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| Grumpy Young Men | |
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| Episode | 6b |
| Season | 2 |
| Airdate (US) | October 3, 2003 |
| Airdate (CA) | October 15, 2003 |
| Invention(s) | Metabolic Accelerator |
| Previous | The Retroville 9 |
| Next | Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion |
"Grumpy Young Men" is the second segment of the 3rd episode in Season 2 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Plot[]
Jimmy and his friends are at a video game store, checking out a game called Doombringer II, which costs $15 to buy. Unfortunately, since it's an M-rated game, the clerk refuses to sell them the game since they're technically too young for it. After being forced to leave the store, Jimmy and his friends head off to do something more "age appropriate."
Jimmy gets the idea that if he can make a machine to advance aging, they can purchase the game. Jimmy goes to the lab and created a machine that they use to age themselves. Jimmy tests it using an acorn and it successfully grows the acorn into an oak tree. At first, they're still the same age and quite confused why it didn’t work. Jimmy decides to call it a day and will try to figure out the problem tomorrow. When Jimmy woke up the next morning, he saw he had become an old man much to his and Goddard's horror then his doorbell rings, he answers the door and sees Carl and Sheen have become old men too. Jimmy then yells that “something went horribly wrong,“ so they go back to the lab to find out what happened. As it turns out, Jimmy did not make a strong enough time brake (placing a crushed soda can into the accelerator) and needs to get ahold of enough titanium to make a strong enough time brake before 6:03 PM that day, otherwise they will keep aging until they turn to dust.
While the crew discuss their plans at the Candy Bar, they stumble upon a titanium shop across the street. Jimmy before crossing the street Cindy and Libby see him (not recognizing him) and force him to let them help him. After he gets to the store, he is met by his own father, who also mistakes him for an old man. Sheen forces Carl into a dance contest with fellow old women. While Jimmy tries his best to explain the situation to whoever possible, time is ticking away. Sheen and Carl do more meddling but come home on a wheelbarrow holding a titanium trophy. This turns out to be Jimmy's big break.
With just seconds remaining, Jimmy places the titanium trophy into the accelerator and the three boys make it through and not a minute too soon with help from Goddard. They learn that being a kid is fun, and they should experience life naturally and not rush to do it.
After they leave Jimmy's lab, Carl is seen eating some of Jimmy's truth serum, mistaking it for prune whip then begins revealing some of his secrets to the annoyance of Jimmy and Sheen, the latter especially when Carl admits that he doesn't think Ultra Lord exists.
Home Media[]
DVD[]
iTunes[]
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 2
- Sheen Estevez Is Here!
VideoNow[]
- Nick Mix #1
Quotes[]
- Jimmy: (screams in the mirror after seeing he's old)
- Goddard: (screams like a woman after seeing Jimmy old)
- Store Clerk: This game is for mature players only due to Violence, Exaggerated Mayhem, and Old Lady Kicking.
- Sheen: That's not fair! We're highly mature. (pounds fist) I demand my constipational rights!
- Old Carl: Jimmy, is that you way over there?
- Old Jimmy: Guys! Something went horribly wrong!
- Old Sheen: Oh, geez do you think? And another thing: these kids today wear their pants too low! They're down under their stomachs, for crying' out loud!
- Old Jimmy: Maybe I shouldn’t have made the all-important time brake out of a soda can.
- Old Jimmy: I can't even remember what I'm supposed to be doing now, but I think it's real important.
- Hugh: Well, you know, maybe if we guess, it'll jog your memory. Let's see. Did it involve swinging heavy things?
- Old Jimmy: No, I don't think so.
- Hugh: Well, that eliminates lumberjack and executioner.
- Judy: I wish Jimmy would come in from the lab, his dinner's getting cold. Oh, Hugh, remind me to take the pie out at 6:03.
- Old Jimmy: 6:03! Oh, no, that's it. I'm going to turn to dust in five minutes!
- Hugh: Oh, now don't say that. These days doctors can keep a person alive way past their usefulness.
- Hugh: I can't wait until I'm so old that I babble like that! Babble! Babble! Babble! It's going to be great!
- (Judy gives Hugh an awkward smile)
- Old Sheen: Hey! I know what you're doing! You're trying to take me to the nursing home! (pounds on the car's window) Let me out! Let me out!
- Old Carl: Sheen, be careful! This car's going an excess of 7 miles an hour.
- (Old Sheen pants, checks his pulse, and faints)
- Old Sheen: You know, when I was a kid, the sky was bluer! And a quarter would buy you groceries for a week!
- Old Jimmy: Gas planet. Does anyone remember what we drove down here to get?
- Old Carl: Well, I like a canary to talk while I watch TV and eat soup.
- Old Carl: Sheen, quit snapping your fingers! I can't hear the music.
- Old Sheen: That's not my fingers! It's my spine!
- Sam: Hey, Oldilocks, what's the big idea, you and your bingo buddy taking' all the rice pudding from the buffet?!
- Old Sheen: It says, "Seniors Eat Dessert Free!"
- Sam: you‘re supposed to buy an entree first!
- Old Carl: We did. I had a hamburger here yesterday!
- (Sheen and Carl laughing)
- Carl: You got that right brother.
- Jimmy: Carl, what are you eating?
- Carl: Just some prune whip from your lab.
- Jimmy: Carl, there wasn't any prune whip. That's my experimental truth telling serum!
- Carl: Oh, Jimmy that's ridic... I stole Jimmy's toast the other day. Sometimes I dream about girls.
- Jimmy: Maybe we better go...
- Carl: I don't think Ultra Lord exists.
- Sheen: LALALALALA! I DON´T WANNA HEAR IT!
- Carl: My mom is really 42. I just ripped a....
- Sheen: MAKE HIM STOP!
Gallery[]
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Trivia/Goofs[]
- This is the second time Carl turns old, first was "Granny Baby".
- When Carl becomes old, the error of his pants being pulled up is present despite that this was fixed.
- This is the only Season 2 11-minute episode where all main characters appear.
- When Carl says, "I don't think Ultra Lord exists", the subtitles say, "Ultra Lord doesn't exist".
- The oak tree Jimmy's metabolic accelerator makes the acorn grow into is identical to the oak tree Sheen lost his Ultra Lord action figure at in "Crime Sheen Investigation".
- The title is a reference to the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men.
- This episode is similar to the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Old Man Dexter".
- Moral: Enjoy being young because you're only young once.