Mrs. Puff's Boating School
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| "Mrs. Puff’s Boating School" | |
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| Foundation: | 1991 |
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| Founder: | Mrs. Poppy Puff |
| Location: | Bikini Bottom |
| Employment: | 1 |
Mrs. Puff’s Boating School is a drivers' education school on the Nickelodeon television animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants. The "boating school" as it is called, is located in Bikini Bottom (Conch street) and in where Mrs. Puff teaches.
General
The Boating School features the main building, a lighthouse, and the driving course. The lighthouse is at the Boating School for an unknown reason. The track features a parking lot for the boats used in the tests. The track is sponsered by ½ Shell, a Bikini Bottom gas station (a parody of Shell gas stations).
In some episodes, the school is a one-room school, however in others, it is a full academy. The school features the Hallway of Learning which includes the Fountain of Learning, the Lockers of Learning, and the Stairs of Learning. Also, the hallway features a trophy display case.
There are many classrooms and teachers such as Mrs Flounder. Mrs Puffs classroom includes a chalkboard, Good Noodle Board, Roger's Glass Box, teacher's desk, ten student desks, and the supply closet. Mrs. Puff's desk is in front of the chalkboard. It features some other student's desks, including an empty, broken-down desk where the bad students sit. At the back of the room, there is a hand-drawn picture of the Boating School track and 2 emergency exits. There is also a supply closet, which is next door of the classroom, behind the chalkboard. The classes commonly begin at 9:00 a.m.[1] In Hall Monitor, students go home at 2:05 p.m.
The boating school has a chart, which lists awards for the students. It is called the Good Noodle Board. Students obtain Good Noodle stars for certain things, such as attendance, penmanship, basic desk sanitation, and advanced desk sanitation. This system is quite unusual for a class directed at teenagers and young adults. Two classroom disruptions loses one star.[1]
Like any other school, this school has a set of rules. This includes no fighting (results in detention),[1] no butt kicking, [2] no cheating, must pay attention, and no insulting drawings of the teacher (although many students do this anyway.)[1]
Students who have attended the school include SpongeBob SquarePants, Patrick Star, Lloyd, Sheila, Paco, Bart, Debbie, Horace,[1] Flats the Flounder,[2] Jimmy, Phil, Tina, Henry, Vera, and Clayton. These are the only known students.[3]
In "Boating School," SpongeBob failed his test only 40 times by the end of the episode. Later, in "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", SpongeBob failed his boating test 1,258,058 times by this episode. This implies that he has taken his test more rapidly than in his first years of boating school. In "Driven to Tears," SpongeBob says he has failed his drivers' test 57 times. He then fails it the 58th time. Mrs. Puff says that his record in "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired" was destroyed in the accident, which is as if he never failed. This can lead to the conclusion that SpongeBob failed his test 1,258,123 times altogether.
Even though the school is a boating school, there are many characteristics of the school which make it seem more like an average grade school. This includes having a Hall Monitor ("Hall Monitor"), having hallways, outdoor lunch periods, trophy cases, recess, lockers, school pictures, school bells, field trips ("Procrastination"), and the good noodle board. Also, SpongeBob is seen wearing a backpack in the epidode New Student Starfish.
In the book, "Class Confusion," a substitute temporarily takes over for Mrs. Puff. SpongeBob and a fellow classmate, Horace, switch places. Horace initially passes SpongeBob through school, enabling him to drive, which flabergasts Mrs. Puff. In the end, the truth is revealed, and everything returns to normal.
In New Student Starfish, there were twenty-four students, the most greatest number of students. The student enrollment minimum number is nine. In "Hall Monitor," there were also more than nine.
Exams
There are two exams that must be completed correctly, and with an excellent grade in order to graduate and obtain a license.
Oral Exam: The Oral Exam consists of ten questions, many of them simple, such as asking the name of the front of the boat. SpongeBob has taken the Oral Exam so many times that he has memorized the answers, and can say them (and pass the exam) without Mrs. Puff even asking the questions. The answers, and the questions that Mrs. Puff had time to ask before SpongeBob started saying the answers, are listed below. The boat's oral exam about what the boat is is actually the real fact parts of a big boat drove by a captain.
- Question 1: What is the front of the boat? Answer 1: The bow.
- Question 2: What is the back of the boat? Answer 2: The stern.
- Question 3: "right" is? Answer 3: Starboard
- Question 4: "left" is? Answer 4: Port
- Question 5: the person in command of a boat or a ship? Answer 5: Skipper
- Question 6: the floor level of a ship? Answer 6: Deck
- Question 7: what the enclosed room of a ship is? Answer 7: Cabin
- Question 8: what a man-powered ship is or what the kitchen of a boat is called? Answer 8: Galley
- Question 9: what the hull of a ship is built around? Answer 9: Keel
- Question 10: when a certain boat company was founded? Answer 10: 1924 (In real life, Mercedes-Benz came to be in this year.)
Driving Exam: The driving exam is the only part of the exam that Spongebob has trouble with. The steps to the exam are listed below.
- 1. Start the Boat.
- 2. Put it in drive.
- 3. Floor it. (shoe only faster)
- 4. Turn Left. (Don't crash into wall.)
- 5. Turn Right.
- 6. Stop at Stop Sign.
- 7. Look both ways.
- 8. Continue driving.
- 9. Turn around flagpole.
- 10. Drive vertically up road.
- 11. Drive vertically down road.
- 12. Jump over anchor.
- 13. Fly through a ring of fire.
- 14. Help man cross street.
- 15. Pop wheelie.
- 16. Drive Upside-down.
- 17. Get back on road.
- 18. Drive to the Finish Line. 600 points passes.
References
- ^ a b c d e as seen in the episode, "New Student Starfish"
- ^ a b as seen in the episode, "The Bully"
- ^ as seen in the episode, "Hall Monitor"
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