The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Clockwise from left: Cindy Vortex, Libby Folfax, Sheen Estevez, Carl Wheezer, Jimmy Neutron, and Goddard.
Genre	comedy
Creator(s)	John A. Davis
Starring	Debi Derryberry Frank Welker Rob Paulsen Jeff Garcia Carolyn Lawrence Crystal Scales Mark DeCarlo Candi Milo Megan Cavanagh Tom Kenny Darran Norris Andrea Martin
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	60 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	July 20, 2002 – November 25, 2006

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , formerly Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, is an American animated television series, and spin-off of the Academy Award-nominated computer-animated movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It first officially aired on September 6, 2002, is also the first computer-animated Nicktoon.

The television series was produced by O Entertainment for the Nickelodeon cable channel, and animated by DNA Productions using LightWave 3D software as was the movie. A television movie, Win, Lose and Kaboom, formerly named You Bet Your Life Form, aired on Nickelodeon in early-July 2004. A second television movie, The League of Villains, aired on Nickelodeon in mid-June 2005. In 2004, head writer Steven Banks was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for the episode Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion. The first Jimmy Neutron mini-episodes aired before the Jimmy Neutron movie and can be seen only on Nicktoons Network, the movie web site, and on later versions of the DVD release of the original movie. The series officially ended on July 21, 2006 but one new episode aired on November 17, 2006 and the final two aired November 25, 2006.

The series is about a child genius and inventor named Jimmy Neutron in the fictional town of Retroville, who gets in and out of trouble by inventing complex gadgets. Jimmy's main catchphrases are "Gotta Blast!", "Brain Blast!", or simply the most overused phrases, "I've Got It!" or "That's It!", which he says after coming up with the ultimate idea to solve the problem. Jimmy typically has a "Brain Blast" once an episode, usually at his climax of the story when all other ideas have failed, and it is accompanied by a display of his ideas floating within the inner workings of his brain.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius episodes

[edit] Characters

Main article: List of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius characters

[edit] Setting

No one knows the exact location of Retroville, other than the fact that it is located somewhere in the United States. In many episodes, characters often take off or land in a hoverdrone somewhere on the U.S. east or west coast. In "Lights, Camera, Danger", a lot of people misunderstood Jimmy after Quentin Smithee said that the movie was going to be shot in Retroville. Some thought Jimmy said "My screenplay takes place in London, not Texas." when what he said was "My screenplay takes place in London, the Atlantic Ocean, a mythical land in Texas, Retroville doesn't look like any of those." Interestingly though, in one episode, when Jimmy took off in the hoverdrone, a map showing his progress did show his starting point as being in the vicinity of Central Texas. One strong clue that they live in Texas is the TX that can be seen on Goddard's license plate in the original movie. Also in an episode where Jimmy, Carl and Sheen are thrown into a dumpster, the phone number on the dumpster for the garbage company gives an area code for Dallas, placing Retroville in the vicinity of Dallas. Plus, in the episode Stranded, when Jimmy and Cindy are flying to the Pacific Ocean, the starting point seems to be in Texas.

[edit] Trivia

• The writing on the chalkboard in Ms. Fowl's classroom never changes.
• The writing on Ms. Fowl's chalkboard involves information far above Jimmy's grade-level (notably, several equations explaining Superstring Theory)
• All of the main characters have changed appearances from the movie to the TV series. In the series, Jimmy wears jeans and white shoes as opposed to shorts and brown shoes in the movie. Carl is mostly unchanged except for his suspenders being removed. Cindy meanwhile, was changed the most, from her hair (two pig tails in the movie; one ponytail in the series) to her outfit (pink shirt and shoes with black pants in the movie; green/grey striped tank top, brown khaki capris, and white shoes in the series). Libby was originally unchanged, but in the second season she has a different hairstyle, a pink and purple striped shirt and jeans compared to her blue dress from the movie and season 1. Even Nick has a new appearance from a leather jacket to his normal suede. Contrary to popular belief, Sheen has changed. The ends of his sleeves were darker in the movie than in the series.
• Ever since the TV Movie Attack of the Twonkies, Sheen's Twonkie, along with the two other Twonkies it gave birth to, have made several cameo appearances.
• The recurring villain Tee is an obvious parody of Mr. T. He sounds like him and says the classic "fool" line a lot too. Almost as obviously, Travoltron is supposed to be a parody of John Travolta, and comments are sometimes made about his masculinity.
• The song Go Jimmy Jimmy, originally from the movie is the only song (besides the original theme) heard in the series (one episode, Attack of the Pants).
• Sheen's last name is Estevez referred to the actor Charlie Sheen and his brother Emilio Estevez.
• There are two references to Buddy Holly. In the episode The Great Egg Heist, Sheen becomes interested in a Japanese girl who calls herself 'Peggy' Tzu. (prononced Sue), Sheen says, "Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, Peggy Sue," Which are lyrics in Buddy Holly's song, Peggy Sue. Another is in Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion near the end Jet says," Maybe you'll star in your own movie someday." Jimmy replies,"That'll Be The Day," which is a song by Buddy Holly.
• In the episode League of Villains, the character Granny Taters is actually from the episode "One of Us," which premiered weeks after The League of Villains. This was also the case with the baby Eddie.
• In the episode "I Dream of Jimmy" (a clear reference to the show I Dream of Jeannie), Sheen mentions having a little sister, although she is never seen.
• The television theme music was written and performed by Brian Causey (a.k.a Star Crunch from Man or Astro-man?). The version of the theme song in the film, while based on Causey's theme, was performed by Bowling for Soup.
• In almost all of the episodes with the school and classroom involved, "Planetarium Tuesday" is written on the blackboard.
• From 2002 to January 24, 2007 the show was rated TV-Y. Starting January 25, 2007, the show is rated TY-Y7. At the same time, SpongeBob Squarepants and The Fairly OddParents were also switched from TV-Y to TY-Y7.
• Jimmy's last name (Neutron) is actually one of three main parts of an atom. Proton, Neutron, and Electron.
• The director is obviously a fan of Quentin Tarantino movies. In the episode "Send In The Clones" the scene at the end where all the clones are walking in slow motion is based on the intro to Reservoir Dogs. also in the episode "Party at Neutrons" when Jimmy is dancing with Betty Quinlan, its based on the dance John Travolta and Uma Thurman do in Pulp Fiction. Also in "Lights, Camera, Danger", Quentin Smithee looks and sounds exactly like Tarantino.

[edit] See Also

Nickelodeon Portal

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Jimmy Neutron

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius at TV.com
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius on YTV
• I Dream of Jimmy - The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron fansite