SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue

SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue is an 2013 amusement ride based upon the popular television series SpongeBob SquarePants and the successor to SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D. It premiered at Nickelodeon Family Suites Resort on April 19, 2013. It also had a location at the Adventuredome theme park, and still has locations at Museum of Science Boston and the New York Aquarium. Locations also include Adventure Aquarium, Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Sea World, and the South Carolina Aquarium.

Plot

The ride begins with the French Narrator telling the audience to put away any recording devices, and that SpongeBob will be their tour guide through Jellyfish Fields. The audience then "dives" underwater in a submarine, hitting an anchor in the process. The submarine arrives in Jellyfish Fields, where SpongeBob and Patrick sing the Jellyfishing Song from SpongeBob's Last Stand, while catching jellyfish. Sandy then shows up with her net launcher to catch the jellyfish. SpongeBob notices that the jellyfish have disappeared, and a huge swarm of them attack the trio, launching them into the air.

The jellyfish get sucked inside a large truck, and SpongeBob discovers that the truck driver is Plankton. The trio chase after the truck, as it launches itself into the air. Plankton then shoves his face against the audience and tells them that he plans to drain the jellyfish of their electricity and use it to destroy the Krusty Krab. He then uses an electrified-cannon to electrocute the trio and leaves.

After SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy recover from the electricity, the Flying Dutchman arrives in his ghost ship, and blames them for the soot that Plankton's truck is producing. The Dutchman pulls SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy into his ship and sentences them to the "Perfume Department," where they get perfume sprayed onto them (a reference to Shanghaied). Unaffected by the perfume, Sandy explains to the Dutchman that Plankton is responsible and the Flying Dutchman takes the trio into the cannon room to stop him. Patrick looks through a telescope to see Plankton zapping the Krusty Krab.

The Flying Dutchman launches a cannonball with Patrick's net, realizing that it's attached to his leg. SpongeBob and Sandy hold onto him while launching, and they land at SpongeBob's house. The trio then gets pulled into Downtown Bikini Bottom and the Krusty Krab, crashing into Plankton's truck, destroying it, and freeing all of the jellyfish. Before Plankton can flee, a jellyfish shoots him with Sandy's net launcher, defeating him. Sandy then finds out that SpongeBob has absorbed the soot into his body, then he releases it. Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob that his break is over, and goes back inside the Krusty Krab. SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy all say goodbye to the audience as they sing the "Jellyfishing Song," and the submarine leaves the ocean floor.

Voice cast

• Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants and the French Narrator
• Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star
• Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks
• Doug Lawrence as Sheldon J. Plankton
• Bob Joles as Eugene H. Krabs
• Brian Doyle-Murray as the Flying Dutchman

Locations

Below is a list of locations. Not ALL locations are listed.

Open and Running

• Museum of Science Boston
• New York Aquarium

Closed

• Nickelodeon Family Suites Resort (replaced SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D on April 19, 2013, closed when the resort became a Holiday Inn on June 1, 2016)
• Adventuredome (defunct)

Trivia

• This is the third SpongeBob-themed amusement park ride. The first was SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D, the second was SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge, the fourth would be Bikini Bottom Crosstown Express, and the fifth would be SpongeBob's Jellyfish Jam.

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Amusement Park Rides

Movies

Feature-Length Movies: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020) • Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie (2024) • The SpongeBob Movie: The Search for SquarePants (2025) TV Movies: Atlantis SquarePantis (2007) • Truth or Square (2009) • SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout (2019) • Kreepaway Kamp (2024) Other: SpongeBob SquarePants 4-D (2003) • The SpongeBob & Mr. Krabs Movie (2007) • SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue (2013) • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated (2022)