Mrs. Puff, You're Fired
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| "Mrs. Puff, You’re Fired" | |
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| Information | |
| Season №: | 4 |
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| Episode №: | 69b |
| Airdate: | April 1, 2006 |
| 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 |
| Directors | |
| Main: | Quentin Bryce |
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“Mrs. Puff, You’re Fired” is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season four.
Brief summary: Mrs. Puff loses her job, and a tough new teacher takes over.
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Mrs. Puff
- Sergeant Sam Roderick
- Mr. Gunther Fitz
- Patrick Star
- Bikini Bottomites
Time cards shown:
- Several days later
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Plot
At Mrs. Puff's Boating School, Mr. Fitz, the superintendent, is talking to Mrs. Puff about her 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. Mr. Fitz fires Mrs. Puff, 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 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.
Transcript
Trivia/Goofs
- The Season 4 Volume 1 DVD case depicts this episode.
- The episode's storyline is very similar to the 2005 comedy film The Pacifier.
- SpongeBob runs into an acid-filled trench and comes back out as a skeleton, but sponges are invertebrates.
- Roderick sleeve insignia is that of a corporal, despite being referred to as a sergeant.
- Roderick says that it's illegal to drive with a blindfold on in Bikini Bottom.
- SpongeBob could have easily closed his eyes during his boating test to substitute a blindfold.
- At the beginning of the episode, Mr. Fitz says that he represents the Boating Teachers Accreditation Bureau. However, the captions say "voting" instead of "boating".
- This is one of the many episodes that shows SpongeBob lifting something heavy (The boating instructor) yet in some episodes he is extremely weak. In "MuscleBob BuffPants", he can't even lift a straw.
- When SpongeBob removes the brakes from the boat, he says that he only had to unscrew two little bolts, but as he takes it apart, many bolts are seen falling behind him.
- In the scene when the new instructor explains his rules, the students appear to all be children.
- When Roderick throws the first student out he goes through the right hand door and the left one appears to be open, but when he throws the second student the left door is closed as he goes through it.
- When Spongebob drives through the city after Rodrick is hit by the boat, the buildings collasp, and Spongebob leaves the city, but when he has Patrick's shorts over his eyes, he is back in the city, with no explaination how, the buildings are back to normal too.
- Most of the techniques that are shown in this episode are also done on a real driving course.
APM Music Identification
- 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.
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