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| The Retroville 9 | |
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| The title card for The Retroville 9. | |
| Episode | 3a |
| Season | 2 |
| Airdate (US) | October 3, 2003 |
| Airdate (CA) | October 15, 2003 |
| Invention(s) | Neutronized Baseball Bats and Mitts |
| Previous | Beach Party Mummy |
| Next | Grumpy Young Men |
"The Retroville 9" is a first segment of the 3rd episode from Season 2 of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Plot[]
Jimmy's determination to captain a winning little league baseball team leads him to rev up the equipment with Neutronic technology to make them star players without trying. When the team unexpectedly reaches the World Championship, Jimmy has a crisis of conscience. At the game, a professional baseball player named Tremendous Jackson gives a heartfelt speech about the importance of practice, skills, and teamwork, which makes Jimmy feel even more guilty. Jimmy tells his friends what he did and apologizes. They decide to play fairly and to start believing in themselves, but sadly, they lose without scoring a single point (due to the fact that they have no skills and never practiced, whatsoever), losing in a lopsided affair to the Super Dedicated Work Team 112–0. After deciding to give up baseball, they go see Bonzilla live, where Sheen gets burned to a crisp after insulting the lizard for his size and asks Jimmy what the Japanese word for "ambulance" is before passing out.
Home Media[]
DVD[]
iTunes[]
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 2
Teams[]
- The Retroville 9
- Butch's Butchers
- Butch Pakovski
- Brittany Tenelli
- Terry Finster (despite moving away in Safety First)
- Wendall
- Kevin
- Chuck Lester (despite moving to Greece in "Hall Monster")
- Mikey
- Zack
- Chantelle
Quotes[]
- Carl: Make it stop, Jimmy!
- Cindy: Just end it, Neutron!
- Libby: I can't take it anymore!
- Sheen: If you love me, you'll finish it now!
- Ms. Fowl: Ball three!!
- Sheen: Ball!?! That was right down the middle! I've seen better calls at a square dance!!
- Ms. Fowl: Jimmy's throwing lollipops! The day he throws down Broadway is the day I dance on the moon!!
- Tremendous Jackson: Somewhere in the Rytridian Galaxy, Ultra Lord weeps.
- (Jackson walks away)
- Sheen: There's only one thing we can do.
- (Scene cuts to the kids seeing Bonzilla in a cage)
- Sheen: That's Bonzilla? What a rip-off! He's only 10" high, he's a pipsqueak, he couldn't hurt a--
- (Bonzilla sets Sheen on fire with his fire breath)
- Sheen: AAAAHHHH!!! Jimmy, what's the Japanese word for "ambulance"?
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This is the first appearance of the running gag about Carl's scapula.
- This is the only time Butch serves as the main antagonist.
- Carl says, "Today I consider myself the luckiest boy on the face of the earth.", which is a reference to baseball player Lou Gehrig, who in 1939 at Yankee Stadium gave a speech where he said, "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth."
- For unknown reasons, Nick is not on any of the teams. In fact, he isn't even in class when announced that Jimmy and his team are going to Japan.
- The baseball players whose skills Jimmy downloaded into the gloves and bats were Babe Ruth, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds. Coincidentally, the latter two were later revealed to be cheaters as well.
- When Jimmy wears his baseball hat, you'll notice that he really is the shortest kid in class.
- Butch is cheering for Jimmy's team going to Japan, even though he hates Jimmy and lost to him.
- This is the second time Jimmy creates a baseball bat. The first was in Carl Squared.
- Bonzilla is seen again as an audience member in "Win, Lose and Kaboom!".
- The music Libby listens to prior to throwing the ball to Cindy is the same as the Men Pretending to Be Boys concert from "Party at Neutron's".
- This episode was later made into the picture book Jimmy Strikes Out.
- Tremendous Jackson's team, the Comets, shares a space-themed name with and may have been inspired by a real-world baseball team the Houston Astros.
- Goddard and Judy don't appear in this episode.
- At the end of the episode, Sheen asks Jimmy for the Japanese word for ambulance, which is "救急車," pronounced as "kyūkyūsha."
- The name of the Japanese baseball stadium on the scoreboard is "幸福な慰み玉行こう競技場", which literally translates to "Let's Play Happy Fun Ball Stadium." The first character is misprinted.
- Moral: Losing can hurt and so can insults, but don’t let that make a cheater out of you. It’s important to play fairly and if you can’t succeed in an activity, it may be best to just give up that activity and try another because no one can do everything.