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"Jellyfish Jam" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season 1. In this episode, SpongeBob brings home a jellyfish, creating chaos.

Characters

Synopsis

File:Jellyfish Jam 010.png

A jellyfish insists on following SpongeBob home after a day out at Jellyfish Fields, so SpongeBob decides to keep it as a pet at his home. Squidward warns SpongeBob that jellyfish are wild animals and that he should not attempt to domesticate it, but SpongeBob completely ignores him. At home, SpongeBob dances with the jellyfish to loud techno rave music, which annoys Squidward to no end. After 12 hours of this form of nonstop partying, SpongeBob finally decides that it is time to go to bed, but the jellyfish does not want to stop. SpongeBob eventually forces it to go to bed by tying a leash around it and ties it to his bed. Gary tries to tell SpongeBob he should not be keeping a wild animal, but SpongeBob does not listen. During the night, while SpongeBob sleeps, the jellyfish escapes and many other jellyfish come over whom he invites into the house.

The next morning, SpongeBob wakes up to find his living room filled with dozens of dancing jellyfish. He attempts to make them leave, but to no avail. Squidward, annoyed that the music has been going on for 18 hours and prevented him from sleeping, angrily calls SpongeBob on his conch phone to tell him that he has had enough of the loud music. A jellyfish picks it up and sprays him with jelly over the phone. Irritated, Squidward decides that "two can play at this," and starts loudly playing his clarinet, angering the jellyfish with his terrible playing, and causing them to start destroying SpongeBob's house. SpongeBob asks Squidward to play his clarinet a little "better," as an insulted Squidward sarcastically responds to this request. However, Squidward intentionally starts playing even worse and much louder with speakers and a microphone. This prompts the jellyfish to angrily go to his house, as he cowardly tries to promise to stop playing, but they sting him before returning to SpongeBob's house. A sting-covered Squidward says to SpongeBob, "Everybody's a critic. You won't be hearing from me anymore," and gives him his clarinet before leaving. The jellyfish hastily take it from SpongeBob, break it in half, set it on fire, and dance around it.

This brings SpongeBob to the limits of his patience, and he attempts to remove the stereo system to make the jellyfish leave. However, the jellyfish attempt to bring it back to continue their party. In the ensuing struggle, both SpongeBob and the jellyfish end up accidentally dropping the stereo to the floor, destroying it instantly. As a result, the enraged jellyfish begin stinging and chasing him. SpongeBob and Gary go up to the roof of the house, but the swarm follows them outside and surrounds them. SpongeBob tells Gary that he was right about attempting to keep a wild animal in his house, then Gary soothes the jellyfish away by clicking his eyes together. At this point, SpongeBob tells Gary to keep doing this and puts him on his head, walking downstairs and out the front door, followed by the swarm. As he leads them back to Jellyfish Fields, more sounds accompany Gary's clicking, eventually becoming a full-fledged symphony. After resettling the jellyfish, SpongeBob quickly returns home with Gary.

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In the last scene, SpongeBob shakes hands with Gary's eyeball as the French narrator declares, "Today, SpongeBob has learned one of the sea's harshest lessons; wild animals can throw very wild parties." Then the severely stung Squidward is shown settling into his bathtub to recover from his stings, which the French narrator reacts "Oh, I felt that."

Production

This episode's recording script was completed on November 2, 1998.

Script

  • On November 14, 2016, recording scripts for every episode from season 1 were publicly released, found on one of the asset discs for the PlayStation video game, SuperSponge. This included the recording script for "Jellyfish Jam," then known as "Jellyfish Jamboree."[3]

Art

Cels

Sketches

Storyboards

Model sheets

Music

( ‣ ) Production music
( • ) Original music
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 • Hawaiian Adventures aka SpongeBob Theme - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Title card]
 ‣ Lonely on the Beach - The Hawaiian Serenaders, Jan Rap [opening]
 ‣ O.K. Mr. Hillbilly (Instrumental) - Roy Henley [SpongeBob "milking" a jellyfish]
 ‣ Chief Taravana - Kapono Beamer [jellyfish follows SpongeBob]
 • Hello Blues - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob introduces the jellyfish to Squidward]
 ‣ Stadium Rave A - Mark Governor, Glenn Nishida [dance music]
 ‣ Furtive Footsteps - Paddy Kingsland [more jellyfish arriving at SpongeBob's house]
 ‣ Stadium Rave A - Mark Governor, Glenn Nishida [dance music again]
 • Squidward Clarinet - Brad Carow [Squidward playing clarinet]
 ‣ Stadium Rave A - Mark Governor, Glenn Nishida [dance music still playing]
 ‣ Death Trap [#25] - Gregor F. Narholz [jellyfish enraged at SpongeBob]
 ◦ Jellyfish Jam - Brad Carow [ending]

Release

Distribution

Trivia

General

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  • According to "The First Season Crew on..." special feature on The Complete 1st Season DVD, this episode's storyboarding pitch took place on September 28, 1998.
  • One of the genres listed on SpongeBob's stereo reads "obnoxious."
  • Even though SpongeBob can sleep through the blasting music in his own house, Squidward is kept up all night by it in another house.
  • According to the Complete 1st Season Disc 1 description of this episode, the jellyfish in this episode are all male.
  • When SpongeBob leaves his room when he wakes up, a portrait of him and Patrick can be seen.
File:Polish censor in Jellyfish Jam (initial airings only)

Dub facts

  • In the Arabic dub, Squidward says 20 hours instead of 12, and 30 hours instead of 18, when commenting about how long SpongeBob has been partying with the jellyfish.[citation needed]
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Eric Wiese.
  • In the French opening credits, Erik Wiese's name is misspelled as Eric Wiese in the "storyboard artist" section.
    • However, he is correctly spelled in the "written by" section.

Cultural references

Errors

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Title card cut on Nick@Nite (and the occasional "best of" Nickelodeon broadcasts), from the March 28, 2021 airing at 6:30 AM.
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Title card left intact on Nickelodeon, from the February 6, 2021 airing at 7:30 AM.
  • Since 2012, the title card is always skipped whenever this episode airs on Nick at Nite.[20] This is because the Nick@Nite version uses an old non-remastered print from 1999. This error also occurs for the occasional "best of" compilations on Nickelodeon USA airings[21] and whenever this episode is paired up with another non-remastered episode outside of season 1 and early season 2.[22][23][24]
    • The title card is left intact for all of the Nicktoons USA airings[25] and whenever Nickelodeon USA airs this episode with "Hall Monitor" because remastered prints are used.[26][27]
    • For the April 2, 2021 airing, this episode was paired up with "Jellyfishing." The title card was retained because Nickelodeon used remastered prints for both episodes.[28][29]
  • When SpongeBob and the jellyfish are dancing, the eye on the hooked fish in the background keeps moving whenever the lights turn green.
  • When SpongeBob and Gary go to sleep, his green bathrobe is somehow sticking up on the bamboo on one side of his bed despite not being hung by a hook.
  • When Squidward says, "SpongeBob is the only guy I know who can have fun with a jellyfish...for twelve hours!" the nightstand with the lamp moves from the left to the right. The pillow that was under the clarinet was absent the first shot but appears in the second one.
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Squidward's pajamas changes into his shirt.
  • When Squidward plays the clarinet out of the window, he is wearing his pajamas. However, after SpongeBob pops his head out of the window and says, "I don't think the jellyfish like it," Squidward is seen wearing his normal brown shirt. Then after Squidward sets the speakers, he is wearing pajamas again. When Squidward goes to SpongeBob's house, he has his brown shirt on again.
    • Squidward's shot-by-shot changes in attire occur within one minute.
  • SpongeBob's living room is on the first floor, but when he pops his head out of the top window, telling Squidward to play his clarinet better, he appears to be on window that belongs to the second floor.
  • Both SpongeBob and Squidward are stung by the jellyfish, but Squidward has painful welts from said stings, while SpongeBob does not.
  • When SpongeBob grabs the stereo box, the stereo's speakers appear brown instead of black.
  • An audio spectrum analyzer is shown multiple times during the dance scene, but it is nowhere to be seen on the unit of SpongeBob's stereo system in other scenes.
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SpongeBob's visible eyelashes mistake.
  • After the stereo unit is destroyed and SpongeBob gulps, he blinks his eyes, but his eyelashes are still seen.
  • During the faraway shot of the jellyfish outside of SpongeBob's pineapple, the jellyfish disappear from the screen just before reaching the top.
  • Before SpongeBob says, "Gary, you were right. Thanks for not rubbing it in," Gary's mouth moves to say, "Meow," but no words or sounds come out.
  • Throughout the episode, the texture of both SpongeBob and Squidward's houses changes. An example of this is that once, they become a lighter shade of their normal color.


Videos

File:SpongeBob SquarePants - Disco Jellyfish Nickelodeon
File:The Jellyfish Jam! 🎐 TuesdayTunes SpongeBob

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Dutch Kwallenfeest Jellyfish Party
Finnish Meduusa Jamboree Jellyfish Jamboree
French Les envahisseurs The Invaders
German Disco-Quallen Disco Jellyfish
Hebrew מסיבת המדוזות
Mesibat Hameduzot		 Jellyfish Party
Hungarian Medúzaőrület Jellyfish Madness
Italian Meduse scatenate! Jellyfish Unleashed!
Polish Imprezka z meduzami Party With Jellyfish
Russian Вечеринка медуз
Vecherinka meduz		 Jellyfish Party
Spanish (Latin America) Jalea de medusa Jellyfish Jelly
Spanish (Spain) La fiesta de las medusas Jellyfish Party

References

  1. ↑ Cable Guide (UK) January 2000 - pg. 76
  2. ↑ Juice! - 2000 - YouTube
  3. ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge Development Archives - Internet Archive
  4. ↑ https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/29915-Jellyfish-Jam
  5. ↑ SpongeBob - Jellyfish Jam UK Edit
  6. ↑ SpongeBob SquarePants UK edits - Jellyfish Jam
  7. ↑ April 22, 2010 - Nickstory
  8. ↑ November 18, 2018 - Nickstory
  9. ↑ July 23, 2019 - Nickstory
  10. ↑ December 4, 2019 - Nickstory
  11. ↑ April 11, 2020 - Nickstory
  12. ↑ May 6, 2020 - Nickstory
  13. ↑ May 18, 2020 - Nickstory
  14. ↑ October 22, 2020 - Nickstory
  15. ↑ October 29, 2020 - Nickstory
  16. ↑ March 6, 2021 - Nickstory
  17. ↑ November 13, 2021 - Nickstory
  18. ↑ April 10, 2024 - Nickstory
  19. ↑ April 13, 2024 - Nickstory
  20. ↑ "Jellyfish Jam" title card cut (Nick@Nite broadcasts)
  21. ↑ "Jellyfish Jam" title card cut (Occasional "best of" compilations on Nick)
  22. ↑ SpongeBob- “Jellyfish Jam” Title Card Error (10/22/20)
  23. ↑ October 22, 2020 - Nickstory
  24. ↑ March 6, 2021 - Nickstory
  25. ↑ "Jellyfish Jam" title card retained (Nicktoons broadcasts)
  26. ↑ January 8, 2021 - Nickstory
  27. ↑ "Jellyfish Jam" title card retained (Nickelodeon broadcasts)
  28. ↑ April 2, 2021 - Nickstory
  29. ↑ "Jellyfish Jam" title card retained (Rare "best of" compilations on Nick)

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