Okay, so I know my last post didn't do much of a carnival, so I'll sav up me own analysis.
This is just a theory anyway, so no need to take it seriously.
As seen in Doing Time, Mrs. Puff is just a regular old determined teacher willing to risk anything so that her pupils can learn, study and pass. Until she met SpongeBob. I don't think any type of driving teacher could stand SpongeBob. Even if he or she is as fast as Tony Stewart, as intelligent as Jenson Button, or as slow and careful as James May.
SpongeBob, at this category, is simply unteachable. And he's also one of a kind. He kept turning up, with an optimistic, lively grin as if he never failed a test before. That kind of innocent, naive, unteachable attitude is what might snap Mrs. Puff's sanity. It's not really possible for Puff to have another student as bad as SB before SB. I think it's just a matter that this is a show, and there are many boating school days we might have not seen because it's not an episode. We didn't scout every single day of Mrs. Puff's life. Maybe, she had already tried to go undercover in a new city and starting a new life before. Just to get away from SB.
I've always seen Mrs. Puff as this incredibly dilematic panicky teacher driven insane by her student's incapability to do anything that has anything to do with driving. And yet exuberantly skips to school everyday, completely blind to see how his incompetence is really a problem. SpongeBob acts so optimistic, it drove realistics mad. That's the reason why he's both lovable to watch and annoying to live with. He's like that guy from high school who kept turning around at your house because in his dismay, you're his 'best friend', yet you know him as a 'guy I know from school'. And of course, as a teacher, Puff realised that this yellow lad is her responsibility. And due to her sanity ruined by SB's existance, she couldn't think straight and decided "Murder. It's the only WAY."
The more SB inadvertently annoys Puff, the more intimidatingly crazy Puff becomes
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About the "Puff Mama" character. I think it's just natural to see a middle age person trying to feel young. Mid-life crisis I think, is what it's called. Maybe back in those VW Beetle, flower power days, Puff was a biker girl and now she's trying to live back her old persona.
And about Mr. Puff. Well, we all know he's turned into a lamp (one of the darkest joke in the show). So, I don't see how this has anything to do with Mrs. Puff.
Did the accident involving Mr. Puff's death cause a sudden mental disorder inside Mrs. Puff's soul? Maybe.
Did SpongeBob SquarePants made it worse? It's a fact.
Oh! I've got another theory.
Mrs. Puff isn't her real name, and she already attempted to move away from a town to another to avoid a horrible student. Although I must say, it must be a student even worse than SB, and that is, well, not realistic.
I've got a copy of it!
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