Boating School

"Boating School" is the second segment of the fourth episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. This is the first official appearance of SpongeBob's boating teacher Mrs. Puff.
==Synopsis==
It is the day of SpongeBob's driving exam at Mrs. Puff's Boating School, and he is very excited, for if he passes it, he will get his license. Having taken the oral exam thirty-eight times previously, SpongeBob is able to answer the questions before they are even asked. However, upon reaching the driving portion of the exam, he panics and quickly crashes into a lighthouse, causing Mrs. Puff's body to inflate.
Later that night, SpongeBob complains about his failure to Gary. Patrick is then heard talking to him from a walkie-talkie under his bed covers. He asks SpongeBob to head to his closet for a "surprise". It is Patrick wearing his clothes and calling himself "Patrick SquarePants". SpongeBob is too depressed to laugh, and explains his problem to Patrick and mentions that he needs someone to help him think straight during the exam. Patrick quickly devises a plan. He puts a walkie-talkie inside SpongeBob's head so that he can talk SpongeBob through the test, hiding the antenna with a cowboy hat.
The next day, SpongeBob arrives to take the test again. When asked to start the boat, he initially panics, but Patrick's instructions keep him calm. This is followed by a montage of SpongeBob acing the exam, interspersed with shots of Patrick eating SpongeBob's food and reading his diary while helping him. Mrs. Puff is floored by his sudden improvement and jokingly suggests that SpongeBob's success is due to an antenna under his hat through which "some guy miles away from here is giving you (him) all the answers." SpongeBob (and Patrick) finds this hilarious, until Mrs. Puff adds, "But that would be cheating!" Upon realizing that he has been cheating, SpongeBob goes into hysterics, making Patrick realize that his method is bad, forcing Patrick to flee to his house, and driving wildly all over the course and sobbing while Mrs. Puff, in a panic, tries desperately to stop him but SpongeBob refuses to listen, crashing the boat and failing the test again, and the inflated Mrs. Puff is taken to the hospital. As he leaves boating school, he finds Gary riding his unicycle. SpongeBob rides off on it, with Gary atop his head, saying "Let's go surprise someone at the hospital!"
== Home video releases ==
;VHS
*SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly
;DVD
* Nickelodeon DVD Sampler
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost at Sea
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete 1st Season
* SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes
== Trivia ==
*A clip from this episode was used in a Dodge commercial.
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