Doing Time

Template:Episode"Doing Time" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season three.

Brief Summary: Mrs. Puff is accidentally involved in a car crash, and she is put into prison instead of SpongeBob. She realises that there won't be any SpongeBob there and starts to enjoy it. SpongeBob and Patrick try to bail Mrs. Puff out of jail.

Time/Date:

• 12:20 PM: The office cubicles are shown

Time cards shown: None

Characters Present:

• Mrs. Puff
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Policefish
  • Officer Nancy
• Sandy Cheeks
• Everyone else in jail
• Seniors
• Fred (Janitor at Shady Shoals)
• Other fish at rest home
• Mayor
• Bank Teller
• Fish at Bank
  • Tom
• Nancy
• Fish at sandys nut contest

Songs: Surfin' Summer Pomp and Circumstance

Plot

SpongeBob is yet again doing his driver's license exam and yet again fails. Only this time, he wrecks lots of the city and drove off a cliff. The police-fish foolishly follow him and Mrs. Puff, and soon, they are falling down with them. They hit a truck full of punch, and it falls over, collapses and the punch pours out. Although SpongeBob is responsible, Mrs. Puff is sent to prison. She realizes that she'll never see SpongeBob while she's in prison, and starts to enjoy it.

However, SpongeBob and Patrick keep on trying to get her out, and the guards don't believe Mrs. Puff when she tells them the story repeatedly. She wakes up, and she's still in the car falling off the cliff, and realizes that it was a dream. However, she wakes up again and again, in a series of false awakenings. After too many of these, she just gives up and says, "Oh, forget it."

Trivia/Goofs

• Mrs. Puff's hat turns colors several times during the episode. When Mrs. When Mrs. Puff goes to lunch duty, her hat turns from red to blue, and one second later, it turns back to red. When the police are leading Mrs. Puff away to jail, her hat changes from blue to red to blue again.
• This is the third time Mrs. Puff is put in jail. The first time was in Hall Monitor, and the second time was in No Free Rides. This is probably what is mentioned when Mrs. Puff says, "You can get through this without losing your sanity! Ugh. That's a road we don't want to go down again.".
• When the police chase Mrs. Puff and SpongeBob SquarePants, it is a parody of the infamous O.J. Simpson chase back in 1994.
• In Mrs. Puff's jail cell at the beginning of the episode, there is a single bed, but later it is a bunk bed.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick are inside the pot of chili, they appear to be much smaller compared to Mrs. Puff.
• The surrealism of this episode owes much to the films of David Lynch.
• During Mrs. Puff's "Dream" the boat crashes into the juice tank but when it falls down there were only police boats stuck into the tank.
• When Mrs. Puff and SpongeBob crash into the fruit punch truck, it's similar to "Driven to Tears" when after SpongeBob and Patrick fall from the sky and the police surrounding them.

Quotes

SpongeBob: (in the bank) ALRIGHT! PUT THE MONEY IN THE BAG! (cut to inside of the bank, where SpongeBob is shown wearing a sock over his head, holding a sack, facing the opposite direction of the teller. Patrick stands in the background with a sock over his head, too.) PUT IT IN!!
Teller: Um, you're facing the wrong way, sir.
SpongeBob: Oh. (laughs and turns around) ALRIGHT! GIVE ME THE MONEY!!
Teller: Will that be from your savings or your checking account, sir?
SpongeBob: Uh, savings.
Teller: May I please see some identification?
SpongeBob: Sure. (he takes out his ID and gives it to the teller) Here ya go.
Teller: Thank you. (cut to a shot of the ID, which is SpongeBob's Jellyfishers Club Membership card. SpongeBob lifts up his sock mask and gives Patrick the thumbs up. Patrick thumbs-up him back.) Sir, we are seeing a balance of $0.00 for both of your accounts.
SpongeBob: Oh.
Teller: Next! (cut to SpongeBob and Patrick walking out of the bank)