What is your dream show crossover? ALSO: While I’m not sold on the shows aesthetic aging well, I think a lot of people still love its look, so judge for yourself! AND while I think the Jimmy Timmy specials were great for the network and the shows popularity. The first one, while I think it’s a fun piece of nostalgia, is the only one I really LOVE.
I always found it very wholesome and endearing that Jimmy saw Carl and Sheen As equals and friends first and foremost. Their massive difference in intelligence didn’t really play much into their dynamic as friends. Despite all of his problems Jimmy is always showing to be very humble for somebody with his skill set.
Ethan Taylor what about that one episode with the science fair where they wouldn’t let him be in it cuz they wanted someone else to have a chance to win and he wouldn’t stay away?
@@DarlingDevil4691 To be fair,It was Cindy who wanted him to not do it so she could win. (Even brought a lawyer If I recall) And Jimmy did not do the fair (but he did come to watch), instead his dad brought his invention. (After building It)
It gave me hope that we would have more crossovers of different shows in the future but seeing as that never happened it holds a special place in my heart.
I would have been more than happy if it ran for at least 5 seasons instead of 3 to be honest. Jimmy Neutron (shortest) Fairly Odd Parents (long) Spongebob (very long) Simpsons (overly long)
@@yelsew6907 They aren't gonna do that because Spongebob is still making the network lots of money and ending it right now would of been bad business for them which is why it continued after the 1st movie. If it did end, then they would of probably continued with Rugrats and keep Fairly Oddparents and probably Jimmy Neutron going.
People called this show a Dexter's Lab clone. The key difference they ignore is that Dexter is basically a neurotic mini adult, whereas Jimmy came off as an actual kid, even if he was a genius.
@@RemyKingKen yeah, I believe that was the overall comparison people back then, and even I did in its time when it aired. I really loved when Dexter aired, was bummed when it ended with the movie, and Jimmy just came at the proper time
That and also, what makes them so good is that it's a unique story. Like, Jimmy Neutron had an episode where Carl's ass gets pregnant. You can't name any other show that did that.
Well "3 seasons" hides that it was totaling 61 episodes. Nickelodeon tends to stretch out seasons, and the first season of Jimmy Neutron took a year and a half to fully release because they would release one episode a month. By the time the second season was done, it had been a full two years since the first one. That's why it seems long, because it kind of was, and because time in general seems to stretch much longer when you're younger. Then there were re-runs, specials, commercials, etc.
Shout out to Libby who after the Egyptian field trip liked her hair do so much she kept it for the rest of the show AND got a new outfit. That kind of thing didn’t happen in a kids show.
Right? I was just watching this and thinking, "wow, did it really look _that good?_ I saw it forever ago, so I was expecting the models to look awkward looking at them again, like the original Toy Story."
@Ryan-Rami Ayoub That one almost _looks good_ compared to _ReBoot._ *_ReBoot_* did NOT age well at all. Like, I think the "Technical Goofs" on the original Shrek DVD look better than that. =^p *Came back over a year later to make this edit: First, the person I was replying to mentioned the _Donkey Kong_ TV show. It seems their comment is gone now though. Second, in early 2022 I have only _just_ learned that _ReBoot_ had more than 2 seasons. Above I was specifically referring to the visuals of the early episodes because _that's all I knew existed._ 😅
I never realized it until now but Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl are the tropes for the nerd, the geek, and the dork. the nerd is the brainy know it all, the geek is the media obsessed fanboy, and the dork is the weird awkward kid.
The 2001 movie was a major part of my childhood. I've seen it a million times. I still adore it today. The Kids In America sequence was and still is such a kick-ass scene!
I honestly think the animation still holds up today, really I think it looks great! Its not the high fidelity graphics we're spoiled today but thats the art style of the show and it works. Just like Ed, Edd and Eddy with the shaking outlines, it gives the show its character to its characters. What do y'all think?
It's rather simplistic and takes some getting used too compared to what we see today. But it does have it's charm and I definitely could see myself rewatching it in the future. I had some doubts about Jimmy Neutron growing up but I'm glad to be able to look back at it now and see it honestly was a great show.
I agree, its plenty bearable compared to a show like Mr. Meaty or some other gross CGI moments like on Flapjack. And I love Flapjack, but the effects were pretty jarring sometimes to the extent of pulling me away from jokes. I know the point was to emphasize the punch, but sometimes less is more
I've rewatched the show about two years ago and while the characters are still super fun, the overall aesthetic just looks very outdated. And I don't think it's the animation per se (animation = how the characters move), just the backgrounds. Obviously, everything is covered in a low-resolution paintjob, but the backgrounds stand out the most as they just look barren and dull. It's still a show I love intimately and quote on every occasion (mostly Sheen and Carl), but I couldn't see my 7 year old Nephew watching it and not minding the looks...
Earlier Season: *Jimmy goes to the future and has a meltdown after finding out he's married to Cindy.* Final Season: *Jimmy asks Cindy to go with him to the dance.* Me: Aww. He's all grown up.
The animation still looks good, but that probably has more to do with the fact there isn't some new version of the show to compare it to. Like with toy story they updated the look of the movies each time a new one came out and when you compare it to the old one it's drastically different.
Idk I tried to rewatch the episode where jimmy splits into all his personalities recently and I had to shut it off from the graphics. I felt like I was watching an old GameCube cutscene as a show
Sorry to break your bubble, I HATED Jimmy Neutron and he felt like the popular kid who can do no evil or wrong to anyone even teachers. Animation was weird to me and made fun of stereotypes. What I would compared this to something I like is Kids Next Door
Jimmy Neutron is one of the few shows where the entire cast was great. Jimmy, Sheen, Carl, Cindy, Libby, and Hugh were all funny, likeable, and even somewhat complex
Jimmy and Cindy ended up together but yeah. There was suppose to be a season 4 and Nick and Betty would have joined Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby on adventures.
@@CrashJakFan1994 I think it’s not a true ending. It could work as a stand alone special in the middle of the season. It’s one of these “shit, we’re getting cancelled let’s make an ending” and not a natural ending that was intended.
@@adiabd1 That’s the one-hour special where King Goobot organizes a league of villains (consisting of Professor Calamitous, Beautiful Gorgeous, the Junkman, Baby Eddie, Grandma Taters, Eustace, and the alien trio) in order to take down Jimmy once and for all. It aired out of order (something Nickelodeon always did), but that’s the finale of the show.
Sorry to break your bubble, I HATED Jimmy Neutron and he felt like the popular kid who can do no evil or wrong to anyone even teachers. Animation was weird to me and made fun of stereotypes. What I would compared this to something I like is Kids Next Door
it always bummed me out how short the jimmy neutron series was but after seeing what happened to shows like the simpsons, spongebob, fairly odd parents and countless others, I realize its was for the best. it lived as a great cartoon and died as a great cartoon.
It still could have used at least five seasons. There's a big gap between how short Jimmy Neutron was and shows like the Simpsons. It could have afforded to be just a couple seasons longer.
Believe it or not, Jimmy's story structure is actually pretty similar to how modern cartoons are telling their stories. It starts off with the wacky adventures of Season 1, but as the show goes on, characters begin to build relationships and threats/villains become bigger and more memorable. There was even an episode where all of Jimmy's enemies form the League of Villains.
@@endertobias1908 Actually, that's a pretty solid point. "The Weekenders," "Rocket Power," and "That's So Raven," amongst others, had really ace theme songs as well. It was this beautiful last age of theme songs, before shows started dropping them off the face of the Earth.
They should re-animate only the first and maybe second season, same models and everything, but better rendering quality. He said the show looked like the movie, but the show never did, the first season does look "bad" but 2 & 3 and the Jimmy & Timmy Power Hour look good even for today. Maybe the last Jimmy & Timmy looked almost like the movie, but only that one.
My friends and I one time where all hanging out and rewatching the movie. My dad walks by and is like "Oh jimmy neutron!!" And I was shocked that he remembered the name and he was like "Nah I loved this show when you guys were kids"
The best kind of shows and movies are the ones that kids adore while parents can still hang around and enjoy. "Ah yes, I see you're watching Spongebob." "Oh! Is that Toy Story!?" We've all heard that accepting attitude at some point when watching these.
I always wanna give this show props for the background jokes and visual comedy they did, it really showed me that despite their limits with the tech and animation, they didn’t limit themselves and had passion for what they were making. Cuz they did not have to reach for those extra gags but they did.
What's he mean though that the animation didnt age well? I watch it and it looks fine, is it a subjective thing? What am I supposed to be seeing? Weird lines or something?
It's stiff and awkward at times, and the characters move unnaturally. However, I think part of the aesthetic appeal IS the jankiness of it all. So yeah, the animation isn't good by today's standards, but the aesthetic still works to this day.
I don't get why people say it "hasn't aged well" None of the characters are ugly to look at, they all convey their emotions efficiently, and their movement, while not perfect, doesn't look robotic, like, for instance, the humans on Toy Story 1. And the fact that there are shows with better CGI now doesn't mean that Jimmy Neutron "aged badly" The only thing that makes me think that it aged badly, is the fact there are not that many people in Retroville, you have like five or six bystanders and that's it, but that's not the animation.
For me I wouldn't say it aged badly, but it does show its age a bit too the point something feels just a tiny bit off. A lot of that comes from the darker, more neutral time I think, it makes the animation itself stand out more than when everything is super bright and cherry looking.
I will disagree on one thing: Unlike most early CG, Jimmy Neutron is among the most pleasant to look at. Theres not as much Uncanny Valley going on because despite moving and looking like humans, there's a VERY cartoon way of how they animate from point a to b.
@@jetfan925 Code Lyoko...not as much, but I'd say it gets away with it by being a virtual world when they use it. It gets the same pass that Reboot would.
@@jetfan925 re watched the whole show in q binge a couple months back, i think the CG sections hold up rather well, and it improves significantly each season. The 2d animated sections are actually the rough part ironically, but still its never outright terrible and also improves each season, just less so.
Man, I remember flipping over to Nick in 2005 and being completely blown away because "Wait, is that Timmy Turner in Jimmy's lab?" soon as I said it, all of my siblings came flooding into the living room to see what I was talking about. Man, I love this show.
No one needed a spin off, character work because they share screen time, doesn't matter if it was the funny, the weird, sassy or whatever, it wouldn't have worked because they would have run out of clever jokes to make with said character very quickly, because now it wouldn't be a joke here and there, it would be entire episodes about him/her. I think spinoffs or "just" a change of main character works when the original lead was the least interesting.
Stop watching the same videos as me Digby! I unsubscribed over a year ago. Okay I just checked your DA and you did a good breaded vulture character. You're alright. I'll resubscribe and maybe try and find your dumb ass on telegram or Discord idk. Have fun, you dork.
my entire family would sit down and watch this show in the 2000s because it was such a perfect mixture of physical/simple humor and humor for adults. My little sister refuses to watch it tho because it's ugly lol
haha, absolutely the same. I used to watch JN on Nickelodeon in the childhood, but now (the Russian) Nick only has a spoiled Sponge Bob and something else.
that sounds like a cool backpack. seriously. crazy thing is they prolly went home and watched it to. i know this sounds odd but it always feels good to remember the old stuff i used to watch when the summer time starts to come around.
Sometimes people react differently like "bullying" because they envy your confidence of showing your favorite interest, just embrace your past as long as it's not harmful to yourself 👍🏽
To me what else made him different than other cartoon geniuses. Was that he was do mischievous and not be obsessed school. Having him be a mix of Albert einstein and Bart Simpson was genius
Jimmy /Timmy Power Hour was fucking mind blowing when i was a kid, same with Nicktoons Unite on GameCube. I can still remember opening that game on Christmas morning and jesus christ dude i was playing for hours and hours on end. I had a great childhood :'(
Thanks for the positive review. I worked on this show and the movie at DNA and it was a magical time. almost 20 years??! JEEZ has it been that long? And we were up for the first Animated Oscar in a billion years so not too shabby for some plucky geeks "working out of a garage".
Wow you and the rest of the crew were my childhood heroes! Thanks so much for your hard work on this great show. It’s one of the reasons why I want to be an animator
Thank you so much for creating one of my favorite Nickelodeon shows of my childhood. I haven't watched this show for a long time and remembered about it only recently. I would like to ask a few questions if you don't mind. Were the 4th and 5th seasons planned? If they were, where the story would go after the 3rd season? And the last one, is there any chance that Jimmy Neutron will be reborn? I hope this show will continue.
@@ivan_egorov_ Towards the end of Season 2 we were paid a visit by a rep from Nickelodeon who was one of those slick Hollywood types that told us how great we all were and then proceeded to talk about how the studio had "notes" about the show's direction. They wanted to take Jimmy and the gang and put them in one of J's rockets and tour the galaxy solving mysteries and getting into hijinx. "And we'll age them up and there'll be alien ghosts and special guests!" Our collective jaws hit the floor. What was this guy doing to our beloved Jimmy? Turns out it was Rob Paulsen, aka Carl Wheezer, in disguise. whew! There was talk of extending the series but Nickelodeon didn't own JN outright like SpongeBob. The DNA owners wanted to do more independent projects, Nick wanted JN. So Nick waited til it made syndication and cut us loose, as I understand it. We got to make The Ant Bully and pitched another but it didn't go anywhere. It was a magical time but we didn't get to become the next Pixar. Wouldn't trade it for anything. A reboot? Never say never.
I think the animation style holds up. I mean, the art of the show is designed to be a fusion of modern and retro midcentury styles, so the streamlined, smooth, simple animation kind of just adds another layer to that retro-fusion vibe and lends the show some additional character. It's nostalgia on nostalgia.
The CGI may have looked weird but it was animated very well. It was fluid and seemless. Also I am kinda surprised it was so short. As a kid I thought it was very long
I could’ve sworn that was at least 2-3 years after that, i remember being so hyped on that and watching it right when it came out. Didn’t realize i was only 6 then tho lol
Fun fact: Planet Sheen was originally supposed to be a Jimmy Neutron reboot (titled "The New Adventures of Jimmy Neutron") but the new executive producer of Nick hated that idea and wanted a spin-off completely about Sheen.
yeah....and those didn't age well either. it's a spectrum. other shows have failed at this as well. Jimmy Neutron isn't terrible, but, it's what we're talkin about here. so yeah, it didn't age well.
I’m only just now realizing that the shows of my childhood - the same ones my mom used to complain about being annoying - are actually masterclasses in several areas.
@@MrMalicious5 I only felt that way about the first movie, but his voice pitch got lower when the show started. But in the movie it was way to high pitched, at least from my memory.
Jimmy may have been a genius but he was never smart enough to think ahead about the hundreds of horrible possibilities that could be caused by his inventions, such as sentient pants.
You know, Jimmy? While I can't say that you have never been responsible for helping out the town you also created or influenced the vast majority of major threats in the first place. The Yolkians only came to Retroville because of your signal. The same goes for Meldar Prime. The Nanobots, Shirley, and Evil Jimmy were all your creations. You caused the ice age. You created the sentient pants. You made the sick patch, you turned your teacher into a fifty-foot monstrosity, and you injured Santa Claus, almost ruining Christmas. The vast majority of this town's problems are caused, at least indirectly, by you. And you know what? In all honesty, that would be fine. You are very intelligent and you almost always do fix it, and in the end it's extremely unlikely that you won't end up benefiting the world a lot more than you will damage it. My children and my children's children are probably going to live in a world free of war and disease, and I'll have you to thank for that. But fuck, dude. You can't keep using your intelligence as a way to escape your humanity. I didn't ask you to say salt because I thought a customer would seriously care or because I was insecure, I did it because it made you look weird and I was trying to get you to adopt behaviors and use language that makes you come across like a normal fucking person. Everyone knows what sodium chloride is, but calling it that outside the context of a chemistry class makes you seem like someone who defines themselves solely by their intelligence, which is undeniably who you are. I know you think that there's nothing wrong with being that person, dude, but there is. Taking your IQ and deciding that it elevates you above the rest of the planet is an awful decision that will lead to a life filled with misery and alienation. It will color every interaction you ever have and make it impossible to have real friends or relationships. I’m not saying that you won’t have any. But they won’t hold any meaning to you, and they certainly won’t bring you any happiness. Sure, you’ll probably manage a pity-fuck or two your sophomore year of college after giving some drunk sorority girl a jetpack ride, but it’ll bring you nothing but emptiness. Maybe you’ll eventually abandon women altogether and decide that “your true love is science”, secretly seething inside whenever you see a guy like Nick or Bolbi getting married to someone he really cares about, who cares about him. You’ll say I’m exaggerating, but dude, look at how you treat the people in your life now. Carl and Sheen, quirks aside, really do see you as a friend, and they’d go through some serious shit if it meant helping you out of a scrape. Can you say that you see them the same way, as anything other than the only two kids your age willing to put up with your ridiculous ego? What have you ever done for them? Inventing doesn’t count, dude. Even when you build something for someone else, you’re really doing that for YOU. Every llama-bot or Ultra Lord simulator is only created with the expectation of further praise. They’re not friends to you. They’re worshippers. And your parents? Lord, the way you treat them. You think I’ve got folks that care about me the way your mom and dad do, working in a shithole like this? I wish. Everyday your dad watches you scarf down the dinner your mom slaved to make for you and prays that you might think about spending some fucking time with him instead of disappearing into your lab to do god knows what. They watch you toy with dimensional-warping science that they can’t wrap their minds around on a daily basis and you laugh at them for worrying about you. Have you ever played catch with your dad, Jimmy? Ever asked him how his day at work was? You don't have a clue what I'd do for a dad like yours in my life, dude. What about your mom? Why not invent something that’ll make her life easier instead of gallivanting around the Bermuda Triangle to play with fucking seaweed? We both know the reason. She would thank you for it, she’d be happy to imagine a version of you that thought for an instant about the needs of another person, but she wouldn’t call you the greatest thing in the universe for it like your friends do. And in Neutron’s world, whoever doesn’t do that might as well not exist. Ignore me if you want. Keep going the way you’re going, and I’ll see you in thirty years, lugging around sixteen Nobel prizes in your pockets as if they could substitute for a lifetime’s worth of human love and interaction. You’ve always mocked Calamitus for his inability to finish what he started, but the man had a wife and a daughter that tolerated him enough to want to stay in his life through everything, and at the rate you’re going I’d be amazed if you could manage the same with Goddard. The rest of Retroville, Jimmy, they’ll never be able to do what you do. They’ll never be able to invent rockets or solve cold fusion or add three numbers together. But they will find genuine friendship and love, and they will call it salt, and despite everything you accomplish you’ll only be remembered as nothing more than the man who wouldn’t. Who couldn’t, perhaps. Get out, dude. You’re fired. Big McThankies from McSpanky's.
Yep, whether it be continuing it past it’s prime (like Spongebob and Fairly Oddparents) or making a wack spin-off out of it (like Planet Sheen or Legend of Korra).
Same for my once beloved Cartoon Network, with the abominous PPG and Teen Titans reboots, that I can't even look without getting my eyes and brain burned.
@@craftymasterproductions4218 don’t drag the Legend of Korra along with Planet Sheen, atleast that show had the potential to be just as good as its predecessor if wasn’t rushed. Meanwhile Planet Sheen even though I enjoyed it during its airing... showed Zero potential of being good, their was no saving it.
Jimmy Neutron remains one of my favourite shows of all time. The best part is when the character’s clothing would clip through their arms because of the weird way they animated it.
I rewatched this show on paramount + this week and maybe bc I was high but I had no issues with the animation of this show. I remember liking the show alot as a kid and it still held up...
Honestly Jimmy Neutron aged fine for me since it's exactly how I remember it and I loved it in grade school. If it were launched today that may be a different story, but it just is what it is now
Omg I can’t believe croissant became a meme before Sodium Chloride or that time that Jimmy switched heads/bodies with a hamster... we live in a society, dude
@@theluiginoidperson1097 DUDE FR The hamster episode is that, like, lucid fever dream that you know is a dream but you just cannot wake yourself up from I s2g
I just appreciate that Jimmy Neutron created a unique art style that was explicitly designed to work in 3D. They didn't try to imitate the look of hand-drawn animation using CG. As much as I like the Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour TV movies, I think they do a good job of illustrating how hand-drawn characters are difficult to adapt for 3D CG.
Shame The Ant Bully led toe shutdown of the DNA studio, which then led to the end of this show. It was supposed to have a fourth season too that would've been darker than the other seasons (they also planned to make Jimmy and Cindy an official couple) but alas, it was scrapped
I just now realized that they changed Sheen's name in the German version, where he's called Max. I only knew him by that name and when you said Sheen I was like "Who?" No idea why they did it though. I just looked it up and they actually changed other names too, but not really translated them to German, they just changed them into other English names, Goddard is called Robbie, Jimmy's dad is called Frank. I don't know, it's kinda weird.
Yeah I lived in the Netherlands for a time as a kid and in Spongebob they changed Gary’s name to Gerrit (which was hilarious for us b/c that’s my little bro’s name lol). They probably did that because Gary is a very uncommon name there and same with the Jimmy Neutron characters in Germany.
I did a class report on Jimmy Neutron in 8th grade, around 2001, and went to DNA Studios in Dallas where JN was created. got to spend a half day there seeing it all, and it was as awesome as it sounds. great video!
Millennials find old CG jarring. As a Gen-Xer, I can appreciate the CG for what it is just like I can appreciate old 2d animation. I don't expect more of it than what it was.
I remember watching it as a show, hearing sometime much later that it started as a movie and, eventually Nick or somebody was playing the movie some evening when they had nothing else better to show.
And yet this got a pretty neat crossover with Fairly Odd Parents. God I miss when cartoon shows used to do good crossovers. I really can't count OK K.O. Crossover Nexus, because most crossovers that started off for the first time usualy lasted over 40 minutes. Plus when crossovers were done, they usualy had excitment and pretty neat ideas. And you didnt expect them either, because usually they were little teasers and suprises for the audiance, instead of them being showed in our faces. And they made sense in some way as well.
Attack Of The Twonkies & that long ass episode of when they went to space to play that space game show were my favorites. You to watch them everyday after school back in elementary. My favorite cartoon show of all time, I miss it 😔
The other night I randomly put on the Jimmy Neutron movie just as background noise and I ended up laughing my ass off at certain parts 😂 the comedy still holds 😂
Man, I loved the point you made about how well the characters balanced each other out. Even though it makes sense, I never really realized how Carl also works as a way to ground both the other characters and that his lack of ambition and realism (in some ways) *cough, cough,* (he’ll never get Jimmy’s mom though) really helps balance out Sheen’s chaotic nature as well as Jimmy’s nature for TOO MUCH ambition. Also I love that you Intro’d the video talking about nostalgia. I thinks it’s important to acknowledge how much that can affect so many peoples opinions on shows like these. It can cloud there judgement and be the basis of why they like the show at all. They usually end up not realizing how good/bad the actual show is because of this. + I think acknowledging nostalgia helps your argument of why Jimmy Neutron is a good show. You validate your opinion by pre-debunking the idea that nostalgia is why it is good and that your opinion is based on the content not your memory of the content. The fact that you were able to sat all that without directly mentioning that it influences others is just... mhm! It lets the viewer figure out what you’re doing giving them some sense of satisfaction and allows you to give a cleaner more interesting intro. Great video all around, think I might become a patron. I’m wondering, have you been invited to be on Nebula? It seems like you and Karsten Runquist would fit great there.
Yo i can literally remember asking my mom to cook my favorite dinner when that fairly odd parents and Jimmy neutron mashup happened definitely the superbowl of my childhood 😂
Watching Jimmy neutron as a 5/6 year old felt like there where1000th of episodes. Every episode felt new or different and i always forget how fun those episodes where, especially the Timmy and Jimmy crossover!
the moment when your an adult and you still know the entire theme song from jimmy neutron by heart (also the remembering thing i've had for a while already.. in my own case i had it with pirate planet.. i remembered it completely different than when i watched it again and i am not sure if what i do remember was all a fever dream or if it was some other movie that i remember but still)
That point at the end is kinda null and void, considering the reason the show ended was because the studio went bankrupt after their theatrical film, The Ant Bully, bombed. There was a Season 4 in the works, where "Evil Jimmy" was going to be a more involved character, but their film bombing ended everything. It wasn't out of their own decision.
Sadly. Season 4 would it been even better. The characters would mature more and there was even a planned episode in which Cindy, Libby and Betty Quinlan would be stuck in Neutron's lab and they would have to face their differences relating to Jimmy and Betty's standing.
What is your dream show crossover?
ALSO: While I’m not sold on the shows aesthetic aging well, I think a lot of people still love its look, so judge for yourself! AND while I think the Jimmy Timmy specials were great for the network and the shows popularity. The first one, while I think it’s a fun piece of nostalgia, is the only one I really LOVE.
What did you think of regular show ?
Kim Possible and Danny Phantom
I thought there was only one so now I have to track the others down lol
Invader Zim and Futurama
The walking dead and keeping up with the Kardashians
It's kind of strange how I haven't seen an episode of Jimmy Neutron in 15 years yet instantly recognize most of the clips in this video.
wow really?! Now THAT'S some staying power.
SAME
Me too
You still worthy
repetition
I always found it very wholesome and endearing that Jimmy saw Carl and Sheen As equals and friends first and foremost. Their massive difference in intelligence didn’t really play much into their dynamic as friends. Despite all of his problems Jimmy is always showing to be very humble for somebody with his skill set.
Ethan Taylor YES EXACTLY!!!! Cut this man some slack!!
@@a.redwood "No dude it's salt"
I love in the movie where Carl draws a frog and shows Jimmy. And jimmy says “aw that’s really nice, Carl.” It comes off so sweet.
Ethan Taylor what about that one episode with the science fair where they wouldn’t let him be in it cuz they wanted someone else to have a chance to win and he wouldn’t stay away?
@@DarlingDevil4691 To be fair,It was Cindy who wanted him to not do it so she could win. (Even brought a lawyer If I recall) And Jimmy did not do the fair (but he did come to watch), instead his dad brought his invention. (After building It)
Jimmy Timmy Power Hour was the Infinity War of my childhood
Love that to peices
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Yeah, I got don’t get why people hate on cartoon crossovers when there’s Jimmy Timmy power hour. Basically one of the best crossovers
It gave me hope that we would have more crossovers of different shows in the future but seeing as that never happened it holds a special place in my heart.
"It didnt overstay its welcome"
*glances at Fairly Oddparents*
*STARES* at the Simpsons
VoteCthulhu - *Glares at Spongebob*
I would have been more than happy if it ran for at least 5 seasons instead of 3 to be honest.
Jimmy Neutron (shortest)
Fairly Odd Parents (long)
Spongebob (very long)
Simpsons (overly long)
Channel chasers will always be the finale
@@violenceteacher6669 nick needs to put spongebob out of its misery
@@yelsew6907 They aren't gonna do that because Spongebob is still making the network lots of money and ending it right now would of been bad business for them which is why it continued after the 1st movie. If it did end, then they would of probably continued with Rugrats and keep Fairly Oddparents and probably Jimmy Neutron going.
People called this show a Dexter's Lab clone.
The key difference they ignore is that Dexter is basically a neurotic mini adult, whereas Jimmy came off as an actual kid, even if he was a genius.
Dexter also didn't have any friends, and Jimmy didn't have a sister 😂
@@Hegottalent_ they meant more so in a premisses standpoint than the actual characters in the story.
I never thought these shows were similar as a person who grew up watching both.
@@RemyKingKen yeah, I believe that was the overall comparison people back then, and even I did in its time when it aired. I really loved when Dexter aired, was bummed when it ended with the movie, and Jimmy just came at the proper time
Dexter’s lab is meant to be more teenage oriented.
"Jimmy Neutron" and "Shrek" proves that it doesn't matter if it is old, as long as the story is great.
That and also, what makes them so good is that it's a unique story. Like, Jimmy Neutron had an episode where Carl's ass gets pregnant. You can't name any other show that did that.
Claire Anette South Park could do it
@@DarkVileScream True, they actually got pretty close to that idea with the pilot episode. Can't believe I didn't think of that at first.
@@TheClaireAnnette wtf.
@@DarkVileScream I think they meant more so children's television. Adult cartoons do what ever they want most of the time.
am i the only one that’s completely mind blown jimmy neutron was only 3 seasons long? seemed like so much more when i was a kid
Same
You're not the only one, it felt like it lasted a decade.
I think biggest reason Is because it has lots of specials and movies
Reruns my guy
Well "3 seasons" hides that it was totaling 61 episodes. Nickelodeon tends to stretch out seasons, and the first season of Jimmy Neutron took a year and a half to fully release because they would release one episode a month. By the time the second season was done, it had been a full two years since the first one. That's why it seems long, because it kind of was, and because time in general seems to stretch much longer when you're younger. Then there were re-runs, specials, commercials, etc.
The show displayed the difference between a nerd (Jimmy), a geek (Sheen), and a dork (Carl), which often gets interchanged.
very good
Except Jimmy has called Carl a nerd
@@carsfan1995 so?
facts
Woah
Shout out to Libby who after the Egyptian field trip liked her hair do so much she kept it for the rest of the show AND got a new outfit. That kind of thing didn’t happen in a kids show.
I legit didn't remember that she used to look different
apparently after the egyptian special the team somehow LOST her original model, so they had no choice but to use her new one
@@lynchie2073 to be fair, it does look hella better than the old one. The fact that they lost is fucking lol though.
@@dikathemas6713 lmao “fucking lol”
@@dikathemas6713 tbh i like her old style with the bun better
Imo, the CGI aged a LOT better than most 'early CGI shows'.
Right? I was just watching this and thinking, "wow, did it really look _that good?_ I saw it forever ago, so I was expecting the models to look awkward looking at them again, like the original Toy Story."
Yeah! They were stylized and meant to look like cartoons, so they don't age as tech advances. They look great in their universe.
@Ryan-Rami Ayoub That one almost _looks good_ compared to _ReBoot._
*_ReBoot_* did NOT age well at all. Like, I think the "Technical Goofs" on the original Shrek DVD look better than that. =^p
*Came back over a year later to make this edit: First, the person I was replying to mentioned the _Donkey Kong_ TV show. It seems their comment is gone now though.
Second, in early 2022 I have only _just_ learned that _ReBoot_ had more than 2 seasons. Above I was specifically referring to the visuals of the early episodes because _that's all I knew existed._ 😅
@@ChaosRayZero I think the worst part is reboot seems genuinely good in every regard except the animation which makes it unbearable. It's sad really.
Remember reboot, that cgi ated like milk.
I never realized it until now but Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl are the tropes for the nerd, the geek, and the dork. the nerd is the brainy know it all, the geek is the media obsessed fanboy, and the dork is the weird awkward kid.
Yo that makes sense
Is it possible to be all 3
@@audiowithdrawl5948 that one's called the sigma male
you got the geek and dork mixed up
@@thomasgamer4000 no, they’re right…
Jimmy: Nerd
Sheen: Geek
Carl: Dork
Excellent ~~~ (in the tone of Sheen
Perfectly balanced
Yee this was a pretty accurate description
Damn, this show really proved there's a difference between the three words
The holy trinity
The 2001 movie was a major part of my childhood. I've seen it a million times. I still adore it today. The Kids In America sequence was and still is such a kick-ass scene!
Yep
I remember owning a dvd of the movie when I was younger.
@@craftymasterproductions4218 Mine was VHS!
It was an epic movie
@@ThatKidFresh777 did your VHS have the Charlottes web preview at the beginning?
I honestly think the animation still holds up today, really I think it looks great! Its not the high fidelity graphics we're spoiled today but thats the art style of the show and it works. Just like Ed, Edd and Eddy with the shaking outlines, it gives the show its character to its characters. What do y'all think?
I personally prefer this animation style over the modernized style today.
And thus, we found the daily troll. ^
It's rather simplistic and takes some getting used too compared to what we see today. But it does have it's charm and I definitely could see myself rewatching it in the future. I had some doubts about Jimmy Neutron growing up but I'm glad to be able to look back at it now and see it honestly was a great show.
I agree, its plenty bearable compared to a show like Mr. Meaty or some other gross CGI moments like on Flapjack. And I love Flapjack, but the effects were pretty jarring sometimes to the extent of pulling me away from jokes. I know the point was to emphasize the punch, but sometimes less is more
I've rewatched the show about two years ago and while the characters are still super fun, the overall aesthetic just looks very outdated. And I don't think it's the animation per se (animation = how the characters move), just the backgrounds. Obviously, everything is covered in a low-resolution paintjob, but the backgrounds stand out the most as they just look barren and dull.
It's still a show I love intimately and quote on every occasion (mostly Sheen and Carl), but I couldn't see my 7 year old Nephew watching it and not minding the looks...
Earlier Season: *Jimmy goes to the future and has a meltdown after finding out he's married to Cindy.*
Final Season: *Jimmy asks Cindy to go with him to the dance.*
Me: Aww. He's all grown up.
That's deep bro
Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.
Know that feel. The girl who bullied me in primary school ended up being my girlfriend in high-school.
Birdie McChicken lol 😂 really? Aww y’all are really Jimmy and Cindy 💕
@@birdiemcchicken1471 mobbing still isn't ok even if it's a secret crush
The animation still looks good, but that probably has more to do with the fact there isn't some new version of the show to compare it to. Like with toy story they updated the look of the movies each time a new one came out and when you compare it to the old one it's drastically different.
Yes
Well, Planet Sheen was a thing, but thats also 10 years old by now apparently n rly only carried over 1 character...
Idk I tried to rewatch the episode where jimmy splits into all his personalities recently and I had to shut it off from the graphics. I felt like I was watching an old GameCube cutscene as a show
I'm used to watching Donkey Kong Country the cartoon and compared to that this cg is very impressive
Yeah, it’s not like you could compare it with other animated shows or movies... Of course...
Someone: Jimmy Neutron Sucks
Me: Looks like you're going to the Shadow Realm, Jimbo.
Sorry to break your bubble, I HATED Jimmy Neutron and he felt like the popular kid who can do no evil or wrong to anyone even teachers. Animation was weird to me and made fun of stereotypes. What I would compared this to something I like is Kids Next Door
@Max Ramos Looks like you’re going to the Shadow Realm, Jimbo.
@@MaxRamos8 the animation made fun of stereotypes? where are you getting this from?
@@MaxRamos8 Looks like you are going to the shadow realm, Jimbo.
Is that a Trollhunters reference
Jimmy Neutron is one of the few shows where the entire cast was great. Jimmy, Sheen, Carl, Cindy, Libby, and Hugh were all funny, likeable, and even somewhat complex
The saddest part of this show was that it didn't get a proper ending
Jimmy and Cindy ended up together but yeah. There was suppose to be a season 4 and Nick and Betty would have joined Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby on adventures.
Isn't "League of Villains" the ending, though?
@@CrashJakFan1994 I think it’s not a true ending. It could work as a stand alone special in the middle of the season. It’s one of these “shit, we’re getting cancelled let’s make an ending” and not a natural ending that was intended.
@@CrashJakFan1994 wait what league of villains? I don't remember, who are the villains? Robots made by Jimmy, or aliens? Or sth else?
@@adiabd1 That’s the one-hour special where King Goobot organizes a league of villains (consisting of Professor Calamitous, Beautiful Gorgeous, the Junkman, Baby Eddie, Grandma Taters, Eustace, and the alien trio) in order to take down Jimmy once and for all. It aired out of order (something Nickelodeon always did), but that’s the finale of the show.
First Avatar and now Jimmy Neutron, covering all the awesome Nick shows I see. Maybe we can do Danny Phantom next?
PLEASE
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh real monsters
Anyone lowkey looking for El Tigre?
I still remember the Box Ghost til today.
Sorry to break your bubble, I HATED Jimmy Neutron and he felt like the popular kid who can do no evil or wrong to anyone even teachers. Animation was weird to me and made fun of stereotypes. What I would compared this to something I like is Kids Next Door
it always bummed me out how short the jimmy neutron series was but after seeing what happened to shows like
the simpsons, spongebob, fairly odd parents and countless others, I realize its was for the best.
it lived as a great cartoon and died as a great cartoon.
Lightningfarron XP it’s like they say, you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain
SpongeBob now isn't a great show but i still get entertained for some reasons.
Yeah I agree. I wish it had a more proper ending though.
It still could have used at least five seasons. There's a big gap between how short Jimmy Neutron was and shows like the Simpsons. It could have afforded to be just a couple seasons longer.
@@katiecat9353 Yeah, Nickelodeon doesn't handle shows that last longer than 3 seasons all that well
Believe it or not, Jimmy's story structure is actually pretty similar to how modern cartoons are telling their stories. It starts off with the wacky adventures of Season 1, but as the show goes on, characters begin to build relationships and threats/villains become bigger and more memorable. There was even an episode where all of Jimmy's enemies form the League of Villains.
Nick kinda did that alot. Spongebob, Fairly Oddparents, Avatar, Danny Phantom, El Tigre, Teenage Robot, Zim; they all did it
So is no one gonna talk about how awesome was the theme song of the tv show? Fr
2000's cartoons theme songs were thr absolute best and definently shaped my taste in music
They really didn’t have to go that hard in the theme song
Its my alarm tone. 😎
@@endertobias1908 Actually, that's a pretty solid point. "The Weekenders," "Rocket Power," and "That's So Raven," amongst others, had really ace theme songs as well.
It was this beautiful last age of theme songs, before shows started dropping them off the face of the Earth.
Honestly, I can’t imagine JN being animated in any other style. Yeah, there is better animation now, but that style kind of made it what it is.
I thought that all the Jimmy Neutron characters looked fine in the crossover. The same cannot be said of the characters from the Odd Parents
They should re-animate only the first and maybe second season, same models and everything, but better rendering quality. He said the show looked like the movie, but the show never did, the first season does look "bad" but 2 & 3 and the Jimmy & Timmy Power Hour look good even for today. Maybe the last Jimmy & Timmy looked almost like the movie, but only that one.
Jimmy neutron would have been better off using 2D animation. 2D is timeless, CGi ages like milk.
@@FunBoysGaming the characters looked like shit in 2d
Carl was ahead of his time. I see rainbows and llamas everywhere now
my wife literally has a shirt with llamas and rainbows
Ah, the joys of drugs, lol. Jk
Whenever my Dad or I see the word llama we're like, "Llama llama llama" cause of Carl lol.
My friends and I one time where all hanging out and rewatching the movie. My dad walks by and is like "Oh jimmy neutron!!" And I was shocked that he remembered the name and he was like "Nah I loved this show when you guys were kids"
He had good taste.
The best kind of shows and movies are the ones that kids adore while parents can still hang around and enjoy.
"Ah yes, I see you're watching Spongebob."
"Oh! Is that Toy Story!?"
We've all heard that accepting attitude at some point when watching these.
That's a special moment.
@@ΒίκτωρΚιρόσκα for me and my dad it was wallace and gromit
A lot of animated movies that turn into shows usually suck, but Jimmy Neutrons show actually stands extremely well on its own.
I always wanna give this show props for the background jokes and visual comedy they did, it really showed me that despite their limits with the tech and animation, they didn’t limit themselves and had passion for what they were making. Cuz they did not have to reach for those extra gags but they did.
I mean, even though the animation didn’t totally age well, I still like the aesthetic and think it fits and still works really well.
Well, at least most of the characters didn't fall into the uncanny valley...
What's he mean though that the animation didnt age well? I watch it and it looks fine, is it a subjective thing? What am I supposed to be seeing? Weird lines or something?
It's stiff and awkward at times, and the characters move unnaturally. However, I think part of the aesthetic appeal IS the jankiness of it all. So yeah, the animation isn't good by today's standards, but the aesthetic still works to this day.
Right, its a nostalgia time-capsule that works with the universe they created. It's almost perfect.
It's like how Jimmy's mom is dressed, it has that kind of 50's "look of the future" vibe going for it
I would disagree that it hasnt aged well. It has aged some but not in the "terrible omg i cant look at it without puking" way.
I would watch this rather than the last 5 seasons of Fairy Oddparents.
Jesus Christ.
I don't get why people say it "hasn't aged well" None of the characters are ugly to look at, they all convey their emotions efficiently, and their movement, while not perfect, doesn't look robotic, like, for instance, the humans on Toy Story 1. And the fact that there are shows with better CGI now doesn't mean that Jimmy Neutron "aged badly"
The only thing that makes me think that it aged badly, is the fact there are not that many people in Retroville, you have like five or six bystanders and that's it, but that's not the animation.
@@nightshrine4257 ever since the dog came in it has been stupid.
I think the SHOW aged very well, I don’t think the 3D animation did though. But that’s just my opinion! Yours is totally valid as well!
For me I wouldn't say it aged badly, but it does show its age a bit too the point something feels just a tiny bit off. A lot of that comes from the darker, more neutral time I think, it makes the animation itself stand out more than when everything is super bright and cherry looking.
I will disagree on one thing: Unlike most early CG, Jimmy Neutron is among the most pleasant to look at.
Theres not as much Uncanny Valley going on because despite moving and looking like humans, there's a VERY cartoon way of how they animate from point a to b.
What about Code Lyoko?
@@jetfan925 Code Lyoko...not as much, but I'd say it gets away with it by being a virtual world when they use it. It gets the same pass that Reboot would.
@@jetfan925 re watched the whole show in q binge a couple months back, i think the CG sections hold up rather well, and it improves significantly each season. The 2d animated sections are actually the rough part ironically, but still its never outright terrible and also improves each season, just less so.
Yes! Having them be highly stylized helped it age. It looks just like it's supposed to.
True and if you've seen the pilot you noticed that they focused on making the facial expressions more expressive with the limited tech
Man, I remember flipping over to Nick in 2005 and being completely blown away because "Wait, is that Timmy Turner in Jimmy's lab?"
soon as I said it, all of my siblings came flooding into the living room to see what I was talking about. Man, I love this show.
Jimmy: Neutron
Sheen: Proton
Carl: Electron
Audience : Atom ....
Normie: This show sucks.
Us: Looks like you can't handle the Neutron style.
Later Nicky
Normie: This show sucks.
Me: Shut up and eat my quesaunt
I like Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius(movie)
Ok furry
Later Nickeroama
Hugh Neutron should've gotten the spin-off, not Sheen, just sayin'
Jimmy was his son, so how would that have worked.
Yes, Hugh was the oddball draw of the show.
@@blackguyofthesouth2161 divorce, or a job with the CIA. Get creative. We could still have some Jimmy cameos
@@Flipindabird23 Or a Hugh Prequel
No one needed a spin off, character work because they share screen time, doesn't matter if it was the funny, the weird, sassy or whatever, it wouldn't have worked because they would have run out of clever jokes to make with said character very quickly, because now it wouldn't be a joke here and there, it would be entire episodes about him/her. I think spinoffs or "just" a change of main character works when the original lead was the least interesting.
When we were kids, my brother and I watched three shows every day: Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly Odd Parents, and Jimmy Neutron.
Mine was Jimmy, Danny, and Fairly
Rachel Strickland Not SpongeBob??!!!
@@themememaster6775 i liked Spongebob too. But now i try not to associate with it now (because the story isn't as good now)
My big 2 were spongebob and ben 10 (original and alien force)
Mine were Jimmy neutron, Thomas the Tank engine, Fairly Odd parents, Blues Clues, Spongebob
2:32 Holy shit I never noticed there was an NES in that scene
Stop watching the same videos as me Digby! I unsubscribed over a year ago. Okay I just checked your DA and you did a good breaded vulture character. You're alright. I'll resubscribe and maybe try and find your dumb ass on telegram or Discord idk. Have fun, you dork.
@@Arnþor lol what is going on
@@thephantomoftheopera2814 ikr 💀
an NES with an Ataari controller
@@Arnþor That was a commission, not my own character, but thank you. I was pretty proud of that one.
my entire family would sit down and watch this show in the 2000s because it was such a perfect mixture of physical/simple humor and humor for adults. My little sister refuses to watch it tho because it's ugly lol
haha, absolutely the same. I used to watch JN on Nickelodeon in the childhood, but now (the Russian) Nick only has a spoiled Sponge Bob and something else.
"But most importantly Carl loves Jimmy's mom."
Carlkyoin.
Simp
That part where Carl asked Wanda to transform the professor into Jimmy's mom in a bottle during the crossover was abit disturbing tho...>.>
mommy sex
Todd Stone I laughed so hard at that scene 🤣
I had such a weird relationship with this show, I never really preferred it over a ton of the other shows but I still always came back to it.
for some reason i think a lot of that had to do with the theme song for me
i feel like that describes a lot of my relationship with the nickelodeon library
Same!
Like an ex who you don't like but can't get over either
@@whitetomato lol
"If you were a kid in the mid-2000's, you saw one of these crossovers"
*cries in sheltered*
Yes! 😭😭😭
Basically every 90s baby
How sheltered can you be that your parents didn’t let you watch Nickelodeon?
*Cries in being 3 at the time hand not being old enough to have concrete memories*
@@Nik.No.K I wasn’t allowed to watch Spongebob till I was like 8 or 10
The big kids used to bully me for wearing a Jimmy Neutron backpack everywhere, where are they now smh... 😒
What a chad
that sounds like a cool backpack. seriously. crazy thing is they prolly went home and watched it to. i know this sounds odd but it always feels good to remember the old stuff i used to watch when the summer time starts to come around.
@DJHart Who tf said it ended at teasing?
Sometimes people react differently like "bullying" because they envy your confidence of showing your favorite interest, just embrace your past as long as it's not harmful to yourself 👍🏽
@@adiabd1 Love bro, that's the mentality!
"Jimmy Neutron was Big Bang Theory, but actually good, and for kids."
I'll go along with that. Lol!
"I see LONDON I see France!"
"Wow you have really good eyesight."
To me what else made him different than other cartoon geniuses. Was that he was do mischievous and not be obsessed school. Having him be a mix of Albert einstein and Bart Simpson was genius
Frederick LaFrance so well put!
He was a regular kid with a super kid brain 💡
No genius really likes school ...
This was even showed in multiple studies.
@@michellesmith9256 Yeah by the common joke in cartoons is that the nerd loves school so much
This video in a nutshell: you can’t handle the neutron style
Jimmy /Timmy Power Hour was fucking mind blowing when i was a kid, same with Nicktoons Unite on GameCube. I can still remember opening that game on Christmas morning and jesus christ dude i was playing for hours and hours on end. I had a great childhood :'(
One thing I appreciated about the world of Jimmy Neutron is that it looked lived in.
Thanks for the positive review. I worked on this show and the movie at DNA and it was a magical time. almost 20 years??! JEEZ has it been that long? And we were up for the first Animated Oscar in a billion years so not too shabby for some plucky geeks "working out of a garage".
If you aren't lying and you really worked on this show, then thanks for helping to making my childhood worth dealing with.
Wow you and the rest of the crew were my childhood heroes! Thanks so much for your hard work on this great show. It’s one of the reasons why I want to be an animator
Thank you so much for creating one of my favorite Nickelodeon shows of my childhood. I haven't watched this show for a long time and remembered about it only recently. I would like to ask a few questions if you don't mind. Were the 4th and 5th seasons planned? If they were, where the story would go after the 3rd season? And the last one, is there any chance that Jimmy Neutron will be reborn? I hope this show will continue.
@@ivan_egorov_ Towards the end of Season 2 we were paid a visit by a rep from Nickelodeon who was one of those slick Hollywood types that told us how great we all were and then proceeded to talk about how the studio had "notes" about the show's direction. They wanted to take Jimmy and the gang and put them in one of J's rockets and tour the galaxy solving mysteries and getting into hijinx. "And we'll age them up and there'll be alien ghosts and special guests!" Our collective jaws hit the floor. What was this guy doing to our beloved Jimmy? Turns out it was Rob Paulsen, aka Carl Wheezer, in disguise. whew!
There was talk of extending the series but Nickelodeon didn't own JN outright like SpongeBob. The DNA owners wanted to do more independent projects, Nick wanted JN. So Nick waited til it made syndication and cut us loose, as I understand it. We got to make The Ant Bully and pitched another but it didn't go anywhere. It was a magical time but we didn't get to become the next Pixar. Wouldn't trade it for anything. A reboot? Never say never.
@@chrisatyootoob It's very interesting. Thank you for the reply!
I would also like to wish you success in the future projects.
I think the animation style holds up. I mean, the art of the show is designed to be a fusion of modern and retro midcentury styles, so the streamlined, smooth, simple animation kind of just adds another layer to that retro-fusion vibe and lends the show some additional character. It's nostalgia on nostalgia.
The CGI may have looked weird but it was animated very well. It was fluid and seemless. Also I am kinda surprised it was so short. As a kid I thought it was very long
A live action Jimmy Neutron?
_Just imagine how big his forehead was gonna be_
You can land a commercial airline
Jacksfilms
Brendon Urie
@@Stefan25897 ya beat me to it.
Jacksfilms would have been perfect for the role
that power hour was in 2004? what the fork
I could’ve sworn that was at least 2-3 years after that, i remember being so hyped on that and watching it right when it came out. Didn’t realize i was only 6 then tho lol
Do I smell another good place fan
The Good Place
Fun fact: Planet Sheen was originally supposed to be a Jimmy Neutron reboot (titled "The New Adventures of Jimmy Neutron") but the new executive producer of Nick hated that idea and wanted a spin-off completely about Sheen.
What a chad rip to that idea it would’ve been great…
Which ended up being Planet Shit
Could’ve saved the show if jimmy just found out where sheen went , and just went and got him , could’ve made a huge special out of that
I feel like I've been robbed
And also iirc, the original planet sheen was different. The king was evil and sheen was a double agent against the king
"The animation hasn't aged well..."? Have you ever seen anything from Hanna-Barbera? Have you seen some of the garbage animation of today?
yeah....and those didn't age well either. it's a spectrum. other shows have failed at this as well. Jimmy Neutron isn't terrible, but, it's what we're talkin about here. so yeah, it didn't age well.
Some people have never seen shows like Beast Wars, and it shows.
(Transformers Beast Wars is great btw, but the animation....WOO BOY)
@@bluesoda6379 yeah Beast War’s cgi is literally eye bleeding
I’m only just now realizing that the shows of my childhood - the same ones my mom used to complain about being annoying - are actually masterclasses in several areas.
TBF, some were quite annoying and bland. But this show was not one of them.
@@Kaiserboo1871 I dunno, Jimmy was pretty insufferable and annoying.
@@MrMalicious5 I only felt that way about the first movie, but his voice pitch got lower when the show started. But in the movie it was way to high pitched, at least from my memory.
Your mom didn't understand
@1betterthanyou1 how does calling a cartoon good stroke His ego?
Jimmy may have been a genius but he was never smart enough to think ahead about the hundreds of horrible possibilities that could be caused by his inventions, such as sentient pants.
Same for Lisa Simpson.
Ok, to be fair he seems to be cursed, but he could use more failsafes. Goddard and many other inventions work first try.
Intelligence does not equal wisdom or maturity.
"You're scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
- Carl, probably
You nailed it! One of Jimmy's main flaws
You know, Jimmy?
While I can't say that you have never been responsible for helping out the town you also created or influenced the vast majority of major threats in the first place.
The Yolkians only came to Retroville because of your signal. The same goes for Meldar Prime. The Nanobots, Shirley, and Evil Jimmy were all your creations. You caused the ice age. You created the sentient pants. You made the sick patch, you turned your teacher into a fifty-foot monstrosity, and you injured Santa Claus, almost ruining Christmas.
The vast majority of this town's problems are caused, at least indirectly, by you. And you know what? In all honesty, that would be fine. You are very intelligent and you almost always do fix it, and in the end it's extremely unlikely that you won't end up benefiting the world a lot more than you will damage it. My children and my children's children are probably going to live in a world free of war and disease, and I'll have you to thank for that.
But fuck, dude. You can't keep using your intelligence as a way to escape your humanity. I didn't ask you to say salt because I thought a customer would seriously care or because I was insecure, I did it because it made you look weird and I was trying to get you to adopt behaviors and use language that makes you come across like a normal fucking person.
Everyone knows what sodium chloride is, but calling it that outside the context of a chemistry class makes you seem like someone who defines themselves solely by their intelligence, which is undeniably who you are. I know you think that there's nothing wrong with being that person, dude, but there is. Taking your IQ and deciding that it elevates you above the rest of the planet is an awful decision that will lead to a life filled with misery and alienation. It will color every interaction you ever have and make it impossible to have real friends or relationships.
I’m not saying that you won’t have any. But they won’t hold any meaning to you, and they certainly won’t bring you any happiness. Sure, you’ll probably manage a pity-fuck or two your sophomore year of college after giving some drunk sorority girl a jetpack ride, but it’ll bring you nothing but emptiness. Maybe you’ll eventually abandon women altogether and decide that “your true love is science”, secretly seething inside whenever you see a guy like Nick or Bolbi getting married to someone he really cares about, who cares about him.
You’ll say I’m exaggerating, but dude, look at how you treat the people in your life now. Carl and Sheen, quirks aside, really do see you as a friend, and they’d go through some serious shit if it meant helping you out of a scrape. Can you say that you see them the same way, as anything other than the only two kids your age willing to put up with your ridiculous ego? What have you ever done for them?
Inventing doesn’t count, dude. Even when you build something for someone else, you’re really doing that for YOU. Every llama-bot or Ultra Lord simulator is only created with the expectation of further praise. They’re not friends to you. They’re worshippers.
And your parents? Lord, the way you treat them. You think I’ve got folks that care about me the way your mom and dad do, working in a shithole like this? I wish. Everyday your dad watches you scarf down the dinner your mom slaved to make for you and prays that you might think about spending some fucking time with him instead of disappearing into your lab to do god knows what. They watch you toy with dimensional-warping science that they can’t wrap their minds around on a daily basis and you laugh at them for worrying about you.
Have you ever played catch with your dad, Jimmy? Ever asked him how his day at work was? You don't have a clue what I'd do for a dad like yours in my life, dude.
What about your mom? Why not invent something that’ll make her life easier instead of gallivanting around the Bermuda Triangle to play with fucking seaweed?
We both know the reason. She would thank you for it, she’d be happy to imagine a version of you that thought for an instant about the needs of another person, but she wouldn’t call you the greatest thing in the universe for it like your friends do. And in Neutron’s world, whoever doesn’t do that might as well not exist.
Ignore me if you want. Keep going the way you’re going, and I’ll see you in thirty years, lugging around sixteen Nobel prizes in your pockets as if they could substitute for a lifetime’s worth of human love and interaction. You’ve always mocked Calamitus for his inability to finish what he started, but the man had a wife and a daughter that tolerated him enough to want to stay in his life through everything, and at the rate you’re going I’d be amazed if you could manage the same with Goddard.
The rest of Retroville, Jimmy, they’ll never be able to do what you do. They’ll never be able to invent rockets or solve cold fusion or add three numbers together. But they will find genuine friendship and love, and they will call it salt, and despite everything you accomplish you’ll only be remembered as nothing more than the man who wouldn’t. Who couldn’t, perhaps.
Get out, dude. You’re fired.
Big McThankies from McSpanky's.
Hatsumomo Murakami i didnt read that
This is seriously the best comments on RUclips I’ve seen I am not kidding it’s true.
This deserves to be a new copypasta
Holy crap this is incredible, cinema worthy dialogue. Really makes you look at Jimmy in a whole new light.
I seriously pity those commenting their inability to read something for two minutes...
seems like every one of these shows ends with “and then Nick wanted more”
greed is a bottomless pit, man.
Yep, whether it be continuing it past it’s prime (like Spongebob and Fairly Oddparents) or making a wack spin-off out of it (like Planet Sheen or Legend of Korra).
Same for my once beloved Cartoon Network, with the abominous PPG and Teen Titans reboots, that I can't even look without getting my eyes and brain burned.
*RUBY MADNESS*
@@craftymasterproductions4218 don’t drag the Legend of Korra along with Planet Sheen, atleast that show had the potential to be just as good as its predecessor if wasn’t rushed. Meanwhile Planet Sheen even though I enjoyed it during its airing... showed Zero potential of being good, their was no saving it.
Jimmy Neutron remains one of my favourite shows of all time. The best part is when the character’s clothing would clip through their arms because of the weird way they animated it.
Four Things that Made the Show Special: 1. Bolbi 2. Bolbi 3. Bolbi 4. Bolbi “Keep on slappin’ and keep on clappin’.” - Bolbi
Slap slap slap clap clap clap
I forgot who Bolbi is.
Cedar Franklin “Looks like you’re going to the shadow realm, Jimbo!”
@@mrsuns10 You, you released the demon I locked away in my unconscious. Now he's wrecking havoc with my concentration.
Incredible you didn't mention the humor! It was brilliant like the golden era of Spongebob.
I rewatched this show on paramount + this week and maybe bc I was high but I had no issues with the animation of this show. I remember liking the show alot as a kid and it still held up...
Honestly Jimmy Neutron aged fine for me since it's exactly how I remember it and I loved it in grade school. If it were launched today that may be a different story, but it just is what it is now
Some kids will only know of the “gotta blast,” & “croissant,” memes. I feel for those kids 😂
Omg I can’t believe croissant became a meme before Sodium Chloride or that time that Jimmy switched heads/bodies with a hamster... we live in a society, dude
@@bees.2843 The hamster episode should definitely be a meme 😂
@@theluiginoidperson1097 DUDE FR The hamster episode is that, like, lucid fever dream that you know is a dream but you just cannot wake yourself up from I s2g
@@bees.2843 It was literally just cursed in all sense of the word.
I just appreciate that Jimmy Neutron created a unique art style that was explicitly designed to work in 3D. They didn't try to imitate the look of hand-drawn animation using CG. As much as I like the Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour TV movies, I think they do a good job of illustrating how hand-drawn characters are difficult to adapt for 3D CG.
Shame The Ant Bully led toe shutdown of the DNA studio, which then led to the end of this show. It was supposed to have a fourth season too that would've been darker than the other seasons (they also planned to make Jimmy and Cindy an official couple) but alas, it was scrapped
paul is no more.
The Jimmy/Timmy power hour was the most HISTORIC event on TV don't @ me !!!
The Four Things that Made Jimmy Neutron Strangely Perfect:
1. Skeet
2. Jimmy
3. Salt
4. Sodium Chloride
@Duchi Don’t forget Bolbi, Donut Boy, and Hi I’m Paul
That's what I said, Sodium chloride!
5. Big McThankies from McSpankies
*Sodium chloride*
@@ronstoppable5659 I actually hear that in my head whenever I meet someone named Paul
I just now realized that they changed Sheen's name in the German version, where he's called Max. I only knew him by that name and when you said Sheen I was like "Who?" No idea why they did it though. I just looked it up and they actually changed other names too, but not really translated them to German, they just changed them into other English names, Goddard is called Robbie, Jimmy's dad is called Frank. I don't know, it's kinda weird.
Probably because these names are very uncommon in German.
I was really confused aswell when i first heard the english names for the characters
@@FemboyTrain sheen isn't common in America either but ok.
So I share a real name with German Goddard
Yeah I lived in the Netherlands for a time as a kid and in Spongebob they changed Gary’s name to Gerrit (which was hilarious for us b/c that’s my little bro’s name lol). They probably did that because Gary is a very uncommon name there and same with the Jimmy Neutron characters in Germany.
This was the golden era, the prime, the peak of my childhood, man I really miss those times.
I was in a weird age bracket, I started watching the show in 2007-2008, years after it’s end... but I still loved it.
I'm even weider.I watched this show in 2015.
I did a class report on Jimmy Neutron in 8th grade, around 2001, and went to DNA Studios in Dallas where JN was created. got to spend a half day there seeing it all, and it was as awesome as it sounds. great video!
Millennials find old CG jarring. As a Gen-Xer, I can appreciate the CG for what it is just like I can appreciate old 2d animation. I don't expect more of it than what it was.
Those amazing crossovers with Fairly OddParents
I used to imagine Danny Phantom joining the mix!!
Alexandra Zlatanou they really were
I never knew that Jimmy neutron was a movie and then a show... actually I never even knew there was a movie
I remember watching it as a show, hearing sometime much later that it started as a movie and, eventually Nick or somebody was playing the movie some evening when they had nothing else better to show.
And yet this got a pretty neat crossover with Fairly Odd Parents. God I miss when cartoon shows used to do good crossovers. I really can't count OK K.O. Crossover Nexus, because most crossovers that started off for the first time usualy lasted over 40 minutes. Plus when crossovers were done, they usualy had excitment and pretty neat ideas. And you didnt expect them either, because usually they were little teasers and suprises for the audiance, instead of them being showed in our faces. And they made sense in some way as well.
Asylum117 well Disney completely shat on Milo Murphy’s Law but they still had an amazing crossover with Phineas and Ferb last year
Attack Of The Twonkies & that long ass episode of when they went to space to play that space game show were my favorites. You to watch them everyday after school back in elementary. My favorite cartoon show of all time, I miss it 😔
"Hey there, Sugar Booger!"
The other night I randomly put on the Jimmy Neutron movie just as background noise and I ended up laughing my ass off at certain parts 😂 the comedy still holds 😂
Same, i just felt like watching it and it was just as good as when it first came out when I was a kid 😆😆😆
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“The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour Trilogy- ”
Wait... there is more than 1??
I remember only 2 distinctly
@@jeffbenton6183 same,I only remember 2
@@turababbas1528 I easily remember all three and seeing their premieres. They were hyped all the time.
@@TayoEXE what was the third one about?
theres 3
The first thing is Jimmy's mom.
You mean Carl's squeeze
*Daddy's #1 Trophy!*
Lana ❤
Sugar booger
I loved their close knit friendship. The unique character shape with their 3D animation
Man, I loved the point you made about how well the characters balanced each other out. Even though it makes sense, I never really realized how Carl also works as a way to ground both the other characters and that his lack of ambition and realism (in some ways) *cough, cough,* (he’ll never get Jimmy’s mom though) really helps balance out Sheen’s chaotic nature as well as Jimmy’s nature for TOO MUCH ambition.
Also I love that you Intro’d the video talking about nostalgia. I thinks it’s important to acknowledge how much that can affect so many peoples opinions on shows like these. It can cloud there judgement and be the basis of why they like the show at all. They usually end up not realizing how good/bad the actual show is because of this.
+ I think acknowledging nostalgia helps your argument of why Jimmy Neutron is a good show. You validate your opinion by pre-debunking the idea that nostalgia is why it is good and that your opinion is based on the content not your memory of the content.
The fact that you were able to sat all that without directly mentioning that it influences others is just... mhm! It lets the viewer figure out what you’re doing giving them some sense of satisfaction and allows you to give a cleaner more interesting intro.
Great video all around, think I might become a patron. I’m wondering, have you been invited to be on Nebula? It seems like you and Karsten Runquist would fit great there.
I loved Jimmy Neutron so much. The retro-feeling setting makes me feel things.
Fairly oddparent=Better Artstyle
Jimmy Neutron=Better characters, writing, humor, and voice acting.
Better Show overall= Jimmy Neutron.
5:23 why does Vicky look like she's on something serious?
Because she is!
ChesterDaMemeMaster I actually laughed out loud when I saw what you were talking about
Not as serious as what the white haired girls is on.
Yo i can literally remember asking my mom to cook my favorite dinner when that fairly odd parents and Jimmy neutron mashup happened definitely the superbowl of my childhood 😂
I just noticed the NES by the tv at 2:34
JTenniS08 It has the wrong controller
X Buster Blader It’s an Atari controller.
4:17 Jimmy Neutron predicted the future!
I'm pretty sure watching Jimmy Neutron as a kid led to my decision to major in computer science.
Cool
Frank Orefice engineering major because of jimmy lol
man of culture
Watching Jimmy neutron as a 5/6 year old felt like there where1000th of episodes. Every episode felt new or different and i always forget how fun those episodes where, especially the Timmy and Jimmy crossover!
Jimmy Neutron Shaped My Childhood.
Just imagine how many tic-tac-toe matches you play on Jimmy Neutron' head
- King - I did not just read that
Well it's at least one but that one would break the world record for biggest tic tac toe game.
the moment when your an adult and you still know the entire theme song from jimmy neutron by heart (also the remembering thing i've had for a while already.. in my own case i had it with pirate planet.. i remembered it completely different than when i watched it again and i am not sure if what i do remember was all a fever dream or if it was some other movie that i remember but still)
Jimmy Neutron holds up amazingly well, the weird, near-horror tone is perfectly in line with modern sensibilities.
Jimmy Neutron when compared to the other shows of it's day:
*Guess they Couldn't handle the Neutron style.*
Watching your videos is like talking to an old friend about cartoons we loved as a kid. Thanks I really enjoy them
That point at the end is kinda null and void, considering the reason the show ended was because the studio went bankrupt after their theatrical film, The Ant Bully, bombed.
There was a Season 4 in the works, where "Evil Jimmy" was going to be a more involved character, but their film bombing ended everything. It wasn't out of their own decision.
Sadly. Season 4 would it been even better. The characters would mature more and there was even a planned episode in which Cindy, Libby and Betty Quinlan would be stuck in Neutron's lab and they would have to face their differences relating to Jimmy and Betty's standing.