Jellyfish Jam

"**Jellyfish Jam**" is a *Maggie Muffin* episode from season 1. In this episode, Maggie brings home a jellyfish, creating chaos.

## Characters

* English Narrator
* Maggie Muffin
* Helen Luggins
* Kira Moonhead (picture only)
* Strawberry the Octopus

## Synopsis

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

The next morning, Maggie wakes up to find his living room filled with dozens of dancing jellyfish. He attempts to make them leave, but to no avail. Helen, annoyed that the music has been going on for 18 hours and prevented him from sleeping, angrily calls Maggie 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, Helen 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 Maggie's house. Maggie asks Helen to play his clarinet a little "better," as an insulted Helen sarcastically responds to this request. However, Helen 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 Maggie's house. A sting-covered Helen says to Maggie, "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 Maggie, break it in half, set it on fire, and dance around it.

This brings Maggie to the limits of his patience, and he attempts to remove the stereo system, destroying it in the process. The enraged jellyfish begin stinging and chasing him. Maggie and Strawberry go up to the roof of the house, but the swarm follows them outside and surrounds them. Maggie tells Strawberry that he was right about attempting to keep a wild animal in his house, then Strawberry soothes the jellyfish away by clicking his eyes together. Maggie tells Strawberry 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 Strawberry's clicking, eventually becoming a full-fledged symphony. After resettling the jellyfish, Maggie quickly returns home with Strawberry.

In the last scene, Maggie shakes hands with Strawberry's eyeball as the French narrator declares, "Today, Maggie has learned one of the sea’s harshest lessons; wild animals can throw very wild parties." Then the severely stung Helen is shown settling into his bathtub to recover from his stings.