"Oral Report" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 8. In this episode, SpongeBob is nervous about giving an oral report for boating school.
Characters[]
- Fish on Everybody Aplomb Now
- Squidward Tentacles
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Sandy Cheeks
- Mrs. Puff
- Incidentals
- Dale
- Incidental 107
- Incidental 41
- Incidental 45
- Incidental 30A
- Incidental 115
- Incidental 152 (named Billy)
- Incidental 103
- Incidental 47
- Incidental 104
- Incidental 24
- Incidental 49
- Incidental 40
- Incidental 105
- Incidental 7
- Harris
- Incidental 37B
- Incidental 46
- Old Man Walker
- Incidental 150
- Incidental 8
- Tom
- Incidental 118
- Cop
- Talking underwear
- Human police officer (debut)
- Eugene H. Krabs (in title card only)
- Gary the Snail (in title card only)
- Sheldon J. Plankton (in title card only)
- Jellyfish (in title card only)
Synopsis[]
At the Krusty Krab, the customers are very hungry. Squidward asks SpongeBob why the orders are not ready yet. SpongeBob explains that he is practicing for an oral report that he must do for boating school. Squidward says that "public speaking" causes stress, but then SpongeBob explains how he is good at "public speaking." SpongeBob then walks out, ready to give the customers their orders, and gets scared because they are acting zombie-like.
SpongeBob then realizes that he has stage fright. The customers start fighting for the single order as Squidward is beaten up after trying to give a customer his order, which makes SpongeBob even more frightened.
It then cuts to Patrick's rock. Patrick opens it, only to realize he has the wrong rock, but SpongeBob pulls him in. SpongeBob asks Patrick to help him practice by listening to his speech. SpongeBob has to practice if he wants to pass then he has to give the report.
SpongeBob begins to become very nervous, and Patrick decides that SpongeBob should see Sandy for help. Sandy deduces SpongeBob has a severe case of "Oral-Reportitis," which is caused by stress of someone too nervous to present an oral report before a crowd, and is known to cause some victims to literally explode. To help him out, Sandy gives SpongeBob a pair of underwear with goggles on it, so SpongeBob can see people in their underwear so he will not feel nervous.
Mrs. Puff's students in their underwear.
The next day, SpongeBob is next to do his oral report and then he gets nervous for a prolonged time. SpongeBob asks Patrick for the goggles, and he gives SpongeBob the goggles while accidentally breaking them in the process while trying to polish them. Billy tells him to hurry up, and SpongeBob sees him in his underwear; he is relieved. Then he sees the whole class in their underwear. SpongeBob begins laughing and Mrs. Puff asks him why. SpongeBob sees Mrs. Puff's underwear and starts laughing even harder. SpongeBob begins reading his report but the goggles malfunction, causing it to give him the sight of everybody's underwear having scary faces. SpongeBob screams and runs away, he drives Mrs. Puff's boat, and Patrick and Mrs. Puff chase him. The police notice that SpongeBob ran a stop light and chase after him. SpongeBob then crashes through various buildings. The police question if he knows about "boating safety" and SpongeBob goes through a long explanation of "boating safety." The police start crying and say it is beautiful. Mrs. Puff says that SpongeBob will have to go to jail and she will not have to teach him anymore. However, the police arrests Mrs. Puff instead because under penal code 26-1, SpongeBob's delinquent actions is under Mrs. Puff's care because he's a minor and she is his boating teacher, much to her dismay. After this, Patrick is happy that SpongeBob conquered his fear, and puts on the underwear glasses. He notices that SpongeBob's underwear starts talking angrily to him, so he runs away, ending the episode.
Production[]
Storyboard[]
Art[]
Music[]
| ( ‣ ) Production music |
| ( • ) Original music |
| ( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Ripped Hide - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
• SpongeBob Suspended Suspense - Nicolas Carr [opening]
• Cheesy Zombie Movie - Nicolas Carr [Two fish moan like zombies]
• Lopey Sailor's Jig - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["SpongeBob, the collective blood sugar around here is dangerously low."]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece A - Gregor F. Narholz [Customers acting like zombies]
‣ Evil Apparition [#23] - Harry Lubin [Customers attack Squidward]
‣ Clumsy A - Bernd Gesell [Patrick comes home]
‣ Tipsy Turvy - Phil Green [SpongeBob trying to practice his speech/Patrick looks SpongeBob closely]
‣ Deadline - Sam Spence ["You're gonna have things thrown at you that you wouldn't believe. You gotta be ready. Now try again."]
‣ Attack - Anthony Hymas [Patrick throwing pillows at SpongeBob]
• Steel Licks 47 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Patrick, nobody throws pillows in class!"]
‣ Horlepiep - Jan Rap [Patrick dressed as Mrs. Puff]
• Steel Licks 43 - Jeremy Wakefield ["A detention slip?!"]
‣ Pell-Mell - Sam Spence [SpongeBob on a treadmill/"Speech! Speech! Speech!..."]
• 2 Pell W/ Piati Crash - Nicolas Carr [Patrick plays loud cymbals]
• Sneaky Buns - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob nervous]
• Hawaiian Solo Steel - Nicolas Carr, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob cries]
‣ Animal Antics [#45] - Phil Green [SpongeBob decides to see Sandy]
• Fooling Around 1A - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Sandy explains how to get rid of stage fright]
• FlexTone Sting - Nicolas Carr [Purple fish notices he's in his underwear.]
• Fooling Around 1A - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Sandy shows SpongeBob the goggles]
‣ Horlepiep - Jan Rap [Boating school the next day]
• Steel Licks 41 - Jeremy Wakefield ["...SpongeBob SquarePants."]
‣ House Of Horror [#10.2] - William Merrick Farran [SpongeBob nervous]
‣ House Of Horror [#10.5] - William Merrick Farran [Students angrily stare at SpongeBob]
• Steel Licks 1 - Jeremy Wakefield ["Mrs. Puff, do I really have to do this?"]
‣ Drama Link (C) - Hubert Clifford ["My report is on..."]
‣ Footsteps of Horror - William Merrick Farran [SpongeBob shaking]
• Light Conversation 1 No Percussion - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Patrick gives SpongeBob the goggles]
• Nude Sting - Nicolas Carr [Mrs. Puff in underwear]
‣ The Jitters - Raymond C. Jones [goggles break]
• Slide Whistle Stooges No Whistle - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob hallucinates mad pairs of underwear and runs away]
• Slide Whistle Stooges no melody - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick and Mrs. Puff chase after SpongeBob]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [Cops]
• Slide Whistle Stooges no melody - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob drives by the police officers]
• Slide Whistle Stooges No Whistle - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Police officers chase after SpongeBob]
• Proud to be a Fish - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [SpongeBob gives his speech]
• Steel Licks 51 - Jeremy Wakefield ["That was beautiful."]
• Bikini Bottom Police - Nicolas Carr [Mrs. Puff arrested]
• Rip Tide - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Ending]
Release[]
- This episode is on the All Aboard for Laughs, SpongeBob SquarePants Vol. 14, Disorder in the Deep, Complete Eighth Season, The SpongeBob SquarePants Collection, The SpongeBob SquarePants 8 Season DVD Collection, Kids Double Pack: Volume 2, Next 100 Episodes, The Best 200 Episodes Ever, and The Seventh & Eighth Seasons DVDs.
Reception[]
- "Oral Report" was ranked #94 during the SpongeBob's Top 100 event in the UK and Ireland from June 4-8, 2012.
Trivia[]
General[]
- This episode was paired with "A Friendly Game" during the original American airing, but has since been re-airing with "Squidward's School for Grown Ups."
- This is the second episode where SpongeBob appears on a title card. The first was "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?"
- However, unlike that episode's title card, SpongeBob is seen as a drawing here.
- This is the second episode where someone impersonates Mrs. Puff. In this episode's case, it is Patrick. The first was SpongeBob in the episode "Gone."
- This is the third episode where Patrick is in Boating School. The first is "New Student Starfish" and the second is "Driven to Tears."
- This is the third episode where Patrick crossdresses. The first is "That's No Lady," and the second is "Love That Squid."
- There are several similarities between this episode and "Hall Monitor":
- SpongeBob is required to do an oral assignment at Mrs. Puff's Boating School.
- A rampage occurs in urban Bikini Bottom.
- When Mrs. Puff states SpongeBob was under her responsibility, the police arrest her rather than SpongeBob.
- When the customers are at the Krusty Krab, beating up Squidward, his hat appears flying through the window into the kitchen where SpongeBob is.
- The episode title is mentioned five times:
- By SpongeBob when he says "I'm practicing for my oral report for Boating School tomorrow."
- By Patrick when he says "I'm not hearing your oral report."
- By SpongeBob again when he says "I am more nervous about this oral report than I've ever been about anything."
- By Sandy when she says "SpongeBob, you're afflicted with severe oral report-itis."
- By Mrs. Puff when she says "Well, SpongeBob? Do you have your oral report ready?"
- Sandy tells SpongeBob he has a bad case of "Oral-Reportitis." "Itis" is a suffix used to describe swelling symptoms in people.
- The footage during the montage appears is from various public domain film sources, including Seeing Green (1937) and many other films.[1]
Errors[]
Squidward is not wearing his employee hat in the beginning of the episode.
- Squidward's Krusty Krab employee hat is missing when the episode begins, but in the next shot, he has it on his head.
- After Squidward asks SpongeBob to take orders from the customers, the index cards on the grill are gone.
- In one scene when Patrick was yelling at SpongeBob, he is a different shade of yellow.
- SpongeBob's hand is seen pulling off the guy's clothes when it should be Sandy's in that scene.
Mrs. Puff's missing spots.
- When SpongeBob begins shaking, Mrs. Puff's spots are missing.
- The clock on top of the purple poster behind the students is there in one scene, but then disappears in another.
- Monroe is shown in the classroom and then during the chase scene, he is now on a bench with Norma.
Videos[]
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