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| Episode | 14 |
| Season | 2 |
| Airdate (US) | March 11, 2004 |
| Airdate (CA) | October 4, 2004 |
| Invention(s) | Neutronic Storminator |
| Previous | The Feud |
| Next | The Junkman Cometh |
"Out, Darn Spotlight" is the 14th episode of Season 2 from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Plot[]
Principal Willoughby is directing Macbeth in Space, a galactic version of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Cindy and Libby are dreaming of becoming famous and Libby fantasizes about living in Beverly Hills. Carl asks Jimmy if he wants to join the play, but Jimmy says no. Jimmy sees Betty, who asks him if he wants to join the play as Macbeth, and that she is trying out for Lady Macbeth. Jimmy doesn't reply until Carl tells him there's a kissing scene between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and then Jimmy quickly decides to try out.
At home, Jimmy is rehearsing a scene to become a good enough actor in order to get the part. He performs to his parents, but Hugh ridicules his acting. Hugh also tries to give Jimmy advice to help him.
The next day, Principal Willoughby and Ms. Fowl begin to pick the roles. The first performance is Nick and Principal Willoughby liked the performance so much he wanted to pick him as Macbeth immediately. Jimmy is frightened, but Ms. Fowl tells the principal that it is unfair, as they need to watch the other auditions. At the end of the auditions everyone gets a role, Nick (Macbeth) Betty (Lady Macbeth), Carl (Witch #1), Cindy (Witch #2), Libby (Witch #3), Sheen (Solider Number #5), and Bolbi (Rangun the Space Pirate). Jimmy doesn't receive a role. Later, after Jimmy begs Willoughby to put him in the play and seeing the rather unimpressive effects on display, Willoughby decides to hire Jimmy to make special effects for the play. Jimmy instantly accepts the request after Betty says it would be cool if he did. Rehearsing to the play, Willoughby does pre-performance of the love scene between Betty and Nick. They almost kiss, before Jimmy ruins the scene with a special effect, not wanting to see anyone else kiss Betty.
Five minutes before the play, Willoughby says a famous television producer Corky Shimatzu is there to choose an actress for a new TV show "Spunky Girl". Soon after, Nick wipes out on his skateboard and breaks his leg. Jimmy's the only person who can memorize Nick's lines before the show. Betty encouraged Jimmy to play Macbeth instead of Nick, because without him, the play would have been cancelled. Jimmy shows Sheen how to do a special effects, when, Jimmy says one word, Sheen just replies "Got it!"
The play starts with the three witches and Macbeth approaches them in a mechanical suit. Macbeth goes to Soldier Number #5 and Macbeth asks him "How now, soldier number five? What sayest thou?" Sheen is thoroughly shocked by forgetting his only line. Ms. Fowl whispers his line to him, but Sheen replies, "I know! I was just taking a dramatic pause!" He forgets it again, and Lady Macbeth just says to Macbeth if you want to be king and get the crown, you have to beat Rangun the Space Pirate. Meanwhile the play is going on, Cindy goes to Corky Shimatzu, offering him a cappuccino to leave an impression on him, but he doesn't want it.
Lady Macbeth was talking about tragedies in Galaxy, which is ruined by Rangun, who is saying he wants to destroy Macbeth, a duel is starting between both of them. During the end of the duel, Macbeth's sword falls but he takes Rangun's and pretends to kill him. Witches are telling Macbeth that Rangun wasn't killed yet. Cindy ruins the scene to impress Corky Shimatzu with fireworks and her mother cheers her on. Betty and Jimmy start their final scene but as they are about to kiss, Sheen creates a massive tornado with special effects, and the tornado destroys the whole play.
The tornado exits the school and sucks things into it and lifts the school from the ground. When Jimmy is about to fly, Bolbi said he needs a jetpack. Fortunately, Jimmy stops the tornado set the school back on the ground. Willoughby says to him, "Jimmy Neutron! You've ruined my show!" Surprisingly, the audience loves the play and cheers. Then, Betty kisses Jimmy on the lips to make up for not getting to do the scene before. However, as the episode ends, the school is revealed to be landed on a mountain of snow.
Home Media[]
DVD[]
iTunes[]
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 2
Quotes[]
- Jimmy: To prepare for my role, I researched Shakespeare, Scottish kings, and downloaded the Keanu Reeves acting crash course. (as Reeves) Whoa ... is this a laser sword I see before me?
- Judy: Oh, that was...
- Hugh: That was stink-a-roony, Jimbo! Open up a window!
- Judy: Hugh!
- Bolbi: (in a deep voice) Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- Cindy: If any of you do anything wrong tonight, I will kill you!
- Hugh: Can I have a mocha espresso with plenty of sugar?
- Cindy: Yeah, right.
- Principal Willoughby: Vortex, get your tuchis back on stage!
- Nick: (screams as he flies through the air) DUDE!! Oh, man, I broke my leg!
- Sheen: All right! That's good luck! Way to go, Nick!
- Principal Willoughby: He can't go on! We can't do the play!
- Bolbi: No play?
- Jimmy: No kiss?
- Cindy: No fame?! This show must go on!
- Libby: Who's going to play Macbeth?
- Carl: Well, someone would have to have a photographic memory and be able to memorize super-fast.
- All: Like Jimmy?
- Miss Fowl: My lord, your wife, Lady Macbeth approaches.
- Sheen: Macbeth lady! Your my lord approaches wife!
- Principal Willoughby: Oh, why didn't I use a puppet for that part?
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This episode premiered in the U.S. as the fourth episode of the Jimmy Neutron-A-Thon! marathon event in March 2004.[1]
- This is the first time Jimmy gets jealous other than Cindy. The second will be "Billion Dollar Boy", and the third will be Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide!.
- Coincidentally, all episodes feature Betty Quinlan (the latter two having the character appear as a cameo).
- This is also the only time in which this happens that doesn't involve someone stealing Jimmy and Cindy's relationship. Instead, it involves Jimmy wanting to be with Betty and no one else.
- The episode's title is a reference to a quote from Macbeth, "Out, damn spot. Out, I say!"
- This episode follows up to "One of Us"/"Vanishing Act" as a sequel.
- Bolbi only made his voice an adult's voice when he was rehearsing.
- Said adult voice is the same one Phil LaMarr uses for the title character of Samurai Jack.
- In this episode, Sheen doesn't agree with the phrase "break a leg", but in "Act I, Sheen I", he agrees when Nesmith says it.
- This is the first time Jimmy is kissed on the lips by someone other than Cindy.
- This episode begins the running gag of Nick breaking his leg.
- He would later break his leg in the next season's episodes "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen", "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", and "The League of Villains". The gag was also mentioned in "Lady Sings the News".
- This is also the only episode of Season 2, and outside Season 3, to have this gag, as well as during 2004 and not 2005.
- Jimmy's lightsabers are seen again in this episode.
- It was previously seen in "The Feud", it could be possible that this episode took place after said episode.
- Macbeth in Space is a parody mix of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and the Star Wars films. The play itself, however, has absolutely no resemblance to the plot of the actual Macbeth, other than the names of a few characters. The dialogue also borrows verses from other Shakespearean plays, such as Richard III, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet.
- The twister from the machine, Carl riding a bicycle, Principal Willoughby saying the Wicked Witch of the West's melting quote, and the school being carried by the Tornado are references to the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.
- The cow flying by the tornado is a nod to the "We got Cows" scene from the 1996 film Twister.
- This episode shows an impression that Nick and Betty have actual romantic chemistry between them, after they get casted as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, giving that they are both teenagers and are the same type of kids. This is first shown in the sense where Cindy says "Since the part of Lady Macbeth is still available, I'll take it."
- This is the only one of Betty's three prominent appearances where Cindy doesn't interfere with Jimmy and Betty's romantic interactions, due to her trying to get famous.
- It instead has boys (Nick (mainly) Ike Kevin and Wemdel) interfering it and not wanting Jimmy to question Nick and Betty's (possible) real romantic relationship.
- Jimmy was mainly interacting more with Betty and only interacted with Cindy once in this episode during when she told him off for ruining the sense of Nick and Betty kissing each other.
- This is Bolbi's second appearance in the show. His voice also becomes high-pitched starting in this episode.
- This is one of the episodes where it ends in an unexpected cliffhanger when the school is revealed to land on a mountaintop of snow, as it is never even revealed or stated how they would've gotten back to its original location. This is somewhat similar to the cliffhanger scene in the 1969 movie The Italian Job, where the bus that transported the gold unexpectedly gets stuck on a cliff and ends with a cliffhanger as the character, Charlie Crocker, tells his crew that he has a "great idea".
- Billy West is not credited as Corky Shimatzu in this episode.
- This episode starts Betty's own story logical episode story, followed by "One of Us"/"Vanishing Act".
- 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.
- This episode premiered on Rob Paulsen's 48th birthday.
- This episode has several nods/references/callbacks to the movie:
- Betty's introductory in this episode is very similar to Nick's from it, giving that both characters are the most popular kids at the school.
- The main kid characters auditioning for the roles for the play is very similar to how they were participating in Show and Tell.
- The sense where Ike Wilderman Kevin and Wendall are flirting at Betty as she is auditioning for Lady Macbeth, is similar to the sense where Brittney Tina Sue and Courtney Tyler flirted with Nick when he came into the classroom.
- Something bad happens to Nick as he plans to be the one-off doing something and Jimmy himself solves the problem.
- Carl and Jimmy are bringing up their agreement regarding their dislike of girls again.
- This is the second time the agreement of regarding dislike of girls was brought up, the first was the movie, and the first time in the show is brought up, the second will be "Foul Bull".
- Coincidentally, both episodes feature a side love-interests of Jimmy.
- This is the second time after the movie wear three kids look in awe with a popular styled teenage kid.
- This is the only time after Season 1, and the last time where Nick has more of a major role, even after he was reduced as a supporting character (with a supporting role in later episodes) onward, despite only being for the first half before Jimmy became the protagonist of it, alongside Betty (who is the lead character throughout the whole episode), after he broke his leg.
Sources[]
- ↑ The Jimmy Neutron-A-Thon! event at the Nickstory fandom.