Betty Quinlan is a supporting character from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. She's the most popular girl at Lindbergh School, whom Jimmy has a crush on for most of the series, though she doesn't reciprocate his feelings. She's one of Jimmy's side love-interests.
History[]
Betty first appeared in the episode Krunch Time, where she makes a brief cameo as one of the kids who beg Jimmy for candy. She was officially introduced in the episode Party at Neutron's, where she was one of the kids who attended Jimmy's party and the main reason for Jimmy to agree to have a party. She dances with Jimmy and kisses him on the cheek when she leaves his house.
During the second season, Betty is seen briefly in the episode "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion", where Jimmy daydreams about rescuing her. She makes two non-speaking appearances, first in Send in the Clones, where she is shown flirting back to Cool Jimmy, who she most likely believes to just be the real Jimmy, then in The Great Egg Heist, she appears on Halo Program 7A blowing a kiss which Jimmy accidentally brings up on Goddard. Betty then makes her second prominent and fifth overall appearance in the episode Out, Darn Spotlight, as one of the main protagonists (alongside Jimmy (Nick formerly)). She proves to be a talented actress, as she gets the role of Lady Macbeth in their school play "Macbeth in Space". Initially, Nick is supposed to play Macbeth, but when he gets injured, Jimmy is forced to take over his part. Actually, Betty was Jimmy's motive for wanting to be in the play in the first place, and she seems to know this, and offers him kind encouragement. Towards the end of the episode, Betty kisses Jimmy on the lips, because they had never gotten to do so on stage and for saving the play and their lives.
Betty's last official and physical appearance was in One of Us/Vanishing Act (a sequel to the previous said episode). In the first segment she was hypnotized by Grandma Taters' TV show, along with many other Retroville residents. In the second segment, she and Jimmy are once again both the protagonists. Jimmy decides to put on a magic show in order to impress her. However, Cindy's unbridled jealousy causes the magic show to go awry, and they end up stuck in another dimension. Jimmy and Betty continue to flirt, which angers Cindy to the point of furiously attacking them and blaming the whole thing on Betty and Jimmy (which Jimmy proceeds to call her out on). Betty eventually gets fed up with Jimmy's and Cindy's bickering and calmly pulls Cindy aside to have a talk with her. She tells Cindy that she knows all about their love-hate relationship. Then she adds that Cindy should just relax and stay out of her face, because she is not interested in Jimmy at all.
In The League of Villains, it is shown that Jimmy has been storing a drawer full of pictures of Betty in his lab, one of which was left sitting out by his main computer. After seeing this, Cindy made Jimmy get rid of all of the pictures, but Jimmy having them proves that he wasn't completely over Betty by the end of the series.
Appearance[]
Betty is an eleven year old girl and is shown to be taller than the other girls in the franchise. She's very pretty, she's of Irish-American[citation needed] descent and is relatively slim with peach skin, dark hair with a bang swept to the left, pink lipstick and has a beauty mark on her cheek, she usually is seen wearing a pink sleeveless dress with a white frilly tie around her neck and a matching belt tightened around her skirt and a pair of turquoise and white Converse All Stars.
Personality[]
Betty is usually shown to be nice and supportive towards Jimmy, who frequently tries to get her attention with his inventions and likes to flirt with her. The latter of which she often reciprocates, seemingly charmed by him. A fact that makes Cindy livid.
Betty loves the performing arts, and as such, she enjoys performing in front of an audience. This includes dancing, acting, and stage magic.
Betty is one of the very few people, who have taken note of Jimmy and Cindy's feelings for each other. This implies a certain level of social intelligence, which is in line with her flirtatious and borderline manipulative behavior, as well as with the fact that she appears to be quite popular.
Quotes[]
- "TIME OUT!! Cindy, we need to have a little chat... Look, I know all about the whole 'you and Neutron' thing. [...] Just relax and keep out of my face. He's all yours." -Vanishing Act
- (In Jimmy's daydream) "Oh, James..." -Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion
- "Kiss me, my king of the stars!" -Out, Darn Spotlight
- "Great party, Neutron!" -Party at Neutron's
- "Sure, Jimmy! I love magic!" -Vanishing Act
Trivia[]
- Like Nick, Betty is implied to be slightly older than Jimmy and his friends, since she's not in any classes with them (while Nick still is), and is taller and even looks a bit older.
- It's possible that her full name is Elizabeth.
- Betty is first of one of Jimmy's three side love-interests to appear on the show, followed by Sagebrush Sally (from Foul Bull) and April the Gorlock (from Win, Lose and Kaboom!).
- She's the only one of them, who has more than one appearance in the show.
- Just like with Jimmy's other side love-interests Cindy doesn't get along well with her (the only exception being Sally at the very end of "Foul Bull" and after she lost all interest in Jimmy).
- Betty has three similarities to what Courtney Tyler has in both Calling All Aliens and the movie.
- Dark hair (which she always has).
- A similar pink dress.
- Similar personality traits and sounding voices.
- Betty makes numerous cameo appearances in The Eggpire Strikes Back, Make Room for Daddy-O, Return of the Nanobots, Billion Dollar Boy, Attack of the Twonkies, My Big Fat Spy Wedding, and the second and third Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials.
- In Out, Darn Spotlight, when Nick and Betty were assigned to play the roles of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, it is hinted that there might be some actual romantic chemistry between them.
- Betty is the second female character to have a beauty mark on the cheek, the first being Judy, followed by Beautiful Gorgeous and Elke Elkberg.
- Betty is one of only two supporting characters to have story logical appearances rather than normal ones like most of the villains, the other is Jet Fusion.
- Betty bears a resemblance to Beautiful Gorgeous. They both having dark hair in similar styles, somewhat similar facial features, and having beauty marks on the left sides of their faces.
- Betty also bears a resemblance to Chelsea, the lead singer of Graystar.
- Betty's saxophone theme in Out, Darn Spotlight and One of Us, sounds similar to Lola Bunny's from the Looney Tunes franchise.
- Coincidentally, both characters are voiced by Kath Soucie (formerly in Lola's case).
Gallery[]
You can find Betty Quinlan gallery here.