The Instant Gardener

The Instant Gardener is the first episode of Jelly Jamm. This episode first premiered worldwide on September 5, 2011 on Cartoonito.

Official Synopsis
"In hopes of impressing the Queen with his gardening know-how, Bello uses a super-grow formula that makes plants (and a dodo) grow wild and out of control! In taming the wild things, Bello comes to understand how plants grow naturally on Jammbo and how things take their time."

Characters
In this episode, the following characters appear in chronological order:
 * 1) Rita
 * 2) Bello
 * 3) Queen
 * 4) Mina

Multiple Dodos appear in the episode as well. Although not appearing in the episode, Goomo is mentioned.

Plot
The episode begins with Bello and Rita looking for their ball called the "Jelly-ball". Bello finds it, but Rita is distracted. Noticing Rita hitting some musical plants with a shovel to make xylophone sounds, Bello drops the ball and decides to join her with her games. They use objects scattered around the garden as their playthings - shovels and wheelbarrows. After Bello trips from running too fast when pushing Rita riding in the wheelbarrow, the two end up stuck in two plants. The Queen, who is holding three La-La plants, notices them and they wiggle themselves free. The shovel in Bello's hand makes the Queen believe that he is a gardener. A Dodo arrives and spits out an alarm clock, letting the Queen know it's her bathtime. She can't take care of the plants while she's bathing, so she trusts him to take care of the plants while she takes a bath.

Despite the fact that the Queen is truly unaware of Bello's cluelessness, Bello is flattered by her referral to him as "Bello the gardener." Rita reminds Bello that the Queen told him to be careful, but he doesn't care - he cares more about the fact that she thinks of him as a true gardener, which he isn't. Bello and Rita plant the La-La plants in the ground, but are frustrated when they aren't growing at all. Luckily, Mina just so happens to be meditating in the garden when Bello and Rita need someone as intelligent as her to help them. Bello asks Mina why the La-Las aren't growing, and she explains to him that the plants grow very slowly. Fueled by his desire to make the plants grow faster, Bello convinces Mina to make a growth serum that can speed up the La-Las' growth. She first fails, creating a shrink serum; however, her second attempt is successful.

Bello and Rita are eager to try the serum out. It works on the La-La plants, but Rita is so fascinated by its ability that she takes the serum and sprays it over everything in the garden. She ignores Bello's numerous pleas for her to stop overusing it, but she ignores him. This sparks a wild chase throughout the garden as Bello attempts to take the serum back from Rita before things get worse, in the form of a montage.

By the time Rita has finished spraying the growth serum over everything in the garden, Rita and Bello find themselves atop the back of a Dodo that has grown giant as a result. The Dodo spits out the same alarm clock it spit out earlier, alerting the kids that the Queen is about to arrive. They rush to Mina's lab and accidentally frighten her with the giant Dodo. Mina gives Bello and Rita her shrink serum once they calm her down, and they shrink everything down back to normal right before the Queen arrives, just in time. However, something has changed - the La-La plants have shrunken. The Queen is not mad at the kids, though; she explains to them that patience is key when it comes to performing tasks like gardening. When things are rushed, they will not turn out the way they should.

Songs

 * I Love You (You're My Friend)/Surfing Jammbo - used as the instrumental montage song
 * We Did It! - used as the vocal ending song

Foreign Dub Titles
Most foreign titles are a direct translation of the original English title.
 * Flag of Spain.png Jardinero al Instante
 * Flag of Mexico.png Jardinero Instantáneo
 * Flag of Brazil.svg Jardineiro Insantâneo
 * Flag of Portugal.svg Bello o Jardineiro (Bello the Gardener)
 * Flag of Romania.png Grădinarul Instant
 * Flag of Poland.svg Cierpliwy Ogrodnik
 * Flag_of_Japan.svg ベロ、ガーデナーになる！ (Romaji: Bello, gādenā ni naru!, English: Bello Becomes a Gardener!)
 * Flag_of_Italy.svg Giardiniere in un Batter D'occhio (Gardener in the Blink of an Eye)
 * Flag_of_Albania.svg Kopshtari i Çastit
 * Flag_of_France.svg L'Engrais Instantané (Instant Fertilizer)
 * Flag_of_China.svg 园艺家速成手册 (Pinyin: Yuányìjiā Sùchéng Shǒucè, English: Instant Gardener Manual)
 * Flag_of_Germany.svg Der Gärtner der Königin (The Queen's Gardener)

Trivia

 * The title card of this episode features the text "JELLY JAMM PRESENTS" in small letters above the title, a trait which it does not share with any other episodes.
 * This is only present in the YouTube upload of the episode; airings of the episode on TV only feature the episode title on the title card, as usual.
 * The Dodos in this episode do not make their usual squeaking noises. Instead, they make more vocal sounds. The giant Dodo even talks - it says the word "Dodo." By "Mamma Mina," the typical Dodo squeaks would be introduced.
 * The Image Production House Arabic dub is the only known dub to dub over the giant Dodo’s spoken line.
 * The episode is named after the BBC series The Instant Gardener hosted by British horticulturalist Danny Clarke, the nickname of which also refers to Clarke himself.

Errors

 * The episode has some minor lip-syncing errors in which the characters' mouth movements appear to be somewhat generalized movements which do not match exactly to what they are saying in any language.
 * The official description of the episode states that Bello is the one who uses the growth serum to make everything grow out-of-control, but in the episode itself, it is Rita who is out-of-control with the serum. Bello advises Rita to stop abusing the serum.

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