ONE
The French narrator shows us Jellyfish Fields. But where is Spongebob?
TWO
He’s in a coral-encrusted ghillie suit shaped like a square. Heh. Safety goggles and his net ready, Spongebob slides closer and catches a jellyfish.
THREE
Tossing on a ten-gallon, fiddle music over, Spongebob “milks” the jellyfish onto a slice of bread.
Oh. So the “jam” in the title is literally the spread. Will it also be the other kind of “jam”?
He releases the jellyfish and enjoys his delicious bread.
FOUR
Walking away, Spongebob is followed by the jellyfish. It wears the glasses, returning them. Then it continues to tag along. Spongebob tries many ways to get the jellyfish to return to the fields, but it insists. Home to the pineapple house they go.
He shows Squidward his new “pet” on a leash. Squid calls it a wild animal.
Ah, and here’s the jam. Loud music plays in Spongebob’s house. Commence the dancing!
Fun music-video vignettes transition into nighttime. The pineapple rocks so loudly that Squidward can’t sleep. Ok, this is funny: Squid shares his bed with his clarinet, which has its own little pillow.
More video-style scenes. This is how Spongebob got its reputation as a stoner show lol.
Now Spongebob is ready to stop the music and go to bed. Jellyfish disagrees, and they go through an on/off routine with the stereo. Finally Spongebob leashes it and takes it to the bedroom. He ties it to the bedpost and falls asleep.
Gary meows with concern. Haha! Always listen to your gary.
Night outside the pineapple, and here comes a group of jellyfish. Jelly slips free of the leash and opens the window for them. They exchange jellyfish sounds, and then one of them spits jelly onto a complaining Gary.
Whoa, here come . . . well, every jellyfish in the ocean?
SWITCH
And now it’s morning. The pineapple looks peaceful from the outside.
FIVE
Spongebob wakes. His jellyfish is no longer near the bed. Looking . . . Aw, he doesn’t even notice Gary coated still in jelly.
Going downstairs (the bed is upstairs? lol, I probably knew that) Spongebob steps in a jam blob and slides to the bottom. His front room, music blaring, is covered in jelly. Dancing jellyfish are everywhere.
The jellies gather together to form a hand which pinches Spongebob and caps him on the lightbulb, turning his spongey holes into a disco ball.
He tries to chastise them and they form different shapes that thwart him.
The outside view shows the pineapple bouncing with the groove. Pan to the Easter Island Head and an angry Squid who calls Sponge on the conch phone. A jelly answers and shoots Squid, through the phone, with jam.
“Strawberry.”
Squid with his clarinet leans out the window. Payback time.
Does Squidward think he’s playing well? Lol. The jellies, mellow harshed by the discordant music, start stinging Spongebob.
Sponge asks Squid to “play better”. Squidward, insulted (haha!), rotates the house head like a gun turret. The head takes a deep breath, Squidward inside backed by giant speakers, and plays a note.
The jellies are not amused. They destroy the bric-a-brac, then swim out the pineapple window and into the head. Squidward’s “ow”s begin.
Squid, welts all over his body, comes with the jellies to Spongebob’s door and hands over his clarinet. Aw, Spongebob feels bad.
While trying to finally remove the jellies, Spongebob breaks the stereo tuner, killing the music. They attack and sting him. (Wow, usually Spongebob isn’t held accountable for his mishaps.)
SIX
He and Gary escape through a roof hatch. The jellies swarm. Doom is at hand.
(This is the Six? I mean, this is the moment between the Five and the Seven, so it’s what we have, but, ugh. The Western motif at the Three felt weird, and the rest of the story has been disco-themed, so I can understand why they didn’t return to a cowboy bit here. The top of the pineapple has a little grassy area among the fronds. Something more pastoral at the Three may have felt connected. What a trope mish-mash they have!)
Dunno. Don’t like. On we go.
SEVEN
Gary beats his eye stalks together in rhythm, deciding to help. My God, a Gary Seven moment! This is fantastic!
EIGHT
The jellies become ordered. Marching down the street, Gary on his head, Spongebob leads them away. Okay, lol, other sea paraphernalia (an anchor chain, a treasure chest, etc.) begin a rhythmic counterpoint. We end up with a jelly conga line.
“Wild animals can throw very wild parties,” says the narrator.
NINE
Ah, there’s the Squidward final moment as he eases his stung body into the bath. Lol, I’ve been waiting for that. Someone has to pay, and that someone is almost always Squidward.