Hall Monitor (Episode)

Hall Monitor
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Episode No.:	7a
Season:	1
Airdate:	August 28, 1999
Previous Episode:	Pickles
Next Episode:	Jellyfish Jam
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
SpongeBob (as the Hall Monitor) and Patrick buy the newspaper.

Hall Monitor is an episode from Season 1.

Info

Songs

Pomp and Circumstance (during SpongeBob's speech)

Characters

SpongeBob SquarePants
Patrick Star
Mrs. Puff
Police Officers (debut)
Tina
Tom
Boating School Students
Unknown students
- Phil (voice heard only)
- Henry (mentioned)
- Vera (mentioned)
- Clayton (mentioned)
- Bart (mentioned)
- Ralph (mentioned)
- Mimi (name listed on clipboard)
- Buddy (name listed on clipboard)
- Beth (mentioned)

Places

Plot

After being selected Boating School Hall Monitor (after everyone else in class has been, sometimes twice), SpongeBob reads out a very long speech, and winds up wasting the entire day. Out of sympathy, Mrs. Puff allows SpongeBob to at least wear his cap and belt until the next day, though she suddenly has misgivings as she watches him go. SpongeBob immediately goes above and beyond the call of duty, first trying to guide traffic stuck at an out-of-order traffic light (and causing a massive pile-up), and then inadvertently igniting the rumor of Bikini Bottom's Open-Window Maniac. Then, SpongeBob finds Patrick littering his strawberry ice cream, and labels him as a criminal. When a front page newspaper headline alerts SpongeBob about the maniac causing trouble around town, he lets Patrick turn over a new leaf as a deputy. They end up getting ice cream twice (Patrick's idea of a scandal), but then SpongeBob and Patrick try and corner the maniac by splitting up and using walkie-talkies. Two policemen ask Patrick if he has seen the maniac: they show him a bad police sketch of SpongeBob. Darkness falls upon the town, quite literally, and Patrick becomes frightened. SpongeBob eventually meets up with Patrick again, but only via the walkie-talkie. Patrick spots the maniac from a distance, and reports his every move to SpongeBob, who of course believes the maniac is right on his tail. Shortly enough, SpongeBob realizes he himself is the maniac. The police are about to arrest SpongeBob, but Mrs. Puff tells the officers that he was her responsibility. Mrs. Puff must teach the next day's class via closed-circuit TV, from her jail cell.

Trivia/Goofs

At first, Mrs. Puff was holding the hat and belt, but after SpongeBob's speech, he has the hat and belt.
When the police drive up to Patrick, both police fish's eyelids are green. But when they talk to him, the orange police fish's eyelids are orange.
The song in the background when SpongeBob is giving his speech is the Pomp and Circumstance graduation theme.
Fred can be heard saying "My Leg!" twice when the boat collision is shown.
This is the first time Mrs. Puff gets arrested. The second will be No Free Rides.
It is implied that SpongeBob has never been hall monitor. However, when he finishes his speech he says to Mrs. Puff, "I overdid the speech again, didn't I?"
One of the names Mrs. Puff mentions at the beginning of the episode was Clayton, which is the name of Stephen Hillenburg's son.
There is a chapter book to tie in with this episode.
Believe it or not, this is actually the first appearance of Bikini Bottom.
If Beth graduated then she should not have been on Mrs Puff's list of hall monitors.
SpongeBob commits a lot of illegal things in this episode including destruction of property and impersonating a police officer all of which would have stripped him of his hall monitoring duties and arrested for committing said said crimes.