Hall Monitor

"**Hall Monitor**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Maggie becomes hall monitor in Mr. Banks's Driving School, but when he does his duties outside of Driving school, it results in chaos.

## Characters

* English Narrator
* Maggie Muffin
* Kira Moonhead
* Mr. Banks
* Scamp

## Synopsis

At Mr. Banks's Driving School, it is time to select the hall monitor for the day. Mr. Banks notices that Maggie is the only one who has yet to serve as hall monitor. Maggie then approaches Mr. Banks, and after desperately attempting to find another candidate, she is forced to give the hall monitor duties to Maggie.

After being elected as Driving School Hall Monitor, Maggie gives an extremely long speech, which ends up lasting the entire school day (and thus his whole tenure as hall monitor), which puts Mr. Banks and all of his schoolmates to sleep. Out of sympathy, Mr. Banks allows Maggie to at least wear his uniform until the next day, though privately apprehensive of her decision.

However, Maggie goes above and beyond the call of duty and decides to become the "hall monitor" of the city, with disastrous results. His activities include an atrociously vain attempt to direct traffic, resulting in a massive pile-up, and scaring a couple out of their house in the guise of the "Open Window Maniac," with the intention of showing them the "dangers" of leaving a house window open. Later, Maggie comes across Kira eating a strawberry ice cream cone and labels him a criminal after Kira drops the ice cream on the ground.

Then, a newspaper boy comes up to Maggie and Kira, and gives them a newspaper with the headline "Maniac strikes Bikini Bottom." Maggie looks at the newspaper headline alerting about a maniac causing trouble around town, blind to the fact that he is himself the article's subject. Maggie suggests they stop this maniac, which gives a saddened Kira the chance to, in his words, "be good" by becoming Maggie's "deputy." They end up getting ice cream twice as part of Kira's "ex-criminal" advice and then decide to split up to find the maniac, communicating using walkie-talkies.

Seconds after Maggie runs off, two police officers pull up next to Kira. They ask him if he has seen the maniac, showing him a wanted poster with a picture of Maggie, which he at first mistakes for an imagined, separate maniac, and screams with terror at the mere sight of the poster.

The cops patiently assure him that it's just a drawing and not the real thing and instruct him to tell them if he has seen the person when they show the picture. Kira agrees to cooperate, but he keeps screaming whenever the police show him the sketch. Eventually, the cops decide to have a little fun and repeatedly show and hide the picture as Kira screams every single time. The officers then drive off, suggesting to Kira that he stays indoors and take the ice cream cone off his head.

Soon, night suddenly falls, and Kira becomes scared. He calls Maggie and asks him to return. Maggie comes back as Kira finds a poster of the maniac before he sees Maggie in the distance across the street under a streetlight. However, Kira recognizes him as the maniac rather than Maggie. He alerts Maggie through his walkie-talkie, and Maggie attempts to escape the maniac. Everywhere he goes, Kira tells him the maniac is there, causing Maggie to hide in a mailbox for safety. Upon being told that the maniac is also in there, he bursts his arms and legs out of the mailbox, sprinting around the city in a blind panic. In his terrified state, he topples several buildings and crashes through a fence covered in the wanted posters. After seeing a poster from the fence, he finally realizes that he is the maniac who has been reported in the newspaper and is being pursued by law enforcement.

The police arrive to arrest Maggie, but Mr. Banks appears and scolds Maggie for his foolish actions and destruction of the city, much to his sadness. She then explains the situation to them, letting out that he is *her* responsibility. The police interpret this as taking responsibility for the crimes, and she is arrested instead.

Sometime later at Driving School, Mr. Banks is working with the class on their essay while she is being broadcast on TV from jail, until she tells Maggie that he needs to see her after class, "six months from now."