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SpongeBob SquarePants "Boatnapping"
SpongeBob SquarePants "Boatnapping"
SpongeBob SquarePants "Boatnapping"
FADE IN:
EXT. SPONGEBOB'S HOUSE- DAY
SpongeBob steps outside and frolics toward the street. He begins to
sing out.
SPONGEBOB
"It's such a very nice day outside! And
I'm feelin' alright! It's such a very nice
day outside!" Good morning, Bikini
Bottom!
Squidward waits by the curb with luggage. He frets.
SQUIDWARD
Can my bus get here any faster?
SPONGEBOB
Squidward! Squidwardian! How's my
buddy this fine and dandy morning?
SQUIDWARD
Fine. I'm taking a bus to see my mother.
It's her birthday tomorrow.
SPONGEBOB
A birthday? Happy, happy, happy
birthday, mother Squid! I've got just the
thing. Be right back.
SpongeBob rushes inside. Squidward's bus pulls up.
SQUIDWARD
Thank heavens!
SpongeBob rushes back outside.
SPONGEBOB
SPONGEBOB
Patrick, enough with the dilly dally, I
came here to ask my best friend a favor.
PATRICK
I'm your best friend?
SPONGEBOB
Of course you are!
PATRICK
Wow, what do I get?
SPONGEBOB
You, my best friend, get to accompany
me, SpongeBob SquarePants, when I take
my boating test tomorrow afternoon.
PATRICK
A test? Wait a minute. I don't like tests.
They're hard. I thought this was
supposed to be big and fun.
SPONGEBOB
It is, Pat! It's big for me, and fun for you
because you just have to sit there.
PATRICK
Really? A test and I don't have to do
anything?
Patrick gapes.
SPONGEBOB
Absolutely positively right, pal!
PATRICK
I'm in. What do I gotta do?
SPONGEBOB
All you gotta do is come by Mrs. Puff's
Boating School two days from now at four
with your license and we get in the boat.
Patrick shakes his head.
PATRICK
My license? Mrs. Puff? The skull? The
MRS. PUFF
I forgot to mention you can only bring
them once. If you fail you have to get
another to sit in.
SpongeBob thinks to himself and freezes.
SPONGEBOB
What the heck? Be back in a snap! With
my new accompanier I know I am getting
my license today!
ACT TWO
MRS. PUFF
Haven't met anyone like you.
SPONGEBOB
Mrs. Puff?
MR. KRABS
Snookums, you know I have a place in
my heart for a puff like you.
SPONGEBOB
Mr. Krabs? Mrs. Puff?
MRS. PUFF
You know just what to say to make a fish
inflate with passion!
SpongeBob screams out.
SPONGEBOB
Mr. Krabs! Mrs. Puff!
MRS. PUFF, MR. KRABS
Huh?
SPONGEBOB
Are we doing this test or what?
MRS. PUFF
Right, SpongeBob. Let's do it.
LATER
SpongeBob drives Mrs. Puff's boat back to the boating school, doors
bent, tires flat.
Mrs. Puff and Mr. Krabs grimace, yet get out of the car and smile at one
another.
SPONGEBOB
Mrs. P., Did I pass or did I pass?
MRS. PUFF
Sorry, SpongeBob. Maybe next time.
SPONGEBOB
Barnacles! Gosh, darn it!
MRS. PUFF
Eugene, if you'd like to wait until I go
inside and tidy up in the little girls room,
you and I can get a bite to eat.
MR. KRABS
I'll be waiting here me little patty puff!
SPONGEBOB
Mr. Krabs, I'm disappointed in you.
MR. KRABS
Me? Why me?
SPONGEBOB
You call yourself an accompanier? To Mrs.
Puff, maybe, but to me? Some friend you
are. Now I gotta get another
accompanier!
SpongeBob cries and breaks down. Tears come out of his nose like a
sprinkler, then his pores.
MR. KRABS
SpongeBob, me boy, I did all I could. I
impressed the teacher, didn't I? Extra
credit?
SPONGEBOB
Extra...credit? For you maybe!
SpongeBob twists into a teapot, steams up, and walks off.
Mrs. Puff comes out of the school.
MRS. PUFF
Ready to go, handsome? Where's
SpongeBob? Aren't you giving him a ride
home?
MR. KRABS
No.
MRS. PUFF
Why not?
SPONGEBOB
I've got to make a lesson be learned, and
not learned by me this time.
GARY
Meow?
SPONGEBOB
Mrs. Puff needs to get what's coming to
her, doesn't she?
GARY
Meow.
SPONGEBOB
I'm gonna get her good! You with me,
buddy?
GARY
Meow.
INT. MRS. PUFF'S BOATING SCHOOL, CLASSROOM- DAY
A hand with a black glove on takes a pair of keys on a key hook as Mrs.
Puff lectures several feet away.
INT. MRS. PUFF'S BOAT- DAY
A hand with a black glove on starts Mrs. Puff's boat.
EXT. MRS. PUFF'S BOATING SCHOOL- DAY
Mrs. Puff's boat takes off and crashes against other boats on the road.
INT. MRS. PUFF'S BOATING SCHOOL, CLASSROOM- DAY
The bell RINGS.
Mrs. Puff sits at her desk. Students sit at desks. SpongeBob's desk
remains empty.
MRS. PUFF
Class, remember to read chapter thirty
tonight on parallel parking. And if
anybody knows SpongeBob's number,
ACT THREE
SPONGEBOB
Mrs. Puff! Mrs. Puff! Please! Tell them I'm
innocent! I'm innocent!
SpongeBob cries.
MRS. PUFF
I'm sorry, SpongeBob, I wish I could. All
signs prove you did it.
Mr. Krabs storms in.
MR. KRABS
Snookums! What happened? I got your
voice mail! What did that boy...
Mr. Krabs grows angry when he sees SpongeBob.
MR. KRABS (CONT'D)
So! You like to steal innocent teacher's
boats, do you?
SPONGEBOB
No, Mr. Krabs, I...You don't understand,
I...
MR. KRABS
Poor, innocent, Mrs. Puff, a delicate
creature of the underwater world. You
had to take what matters most to her.
Aside from me.
SPONGEBOB
For all you know, Mrs. Puff, it was Mr.
Krabs who stole your boat!
Mr. Krabs gasps.
MR. KRABS
What? Nonsense! Why, I...
SPONGEBOB
Face it, Mr. K., You always wanted to
impress Mrs. Puff with expensive stuff,
right? Stole the boat to buy her a new
one, ay? Mr. Moneybags!
MR. KRABS
MRS. PUFF
What?
PATRICK
SpongeBob wanted me to be his
accompanier. He wanted me to drive his
boat to the skull head by the beach and
meet him there, I guess.
MRS. PUFF
You guess?
PATRICK
It was early, I don't really recall the facts.
I was tired. I drove it to the skull and he
flaked on me.
MRS. PUFF
Then how did you get my keys?
PATRICK
Lady, I've been shoveling all day in my
back yard looking for buried treasure
before I got the boat. See.
Patrick shows Mrs. Puff his black gloves, full of dirt.
PATRICK (CONT'D)
I knew where the keys were because I
was in your class once before.
SpongeBob really should leave his keys
in a safer place.
MRS. PUFF
His keys? What kind of idiot are you? Be
gone with you! Shoo! Give me my keys!
Patrick gives Mrs. Puff the keys to her boat.
PATRICK
It's not that great of a boat if you ask me,
I've seen better.
MRS. PUFF
The nerve of you!
MR. KRABS
There, there, my little powder puff.
SPONGEBOB
No problem. I always wanted to visit a
police station and play prisoner. Now, to
go home and rest up for class tomorrow
morning!
EXT. BUS STATION- NIGHT
A bus pulls up and stops. Squidward gets off the bus.
EXT. BIKINI BOTTOM POLICE STATION- NIGHT
SpongeBob sings as he leaves the police station all giddy.
SPONGEBOB
"La-la-la! La-la-la! La-la-la! La-la-la!"
SpongeBob looks across the street and shrieks.
SPONGEBOB (CONT'D)
Hey, Squidward!
EXT. BUS STATION- NIGHT
Squidward's jaw drops.
SQUIDWARD
Huh?
The bus takes off and runs over a puddle of water. It lands all over
Squidward. He grimaces and groans.
SQUIDWARD (CONT'D)
SpongeBob? Out of jail? Why me?
EXT. BIKINI BOTTOM POLICE STATION- NIGHT
SpongeBob laughs and continues to sing as he walks off.
SPONGEBOB
"La-la-la! La-la-la! La-la-la! La-la-la!"
INT. MRS. PUFF'S BOATING SCHOOL, CLASSROOM- DAY