The Incredible Shrinking Town

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The Incredible Shrinking Town

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The Incredible Shrinking Town
Episode	12
Season	3
Airdate (US)	January 23, 2006
Airdate (CA)	February 17, 2005
Invention(s)	Shrink Ray
Previous	Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen
Next	One of Us

"The Incredible Shrinking Town" is the twelfth episode from Season 3.

Plot

Butch and Nick are picking teams for basketball, but Jimmy’s picked last because of his height. So, he Carl and Sheen decide to go to Retroland to ride the Vomitorium. The vendor calls Jimmy "small fry" and that it requires him, Carl and Sheen to be at least his size in order to let them on the ride. So, Jimmy pulls out his shrink ray, and then he sets it to human to get as tall as the guy for revenge. But as Jimmy’s about to use it, the shrink ray’s knocked out of his hands by two of of his classmates running about to barf and then they flung into the air, landing on a hit-the-target mini game and when the coach hits it, it goes crazy, shrinking all the humans in town.

Jimmy, Carl and Sheen fight a normal-sized hawk on top of normal-sized Goddard. The town tries to adjust to life being 6 inches tall (including a hilarious scene of Sheen dancing with his Ultra Lady action figure). That's all they can do until; Jimmy makes a new resizing ray.

But just as Jimmy fixes the shrink ray, Zix, Travoltron and Tee show up. Tee wants to eat them, but Zix and Travoltron round them up and then they try to sell them as toys. However, Jimmy tricks them into getting angry at each other with help from Sheen and Carl. Then they attach mini transmitters to their heads and act like their consciences. They first get Zix and Travoltron to argue and then they get Tee to almost crush them after tricking him into thinking that he’s "dumb." Then, everyone heads back to Earth.

Resized, Jimmy gets a trophy for saving Retroville from being toys while he realizes that you can do anything you set your mind to, no matter what size you are. Suddenly out of spite and pettiness, Cindy convinces everyone that the problem was Jimmy's fault (when in fact it was really the coach who caused it), and Jimmy gets the feet of the trophy, while Cindy gets the main body. Meanwhile, Ultra Lord and Ultra Lady get "married" in Sheen's bedroom and have "babies" (the Space Bandits who are now shrunk). Zix then cries like a baby and Sheen decides that it's time for their nap.

Home Media

DVD

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

iTunes

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 3

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Trivia

• This episode premiered in the U.S. as the first episode of the 5 New Jimmys marathon event in January 2006.
• This is the second time Nick pronounces Sheen's name as "Shine". The first time was in "Party at Neutron's".
• In this episode, Sheen can be seen kicking one of his Ultra Lord action figures.
• This is the last time Judy calls Jimmy by his full name.
• The music that plays in the montage sounds like Outkast's 2003 hit song "Hey Ya". Said instrumental appeared 7 episodes ago in "Fundemonium".
• The 'travel music' that plays during the trip back home sounds similar to "Who Let the Dogs Out" by Baha Men.
• Jimmy’s friends go through a serious character derailment when they laugh at Jimmy's height in the flashback. It doesn't help that in the movie, Cindy promised to stop making fun of Jimmy's height.
• When Hugh and Judy are done cleaning up the house as little people, they watch a "drive-in" movie on their television of the 1939 version of Gulliver's Travels, which coincidentally is also owned by Viacom.
• This is the sequel to "A Beautiful Mine" and "Men at Work" in the production orders.
• This episode was produced after "Jimmy Goes to College" and before "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen".
• Carl mentions Frodo from The Lord of the Rings and the Talking Cricket (aka Jiminy Cricket) from The Adventures of Pinocchio.
• Not counting the second Jimmy Timmy Power Hour special, this is the first episode to air in 2006.
• The episode title is a reference of the movie The Incredible Shrinking Man.
• This is the second time Jimmy and Ms. Fowl shrink. The first one was in the movie.
• This episode's production number marks the 50th episode in the series.
• This is the second time the Mission Impossible theme was playing. The first was "Win, Lose and Kaboom!".
• This is the only time in the series besides the movie that Jimmy mentions anything about his size.
• This is the second time the House of Blue Pants appears. The first time was in "When Pants Attack".
• The music that plays during Jimmy's flashbacks uses the same melody as "Short People" by Randy Newman.

Goofs

• For some reason, Brittany and Courtney Tyler are not in the class picture despite being part of Miss Fowl's class.
• The captions refer to Butch as Sam.
• When Travoltron says "Hey, why are you whispering?" to Zix, the beginning of the "Hey" part is cut-off.