The Great Egg Heist
Original air date: 3/10/2004 (produced in 2003)
Jimmy and his friends must help Asian Princess, Peggy Tsu retrieve the Egg Drop Jade from the museum before her evil brother steals it.
"The Great Egg Heist" contains examples of:
- Accidental Hero: Carl accidentally mixes up the real jade egg with the fake decoy one after the infrared lasers trigger his allergies, and he ends up putting the real one back. This ends up saving everyone when Professor Calamitous tries to use the egg as a power source for his doomsday device, but the fake egg causes it to meltdown and explode. To be fair to Carl though, he knew there was a chance he mixed the eggs up and tried to warn Jimmy, but Jimmy constantly ignored him.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: When Libby hits a high note with her singing, it temporarily causes Sheen pain, and when she uses it again to freeze the museum's security system and break the glass, the kids had to cover their ears, and Goddard's circuits suffered hypersonic damage.
- Heist Episode: Princess Quin Su Shi sends Jimmy and his friends to the Retroville Museum to steal the Jade Egg and swap it with a replica, then bring the real Jade Egg back to her to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. The Princess is later revealed to be a disguised Professor Calamitous. Fortunately, his plans fail because Carl accidentally brought back the replica instead of the real Jade Egg.
- Incredibly Long Note: Libby can sing and hold a big note for a long time. She first uses this to tell Sheen it's her and later, it comes a Chekhov's Gun to shatter the museum's glass and freeze its alarm system, This also indirectly damaged Goddard's circuits.
- Life Saving Misfortune: Professor Calmitus successfully managed to fool Jimmy and his friends into retrieving the Egg-Drop Jade which had boundless energy that would be disastrous if placed in the wrong hands. He all but surely woulda won at that point...had Carl not bungled the gem heist earlier in the episode by mixing up the true Jade egg with a fake that he was supposed to put in place of the authentic one. This "blunder" causes Calmitus's Doomsday Device to explode in spectacular fashion. Carl even gets promptly praised by Jimmy and his friends for being an Accidental Hero.
- Missing Steps Plan: Professor Calamitous tricks Jimmy and his friends to steal a priceless jade egg so that he could power his doomsday device. What he'll do with the device he still hasn't figured out.
- Replaced with Replica: The main task of the heist, to replace the Jade Egg at the Retroville Museum with a fake one. Carl accidentally places the real one back and brings back the fake egg to Quin Su Shi due to confusing them following his allergies picking up, which ends up saving the day.
- The Real Remington Steele: Jimmy and the gang are recruited by Princess Quin Shi Su to steal a Jade Egg in order to keep it out of evil hands. It turns out that the princess is a disguised Professor Calamitous who tricked the heroes into stealing the egg for him. In "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", Su has a cameo as guest at Jet Fusion and Beautiful Gorgeous's wedding, while Calamitous is show in jail. This suggest Su is indeed a real person and Calamitous impersonated her in this episode.
- Steal It to Protect It: The kids are recruited by Princess Quin Shi Su to retrieve a Jade Egg which her brother plans to use as a Power Source for his Doomsday Device. As the egg is in a museum, the heroes have to steal it and replace it with a fake. The entire mission is revealed to be a plan by Professor Calamitous to trick the heroes into stealing the egg for him by disguising himself as the princess. Thankfully, he ends up with the replica instead due to a mishap by Carl.
The Feud
Original air date: 3/10/2004 (produced in 2003)
Jimmy and Carl get caught in the middle of a feud between their dads.
- Appleof Discord: Hugh's lawn lopper is this when Mr. Wheezer is accused of forgetting to return it, this leads to the Neutrons and Wheezers brawling each other.
- Continuity Nod: When Jimmy invents a Crabgrass Accelerator, he tells Carl and Sheen that Science has never let them down before. Sheen brings up the time science almost made a meteor hit the town, and Carl brings up the time science blocked out the sun and nearly caused a second ice age, referencing the events of two previous episodes; "Normal Boy" and "Jimmy on Ice".
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Though none of them say directly, the Neutrons and Wheezers are angry at Sheen for this at the end of the episode since he never told Hugh that Sam at The Candy Bar borrowed Hugh's Lawn Lopper prior to the titular feud. Now realizing that they started the whole feud for nothing, everyone becomes furious with Sheen and they advance on him as the episode ends.
- Feud Episode: This aptly titled episode becomes of this between Hugh and Mr. Wheezer after he accuses him of supposedly not returning his lawn lopper, which results in Jimmy's friendship with Carl threatened. Midway through the episode, Judy joins in feuding Mrs. Wheezer when attempting to intervene.
- Jerkass Ball: Both Jimmy's and Carl's parents (but Jimmy's parents especially) are more unreasonable and crueler towards their children then usually when their feuding clouded their better judgments with Hugh going so far of degrading into an Abusive Parent and a Fantasy-Forbidding Father by banning Jimmy from inventing anything so he could make the feud last.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The episode ends with the reveal it wasn't Mr. Wheezer didn't take Hugh's lawn lopper — it was revealed from Sheen that Hugh loaned it to Sam who will be returning it a few days from now.
- Unusual Euphemism: Hugh and Ebenezer have their share of this when they find both of their lawns plagued with crabgrassnote .Ebenezer: HOLY JUMPIN' CATFISH!Hugh: GREAT STINKIN' BANANAS!
- Volleying Insults: The episode "The Feud" has this happen THREE times!
- First, with Hugh Neutron and Ebenezer Wheezer:
Ebenezer: I already told you I gave [your lawn lopper] back, ya wingding!Hugh: And I'm telling you, ya didn't, tool hog!Ebenezer: Cheese brain!Hugh: Sneeze jockey!Ebenezer: Noodle head!- Second, with Judy Neutron and Martha Wheezer:
Martha: You're just a dupe for that hateful husband of yours!Judy: "Hateful"?! You take that back!Martha: Never, allergy-giver!Judy: Venom-spitter!Martha: She-witch!Judy: Hag woman!Martha: (gasps)- And third, with Hugh and Ebenezer all over again:
Hugh: Stupidhead!Ebenezer: Moron face!Hugh: Mucus monkey!Ebenezer: Duck lover!Hugh: "Duck lover"?!
