Boating School (Episode)

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Boating School
Episode No.:	4b
Airdate:	8.7.1999
Season:	Season 1
Previous Episode:	Naughty Nautical Neighbors
Next Episode:	Pizza Delivery

"Boating School" is an episode from season 1

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Info

Characters

SpongeBob SquarePants
Mrs. Puff (debut)
Squidward Tentacles
Patrick Star
Student who just got his license (debut)
Ambulance Drivers (debut)
Gary
Fred Fish

Places

Boating School
SpongeBob's house

Plot

SpongeBob is excited because Mrs. Puff's Boating School driving exam is today. If he passes it, he will get his license. First, he must pass the oral section of the exam. Having taken the exam thirty-seven times previously, SpongeBob is able to answer the questions before they are even asked. However, he panics in the boat and fails the driving portion of the exam. Later that night, Patrick attempts to cheer SpongeBob up with a "surprise", but SpongeBob is too depressed to laugh. He 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 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. He crashes the boat and thus fails the test yet another time.

Goofs

Factual Errors: Snails run at 0.03 mph but Gary came quickly to Spongebob all the way to Boating School from his pineapple home. Mrs. Puff said the plural tense of the word mile meaning that Gary should have taken more than 1 hour to get to Boating School. Gary would have to run 34 hours to run 1 mile and it would take him weeks to run more than 10 miles.

Trivia

This is the first time Fred complains(after Spongebob fails his boating tests)``MY LEG!
This is the first appearance of Mrs.Puff but not the Boating School Classroom.