Burst Your Bubble

Characters

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• Mrs. Puff
• Larry the Lobster
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Pearl Krabs ^(mentioned)
• Patrick Star
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Gary the Snail
• Molly
• Fred
• Abigail Marge
• Thaddeus
• Lenny
• Nancy Suzy Fish
• Tina Fran
• Susie Rechid
• Tom
• Norma Rechid
• Nazz-Mimi
• Debbie Rechid
• Shubie
• Perry
• Nat Peterson
• Martin
• Mable
• Gus
• Sheldon
• Halbert
• Sadie
• Henry-Bart
• Annette
• Old Man Jenkins
• Sandals
• Buddy
• Frank
• Scooter
• Harold "Bill" Reginald

Synopsis

The episode starts with Spongebob recklessly driving. He suddenly thought of blowing bubbles to relax himself after getting stressed. It soon backfired when the distraction of the bubbles causes his boat to eventually crash. Mrs. Puff tells him that he is hopeless at getting a driver's license, and SpongeBob walks off sad. He then sees Larry, Mr. Krabs, and Patrick have their own boats. He soon gets sadder each time he sees his friends with a boat.

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He sits behind his house blowing bubbles. He wishes that he'd be as good as driving boats as he would for blowing bubbles. Suddenly, he has the idea of blowing a bubble boat to drive in. Everyone is pleased with the new bubble boat type. A policeman notices and says that every vehicle requires a license, but SpongeBob replies that no license is required for driving a bubble. The policeman then agrees. SpongeBob gets home to tell Gary all the good news on his new bubble boat experience, though Gary just ignores.

Soon, everyone is desperately wanting bubble boats. SpongeBob gets a giant container of bubble-mix into a tub. Afterwards, SpongeBob gets a bubble boat for everyone.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Puff notices everyone has a bubble boat. She is trying to drive home with her normal boat, but this angered many of the bubble boat drivers, as well as the police towing away her normal boat. Mrs. Puff then has to go to Bubble Boating School, a temporary Boating School run by SpongeBob.

At Bubble Boating School, SpongeBob teaches Mrs. Puff about how to drive a bubble boat. She eventually understands how to ride a bubble boat, after going through mastering multiple dangerous obstacle courses. She then does her final test, the final test being on the real road.

During her final bubble-boating test, she was happily talking to SpongeBob about the bubble boats but soon got distracted and went to the highway instead of continuing on the small roads. She ends up crashing, leading her to involuntarily expand, which causes her to cause further mayhem to the bubble-boaters. SpongeBob ends up saving all of them just in time.

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Soon the police come to tell everyone, including SpongeBob, that bubble boats are illegalized and normal boats re-legalized. SpongeBob then tells Mrs. Puff that he will see her again at Boating School the next day. At the end of the episode, Mrs. Puff expands and sighs.

Production

The episode name was confirmed in a tweet by Vincent Waller on October 24, 2016.

Reception

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Trivia

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Barnacle Chips billboard

• When SpongeBob and Mrs. Puff enter the highway, the billboard advertising the Barnacle Chips from "Chocolate with Nuts" is seen.
• Mrs. Puff inflated a total of 5 times, more than any other episode as of now.
• On the official SpongeBob Facebook page, there would be an 1-hour countdown, before the premiere of this and "Life Insurance."
  • The songs heard during the countdown were "Sky Drive," "Bonus Point," "Street Cop" and "Electronic Sheep" by Charles Hedger, "Keep This Going" by Jon Murrill, Lee Richardson, Tom Ford, James Carlo Giorgi Cocozza and Sarah Jane Norman, and "Neon B*****d" by Richard Macklin.
• All of the main characters appear in this episode except Template:Data:Links and Template:Data:Links.

Cultural references

• SpongeBob says 'You don't need a license to drive a bubble,' when he gets pulled over, which is a reference to the line 'You don't need a license to drive a sandwich' from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. 

Errors

• The fire truck resembles an actual fire truck rather than a boat as it does in other episodes (such as "Snail Mail").