Attack of the Twonkies

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Attack of the Twonkies
Episode	1-2
Season	3
Airdate (US)	November 11, 2004
Invention(s)	Sheenograth
Previous	Win, Lose and Kaboom!
Next	Lights! Camera! Danger!

Attack of the Twonkies is the first episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius' Season 3, and a special two-part episode.

Plot

Jimmy is preparing for a long-awaited event. That event is Twonkus-3's orbit around Earth, which it only makes once or twice a year. Jimmy then finds what he came for: samples of sand on the comet. After a close call with a hostile alien life form on the comet (a red and black 8-foot monster who’s enormous fanged maw takes up its entire body), Jimmy just barely makes it home unscathed.

Jimmy returns home with Carl and Sheen waiting for him only to find that a cute and cuddly alien has stowed away on his rocket in his sand samples. Despite Jimmy's warnings about the potential dangers of keeping alien creatures as pets, Carl brings his “Twonkie,” as he has named the alien, to school and shows it to the class. It suddenly multiplies, coughing up enough babies until everyone in the class has one of their own. However, the dangers Jimmy stated earlier about owning an alien pet begin to manifest when Carl sings to his; when the twonkies hear harmonious auditory patterns (music), their dormant feral instincts kick in and they and morph into dangerously violent razor-toothed beasts, not unlike the 8-foot behemoth that attacked Jimmy on the comet. Soon, all the twonkies in Retroville begin morphing into savage monsters upon hearing any form of music and the town has a catastrophic infestation on its hands.

As everybody is chastising Carl for welcoming this nightmare into Retroville (because he was the one who brought his to school), Jimmy swoops in and explains that music is the cause of this nightmare. He also warns them that time is of the essence, because if they fail to round up every last one of the Twonkies and send them back to the comet when it returns in exactly one hour, they'll be entrenched on Earth for another year. Jimmy splits everybody up, sending them to different sections of the town to shut down all the music before the rest of the Twonkies mutate. Strangely, Sheen is the only one absent despite also having a Twonkie.

With Carl's help, Jimmy rounds up all the twonkies by vaccuming them into a huge containment bin mounted onto the back of his hovercar. With the threat finally neutralized, Jimmy enjoys a number from Graystar, a rock band Libby invited to sing at the opening for the town’s new Library, after which he can simply blast the containment bin back to the comet. Carl nervously asks Jimmy if sending the bin back as soon as possible would be the better solution, but Jimmy is not worried, explaining that the bin is forged of triple reinforced steel. The force needed to bust out of it would need to be far more tremendous than what a few "music-crazed twonkies" would be capable of exerting. Unfortunately, the containment bin begins to shake and Carl hears ominous roaring from inside it. Jimmy tells him they'll deal with the twonkies as soon as this song is over, but that's when he realizes exactly where this situation is going quickly. Suddenly, the bin bursts open, revealing the exact same 8-foot monster that Jimmy narrowly escaped while on the comet, revealing that the monster is the result of a conglomeration of several Twonkies. This also reveals that the monster on the comet was trying to destroy the rocket’s radio, not the rocket itself. Jimmy can’t neutralize it since, as he discovered while on the comet, this type of monster is completely invulnerable to every weapon in Jimmy’s arsenal. However, Sheen shows up, not knowing anything about the Twonkies turning into feral creatures upon hearing music. Jimmy soon finds out that Sheen's Twonkie is the only one that didn't evolve, and that's because Sheen's singing voice is so bad that Liversnap (as Sheen has named his instead of Mr. Cabbage-pants) perceives it as a form of anti-music. Instead of enraging him, it lulls him to sleep. Jimmy takes advantage of this to neutralize the monster long enough to send it back to the comet before it destroys Retroville with only 10 minutes before the comet leaves for another year.

Meanwhile, Hugh spends all of Judy's grocery money on a dummy puppet named Flippy, who instantly gets on her nerves. As Jimmy straps the monster to a rocket targeted for Twonkus 3 just before it leaves in the next 30 seconds, the monster awakens from its slumber. Sheen chokes on popcorn and cannot neutralize it again with his terrible singing voice. The monster struggles and shakes the rocket to the point where it causes a major malfunction that disconnects the main thruster. With only 15 seconds before the launch window closes, Jimmy concludes that he needs a fire to manually jump-start the rocket. Judy joyfully throws Hugh’s dummy to Jimmy, which he uses to launch the monster back to the comet once and for all.

In the end, the chorus performs at the new library, with Sheen getting the solo instead of Cindy much to her anger (albeit singing inside a sound-proof phone booth so no one can hear him, but he doesn't mind). Although it seems that everything is back to normal, Jimmy can't help feeling he forgot something -- it has shown that he forgot to send Sheen's un-mutated Twonkie back to the comet along with the monster (meaning he's stuck with them for another year). He jumps on the sill of Sheen's window and coughs up two new baby Twonkies, which then run loose in Retroville, and the episode ends on a cliffhanger with a card that says, "The End?" with the pink baby Twonkie dotting the question mark.

Home Media

VHS and DVD

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Attack of the Twonkies

DVD only

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The Complete Series

iTunes

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 2
• Nick X-Mas Special

Quotes

• Jimmy: People, people this isn't the time for blame. If it were I've be saying things like "I tried to tell you, and why didn't you jerks listen to me!".
• Jimmy: I told Carl it's a bad idea. But did he listen? No, he didn't! So now, he's just gonna have to help me go door to door to round up everyone's twonkies and then sending them back to space!

Flippy (to Judy): Hey there, doll face, what do ya say we ditch the dead wood, and go make some trouble?

Hugh: Flippy, please! Don't be fresh!

Flippy (to Hugh): I'm fresh? You're the one with your hand on my-

Hugh: That's enough! One more out of you, and it's back in the box!

Jimmy: Nick you too?

Nick: Uh.... I just need him to test hair products on!

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Trivia

• Moral: Although a creature may seem cute and harmless, keeping it as a pet can be dangerous.
• This episode was first released in Canada on September 6, 2004.
• The special is inspired by the 1984 film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
• In the pet shop, with a close look, Leppy can be seen in one of the cages.
• Several clips from this episode can be seen in the third season’s intro.
• Betty Quinlan and Eustace Strych make cameos in this episode. Betty is seen as one of the people who Libby asked to sign her letter to Graystar, then as one of the kids during the practice Rehearsal until Cindy announced that it had been canceled due to the Twonkies attacking, and then during one of Graystar's songs as she can be seen dancing with all the other kids, and Eustace makes a cameo in one of the movie theater seats watching the Jet Fusion movie.
• This is the last episode to be released on VHS.
• This is one of the few episodes after Season 1 where Jimmy does not wear his lab coat in his lab. This is likely because he came back from Twonkus 3.
• The Ultra Lord theme song that Sheen sings to his Twonkie is a parody of the Spider-Man theme song.
• While Jimmy and Goddard on the asteroid, the song that plays on the rocket's radio is the minute movement of "String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5" by Luigi Boccherini.
• While not appearing in this episode, Sheen pretends to be Bolbi Stroganovsky when he tries to get another chance to be in the school chorus.
• Jimmy and Carl are the only kids in Ms. Fowl's class who are not in the school chorus.
• This is the third time Libby uncharacteristically lies. The second was in Jimmy for President, and the first was in A Beautiful Mine.
• In the video game version, Sheen's singing reverses the evolution process, but here, it just puts the Twonkies to sleep.
• Because Sheen's twonkie was not sent back and reproduced, twonkies became a common background sight throughout the town for the remainder of the series.
  • They would be later seen in "The N-Men", "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?", Flippy", "King of Mars", "El Magnifico", "Best in Show", "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", "How to Sink a Sub", "Lady Sings the News", and "The League of Villains". However, they are never seen morphing into monsters, even when music plays around them.
• Jimmy claims he hasn't seen Sheen in hours when questioned by Carl on why he has to do a dangerous task. However, Sheen was at his house the whole time. You would think for a boy genius that Sheen's casa would be the first place Jimmy would check.
• Sheen is shown to be a horrible singer in this episode, but in certain episodes, like "The Trouble with Clones", he sings perfectly fine.
• This special aired one year after "Monster Hunt"/"Jimmy for President".
• Before the scene where Carl reveals to Jimmy that he brought his twonkie to school, a scene from "Hypno-Birthday To You" was reused.
• When Cindy and Libby do baby size classes with their Twonkies, the music playing is somewhat similar to the song "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C + C Music Factory.
• While Sheen is strapped to Jimmy's hover car to sing with his horrible voice to the Twonkie monster, the first two songs Sheen sings are to the beat of Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner and the folk song She'll Be Comin Around the Mountain and then finishes off with his own version and rendition of the Kansas state song Home on the Range.
• While Carl is singing his bending and stretching song for his Twonkie, you can see many different board games in the background including Family, Bungle, Wild N' Wacky West, Sweetland, Makin Money, I Apologize!, Super Happy Fun Time, 'Wacky Word Scramble, and Anti-Trust. These games are oblivious parodies of The Game of Life, Boggle, Jenga, Wild Wild West, Candyland, Monopoly, Sorry!, Apples to Apples, Scrabble, and Anti-Monopoly.
• The frog picture Carl drew from the Movie can be seen in Carl's room when his Twonkie becomes a Stomper.
• This is the third episode and last TV movie not to have the theme song. However, the instrumental version of the theme song still can be heard in the end credits.
• This is the second episode to feature a character holding up a sign reading “Ouch”, the first was "When Pants Attack".
• This is the second instance in which Butch mentioned tree frogs; the first was in Brobot.
• According to this video, an alternate scene is revealed where instead of Judy snatching Flippy from Hugh and throwing it to Jimmy to use as fuel to the rocket, there originally was going to be a scene where Flippy insults Hugh so bad, Hugh gets fed up with him and throws him to Jimmy, so he can burn him.
  • This animated showreel also reveals the episode was produced in 2004.
• The song that Hugh has Flippy sing while drinking water is "The Yankee Doodle Boy" or "(I'm A) Yankee Doodle Dandy".
• This was the second of 2 episodes where the townsfolk ignored Jimmy's warning about aliens being dangerous. The first being "The Eggpire Strikes Back".
  • Coincidentally, both episodes feature Betty Quinlan in a cameo.