Nautical Novice
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| "Nautical Novice" | |
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| Season №: | 6 |
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| Episode №: | 102b |
| Airdate: | March 29, 2008 |
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| Writer(s): | Casey Alexander Zeus Cervas Derek Iversen |
| Supervising Producer: | Paul Tibbitt |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Casey Alexander Zeus Cervas |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Vincent Waller |
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"Nautical Novice" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode.
Brief Summary: SpongeBob tries to memorize the history of boating in one night.
Time/Date:
- Before 2003
Time cards shown:
- 7:59 AM
Characters Present:
Plot
The episode starts with SpongeBob and his class at Mrs. Puff's Boating School. While everyone is bored hoping for class to end as she is talking about steering, SpongeBob is taking notes in an excited personality. When class ends, Mrs. Puff reminds the class that they are going on a field trip to the Bikini Bottom Museum of Boating tomorrow and the bus will pick them up at 8:00 AM. When Spongebob realizes that this is finally his chance to impress Mrs. Puff and get his driver's license, he reads a 7,400 page book called "The History of All Boating Ever". When SpongeBob finishes the book at 7:59 AM on the next day, he ends up falling asleep when he realizes that tomorrow is today and he's going to be late for the bus! He races it once it leaves his house, and then Mrs. Puff tells Peterson, the bus driver, to speed up. But SpongeBob suddenly comes in through the window. While SpongeBob begins talking to Mrs. Puff, she realizes SpongeBob's bad smell and gives him a "Shower in a Can". SpongeBob then starts talking about the trivia of boating, which starts to give Mrs. Puff a headache. So, when the class finally arrives at the museum, SpongeBob is paying no attention as he is still talking about boating to Mrs. Puff and crashes into the front window and gets converted into a puddle outside the bus door, he then is back up again when he sees the museum in front of him. Mrs. Puff explains it was the largest boat ever that is now converted into a museum and can no longer be operated unless it goes to its yearly check at port. Throughout the day, SpongeBob keeps interrupting Mrs. Puff to tell the students what she's about to say, much to her chagrin. Right when the class is about to leave, Mrs. Puff notices that SpongeBob has gone missing, it turns out that he was in the driving room of the boat! He turns on the air conditioners on very high without noticing, which accidentally starts the boat! When Mrs. Puff finds SpongeBob as she came back into the museum, she tries to stop the boat when she noticed it has been started boating (SpongeBob thought it was a projection screen), but she's never driven any boat so advanced before! So when she notices that the boat is going to crash into Bikini Bottom after SpongeBob turns the boat on Turbo Speed, Spongebob tries to stop the boat by batttening down the hatches, lowering the anchor, uttering a hearty seaman's laugh, and doing the reverse 720 tailspin (which has never sucessfully been done before). And right when the boat is about to destroy Bikini Bottom, it stops, only tapping the first building. When Mrs. Puff and SpongeBob leave the boat, Mrs. Puff gives SpongeBob his driver's license due to her impression. But she is outraged when she finds out that the museum owner was simply taking the boat into Bikini Bottom for a checkup at port and that he was doing all of the driving. So she tears up SpongeBob's driver's license. When the three are about to go have ice cream, SpongeBob notices that the headlights of the boat are still on. So as the museum owner and Mrs. Puff tell SpongeBob not to touch anything, he flips the boat on the two as Mrs. Puff inflates once again saying "Good thing you studied".
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Trivia
- A segment of this episode was featured on the commercial for SpongeBob's Gimme 5 week, but it didn't air during that time.
- It aired with Spongicus, but pairs with Penny Foolish wich has the same title card music (first).
- In the German version of this episode, the episode is called Das Bootskundemuseum, which means "The Boat Studies Museum".
- Nat looked slightly different in this episode, as since his back fin looked different and he was also wearing a shirt.
- This is the third time they showed SpongeBob's library in the series. The other episodes are Boating School, Something Smells, The Thing and Grooming Gary.
- The fish that was tugging the boat was in front of the boat. When the camera zoomed out he wasn't there. You couldn't really tell if that was SpongeBob who made the museum flip onto him.
- The episode's title refers to the dialogue line in the song "If nautical nonsense is something you wish". The words "Nautical Nonsense" is changed to Nautical Novice.
- The license that Mrs. Puff gives Spongebob says it expires on December 14, 2003
- The license that Mrs. Puff gives Spongebob says that Spongebob has yellow hair. Even though Spongebob does not have hair at all, but in The Smoking Peanut, he tells Sandy Cheeks that he needs to get a haircut. Spongebobs has one hair as seen in Krusty Krab Training Video. Spongebob combs and dries his hair in The Sponge Who Could Fly.
- SpongeBob would've been driving because the tugboat was never there before and the engines and everything else were on, and also everything started moving when SpongeBob was using the controls.
- The title card is the same as Pat No Pay and Krusty Love
- When the camera shows a close-up of the history book, Spongebob's legs are missing.
- The title card is similar to that of another episode, Suction Cup Symphony.
- The music that plays during the boat museum montage is the theme song from the 1950's British radio sitcom, The Navy Lark.
