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| Episode | 5b |
| Season | 1 |
| Airdate (US) | September 27, 2002 |
| Airdate (CA) | October 10, 2002 |
| Invention(s) | Dreaming Injector 5000 Really Smart Experiment |
| Previous | Raise the Oozy Scab |
| Next | Jimmy on Ice |
I Dream of Jimmy is the second segment of the fifth episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Summary[]
In this episode, Carl gets very tired because of his nightmares, which is interfering with Jimmy's science, so he decides to help Carl by going into his dreams with one of his inventions and helping him whenever something bad happens in the dream. Jimmy goes into his dreams and tells Sheen to wake Carl up if he's in any danger. In Carl's dream, Carl is the boy genius and Jimmy is the dumb student. Jimmy’s forced to be a test subject on Carl's show-and-tell class experiment, which is basically an electric chair. This sends shock to Jimmy and hurts him. After realizing that what Carl does in the dream actually happens to him, Jimmy tries to tell Carl that it's a dream, but he won't listen.
Jimmy eventually finds out that Carl is having bad dreams because of a Lima Bean Monster (due to the fact that Carl hates Lima beans) chasing him. It was “a little pipsqueak” hiding under Carl’s bed playing a harmonica. Jimmy was astonished that this lima bean kept Carl from sleeping peacefully. Jimmy turned away from the monster and faced towards his friend, questioning him if this little guy is really the source of the nightmares. As he is doing this, the Lima Bean Monster tosses the harmonica in his mouth, swallowing it whole, and started to rapidly expand in height and weight, almost quadrupling his initial size. Carl hinted to Jimmy to turn around.
It started growling and chasing Jimmy and Carl. While running, Jimmy tells Carl he's going to prove that the Lima Bean Monster is logically impossible using non-Euclidean geometry. While Carl is taking notes, his pen transforms into a worm. This improbability makes Jimmy realize he needs to do something so unbelievably stupid to make Carl realize he is dreaming.
Cindy appears to tell Carl something and Jimmy gets an idea before he kisses her. After seeing the passionate act, Carl realizes that would never happen so he must be dreaming. He and Cindy disappear as a portal appears and Jimmy runs into it, escaping the dream.
Sheen and Carl awake with the latter noting about his dream, as Jimmy appears and angrily tells Carl, he almost got him killed for not listening. Suddenly, Jimmy notices the Lima Bean Monster walk out of the dream machine and warns Sheen its behind him. Sheen doesn't believe it until he turns to see it. The Lima Bean Monster roars and chases the kids and Goddard through the lab. However, Jimmy manages to crush it to death with a hammer. The next scene shows them all outside with the close-up of a toasted giant bean. Jimmy shares an agriculture lifehack: Phaseolus limensis perish when they are exposed to dry air and overly nitrous soil. Carl contradicts this by saying that Jimmy struck the Lima Bean Monster with a hammer.
Soon, Judy comes home with Hugh who has a painful stomachache saying, "Your father got overexcited and ate a bolt that fell off a grocery cart" in which Hugh says, "It was grape shaped". After Jimmy asks Carl to keep it a secret on what he had to do to wake him up, he agrees before an angry Cindy comes in. She says, "Not even in his dreams, Neutron!", implying Carl had told Cindy what he did to wake him up. Cindy promptly slaps Jimmy in the face before walking out while Carl is shown to have a guilty expression.
Home Media[]
DVD[]
- Sea of Trouble
- Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The Complete Series
iTunes[]
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 1
- Sheen Estevez is Here!
Quotes[]
Sheen: *rubs Carl's belly to help him sleep* "Nonny nonny..." *yawns* "good-night, moon..." *falls asleep*
Jimmy: Well, that doesn't make any sense!
Carl: "The square root of a Flexnard is a cup full of boogers."
Jimmy: That’s what you’re scared of? A stupid Lima bean? I know you hate them Carl but they’re not scary.
Jimmy: Sheen don't move! There's a giant man-eating Lima bean behind you!
Sheen: "Ha! You guys! I haven't believed in that since I was like 7!"
'*Sheen turns around to see the bean monster, realizing the truth. It roars, and everyone screams and runs off. A loud banging sound is heard. Cut to the kitchen with Sheen, Carl and Jimmy holding plates of giant Lima bean slices. *
Jimmy: Luckily, as all bean farmers know, Phaseolus lunatis perishes when exposed to dry air and overly nitrogenic soil.
Carl: But you hit it with a hammer.
Judy: Oh, come on honey, right this way, it's okay. (sighs) Your father got overexcited and ate a bolt that fell off a grocery cart.
Hugh: It was grape shaped.
Judy: Yes.
Jimmy: Carl, you won't tell anybody about that awful, desperate thing I had to do to wake you up, right?
Carl: Of course not, Jimmy.
Cindy: Not even in his dreams Neutron! (slaps Jimmy)
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Trivia[]
- The title of this episode is a title parody of the 1960’s television program I Dream of Jeanie.
- The music played during the title card is a parody of the theme from said show.
- This is the first time Jimmy kisses Cindy; albeit in Carl's dream.
- When Jimmy was looking for Carl with the binoculars, he was looking through them the wrong way.
- This episode has a similar plot to the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Dream Machine" and the Family Guy episode "A Lot Going On Upstairs", although said episode aired 14 years later.
- Sheen claims to have a younger sister in this episode, but she's never mentioned again after this, and we never see her at any point in the franchise. Any mentions or appearances of Sheen's family indicate that he's an only child.
- The script was polished 5 days before Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was released in theaters.
- Not counting Carl's dream, Libby doesn't appear in this episode, and this is (technically) the first episode where Cindy appears without Libby.
- This is the only episode where a main character appears in an alternate world, but does not appear physically.
- The Lima Beans make cameos as audience members in "Win, Lose and Kaboom!".
- Carl, Sheen, and Judy all make a variation of Bugs Bunny's classic line from Space Jam: "If I weren't real could I do this?" This line was referenced again by Cosmo in Jimmy Timmy Power Hour.
- Coincidentally, this episode along with "Raise the Oozy Scab" aired on Debi Derryberry's birthday.
- This episode reveals Carl's last name ("Wheezer").
- Hugh ends up getting hurt twice in this episode. First is with Hugh's tongue being pulled through his left ear by Judy in Carl's dream. The second time is when he and Judy arrive home, with Hugh getting sick with a stomachache from eating a bolt that fell off a grocery cart, which he mistakenly seen as a gutter grape, during the episode's epilogue.
- This episode aired before the premieres of The Fairly OddParents episodes "Hail to the Chief" and "Twistory" on September 27, 2002.[1]
- There's a type of graphic error when Judy brings sickly Hugh into the house and tells the boys that he just eaten a bolt. Her left hand is keep floating in the air and doesn't move correctly, also that hand doesn't place right on Hugh's back and keeps floating a little bit far from his back until the next scene, her hand looks placed right again on his back.
A noticeable error could be seen (circled in red outline) in which Judy's left hand strangely keeps floating on Hugh's back and doesn't place right on it