History Recap / SpongebobSquarepantsS2E17ProcrastinationImWithStupid

* AnAesop: Don't procrastinate, and learn time-management. If you get stuck or can’t focus on an assignment, your main priority should be racking your brain, not avoiding it and coming back to it later.

* AllJustADream: As the episode goes on, the events that happen slowly become more outlandish, starting with people who should have no knowledge of [=SpongeBob's=] essay calling him out, before growing into [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the news reporting on him]], his chair talking to him, [[NotWearingPantsDream his pants running away]], and a sentient flame burning down his house. Within the last few minutes, it's revealed that [=SpongeBob=] had fallen asleep at his desk, and most of the prior evening's events didn't happen.

* CompressedVice: Before this, [=SpongeBob=] has never, ''ever'' been shown to put off a task, given how big a {{Workaholic}} he is. This might be blamed on a writer's block instead of general disinterest though.

* RidiculousProcrastinator: As the title implies. [=SpongeBob=] is initially very eager and motivated to writing the 800 word essay due the following day, unlike the rest of class, but when upon discovering that coming up with ideas isn't as easy as he thought it would be, he starts finding any possible way to avoid it, from feeding Gary an enormous amount of food and saying he's not leaving until he eats it all...which he does in about two seconds. [=SpongeBob=] then decides that he must clean up Gary's enormous mess he made (actually just one small drop of snail food) and the rest of the kitchen pristine before going back to work. He then decides to stop goofing up and we a monologue of him appearing to be writing something very creative, but we see he actually just wrote the word "the" in a very fancy manner. Several other humorous distractions occur.

** Love your children no matter what. Also, don't treat them patronizingly, especially not when they're grown up.

** Love your children no matter what. Also, don't treat them condescendingly even when they're grown up.

** Love your children no matter what. Also, don't treat them like babies even when they're grown up.

* RidiculousProcrastinator: As the title implies. [=SpongeBob=] is initially very eager and motivated to writing the 800 word essay due the following day, unlike the rest of class, but when upon discovering that coming up with ideas isn't as easy (or necessarily fun) as he thought it would be, he starts finding any possible way to avoid it, from feeding Gary an enormous amount of food and saying he's not leaving until he eats it all...which he does in about two seconds. [=SpongeBob=] then decides that he must clean up Gary's enormous mess he made (actually just one small drop of snail food) and the rest of the kitchen pristine before going back to work. He then decides to stop goofing up and we a monologue of him appearing to be writing something very creative, but we see he actually just wrote the word "the" in a very fancy manner. Several other humorous distractions occur.

* MediumShiftGag: As [=SpongeBob=] muses about getting his driver's license, it cuts to a live-action motor car racing down a track, immediately having an accident.

* AnAesop: Don't procrastinate, and learn time-management. If you get stuck or cant focus on an assignment, your main priority should be racking your brain, not avoiding it and coming back to it later.

* AnAesop: Don't procrastinate, and learn time-management. If you get stuck on an assignment, your main priority should be racking your brain not avoiding it and coming back to it later.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The scenes where Patrick, the mailman and the fish anchorman point out [=SpongeBob=] is not writing his essay are hints that this is AllJustADream.

* ShaggyDogStory: Patrick manages to impress his parents - at the cost of [[DrivenToMadness poor]] [=SpongeBob's=] [[DrivenToMadness sanity]]. Then Squidward brings over Patrick's ''real parents'', who'd been standing outside all day asking him where their son was. And [=SpongeBob=] didn't get the whole idea.

* ShaggyDogStory: Patrick manages to impress his parents - at the cost of poor [=SpongeBob's=] sanity. Then Squidward brings over Patrick's real parents, who'd been standing outside all day asking him where their son was. And [=SpongeBob=] didn't get the whole idea.

* KickTheDog: Is this how Patrick would treat SpongeBob if he really was stupid?

* AllJustADream: As the episode goes on, the events that happen slowly become more outlandish, starting with people who should have no knowledge of [=SpongeBob's=] essay calling him out, before growing into [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver the news reporting on him]], his chair talking to him, and a sentient flame burning down his house. Within the last few minutes, it's revealed that [=SpongeBob=] had fallen asleep at his desk, and most of the prior evening's events didn't happen.

* NoodleIncident: "Patrick! You forgot how to eat again! Quick, I'll get the funnel!"

* AnAesop: Don't procrastinate, and learn time-management.

* CallBack: This isn't the first time Patrick said "Who are you people?!"

-->'''Patrick:''' Dumb people are blissfully unaware of how dumb they really are... [[StupidlyLongFillerSound duuuuh...]]

* ShaggyDogStory: Patrick manages to impress his parents - at the cost of poor [=SpongeBob's=] sanity. Then Squidward brings over Patrick's real parents, who'd been standing outside all day wondering where their son was. And [=SpongeBob=] didn't get the whole idea.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Hypocritical as he is, Patrick's statement on how dumb people are clueless about their stupidity is actually correct. He just described the Dunning-Kruger effect.

-->'''Patrick:''' Dumb people are blissfully unaware of how dumb they really are [[SimpletonVoice duuuuh...]]

* ConspicuousCGI: Patrick's house rocking on its foundation at the beginning.
** Though it’s a lot less noticeable, Patrick’s rock opening after Squidward rang his bell is also an example.