It's the day of SpongeBob's boating school test. He rides his bike to Mrs. Puff's Boating School and jumps into one of the boats. Once SpongeBob is in the driving boat, he tries to move out of the parking space but crashes into two cars continuously. After crashing too many times, Mrs. Puff then inflates so much, she sends the car airborne. SpongeBob then crashes the car into the lighthouse, injuring Mrs. Puff.
In the hospital, the doctor clarifies that Mrs. Puff's inflation sac was popped in the collision and she will not be able to "puff" again. Mrs. Puff has to be tranquilized after she leaps onto SpongeBob and manhandles his nose. SpongeBob then begins to ramble and the doctor tranquilizes him as well. He then visits Mrs. Puff with a bouquet of flowers along with the hundreds of other flowers he sent her, which she appears to be allergic to.
After forcing her into a wheelchair, he pushes her down the hallway. Doctors are seen sprinting through the hallway with muscular men on the gurneys. SpongeBob stops Dr. Gill and asks him what is going on. He replies with saying that the Demolition Derby fish have been badly injured from the derby which is very dangerous for entertainment, as they've been hurt to the point they will never want to drive again. Mrs. Puff overhears this and comes up with a plan to trick SpongeBob into thinking he'll never want to drive again, and claims she has a way for SpongeBob to earn "extra credit."
After leaving the hospital and talking to Captain Lutefisk, she shows him how much damage SpongeBob can do with a boat, though he is just using a steering wheel. Lutefisk says he is perfect for the derby and makes him a sock mask.
At the derby, Mrs. Puff is enraged at how SpongeBob is defeating the competitors only by serendipity. She then grabs a giant monster boat and starts to chase after SpongeBob, but he avoids her and they then collide into the boating school, where Mrs. Puff regains her "puff" again. SpongeBob then asks her how much extra credit he earned.
Differences between the book and episode[]
SpongeBob does not laugh at Mrs. Puff after calling her "Mrs. Pop," and she does not get enraged.
Missing line: "Sheesh, I don't know what she is so upset about!"
New insert: The doctor adds smashing boats for entertainment is very dangerous.
Mrs. Puff's antagonism against SpongeBob is toned down a little in the book. For instance, instead of coming up with the idea to enter SpongeBob in the demolition derby after overhearing "Risking our lives for our amusement," she comes up with the idea after overhearing "Never drive again."
The vision of SpongeBob being smashed from all sides and being replaced by a tombstone was not in the book.
Missing line: "I could finally be rid of SpongeBob... forever! Ha ha! And I mean that in the worst possible way!"
The scene where SpongeBob demonstrates his bad driving to Captain Lutefisk is not in the book.
Much of the demolition derby was shortened down.
Missing line: "What? This is not going well..."
Missing line: "Oh! Ooh! Le Squish turns it around with a rare face trend maneuver!"
The scenes where SpongeBob slings the Kruncher into the wall and SpongeBob drives over Dale's face are not in the book.
Missing line: "Why... are you still... alive?!"
The book states SpongeBob was the winner of the derby after all the other racers got knocked out.
Mrs. Puff doesn't get the racers stuck to her truck's windshield after showing up as The Huff.
SpongeBob does not get chased around the boating school by "The Huff"; instead both he and Mrs. Puff crash right into the school after entering.
New line: SpongeBob asks, "So how much extra credit did I earn?"
The boating school does not collapse in the end.
Trivia[]
General[]
On the opposite side of the book, it comes with another book called Class Confusion.
The book’s title is the same as the location of the same name.