Demolition Doofus

If you were looking for the article about the location, then see Demolition Derby (location).

If you were looking for the article about the book, then see Demolition Derby (book).

Characters

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  • Le Squish Template:Debut
• Mrs. Puff
  • The Huff Template:Debut
• Squidward Tentacles Template:Cameo
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• Derby
  • Captain Lutefisk Template:Debut
  • The Cackling Cruiser Template:Debut
  • Blowtorch Template:Debut
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  • Divin' Bell Dale Template:Debut
• Lockjaw Jones ^{(2 cameos)}
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  • Frank
  • Steve
  • Incidental 116
  • Incidental 20
  • Incidental 6
  • Harold (Inc 40)
  • Incidental 8
  • Lenny
  • Troutenheimer
  • Old Man Walker
  • Harold (Inc 36)
  • Incidental 41
  • Incidental 46
  • Incidental 13
  • Incidental 68
  • Dale
  • Incidental 11
  • Incidental 47
  • Incidental 7
  • Scooter
  • Incidental 60
  • Incidental 14
  • Sandals
  • Incidental 31
  • Tuck Tucker
  • Incidental 69
  • Judy
  • Incidental 24
  • Incidental 64
  • Incidental 82
  • Incidental 152
  • Incidental 27
  • Stretch
  • Incidental 42
  • Incidental 153
  • Gale
  • Incidental 49
  • Incidental 63
  • Incidental 10
  • Lou
  • Frank
  • Incidental 17 ^{(can barely be seen)}
  • Carol ^{(can barely be seen)}
  • John ^{(can barely be seen)}
  • Incidental 9
  • Incidental 151
  • Jim
  • Champ 2

Synopsis

In the beginning of the episode, SpongeBob is at boating school, and during the test, he continues to crash into the same two cars, inflating Mrs. Puff every time he continues to crash into an obstacle. Mrs. Puff then inflates so much, she sends the car airborne. SpongeBob then crashes the car into the lighthouse of the boating school, crippling Mrs. Puff for the rest of her life.

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Mrs. Puff flattened.

In the hospital, the doctor clarifies that Mrs. Puff's inflation sac (the part that pufferfishes use to puff up) was popped in the collision and she will not be able to "puff" again. SpongeBob's joke about her being crippled makes Mrs. Puff furious and she begins grabbing his nose and threatening him, forcing him to apologize for his joke but very briefly laughs and feels ticklish. She is tranquilized to stop her from hurting him. SpongeBob does not own up and then begins to ramble, and the doctor tranquilizes him as well, saying that everyone needs to take a nap.

SpongeBob then visits Mrs. Puff with a bouquet of flowers along with the hundreds of other flowers he sent her, which she appears to be allergic to. After forcing her into a wheelchair, he pushes her down the hallway. Doctors are seen sprinting through the hallway with muscular men on the gurneys. SpongeBob stops the doctor and asks what is going on. He replies that the Demolition Derby members are about to battle in the hospital room, where they appear to be hitting each other with wheelchairs. The doctor says that they are brave to risk their lives for the community's entertainment. Mrs. Puff imagines them smashing into SpongeBob and killing him and begins laughing hysterically. Her laughing attracts SpongeBob's attention, and she claims she has a way for him to earn "extra credit."

Mrs. Puff talks to derby manager Captain Lutefisk, asking him if she can enter SpongeBob. She shows him how much damage SpongeBob can do with a boat, though he is just using a steering wheel. Lutefisk says he is perfect for the derby and puts a sock on his head, giving him the title "Le Squish." At the derby, SpongeBob is unaware of what he is supposed to do, which is to take out the opponents. Seeing him as an easy target, some competitors ram into him, but are unable to hit the car and are all hit by SpongeBob or destroyed in another way by the car. SpongeBob carelessly drives around everywhere, eliminating everyone.

Mrs. Puff is enraged at how SpongeBob is defeating the competitors only by serendipity. She then steals a monster truck. She then starts to chase SpongeBob, trying to crush and kill him. She is unsuccessful as SpongeBob avoids her and all the cars are crushed before she breaks the wall and starts chasing him off-road. They then collide into the boating school after Mrs. Puff chases SpongeBob for a while. She somehow regains her "puff," which SpongeBob notices and they get injured by the school, which the tower collapses and crushes them, as the episode ends.

Production

This episode was in production on July 5 and September 7, 2011.

The episode was confirmed and added to the US Copyright Office on April 9, 2012.

Model sheets

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Art

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Character design

• Designed by Virginia Hawes.

• SpongeBob's derby competition, with approval stamps from Vincent Waller.
  SpongeBob's derby competition, with approval stamps from Vincent Waller.
• Blow Torch
  Blow Torch

Storyboards

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Deleted scene

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Storyboard

According to the storyboard, after SpongeBob went down the rail, the other skaters were originally going to say "Dude!" This was cut.

Release

Broadcast

• This episode and "Face Freeze!" aired as part of The Super Spongy Square Games marathon even though they are not from season 9.

Distribution

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 14, Extreme Kah-Rah-Tay, Complete Eighth Season, Driving Bikini Bottom Crazy!, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, Deep-Sea Games, Super Spongy Square Games, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, The Seventh & Eighth Seasons, SpongeBob SquarePants Triple Pack, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia

General

• Nickelodeon initially pulled its sister episode on March 15, 2020, causing it to rarely air on the network, with the last known instance originally being on November 3, 2021.
  • These episodes would later return on Nickelodeon on May 15, 2023.
• It's revealed that Squidward has a carrot patch near his house, while the scene where SpongeBob inadvertently manages to get all of Squidward's fresh Carrots into his basket is partially a reference to the Winnie the Pooh short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
• This episode's plot is similar to "No Free Rides," because Mrs. Puff gets sick of SpongeBob failing (although here it's cause she got seriously injured) and wants him out of her class (although it is taken to extreme proportions including killing him here), so she plans something for SpongeBob and covers it up as extra credit.
• This episode has a similar plot to the video game SpongeBob's Boating Bash for the Wii and Nintendo DS.
• There is a book based on this episode called Demolition Derby.
  • The book has Mrs. Puff's role in the episode toned down slightly; instead of wanting SpongeBob dead, she just enters him in hopes he'll get injured to the point he wouldn't want to drive anymore.
  • The book also extends the ending slightly in which SpongeBob asks Mrs. Puff how much extra credit he earned after they crashed into the boating school.
• Starting from this episode, there are black outlines around Mrs. Puff's shoes.
• This is the second episode in which Mrs. Puff has been flat. The first was in "Patty Hype," when she makes a cameo in the Pretty Patties crowd.
• This is the second time Mrs. Puff is completely deflated, following "Pranks a Lot."
• When SpongeBob gets strangled by Mrs. Puff for calling her "Mrs. Pop," he very briefly laughs and says "That tickles!"; this foreshadows his invulnerability as a bad driver in the derby.
• This, along with its sister episode made this show the second-longest running Nickelodeon show in history, behind Nick News, and the Nicktoon with the most episodes.
• It is revealed that Mrs. Puff is allergic to tulips.
• The Kruncher is slung into the wall against SpongeBob's body, because he is an invertebrate. However, some episodes such as "The Splinter" and "The Inside Job" show he has a skeletal system.
• How each contestant gets defeated by SpongeBob:
  • The Kruncher gets slung against SpongeBob's body into the wall.
  • The back wheel sends dust flying into Divin' Bell Dale's face, blinding him and sending him crashing into the Kruncher.
  • Blow Torch sends SpongeBob flying, only for him to come back down and plow him in the face and run right over it.
  • SpongeBob gets hit by the Cackling Cruiser from behind, causing him to bounce off the wall and crash right into him.
  • SpongeBob flies over the Cackling Cruiser, who misses him and hits Kruncher instead.
  • SpongeBob manages to maneuver around each contestant one after the other, who miss him and end up colliding with a fish in a boat.
  • SpongeBob drives right up Blow Torch's bow, causing him to crash.
  • All of the contestants end up crashed on top of each other, with SpongeBob, unharmed, on top, winning the derby.
  • Mrs. Puff joins the derby last minute as "The Huff"; SpongeBob easily avoids her and outruns her, crashing into the Boating School.
• This episode is rated PG by the Canadian TV Rating System in Canada.

Dub facts

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• In the Persian Toon dub, music tracks are often replaced with different ones or stock music, usually being crudely intertwined with the music that was already there. In this episode, "Earls Revenge" is replaced with "Hilo Rag" for the opening sequence, but as SpongeBob begins to cycle into town, the former track plays as intended. This previously happened in "Wormy" and "Chimps Ahoy."
• During the Filipino airing, this and its sister episode were mistakenly listed as a season 9 episode, possibly due to it premiering on the same day as two season 9 episodes.
  • This was later fixed on July 16, 2015.

Episode references

• When the Kruncher crashes, SpongeBob is able to absorb his attack with his body before slinging him away, like how he does with Flats in "The Bully," and Fuzzy Acorns in "The Way of the Sponge."

Cultural references

• Captain Lutefisk is a reference to the WWE wrestler Captain Lou.
  • Captain Lutefisk's name is also a reference to a Norwegian dish made from fish called "Lutefisk."

Errors

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The Kruncher's missing back fin.

• When the Kruncher drives away from SpongeBob, after the latter drives over him, the Kruncher's back fins are missing in that shot. There is another shot that also shows his missing back fin.
• Even though Captain Lutefisk introduces the four drivers and SpongeBob, there is another unknown driver who tries to crash SpongeBob along with Blow Torch and Divin' Bell Dale. Those three also drive into another unknown fish that may be also competing in the derby.
• When SpongeBob says "Oh dear, I think I'm in that fellow's way," his voice is higher-pitched than usual.
• When SpongeBob lifts his left leg to floor it, his right foot is shown on the gas instead.
• Mrs. Puff's hair outline turns black on two occasions as she and SpongeBob watch the derby inside the hospital.
• Incidental 41's lips are a pale yellow in one scene, then blue in the next.

Video

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Compétition de démolition	Demolition Competition
German	Verpufft	Fizzled Out
Hungarian	Lelkironcs-derbi	Mental Wreck Racing
Italian	Demolition Derby	-
Russian	Гонки на разрушение Gonki na razrusheniye	Demolition Race
Spanish (American)	Carrera de demolición	Demolition Derby
Spanish (European)	Loca carrera de demolición	Crazy Demolition Derby