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SpongeBob SquarePants episode
"No Free Rides"
Chronology
Information
Season №: 2
Episode №: 30a
Airdate: March 7, 2001
Best Day Ever Rank: #33
Credits
Writer(s): Aaron Springer
C.H. Greenblatt
Doug Lawrence
Storyboard Artist(s): C.H. Greenblatt
Directors
Main: Aaron Springer
Storyboard: None
Animation: Tom Yasumi
Creative: Derek Drymon
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"No Free Rides" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Brief summary: To avoid having SpongeBob spend another year at boating school, Mrs. Puff gives him his driver's license. However, after realizing that she has given SpongeBob free reign to cause havoc all over Bikini Bottom, Mrs. Puff resolves to stop it.

Characters:

Contents

Plot

It is SpongeBob's last driving exam for the year, and as usual, he performs very poorly. He earns a score of 6, while he needs 600 to pass. SpongeBob is excited because he gets to spend another year at boating school. Mrs. Puff is horrified at the prospect of spending another year with him, so she gives SpongeBob a bogus extra-credit assignment that allows her to pass him. After giving Spongebob his license, she considers the consequences, imagining Spongebob destroying the city, but dismisses them. When Mrs. Puff arrives at her house that night, Spongebob and his parents hold a surprise party for her, congratulating her on successfully teaching Spongebob how to drive. SpongeBob's parents give him a new boat-mobile, and they go home. SpongeBob sneaks out of bed and sleeps in his new boat-mobile, and Mrs. Puff attempts to steal it. After a long struggle, in which the boat is started and Spongebob ultimately finds out the identity of the "boat-jacker", the boat crashes into a police car, and Mrs. Puff is arrested. While Spongebob visits her in prison, Mrs. Puff apologizes for giving Spongebob his license when he wasn't ready, and Spongebob tells her that the warden will let her go early if she gives free driving lessons.

Transcript

Main article: No Free Rides (transcript)

Trivia/Goofs

  • The accident company has the same phone number as the Tattletale Strangler (555-1234).
  • SpongeBob says "With all your personal You won't get away with stealing my car! hits.", but the captions simply say "With all your personal You won't get away with stealing my car!".
  • The French Narrator is run over by Spongebob at the beginning of the episode.
  • After the surprise that SpongeBob and his parents hold for Mrs. Puff, when the camera shifts back on Mrs. Puff, a small picture of Mrs. Puff entering her door surprised, which she did in the previous scene, can be seen. In addition, the same picture is seen within this picture. This is an example of a recursive image, one that is repeated infinitely within itself.
  • When Mrs. Puff gives SpongeBob his drivers license, he licks it and comments "It tastes just like I dreamt it would." Incidentally, "Sleepy Time" in which he dreams he holds a drivers license and licks it.
  • The scene where the boat jumps and crashes into the police car is a reference to The Dukes of Hazard.
  • SpongeBob says that the radio station is K-R-U-D, which if pronounced says "crud".
  • After SpongeBob and his parents leave her house, Mrs. Puff says, "I gotta move out of town and change my name! No, not again." This implies that she has actually done so in the past, and that "Mrs. Puff" may not be her real name.
  • When SpongeBob is being grated by cheesegraters, his eyes come out the graters twice.
  • Mrs. Puff doesn't need help being deflated.
  • When Mrs. Puff yells, "Extra Credit" and runs to SpongeBob with his unicycle, and she leads him back into the classroom, the unicycle disappears.
  • When Mrs. Puff imagines the news report on the destruction caused by Spongebob, it says "Live", but at the end the of the report, when SpongeBob runs over the reporter, the reporter says "let's not use that take."
  • If looked upon closely, SpongeBob wrote on his paper, "What I learned in Boating School is how to drive".
  • This is the last episode to use "My Leg!" until "Krusty Krushers".
  • The cliff that the police car is parked next to disappears in the next shot.
  • Although SpongeBob is seen coming out of the radio slot in the car, earlier on in the episode this same radio is shown (when Mrs. Puff is first stealing the Boat) and it still had a SpongeBob-like appearence before the event occured.
  • The man mopping the floor, has different-colored shoes.
  • There are candles on top of Spongebob's bedposts that are lit. When Spongebob's mom turns the lights out in his room, the candles go out too.
  • When mrs. puff is driving away and spongebob is holding the windshield, the sky looks like a flowery ceiling.

Quotes

  • (While Stealing Spongebob's boat)

Mrs. Puff: I hope I can stil remember how to do this. (Pulls out a balloon and makes a blow-up animal). Yeahah....

  • (At Boating School)
Narrator: This is SpongeBob's final exam. And if he doesn't pass, it means another whole YEAR OF BOATING SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! (As SpongeBob heads for him and runs into him)(in pain) Oooooooooooohhh.
SpongeBob: What happened?
Mrs. Puff: Oh, nothing SpongeBob, you just struck another pedestrian. (writes on clipboard) -20 more points…
SpongeBob: How many does that leave me with?
Mrs. Puff: -224.
SpongeBob: How many more minutes left in the test?
Mrs. Puff: The test is over.
SpongeBob: That’s enough time, I can make up those points! (SpongeBob is about to pull into reverse)
Mrs. Puff: No, SpongeBob, you didn’t hear me! (the boat rams into reverse; Mrs. Puff screams. She pleads SpongeBob to stop as SpongeBob knocks over a whole row of cones, drives through a brick wall and crashes in front of the school's main building. The dust clears)
SpongeBob: Okay, Mrs. Puff, what’s my final score?
Mrs. Puff: 6.
SpongeBob: Whoo! And how many do I need to pass?
Mrs. Puff: 6...
SpongeBob: (raising arms slowly) Oooooooooooo….
Mrs. Puff: …hundred.
SpongeBob: Huh?
Mrs. Puff: 600. You need 600 to pass... you got 6.
  • (At the Bikini Bottom jail)
SpongeBob: Are you kidding? You're the only teacher for this student. And besides, the warden says she'll let you go early! If you do her a favor.
Mrs. Puff: What's that?
SpongeBob: Free Driving Lessons! (starts laughing)
  • (In SpongeBob's boat)
SpongeBob: Who are you and what are you doing in my boat, and why are you wearing that ski-mask? BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT SKIING! Oh my gosh, I know who you are!
Mrs. Puff: No you don't, you don't know who I am!
SpongeBob: Yes I do, I know that you're... a boat jacker! I never thought I would have to use this pepper spray. (SpongeBob sprays pepper spray into his own eyes) AHH, SOMEBODY HELP ME... SOMEBODY HELP ME!
Prize
  • (Outskirts of downtown Bikini Bottom)
SpongeBob: Nothing will stop me...not even... GIANT CLAMS!!! Ouch ouch ooh ouch...
SpongeBob: I won't let go...not even for CHEESE GRATERS!!!
SpongeBob: If you think I’ll let go just for a little... EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION??? OOOOOOOOOOOHHH NOOOOOO!!! AHHHHHHH!!!
Mrs. Puff: Looks like that got rid of him. Now for some tunes...
SpongeBob (as radio): And now back to K-R-U-D with all of your personal "you won't get away with stealing my car!" hits.
  • (News Broadcast)
News Fish: So much destruction...this reporter asks why. Local consensus blames this selfish driving instructor, who-Oof! (SpongeBob drives over the Fish Head) (Weakly) Lets...not use that take.
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