Boating School
Template:Episode Brief Summary SpongeBob attempts to pass his boating exam again.
Time/Date:
- Wednesday, March 3
- 8:00 AM: SpongeBob wakes up
- Thursday, March 4
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Mrs. Puff (debut)
- Patrick Star
- Squidward Tentacles (cameo)
- Ambulance Driver
- Gary
- Fred (cameo)
- Boating School student
Locations
Plot
It is the day of SpongeBob's driving exam at Mrs. Puff's Boating School, and he is very excited. If he passes it, he will get his license. Once there, he throws his unicycle away, assuming he will pass. Having taken the oral exam thirty-seven times previously, SpongeBob is able to answer the questions before they are even asked. However, upon reaching the driving portion of the exam, he panics and quickly crashes into a lighthouse, causing Mrs. Puff's body to inflate. Later that night, he complains about his failure to Gary, who asks SpongeBob to go for a walk, which he declines. Patrick is then heard talking to him from a walkie-talkie under his bed covers. Spongebob heads into his closet and finds Patrick with a "surprise", wearing his clothes and calling himself "Patrick SquarePants". SpongeBob is too depressed to laugh, and explains his problem to Patrick and mentions that he needs someone to help him think straight during the exam. Patrick quickly devises a plan. He puts a walkie-talkie inside SpongeBob's head so that he can talk SpongeBob through the test, hiding the antenna with a cowboy hat.
The next day, SpongeBob goes back to take the test again. When asked to start the boat, he initially panics, but Patrick's instructions keep him calm. This is followed by a video montage of SpongeBob acing the exam, interspersed with shots of Patrick eating SpongeBob's food and reading his diary while helping him. Mrs. Puff is floored by his sudden improvement and jokingly suggests that SpongeBob's success is due to an antenna under his hat through which "some guy miles away from here is giving (him) all the answers." SpongeBob (and Patrick) finds this hilarious, until Mrs. Puff concludes, "But that would be cheating!" Upon realizing that he has been cheating, SpongeBob goes into hysterics, driving wildly all over the course and sobbing while Mrs. Puff tries desperately to stop him. Patrick, upon hearing this, runs out of Spongebob's house and jumps under his rock, SpongeBob crashes the boat and fails the test, and the bloated Mrs. Puff is taken to the hospital. Upon leaving boating school, he finds Gary riding his unicycle. SpongeBob rides off on it, with Gary atop his head, saying "Let's go surprise someone at the hospital!"
Trivia/Goofs
- When SpongeBob comes out of the boating school at the end of the episode, he says Gary found his bike, however, it is a unicycle.
- This is the first episode to feature the running gag of someone yelling out "My leg!" (Fred Rechid)
- In this episode, SpongeBob's foghorn alarm clock has a different tone.
- This is the first episode that implies that Patrick is an expert at boating, the second being, "Driven to Tears".
- When SpongeBob cries out that he is cheating, Patrick runs back into his rock. When this happens, you can see that he has his regular shorts on, and not the squarepants he was wearing previously.
- This is the first episode that Mrs. Puff appears.
Music
CD Album Music
- Rocket Sled to Oahu - #1: The lighthouse collapses. {The Mel-Tones}
- Rocket Sled to Oahu - #2: The lighthouse collapses again. {The Mel-Tones}
APM Music
- Hawaiian Train - Title Card.
- Aloha Oe - SpongeBob is seen sleeping.
- Quiz Organ (b) - "You’ve passed the oral test, what a surprise."
- Point of Departure K - Spongebob floors down the pedal.
- Botany Bay (b) - "I don't know why, Gary, I don't know."
- Hawaiian Cocktail - #1: Patrick talks to Patrick about his problem.
- Real Western Steel - Spongebob smiles with the cowboy hat.
- Appalachian Banjo Duel - SpongeBob acts like a cow.
- Menace from the Deep - Spongebob feels nervous.
- Dangerous A - Spongebob comes to his first turn.
- Sailor's Waltz - Spongebob approaches the finish line.
- Dramatic Impact 6 - SpongeBob realizes that he's cheating.
- Aloha - Mrs. Puff gets sent to an ambulance boatmobile.
- Hawaiian Cocktail - #2: Spongebob mops along and finds his uni-cycle.