"Teacher's Pests" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 11. In this episode, Mr. Krabs and Plankton go to boating school.

Characters[]

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Mrs. Puff
• Incidentals
  • Judge 3 ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 49 ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 107 ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 64 ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 6 ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 37B ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 106 ^{(video only)}
  • Incidental 116 ^{(heard only)}
• Doctor 2 (The Lost Mattress)
• Fish driver
• French Narrator
• Highway Speed Patrol

Synopsis[]

After Mr. Krabs and Plankton get involved in a chaotic car accident, a furious police officer tells them that they have to attend traffic school to start the episode.

Mr. Krabs angrily walks into Mrs. Puff's Boating School, where he intends to find the best seat. He then gets into a fight with Plankton over where to sit, which is then settled by Mrs. Puff, who then shows them a video on driving safety using a projector. The video portrays SpongeBob as the careless driver who should not be emulated. At the end of the video, SpongeBob crashes into the camera, which causes him to fly through the projector screen into Mrs. Puff, late for boating school.

SpongeBob then shows Mr. Krabs and Plankton the Good Noodle Board. Plankton claims he does not care, but he quickly changes his mind when Mr. Krabs makes a contest out of who can get more stickers.

After Plankton puts an apple on Mrs. Puff's seat, he and Mr. Krabs force-feed various fruits to Mrs. Puff in an attempt to please her. It is at this point when she realizes that they just want stars on the Good Noodle Board.

Then, they go to the testing track, where Mrs. Puff informs them they must pull forward slowly and carefully. In an effort to show off, Mr. Krabs proceeds to drive up the side of the lighthouse, and Plankton follows behind.

The two end up crashing towards the top and fall to the ground, resulting in their test failing. SpongeBob's boat then lightly taps into the others, which causes a massive explosion.

At the Bikini Bottom Hospital, Dr. Actor informs Plankton where he is. He then tells him there were complications when putting the body parts together. It is revealed that Mr. Krabs, Plankton, and SpongeBob have all been sewn together. Before the episode ends, Mr. Krabs and Plankton scream in agony while SpongeBob laughs.

Production[]

John Trabbic posted a rough storyboard panel from this episode on October 25, 2016.^[1]

The final storyboard was completed on January 5, 2017, and was originally titled as "Teacher's Pets." After the final storyboard was completed it was confirmed by Vincent Waller a day later simply renamed as "Teacher's Pest."^[2]

Storyboards[]

Deleted scene[]

There's a scene where SpongeBob runs over fake pedestrians during the last driving session.^[3]

Music[]

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Horlepiep - Jan Rap [Title card]
 • Cheap and Frozen Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [The opening]
 ‣ Wargames Linking Section (F) - Keith Mansfield [Plankton drives his tank.]
 • Earls Revenge - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Mr. Krabs and Plankton fight while they are driving.]
 • Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [A cop appears angrily.]
 ‣ Dramatic Impact (6) - Ivor Slaney [The cop sends Mr. Krabs and Plankton to the traffic school.]
 • Drunken Sailor Solo Accordion - Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs walks into boating school.]
 • Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs sits on a pushpin.]
 ‣ Capering Clowns - Max Saunders [Mr. Krabs and Plankton fight over the desks.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 12E - Jeremy Wakefield ["Sorry, cutie."]
 • Oh My Neptune - Nicolas Carr [Mrs. Puff puts on brass knuckles.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 25A - Jeremy Wakefield ["Brass knuckles, huh? Respect."]
 ‣ Window Shopping - Peter Yorke [Mrs. Puff shows a driving safety film to Mr. Krabs and Plankton.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 31B - Jeremy Wakefield ["Sorry, I'm late."]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 11E - Jeremy Wakefield ["I need to call my therapist."]
 • Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, this is so great having you in class with me, Mr. Krabs!"]
 • Breathing Underwater - Nicolas Carr [Mr. Krabs stares at the Good Noodle Board.]
 • Down in Davie Jones Locker - Nicolas Carr ["I'm gonna have so many stars."]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 6G - Jeremy Wakefield ["Forget it, Eugene! I am going to be the star pupil!"]
 ‣ Clumsy C - Bernd Gesell [Mrs. Puff talks on the phone.]
 • The Pollywog Strut - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Plankton gives Mrs. Puff an apple.]
 • Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Mr. Krabs and Plankton throw fruit at Mrs. Puff.]
 • Hippy Hillbilly Huckster No Mandolin - Nicolas Carr [A packet of apple seeds is shown.]
 • Spongemonger - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Plankton plants an apple tree.]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - William Merrick Farran [Mrs. Puff hits Plankton and Mr. Krabs with the apple tree.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 4B - Jeremy Wakefield ["Ahh... Beautiful stars!"]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 5B - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob hits himself with the apple tree.]
 ‣ Hide and Seek - Arthur Wilkinson [Mrs. Puff explains the importance of mirrors, while Mr. Krabs and Plankton are bullying each other.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 32B - Jeremy Wakefield [Weapons fall to the ground.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 19E - Jeremy Wakefield [Mrs. Puff grumbles.]
 • Monster Wave No Sax - Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez [Mr. Krabs' and Plankton's cars slam into each other.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 35 - Jeremy Wakefield [The apple falls out of Mrs. Puff's mouth.]
 • Monster Wave No Sax - Nicolas Carr, Fabian Fernandez [Mr. Krabs' and Plankton's cars slam into each other again.]
 ‣ Happy Links 1-5 - Paul Fenoulhet ["Now these are my last boats and if you wreck 'em, none of you will pass my class."]
 ‣ All Cars and Thames! - Ralph Dollimore [Mr. Krabs and Plankton drive wildly on the test track.]
 • Hot Steel and Slide Licks 8B - Jeremy Wakefield ["That's it! You both fail!"]
 • Lap Steel - Nicolas Carr [An explosion is caused.]
 • Soapy Organ - Hiram Titus [Plankton is in the hospital.]
 ‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - William Merrick Farran [SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton are stitched together.]

Release[]

• This episode is available on the SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 18, The Complete Eleventh Season, Squid Noir, Another 100 Episodes, and The Best 300 Episodes Ever DVDs.

Trivia[]

General[]

• The introduction video for boating is similar to the episode "Boat Smarts."
• This episode marks the second time Mr. Krabs is seen in Mrs. Puff's Boating School. The first was "Tutor Sauce."
• This episode marks the second appearance of the Good Noodle Board in the series. The first was in "New Student Starfish."
  • In the aforementioned episode, SpongeBob had 74 stars (25 physically) on his column, yet in this episode, he has zero.
• This episode marks Plankton as the fourth main character to go to boating school with SpongeBob, following Patrick in "New Student Starfish," Squidward in "Boating Buddies," and Mr. Krabs in "Tutor Sauce."
• This episode marks the third appearance of the Barnacle Chips billboard, which appeared previously in "Chocolate with Nuts" and "Burst Your Bubble."
• Mr. Krabs and Mrs. Puff do not seem to recognize each other, despite meeting and falling in love in "Krusty Love" and dating for 16 years in "Whirly Brains."
• Mrs. Puff can roll when inflated.
• When Mrs. Puff hits Plankton with the tree, he points at stars over his head and says "Beautiful stars!," then SpongeBob hits himself with the tree to get the stars, but Mrs. Puff takes them. The fourth wall is broken here.
• SpongeBob is able to drive perfectly fine in this episode, despite being considered "Unteachable."
• In this episode, SpongeBob's slot on the Good Noodle board has no stars, whereas he had lots of stars in "New Student Starfish."
• Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, and Plankton all have boatmobiles and flags that match their skin tones respectively: red, yellow, and green.
• This is one of the few Boating School episodes where SpongeBob isn't the one damaging the school.

Dub facts[]

• In the French dub, this episode shares the same name with the season 9 episode "Tutor Sauce," being "Mauvaise conduite," which translates to "Bad Behavior."

Episode references[]

• Plankton is used as one eye of Mr. Krabs, which is a reference to "The Other Patty."

Cultural references[]

• The title is a pun on the term "Teacher's Pet."
• Kilroy can be seen on the title card.
  • It would later be referenced in "The Nitwitting."
• When Mrs. Puff picks up the apple tree and whacks Plankton and Mr. Krabs, the quote she said, "You want stars? I'll give you stars!," is a reference to Jill Valentine from video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, when she shot and killed Nemesis.
• The ending where SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs and Plankton are attached together is similar to the 1991 horror film Body Parts.

Errors[]

• When the apple tree grows out of Mrs. Puff's mouth, the grapefruit and the squashed apple on her desk disappear.
• In one scene, SpongeBob's eyelashes disappear.
• SpongeBob's pores are not mirrored when he is seen in Mrs. Puff's rearview mirror.
• The voices of highway speed patrol officer and Dr. Gill Gilliam are uncredited.
• In Nickelodeon Asia, on the November 24, 2023 rerun, the intro got skipped.
• In the UK and Ireland, Mr. Krabs saying "Ohh, shrimp!" and Plankton's scream while Plankton's spinning tank hits Mr. Krabs' boat in the highway is muted for unknown reasons.

Videos[]

Names in other languages[]

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Fahrschul-Rowdies	Driving School Hooligans
Russian	Мучители учителя Muchiteli uchitelya	Teacher's Torturers

References[]

1. ^ John Trabbic on Instagram - "Plankton."
2. ^ Vincent Waller on Twitter
3. ^ Caroline Director on Tumblr