Ditchin'

Template:Episode Ditchin’ is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from Season six.

Characters Present

• Spongebob Squarepants
• Patrick Star
• Mermaid Man
• Barnacle Boy
• Mrs. Puff
• Sandy Cheeks
• Evelyn
• Dale
• Fred
• Mable
• Sally

Plot

After watching an episode of mermaid man and barnacle boy, SpongeBob and Patrick see a commercial for the new book telling their origin and that they will be signing the book starting at 8. SpongeBob is unhappy due to the fact that he has to go to boating school. Patrick suggest calling in sick, but SpongeBob doesn't want his perfect attendance record to end. They concoct a plan that SpongeBob will pretend to go to the bathroom but will sneak to the comic book store.

The next day in boating school SpongeBob pretends to have to go. Mrs.Puff gives him the bathroom key and tells him to return it to her desk, with that SpongeBob exits the school. Him and Patrick get to the store and get their books signed and walk through jellyfish fields. The jellyfish start to lift up Patrick and let him sit on them with Patrick stating their "friendly". They then throw themselves into SpongeBob's net then leave. SpongeBob and Patrick continue ending up buying Ice cream. The saleswoman congratulates SpongeBob on being her 100th costumer and tells him he can come back for free Ice cream anytime.

The two pursuit into goo lagoon where they get into a Badminton match with Sandy and a friend named Dale. SpongeBob and Patrick end Sandy's reign and unbeatable and are convinced by their fans to play another round. Then the cops come and arrest Dale, who is an ex-con on probation, for eating gummy fish (for cannibalism). A fish tells SpongeBob that Dale was a nice guy until he started cutting class. With this, he continues onto the school.

SpongeBob has to race through the Bikini Bottom hug fest where a woman grabs him. He forces her to let go and continues. He ends up in a pit of tar and starts to drown, remembering the last words she said to him "Return it to my desk, OR YOU ARE IN BIG, BIG, TROUBLE, MISTER!". SpongeBob then fights his way out with a crowd cheering him on. He makes it back to the school with Mrs. Puff at the door. He explains what he did with her not knowing what he is talking about. Cops appear behind her because she is being arrested for missing jury duty. The car pulls off with her telling SpongeBob do not ditch. SpongeBob says he will never ditch again leaving her confused.

Trivia/Goofs

• This title card looks simlar to Mrs. Puff, You're Fired.
• SpongeBob cannot go to see Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy because class starts before 8:00, but in the episode "New Student Starfish" SpongeBob says that class doesn't start until 9:00.
• 20th title card with flowers.
• We hear that Mrs. Puff ditched as well.
• The 9th Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy episode.
• Third appearance of the Near Mint Comic Books store. The first was in Sing a Song of Patrick. The second was The Card
• SpongeBob's Favorite Drink is Bubbly Water.
• Sandy's good at Badminton and was undefeated before being beaten by SpongeBob and Patrick. How can that be if SpongeBob is a sport failure as seen in MuscleBob Buffpants?
• Fifth time Mrs. Puff goes to Prison.
• One of SpongeBob's near-death Times is shown in this episode.
• Barnacle Boy's voice sounds different in this episode.
• Last of the 2008 episodes. The next episode Shuffleboarding airs in 2009.
• Second time more than one of Squidward's kind appear. The first was Squidville
• In German this episode is called "schulschwanzer", which means ditcher.
• Dale's friend made a really bad grammar mistake. He said that now Dale spends the rest of his life as a criminal, even though it happened on the same day he went to jail for the first time.
• Chewy Gummy Fish is a parody of Soylent Green from the 1973 dystopian film of the same name. Another parody is in Krabby Khronicles.
• When SpongeBob is trapped in tar, he remembers Mrs. Puff's "kind last words". However after she said those words that SpongeBob claimed were her last, she said "and no dilly dallying!"
• The place where SpongeBob thought he would drown to death is a parody of the Tar Pits in North America, where extinct skeletons are found.
• In almost all the scenes after they get their books signed, the books suddenly disappear.
• Patrick makes a reference to "Boating Buddies" when he says that Squidward calls in sick all the time so he doesn't have to go to boating school.
• This is the second time Mrs. Puff is a Big Fat Meanie to SpongeBob.
• Second episode to involve someone playing hooky.

APM Music Identifiaction

• Blood in the Gutter - The police arrested Dale.
• Dramatic Cue E - "Ever since then, he's led the lonely life of a criminal."
• Hawaiian Flower - SpongeBob enters the Bikini Bottom Hug Fest.