Boating School

Time/Date

Wednesday, March 3
- 8:00 AM: SpongeBob wakes up
Thursday, March 4

Characters Present

Locations

Plot

SpongeBob taking his test.

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-eight 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. He asks SpongeBob to head to his closet for a "surprise". It is Patrick 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 you (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, making Patrick realize that his method is bad, forcing Patrick to flee to his house, and driving wildly all over the course and sobbing while Mrs. Puff, in a panic, tries desperately to stop him but SpongeBob refuses to listen and crashes the boat and fails the test again, and the inflated Mrs. Puff is taken to the hospital. As he leaves 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!" thus ending the episode.

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.
SpongeBob's unicycle will appear again in Choir Boys.
This is the first episode to feature the running gag of someone yelling out "My leg!" (Fred Rechid), when SpongeBob crashes on the first attempt.
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 was telling Patrick he failed, Gary can be heard saying "Meow"(That's 38 times). But he can't be seen nor in the room (SpongeBob's closet).
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 SpongeBob's pants that he was wearing previously. He may have took them off off-screen
This is the first Boating School episode.The next will be Hall Monitor.
This is Mrs. Puff's first appearance.
7th time Mr. Krabs doesn't appear.
MY LEG: SpongeBob crashes into a building.
The captions says "Man" when someone yelled "My leg!" (Fred), because the character is unseen.
This is the first episode to have a montage (SpongeBob driving successfully).
When SpongeBob crashed the first time (floor it) he did not put the boat into drive.
When SpongeBob wears a hat to hide an antennae, it resembles the Arby's logo.
This is the first episode where SpongeBob is seen partially barefoot when his big toe comes out of his shoe.
A clip was shown in a Dodge commercial.
This episode's title card music is the same as Help Wanted. A different section of the song has been used for the title card of Naughty Nautical Neighbors.
Only episode where Spongebob almost pass his exam.

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}

Associated production music

Template:APM - Title Card. Template:APM - SpongeBob is seen sleeping. Template:APM - "You’ve passed the oral test, what a surprise." Template:APM - SpongeBob floors down the pedal. Template:APM - "I don't know why, Gary, I don't know." Template:APM - #1: Spongebob talks to Patrick about his problem. Template:APM - SpongeBob smiles with the cowboy hat. Template:APM - SpongeBob acts like a cow. Template:APM - SpongeBob feels nervous. Template:APM - SpongeBob comes to his first turn. Template:APM - SpongeBob approaches the finish line. Template:APM - SpongeBob realizes that he's cheating. Template:APM - Mrs. Puff gets sent to an ambulance boatmobile. Template:APM - #2: SpongeBob mops along and finds his uni-cycle.