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Driven to Tears

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"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:

July 14, 2015

  • 10:00 AM: SpongeBob gets ready for the test.
  • 10:02 AM: SpongeBob starts crying.

July 15, 2015

  • 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 saxophone rings.
  • 1:25 PM: SpongeBob arrives at the Krusty Krab.
  • 4:30 PM: Patrick gets arrested.
  • 4:40 PM: SpongeBob by bars.
  • 5:15 PM: Survival.

Time Cards Shown:

  • One minute, thirty seven seconds later...
  • One debt to society later...

Characters Present:

Plot

SpongeBob is willing to pass his driving license now with Mrs Puff, but fails. Patrick passes it, and gets a new Bumperville. SpongeBob is jealous that his friend has got a new car. They went around Patrick's house for an hour and SpongeBob is tired. Patrick drives SpongeBob to his parents. Patrick nearly crashes, but doesn't wreck it. Patrick shows SpongeBob's mother and father his driving license. However, when they went back home, the duo passed a sign informing drivers to travel forty mph. SpongeBob checks the speedometer and finds that Patrick is traveling at forty and a half mph. SpongeBob goes to the police and tells the story. But the police dosen't believe him due to the stop which brought the speed of the boat forty under the limit which was zero an hour. At an intersection, Patrick passes the red light, causing cars to crash and pedestrians running away. SpongeBob rips Patrick license and Patrick is blamed for being a litterbug. Patrick was taken to jail, but SpongeBob begs for the police to send him to jail, since he was the litterbug. The judge agrees, and one week of social work later, SpongeBob made a plate for Patrick's car. But Patrick said he threw it away because the needle was pointing at E, meaning the gas tank was empty, but Patrick thought his Bumperville had died.

Transcript

Main article: Driven to Tears (transcript)

Trivia/Goofs

  • the boat patrick gets is a driveable boat in spongebob's boating bash
  • 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.
  • Patrick weighs two ounces and it is revealed in earlier episodes SpongeBob weighs just one ounce.
  • This is the second time the police called SpongeBob a "tattletale". The first time was in "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler".
  • Patrick's driver's license claimed that his eyes were black, but in Wormy his 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.
  • 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.
  • 33rd time Squidward doesn't appear.
  • 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.
  • In Brazil, the title for this episode is called "License for Patrick"
  • SpongeBob's eyelashes were not shown for most of the episode.
  • The drive-thru window from Patty Hype is shown.
  • Also the Patty Wagon's horn in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game is the same as the boatmobiles.
  • This is the second time Patrick was in Mrs. Puff's class. The first was in New Student Starfish.
  • This episode was a new episode for Patrick for President, along with Sing a Song of Patrick, Waiting, Gift of Gum, Rule of Dumb, and Rise and Shine.
  • The "Squirrell Jokes" theme song can be heard in the scene with SpongeBob's parents.
  • When SpongeBob looks checks the speedometer, the speed of the boat is not actually at 40 1/2 mph. in fact, it is not even near 40 1/2 mph.
  • Patrick was making a very loud noise while fixing his car. The noise could have woke Squidward up. But he dosen't appear in this episode, and he dosen't shout at Patrick to be quiet. Coincidentally, he went away with somebody driving a motorcycle in Hocus Pocus, so he could have been with him during this episode.


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.
  • Patrick doesn't get arrested for the crimes he commited in the car until Good Ol' Whatshisname.

Music

APM Music

External links


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