History WesternAnimation / TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius

** Quentin Smithee seems to be simply an expy of Creator/QuentinTarantino (combined with a nod to the tendency for directors who have disowned films to credit themselves as AlanSmithee[[invoked]]) up until we find out [[spoiler: he's actually Professor Calamitus in a robot disguise.]]

** Movie director Quentin Smithee, [[AlanSmithee who had no records at all]]... [[spoiler:because he was really Professor Calamitous in disguise.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In "Journey to the Center of Carl", Jimmy and Sheen [[FantasticVoyagePlot enter Carl's body]] in order to get a virus's mitochondria so Jimmy can make a cure for the disease caused by the sick patches. In reality, this would make no sense, since viruses don't ''have'' mitochondria (though this was admittedly a genetically-engineered super virus).

Of interest is that the film and television series was made from consumer-grade programs. The show strains to compensate for the lack of raw technical power with very clever visuals. As per the very nature of its premise, the "science" was either [[HandWave never explained]] or [[{{Technobabble}} clearly made up]].

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Almost. Cindy attempts this tactic to calm Hulk!Jimmy down in "The N-Men", but passes out before she can complete her confession.

* CurbstompBattle: When Jimmy [[HulkOut hulked out]] and became a menace to his other super powered friends, he trounced on them, but only decided to end their time as superheroes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone after realizing he had injured them.]]

** When they all get superpowers it is exactly the same as other well-known superheroes. Cindy has Franchise/{{Superman}} flight and strength, Libby is [[Franchise/FantasticFour The Invisible Woman]], Sheen is ComicBook/TheFlash and Carl...well has burps that seem like ComicBook/BlackCanary. Jimmy was originally just turned orange, until [[ComicBook/TheHulk he got angry...]]

* RivalTurnedEvil: An unusual case in "The N-Men" - Jimmy himself is this due to finally getting fed up over how Cindy keeps overshadowing him. This sets him on a HulkingOut rampaging spree, and the irony is that the only one who stops him is Cindy herself.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In "Sorry, Wrong Era", the friends travel back 200 million years to what Jimmy describes as the "Late Cretaceous"; 200 million years ago was actually the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, hence ''long'' before animals like Tyrannosaurus or any large Pterosaur had appeared, let alone mammals like the Leptictidium.

* PteroSoarer: "Sorry, Wrong Era" has a classic example in the form of a ''Pteranodon'' that, for a short list, is called a "pterodactyl", is scaly, has pointed leathery wings, can pick things up with its feet, rears its unusually large young like a bird, flies inland, eats lizards instead of fish, lives in the same time as T-Rex and is bipedal. That being said, the writers did manage to get the lack of teeth and single wing finger right (although said wing finger is unusually flexible).

* TheScottishTrope: Discussed in the episode "[[OutDamnedSpot Out, Darn Spotlight]]", in which the characters perform a version of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' for the school play. Carl talks about how they've been saying "Macbeth" all day despite it being taboo, and sure enough, things ''do'' start to go wrong by the time the play ends.

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* TimeToMove: "Funndemonium" begins with the Neutrons set to move away to Dairyville due to Hugh's car company being transferred, prompting Jimmy to give him a job at a toy company should they wish to stay.

* CatchPhrase: Jimmy has "Gotta Blast" for the movie and "Brain Blast" for the series.

* CurbstompBattle: When Jimmy [[HulkOut hulked out]] and became a menace to his other super powered friends, he trounced on them, but only decided to end their time as superheroes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone after realizing he had injured them.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Nanobots more or less "worship" Jimmy as their creator and often do really, ''really'' misguidedly bad things to "please" him. They're essentially religious extremists with Jimmy as their "god".

* FeudEpisode: "Battle of the Band" becomes this between Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen, when they suddenly become so focused with becoming rock stars that it almost leads to the end of their friendship.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Jimmy.
** ThoseTwoGuys: Carl and Sheen.
** TheLancer: Nick.
** TheSmartGuy: Cindy.
** TokenMinority: Libby.
** TheChick: Brittany.
** TeamPet: Goddard.

* BareYourMidriff:
** Betty Quinlan's Lady Macbeth costume in "Out Darn Spotlight". There is no way this would be worn in an elementary school play in real life.
** There was also Cindy in her N-Men costume
** Same applies for [[http://jimmyneutron.wikia.com/wiki/Brittany_Tenelli Brittany]].

* {{Flanderization}}: Quite prevalent. The cartoon adapted a few prominent traits of each character shown in the movie and ended up heavily exaggerating them over time.
** Jimmy lost a few sympathetic traits in favor of emphasizing his pride, notably his kindness regarding Carl.
** Carl's and Sheen's geeky interest in Llamas and Ultra-Lord became the chief focus of several episodes and defining character traits in others.
** Judy Neutron jumped from being the more competent of Jimmy's parents with skills in vehicle maintenance to a notable ActionMom who discussed science theories with her son.
** Nick's fainting at the end at the end of the movie was later emphasized into making him an AdaptationalWimp who was constantly injuring himself.

-->'''Sheen:''' Well how would I know [[BookDumb Ultra Lord wasn't our founding father?]] That's what it said in the Ultra Lord website!\\
'''Jimmy:''' Wait; didn't ''you'' write the Ultra Lord website?\\

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: "Sorry, Wrong Era".
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The Atomic Monkey Special Forces Squad led by Colonel [=McSwane=] from "My Big Fat Spy Wedding".

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: The head of the BTSO (Big Top Secret Organization) in "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion" is black and bald.

** Specific targets for a single parody episode include ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', ''Film/FantasticVoyage'', and ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'', and there's one episode devoted to poking fun at various superhero movies. One episode is devoted to old horror monsters like ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'', ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'', and ''Film/TheWolfMan1941''. Not even ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' were immune. In the same episode. At the same time.

* FMinusMinus: In one episode, Sheen gets an F with ''[[UpToEleven four]]'' minuses on a history test.

* EmployeeOfTheMonth: The episode "Men at Work" has Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen getting jobs at McSpanky's burger joint. Their boss is a guy named Skeet, who is also the Employee of the Month, even though he seems to have been the only person working there before the trio came along. He apparently cherishes his award so much that he initially refused to leave the building after it goes haywire, that is until he's almost crushed by a falling pillar.

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* GlacialApocalypse: In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS1E6JimmyOnIceBattleOfTheBands Jimmy on Ice]]", Jimmy is hoping for a snow day and decides to cool off the atmosphere with a giant bottle of sunblock. After the kids play in the snow for a day, Jimmy wakes up to discover it's -30 degrees Fahrenheit outside and that he caused a second ice age. The adults are leaving to go hunt for meat like they're nomadic cavemen, and the townsfolk think they need to sacrifice Jimmy to stop the snow.

* GrandFinale: The series finale, "The League of Villains" features several of Jimmy's enemies coming together to defeat him and his friends once and for all. The kids also regain their superpowers when they battle them. It also features the Space Bandits doing a HeelFaceTurn and Jimmy leaving the rest of the villains (except for Professor Calamitous who returned one last time in the 2nd Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour special) trapped in prehistory forever.
* GRatedDrug: Jimmy accidentally creates one in 'Krunch Time' when he sets out to make the perfect candy. It's so addictive that most of the city acts like zombies when they don't have any more to eat.

* HowDoIShotWeb: "The N-Men".

* CatFight: Cindy and GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe April the Gorlock in "Win, Lose, or Kaboom".

* DrunkOnMilk: Purple Flurp, a popular soda in Retroville, is apparently treated like a fine beverage amongst adults. Eustace’s father even has a Flurp ''cellar'' where he and Hugh engage in some day drinking (and lots of burping).

** Examples include "I Dream of Jimmy" (SeriesIDreamOfJeannie), "A Beautiful Mine" (Film/ABeautifulMind), "The Junkman Cometh" (Theatre/TheIcemanCometh), "Love Potion #976/J" (''Love Potion #9''), "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen" (Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon), "My Big Fat Spy Wedding" (Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding), and "Trading Faces" (Film/TradingPlaces, although the episode was originally titled "A Mind is a Terrible Thing, Two Ways" - a parody of the educational slogan "a mind is a terrible thing to waste).

* CatchPhrase: Jimmy - "Gotta Blast" in the movie and "Brain Blast" in the series.

* [[PlotTailoredToTheParty Eigen Plot]]: Win, Lose, and Kaboom, where Jimmy's CharacterDevelopment is based around realizing it is one and learning he can't do everything by himself.

* TheEndOrIsIt: “Attack of the Twonkies” ends with Jimmy realizing he forgot to send Sheen’s Twonkie back, who didn’t mutate because of his awful singing, and it ends up producing offspring which bounce into Retroville.
* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: One episode had Jimmy and his friends wanting to buy a game called ''Doom Bringer II'', which is apparently "for mature players only due to violence, exaggerated mayhem, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking old lady kicking]],". The plot is kickstarted when the cashier denies their purchase because they're too young, prompting Jimmy to try and make them all older.

** And another alien, Travoltron, acts like Creator/JohnTravolta. Or at least his character in Film/SaturdayNightFever.

* FMinusMinus: In one episode, Sheen gets an F with ''[[UpToEleven four]]'' minuses on a test.

* FreeRangeChildren: The elementary school-aged main characters behave more like older teenagers/young adults. They often run about in Retroville and hang out at the local food joints unsupervised, and that's only what they do when not on an adventure caused by Jimmy's invention.

* JoinUsDrone: “One Of Us” has everyone try to force Jimmy into watching the Happy Show Show that has them turn into rather cheerful Zombies.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In "A Beautiful Mine," Sheen repeatedly tries to invoke [[OnceAnEpisode the traditional "To the lab!" scene change,]] and is continually disappointed when the next scene isn't the lab.

** Also Jimmy's classmate Nick Dean, a child version of move badboy James Dean.
** Sheen Estevez; a ShoutOut to Charlie Sheen and Martin/Emilio Estevez.

** And Jet Fusion, the in-show version of James Bond (fusion actually means bond)

* MemoryWipeExploitation: ''My Big Fat Spy Wedding'' has Jimmy confront seemingly reformed criminal, Beautiful Gorgeous, after her groom, Jet Fusion, attacks Sheen when the latter says "I have the ring". Beautiful quickly overpowers Jimmy, confesses her EvilPlan, then uses Jimmy's own Hypno Ray to erase the last 30 minutes of his memory. If Carl and Sheen hadn't witnessed everything, Beautiful actually would have gotten away with her plan.
* MindScrew: Jimmy traversing Carl's Dream. Being well, a dream, for the most part, it has no logic or sense. Though like most dreams, Carl sees it as perfectly normal. So Jimmy, in order to prove to him, without a doubt, that this is not the real world, does something that could possibly never happen in real life, he kisses Cindy.

** In the movie, Sheen can be seen naked - peeing, in the shower.
--->'''Sheen:''' I'm peeing! In the shower! I'm still doing it! ''( Pumps both hands in the air)'' Go go go!
* NerdyBully: In the episode 'Jimmy Goes To College', Jimmy enters college and meets a {{Jerkass}} nerd named Seymour Flimelflarb. At first Seymour seems to be a good friend to Jimmy, yet it's all an act as he's actually jealous of Jimmy stealing his thunder. So Seymour spends most of the episode framing Jimmy for things he didn't do, sabotaging his work and getting him expelled.

** Of course, Jimmy's friends also get in on the act every now and then. In "The Eggpire Strikes Back" [[spoiler: Cindy told King Goobot how to get into Jimmy's lab, giving him the tools he needed to revive Poultra.]]
* NonStandardKiss: Inverted in "Win, Lose and Kaboom!": when April locks lips with Jimmy, he assumes that she's kissing him, but she states that it's the Gorlockan seal of trust, and has no idea what a kiss is. Averted when she does it again later, saying "that was a kiss" after Jimmy asks if that was the aforementioned seal of trust.

** Examples include "I Dream of Jimmy" (I Dream of Jeannie), "A Beautiful Mine" (A Beautiful Mind), "The Junkman Cometh" (The Iceman Cometh), "Love Potion #976/J" (''Love Potion #9''), "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen" (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), "My Big Fat Spy Wedding" (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), and "Trading Faces" (Trading Spaces, although the episode was originally titled "A Mind is a Terrible Thing, Two Ways" - a parody of the educational slogan "a mind is a terrible thing to waste).

* ParodyEpisode: Quite a few. "Lights! Camera! Danger!" is notable for combining parodies of ''Film/TheMatrix,'' ''Film/HarryPotter,'' ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings,'' and ''Chicago,'' and [[ReferenceOverdosed references a truckload more.]]
** Specific targets for a single parody episode include ''Film/{{Jaws}},'' ''Film/FantasticVoyage,'' and ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'', and there's one episode devoted to poking fun at various superhero movies. One episode is devoted to old horror monsters like ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}},'' ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}},'' and ''Film/TheWolfMan1941.'' Not even ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' and ''StarWars'' were immune. In the same episode. At the same time.
** Hugh's "de-dorkination" in "Make Room for Daddy-o" that involves him wearing a black leather jacket, matching pants and shades complete with a motorcycle all scream Arnold Schwarzenegger from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.

* RealityWarper: Meldar, the BigBad of "Win, Lose and Kaboom" can do this thanks to his matrix generators. He even ''says'' that he can warp reality.

* RecycledSoundtrack: A few music cues from another Nicktoon ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' may show up in a few episodes, which doesn't change the fact that Charlie Brissette composed both shows.

* SatireParodyPastiche: Numerous examples of this include "Attack of the Twonkies" (''Film/{{Gremlins}}''), ''Monster Hunt'' (''Film/{{Jaws}}''), "Stranded" (''Film/CastAway''), "Love Potion #976/J" (''Love Potion #9''), "Lights! Camera! Danger!" (''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/HarryPotter'', to name a few), "Win Lose and Kaboom" (every gameshow ever) and "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion" (''Film/JamesBond'').

* ShoddyShindig: In "Hypno Birthday To You", thanks to Jimmy hypnotizing his parents, they believe every single day to be his birthday, and throw a party each day as well. At first they're a lot of fun, with even his rivals Cindy and Libby enjoying themselves. A few parties in, however, and things take a turn- in addition to everyone being utterly sick of partying (and cake), the party clown is unable to perform any new tricks, and his parents run out of money to get presents and supplies. The result is a string of miserable parties that leaves the guests bored and unhappy.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: The pilot episode, "When Pants Attack", has one: Always remember to be responsible and clean up after yourself, because if you don't, those pants that you forgot to pick up off your floor might become sentient and go on a mad rampage.

* SpoofsRUs: In ''Attack of the Twonkies'', Judy throws a rock at a store named Ventriloquist Dummies 'R' Us.
* SpottingTheThread: Seen in "Maximum Hugh," when Cindy and her mom have seemingly won the Parent-Child Picnic Games. Jimmy notices "Mrs. Vortex" having different eye color, foot size, ear lobe length, and a zipper on the back of her neck. (It turns out to be Cindy's athletic aunt, whose face resembles her mom.)

** In the short, "Hyper Corn", Jimmy's parents serve creamed corn for dinner. Jimmy refuses to eat it because, in his words, "It looks like somebody already digested it", and he tries to get rid of it by stuffing it into his hypercube. Unfortunately, Hugh mistakes the hypercube for a Rubik's cube and causes the creamed corn stored inside to fly everywhere. Some of it lands in Jimmy's mouth, and it's at this point that Jimmy finds out it actually tastes delicious.

** "Time is Money" had Jimmy go back to a time before his parents got married to convince his future father to invest 50 dollars in Hank [=McSpanky=]'s burger scheme to change history so that Jimmy's family would be wealthy enough to afford a set of encyclopedias he wanted. He goes back to set things right after finding his parents to be snobby and neglectful towards him because of the altered timeline.

* TallPoppySyndrome: In 'The Science Fair Affair' Cindy calls for Jimmy to be banned from competing in the science fair in order to give all the non-genius students a chance to win, since with Jimmy competing none of them ever really put any effort into trying.

* TotemPoleTrench: Seen in "The Phantom of Retroland," when Cindy and Libby dress up as the titular Phantom to scare Jimmy and his friends (Libby on top and wearing the mask, and Cindy on bottom.)

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The concept of Jimmy being extremely secretive about his lab, never allowing anyone inside except Goddard, Carl and Sheen is somewhat relevant in the first season, especially "The Egg-Pire Strikes Back" special, where he goes as far as to wipe Cindy's memories of how to get in (using a device that, appropriately enough, will never be referenced to again throughout the rest of the show). Later on, it seems like everybody can and will enter the lab whenever they please (or plot convenience will require them to) and while Jimmy will occasionally express his dismay at the idea of Cindy or Libby hanging around his inventions (due to them being [[GirlsHaveCooties girls and all]]), other times he'll just have them stay behind a yellow line on the floor, and some other times he just won't care at all.

** Averted - Retroville is in Texas. This is also played with in one of the episodes where Jimmy states that his script for a movie has one of the locations in 'a fictional city in Texas'. The theory is reinforced by the fact that the company responsible for the show's animation itself is based in Dallas and the ChristmasEpisode is uncommonly snow-free.
*** Although, in the first episode Cindy mentions that Jimmy's head is the size of Texas, to which Carl, upset, replies that his uncle is from Texas, and not that they live in Texas.
*** Naturally, considering that the cast is almost exclusively non-Texan, [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent the fact they never try to hide in the first place]], the series could just as well take place in California.