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| Maternotron Knows Best | |
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| The title for MaternoTron Knows Best. | |
| Episode | 12a |
| Season | 2 |
| Airdate (US) | March 9, 2004 |
| Airdate (CA) | September 23, 2004 |
| Invention(s) | Maternotron |
| Previous | Sheen's Brain |
| Next | Send in the Clones |
"MaternoTron Knows Best" is a first segment of the 12th episode in the second season of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Plot[]
The episode opens up with Hugh reading a book of facts about ducks, while Jimmy seems to work on some gadget at the dining table. Judy then comes out with two special dinner plates and says what a good day it was for her, but Hugh and Jimmy immediately stop her from talking. Trying to put a smile on her face, Judy puts Jimmy’s and Hugh’s plates of dinner on the table. For Hugh, she made a macaroni and cheese train, and for Jimmy, she made a mashed potato dinner resembling Albert Einstein, and Judy opens her tray with just a sandwich. Overhearing a noise, Judy asks if Jimmy had put his Hydraulic Coo-Coo Clock into the toilet. Jimmy tells her to fix it as he is attempting to complete a conjecture on his gadget. Stressed, Judy decides to take the clock out. Hugh reads an interesting fact about ducks, while Judy ends up getting sprayed with water from the toilet. While talking to each other, Jimmy and Hugh end up eating Judy’s sandwich. Jimmy and Hugh then leave the dining table while Jimmy goes to the living room and Hugh Leaves to attend a “Duck First-Aid Class”. Goddard ends up pooping bolts and nuts. Judy gets extremely angry and decides to take a vacation.
In the morning, Jimmy goes to the kitchen and realizes something there’s no breakfast on the table. While Hugh has a problem with an empty cereal bowl. Judy comes into the kitchen with a suitcase and Jimmy questions if she is going anywhere. Judy says she will be taking a spa vacation. Before she leaves, she gives Jimmy and Hugh an extensive list of chores to do while she is gone. Hugh and Jimmy are dismayed, but quickly realize the advantages they have while Judy is away. Jimmy says they are free men, but Hugh decides that they need to do the chores first. Hugh and Jimmy use squeegees to clean the windows. Jimmy slips and Hugh dives to the ground. Jimmy has an idea.
Jimmy creates a robot that resembles his mom. Once the chips are installed to her mother board she immediately started up. She asks that she would take Goddard for a walk and let Jimmy relax.
Robot Just mows the grass while Hugh and Jimmy watch television while being hit by a popcorn blaster. At dinner, Hugh asks Robot Judy how the chores were and says that all chores are completed. As she gives them dinner, Jimmy suggests she go into sleep mode, but immediately refuses, saying her work is never done. Jimmy attempts to override her chip directives, but that doesn't work. Robot Judy gets angry and tells him to eat. Disgusted by the meal she made, Jimmy and Hugh refuse to eat it, but then Robot Judy forces them eat her meal. After dinner, she gives Hugh and Jimmy a bath where she scrubs them too hard with the water overheated.
At the spa, Judy relaxes on the massage table and wonders what she sees missing. A waiter gives a fancy chocolate to her. She sees it resembling Jimmy. Judy thinks she hears Hugh saying “Butter Biscuit” but it was another waiter who offered her Butter Biscuits. She then hears “Gotta Blast” from Jimmy. Judy feels uncomfortable from what just happened as the massager massages her back.
At home Jimmy and Hugh are stressed out from Robot Judy’s orders. Jimmy has an idea to use a remote that cuts off the receiver of Robot Judy so Jimmy tells Hugh to cover him until he gets back. Despite doing so, Robot Judy stops Jimmy from leaving the house. Jimmy makes an excuse that he left his homework there but Robot Judy still will not let him go and announces that it's bedtime. Jimmy says he's not tired, but Robot Judy decides to make him sleepy by shaking him which makes him both sleepy and nauseous. On Hugh’s bed, Robot Judy says she has been neglectful to him. She turns on "wife mode" which makes her utter spontaneous phrases and expressions, much to Hughs fear.
At the spa, Judy is at the local gym when she “hears” Hugh’s scream. While using a workout bike she ends up speeding so fast the bike brakes and then moves. She then uses the bike to get back home.
Sheen and Carl show up and Jimmy whispers to them from his window. Jimmy asks both of them to get the remote that deactivates Robot Judy. He then throws a brush with hair containing his DNA. Robot Judy shows up and tells Sheen and Carl to complete Qualification forms. Jimmy and Hugh attempt to play ball outside while trying to trick Robot Judy, but it fails. Robot Judy exclaims outside that it is too dangerous and puts Hugh and Jimmy on lockdown. Robot Judy ties Hugh and Jimmy onto a chair and gives them the dinner she served the day before As Robot Judy repeats saying “Protect, Pamper, Eat Your Nutrition”. Then, Judy breaks the door open. Judy questions what happened as Jimmy hesitates saying what he did.
Robot Judy then ties Judy as well. Judy ends up extremely upset when realizing while she was gone she was replaced. Jimmy then demands Robot Judy to let her go. With Robot Judy angry, Judy then gets angry as well for seeing her wag her finger towards Jimmy and Hugh. Judy breaks free from the ropes. She then goes to closet full of cleaning equipment. She uses equipment such as a mop, broom, and plunger. Robot Judy ended up breaking all of them. However Judy had one more weapon, a Molecular Blasting Ray. Judy then blasts the ray at Robot Judy, hitting. Robot Judy ends up glitching severely until she falls down destroying her battery.
Meanwhile Judy puts Hugh and Jimmy to work to give her treatment like she did at the spa and says there is 3 more days left of her “vacation”.
That night, Carl and Sheen are seen outside of Jimmy’s lab still attempting to finish the qualification forms Robot Judy as Carl asks Sheen what the answer was from one of the questions.
Home Media[]
DVD[]
iTunes[]
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 2
Gallery[]
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Quotes[]
- Jimmy: Something's wrong, there's no juice in my hand. And I don't smell waffles with meticulously syrup-filled dimples.
- Hugh: And there's something wrong with my bowl full of cereal.
- Jimmy: There's nothing in it, Dad.
- Hugh: That's it! This isn't a bowl full of cereal; it's just a bowl of milk-less air.
- Jimmy: Mom, are you going on a trip?
- Judy: Oh, you noticed. Well, since you asked, I'm going to a spa for a week to be pampered unmercifully.
- Hugh: Hughsy-doodles is confused.
- Judy: I'm sick of being unappreciated and doing all the work around here. Here are the chores I do every week to keep this place up and running. You two are going to have to do every one of them while I'm gone. Good-bye.
- Jimmy: Whoa! No Mom for a week?
- Hugh: No one to tell us your bath is ready?
- Jimmy: Or make us change our clothes. Or make us leave the lab and come to dinner.
- Hugh: No one to tell us you can't have pizza for every meal, or say, "Hugh, put down that duck and talk to me for once."
- Jimmy: We're free men! Masters of our own destiny. We rule this house.
- Hugh: We, uh... well, once we finish the chores.
- Jimmy: Oh yeah. What's the first one?
- Hugh: Now, Jimmy, should we sponge, then squeegee, then dry? Or squeegee, then sponge, then dry? Or, dry, then sponge, then squeegee or... (Jimmy slips off the ladder) Okay, you're the genius. Plunge head first screaming, then sponge, then dry. (Hugh jumps off the ladder)
- Jimmy: If I'm such a genius, why are we doing this work ourselves?
- Hugh: Because your mother told us to.
- Jimmy: She just wants it done, she doesn't care who-- or what-- does it.
- Jimmy: Goddard, install List of Chores program. Check. Lastly, my maternal chip with the directive to protect and pamper. (Jimmy activates MaternoTron)
- MaternoTron: Shall I now walk the dog? Freeing you to relax and eat corn chips, my son?
- Judy: (about her nails getting manicured by a group of men while carrying her car) Boy, you spa folks don't even let a girl lift a finger, do you?
- Hugh: So, how's that week's worth of chores coming, Robo-Booger
- MaternoTron: All chores were completed at 1700 hours this evening.
- Jimmy: Good work, MaternoTron. Assume sleep mode until the next mealtime.
- MaternoTron: Negative. A mother's work is never done. A mother must protect and pamper
- Jimmy: Oh, right. (Clears throat) Override Maternal chip directives until further notice.
- MaternoTron: Don't use that tone of voice with me, young man, now eat.
- Jimmy: Leapin' Leptons! I said water the lawn, not cook it. What is this stuff?
- MaternoTron: Soy protein, kelp, talapala oil and spinach for flavor.
- Hugh: Sugarbooger's dinners never smelled quite so, uh. Oh, how do I put it? Disgusting.
- MaternoTron: This is the train, and your mouth is the tunnel.
- Hugh: Yeah, no thanks. See, my tunnel is temporarily closed for-
- Jimmy: I must have set the autonomy parameter in the mothering chip too high. She really thinks she's Mom.
- MaternoTron: And after dinner, your baths. (Jimmy and Hugh give a scared look)
- (Cuts to outside the bathroom door with steam rising from the shower; Hugh and Jimmy can be heard screaming as Maternotro scrubs them hard)
- MaternoTron: Hold... still!
- Hugh: Not the face!
- Hugh: (whining about Maternotron) She wouldn't even let me play with Mr. Bath Time Ducky!!!
- Jimmy: Don't worry. Luckily, Maternotron's got an emergency cut-off receiver, the remote for it is in my lab. I'll need you to cover for me.
- Hugh: So... Jimmy sitting right beside me and not leaving the room at all, how's it going? (Imitating Jimmy) Okay, Dad of mine, who's also remaining in the room with me... right here.
- MaternoTron: Where are you going?
- Jimmy: Um, Well, I left my homework in the lab
- MaternoTron: Too many wires. You'll electrocute your eye out. Bedtime.
- Jimmy: What? But it's only 7:00.
- MaternoTron: March.
- Jimmy: But I'm not tired.
- MaternoTron: Then I must rock you to sleep. ♫ Rockabye Jimmy on the treetop. Tomorrow more kelp till your pant buttons pop. ♫ Are you tired yet?
- Jimmy: And nauseous.
- MaternoTron: I have been neglectful to you as a wife
- Hugh: No! Uh, really. It's okay.
- MaternoTron: No, it is not. Switching to Wife Mode. Take out the trash. We never talk anymore. get me some ice cream. Let's watch a movie with lots of crying. I should never have given up my career. Rub my feet. (Hugh screams)
- Jimmy: Psst. Guys, up here.
- Sheen: Hey, Jimmy, weren't you supposed to meet us in the park this morning, or did Carl and I both dream that?
- Jimmy: Guys, listen to me, I need your help.
- Carl: Oh, gee, I've got llama art class in an hour...
- Jimmy: There's a remote control on my workbench. Here's my DNA to get in the lab. You've got to fetch me that remote before bath time.
- Carl: The tough part of drawing the llama is capturing his soulful eyes.
- MaternoTron: Halt! Who are you?
- Sheen: Hi, Mrs. Neutron. May I say you're looking particularly shiny today?
- Carl: Yeah, I'll say. Um, would you excuse us? We're getting something top secret for Jimmy.
- MaternoTron: To associate with my Jimmy, you must complete these qualification forms.
- Carl: "Father's maiden name?"
- Sheen: "Jimmy falls in the playground and breaks his leg. What do you do?" Well, that's a stupid question, they don't even tell you which leg it is.
- Jimmy: Say, Dad. Let's go play catch and not leave the yard at all!
- Hugh: Good- wink, wink- idea, son. And let's not run like crazy turkeys screaming for help when we get out there.
- MaternoTron: Where do you think you're going?
- Jimmy: Outside?
- MaternoTron: Too dangerous! Outside is where the Civil War was held! I'm putting you both on, (ferocious evil tone of voice) LOCK-DOWN! (Jimmy and Hugh are tied up drinking green soup through a straw) Protect, pamper, eat your nutrition. Protect, pamper, eat your nutrition. Protect, pamper, eat your nutrition. (Judy bursts in)
- Judy: Get away from my family, you ugly bucket of bolts!
- Jimmy: Mom!
- Hugh: Sugarbooger!
- MaternoTron: Your family? Ha! Protect, pamper...
- Judy: Jimmy?
- Jimmy: Uh... well, funny thing about that, she, uh, sort of thinks she's you.
- MaternoTron: Protect.
- Hugh: Not too tight. Those are her piecrust decorating arms.
- Judy: To think I stepped out for 2 measly days and you replace with some psycho robot with a hideous 1950s hairdo?
- Jimmy: No psycho could replace you, Mom. There's no way I could program all your love, care and amazing ability to forgive me into a chip.
- Judy: Ow!
- Jimmy: Although I think I captured rope-tying pretty good. MaternoTron, as your creator, I demand you let her go!
- MaternoTron: Don't raise your voice to your mother, young man!
- Judy: Nobody wags their finger at my boy. (Breaks out of her ropes)
- Jimmy: Mom, break into my lab. If the security system doesn't kill you, bring back the disabler.
- Judy: I don't need the lab, not as long as I have my utility closet. (Grabs a mop, a broom and a plunger)
- MaternoTron: You're out of cleaning implements.
- Judy: Oh, am I? (Grabs a blaster)
- Jimmy: A 300 caliber molecular blasting ray?
- Judy: For those tough ground-in stains.
- MaternoTron: (Shutting down) Your- clean c-clothes are-are in the dryer-dryer.
- Jimmy: Way to go, Mom. Nobody punishes Jimmy Neutron.
- Judy: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
- Judy: Pick it up, boys. I've got 3 more days of spa coming.
- Carl: Um, Sheen? What did you put for question 319?
- Sheen: C. "Lure the tiger away from Jimmy by imitating a chicken strip."
- Carl: Hmm, works for me.
Trivia[]
- The episode "Maternotron Knows Best"/"Send in the Clones" premiered in the U.S. as the second episode of the Jimmy Neutron-A-Thon! marathon event in March 2004.[1]
- The title is a pun on the saying, “Mother knows best.”
- The background music of the title card sequence resembles the theme song of Father Knows Best.
- Carl and Sheen didn't figure out the robot mom wasn't Judy.
- The bathtub scene (complete with sound alike music) is a parody of the famous bathroom scene from the classic movie Psycho. Judy and Jimmy even indirectly mention the movie. ("To think I step out for two measly days and you replace me with some psycho robot... with a hideous 1950’s hairdo." "No psycho robot could replace you, Mom. There’s no way I could program all your love, care and amazing ways to forgive me into a chip.")
- This is the only episode where Carl and Sheen have minor roles.
- Around the 6:07 mark a brief sound alike version of "Maniac" plays in the background when Judy works out.
- In this episode, the model of Cindy's aunt Susie was repurposed for the masseuse with the Russian accent at the spa.
- Cindy and Libby don't appear in this episode.
- Although this episode was released in 2004, you can actually see "Copyright 2003 Viacom International, Inc." at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2003.
- The last time this episode (along with "Send in the Clones") aired on Nicktoons was October 2, 2021.
Sources[]
- ↑ The Jimmy Neutron-A-Thon! event at the Nickstory fandom.