!Trivia tropes for ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''
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* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: The show was reportedly put on incredibly tight production deadlines, with the various departments each being given ''a week and a half'' to make each 11-minute episode (three total weeks for [[ThreeShorts the half hour/22-minute show]]). Some of this insane truncation was alleviated by how it was a CGI cartoon (meaning assets could be reused, and creatives could be economical by limiting one new location and one new character per episode that could ''also'' be recycled), but this came at the cost of [[TroubledProduction a very hectic cycling of modelling, layout, animation, and lighting teams between episodes every other week]], and led to [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants many scripts being written on the fly]].
* ActingForTwo:
** Creator/RobPaulsen as Carl Wheezer, his parents, Principal Willoughby, Butch Pakovski, and Eustace Strych.
** Mark [=DeCarlo=] as Hugh Neutron and Baby Eddie.
** Creator/CandiMilo as Nick Dean and Brittney Tenelli.
** In some episodes, Creator/DebiDerryberry as Jimmy Neutron, Nissa, and Amber.
** Creator/BillyWest as Sam Melvick and Corky Shimatzu.
* AdoredByTheNetwork: Along with ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' (which only airs late at night/wee hours in the morning anyways), this is easily one of the most aired shows on Creator/{{Nicktoons}}. At one point, it took up five hours of the schedule despite being over a decade old. Even when it does get removed, it always finds its way back on the schedule.
* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: Despite coasting along on RuleOfCool, the show sometimes got something right even when the writers obviously weren't even aiming for accuracy. One such highlight occured in "Sorry, Wrong Era" when Jimmy shattered the big diamond in an attempt to break off a chunk small enough for his jury-rigged BambooTechnology time-warping device. Diamond, while certainly the hardest natural substance on earth, is also brittle enough to shatter using little more than a hammer, chisel, and a little bit of precision (at least the gem-grade quality stuff that goes in jewelry. Dull bort diamonds are much harder to crack).
* TheCharacterIceCreamBar: Popsicle released an ice of Jimmy's face. It has blue gumball eyes and is cherry cola flavored. The ice has been discontinued.
* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/RobPaulsen makes no secret of his love for Carl, and has done his voice on [[Podcast/TalkinToonsWithRobPaulsen his podcast]] more than any of his other, more famous characters.
* CrossDressingVoices:
** Creator/DebiDerryberry as Jimmy.
** Creator/CandiMilo as resident bad boy Nick.
** Creator/RobPaulsen as Mrs. Wheezer.
** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Creator/IsabelMartinon as Carl; averted for Jimmy (Eduardo Curiel in season 1, Diego Ángeles afterwards), Nick (Creator/EnzoFortuny), and Mrs. Wheezer (Magda Giner).
* DevelopmentGag: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNCSVY-2dPc In the 1998 pilot ''Runaway Rocketboy'']] when Jimmy is flying his rocket he almost runs into a car. If you look closely at the driver, you can see the driver is the early design of Hugh (Jimmy's Dad) from the early Recap/TheAdventuresOfJohnnyQuasar concept.
* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/VeroniqueAugereau was one of the directors for the French dub and she was also the voice of Ms. Fowl.
* DomesticOnlyCartoon: The show was animated entirely by the Dallas-based Creator/DNAProductions.
* EarlyDraftTieIn:
** The game for ''Attack Of The Twonkies'' uses Cindy's design from the movie instead of her older looking, pigtail-less design from the actual series. Same with ''Nicktoons Unite!''
** There is a toy of Jimmy wearing his red-and-white shirt from the ''Runaway Rocketboy'' short.
* HeAlsoDid: Mark [=DeCarlo=], voice of Hugh Neutron, was a lot winner on the 1980s NBC run of ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'', hosted the relationship game show ''Studs'' in the early 90s, and currently appears on ABC's ''The Chew''.
* KidsMealToy: In 2002, Burger King released a set of five different pieces of Jimmy's rocket that could connect to each other, each one featuring at least one of the show's characters. These consisted of Jimmy, Goddard, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen and Libby together.
* LifeImitatesArt: "Retroville 9", aired 2003, shows Jimmy & Co. going to Nagoya, Japan to participate in the "Junior Baseball World Championships". No such tournament existed back then but a 12U Baseball World Cup was founded in 2011, with a 15U equivalent coming up the following year. Seeing as that was a Season 2 episode, Jimmy and others would have qualified for the former. Japan being the tournament's host also [[ShownTheirWork makes sense]] as baseball is a very popular sport there.
* MissingEpisode: Amazon and [=iTunes=] do not have "When Pants Attack", or "Party At Neutron's/Ultra Sheen", both likely due to music clearance issues (as one of Aaron Carter's songs from the movie is played briefly in "Pants", and some less clear issues in the case of "Party"). Hulu did not have those two, nor "Holly Jolly Jimmy" or "The Egg-pire Strikes Back". All of the episodes missing from Hulu resurfaced when the series was put onto CBS All Access. However, when the service rebranded to Paramount+, all missing episodes besides "Egg-pire" were removed again. These episodes would later be included with Shout! Factory's Complete Series DVD release in 2021, albeit with the music on "Party" changed and the background music from Hugh's Pule song from “Holly Jolly Jimmy” missing. "Holly Jolly Jimmy" has since been added to Paramount+, with the music intact.
* NonSingingVoice: Meldar from "Win, Lose, and Kaboom" had his speaking voice done by Creator/TimAllen, but his singing voice was provided by Creator/JessHarnell.
* TheOriginalDarrin: King Goobot and Ooblar were voiced by S. Scott Bullock and Paul Greenberg in the original pilot. Patrick Stewart and Martin Short replaced them for the movie, but Bullock and Greenberg reprised their roles for the series.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** In the 2002 video game, King Goobot and Ooblar were voiced by Joe Whyte and Mark [=DeCarlo=] respectively.
** Ultra-Lord was voiced by Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} in the film and series but was voiced by Creator/RobPaulsen in the 2001 PC video game.
** The mayor of Retroville was voiced by Mark [=DeCarlo=] in the episode "Normal Boy" and by Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} in all subsequent appearances.
** Tee of the alien bandit trio was originally voiced by Creator/MauriceLaMarche, who also voiced Zix, but Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson started voicing the character in "The Incredible Shrinking Town" and onward.
** Sheen's dad went from being voiced by Creator/CarlosAlazraqui in the movie to being voiced by Creator/JoeLala in the series.
** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Jimmy was voiced by Eduardo Curiel in the movie and in the first season, and by Diego Ángeles for the rest of the series.
** The Brazilian dub of the series did manage to retain most of the movie's cast, with a few exceptions being Mônica Rossi as Jimmy's mother Judy (who was replaced by Juraciara Diácovo), Paulo Flores as King Goobot (replaced by Jorge Vasconcellos)[[note]]Flores had passed away just a month after ''The Eggpire Strikes Back'', the episode where Goobot and Ooblar comes back, aired in the United States, so it most likely was due to him passing away before the episode could be dubbed to air in Brazil.[[/note]] and Hélio Ribeiro as Ooblar (replaced by Alexandre Moreno).
* OutOfOrder: "The League of Villains" was the show's FinaleMovie, but "Best in Show" was the last episode ''aired''.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/PhilLaMarr as the strange ForeignExchangeStudent Bolbi.
* RecursiveAdaptation: ''Attack of the Twonkies''- originally a spinoff game- got its own special that majorly diluted the game's plot. The twonkies became a CanonImmigrant after this, appearing every now and then as an EasterEgg.
* RecycledTheSeries: This show was the result of the successful [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron movie]].
* RoleReprise: While replaced by Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/MartinShort for the movie, the series has King Goobot and Ooblar played by S. Scott Bullock and Paul Greenberg, who played the characters in the original pilot ''Runaway Rocketboy''.
* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: In "The Tomorrow Boys", Jimmy, Carl and Sheen [[MyFutureSelfAndMe meet their older selves]] (as well as Cindy as an adult), and they don't sound much different from when they were kids. However, their [=VAs=] voice their older selves with slightly different inflections.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The original storyboard for the pilot was created by John A. Davis in the 1980s. It was later revived as a 40-second test animation called ''Recap/TheAdventuresOfJohnnyQuasar'' in 1995, and later again as a short called ''Recap/RunawayRocketboy'' in 1998. The 1998 incarnation was picked up by Nick a few years later and thus [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius the film]] was made.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: DNA Productions shut down in 2006 after ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' flopped, so the show was cancelled by Nickelodeon after three seasons.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Time Is Money", Jimmy travels back in time to make his parents rich so he could purchase a set of print encyclopedias, which still existed when the 2002 episode was written, but the writing was on the wall for their obsolescence by [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} a free alternative]].
* TieInCereal: While ''Jimmy Neutron'' never got its own stand-alone cereal, there ''was'' a Limited Edition Advertising/CapnCrunch cereal named [[https://breakfast-cereal.fandom.com/wiki/File:Neutron.jpg Cap'n Crunch's Neutron Berries]], being a version of Oops! All Berries with the "berries" shaped like a rocket, Goddard and Jimmy and Cindy's heads.
* TroubledProduction: [[http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php?t-914727.html According to one of the people who worked on the show,]] the show had INSANE deadlines (see WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants).
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: DNA Productions had a mere three weeks to create every episode, which is unheard of for TV animation. They were able to save a little face by having the show be CGI, meaning assets could be recycled.
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