This series premiered on October 2, 2010, and ended on February 15, 2013.Īs mentioned above, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was garnering attention with its strong pre-release campaign. Another spin-off series called Planet Sheen was produced, focusing on Jimmy's friend Sheen Estevez. The film's success led to a spin-off television series called The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which premiered on July 20, 2002, and ended on November 25, 2006. It was nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001, ultimately losing to Shrek it was the only animated Nickelodeon film to ever be nominated in that category until the release of Rango (2011). Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius was released on December 21, 2001. Backed by a strong pre-release campaign, the film was a box office success, grossing $103 million worldwide.
The precursor to the TV show The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which followed shortly after, Jimmy Neutron follows the title character, a schoolboy with super-genius powers who must save all of the parents of the world from a race of egg-like aliens known as the Yolkians. Davis and written by Davis and producer Steve Oedekerk, with voice talents by Debi Derryberry, Patrick Stewart, Martin Short, Rob Paulsen, and Jeffrey Garcia. Still being on that intellectual on a difficult situation, he had quick memory banks dubbed Brain Blasts.50 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (sometimes shortened to Jimmy Neutron) is a 2001 American computer-animated comic science fiction film produced by Nickelodeon Movies, O Entertainment, and DNA Productions, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Throughout the series, as explained in the theme song, he is described being “a kid with a knack for inventions.” Despite this quote, said inventions may go haywire. The name "Johnny Quasar" was changed at the request of Nickelodeon, who did not want the character to be confused with similarly-named ones such as Jonny Quest and Captain Quazar, so Davis brainstormed other character names while walking his dog around the neighborhood block, eventually coming up with the final name, "Jimmy Neutron." Personality and abilities Īn extremely intelligent genius with an intelligence quotient of 210, he is defined as one of smartest people in the town of Retroville. After several years of going through the review process, the episode began production in late 1997, and was completed in 1998. Albie Hecht, the then-president of Nick, was particularly impressed- coining him to be "half Bart Simpson and half Albert Einstein," he strongly praised Johnny's blended personality as an adventurous and intelligent character and one grounded in the reality of childhood, which, according to him, made him "the perfect Nick kid." Following positive reception, Nickelodeon commissioned for a 13-minute pilot episode to be created. In fall 1995, the idea was pitched to Nickelodeon, who expressed immediate interest in the idea. 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. He later stumbled upon the idea while moving into a new house in the early 1990s. Davis created the character when he was originally named, Johnny Quasar (inspired by a facetious nickname that his Summer co-workers had coined for him in his youth who builds a rocket ship and runs away from his parents. Furthermore, Neutron has a perennial rival with Cindy, who usually makes fun of him for his height.Īn early drawing of the character by Paul Claerhout with the original name Throughout the series, he was almost never seen without his companion, a silver-gray robot dog named Goddard and a rocket ship nicknamed the Strato XL which he uses in the opening sequence. However, since the name sounded eerily identical to Jonny Quest, Davis brain-stormed various other monikers before coming up with his current name.Ĭharacterized by his distinctive gravity-defying hairstyle and ridiculously high IQ of 210, Neutron is considered one of the most intelligent people in Retroville. The character originally rooted from the 1980s by Davis and series co-creator Keith Alcorn under the name of Johnny Quasar, with a 13-minute long short film pitched to SIGGRAPH sometime in 1997 with production beginning in that year. Davis, he is voiced by Debi Derryberry since the test pilot premiered in 1998. James Isaac "Jimmy" Neutron is the titular and main character from the film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and its spin-off Nickelodeon computer animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius character For other uses, see Jimmy Neutron (disambiguation).