Jamjars

Jamjars

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Game(s)	Banjo-Tooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Tooie (Xbox Live Arcade)
World(s)	Isle o' Hags Mayahem Temple Glitter Gulch Mine Witchyworld Jolly Roger's Lagoon Terrydactyland Grunty Industries Hailfire Peaks Cloud Cuckooland
Speech icon(s) Jarjars.png

“Drill sergeant Jamjars reporting f'duty, sir!”

—Jamjars, Banjo-Tooie

Jamjars is Bottles' brother and serves as the replacement trainer for Banjo and Kazooie in Banjo-Tooie. Assertive and strict, this militaristic drill sergeant mole requires the pair to prove themselves by collecting a certain number of musical notes before teaching them any new moves. Like her brother, Jamjars doesn't think too kindly of Banjo's smart-aleck sidekick, Kazooie, but tolerates her enough to teach her some of the game's most important moves.

Banjo and Kazooie must find her hatches in each world (unlike Banjo-Kazooie, all of Banjo-Tooie's worlds have at least one hatch and one move to learn) and have the correct number of notes to obtain the next move. His hatches are flat with a red light if the move hasn't been learned yet and green when it has. Pressing Template:B next to a green-lighted hatch will give a quick recap on how the move is performed. Also, if Banjo opens a hatch without full health, Jamjars will provide him some "rations", instantly filling the health bar.

Each move is taught by Jamjars dancing to a military style flute and drums tune, with the instructions being sung in rhyme, similar to an Army march or cadence. When finished, he "dismisses" the duo, jumps up high, and dives back into his opened hatch. Occasionally as a gag, the hatch door will close early, causing him to land on his head. Comically, he groans, opens his hatch just far enough to wiggle inside, and then opens it once again to grab his fallen hat.

In Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, it is revealed that Jamjars has now become the MC of Spiral Mountain's local radio station. He tells the heroes that it has been ten years since they were created (Banjo-Kazooie had been released 10 years prior) and tells them how fat and lazy they've become since Banjo-Tooie.

Trivia

• In Banjo-Kazooie, when Bango and Kazooie come to one of Bottles' first molehills in Spiral Mountain, Kazooie refers to Bottles by the name Jamjars. This could be where Jamjars' name comes from. JamJars is also an incorrect answer when Grunty asks "Listen carefully then make your choice, which character has this dumb voice?" when the voice is Bottle's
• Jamjars is also a playable character in the multiplayer mode shootout games in Bango-Tooie.
• If Mumbo Jumbo talks to Jamjars, he tells him that he only teaches moves to bears and birds and also calls him a freak and a weirdo.
• Instead of every item talking and explaining what it does when first picked up (in Banjo-Kazooie), Jamjars will tell you about the item instead.

Gallery

• Jamjar's in-game render.
  Jamjar's in-game render.