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:

• 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 clock rings.
• 1:25 PM: SpongeBob arrives at the Krusty Krab.

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
  • Mrs. Smith
  • Timmy
  • Phil
  • Tom
  • Fred
  • Old Lady Fish
  • Girl Fish
  • Cop
  • Judge
  • Announcer

Plot

(spongebob wakes up and gets dressed he gets his gun and shoot it spongebob heres a call and says) patrick do you wunt to come over.

patrick: yes. (spongebob terns the lights off and shuts the blinds. patrick comes through the door) patrick: it is dark in here.

(spongebob is hideing under the sink) spongebob: patrick do not know where i am. (laughs) patrick: where is spongebob.

(spongebob looks out to see if patrick is comeing)spongebob: now where is patrick.(spongebob slides out and he stands up) patrick: hi spongebob (spongebob jumps and cracks the celling. patrick sees spongebob through the celling)spongebob: patrick i hate it when you do that.(he jumps down)spongebob: your such a f**king a*s hole. patrick: ho am i and your a f**king bi*h.(spongebob gets angery) spongebob:

and your a big pink loser p*nk a*s b*ch! patrick: what did you say!(patrick gets angery too)patrick: i got my gun f**ker(patrick cant find his gun spongebob hold his gun in front of patrick) ho patrick (and fires at patrick)patrick: ho no (patrick falls to the ground. poilce comes to the house)spondebob: ho no the poilce.(spongebob runs to the door he opens the door. spongebob steals a car poilce was after him the poilce helicopter came)spongebob: ho no dead end(he crashes in the dead end poilce crashed in to him.cut spongebob was sent to jail the next morning)juje: 67 weeks in jail(spongebob looked shamedand looks down) the end

Trivia/Goofs

• 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.
• This episode aired in Germany and the United Kingdom before it aired in the United States.
• Patrick weighs two ounces and it is revealed in earlier episodes SpongeBob weighs just one ounce.
• Second time Patrick mistook one of SpongeBob's family relatives for him, the first was for Grandpa Squarepants from The Sponge Who Could Fly.
• 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 third time Patrick has been put in jail. (SpongeBob Meets The Strangler)
• 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.
• This episode takes place after "No Free Rides".
• When the announcer congratulates Patrick for being the 1,000,000th person to get their license, the announcer says, "Women will love you. And men will want to be you." This is a quote from "Austin Powers."
• 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, and fourth was in New Student Starfish. 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.
• In this show, SpongeBob's superheroes, Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were sick.
• 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.

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.

External links

• Watch German episode here