Boating Buddies
Template:Episode "Boating Buddies" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season six.
Time/Date:
Time cards shown:
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Squidward Tentacles
- Mrs. Puff
- Grandma
- An officer
- Students
- A buff man
Characters Mentioned:
Plot
While trying to run away from SpongeBob, Squidward gets a speeding ticket and gets sent to boating school, where SpongeBob is happy to have him as a new friend in class. In the end, Squidward flunks the boating exam and has to take it again next week together with SpongeBob.
Trivia/goofs
- When Squidward walked away from SpongeBob, Squidward had a newspaper in his hand, but in the next shot he doesn't.
- The Four Seasons - Spring by Vivaldi is playing while SpongeBob is drawing on the board.
- At the end of the episode SpongeBob says he has never passed the test exam. In "Boating School," he says he always passes it but can never do the driving part, suggesting that this episode takes place before "Boating School."
- When SpongeBob hears Squidward breathing, after he walks up, for a second his belt is white, this is likely an animation error.
- When SpongeBob said chocolate rain it can refer to Tay Zonday song "Chocolate Rain".
- When Squidward is hurt by that big guy those two times, he walks in on the right, but the door to enter and exit is on the left.
- After Squidward is done with his illistration, he doesn't erase the board when he is finished, and when SpongeBob is drawing, there is no trace of Squidward's drawing left, and we never saw him pick up an eraser.
- Starting with this episode SpongeBob's Cheeks are bigger than usual.
- This until The Card was on the Krabby Kronicle DVD.
Transcript
(Episode starts at SpongeBob's house, and SpongeBob is brushing Gary's shell)
- SpongeBob: ...97, 98, 99, 100. Okay, Gary, let's do the other side now. Gary, can you hear that? (Gary is confused, then SpongeBob walks outside, and over to Squidward) Oh Squidward, it's you. I thought I heard something.
- Squidward: SpongeBob, I've been sitting here motionless for 45 minutes. What could you possibly have heard me doing?
- SpongeBob: Breathing.
- Squidward: SpongeBob, I will give you $5 if you let me enjoy the rest of my morning, in peace.
- SpongeBob: Okay! (Squidward takes out his wallet)
- Squidward: Hey, I could have sworn I had $5 in here.
- SpongeBob: I have it, Squidward, you gave it to me to leave you alone yesterday. (Squidward gets up) Squidward, you can have the $5 back. Mr. Krabs says...
- Squidward: I don't care, what Mr. Krabs says! I just want... (bangs on the table, and the liquid in his cup spills on him)
- SpongeBob: Coffee rain!
- Squidward: It's hot choclolate. (walks away)
- SpongeBob: Chocolate rain! (Squidward is still walking) Squidward! (Squidward runs screaming) Squidward, wait! (scene then shows both of them running for a while, then Squidward gets to his boat. Tries to open it but can't)
Squidward: It's locked!
SpongeBob: Squidward! Squiiiiiiiiiiiidward! (Squidward screams, then jumps in the boat, then tries to start it but it won't start)
Squidward: Huh? (realizes the key isn't there) The key! Oh, where did I put that stupid...
SpongeBob: (as he is yelling, Squidward is searching) Squidward! Squidward!
Squidward: Oh, why can't I just find that... (SpongeBob makes it to the boat)
SpongeBob: Squidward?
Squidward: What?!
SpongeBob: You left your keys on the table back there. (Squidward starts the boat) Hey, Squidward?
Squidward: Yes?
SpongeBob: Didn't you used to have one of those cucumber bicycles?
Squidward: Oh, (laughs) that was a recumber bicycle, and I sold it.
SpongeBob: Why?
Squidward: So I could get further away from you! (rushes off)
SpongeBob: Okay, I'll see you later then, Squidward.
Squidward: Bon voyage, nincapoop! (Squidward accidently runs through a stop sign, literally. He then realizes he is being chased by cops) What the? (pulls over, then the policeman walks up) Can I help you, officer?
Policeman: No, but you can help yourself to this ticket.
Squidward: (gasps) Ticket? Officer, please! I have inpeckable boat smarts! I pried my self in obtaining an un-soiled driving record! It's all that I have!
Policeman: Well, you can have it again, right after you complete boating school. (drives off)
Squidward: Bo-bo-bo-bo-bo? (cuts to Mrs. Puff's boating school) Boating school. (knocks on door) Oh, well, it's just one day out of your life, Squiddy. How bad can it be? (SpongeBob opens the door)
SpongeBob: Oh, Squidward! (Squidward cries, then the bell rings)
Mrs. Puff: Good morning, class. Would everyone please take a seat? (SpongeBob sits)
SpongeBob: Psst, Squiward, sit here. Here.
Squidward: Um, excuse me, there don't seem to be any empty seats left.
Mrs. Puff: But there's one right next to SpongeBob. (Squidward sits there, and SpongeBob touches him)
Squidward: Do you mind?!
SpongeBob: Don't worry, Squidward, we're boating buddies now! I'll teach you everything I know, and then we can...
Squidward: We won't be doing anything, because there is no we! Understand?
Mrs. Puff: Quiet in the front please.
SpongeBob: Oh, I understand. I understand perfectly, boating buddy.
Mrs. Puff: Okay, class, how about we get to know our new students, by telling each other why we were scentenced to... I mean why we are enrolled in boating school.
Student: Um, I got caught speeding.
Mrs. Puff: Very good. Next.
Student: I don't see what's so very good about it.
Mrs. Puff: No, I didn't mean very...
Student: (sighs) I know what you meant.
Mrs. Puff: Next.
SpongeBob: Oh, I am here because I...
Mrs. Puff: We all know why you're here, SpongeBob. What about you, sir. (refering to Squidward)
Squidward: Me?
Mrs. Puff: Yes. Would you like to tell the rest of the class why you're with us today?
Squidward: Why I'm... (Squidward sees SpongeBob staring, and breathing at him) All right, I'll tell you. I was trying to get away from him! He is the vain of my exsistance!
Mrs. Puff: Yours too? Uhh... What I meant to say was, please come up to the chalkboard, and draw a diagram of the incident.
Squidward: Gladly. (begins drawing what he is saying) It all started when I left my house. And then, he appeared. He made an immediate right turn, and parked, here. (refering to Squidward's house) Seeing the oncoming hazard, I looked both ways, and proceeded safely toward my vehicle. It was then, that I realized that I was being followed, at an unsafe distance. So, in order to create more optimal driving conditions, I was then forced to par-take in (screeches the chalk board) evasive action. And by increasing speed slightly, I created a safety cushion, while in-invertenttly attracting the attention, of said law inforcement offical. May I sit down now, sweet cheeks?
Mrs. Puff: Why, certainly. And perhaps now, SpongeBob would like to come up and illustrate his side of the story.
Squidward: His side?
SpongeBob: Well, first, I started over here. And then I went way over here. Do-do-do-do, like that. And then, I went around like this, and over here like that, and across this lane, and down here like this, and then... (continues writing, without speaking) ...and then I came around, and stopped right here. (SpongeBob writes "SpongeBob + Squidward, Best Boating Buddies 4-ever")
All: SpongeBob and Squidward, best boating buddies forever. (all are confused, then SpongeBob sits down)
SpongeBob: Do you like it, Squidward?
Squidward: Shut it. (bell rings, then cuts to everyone eating lunch, and SpongeBob sits next to Squidward)
SpongeBob: Ah, lunch time, eh, boating buddy? (SpongeBob sits, and Squidward walks away, over to the trash cans)
Squidward: I'll have to eat over here, just like back in grade school. (Squidward is about to eat, then SpongeBob pops up from a trash can)
SpongeBob: Squidward, do you have any mustard in there? (Squidward runs away screaming, then cuts to the bathroom, where Squidward is eating)
Squidward: Mm, bon appetite, Squiddy. (is about to eat, but then sees SpongeBob's feet in the other stall. Squidward gets angry, and throws his sandwich on the ground) You've ruined my morning, you've ruined my lunch, and you're ruining my... (door opens, revealing that it's a muscular tough fish, with feet that looks like SpongeBob's. Scene cuts to Squidward walking to his seat, bandaged up)
Mrs. Puff: Okay, class, it's time for our behind the wheel lesson. Squidward, you'll be riding with SpongeBob.
Squidward: Yeah, never saw that coming. (cuts to them in a boat)
Mrs. Puff: Now, we're going to take this nice and slow. SpongeBob, what do we do when pulling away from the curb?
SpongeBob: Uh, step on the gas?
Mrs. Puff: Good. Nice and easy. Now let's slowly... (SpongeBob steps on the petal, and Mrs. Puff screams)
Squidward: SpongeBob, look out! (they bump through the cones, then they barge out through the fence, then they go through a red light) SpongeBob, give me that wheel!
SpongeBob: I got it, I got it. (they fight over it)
Squidward: Just let go of it! (the steering wheel breaks, and Mrs. Puff screams. They drive into grandma)
Grandma: Hooligans! (they drive through the Barg 'n Mart, and a costume shop, and they are about to drive into a secret lab)
Scientist 1: Johnson, I finally figured out a way to shrink an ordinary mailman down to the size of a grain of sand.
Scientist 2: But, how?
Scientist 1: By using this shrink ray. (he pulls a lever that turns it on, then the boat comes in, and they get shrunk instead)
Scientist 2: Mother of mercy! (they shrink) Where'd they go?
Scientist 1: There! They're heading right for that discarded potato chip. (mail man growls)
Scientist 2: What's the matter?
Scientist 1: Potato chips are his favorite snack. (he breaks out) Johnson! No! (is about to eat it, but then gets sprayed with water)
Scientist 2: No, no, no. (they then go through a drain. A cowboy is about to drink from a drinking fountain, but then Mrs. Puff and SpongeBob come out and return to normal size)
Cowboy: I never will understand these city folk.
SpongeBob: Hey, where'd Squidward go? (the tough fish from earlier is going to go to the bathroom again, and Squidward returns to normal in the toilet)
Squidward: I was just leaving. (cuts to Squidward walking toward his desk all bandaged up)
Mrs. Puff: Okay, class, it's time to take our final exam. Please have your pencils ready.
SpongeBob: Pst, hey, boating buddy, if you need any help, I've taken this test hundreds of times, and...
Squidward: How many times do I have to tell you?! I am not your buddy! I don't need your help, and I don't need you, ever! Now just kindly let me take this stupid test so I can get out of here and never have to see you again for the rest of my life!
SpongeBob: Okay, Squidward, if that's the way you want it.
Squidward: Thank you. (tries to pick up his pencil, then picks it up in both hands, but then it drops and rolls out the classroom).
Mrs. Puff: 3 more minutes, class.
Squidward: SpongeBob? SpongeBob, I need your help.
Mrs. Puff: 2 more minutes.
Squidward: SpongeBob, please? This is important.
SpongeBob: You said you didn't need my help, Squidward, and that you didn't need me.
Squidward: No, no, I didn't. I never said that. (Student plays back what Squidward said) I don't need your help, and I don't need you! (now talking) Jerk! All right, I said it. But that was before.
SpongeBob: Before what?
Squidward: Before... before...
Mrs. Puff: 1 more minute, class.
Squidward: Before we were, (gulps) boating buddies.
SpongeBob: Yay!
Mrs. Puff: Okay, class, time's up.
Squidward: Time can't be up. I didn't get a chance to fill in a single answer. What am I supposed to do?
Mrs. Puff: You do the same thing that everybody else does who fails the test, you take it again next week.
Squidward: Next week?
SpongeBob: Don't worry, Squidward, I've never gotten 1 answer right on this test. But we'll meet again next week, at Mrs. Puff's boating school!
Squidward: Aaaaaaaaah! Ah, ah.
(Bell rings)