The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
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Genre	Comedy Science fiction Action/Adventure
Created by	John A. Davis
Written by	Steven Banks Jed Spingarn Gene Grillo Andrew Nicholls Darrell Vickers Christopher Painter Evan Gore Heather Lombard
Directed by	Keith Alcorn Mike Gasaway Kirby Atkins
Starring	Debi Derryberry Rob Paulsen Jeffrey Garcia Frank Welker Carolyn Lawrence Crystal Scales Mark DeCarlo Megan Cavanaugh Billy West Tom Kenny Andrea Martin Jonathan Walker Jim Cummings
Theme music composer	Brian Causey
Composer	Charlie Brissette
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	43 (full) 50 (segments) 119 (total) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Steve Oedekerk
Producers	Keith Alcorn John A. Davis Paul Marshal
Editors	Jon Price John Wahba Joe E. Elwood
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production companies	O Entertainment DNA Productions Nickelodeon Animation Studio Paramount Television
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon
Release	July 20, 2002 (2002-07-20) – November 25, 2006 (2006-11-25)

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is an American computer animated television series created by John A. Davis. It is the first spin-off to the 2001 film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It originally aired on Nickelodeon for three seasons beginning July 20, 2002, and the final episode aired on November 25, 2006. A second spin-off to the film, titled Planet Sheen debuted eight years later.

Media

Episodes

Main article: List of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
Pilot			September 7, 1998 (1998-09-07)
Film			December 21, 2001 (2001-12-21)
1	19		July 20, 2002 (2002-07-20)	September 5, 2003 (2003-09-05)
2	17		September 19, 2003 (2003-09-19)	July 9, 2004 (2004-07-09)
3	19		November 11, 2004 (2004-11-11)	November 25, 2006 (2006-11-25)
Specials	3		May 7, 2004 (2004-05-07)	July 21, 2006 (2006-07-21)

Fairly OddParents crossover episodes

There have also been three tie-ins with special episode crossovers involving the Nickelodeon hand-drawn style series The Fairly OddParents under the title "The Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour" (the first alone, the second and third with the subtitles "When Nerds Collide!" and "The Jerkinators!," respectively); the five main characters from Jimmy Neutron meet with Timmy, his godparents, and his two best friends Chester, and AJ, and often cross between each of their worlds of 2D and 3D animation.

Pilot (1998–2001)

The pilot, named "Runaway Rocketboy," involves Jimmy testing a rocket ship that he has invented, and later uses it when he inadvertently stumbles upon a Yolkian plot to conquer Earth. The pilot was aired in short mini episodes on Nickelodeon before the film's release, and its plot was used for the film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The pilot was later included as an extra on the "Confusion Fusion" DVD. It was originally supposed to air as a short on KaBlam!, but the show got cancelled before the episode aired.

The pilot had a few differences from the main series. In it, the clothes were different, Judy's hair was darker, the theme song was longer with a few lines that were cut later, Goddard was voiced by Kim Saxon, in lieu of Frank Welker, Carl Wheezer resembled his father, Sheen Estevez was absent and the title card had a picture in the scene, like all the other Nicktoons at the time. Also, the DNA Productions logo with their original mascot, Helix the purple cat-like creature wearing a lab coat and a bow tie, was shown.

DVD releases

Title	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
The Best of Season 1	September 16, 2008	–	–
The Best of Season 2	September 16, 2008	–	–
The Best of Season 3	September 16, 2008	–	–
Confusion Fusion	May 27, 2003	February 2, 2004	October 8, 2003
Sea of Trouble	October 7, 2003	May 16, 2005	March 24. 2005
Jet Fusion	February 3, 2004	August 15, 2005	July 7, 2005
Attack of the Twonkies	November 16, 2004	March 27, 2006	April 6, 2006
Party at Neutron's	–	September 4, 2006	September 21, 2006
King of Mars	–	–	July 5, 2007

Production

Development

John A. Davis created Jimmy (then named Johnny Quasar) sometime during the 1980s and wrote a script titled Runaway Rocketboy (later the name of the second pilot) which was later abandoned. He later stumbled upon the idea while moving into a new house in the early 1990s. He re-worked it as a short film titled Johnny Quasar and presented it at SIGGRAPH where he met Steve Oedekerk and worked on a television series of the short as well as the movie. Jimmy was still called Johnny Quasar before it was decided to name him Jimmy Neutron.

Spin-off

Main article: Planet Sheen

A second spin-off series, Planet Sheen, focused on Sheen Estevez, who accidentally landed on the planet Zeenu in Planet Sheen's pilot episode. 26 episodes were produced by O Entertainment. The show debuted on October 2, 2010, along with T.U.F.F. Puppy. As of 2013, the spin-off has been cancelled, with the final episode having aired on February 15, 2013.

Theme

The theme song was originally written by Brian Causey for the pilot episode. Pop-punk band Bowling for Soup later revamped and extended Causey's theme for the film version theme. Ultimately, the original theme was kept for the TV series intro and outro.

See also

• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

External links

• Official website
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com show
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on August 31, 2015.