Doing Time

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

Brief Summary: Mrs. Puff is sent to prison as a result of SpongeBob's reckless driving. When she realizes that she won't be around SpongeBob in prison, she starts to enjoy it.

Characters Present:

• Mrs. Puff
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Patrick Star
• Policefish
  • Officer Nancy
• Inmates
• Fish at Shady Shoals
• Fred (janitor)
• Mayor
• Bank Teller
• Fish at Bank

Songs:

• Surfin' Summer
• Pomp and Circumstance

Plot

SpongeBob is taking his driver's license exam yet again, and ends up leaving the driving course and wrecking the city before driving off a cliff. The police follow the boat and end up driving off the cliff themselves. They hit a truck full of fruit punch which is being delivered to Shady Shoals Rest Home, causing it to explode and flood the home in punch. Although SpongeBob is responsible, Mrs. Puff is sent to prison for gross negligence. In prison, she realizes that she'll never see SpongeBob again, and starts to enjoy it.

Meanwhile, SpongeBob is depressed that Mrs. Puff in jail, and Patrick tells him it is his fault. The duo set out to free her from jail, first trying to rob the "1st Nautical Bank" in order to get arrested themselves, but fail.

They then disguise themselves as rocks that the prisoners are made to smash as labor, and try to communicate with Mrs. Puff, who calls the guards, but they dismiss it as a hallucination and move her to kitchen duty. SpongeBob and Patrick are then smashed by another inmate, costing them their deposit on the costumes. They then hide in a vat of chili in the cafeteria and offer to help Mrs. Puff escape through it, but she explains to them that she likes it in prison, which they refuse to believe. She calls for the prison guards again, and is reassigned again. SpongeBob and Patrick appear to her yet again on a hanger assembly line, and when she calls for the guards, they dismiss SpongeBob and Patrick as raw materials and send Mrs. Puff to her cell, convinced that she is going insane. SpongeBob and Patrick next appear in Mrs. Puff's toilet, and when she calls the guards, they turn out to be SpongeBob and Patrick in disguise. When she next sees the guards, she rips off their faces, and is put in solitary confinement. She is glad that she is finally safe from SpongeBob, but she begins hallucinating her room to be made of sponge (SpongeBob), and actually goes insane.

She wakes up screaming in the car flying off the cliff, and realizes that it was a dream. However, she wakes up again and again, in a series of false awakenings. After several of these, she says "Oh, forget it."

Trivia/Goofs

• Mrs. Puff's hat turns colors several times during the episode. 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 has been sent to jail, the first two being "Hall Monitor" and "No Free Rides".
• In Turbo Nick, this episode originally froze up, but has since been fixed.
• When Mrs. Puff's jail cell is first shown, there is a single bed, but later it is a bunk bed.
• When SpongeBob and Patrick appear inside the pot of chili, they appear to be much smaller compared to Mrs. Puff.
• When SpongeBob crashes into the cherry juice truck for the second time, the boat he was driving can be seen, but in the next shot, it is gone.
• The third time Mrs. Puff wakes up, it is seen that she is driving, but after the close up, Donna from the jail is driving.
• Tom has a female voice in this episode.
• When Mrs. Puff is first put into solitary confinement, there is a rubber duck in one of the corners, but after SpongeBob says, "Made of sponge" the rubber duck disappears.

This and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV were produced by and for 2001, although there was nothing to premiere in October and November 2001, but in December should not be brand new replacements for the two and was released in January 2002 with other two (leftovers from the season 2 but in the third season premiere)

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. (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)
• Mrs. Puff: Happiness is just two kinds of ice cream!

APM music identification

• Horlepiep - SpongeBob is once again taking his boating exam.
• Hail to the Chief A - "It is with great pride that I officially open this unfinished bridge."
• Pomp and Circumstance - Flashback of the opening of Mrs. Puff's Boating School.
• Hawaiian Breeze - "Alright, seniors, let's open these windows so the world can see your nice white clothes."
• Surfin' Summer A - The Beach Boys-like tune that Fred listens to on his headphones.
• Hawaiian Cocktail - "But I don't belong here! It's all a big mistake!"
• Keel Row - "No more phone solicitors, no more SpongeBob, no more company potlucks, no more SpongeBob, no more road rage, no more SpongeBob, no more insurance payments, no more SpongeBob...No More SpongeBob!....No More SpongeBob!!...NO MORE SPONGEBOB!!!!!....I think I'm gonna like this place."
• Kamakani B - "Class just isn't the same without Mrs. Puff."
• Cierre Bob Esponja - SpongeBob and Patrick try to rob a bank.
• Springtime for Lovers - "These are my people!"
• Hawaiian Link A - Mrs. Puff walks away from the kitchen as SpongeBob and Patrick watch.
• Lonely Stranger - SpongeBob gets arrested.