No Free Rides (Episode)

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No Free Rides
Episode No.:	30a
Airdate:	7.3.2001
Season:	Season 2
Previous Episode:	Dumped
Next Episode:	I'm Your Biggest Fanatic

"No Free Rides" is an episode from Season 2.

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Info

Time/Date

Tuesday

Characters

Plot

This 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 has to spend another year at boating school. Mrs. Puff does not want this, so she gives SpongeBob a bogus extra-credit assignment so she can be rid of SpongeBob. After that, she gives him his driver's license. She considers the consequences, which are potentially quite chaotic. At her house, there is a surprise party for her. 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. She does not realize that SpongeBob is in it, and she is caught by the police.

Cultural References

This episode's convoluted plot owes much to the surrealistic films of David Lynch.
The scene where the boat jumps and goes straight into the police car, it is making a spoof of The Dukes Of Hazard where General Lee makes jumps and is being chased by the police.
SpongeBob says that the radio station is K-R-U-D. If you pronounce it, it's 'crud'.
Also, K-R-U-D is a real radio station in Hawaii.

Trivia

The accident company has the same phone number as the The Strangler (555-1234).
On YTV airings of this episode, SpongeBob says "With all your personal 'You won't get away with stealing my car!' hits.", but the captions say "With all your personal-- You won't get away with stealing my car!".
This episode is seen breaking the fourth wall when the narrator gets hit by SpongeBob during the driving test.
After the surprise that SpongeBob and his parents held for Mrs. Puff, when the camera shifts back on Mrs. Puff you can see a small picture of Mrs. Puff entering her door surprised just like she was when she entered the door. And, that picture contains another picture containing the same thing.
When Ms. Puff gives SpongeBob his drivers license, he licks it and comments "It tastes just like I dreamt it would." This is an obvious reference to the episode "Sleepy Time" in which he dreams he holds a drivers license and licks it.
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 may mean that this is not her real name.
When SpongeBob is being grated (By cheesegraters) His eyes come out the graters twice.
Mrs. Puff does not 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 after SpongeBob’s first drive, 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."
At the start Mrs. Puff says that SpongeBob got negative 224, then after SpongeBob hits a bunch of traffic cones, she said that he got 6. This goof is similar in The Simpsons Movie, where Wiggum tells Homer Simpson he should take the rap instead of