History Recap / SpongebobSquarepantsS6E9BoatingBuddiesTheKrabbyKronicle

* ContinuityNod: During the driving lesson, Squidward and [=SpongeBob=] fight over the wheel of the boat, similar to "Pizza Delivery".

* NegativeContinuity: Squidward is never shown at Boating School the next episode on. It is possible that Squidward was able to overcome boating school off-screen.

* NegativeContinuity: Squidward is never shown at Boating School the next episode on.

--> '''Mr.Krabs:''' ''(reading)'' "Krabs Overworks Employees? Reaps Reward? Krabby Kronicle mastermind behind bogus stories pays his tired, "underage" reporter pennies while he rakes in the dough?!"

--> '''Mr.Krabs:''' ''(reading)'' "Krabs Overworks Employees? Reaps Reward? Krabby Kronicle mastermind behind bogus stories pays his tired, underage reporter pennies while he rakes in the dough?!"

--> '''Mr.Krabs:''' ''(reading)'' "Krabs Overworks Employee? Reaps Reward? Krabby Kronicle mastermind behind bogus stories pays his tired, underage reporter pennies while he rakes in the dough?!"

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: SpongeBob reveals near the end he never got one answer right on the written test; this contrasts with "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E4NaughtyNauticalNeighborsBoatingSchool Boating School]]" back in the first season when he knew every answer to the oral test.

* TemptingFate: When [=SpongeBob=] offers to help Squidward with the final test, Squidward tells him "I don't need your help, and I don't need you! Ever!". Unfortunately, he ends up needing his help when his pencil ends up rolling out under the classroom door, and [=SpongeBob=] refuses to help him now.

* SympathyForTheDevil: [=SpongeBob=] feels upset for even ''Plankton'' when his forged stories about his cooking resulted in shutting down the Chum Bucket

* BadBoss: Mr. Krabs! He threatens [=SpongeBob=] to swallow his guilt over the phony news stories or he'll lose his spatula. [=SpongeBob=] exaggerates this a little in his news story by claiming he's an underage, overworked employee who is given a meager salary (which is technically true because SpongeBob ''has'' been out searching stories to write about).
* {{Blackmail}}: Mr. Krabs threatens SpongeBob by saying that if he doesn't do what he says, he'll take SpongeBob's spatula away.

--> '''Sandy:''' ''(reading)'' "Sandy Cheeks or Sandy Chump? Bushy tailed brainiac really a slow-witted squirrel, by...SpongeBob SquarePants?"

* BadBoss: Mr. Krabs! He threatens [=SpongeBob=] to swallow his guilt over the phony news stories or he'll lose his spatula. [=SpongeBob=] exaggerates this a little in his news story by claiming he's an underage, overworked employee who is given a meager salary (which is technically true because Spongebob ''has'' been out searching stories to write about).
* {{Blackmail}}: Mr. Krabs threatens Spongebob by saying that if he doesn't do what he says, he'll take Spongebob's spatula away.

--> '''Sandy:''' ''(reading)'' "Sandy Cheeks or Sandy Chump? Bushy tailed brainiac really a slow-witted squirrel, by...Spongebob Squarepants?"
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mr. Krabs faces one himself when an angry mob comes in the Krusty Krab and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls him out when Spongebob wrote a story that revealed that Mr. Krabs is the mastermind behind the lies that he force Spongebob to write about.]] It's about time that Mr. Krabs gets ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine.

* BadBoss: Mr. Krabs! He threatens [=SpongeBob=] to swallow his guilt over the phony news stories or he'll lose his spatula. [=SpongeBob=] exaggerates this a little in his news story by claiming he's an underage, overworked employee who is given a meager salary.

--> '''Sandy:''' ''(reading)'' "Sandy Cheeks or Sandy Chump? Bushy tailed brainiac really a slow-witted squirrel, by... SpongeBob SquarePants?"

* ImmoralJournalist: Played with. Upon seeing the potential of money being made from newspapers, Mr. Krabs sets up his own newspaper business aptly named the Krabby Kronicle with [=SpongeBob=] as his reporter. However, things get out of hand when Mr. Krabs tells [=SpongeBob=] to "embellish" his stories. Being TheDitz that he is, [=SpongeBob=] goes around taking pictures of everyone in Bikini Bottom and writes out-of-context stories from them. This turns the newspaper brand into a huge success, but at the expense of ruining people's lives through gossip. Eventually, [=SpongeBob=] starts realizing what he's doing wrong and tries to warn Mr. Krabs about it, but he becomes too self-absorbed in his wealth by that point and threatens to take away [=SpongeBob=]'s fry cooking job. In a clever act of karma, [=SpongeBob=] decides to twist Mr. Krabs's threat into a story to make it seem like he's a child being unfairly overworked and underpaid, and combined with the testimonies of the other offended victims, results in everyone boycotting the business and taking back all the money earned from it.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: [=SpongeBob=] wrote a story about a small fish who punched Larry in the gut as though the "pipsqueak" was beating up Larry. Granted, the punch did make Larry recoil.

* TakeAThirdOption: [=SpongeBob=] is forced to write humiliating lies about his friends in Mr. Krabs's new newspaper enterprise. Faced with the choice of either continuing to write the stories and destroying the lives of his friends or refusing and getting fired from his beloved fry cook job, he instead chooses to hoist Krabs by his own petard and publish an article in the paper that Mr. Krabs is the mastermind behind the bogus news stories. The paper's readers are so outraged that they storm the Krusty Krab and take all their money back.

Mr. Krabs decides to go into the publishing business, with [=SpongeBob=] as his star reporter. But [=SpongeBob=] faces a dilemma when Mr. Krabs asks him to "embellish" his stories and the results start hurting his friends.

* ExactWords: [=SpongeBob=] is told by Mr. Krabs to write humiliating lies about people. The latter never said not to write lies about ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard him]]''.

* ShamedByAMob: In this episode, the mob shames Mr. Krabs. After [=SpongeBob=] releases his last story, the entire population of Bikini Bottom shows up at the Krusty Krab, furious over Krabs's abuse of [=SpongeBob=] and his forcing him to write lies about all of them.

* TakeAThirdOption: [=SpongeBob=] is forced to write humiliating lies about his friends in Mr. Krabs's new newspaper enterprise. Faced with the choice of either continuing to write the stories and destroying the lives of his friends or refusing and getting fired from his beloved fry cook job, he instead chooses to hoist Krabs by his own petard and publish an article in the paper about how Mr. Krabs is overworking him and forcing him to write the bogus news stories. The paper's readers are so outraged that they storm the Krusty Krab and take all their money back.

** Don't mistreat your employees. It'll eventually come back to haunt you.

* AnAesop: Don’t say anything about your friends that’s untrue as it could hurt their feelings.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[CardCarryingVillain Plankton]] calls out Mr. Krabs for writing lies about him.
-->'''Plankton''': I lost my restaurant because of you! And I thought ''I'' was [[ItMakesSenseInContext evil...]]
** Mr. Krabs's [[FridgeBrilliance usual obsession with money and how much he hates to spend it]] implies that he'll keep the CounterfeitCash at the end to himself.

-->'''Squidward''': How many times do I have to tell you?! I am not your buddy! I don't need your help, and I don't need you, ever! Now just kindly let me take this stupid test, so I can get out of here and never have to see you again for the rest of my life!
* ShoutOut: After Squidward is splashed with his hot beverage, [=SpongeBob=] shouts "Coffee rain!" When Squidward tells him it's hot chocolate, [=SpongeBob=] shouts "[[Music/TayZonday Chocolate Rain!]]"

* VerbalBackspace: When Mrs. Puff speaks to the students:
-->'''Mrs. Puff:''' Okay class, how about we get to know our new students, by telling each other why we were sentenced to-- I mean, why we are enrolled in boating school.

** When mentioning how Mr. Krabs ruined their lives, Plankton says he lost his business, Larry is being bullied by all the kids in town, and Mrs. Puff had go back to watching daytime television.

* HotPursuit: One story claims that Mrs. Puff was in a high speed chase with a police officer. Unfortunately, this ruins her boating school.

* ItIsDehumanizing: The scientists who confiscate Sandy's science awards refer to her this way under the believe she's dumb, thanks to the new ms headline.

* TakeAThirdOption: [=SpongeBob=] is forced to write humiliating lies about his friends in Mr. Krabs's new newspaper enterprise. Faced with the choice of either continuing to write the stories and destroying the lives of his friends, or refusing and getting fired from his beloved fry cook job, he instead chooses to hoist Krabs by his own petard and publish an article in the paper about how Mr. Krabs is overworking him and forcing him to write the bogus news stories. The paper's readers are so outraged that they storm the Krusty Krab and take all their money back.

* TemptingFate: When [=SpongeBob=] offers to help Squidward with the final test, Squidward tells him "I don't need your help, and I don't need you! Ever!". Unfortunately, he ends up needing his help when his pencil ends up rolling out under the classroom door.

* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: In one story, it's told that Plankton's chum is made out of citizens, resulting in Health Inspector Yellowtail shutting down the Chum Bucket.

* TruthInTelevision: That article wrote [=SpongeBob=] wrote about Plankton's chum being made of people? Turns out he's actually right on the nose on that. Chum is made out of fish entrails.