Procrastination (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Template:SpongeBob episode "Procrastination" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.

Plot

Template:Spoiler SpongeBob is assigned an 800 word essay at boating school about what not to do at a stoplight, which is due the following day. Unfortunately, SpongeBob's initial excitement about the project is not enough to overcome the writer's block he experiences as soon as he sits down to write. After hours of procrastination, followed by a dream during the night about his inability to finish the report, SpongeBob wakes just in time for school to begin. In an effort to overcome his procrastination, he writes about everything that happened in his dream as ideas of what not to do at a stoplight. After rushing to boating school, full of excitement at having completed the assignment just in time, SpongeBob learns from Mrs. Puff that she has a teachers' meeting and the class will be going on a field trip to a stoplight, instead.

Timeline

• 2:50 PM: SpongeBob starts his essay
• 5:55 PM: SpongeBob says "Gee...this is harder than I thought!"
• 6:00 PM: SpongeBob says "It's only six o'clock!"
• 10:00 PM: SpongeBob finishes cleaning the kitchen
• 12:00 AM: SpongeBob shines the candle-light on the clock
• 8:55 AM: SpongeBob wakes up
• 9:00 AM: Class Starts

Characters Present

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Mrs. Puff
• Patrick Star
• Gary
• Fish at carnival
• Clock
• House
• Flame
• Pants
• Sandy Cheeks
• Boating School students
• Squidward Tentacles
• "Mailfish"

Removed Scenes

The following scenes were deleted from the episode. To this day, the reason has yet to be revealed

1. As SpongeBob begins to write his essay he looks outside and sees a carnival with the sun smiling, a roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, Squidward suntanning, kids playing with a ball, a fish eating ice cream, two jellyfish playing tennis, Gary rolling on a ball playing a horn, and Patrick rubbing sunscreen on Sandy.

2. This episode, along with Just One Bite, was also edited because there was a scene involving a live-action drag racer crashing — this was cut to prevent children from imitating that stunt. It was cut from the part when SpongeBob comments, "Gee, this is harder than I thought," to the part where he hops into his chair saying "I can feel those juices pumping now!" SpongeBob said that he must complete the essay, so he will be" one step closer to my boating license!" A dragster was then shown roaring off the start line, flipping over, and sliding on its rollbar. It was a live-action clip. Along with that, a scene in which SpongeBob does calisthenics was cut, for as of yet unknown reasons. In these, Spongebob exercised his eyebrows, nose, eyelashes. His nose goes from a downwards-facing position to a straight one, and perhaps could be mistaken to represent an erect or flaccid penis. This may possibly have been the reason why it was cut, but still leaves open questions, such as why that specific workout could not have just been removed from the scenes. The uncut version can still be seen in "Christmas", which was released on September 30, 2003, and on the Season 2 Box Set. On the other hand, the cut version was shown on May 17, 2005 when re-ran on Nickelodeon. Today, it still airs on Nick and Nicktoons, with the uncut version being "put away somewhere that the public will never see", yet the uncut version has still been shown on YTV. It was also shown regularly in the UK (and possibly still is). Many other countries keep these scenes intact, as well.

Trivia/Goofs

• On his essay, SpongeBob misspells "Stoplight" Spotlight.
• This episode and I'm With Stupid have unusually pale coloring and seem to be more dramatic than the other season 2 episodes (excluding Bubble Buddy.)
• Five inanimate objects talk during SpongeBob's dream: the recliner, a candle fire, SpongeBob's pants, the clock shaped like a snail's face, and the pineapple house.
• The title card is meant to be a goof on the painting Melting Clocks by Salvador Dali.