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| Episode | 7b |
| Season | 1 |
| Airdate (US) | October 14, 2002 |
| Airdate (CA) | October 17, 2002 |
| Invention(s) | MindPhone |
| Previous | See Jimmy Run |
| Next | The Phantom of Retroland |
"Trading Faces" is the second segment of the seventh episode of season 1.
Plot[]
Publicly humiliated by Cindy yet again, Jimmy comes up with an invention that will allow him to read her mind. But thanks to an unexpected power-surge, Jimmy's mind ends up in Cindy's body and vice-versa!
Synopsis[]
Jimmy is demonstrating a new invention to Carl and Sheen which transforms one's thoughts into music. Cindy plays a joke on Jimmy by playing yodeling music on her hidden boom-box inside her desk, which makes the students laugh. That night, Jimmy is vowing to find out Cindy's next prank on him. Carl asks Jimmy to help him with his homework book Triangles are your Friends. Jimmy suddenly gets a brainstorm where he changes his invention into a machine that reads your thoughts and plays them out loud. He then calls Cindy about her plans and the conservation is interrupted when the lightning strikes into the power lines, causing Jimmy and Cindy to get electric shocks. Both Jimmy and Cindy recover, until then realize their bodies have been switched and scream in horror.
The next day, Jimmy tries get into his lab but VOX rejects and places him in a trash can as Cindy arrives and berates Jimmy, before getting into an argument. Sometimes later at school, Jimmy and Cindy try their best to make each other look bad. During class, Libby asks Cindy (unaware that she's really Jimmy) about her prank she planned on which she complies, until Cindy's prank is revealed to be a paint bomb inside Jimmy's desk, which Cindy herself becomes the victim of it. Cindy and Jimmy play jokes at each other (which are Cindy picking his nose, Jimmy making fart sounds with her armpit), causing the students in class to laugh in amusement. As Nick arrives and ask about the concert ticket which Jimmy as Cindy rejects him, much to the girl's shock. Cindy tries to tell Nick that she didn't even mean that, Nick becomes confused while Jimmy making kissing lip mockingly not before it stopped as Ms. Fowl arrives and have the students to begin their pop quiz. Both Jimmy and Cindy write the weirdest possible answers to purposely fail their quizzes. After the pop quiz, Jimmy and Cindy both get F's and fifteen thousand detentions by insulting Ms. Fowl. Their wars begin to escalate (like, Cindy dresses himself in pink dress, Jimmy makes a speech about all of the boys who make her feel "fuzzy", Cindy denigrates to his parents & Jimmy donates her clothes to the salvation army). Finally, Jimmy finds a way to cure them by dumping their brains into a pod and making Sheen, Carl, and Libby sort out their memories into their correct heads. After their minds are put back into the correct bodies, Cindy tells Jimmy that one of them had imagined them walking on a country lane together, holding hands and kissing. Jimmy remembers that but says that he didn't imagine it. Cindy argues that she didn't imagine it either.
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- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius - Season 1
Quotes[]
- (Jimmy as Cindy goes to the lab. Jimmy as Cindy then picks a tiny bit of Cindy's hair, and VOX scans it, setting off the security alarm)
- VOX: REJECTED! Girl hair! Girl hair! Girl hair!
- Jimmy as Cindy: VOX, It's me! Let me in!
- (VOX gets mechanical arms, then a trash can appears. The arms open the trash can and they drop Jimmy as Cindy in, then closes the trash can)
- Cindy as Jimmy: If you get garbage in my hair, I'll never forgive you!
- Cindy as Jimmy: Oh, so it's war, is it? Fine! (turns to the class) Look at me, everybody! I, Jimmy Neutron, and blow faced crossed sized nose picker! (Cindy picks her nose)
- Jimmy as Cindy: Oh yeah? Listen to this! (puts hand on armpit)
- Cindy as Jimmy: Don't you dare.
- Ms. Fowl: Quiet children! Pop quiz!
Cindy as Jimmy: I hope you enjoyed your straight A's, Neutron, cause they're a thing of the past! (begins quiz) The ant is a member of the vegetable family.
Jimmy as Cindy: (working on quiz) Name the planets...Farkle, Gub Gub.
(after class)
Ms. Fowl: I would like an explanation for these two disgraceful papers!
Cindy as Jimmy: There is a simple explanation Ms. Fowl. I, Jimmy Neutron, am a complete gabble headed dipstick!
Jimmy as Cindy: But not as big a dipstick as you are, Ms. Fowl! And if I don't get a month's worth of detention for that, you are even dumber than you look!
Cindy as Jimmy: How many detentions is this worth Ms. Fowl-breath? (Cindy starts kicking stuff from Ms. Fowl's desk.)
- (Cindy as Jimmy peaks into the room, then jumps in, wearing a pink dress. The entire class laughs, camera zooms in to Jimmy as Cindy)
- Cindy as Jimmy: (while wearing a dress) It's something I've wanted to do all my life, Ms. Fowl!
- Jimmy as Cindy: (at recess) Attention! Here's a list of all the boys in school that makes me, Cindy Vortex, feel all fuzzy inside. Abraham "Mudface" Adler.
(Cindy's clothes are being put into a Salvation Navy truck by the same repair man who appeared in "Normal Boy" and "Birth Of A Salesman". He's an employee of the Salvation Navy.) - Mrs. Vortex: Are you sure about this, Cindy?
Jimmy as Cindy: Yes, Cindy's mother. I'm glad the expensive outfits I was so foolishly proud of will be clothing the needy. - CIndy as Jimmy: [To Sheen who wants to put their Bodies/personalities back together} "You can't even put mashed potatoes together!"
- Carl: "Extreme dislike of girls who dislike boys who dislike girls who dislike show-offy boys who dislike..."
- Sheen: TOO CONFUSING!!! Just throw that one away.
- (The memory is deleted and on the bottom it reads “MEMORY ALLOCATION COMPLETE”)
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Trivia[]
- The following are the questions of the Pop Quiz (in order) and some of their respective answers:
- The ant is a member of which family?
- Jimmy (as Cindy): My mom's
- Cindy (as Jimmy): Vegetables
- What are the names of the planets?
- Jimmy (as Cindy): Farkle, Gub Gub, Frogglesmacking, Beetlegrabber
- Cindy (as Jimmy): Derived from Greek mythology, they are planet I, II, III, IV
- What fruits do raisins come from?
- Jimmy (as Cindy): Walnuts
- How many suns orbit the earth?
- Jimmy (as Cindy): What is a sun?
- Cindy (as Jimmy): They are actually stars, 5 to be exact.
- How many eggs are in a dozen?
- Jimmy (as Cindy): 82
- The ant is a member of which family?
- Cindy has a book titled "Princess", a book with poems, one about Tai Chi, and one about butterflies on her desk next to her computer.
- At the end of the episode, when Cindy mentions one of them having daydreamed the two of them together, both of them deny thinking it. However, since they cannot access any other memories of the respective other, they both must have created the memory of the daydream together.
- Carl’s math textbook is titled Triangles Are Your Friends and appears in multiple other episodes.
- This episode features one of the rare occurrences of rain in the franchise. Other rainy episodes include "Brobot" and "King of Mars".
- While talking to Nick on the phone, Cindy is browsing a website called "Ticketmeister". This is an obvious reference to the real-life ticket booking website Ticketmaster. ("Meister" being the German word for "master".)
- The Ticketmeister website has the orange Nickelodeon splat logo on it, along with the word "Nick" inside of it.
- The truck that takes Cindy's clothes away has "Salvation Navy" on the side, opposed to Salvation Army.
- The theme of persons switching personalities/bodies was in the classic Star Trek episode "Turnabout Intruder". It was also used in an episode of Disney's Darkwing Duck.
- On Paramount+, this episode is named "Trading Faces (A Mind is a Terrible Thing, Two Ways)".
- This is likely because "A Mind is a Terrible Thing, Two Ways" was the original title for this episode.[1]
Goofs[]
- When Cindy is calling Nick she is putting on Puppy Pink nail polish, but when she puts her hand down her nails have nothing on them. After they switch bodies, it's on her nails.