The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Format	Animated television series
Created by	John A. Davis, Keith Alcorn, Steve Oedekerk
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	61
Production
Executive producer(s)	Steve Oedekerk; Keith Alcorn
Distributor	Nickelodeon
Running time	22 minutes (11 minutes per segments)
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon (United States)
Original Air Date	September 10, 1998 (pilot); July 20, 2002 – November 25, 2006 (series)

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (often shortened as Jimmy Neutron) is an American television series, based on the film, serving as a direct sequel.

The series first aired on July 20, 2002, and the final episode aired on November 25, 2006. The series spawned three seasons (61 episodes), it also did a crossover with The Fairly OddParents in a special called the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour which aired on May 7, 2004, during the show's second season. It was so successful that it spawned two sequels: When Nerds Collide and The Jerkinators, which aired on January 16, 2006, and July 21, 2006, during the show's third season respectively. The series was critically acclaimed with viewers and TV critics alike.

Episodes[]

Main article: List of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius episodes

Season 1: 2002-2003[]

Ep. #	Date	Episode	Description
1	July 20, 2002	When Pants Attack	Jimmy makes a nanochip for his pants but it backfires when it gains advanced cranial capacity and leads an attack on Retroville!
2	September 6, 2002	Normal Boy/Birth of a Salesman	Jimmy drains his brain because his knowledge annoys the town of Retroville. In order to beat Cindy in a candy-selling contest, Jimmy creates a robotic salesman.
3	September 13, 2002	Brobot/The Big Pinch	Jimmy invents a little brother robot when he becomes lonely. Then, he becomes jealous when people like Brobot more than him. In order to prove Cindy wrong, Jimmy brings Thomas Edison to the present, but is unable to bring him back when things go wrong.
4	September 20, 2002	Granny Baby/Time is Money	Jimmy has to look after his grandma, and invents a chemical that transforms her into a baby. The Neutrons get rich after Jimmy goes back in time to convince his dad to invest in McSpanky's.
5	September 27, 2002	Raise the Oozy Scab/I Dream of Jimmy	Jimmy and his friends encounter a giant squid while trying to find a treasure chest in the sea. Carl's strange behavior due to nightmares causes Jimmy and Sheen to go inside his dreams to see what happens that makes Carl so scared.
6	October 4, 2002	Jimmy on Ice/Battle of the Band	To get away from the heat, Jimmy shoots a rocket filled with SPF 50, but it ends up with a snowstorm. Jimmy, Carl and Sheen form their very own band to beat Cindy and Libby in the talent show. However, their egos become out of control.
7	October 14, 2002	See Jimmy Run/Trading Faces	Jimmy gets new super-fast shoes so he can beat Cindy in a race. When he loses again, he uses the shoes to play pranks on his friends. Jimmy and Cindy switch bodies when Jimmy is testing his new invention.
8	October 30, 2002	The Phantom of Retroland/My Son, the Hamster	Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen go to Retroville's highly populated Amusement Park at midnight so they can prove that a phantom doesn't haunt the place. Jimmy's atoms are accidentally switched with a hamster's so that he has the head of a boy and the body of a hamster.
9	November 1, 2002	Hall Monster/Hypno-Birthday To You	Jimmy becomes the new hall monitor and everyone is afraid of him when goes mad with power. Jimmy uses his Hypno-Beam to hypnotize his parents into thinking it is his birthday every day.
10	November 15, 2002	Krunch Time/Substitute Creature	Jimmy invents a candy that turns out to be highly addictive. Jimmy's DNA plant turns Ms. Fowl into a 50 ft. tall giant monster.
11	November 30, 2002	Safety First/Crime Sheen Investigation	Jimmy invents two Nanobots to defend him from the school bully, but they malfunction and cause chaos. Jimmy helps Sheen find his missing Ultra Lord action figure.
12	January 31, 2003	Journey to the Center of Carl/Aaughh!! Wilderness!!	Jimmy gets everyone sick, so Jimmy and Sheen go inside Carl's body to fight his germs and make a vaccine to cure everyone. Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen go camping with Hugh, where they run into a tiff with a grizzly bear.
13	February 17, 2003	Party at Neutron's/Ultra Sheen	Jimmy throws a party at his house while his parents are out. Sheen fights alongside Ultra Lord in a video game after being transported into it with Jimmy's new invention.
14	March 14, 2003	Broadcast Blues/Professor Calamitous, I Presume	Jimmy creates his own science TV show that gets replaced by a dance show starring Cindy, Libby and Brittany. Professor Finbarr Calamitous, who can never finish anything, tries to take over Retroville and wants to make Jimmy into his scientific slave.
15-16	April 25, 2003	The Eggpire Strikes Back	The evil Yolkians are back and are pretending to have reformed. When Jimmy discovers the truth, he must stop their evil plot before his friends and parents are doomed.
17	May 17, 2003	Maximum Hugh/Sleepless in Retroville	Hugh gets a powered sweat band that helps complete against Cindy and her family in a competition. Jimmy, Carl and Sheen have a sleepover that goes wrong when Carl accidentally creates a pizza monster.
18	June 6, 2003	Make Room for Daddy-O	Jimmy makes Hugh the coolest guy in Retroville so he won't be embarrassed by others for his father's immature performance.
19	September 19, 2003	Beach Party Mummy	Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby travel to Egypt only to find themselves trapped in a pyramid with mummies and Libby gets a makeover when she dresses up as her Egyptian ancestor.

Season 2: 2003-2004[]

Ep. #	Date	Episode	Description
1	August 1, 2003	A Beautiful Mine	Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby search for an asteroid containing a king's ransom of jewels. Unfortunately, they get greedy and start to turn against each other.
2	September 5, 2003	Sorry, Wrong Era	Jimmy's new time-travel invention sends him and his friends back 65 million years in the past and they must find a way to get back home before the Asteroid hits. But a T-Rex is trying to kill them
3	October 3, 2003	The Retroville 9/Grumpy Young Men	Retroville awaits the greatest baseball team in their town. Jimmy, Carl and Sheen become old men to get an Rated-M game. They must revert back to normal or they'll keep aging until they turn to dust.
4-5	October 13, 2003	Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion	Jimmy has to team up with Jet Fusion to stop Professor Calamitous from melting Mt. Everest.
6	October 29, 2003	Nightmare in Retroville	Jimmy accidentally turns Carl, Sheen and Hugh into monsters.
7	November 11, 2003	Monster Hunt/Jimmy for President	A rumor spreads that a lagoon monster will haunt Retroville, but Jimmy thinks otherwise. Jimmy runs for class president against Libby and the two run a brutal campaign trying to get people's votes.
8	November 14, 2003	Return of the Nanobots	Jimmy upgrades his nanobots to correct for errors in his non-science homework. When they see that humans are perfect by being flawed, they decide to delete the entire human race to please Jimmy.
9	December 8, 2003	Holly Jolly Jimmy	After accidentally scrambling Santa Claus's atoms, Jimmy must do his job of delivering presents all over the world in one night. Meanwhile, convinced Jimmy's mistake cancelled Christmas, Hugh invents a replacement holiday, Pule.
10	February 13, 2004	Love Potion 976/J	Jimmy creates a love potion that accidentally causes himself, Carl, and Sheen to fall madly in love with the first girls they see. Jimmy falls for Cindy, Sheen falls for Libby and Carl falls for Judy.
11	March 8, 2004	Sheen's Brain	Sheen gains an IQ and gets the highest score on a math test in his class after Jimmy turns his Brain Drain helmet into a Brain Gain helmet. Sheen then gains telekinetic powers and plots to destroy Retroville. Jimmy and Carl must stop him and revert him back to normal or his head will keep growing until it explodes.
12	March 9, 2004	Maternotron Knows Best/Send in the Clones	Feeling unappreciated around the house, Judy takes a week off at a spa, with Jimmy inventing a replacement robe-mother, which takes over the house and puts him and Hugh through serious pain. Jimmy makes clones of himself in order to avoid his chores, but they cause trouble, and one sinister clone has escaped.
13	March 10, 2004	The Great Egg Heist/The Feud	Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby search for a precious egg in a museum to help Princess Peggy Tsu save the free world from her evil brother. Carl and Jimmy are forbidden to see one another as their parents are fighting against each other.
14	March 11, 2004	Out, Darn Spotlight	Jimmy joins the school play to spend more time with Betty, so he becomes the stage technician to create special effects to impress her.
15	March 12, 2004	The Junkman Cometh	Jimmy attempts to rescue Brobot and his parents from the Junkman's ship.
16	March 26, 2004	Foul Bull/The Science Fair Affair	Jimmy, Carl and Sheen try to impress a cute cowgirl at a rodeo by becoming rodeo clowns. Jimmy is sad that he is banned from the science fair.
17	June 2, 2004	Men at Work	Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen decide to take jobs at the greatest fast food restaurant in Retroville. Jimmy doesn't like the humiliating work, so he soups up McSpanky's, which soon gains a mind of its own.
18	June 7, 2004	The Mighty Wheezers/Billion Dollar Boy	Carl and his family go super-powered after Jimmy gets sick of their allergies and feeds them a health pill, but they soon become mad with their newfound powers. Jimmy and his friends battle a billionaire fiend, who wants Goddard.
19-21	July 9, 2004	Win, Lose and Kaboom!	Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, Goddard and Bolbi compete in an intergalactic game show in order to stop the show from destroying Earth.

Season 3: 2004-2006[]

Ep. #	Date	Episode	Description
1-2	November 11, 2004	Attack of the Twonkies	Jimmy and Carl accidentally bring home a strange space creature from a comet. They decide to to keep it as a pet, but it turns into a savage beast and reproduces after hearing music.
3	November 27, 2004	Lights! Camera! Danger!	Professor Calamitous disguises himself as a director and casts Jimmy and his friends in a fake movie in his latest plot to do away with them.
4	May 24, 2005	Fundemonium	Hugh becomes a toy inventor so the Neutrons won't have to move, but he uses Jimmy's Nanobots as batteries for one toy, and it causes chaos.
5	May 26, 2005	Stranded	Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby get stranded on an island after Jimmy tries to prove to Cindy that the equator is invisible.
6	May 27, 2005	Jimmy Goes to College	Jimmy becomes a college student because he smart enough, but he is made fun of at college and another student steals his plans for an unstable molecule machine.
7	November 27, 2004	The N-Men	After being zapped in the Van Patten Radiator Belt, Jimmy and his friends get mutant powers and decide to become superheroes, but are captured by the army after causing trouble. Now, they must escape and find a cure or they will die.
8	May 23, 2005	The Tomorrow Boys	Jimmy and his friends travel to the future and figure out that Libby is the dictator of the world! So they have to get back the gift they gave to Libby for her birthday before she becomes dictator of the world in the future.
9	July 22, 2005	My Big Fat Spy Wedding	Beautiful Gorgeous hypnotizes Jet into killing Jimmy at their wedding in her latest plot to do away with the two greatest crime fighters in the world. Can Carl and Sheen rescue their friend before it's too late?
10	June 20, 2005	Who's Your Mommy?/Clash of the Cousins	An alien substance attaches itself to Carl's face and Carl is pregnant with a baby alien on him. Jimmy finds out that there's an evil genius in his family who is plotting to do away with everyone and has to find out who it is.
11	November 18, 2005	Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen	Sheen searches for a Kung-Fu master in Shangri Llama so he can rescue Libby when she is captured by an evil monk who wants Sheen's position as the Chosen One.
12	January 23, 2006	The Incredible Shrinking Town	Jimmy accidentally shrinks the town and they must deal with their new sizes until Jimmy can rebuild his Shrink Ray. However, the Space Bandits capture them and plot to sell them as living toys.
13	January 24, 2006	One of Us/Vanishing Act	A TV show called The Happy Show Show turns the citizens of Retroville into emotionless, cheerful zombies. Jimmy puts on a magic show to impress Betty, but the two get sucked into some strange bizarre magical world.
14	January 25, 2006	The Trouble with Clones	Evil Jimmy tries to destroy Earth with an evil one. Can Jimmy stop his evil twin before it's too late?
15	January 26, 2006	The Evil Beneath/Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius	Jimmy, Carl and Sheen go to the Bahama Quadrangle to investigate the mysterious vanishings. They realize that the evil Dr. Sydney Moist has been kidnapping people and turning them into algae men. Carl decides that he wants to become a boy genius so he can impress a girl, and makes Jimmy his lowly assistant and Sheen a former monkey. Unfortunetly, Carl starts milking the moment and starts putting his friends in danger.
16	January 27, 2006	Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?/Flippy	Jimmy tries to find the fiend who was framing him for stealing a large sum of money. Hugh buys a new Flippy puppet for career day and Jimmy thinks he has no chance. So he places a chip in the puppet and makes it funny, but it actually gets a mind of its own.
17	November 25, 2006	King of Mars	Eustace attempts to take over Mars. Jimmy and his friends must stop him before the Earth is annihilated by the Martians.
18	November 25, 2006	El Magnifico/Best in Show	Jimmy turns Mr. Estevez into a superhero to compete with Ultra Lord. Goddard is eliminated from a pet show because he is not a real dog. He becomes depressed and runs away, causing Jimmy to search for him.
19	November 17, 2006	How to Sink a Sub/Lady Sings the News	Jimmy, Carl and Sheen's parents become substitute teachers and are embarrassing their kids. The kids become anchors for a kids news program. When Libby starts abusing her gossip segment, her friends plot to end her reign of evil.
20-21	June 18, 2005	The League of Villains	In the series finale, King Goobot returns once again and this time he's recruited several of Jimmy's enemies to defeat him once and for all. When they manage to abduct Jimmy and Sheen into space, Carl, Cindy and Libby must go rescue them with their N-Men powers.

Cast[]

Production[]

The early prototype of Jimmy was "Johnny Quasar: Boy Genius". John A. Davis produced a short film of the character in early 1995 and was pitched at SIGRAPH 1995. However, since the name sounded too much like Jonny Quest, he changed the name to "Jimmy Neutron".

Then, John met Keith Alcorn and Steve Oedekerk and they decided to work together and revamp John's idea for the series.

The pilot, "Runaway Rocketboy!" was produced for Nickelodeon and was supposed to start the series. However, since CGI was becoming popular for movies (as well as the roaring reception for the pilot), they made the film, and the show was made afterwards. The producers had a mere three weeks to slam together an entire episode once the series was picked up.

Reception[]

Since its premiere date, Jimmy Neutron has become one of the most iconic Nicktoons of all time. To this day, it has remained one of the most popular 2000s Nicktoons along with Danny Phantom, Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Even though the film was popular while in theaters and being shown on Nick, many consider the show to be better. Also, due to the film playing often on Nickelodeon long after it had left theaters, some people believed that it was released during or after the show.

The series had the most-watched television premiere on Nickelodeon at that time with 4.3 million viewers.

Cancellation[]

A fourth season has long been rumored to be in the plan, but plans for this season were scrapped after DNA Productions went bankrupt, due to the lackluster performance of The Ant Bully. Cancelling the series was a big loss for the company, so producing the fourth season would have been too costly and Nickelodeon couldn't purchase the company to continue the production. Four scripts were said to be written in an attempt to revive the series, but we're turned down by the network. Two of them have yet to be revealed. Another reason was because an executive claimed that the show had been doing well in syndication.

Spin-Off[]

Planet Sheen[]

A spin-off series called "Planet Sheen" ran from October 2, 2010, to February 15, 2013, with only one season and 26 episodes. It focused on Sheen getting stranded on another planet after stealing Jimmy's experimental rocket ship. The series was panned by both critics and audiences.

Broadcast[]

Nickelodeon (original run July 20, 2002-November 25, 2006, reruns (November 26, 2006-December 15, 2012) (May 10, 2015, if you count the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour crossover specials) (December 8, 2020, if you count the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) movie)

Nicktoons (January 6, 2003-October 2, 2021)

NickRewind (TeenNick) (January 9, 2019-July 26, 2020)

Trivia[]

The characters received several design changes for the series after the original film:
- Jimmy now wears blue jeans and white sneakers.
- Judy no longer wears an apron.
- Cindy now wears a green halter top, beige khakis, a single ponytail and her eyelids are now grayish purple. This became more well-known by fans.
- Carl doesn't wear suspenders anymore. However, in Season one, his pants look like they're still pulled up. This goof was corrected in Make Room for Daddy-O (though still present in some senses in later episodes).
- The ends of Sheen's sleeves and collar become lighter.
- Libby kept her old outfit until Beach Party Mummy, where she received Egyptian dreads and in the next episode, she changed her blue dress to a pink striped shirt, blue flared trousers, brown shoes and her eyelids became darkish pink.
- Nick kept his blue jacket officially up to Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion, starting in Jimmy for President, he started wearing a black leather jacket. However, his original blue one did make two last appearances later in the two holiday-themed episodes, Holly Jolly Jimmy and Love Potion 976/J.
- Britney no longer wears bracelets.
- Sasha Vortex now wears a purple dress.
- Courtney Tyler regularly wears her normal outfit and never wears a pink and red short-sleeved sweater dress and magenta shoes with white stripes.
- Nissa now wears a yellow shirt with blue edges and "Daddy's Little Girl" written in the middle and dark blue shorts.
- Wendel now wears a white shirt with blue sleeves and has the number 15 on it.
- It should be noted that despite Nick and Libby's design changes, they still have their original designs in storybooks.
Some characters also either have voice changes or have been recasted for the series too:
- Jimmy and Nick's voices become deeper and clearer.
- Carl and Sheen's voices become noticeably higher pitched starting in Beach Party Mummy.
- Martha Wheezer's voice changed from a soft high-pitched voice to a more deep and gruff voice. However, in The Eggpire Strikes Back, she is briefly voiced by Carolyn Lawrence, who voices her in a more normal lady voice.
- S. Scott Bullock and Paul Greenberg replaced Patrick Stewart and Martin Short in the roles of King Goobot V and Ooblar respectively in the TV series. Bullock and Greenberg also reprised their roles for the characters from the original 1998 test pilot episode Runaway Rocketboy!. However, Ooblar only appeared once in the episode The Eggpire Strikes Back, though he is mentioned by Goobot in the series finale, that Goobot traded him for sulfer butter.
- Rob Paulsen replaced Billy West in the role of Butch Pakovski and Oleander Svalsbord.
- Joe Lala replaces Carlos Alazraqui in the role Harp Estevez. He also now speaks in a Mexican accent.
- Mark DeCarlo replaces Jim Cummings in the role of General Abercrombie.
- Debi Derryberry replaced Jeannie Elias in the role of Nissa.
The series was actually supposed to be released before the movie and that the movie was going to be based on the series, but there wasn't enough time, so the shorts were created, and the film spun the series a year later.
Although all the episodes had completed their run by 2006, production was completed by mid 2003.
Jimmy, Carl and Sheen are the only characters who appear in all the episodes.
Debi Derryberry, Crystal Scales, and Daran Norris all previously appeared in the main cast of Oswald.
There were two themed week premiere marathons with five episodes from the series, these were "Jimmy Neutron-A-Thon", that included Sheen's Brain, Maternotron Knows Best/Send in the Clones, The Great Egg Heist/The Feud, Out, Darn Spotlight and The Junkman Cometh, and "5 New Jimmys", that included The Incredible Shrinking Town, One of Us/Vanishing Act, The Trouble with Clones, The Evil Beneath/Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius and Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?/Flippy.
When Pants Attack, Party at Neutron's/Ultra Sheen, and Holly Jolly Jimmy were not included on any digital platforms, until the full series was released on Paramount+.
- But those episodes got removed from Paramount+ on March 24, 2021, for some reason. It is unknown when or if they will be added again.
  - However, these episodes were made available on The Complete Series (DVD) released on October 26, 2021.
  - However, Holly Jolly Jimmy was later added back on December 19th, 2021.

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