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Boatmobiles are boat-shaped cars which are the main mode of personal transport for Bikini Bottomites. They first appear in the episode "Reef Blower" and play major roles in many episodes, often associated with Mrs. Puff and her boating school.
SpongeBob dreams of obtaining his license to drive a boatmobile one day, but whenever he gets behind the wheel of a boat, he tenses up and crashes. Boatmobiles have appeared in a variety of SpongeBob SquarePants merchandise, from toy cars to video games such as SpongeBob's Boating Bash.
Description[]
They commonly are white with a red stripe and a thin black stripe in the middle. Most boatmobiles are two-seater, open-top convertibles, and show generic traits to 1960s cars, such as vintage-styled interiors and a distinctive, rough engine noise.
Boats in the series[]
For "Reef Blower," the base boatmobile was created for the scene where SpongeBob speeds past an intersection, causing the incoming boats to brake violently. This base model came to be known as:
- Boat 1[1]
- By the time of "Hall Monitor," several other boats were created for the traffic monitor scene. As of at least 2018[1], these are the main boats used within the main model pack:
- Boat 2[1], A small two stack boat with white and blue coloring and no side windows
- Boat 3[1], An enclosed boat with two stacks, and similar coloring to Boat 1
- Boat 4[1], A yellow boat with a sleek appearance and two front wheels attached to skis.
- Boat 5[1], A wood bodied (typically)white boat with a round wheelhouse and red-lined stack
- Boat 6[1], Another wood bodied white boat. This one has it's wheelhouse more centered in the hull, and has a purple-lined stack
- Boat 7[1], A white boat with a considerably more metal hull construction. It has red seating and a red topped motor.
- Boat 8[1], Which is similar to a less detailed Boat 1. Its has no doors and red seating.
- Boat 9[1][3], Very similar to Boat 7, differing in the fact that this boat has square front windows and side portholes, alongside a tall stack. The portholes and stack were originally blue in Hall Monitor, but has shifted towards a combo red/blue stack around the time of season 7.
- Boat 10[1], A riveted, light and dark gray boat similar to a submarine.
- Boat 11[1], A boat with a red and white hull, and wooden decking. It also possesses similar windows to Boat 9 and a fat and stout red-lined stack
- Boat 12[1], A similar boat to 1 and 8. It has a blue hull and seating, and a squarish windshield.
- In addition to the main vehicles, "SpongeBob SquarePants" has also seen:
- A Bus (several appearances)
- Boaty ("No Free Rides," "Gone")
- Garbage truck ("The Bully, Extreme Spots")
- Oil truck ("Picture Day")
- Limousine ("What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?," "The Chaperone," "Culture Shock")
- Delivery truck ("The Gift of Gum")
- School bus ("Squidward's School for Grown-Ups")
- Microboat ("Squidward's School for Grown-Ups")
- S.U.B. ("Drive Thru," "Squidward's School for Grown-Ups")
- Moped (Squidward's School for Grown-Ups)
- Baytona Classic ("The Hot Shot," "A SquarePants Family Vacation")
- Baytona Boat ("The Hot Shot," "A SquarePants Family Vacation")
- Station Wagon ("A SquarePants Family Vacation")
- Bikes ("SpongeBob Meets the Strangler")
- BassCar Boats ("The Hot Shot," "A SquarePants Family Vacation")
- Demolition Derby Boats ("Demolition Doofus")
- Pie Delivery Truck ("Funny Pants")
- Whoopee Cushion Delivery Truck ("Funny Pants")
- 16 Wheeler ("Pizza Delivery," "Hall Monitor")
- The Patty Wagon (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie)
- Covered Top ("Home Sweet Pineapple")
- Canoe ("Band Geeks")
- Police Cruiser ("Party Pooper Pants," Lights, Camera, Pants!, "Doing Time," and some others)
- The invisible boatmobile (several for episodes that contain Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy only)
- Ice cream boatmobile ("The Goofy Newbie")
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Boats from SpongeBob's Boating Bash[]
- Big Tug
- Little Tug
- Cuttle-ac
- SUB
- Double Trouble
- Rust Bucket
- Zed Zed
- Dingy
- Hovercraft
Notable owners[]
- Mrs. Puff (owns several boats for her school)
- Patrick Star (Still owns a Bass Blaster 3000, even though he "threw it away.")
- SpongeBob SquarePants (shortly owned Boaty)
- Harold SquarePants and Margaret SquarePants (station wagon)
- Squidward Tentacles (Owns one in "Boating Buddies." Also owns a green canoe, as seen in "Band Geeks." He also had a basic one in "Dying for Pie.")
- Larry the Lobster (S.U.B.)
- Plankton (Owned a red boatmobile. See "Drive Thru.")
- Eugene H. Krabs (Basic. Also owns a delivery boatmobile, as seen in "Pizza Delivery," and the Patty Wagon.)
- Seymour Scales (SpongeBob's Boating Bash. Big Tug)
- Incidental 41 (seen driving one)
- Dennis (bike)
- Pearl Krabs (gets one in "Whale of a Birthday")
- Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (The invisible boatmobile)
- Sandy Cheeks (owns the Jeep-Mobile in "To Save a Squirrel")
- Many incidental or unnamed Bikini Bottomites.
- Jim (owns a golden limousine)
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Trivia[]
- Each of the ten main characters have been shown driving a boatmobile at least once in the series.