When Pants Attack
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When Pants Attack is the first episode of the television series, The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It airs after the 1998 pilot "Runaway Rocketboy" and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (the movie).
[edit] Plot
Jimmy has to pick up his pants from the floor in order to go to the movies the next night. Tired of picking them up, he invents a nanochip that he puts in his pants to make them pick themselves up. However, when he goes to school the next day, his pants start controlling themselves and he does a little jig. Outside at recess, his, along with Carl's, Sheen's, and Cindy's, run away. Jimmy chases after them and catches them, but there is still one pair left: his own. It goes into the "House of Blue Pants". where it forms an army of pants! Jimmy fights and defeats some of them, but to quickly defeat them all, he must get his own pants. He uses the static electricity of a rug to zap the pants, and the rest of them go down. At the end of the episode, Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen are about to go to the movies, but Mrs. Neutron stops them, telling Jimmy to pick up all the pants on the streets in town.
[edit] Miscellanea
- This episode is sometimes credited as the pilot episode of Jimmy Neutron, though the real pilot is "Runaway Rocketboy!".
- First appearance of Lucky Joe.
- When Cindy's pants go away you can see her panties
[edit] Cultural References
- When the pants are all over Retroville, Mr. and Mrs. Neutron look out the window and Mr. Neutron asks what's going on, to which Mrs. Neutron replies "I think it's some sort of homage to Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds."
- The House of Blue Pants is an homage to the House of Blues.
