Editing Jolly (TOS)

{{disline|This article discusses the Original Series character. For the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character, see [["Jolly" Anders]].}}

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    |photo= Jolly2.jpg
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    |colony=[[The Twelve Colonies of Man#Caprica|Caprica]]
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    |marital status= Single
    |role= {{TOS|Viper}} pilot, [[Blue Squadron]], [[Battlestar (TOS)|Battlestar]] ''{{TOS|Galactica}}''
    |rank= Flight Sergeant
    |actor= [[Tony Swartz]]
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Flight Sergeant '''Jolly''' can be best described as a hefty, jovial, likable fellow; in addition to being a quite competent {{TOS|Viper}} pilot who serves on ''{{TOS|Galactica}}''. 

== Biography ==

Jolly is involved in the discovery of the [[pluton poisoning]] of the foodstuffs they had gotten from the [[Twelve Colonies of Man|Colonies]] before making way. He is also part of the [[landram]] expedition that helps to discover the [[tylium (TOS)|tylium]] deposits on [[Carillon]] after passing through the [[Straits of Madagon]]. He, [[Serina]], and {{TOS|Apollo}} are subsequently captured and brought to [[Lotay]], Queen of the [[Ovions]].

One of the many [[warrior]]s that are unable to attend the ceremonies, the Flight Sergeant instead stays alert since {{TOS|Adama}} expects the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylons]] to attack. When they do, Jolly comes riding in atop of a landram and drives off the Cylon onslaught as the Colonials flee the Ovions glorified farm. He comments later that Adama had expected the attack and had uniforms of the pilots distributed to anyone he could find&mdash;civilians, techs, and cooks&mdash;and quips, "You should see the one who got my uniform!" {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}

Lieutenant {{TOS|Boomer}} often flies as Jolly's wingman, and together they discover a Cylon outpost on an asteroid. They manage to escape relatively undetected, but contract a life-threatening disease. Bypassing normal quarantine procedure in order to make it to Apollo's bachelor party, Boomer and Jolly infect a majority of the Viper corps, save Apollo and {{TOS|Starbuck}} who are delayed from returning after encountering the void {{OS|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I}}.

Thanks to the efforts of the female [[Colonial shuttle|shuttle]] pilots that had been trained to become [[Blue Squadron]] in the absence of the ailing warriors, [[Salik|Dr. Salik]] is able to discover a cure. Jolly and the other pilots are barely able to walk when they first recover, but they climb into their Vipers to join the [[Battle of Kobol (TOS)|battle]] over {{TOS|Kobol}} {{OS|Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II}}.

[[File:Jollymwnl.jpg|thumb|left|Jolly is transfixed by the dancers aboard ''{{TOS|Rising Star}}'' {{OS|The Man with Nine Lives}}.]]

During a Cylon raid, Jolly is one of two Viper pilots who figures out the Cylon agenda to attack and destroy the [[agro ships]]. He manages to save the day by protecting the last remaining agro ship ([[Agro Ship 9]]), but can not save the crops aboard. He accompanies Adama, Apollo, Starbuck, Boomer, {{TOS|Boxey}} and [[Siress]] [[Belloby]] to [[Sectar (planet)|Sectar]] on their mission to trade for agricultural seed, but stays behind on the shuttle {{OS|The Magnificent Warriors}}.

While flying a patrol with [[Red Squadron]] Jolly is amongst the pilots that are abducted by the colossal [[Ship of Lights]]. Of course, after [[Iblis]] is cast out due to the Count's killing of Apollo, Jolly is returned along with Boomer, [[Bojay]], and the other taken Viper pilots ([[War of the Gods, Part I|War of the Gods]]). 

Boomer and Jolly make their way to ''{{TOS|Rising Star}}'' when Adama grants the [[Warrior|warriors]] [[furlon]]. Jolly seems content to settle in and watch the dancers for the duration, but is interupted when a [[Borellian Nomen]] activates a [[laser bola]], inciting panic. Boomer disarms the Nomen, and manages to resolve the situation without conflict. Jolly is later left aboard ''Rising Star'' to ensure that the two remaining Nomen leave on the next shuttle after their younger companion is taken into custody {{OS|The Man with Nine Lives}}.

Jolly assists Starbuck, Apollo, Salik and [[Cassiopeia]] sneak [[Terra|Terrans]] [[Michael]] and [[Sarah]] back on ''[[Lunar Avion]]'' that Michael appropriates, and helps keep up the façade that they are transferring the children off of the ship. Prior to this, he refers to them, almost humorously, as "[[Earthlings]]". When their deception is revealed by [[Reese]], Boomer quips to Jolly: "Jolly! You forgot the kids!" This scene gives the ''Lunar Avion'' the opportunity to leave ''{{TOS|Galactica}}''{{'|s}} bays and for Apollo and Starbuck to "pursue" {{OS|Greetings From Earth}}.

== Notes ==

*Jolly's final appearance is in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]," having appeared in each hour of the three hour pilot and fourteen subsequent episodes.
*There are two instances of Jolly's rank being that of a lieutenant: 
** [[Sire]] [[Geller]], in "[[Greetings From Earth|Greetings From Earth]]," refers to Jolly as thus. Whether he was actually promoted or if this is an indication of Geller's senility&mdash;or just simply a script screw up&mdash;is never clarified.
** Jolly is referred to as lieutenant in the novelization of "[[Saga of a Star World]]".
* While Jolly does not have a direct contemporary in the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot named [["Jolly" Anders]] is mentioned as being one of ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'s'' pilots killed during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]].

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