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| Episode | 4 |
| Season | 3 |
| Airdate (US) | May 24, 2005 |
| Airdate (CA) | November 21, 2004 |
| Invention(s) | Baby Quackers Malibu Death Machine Bouncy Shoes Duck Plane Pogo Duck |
| Previous | Lights! Camera! Danger! |
| Next | Stranded |
"Fundemonium" is the fourth episode of Season 3.
Plot[]
After the car company that Hugh works for decides to close down and relocate because everyone has a car now, the Neutrons are faced with the awful prospect of moving. To stay in Retroville, Jimmy finds a job positing in the local newspaper for a toy inventor and encourages his dad to apply for it. A while later, Hugh becomes a toy inventor and starts creating a hybrid doll called Baby Quackers, but the remote is makeshift and doesn't budge, so Jimmy goes down to his lab and upgrades Baby Quackers with sleek arms, renaming it Baby Quackers 3000. Jimmy also upgrades its remote, which gives it the ability to walk, destroy stuff with karate moves and heat vision, and to have state-of-the-art wee-wee transistors.
Meanwhile, Carl and Sheen are devastated about potentially losing Jimmy and try to replace him with Bolbi and suffer from boredom. Hugh shows everyone at his job interview Baby Quackers 3000, and its abilities astonishes his peers. When Hugh returns home, he announces that he has been promoted as assistant vice junior toy inventor at Krelman Toys -- the family's happy that they'll be able to stay in Retroville, when Hugh reveals that he has to invent a new toy every single day for his job. After hearing this, Jimmy decides to keep secretly modifying his dad's toys (at least until he leaves for college) and Judy offers to bring his meals out to his clubhouse while he does so. Hugh begins to invent more and more toys, such as a remote-controlled mallard plane, a hydraulic high-jumping duck Pogo stick, and finally, a green tank with a dirty princess head turret toy called The Malibu Death Machine.
After so many days, Jimmy becomes so sleep deprived, that he decides to take a nap. So when Hugh arrives into Jimmy's lab, he sees Jimmy still sleeping, then he finds the toy, he mistakes Jimmy's Nanobots for talking batteries, and they escape to wreak havoc on Retroville. Ultimately, Jimmy reunites with Carl and Sheen to stop the Nanobots. Thinking quickly, Jimmy reprograms the Baby Quackers 9000's remote and fires at The Malibu Death Machine, causing the pee from Baby Quackers to explode out of the massive toy, then it shrinks down to normal size.
Carl and Sheen praise Jimmy's bravery; however, they are still sad Jimmy has to move. As they are walking in front of Jimmy's house, Hugh appears. He announces that the Malibu Death Machine was on a featured in a newspaper article and was such a huge PR success that Krelman Toys offered Hugh at company headquarters, which is all the way over in New York City. Feeling that the move is inevitable, Jimmy's about to start saying his goodbyes but then Hugh reveals that he turned them down and assures his wife and their son that they will staying in Retroville. Jimmy questions on what his dad will do for a living and finds out that Mallard Motors is back in business since everyone's car was destroyed in the rampage.
The episode ends with Jimmy running off to hang out with Carl and Sheen, with Bolbi secretly following them.
Home Media[]
DVD[]
iTunes[]
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 3
Quotes[]
- Hugh: "Howdy boys hey Jimbo, better start packing. we gotta move at the end of the week if I wannna keep my job."
- Jimmy: "We're moving?!"
- Carl: "You're moving?!"
- Sheen: "Your dad has a job?"
- Judy: "So, your father's company is moving. That means our lives are ruined! I mean..."
- Jimmy: "I can’t believe Mallard Motors is leaving Retroville! Everyone in town buys their cars there!"
- Orange Nanobot: "Looking for something creator?"
- Red Nanobot: "Perhaps we could be at service."
- Jimmy: "After you nearly deleted everyone on Earth? Nice try."
- Orange nanobot: "The creator still hates us."
- Red nanobot: "And all we try to do is please him."
- Red Nanobot: "You have anger issues."
- Orange Nanobot: (while hitting Red Nanobot) "Yes, this is how anger."
- Red Nanobot: "Ow, ow, ow."
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This is the only Season 3 episode where Jimmy has a Brain Blast. It's also overall the last episode where he has a brain blast.
- Hugh's job was revealed in an issue of Nickelodeon Magazine promoting the movie. This is the first time it's used in the series.
- While it's unknown what his exact job is, Hugh works at a car dealership called Mallard Motors, where Jimmy claims that pretty much everyone in Retroville buys their cars from.
- Captain Betty can be seen making a cameo at the school's running track.
- The masks and chairs the Nanobots are tied to are a visual reference to Silence of the Lambs.
- The instrumental that plays in the episode sounds like Outkast's 2003 hit song "Hey Ya". Said instrumental would appear 9 episodes later in "The Incredible Shrinking Town".
- Derryville is named after Debi Derryberry, Jimmy's voice actress.
- Carl says "Hasta la vista, babies!" a reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. "Hasta la vista, baby!" originated from the classic Jody Watley song "Looking for a New Love".
- It's revealed Jimmy's landline phone number is 555-9756, as evidenced by the "For Sale" sign.
- Although this episode was produced after "The Tomorrow Boys", this is the first Season 3 episode that has the original intro. This intro was used until "The Incredible Shrinking Town".
- This is the last episode the Nanobots appear in.
- This and "The Junkman Cometh" are the only 22-minute episodes where Cindy and Libby don't appear.
- The title is a pun on pandemonium.
- Although this episode was released in 2005, you can actually see "Copyright 2003 Viacom International, Inc." at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2003.
- Bolbi wears the same helmet he wore in the episode "Out, Darn Spotlight" as well as the same duck head that Hugh wore in the episode "Party at Neutron's".
Goofs[]
- Early in the episode, the Nanobots are shown in a box chained to chairs. In later scenes, they are free of their chairs.
- Hugh accidentally destroys the main Krellman office on his first day, but he still gets the job. Also, the next day everything in the room is back to normal.
- The Malibu Death Machine, despite having a remote control, has controls on the inside as well. Also, these controls are shown to work without batteries.
- Jimmy's remote seemed to have an effect on the Nanobots, although he only reprogrammed it to control the Malibu Death Machine.