
• Wild schoolboy Patrick
  Wild schoolboy Patrick

Trivia

General

• The theme song does not play when this episode is aired on its own, including the original premiere, because of the beginning of the previous episode, which reran after this episode's airing, being tied into the theme song. This is the first time this is done in the franchise.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French (European)	Les bonnes manières	Good Manners
Russian	Второй раз в первый класс Vtoroy raz v pervyy klass	To the First Grade for the Second Time (a reference to the Russian phrase "В первый раз в первый класс" (lit. "To the first grade for the first time") which is commonly used to welcome pupils of the first grade)
Spanish (American)	Una buena lección	A Good Lesson