Mrs. Puff, You're Fired

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Episode Information

General

Season №:

Episode №:

69b

Airdate:

April 1, 2006

Sister episode(s):

Krusty Towers

Best Day Ever Rank:

#82

Credits

Guest(s):

Dee Bradley baker as Gunther fitz Robin Sachs as Sergeant Roderick

Writer(s):

Casey Alexander
Chris Mitchell
Tim Hill

Main:

Quentin Bryce

Chronology

Krusty Towers

Ghost Host

List of episodes

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Mrs. Puff, You're Fired is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four. In this episode, Mrs. Puff gets fired and is replaced by a strict teacher.

Characters Present:

Time cards shown:

Several days later

PlotEdit

At Mrs. Puff's Boating School, Mr. Fitz, the superintendent, is talking to Mrs. Puff about renewing her teaching certificate, but informed her of the high record of failing students. However, SpongeBob is the only student who has ever failed her class, but has done so 1,258,056 times. Mrs. Puff is told to show Mr. Fitz everything she has taught SpongeBob, and within seconds, he fails yet another driving test by bashing in a boat. Mr. Fitz fires Mrs. Puff (to her delight since she dislikes SpongeBob), and a new boating instructor named Sergeant Roderick (most likely a shark) comes in and takes over the school.

Sergeant Roderick is a viciously cruel drill instructor, who immediately throws out one student for talking and another for eating. All the other students run away, except for SpongeBob, who is now his only student. The new boating instructor has set up a difficult course, which he trains SpongeBob to crawl, walk, run, and eventually drive through while blindfolded. Surprisingly, he masters this.

When the time of SpongeBob's final exam, which Mr. Fitz personally comes to watch, SpongeBob realizes that he can only drive while blindfolded, and proceeds to take the exam with the same disasterous results. Roderick nearly dies attempting to stop his boat from destroying the city, and Mr. Fitz realizes that SpongeBob is "unteachable" and rehires Mrs. Puff.

TriviaEdit

This is the fourth episode that Patrick, Squidward, Sandy and Mr. Krabs are absent. The first was Walking Small, the second was Mermaidman and Barnacleboy II, and the third was No Free Rides. Patrick, however, did make two very brief cameos here.
It is extremely impossible to fail your class for 1,258,056 times.
If SpongeBob is unteachable, he should be expelled.
When SpongeBob failed his test in front of the superintendent, the superintendent should have figured out that Mrs. Puff is not to blame for SpongeBob's failures.
SpongeBob had to disasemble, and reasemble the boat, however this would not help you learn how to drive.
The scene where SpongeBob goes above the surface was first shown in No Weenies Allowed.
Sargent Rodrick possibly resembles a military trainor.
Pebble 143 was crushed by the driving instructor, but was later seen on the road again.
If SpongeBob can drive good with a blindford, they could give him a special card which gives him permision to do so for his own good.
When Sargent Rodrick bent SpongeBob's arm, his hand went from a fist to an outstreached palm.
This is another instance in which SpongeBob proves he can drive competantly. Previously, in Boating School, he gets instructions from Patrick's walkie-talkie, and is just about to pass the test. However, when Mrs. Puff tells him his method is a form of cheating, SpongeBob drives out of control and fails once again.
Later on, in the season eight episode, The Hot Shot, SpongeBob would once again drive well after getting advice from Tony Fast Jr., but when Tony Fast encourages him to take a joy ride, SpongeBob panics when the police and Tony Fast Jr's father pursue them.
When Sargent Roderick points SpongeBob's dismembered arm at him three times, its hand plays Rock-Paper-Scissors.
The title card is similar to Ditchin'.
SpongeBob was able to complete the driving course with the blindfold because he memorized it, but even though he never memorized the road in this manner, he was able to drive on it with Patrick's pants obscuring his vision.

APM Music IdentificationEdit

Horlepiep - Title card
Furtive Footsteps - "I represent the Boating Teachers Accreditation Bureau..."
Dramatic Impact 1 - "Yes, but he's failed 1,258,056 times."
The Achterhoek Dances - (1st dance) Mrs. Puff gives SpongeBob a boating lesson while Mr. Fitz watches. (4th dance) Mrs. Puff is back at her school.
Hawaiian Cocktail - "I failed?"; "Why don't you ask the shattered remains of this pedestrain HOW YOU DID?"
Moloka'I Nui A - Mrs. Puff gets free and floats away.
Dramatic Impact 2 - Roderick throws a student through the door.
Finger of Fear - "Would anyone care for a bon-bon?"
Dramatic Cue A - "No eating in my Classroom!"
Deadline - Roderick teaches SpongeBob to drive
Pell-Mell - SpongeBob crawls the course.
Astronauts March - "I'm ashamed of you, cadet!"
Big Ed's March - Montage of SpongeBob training
Running Bass - SpongeBob runs the course.
Dangerous A - SpongeBob runs into FAKE pedestrians.
Up She Rises - SpongeBob learns the course blindfolded.
Unknown - SpongeBob drives the test un-blindfolded, this music is unknown and is used in various episodes.