Mrs. Puff

Mrs. Puff
SpongeBob SquarePants character
Mrs. Puff
First appearance	"Boating School" (August 7, 1999)[1]
Created by	Stephen Hillenburg
Voiced by	Mary Jo Catlett[2]
Information
Species	Takifugu
Gender	Female
Occupation	Driving teacher
Family	Mr. Puff (ex-husband)

Mrs. Puff is a character in the Nickelodeon animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants. Mrs. Puff is SpongeBob's driving instructor. According to the series, SpongeBob "drives" Mrs. Puff crazy because of SpongeBob's failures in driving.^[3] She does not enjoy talking about her husband, Mr. Puff, who was turned into a lamp cover. Mr. Krabs has a crush on her and has gone on a couple of dates with her. She is voiced by Mary Jo Catlett.^[4] She is the eighth main character on the show.

Appearance

Mrs. Puff costume at Nickelodeon Suites Resort

Mrs. Puff is a yellow, tan-colored blowfish with blue fins for limbs. She has golden hair, and wears a blue shirt with gray ties, a blue hat, a red skirt, and red shoes. She is very large and plump, but not overweight, as her size is a trait of her species.

Personality

Mrs. Puff is very paranoid, mean and erratic, and has had a history of mental instability. While this is mostly caused by SpongeBob's antics, it is possible that some of it is caused by loneliness she suffers from after her husband was killed by humans and made into a lamp. In "No Free Rides," it was implied that she had to move to a new town and start a new boating school with a new name.^[5]

At the beginning of the series, Mrs. Puff is more friendly to SpongeBob and actually treats him like a close friend, save for a few moments when SpongeBob crashes during the course. However, as the series has progressed, Mrs. Puff seems to have developed an intense hatred for him, and can even get a fit of mental instability by just looking at him. This could be because SpongeBob becomes more troublesome as the series progresses, and has caused Mrs. Puff great trouble lately. Her thoughts and fear about SpongeBob cause her to think that she was giving SpongeBob a driving test even though they are not at school. This occasion happened in "Krusty Love".

In the episode "Doing Time", Mrs. Puff, after she and SpongeBob drive off a cliff and thinks she is about to die, says, "Where did I go wrong?". The scene then cuts to a flashback of Mrs. Puff, presumably at the opening of her school, saying "...as long as a student is willing to learn, I shall never give up!" Right after she says this, SpongeBob appears and introduces himself to her.^[6]

In the episode "Mrs. Puff, You're Fired", Mrs. Puff is fired by her boss, Mr. Fitts, who holds her responsible for SpongeBob's repeated failures.^[7] However, she is rehired at the end of the episode.

By the time the episode "Demolition Doofus" premiered, Mrs. Puff has come to hate SpongeBob so much that she wants him dead.^[8] In the said episode, she loses her ability to puff during another failed driving lesson with SpongeBob. She later enters SpongeBob into the demolition derby, hoping that he will die, but his bad driving makes him a superstar. She then tries to run him over with a tractor, but this also fails when she crashed into the boating school, regaining her ability to puff in the process.

Merchandise

Various merchandise featuring Mrs. Puff

Mrs. Puff has appeared in many forms of SpongeBob SquarePants merchandise, such as plush toys,^[9] action figures,^[10] video games^[11] and books.^[12] In 2007, a Mrs. Puff-based Lego set was released,^[13] titled "Mrs. Puff's Boating School."^[14]

See also

• List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters
• SpongeBob SquarePants

References

External links

• Mrs. Puff on SpongeBuddy Mania
• Mrs. Puff at the Internet Movie Database