Imagine a Saturday morning cartoon in the vein of “the Jackson Five.” In the middle of a scene, members of the featured band pick up instruments and begin a spontaneous musical number. Each musician holds certain powers, strengths and weaknesses.

This is the “little rock opera cartoon” that guitarist/vocalist Jimi Haha envisions for his band, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack.

“We’d go around and save the world with our music,” Haha says. “Actually, we’d ruin the world with our music, thinking we were saving it all along.”

The idea of “Jimmie’s Chicken Shack: The TV Show” makes Haha laugh as he calls from Rochester, N.Y. After pausing briefly, he thinks of another important aspect of the show that fits well with the band’s slacker image.

“We’d travel the universe in our giant La-Z-Boy chair with a rocket on it,” Haha says.

If Jimmie’s Chicken Shack’s music video for “Do Right” is any indication, an animated television show wouldn’t be much of a stretch for the band.

Supposedly taking place in their hometown of Annapolis, Md., the video features guest appearances by “friends” and “family” who are actually actors. A brief, humorous history of the band is revealed through “interviews” with various people who have impacted the members’ lives.

“The whole thing’s supposed to be half-fictitious, half-true,” Haha says.

According to the video, the band supposedly met when they were altar boys, enjoying access to the wine. In reality, the members were altar boys, but they didn’t meet and form the band that way.

There are some things about the video that are completely true, however.

“Che definitely has fallen off almost every stage we used to play on,” Haha says.

The band’s sense of humor and desire to have fun carry over from the video to the music. Ex-girlfriends also figure heavily in JCS.

“There’s a part in every song, at least, about girls,” Haha says.

The subject matter of “Bring Your Own Stereo,” the band’s latest album, focuses heavily on a past relationship of Haha’s. The music allows Haha to have an emotional release.

However, Haha is not a frontman who gets on stage and complains about his personal problems — he feels those displays should not be part of a good rock and roll show.

“If I go to see a band and they’re bitching and moaning, I’ll get annoyed and leave,” Haha says. “If I’m gonna feel somebody’s pain, I want them to be laughing so I can laugh with them.”

Laughing is something that Haha does frequently, especially when he attempts to explain exactly what kind of music his band actually plays. Mutt rock, A.D.D. rock and schizophrenic rock are all descriptions that Haha applies to the band’s sound.

“I think overall it’s a positive vibe, or at least a silly vibe, a changing vibe,” Haha says. “I don’t know what the fuck it is.”

Each of the members of Jimmie’s Chicken Shack — Double D on guitar, Che Colovita Lemon on bass, and Sipple on drums — brings different influences to the band, including Black Sabbath, Bob Marley and Bad Brains. No genre of music is safe from the musical appetite of JCS, which spans from country to rap.

How the sound of the band came together is somewhat of a mystery. Their music defies categorization and stereotyping.

“Girls are the reason we sound the way we do,” Haha offers as an explanation.

Girls seem to play a large role in the musical entity that is JCS. They even affect with whom the band would love to tour.

Haha first mentions Bob Marley, followed by their current tour mates 311, as ideal acts to open for. However, a better idea strikes Haha — the Backstreet Boys.

“Well, you figure they sell out coliseums filled with 12-year-old girls,” Haha says. “I’m not stupid.”

Though Haha wonders whether the audience for a boy band concert could comprehend a band that actually plays their own instruments, he is not adverse to going on tour with a group of MTV’s golden boys.

“If you can play in front of that many people every night, that’s a good tour,” Haha explains.

Performing for an audience is important to Haha. But it is not just the high of strapping on a guitar and singing songs to a screaming crowd that keeps Haha writing and playing. The elusive and enigmatic qualities of music keep him intrigued.

“It’s kinda like love,” Haha says. “You never figure it out, so you’ll always be obsessed with it.”

Haha has wanted basically one thing since he was small child.

“I either wanted to be entertained, or I wanted to be the entertainer,” Haha says.

As the frontman of Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, Haha has the opportunity to live his dream. And someday, he might even get to do it while flying around in a rocket-powered recliner.