Make Room for Daddy-O

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Make Room for Daddy-O

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Make Room for Daddy-O
Episode	18
Season	1
Airdate (US)	June 6, 2003
Airdate (CA)	April 4, 2004
Invention(s)	Neutronic De-Dorkinator
Previous	Sleepless in Retroville
Next	Beach Party Mummy

Make Room for Daddy-O is the 18th. episode of season 1 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Plot

The episode begins with rehearsals for the 82nd annual Father's Day Follies. Cindy and her dad do a martial arts demonstration and Libby and her father do a magic act (saw the lady in half trick). Hugh and Jimmy are performing, but Hugh wants them to do the Ducky-Daddles Dance Song, which Jimmy dislikes. Jimmy excuses himself from the rehearsal, but to his embarrassment, Hugh performs the song all by himself and his poor rehearsal prompts Cindy and Libby to tease Jimmy.

Not wanting his father to humiliate him, Jimmy decides to change Hugh's personality to become cooler. In his lab, he invents the Neutronic De-Dorkinator, an invention that freezes the brain's cortex and makes a person adopt a cooler personality. Jimmy uses it on Hugh, but finds the invention has seemingly not worked the next morning as he is still the same. Later that day, Jimmy heads to the Candy Bar where he asks Sheen and Carl for help, Carl tells him it reminds of the time he accidentally came to school wearing his underwear on the outside and Butch asks him is he's wearing the underwear with the little pink lamas on them. Jimmy then asks why they aren't doing anything with their fathers in the show. Carl explains that his dad got his doctor to write a note excusing him from the show and Sheen explains to him that due to last year's chainsaw incident his dad is banned from the Father's Day Follies for life. Hugh comes to the Candy Bar to pick up Jimmy. By this time, however, the Neutronic De-Dorkinator has taken full effect and Hugh has become cooler, dressing in an Elvis-esque outfit and driving a motorcycle. He performs a song for the Candy Bar attendees, where his coolness wins over everyone except for Nick, who is abashed at being surpassed in coolness. Impressed, the Candy Bar's owner, Sam Melvick, gives Hugh a job singing at the restaurant.

Hugh's newfound coolness spirals him into fame and success, and his performances gradually become sold-out. Unfortunately, however, the more famous Hugh becomes, the less time he spends with Jimmy and Judy, and the more Jimmy begins to miss his father's former personality. To make matters worse, Hugh's personality becomes more cocky, vain and self-absorbed, and he even loses his interests in ducks and pie. One night, talent agent Corky Shimatzu meets with Hugh and offers to take him on a world tour, and Hugh accepts. When Hugh returns home to prepare for his tour, Jimmy tells him the truth and prepares to return him to normal, but Hugh, unwilling to revert to his old self, destroys the De-Dorkinator before he leaves. Fearing he may never see his father again, Jimmy sneaks into the studio where Hugh is performing with Carl and Sheen. Jimmy plans to feign danger of falling to death to reawaken Hugh's paternal instinct. The plan fails, but when Carl and Sheen accidentally break the safety net and thus put Jimmy in real danger, Hugh's paternal instinct awakens, and he saves Jimmy from falling. Now back to his old self, Hugh decides to stay with his family where he belongs, and he and Jimmy perform the duck dance at the Father's Day Follies, which proves to be a success.

Home Media

DVD

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

iTunes

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 1

Quotes

Judy: "Awww, Hugh! You're so shiny!"

Hugh: "Yeah... You like what you see baby?!"

(Points finger at Judy and takes off sunglasses) "I got more of that under the hood."

(Judy starts purring.)

Cindy: "Quack quack quack! Quack, quack!"

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Trivia

• This is the first appearance of Corky Shimatzu.
• According to Sheen, Hugh's favorite color is magenta, and he likes to listen to contemporary jazz with a Latin-feel on rainy Sunday afternoons.
• Since this is a Father's Day episode, it is rarely aired.
• This the second time a character’s personality changes and later goes back to normal. The first was in "Normal Boy", the third will be in "Nightmare in Retroville", and the fourth will be in "Sheen’s Brain".
• This is the first time Cindy and Libby flirt with a male, the second is "Billion Dollar Boy".
• We see a picture of young Hugh dressed up and with an Afro like he was in "Time is Money".
• Sheen claims that he has a beige belt in Ultra Lord poking and pinching. Yet in "Normal Boy", Sheen insists that pinching doesn't hurt. Sheen could have learned his lesson after Carl pinched him.
• This is the only episode where Nick referred to Jimmy by his first name.
• Goddard's options are:
  • ABOLISH FATHER'S DAY AS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY |
    • But Jimmy doesn't want to go to Washington DC.
  • GET ADOPTED BY PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINER |
    • Jimmy thinks this is too "sitcom-y".
  • GO TO THE MOON |
    • Jimmy doesn't consider this an option at all.
• This is also the only episode that Jimmy doesn’t take any one of Goddard's options.
• Jimmy breaks the 4th wall in this episode when he says that getting adopted by a professional entertainer sounds too sitcomy. 
• Betty Quinlan and Yentl Marmelstein make cameos as two of people watching Hugh singing at the Candy Bar. 
• Starting with this episode, the error of Carl's pants still looking pulled up is finally corrected. However, the error is still present in one scene when Carl is in Jimmy's lab. 
• This is the second 22-minute episode.
• This is the second holiday-themed episode.
• Nick fears that Hugh is ’’out-cooling him’’, proclaiming he needs to lay low for a while. Subsequently, Nick will not make anymore appearances until much later in the episode "Attack of the Twonkies" because for the rest of the series, he will become a supporting character, where he will also be seen sporting in a new black leather jacket starting in "Return of the Nanobots", which remains for the whole series. This is either to reaffirm his coolness, or the show just wanted to give him a new look.
  • This is technically the last episode where Nick has main character statues.
  • However (despite only for the first half), Nick did had an major/overarching protagonist role in the second season episode "Out, Darn Spotlight", where he was one of the two main protagonists (alongside Betty) during the school play, MacBeth in Space, but ended up breaking his leg and Jimmy took over his role.
• Hugh's singing voice is provided by Peter Frampton.
• This episode reveals that Sheen's full name is "Sheen Juarrera Estevez".
• This episode also reveals Libby's last name ("Folfax").
• Although this episode was released in 2003, you can actually see "Copyright 2002 Viacom International, Inc." at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2002.
  • It is also the last episode of this series to be produced during that year.
• Carl and Sheen were among the only students to not perform in the "Father's Day Follies" alongside their fathers. When Jimmy questions why they aren't performing with their dads:
  • Carl claims that his dad, Ebenezer, was able to get out of performing by getting a note from his doctor.
  • Sheen claims that, due a "chainsaw incident" from the previous year's Father's Day Follies, his dad has been "banned for life" from performing in the pageant.
• When Hugh destroys the De-Dorkinator, he remains permanently cool. However, in "Hypno-Birthday To You", when Mr. Giggles destroys the Hypno-Beam, it undoes the hypnosis on Hugh and Judy.
  • Though it's unknown, it could be possible that it was undid the same way Jimmy uses it to his dad.