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* If Professor Calamitous never finishes, how does he have a child?
** With a lot of help.
** Even if he pulled out half way through, pre-ejaculatory fluid can be enough impregnate a woman.
*** Ah, [[TV Tropes]], where else can I learn about the sex lives of children's show villains?
* Jimmy has fought Chicken egg aliens, living pants, a midget mad scientist, a robot, lots of robot, has a robot dog, breathes in space, seen aliens, saved the world with a secret agent, shrunk down to the size of a bacteria to extract mitochondria from them, went to the depths of ocean, and has done many more, but HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
** Believing in Santa Claus is just silly.
** Even more silly than his father's sexual obsession with pies? I can't understand it.
*** And ducks. Can't forget ducks.
** For the same reason some scientists believe in aliens but not God. Jimmy is a man of science, not fairy tales. Why should he believe in Santa?
** Aren't Aliens usually depicted in Science Fiction stories, more importantly, the aliens got unusual anatomy or are giant eggs but a fat man in a red suit is not believable to him.
** Just because you know one implausible thing exists doesn't mean you're required to believe in all implausible things. Also, not everything that is currently only known in fiction is of equal likelihood. Suppose someone were to build a sentient robot. Would you automatically decide that unicorns existed as a result? Would you assume that we had also invented [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]] at the same time?
** He wouldn't believe in Santa even if he saw him. Recall his experience with fairy godparents.
*** Exactly! Jimmy doesn't believe in magic, which is what Santa would most likely be. As a scientist he believes in things only if science can explain them. So it makes sense to me.
* Where is Ultralord from anyways? He has Japan-only merchandise, but the trappings of a western series.
** [[Rule of Funny|He's a parody of both at once]]
** He's from Planet Mektar in Vector 8 of the Nebulon Galaxy!
** That is a parody of [[Transformers Victory]] and [[Beast Wars II]]
** If he is a parody of both at once, then is he a [[Super Sentai|Power Ranger]]?
* My sister remembers an earlier show that this was based on; Jimmy even references it in "When Pants Attack", the first episode. Can anyone offer proof?
** She must be remembering the movie which was shown in theaters before the show began.
*** Uh,can you be more specific?
*** ... The movie? You know, the one the show was based on...? It's either that, or those little shorts that the troper below mentioned.
** This troper remembers a couple of shorts that aired on TV either before the movie or before the show aired, and is pretty sure that one was similar to "When Pants Attack".
** Years before the movie, there was a pilot produced for the show (which shares a similar but not exactly the same plot as the film), which is included on one of the early compilation DVDs the show had. I have heard from numerous sources that that pilot had aired on Nickelodeon (again, years before the movie) once, though I never have seen anything official stating that.
*** I thought that the entire movie was originally intended as a pilot for the TV series? Apparently the Nick execs were so impressed they funded the whole movie based on the strength of that one episode.
** I think she may remember something called Runaway Rocketboy. It was made by the same people, featuring a similar protagonist, but got rejected by Nick.
*** No, I think that was one of the shorts they made to pitch the idea of JN to Nickelodeon. It was basically Jimmy, with crappier animation, a different outfit and a Carl with zits instead of freckles.
** No, I remember this episode too, it was either the first episode or it was an hour long special, in the episode Jimmy makes a chip that makes pants pick up and fold themself,  {{spoiler|they attack}}.
*** That's the pilot for the series, which came out after the movie. The pilot everyone else is talking about came ''before'' the movie.
* How is it that there are no teenagers in Retroville?
** Isn't Skeet (not sure if that's his name, the kid who manages that burger place?) a teenager? And I'm pretty sure Betty's one as well.
*** I mean, in the movie, when all the parents were gone, it was only kids, no teenagers whatsoever.
**** Maybe the teenagers were off doing non-G-rated stuff.
** Sheen is 13 for most (if not all) of the TV series.
* Since <s>Shirley</s> The Villain from ''[[Jimmy Timmy Power Hour]] 3: The Jerkinators!'' was introduced in a [[Crossover]], which show has the <s>copyright</s> trademark to him?
** They're both Nickelodeon programs, so I'm pretty sure copyright isn't an issue here.
* I'd say [[Fairly Oddparents]]. The crossover series slowly turned into "Fairly Odd Parents with Jimmy Neutron characters."
** Yeah, since the 'combo' style they did for his pocket dimension was basically Oddparents style animation on CGI paper dolls. I'm not even sure they did him in Jimmy Neutron style at any point.
*** They did, but only for one short scene (or two, if you count when Jimmy and Timmy start designing him in Jimmy's lab).
* Is Pomono Beach Debbie an actual character in Ultra Lord?
** No.
* If the rewinder remote device was supposed to rewind peoples' actions, like when Cindy and Libby squirted smoothie out of their noses, how did it send Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen back in time? Wouldn't they have just gone through their lives in reverse until they were unborn fetuses or something? How did it manage to send them back in time?!
** Actually, it reversed time for everything other than the user(s).
*** But when they kept replaying the girls squirting the smoothies Jimmy's Dad walks up behind them and watches. Plus Jimmy specifically states that it only works on what you point it at.
* Jimmy creating a girl-eating plant. Doesn't he realise being eaten would kill them?
** [[Comedic Sociopathy|He]] [[Rule of Funny|does.]]
** Maybe he's a genius but horribly, horribly naive?
*** He sent a toaster into space to look for aliens without considering their [[Alien Abduction|potential]] [[Alien Invasion|hostility]], gave the [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|nanobots]] a second chance, and continues to try educating his [[Too Dumb to Live|classmates]]. What do you think?!
* I feel downright duped by the crossovers with [[Fairly Oddparents]]. I loved them when I first saw them, but in retrospect, they're absolutely awful compared to JN's normal output! What the fuck happened?
** What do you mean? And are you sure you're not dipping into [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like]]?
** Hate to say it, but I agree. They were pretty bad. But then, [[Your Mileage May Vary|most crossovers are.]]
** Woah there bro. Insane [[Your Mileage May Vary]] here. Most crossovers suck? Don't forget to put the YMMV thing when saying stuff like that. I happen to love crossovers. Including this one.
*** Sorry, dude(ette), no offense intended. I'm acting on [[Sturgeon's Law]], here. I went overboard on it there, yeah, but still.
* Bolbi comes from a country with the suffix "-istan", suggesting he's Middle Eastern. But he looks white and his accent and name seem more Eastern European.
** Most of the -istan's are former soviet countries so he may be from the country through russians who had moved.
* Why doesn't Jimmy use gadgets in The N-Men ala Nite Owl or the Second Blue Beatle to make up for just smelling fruity?
* If Cindy is so smart, why doesn't she make nano machines, time machines, hover cars, ect.?
** She's just not ''as'' smart as Jimmy, clearly.
** She's ''smart'', not a genius.
*** Exactly. She's above-average, but not profoundly so. She'd be that kid who could feasibly have been in your class at school, who got everything right. Jimmy's just insanely gifted.
** She ''did'' make a [[Applied Phlebotinum|compact machine that turns gym socks into fashionable sweaters]]. That's actually pretty complex.
* In "The Tomorrow Boys", when Jimmy and Cindy are married in the dictatorship future, why does Cindy still Jimmy "Nerdtron" if they're still married?
** She's very [[Tsundere]] and its a nickname?
** I'm not sure that 'bad future' marriage was such a happy one. I mean, he ''did'' spend all his time taking care of her mother's feet. That's not exactly conducive to cordiality between them.
* So Jimmy is like this huge boy genius, and it seems like he knows about everything. And yet, he doesn't know that Australia is both a country and a continent? How is that possible?!?
** [[Rule of Funny]]. Jimmy is a total know-it-all; him seeming to know everything is pretty much just the image he tries to project. He may be a genius at engineering, but that doesn't mean he's a geography buff as well.
*** Possibly he was just playing along to try to get some more alone time with Cindy.
** Australia is not technically a continent. "Australasia" is, I think, but not the island itself.
*** The above comment is correct. Australia isn't a continent by itself. The continent is Australasia/Oceania and contains New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, etc.
* Why do the games insist on giving Cindy her younger movie look?
** Laziness?
* Twonkies turn into vicious beasts when hearing good music, but go to sleep when hearing bad music. How is it that Sheen has the only bad singing voice possible to lull the Twonkies, and not Carl? His constant singing in the hour long Spy special (WE'RE SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES!) or his 'Folding and Hanging' song in When Pants Attack were pretty bad, but it was actually his Beeeendiiing and Steeeeetching that was the first example of a Twonky going berserk, meaning it was GOOD. That's confusing.
** Different tastes?
** Well, Sheen has been shown to be a messiah of various religions! (The monks, I think in the spinoff) Of course, he can use his cosmic and otherworldy powers to soothe the Twonkies.
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