YMMV / The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

YMMV tropes for the The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius series

Tropes with their own pages:

• Hilarious In Hindsight
• Memetic Mutation

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For the Pilot Movie's YMMV page, see Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius YMMV.

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• Accidental Aesop:
  • Courtesy of "Men at Work" — don't drag people (especially your partner) somewhere they've repeatedly said they don't want to go, especially if it's because they already had plans to go elsewhere. Even without the fully-computerized restaurant pulling a HAL 9000, it pretty much guarantees nobody's going to have a good time.
  • "The N-Men": Bullies don’t need an excuse to be mean, even if it is because they secretly like you. If they won't stop, stand up to them. Inversely, if you treat someone poorly, they'll eventually return the favor.
• Accidental Innuendo:
  • In "Clash of the Cousins," Jimmy asks Sheen to get DNA samples of his cousins. Sheen asks Jimmy why is he always the one who has to collect bodily fluids.
  • In "When Pants Attack":
    Jimmy: Um... I sense a disturbance in my pants, ma'am.
  • In the episode "King of Mars," when Goddard's battery was dry and they needed a way to move, Cindy came up with using Carl's stretch pants as a wind sail. When Carl protested, Jimmy said, "Carl, pants off. Now."
• Adaptation Displacement: While the Pilot Movie was popular to the point of being nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, and it still pops up on Nick every now and again, the series has become better known in comparison and people often think that the movie came during the early run of the show.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Hugh Neutron. Is he really a bumbling idiot, or does he just like causing destruction by abusing Jimmy's technology?
  • A popular fan theory is that Jimmy's intelligence and lack of social skills is because he has Autism; Asperger's Syndrome to be exact.
  • A few fans like to interpret Jimmy as an Insufferable Genius, putting their own spins on the "sodium chloride" scene, and making Jimmy's supervisor at McSpankys turn out to be not as dumb as he sounds, criticising him at length for his overly-technical speech patterns.
    • On that note, was Jimmy's supervisor Skeet really ignorant on what sodium chloride is, or did he understand perfectly well what Jimmy meant and was annoyed at his insistence on calling it that?
  • One scene from "Beach Party Mummy" implies that Libby might have some sort of romantic interest in Jimmy.
    Jimmy: Libby, quick, I need you!
    Libby: (Surprised and Flattered) Why Jimmy, this is so sudden.
  • Does Carl resent Jimmy for treating him like a guinea pig? In episodes where he is put into a position of dominance, such as "I Dream of Jimmy" and "Carl Wheezer: Boy Genius", he VERY firmly holds onto the Jerkass Ball, and treats one of his only two friends like dirt.
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: In Sorry Wrong Era, did Hugh really make a woman experience the miracle of birth over and over again or did he make her watch the video of the same name?
• Awesome Art: The animation in the series is fine for its time though pretty dated now, but the CGI in this Chrysler ad featuring the main characters is downright gorgeous.
• Base-Breaking Character: Several.
  • Carl Wheezer. His haters don't like him primarily because he came off really annoying with his weird feelings in Judy, his weird fixation with llamas, and his whining. It didn't help his character Took a Level in Jerkass later on. On the other hand, others at least find him likable and funny and try to get past the episodes such as "Carl Wheezer: Boy Genius".
  • Cindy Vortex. While most people think she's Jimmy's soul mate, some think Cindy's pride is no excuse for how she treats Jimmy and his friends. This is when people really miss how more sympathetic and friendly she was in the movie. Some of the most infamous examples of the detractor's ire go to "The Incredible Shrinking Town", "Vanishing Act", "The N-Men", "King of Mars", and her Valentine song.
  • Despite his infamous spin-off, Sheen does still have some fans who find him funny (in the movie and the original show, anyway). Helps that said spin-off was quietly cancelled after quickly losing its relevance.
• Better on DVD: Season 3 counts as such. When it first aired on TV, viewers were left confused over the sudden lack of continuity between episodes, and it was initially considered to be a case of Seasonal Rot. When Season 3 was released on home media, it was discovered that, when the show started becoming more continuity-driven, the episodes were aired out of order, meaning that almost all of the odd continuity was completely unintentional.
• Bizarro Episode:
  • "I Dream of Jimmy" features some really absurd humor and bizarre scenes. Justified — the bulk of the weird happens inside Carl's dream.
  • "Who's Your Mommy?", which is better known as "that episode where Carl gives birth to an alien through his ass".
  • Even for this series, "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?" is a weird one, featuring such moments as a banjo-wielding hillbilly with a wooden Internet cafe and a very bizarre chase scene.
• Character Perception Evolution: Skeet, from the memetic episode "Men at Work", was intended to be seen as something of an idiot and a disrespectful manager to Jimmy, with kids watching the episode and taking Jimmy's side. The discourse changed once the fandom grew up, many of these kids taking minimum wage jobs for themselves, and beginning to realize that not only was Jimmy being a bit of a brat, but everything Skeet said was entirely correct. In this light, Skeet has become an Ensemble Dark Horse often depicted as an Only Sane Man.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • "He made me experience the miracle of birth again and again and again!"
    • "Yeah. Yeah, birth."
  • Jimmy beating up a baby would be very horrible. Jimmy beating up a baby that's an evil genius and planning to destroy his entire family is both awesome and hilarious. The reaction from the Neutrons is also icing on the cake.
  • Also, in "Win, Lose, and Kaboom!", there's Jimmy's line to Sheen after he stupidly reveals about the space rock to the government:
    Jimmy: Sheen, remind me to remove what's left of your brain later.^note Basically, he intends to give Sheen a lobotomy.
• Demographically Inappropriate Humour:
  • When Hugh sings his "Donut Boy" theme song, he ends with the line "Got a creamy filling" while looking seductively at the camera.
  • In Beach Party Mummy when Jimmy's torch goes out leaving them all in complete darkness. As Jimmy tries to find his torch, Cindy squeals in pain. Judging by Cindy's reaction, Jimmy must've accidentally tweaked her butt (or possibly... something else).
    Jimmy: Stand still. I'll find my torch.
    Cindy: OW! That's not your torch!
    Jimmy: Sorry.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Carl's Swedish pen pal Elke Ekeberg. She has a horribly fake accent, speaks in broken English, and she's a complete ditz who lets Carl abuse Jimmy and completely ignores the fact he almost got her killed. Thank God she only appears once. Oddly, recurring character Bolbi Stroganovski is not considered an Ethnic Scrappy by most fans despite being a blatant Eastern European/Slavic stereotype.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Bolbi, especially due to his memetic "Slap Slap Slap, Clap Clap Clap" dance and his MacBeth monologue while performing the part of a space pirate.
  • Hugh Neutron is this both for meme-related purposes and for being a humorously eccentric (and actually funny) variation on the Bumbling Dad archetype who genuinely loves his son. This is likely the reason for his inclusion in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, even over Jimmy himself.
  • Brittany as well, possibly for being a female version of Carl. It helps that she's the kindest character on the show.
  • If we're counting his inventions, then Jimmy's Hypno Beam/Ray. Yes, that Hypno Ray. People love to make fanart and fanfiction of what they could do with that thing.
  • April the Gorlock, primarily due to her Action Girl status and the fact that she is from a proud warrior race.
  • Skeet, mainly due to the various memes surrounding him and his relatable The Everyman personality.
  • Yoo Yee, for being an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy straight out of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (another O Entertainment production).
  • Paul, the three-eyed monkey in the DNA Productions logo at the end of every episode, mainly due to the various memes surrounding it.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • King Goobot V. He's funny, hammy, over-the-top, and entertaining at the same time. The fact that he serves as the Big Bad in the Grand Finale certainly helps.
  • Professor Calamitous, the Big Bad of most episodes of the series, is an entertaining villain as well as Goobot. Being voiced by Tim Curry certainly helps.
  • Eustace Strych, primarily because he is snobbish, arrogant, manipulative, Wicked Cultured, and Jimmy's Foil and Evil Counterpart.
  • The League of Villains from the Grand Finale, primarily because they are incredibly entertaining and funny.
• Fan Nickname: Nick is known as "Sasque" in some circles, due to a famous tumblr post calling him a "Mexican Sasuke".
• Fanon: The characters age. Officially they are stuck on Ms. Fowl class at 11 years old but due to Characterization Marches On even the series wiki says they age from 11 in the first season to 13 at the last, the increase of romantic plots and UST tropes between some of the characters certainly added to it.
• Fanfic Fuel: Imagine what you can do with Jimmy's Hypno Ray — or any of his inventions.
• First Installment Wins: While the other two seasons are when the show started getting more popular, some people think season one had better humor and character portrayals.
• Franchise Original Sin: Jimmy had a problem throughout the series of being arrogant, abrasive, and causing at least half the problems of the show. But he also had many sympathetic qualities, worked to fix these problems, and was called on his actions to counterbalance it to make him a relatable, likeable, yet flawed character. When Planet Sheen rolled around, Sheen had the same problems, but none of the redeeming qualities nor was he called out for his actions, causing many of the complaints people had with that show.
• Fountain of Memes: Hugh Neutron, Carl, and moreso Bolbi have an internet following based on this. Sheen and Skeet are also this, to a lesser extent.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series has its dedicated fanbase within the United States but one could argue it's become relatively forgotten over the years, hardly ever making it to any English-language "Top 10 Best Nickelodeon Shows" video on YouTube. Compared to this, Jimmy Neutron continues to be immensely popular in Latin America.
• Growing the Beard: The season two and three episodes tend to stand out more, shedding the spin-off-of-the-movie feel. The episodes evolved from stock plots into slightly more sophisticated comedy, with better grasp on its characters and a subtle sense of continuity. In the season one finale, Libby had decided to keep her hair braided, making her stand out more as well and into part of the main group.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In Retroville 9 Jimmy creates high-tech baseball gloves and automatic homerun hitting bats neutronized with the skills of three baseball players for his struggling baseball team. They effectively cheat their way to the little-league finals in Japan. The players Jimmy used were Barry Bonds (an alleged cheater), Mark McGwire (a confessed cheater) and Babe Ruth (dead).
  • The ending of "Broadcast Blues" sees Jimmy's Show Within a Show cancelled and replaced by a show starring Sheen. Didn't work out when they actually did give Sheen a show.
• He Really Can Act: Played for Laughs in "Out Darn Spotlight". For all the weirdness he gets up up to, Bolbi is really capable of acting. Out of universe, it does give us a showcase of Phil LaMarr's vocal range.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Jimmy. He means well, but almost nobody likes him or his inventions (we eventually realize that not even his own relatives (aside from his parents) want anything to do with him). There may be a good reason for that, since he can be a rude, arrogant, condescending, know-it-all Insufferable Genius with a Lack of Empathy, especially in Season 3. It doesn't help the fact that many of his inventions have endangered the lives of hundreds of people in Retroville. No wonder why the guy made so many enemies throughout the course of the series. Though to be fair, most of them either end up, or were already worse than him. Good examples of his Woobie-ness have to be in "The N-Men", "Normal Boy", "The Incredible Shrinking Town", and "Jimmy Goes to College." Furthermore, on the other side of the coin, the citizens of Retroville (especially in his school) will often give him a hard time during moments where he isn't even showing those insufferable genius traits, from his classmates mocking his lack of creativity to his gym teacher having his students sadistically trample him for his lack of athleticism. Even his own best friends sell him out occasionally, so it's easy to feel sorry for him despite how arrogant he can be.
  • Cindy is a petty and insecure spoiled brat, but there are hints that she may have a bad home life and she seems to have been molded into what she is by her Stage Mom. This is especially more evident in season three where every time she tries to help Jimmy, he ignores her.
  • Nick. In later episodes, he seems to have no purpose except for randomly breaking his leg. In the series finale where he breaks his leg again, he completely breaks down because of it.
  • Tee in the Grand Finale (The League of Villains), particularly when his Heel–Face Turn comes into play.
• Karmic Overkill: Jimmy's clones being put on ice in "Send in the Clones" was rather harsh, as compared to the world-threatening villains Jimmy faces on a regular basis, or his experiments going haywire, the worst the clones have done was annoy and confuse people. The one evil clone managing to escape this fate doesn't help matters.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Zix is the cunning and charismatic leader of a trio of space bandits along with Travoltron and Tee. Failing to steal astrorubies from Jimmy and his friends, he instead makes up a story about Ruby Madness to make the kids paranoid and turn them against one another before trying to steal the rubies again. Upon finding the residents of Retroville shrunken down, Zix, not one to let an opportunity to make some money slide, plans to sell them to alien children as toys. He and his partners later join the League of Villains and help to kidnap Jimmy for their revenge, but when the kids save him and Travoltron from a giant snake, Tee convinces them to turn good, as they have no reason to be villains. After saving the kids from a T-Rex by sending it after Baby Eddie, Zix realizes that Good Feels Good and befriends Jimmy for real. Whether as an enemy or an ally, he is skilled at improvisation and never loses his charming demeanor.
  • "Send in the Clones" & "The Trouble with Clones": Evil Jimmy is a clone of Jimmy Neutron that revels in his own delightfully diabolical nature. Starting out by merely pranking the citizens of Retroville in clever and "classic" ways, Evil Jimmy evades capture alongside the rest of Jimmy's clones and continues to terrorize the Earth in his petty, humorous methods. When caught by Jimmy in an attempt to forcibly reform him, Evil Jimmy distracts Jimmy and tampers with the de-evil machine, faking redemption so he can escape Jimmy's sight and continue his prankster rampage. Soon enough using Jimmy's own tech to create an evil copy of the entire Earth, Evil Jimmy refuses to be captured again and uses a dark matter chip to drag his evil Earth into the dark dimension, where he resides in safety while promising to one day get the ultimate revenge on Jimmy.
  • "One of Us" & "The League of Villains": Grandma Taters is a kindly old lady who, though an alien conqueror seeking the subjugation of Earth, is completely genuine in her sweet nature. Using the Happy Show Show to slowly brainwash all of Retroville into perpetually happy zombies who convince more and more people to watch the show, Taters hopes to hypnotize the whole planet into becoming happy forever. Beaten even after capturing Jimmy and whipping out nunchuks to duel Cindy, Taters later returns as a member of the League of Villains, using her cleverness to take down Goddard while scaring even her fellow villains with how dangerous she is, despite her friendly nature.
• Memetic Badass:
  • Bolbi's developed this relationship. So has Hugh, for that matter — fanart of him as a musclebound Kenshiroesque anime badass has become surprisingly popular.
  • Hugh Neutron has become an extremely powerful denizen of the Shadow Realm, sometimes dragging people into it when they go into dark places, such as... Incognito Mode. As the icing on the cake to this, Hugh Neutron's voice actor, Mark DeCarlo, actually voice acted the meme when he was asked to do it on Twitter. And Hugh has been announced as a playable fighter in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, while his son and main character remains nowhere to be seen.
  • Skeet. According to the show, he's a dim-witted fast-food worker who acts like he's a lot smarter than he is. According to fans and memes, he's a well-spoken genius who's able to psychologically analyze and rip apart Jimmy's obssession with being smart.
• Memetic Molester: Carl is treated like this with his creepy obsession with Judy. Most famously, when he had Wanda (who herself was creeped out) turn Professor Calamitous who's trapped in a small bottle into a miniature copy of Judy at the end of Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide, and Calamitious reacted to him in horror.
  "Hi Mrs. Neutron!"
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Beautiful Gorgeous hypnotizes Jet into killing Jimmy in front of many innocent lives and have him arrested for murder.
  • Evil Jimmy starts off as a simple prankster at first... up until he creates an evil version of Jimmy's planet and attempts to destroy the old one and forces Jimmy to watch, and trap him in his world of darkness.
  • Meldar may seem like an ordinary game show host, but then he threatens to blow up the losing planets and forces the losers to watch.
  • Baby Eddie reveals his true malice and plans on killing off the entire Neutron family in order to claim the family money for himself.
• More Popular Spin Off: It certainly seems that more people view the movie as the series' Big Damn Movie rather than the Pilot Movie.
• Never Live It Down:
  • At the end of Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide, Professor Calamitous has been defeated, shrunken down, and placed inside of a glass bottle. Carl then requests Cosmo and Wanda to transform Calamitous into a miniature copy of Judy Neutron... who he then lustfully stares at and addresses as "Mrs. Neutron."
  • Thanks to Memetic Mutation, it's unlikely that Jimmy himself will ever live down the infamous "Sodium Chloride" sequence
  • Hugh using Jimmy's time remote to make a woman "experience the miracle of birth again and again and again..."
• Older Than They Think: The idea of an Evil Jimmy isn't new; it was actually first played with in the licensed game Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron in 2002.
• One True Pairing: While Jimmy and Cindy are still well liked, Sheen and Libby are one of the most beloved couples in all of Nickelodeon and it's nearly impossible to find someone who doesn't love their relationship.
• Periphery Demographic: The show has a huge amount of adult fans.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: Some people get annoyed with Jimmy and Cindy's romantic subplot. Others hail it as one of the show's greatest highlights though.
• Ron the Death Eater: There's a tendency between some viewers of the show to vilify Jimmy far beyond than what the show intends. While it's true that at times he acts like a know-it-all and he ends up causing many of the problems at Retroville, he never refuses responsibility for his mistakes and is always willing to clean-up his messes. These viewers also ignore how often Retroville's citizens ignore Jimmy's advice when dealing with alien affairs and that he willingly puts his life on the line for them, no matter how much they mistreat him.
• The Scrappy: Bro-Bot is not well liked by fans, due to his high pitched voice and endless blabber and creepiness that makes him even more annoying than Sheen! Helps that Bro-Bot is pretty much hated by everyone in-universe as well.
• Ship Mates: Jimmy/Cindy and Sheen/Libby are generally considered canon and fans of both pairings get along well or are even the same people sometimes. If Carl is shipped with anyone, it's usually his penpal Elke, and to get Betty out of the way without resulting in Die for Our Ship, some fans pair her with Nick.
• Squick: Beautiful Gorgeous and Junkman making out.
• Strawman Has a Point: Skeet in "Men at Work" might not be the smartest character on the show, but many viewers are quick to point out that two of his reasons for demoting Jimmy in the first part of the episode are fairly understandable.
  • First, he demotes Jimmy from cashier to mop duty because Jimmy was relying on his own genius memorization and math skills to calculate the tax and change in his head. It's meant to show that Skeet doesn't understand Jimmy's smarts, but it makes sense for him to want Jimmy to use the cash register since registers are used to provide a physical record of financial transactions (for both budget and inventory purposes), and provide customers with a receipt. Plus, employees stealing an extra dollar from the register every so often isn't unheard of in the fast-food industry, and if there's no record of transactions at all...
  • Later on, he demotes Jimmy to advertising the store out front because he called salt "sodium chloride". While this is meant to show Skeet as too stupid to understand they mean the same thing, most people don't refer to salt as Sodium Chloride in a non-chemistry context, and those who tend to come off as a pretentious jackass.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Various copyright-friendly examples exist:
  • The title card for "Hypno-Birthday to You" has a copyright-friendly variation of The Beatles' "Birthday" playing over it.
  • The music we hear in the background during the Mt. Incredibly Unstable scene in "The Mighty Wheezers" bears an uncanny resemblance to the theme of the 1989 Batman movie.
  • Some of the background music in Season 3 episodes like "Fundemonium" and "The Incredible Shrinking Town" sounds very similar to "Hey Ya!" by OutKast.
  • Season 1's "Battle of the Band" has Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen play a copyright-friendly version of Green Day's "Warning".
  • At the very end of Season 2's "Jimmy for President", Bolbi plays some music on a radio that sounds like Funkytown. This same music plays during Sheen's odd dance moves in "Crouching Jimmy, Hidden Sheen".
    • Speaking of the latter episode, the music playing during Sheen's training montage has a very similar tune to Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas. A variety of Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" can be heard at one point (which it also does in "Birth of a Salesman").
  • A soundalike of the Mission: Impossible theme can be heard in "Win, Lose, and Kaboom" when Jimmy and friends infiltrate the military base to retrieve the fallen space rock. This same music can also be heard in "The Incredible Shrinking Town."
  • A soundalike of the classic "Yakety Sax" can be heard in "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?" when Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen are being chased by a bear.
  • "Return of the Nanobots" features a knock-off of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" (heard in a number of classic Looney Tunes cartoons) during a montage where the Nanobots delete everyone in Retroville (and it even briefly cuts away a couple of times to the robots dancing to the music!)
  • In "Hall Monster", when the kids are at detention due to Jimmy's strict rules, Libby can be heard singing a Blues variation of "Bad to the Bone" (albeit with different lyrics, singing about how she misses music), especially with Sheen's humming imitating the famous guitar riff.
  • In "Vanishing Act", Libby at one point plays the opening riff to Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice".
  • "The Incredible Shrinking Town" features a knock-off of Randy Newman's "Short People" during a montage of Jimmy remembering the times he was teased about his height.
  • The episode "League of Villains" starts off with a tune that is almost the Imperial March theme from Star Wars, but slightly different.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Was falsely accused of doing this to Dexter's Laboratory in its early days, though luckily it developed its own identity by evolving into an adventure show with a slightly larger central cast and a better attempt at Character Development.
  • Somewhat ironically, quite a big part of the fandom will accuse Phineas and Ferb of doing the very same thing in regard to Jimmy Neutron itself.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Dr. Sidney Moist. He was incredibly crazy and hammy, but only had one episode in Season 3 (and a cameo in the second Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour). It would've been hilarious to see more of him for sure.
  • Another villain with wasted potential was Yoo Yee. Like Dr. Moist, he was very hammy and only appeared in one Season 3 ep. It would've been neat to have him as a recurring villain (and basically be Sheen's arch-enemy).
  • Nick. He had a pretty major role in the movie and he's like a big brother to Jimmy. He is a perfect foil to Sheen, so you can see a lot of potential in his character. He was going to be part of the gang, but it was dropped for some reason after season one. There were plans to make him part of the main cast in season four, however.
  • Brittany. She could've made a perfect comic foil to the otherwise brainy Cindy and Libby, like Carl and Sheen are towards Jimmy. But sadly, she was mainly just a background character throughout the series.
  • In fact, name any other kid in Jimmy's class who isn't himself, Cindy, Libby, Carl or Sheen.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • For Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour 3, which was originally supposed to be a Grand Finale for both shows. Who didn't want to see a 3D Dimmsdale and a 2D Retroville, Crocker or the alien Mark Chang in 3D? And better yet, send the Gigglepies to Retroville and the Twonkies to Dimmsdale (we wonder if Timmy has learned from the Gigglepie experience?). This was mainly due to DNA Productions shifting down at the time, so they couldn’t create 3D models of all the Fairly Oddparents characters.
  • The Space Bandits vow to track down Skeet, but in their next appearance, they don't do anything about it.
• Ugly Cute: Brittany for some, others see her as human Cheshire Cat in Girlish Pigtails and having More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Jimmy in "Men At Work". You're supposed to feel sorry for Jimmy because his super-genius mind is being unappreciated and Skeet is picking on him, but in reality what he was doing was a textbook example of Insufferable Genius behavior, particularly using scientific words in a simple fast food joint while talking back to his employer for trivial reasons. And in terms of his work at the register, what Jimmy was doing was illegal under-the-table transactions for a business that needs all transactions monitored by the register for the sake of inventory and taxes. His method is also unable to provide a sales receipt to the customers.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: While the CGI is actually fairly good for the standards of early 2000s cartoons, it hasn't aged all that well. The character designs aren't very optimized for the snappy, cartoony movement that the animators were shooting for, which is especially apparent when the characters' mouths open too wide.
• Vindicated by History: When it first aired, many slammed the show for being too similar to Dexter's Laboratory, and the humor being So Okay, It's Average (just look at some of these reviews that were written when the show was initially aired). However, since being off the air for several years now and a certain infamous fan animation reminding people of the series, people have since rediscovered it and given it a second chance and realized how the show had its own identity. Nowadays, it's often hailed as one of the best Nicktoons ever.
• Watch It for the Meme: Much of the show's popularity stems from the many memes that began following its cancelation.
• The Woobie:
  • Brittany, since Cindy and Libby often brush her off and pick on her when she tries to be nice to them. Sweet, underconfident, innocent, and kind to everyone, Brittany is just that one character you wanna hug when things go wrong for her.
  • Betty in "Vanishing Act".
  • Carl has his moments in woobiness. He's normally nice, but he's usually the first victim of Jimmy's inventions.

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