Shout Out / The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

• Episode titles:
  • "The Tomorrow Boys"
  • "Journey to the Center of Carl"
  • "I Dream of Jimmy"
  • "Trading Faces"
  • "The Eggpire Strikes Back"
  • "The Junkman Cometh"
  • "The N-Men"
  • "Clash of the Cousins"
  • "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron"
  • "My Big Fat Spy Wedding"
  • "Crouching Sheen Hidden Jimmy"
  • "Birth of a Salesman"
• The title credits music for "The Eggpire Strikes Back" is a parody of the Mars Attacks! theme.
• Meltyface, anyone?
• "Uh, Libby, I don't think they need no stinkin' badges."
• Jimmy's time traveling telephone booth, anyone?
• Cindy's entire character could be a shout out to June from KaBlam! Let's see, bossy 10-11 year old girl with a ponytail, crush on the main boy... Or Helga.
• "The N-Men", particularly Retroville's reaction, is similar to the X-Men. Not just that, but Cindy, Sheen, Libby and Carl's powers are similar to Supergirl, The Flash, The Invisible Woman and Banshee, well if Banshee was burping instead of screaming. Carl's costume is also a shout out to Plastic Man. Jimmy was well, orange... right until he turned into the Hulk with a skin design similar to The Thing. And, think of Sheen's name idea. The Fantastic League of Justice Bringing Avenging Men (and two girls)!
  • Jimmy/Hulk's fight against the Army tanks plays out almost identical to the 2003 ''Hulk'' movie.
  • When Jimmy turns orange, Cindy calls him an Oompa Loompa.
• Jimmy in Hall Monster is like a condensed version of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and wears a helmet similar to Judge Dredd.
• Sheen's full name seems to be a Shout-Out to actors (and brothers) Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez.
  Sheen: (as he and his friends ride down a T-rex's tail) Yabba Dabba Dooooo~!
• One ride seen at Retroville in the movie has the name "Bat Out of Heck".
• Mr. Neutron's full name is Hubert Beaumont Neutron.
• "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Sheen" has a definite air of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (fitting since Steve Oedekerk worked on both).
• In the Halloween Episode, Jimmy builds a machine that turns people into monsters. One of the monsters pictured is Michael Jackson (specifically, werewolf Jackson from the Thriller video).
  • In addition, when naming off monsters that Carl could turn into, Jimmy mentions Frankenstein. Sheen pipes in with a "FRAHNK-en-steen".
  • Cindy dressed up as Muffy the Vampire Annihilator for Halloween.
  • When Carl and Sheen guess what Jimmy will dress up as, Carl suggests "that smart guy with the keyboard who talks with a computer voice".
• Leppy the Leptictidium shares a color scheme with the Leptictidium from Walking with Beasts. Incidentally, this program's first scene also showed it erroneously living in the Cretaceous.
• One of Hugh's friends is named Max Payne.
• Upon gaining superpowers, the Wheezer family replicate the canyon-jumping sequence seen in Hulk. Apparently, some people did enjoy this movie after all.
  • Also, earlier in the episode, Carl climbs on buildings and jumps off them, just like how Peter Parker did after discovering his powers.
• The episode where they go inside the UltraLord Videogame, has a interesting shout-out to "The Wizard and the Princess".^note A largely forgotten Sierra Adventure game, which is the spiritual prequel to King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, and is even considered by many as "Kings Quest Zero". As the game had a infuriating puzzle, in which you had to traverse a desert find a rock, but it has to be a certain screen, or else a snake underneath would kill you.
• The TV Show "Intergalactic Showdown" in "Win, Lose, or Kaboom!" shares many similarities to game shows such as Fear Factor, Survivor, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Also many of the alien TV shows Hugh watches are parodies, such as Andromeda 90210.
  • Meldar Prime does the "woof, woof, woof" chant from The Arsenio Hall Show, then he grunts like Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor.
• In one episode, Jimmy had a robot duplicate of himself, which broke down causing its face to droop and sag like David in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
• Dr. Moist's algaemen are named "Nipsey" and "Russell", after the famous comedian and frequent Pyramid guest.
• In "The Incredible Shrinking Town", Jimmy recalls events of the week where his size was insulted. The montage is scored by a sound-alike of Randy Newman's "Short People." Later in the episode, Hugh and Judy watch the animated Gulliver's Travels.
• In "League of Villains", the leitmotif of the titular organization bears an uncanny resemblance to John Williams's "Imperial March" from Star Wars.
• In "Jimmy On Ice" when Carl has to sweat to bring Retroville out of an ice age, he speeds up his running and the Background Music is very similar to the song "Maniac" from the Flashdance soundtrack.
• The three alien bandits are each based on a celebrity; Tee is Mr. T and has a verbal tic of calling everyone "fool", Travoltron talks and acts like John Travolta (specifically his Saturday Night Fever character), and Zix has a voice similar to Jon Lovitz.
• "Lady Sings the News" had a few references to New York-area newscasters— Sheen, as sportscaster, says "Let's go to the videotape", before realizing they have no tape of the event he was talking about (so he then opts to "go to the action figures"). This was the catchphrase of NYC-area sportscasters Warner Wolf. Jimmy's greeting at the beginning of the newscast ("Here now with the news") evokes another veteran of NYC broadcasting, the infamous Roger Grimsby.
• In "Party At Neutrons", Jimmy and Betty dance just like Vincent and Mia respectively, from Pulp Fiction.
  • At one point in the episode, kids can be seen dancing like the Peanuts characters. They recycle the dance sequence from A Charlie Brown Christmas in "The Eggpire Strikes Back".
• The title card to "Ultra Sheen" uses the Sega corporate font.
• When brainstorming for a band name in "Battle of the Bands", Jimmy suggests "The Jimmy Neutron Experience".
• In "Broadcast Blues", when discussing what could make good TV:
  Sheen: It's a show about nothing! ...Nothing but puppets!
• The premise of "Stranded", with a boy and a girl getting stuck on a tropical island while on unfriendly terms, eventually patching things up and even falling in love, is very similar to The Blue Lagoon, apart from the sexual maturity of the characters.
• "Monster Hunt" has several Jaws references scattered throughout, especially the beginning and the ending. The music is also similar to the film's main theme.
• In "Maximum Hugh", Hugh can be seen catching marshmallows in his mouth The Matrix style.
• In "Beach Party Mummy", upon discovering the lost tomb, Cindy suggests they should call National Geographic or Harvard, while Libby suggests Harrison Ford. After all, he has plenty of experience with tombs.
• While underwater in "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion", a pineapple can be seen in the background. I wonder who lives there?
• In "Jimmy for President", Jimmy's campaign song - which is performed by two women - has similar lyrics and the same melody to the song "Charlie Kane" from Citizen Kane.
• The title card of "Battle of the Band" uses the font from The Beatles' Drop-T logo.
• "Sheen's Brain":
  • What at first seems like Sheen being experimented on in order to amplify his IQ and pass a test, results in him developing psychic abilities which include gravity wells, flight, mind-reading, precise telekinesis, the ability to fire psionic beams from his brain, and of course, gaining a wider forehead and a God complex. And much like Tetsuo, Sheen eventually declares himself "Emperor" of Retroville, and if he's not kept in check, could potentially blow up.
• "Lights! Camera! Danger!":
  • Quentin Smithee is a parody of Quentin Tarantino, with his name a hybrid of Tarantino's and that of common pseudonym Alan Smithee.
  • When Jimmy watches various well-known movies at hyper-speed, the quotes heard include "I'm king of the...", "Precious!", "May the Force be with...", "Home!", "Box of chocolates", "There is no try", "Nemo!", "To Infinity and...", "We left Kevin!", "And your little dog, too!", and "Gotta blast!". The intro to that is also a parody of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo, with Goddard in the role of Leo the Lion.
  • The first scene in the film has Jimmy as Zero, the chosen one in a computer simulation, on a cruise ship aboard the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The second scene is entitled "Lord of the Rugs".
  • The third scene is a jazzy musical number with lyrics including "stop that ghost", "halt the alien invasion", "before the cyborg morphs", "get rid of the mummy", "save the seven dwarfs", "win the big fight at the Colosseum", "put the dead guys back at the mausoleum", "blow up the shark", and "find the ark".
  • Hugh's "Donut Boy" song is a parody of the theme to Shaft.
  • Cindy's character is named Princess Butterface.
  • The climax of the film has the cast "become magicians at Pigpimples school, visit a dinosaur amusement park, and rescue the Ruby Slippers.
  • Carl as "the evil one whose name is too hard to pronounce" is a reference to Lord Voldemort's alias of "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named". And Jimmy as "Perry Bladder".
• In "Send in the Clones", we get to see five of the clones walk down a street, past a pickup, in slow-mo. And the music in the background has some pretty heavy bass as well.
• "Doom Bringer II", the game Jimmy and his friends want to get in "Grumpy Young Men", uses the menu font from Doom in its logo and features a Cyberdemon-esque monster on its box art.
• Hugh's subplot in "Return of the Nanobots" is a wholesale reference to the famous The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Time Enough at Last", where just like Henry Bemis, Hugh seemingly becomes the last man alive in the world, and deals with the despair of his situation by discovering an untold amount of his passion (pies instead of books). Hugh even directly quotes the episode after his pies are destroyed:
  Hugh: It's not fair! I had all the time in the world!
  • The nanobots chant of "Delete! Delete! Delete!" when they encounter "Extreme Error" in the episode is reminiscent of the Cybermen. Especially when they decide humanity is an "Extreme Error" and start to Kill All Humans.
• In "Time is Money", when Jimmy travels back in time to the 70s, a younger Hugh is shown talking about how he loves "those three guys with the high-pitched, female-type voices" and signing along the "ah ah ah" part from ''Stayin' Alive''.
• After the Junkman turns Goddard into a lamp in "The Junkman Cometh", he boasts how the kitsch value will easily net him 17 quatloos.

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