Oral Report (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Oral Report (SpongeBob SquarePants)
The report shows that Patrick IS a prick and that this is a terrible start to a below average season!
Series: SpongeBob SquarePants Part of Season: 8 Episode Number: 157b Air Date: March 26, 2011 (USA) March 22, 2012 (Canada) Writer: Casey Alexander Zeus Cervas Dani Michaeli Previous episode: Squidward's School for Grown-Ups Next episode: Sweet and Sour Squidward

Oral Report is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season eight. In this episode, SpongeBob is nervous about giving an oral report for Boating School.

Plot

SpongeBob is nervous about giving an oral report for boating school.

F- Qualities

1. Clearly, the episode is a mess in terms of execution in many ways and this episode shows why.
2. This episode tries to take a subject matter in a decent manner, but it is somewhat ruined due to Patrick being an unhelpful prick, SpongeBob being treated like crap by Patrick, and the episode following a somewhat creepy idea of Sandy giving SpongeBob some type of glasses that can help him prepare for his public speaking speech at boating school by seeing people in their underwear.
3. The pacing in this episode is really weak with some scenes being filler.
4. Patrick's behavior is notoriously awful once again. Here is what he does this time. He "helps" SpongeBob with his speech by:
   • Making him run on a treadmill.
   • Giving him a detention notice.
   • Crashing a pair of cymbals making SpongeBob fall off the treadmill.
   • Throwing pillows at SpongeBob.
   • Constantly going "Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!"
   • Later in the episode, Patrick threatens to throw a pillow at SpongeBob.
   • Then later he breaks one of the lenses on the underwear goggles to "polish them up".
5. "Oralreportitis"? That isn't even a real disease! Granted, this is the joke of the episode, but it's too nonsensical to even bother buying.
6. The remedy for SpongeBob's public speaking issue? Imagine people in their underwear while speaking. As said before, the idea used for that episode is just creepy, but to add a new word to the table, it's also really disgusting.
7. It's rather... interesting, but not in a good way, to see Ms. Puff and the rest of the students at her boating school wearing nothing but only their underwear.
8. The title card is misleading, as the background consists of a notebook paper with doodles of the main characters in the series, meaning there was a doodle of Mr. Krabs, Gary and Plankton, who don't even appear in the episode.
   • Although Squidward and Sandy appear in the episode, they only get one amount of screen time.
9. Ms. Puff goes to jail in the end yet again for no reason.
   • In the older episodes, she was arrested for good reasons, but here she gets arrested without a reason why even though SpongeBob just committed grand theft auto.
     • Stealing SpongeBob's boat in "No Free Rides".
     • Taking responsibility for SpongeBob's police-brutality-like behavior in "Hall Monitor".
10. Plot Hole: If SpongeBob passed the oral report, he would do something to cause him to fail the boating test.

A+ Qualities

1. SpongeBob has the decency (and the only character in this episode) to know that making a fake boating license is illegal.
2. Sandy also has decency as she created the underwear goggles to help Spongebob (even though Patrick ruins it by breaking them).
3. The episode does have a great story idea following the subject of concern of public speaking fears, but it was poorly well executed.--
4. SpongeBob imagining Mrs. Puff in her underwear might be funny to some viewers.
   • Patrick imitating Mrs. Puff might also be funny for some viewers since this has shown some unintentional comedy and humor.
5. Unlike most episodes of this season (or even seasons six and seven), Patrick does get his comeuppance in the end, as he gets scared out of his wits when SpongeBob's underwear starts talking angrily to him after putting on the underwear goggles.
6. Some people may find this episode relatable because it is about stage fright.

Reception

• Ranked 3rd on the worst "Patrick's a Prick" episodes list from Mr. Enter.
• Called good by PIEGUYRULZ.

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