The Egg-pire Strikes Back
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The Egg-pire Strikes Back is a full-hour television special
, based on the animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
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return to Retroville and they say they come in peace. Everybody at first is upset to see them but when the Yolkians begin to give them everything they want (Sheen with Ultralord, Sam with a hairpiece, Hugh with a toy duck for example) they begin to trust them and make peace. However, Jimmy knows that they are up to something evil to destroy Retroville (most likely in revenge of Goobot's humiliation in his defeat from the first film). When he tries to tell people that they are lying, the citizens won't listen (since "children"...even genius ones, are never "believed"). So he puts a recording of the Yolkians through his lie detector and he finds out it is, in fact, a big lie, only to gain the townspeople's loyalty and turn them against Jimmy. He runs to tell his Mom and Dad and then he figures out that they have gone to the Retroville park for an announcement. And what he finds there is a giant egg
that looks exactly like the one that the Yolkians' "chicken" god, Poultra, hatched out of in the original film. To Jimmy, this confirms his worst fears, but the citizens of Retroville are too turned by the Yolkians to listen to him. To Jimmy's surprise, the large egg does not contain a mutant carnivore chicken, but a shower of invitations to a party hosted by the Yolkians. This gets Jimmy rejected for being rude to the Yolkians. Later, Goobot sneaks into Jimmy's lab and steals his generator to re-create Poultra from Poultra's toenail, the last piece of her that contains her DNA
. At the night of the party, Poultra is ressurected and Jimmy tries to warn everyone, but is still rejected. Suddenly, Cindy who in the film has been envious of Jimmy's genius knowledge and was bribed by the Yolkians into telling them how to get into Jimmy's lab making the excuse that she'll be a new genius, stands up for Jimmy, after realizing she has been tricked, reminding the townsfolk of everything he's done for them. The townsfolk grow more receptive, just as Poultra arrives. With all the help Jimmy can get, he saves the night using the fact that "chickens can't burp". The citizens, who are alerted of Poultra's arrival, but unable to escape the party, help Jimmy into luring Poultra to drink a large tank of soda and eat a dummy made of what is essentially Pop Rocks
. When Poultra consumes the entire tank and eats the dummy, she cannot release the excess gas created by the soda and candy, and explodes due to the buildup of pressure. The end of the movie reveals that all the Yolkians (excluding their robotic shells) take off from the earth in a large container mounted on a rocket (the container holds the yolk-like alien bodies, as Yolkians seem to possess no evident skeletal structure). Everybody is forced to apologize to Jimmy in the language of English, French, and Chinese (though he was just kidding for the last one because no one knew it). Then there is a celebration.
Television special
A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular...
, based on the animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, often shortened to just Jimmy Neutron, is an American animated television series, and spin-off of the Academy Award-nominated computer-animated movie, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The series first officially aired on July 20, 2002, on Nickelodeon...
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Plot
King Goobot and Ooblar from the movie Jimmy Neutron: Boy GeniusJimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (film)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a 2001 computer-animated film based on a few three-minute animated shorts shown on Nickelodeon between the years 1999-2002, and a pilot in 1998. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies with O Entertainment and DNA Productions...
return to Retroville and they say they come in peace. Everybody at first is upset to see them but when the Yolkians begin to give them everything they want (Sheen with Ultralord, Sam with a hairpiece, Hugh with a toy duck for example) they begin to trust them and make peace. However, Jimmy knows that they are up to something evil to destroy Retroville (most likely in revenge of Goobot's humiliation in his defeat from the first film). When he tries to tell people that they are lying, the citizens won't listen (since "children"...even genius ones, are never "believed"). So he puts a recording of the Yolkians through his lie detector and he finds out it is, in fact, a big lie, only to gain the townspeople's loyalty and turn them against Jimmy. He runs to tell his Mom and Dad and then he figures out that they have gone to the Retroville park for an announcement. And what he finds there is a giant egg
Egg (biology)
An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop. In most birds, reptiles, insects, molluscs, fish, and monotremes, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum, which is expelled from the body and permitted to develop outside the body until the developing...
that looks exactly like the one that the Yolkians' "chicken" god, Poultra, hatched out of in the original film. To Jimmy, this confirms his worst fears, but the citizens of Retroville are too turned by the Yolkians to listen to him. To Jimmy's surprise, the large egg does not contain a mutant carnivore chicken, but a shower of invitations to a party hosted by the Yolkians. This gets Jimmy rejected for being rude to the Yolkians. Later, Goobot sneaks into Jimmy's lab and steals his generator to re-create Poultra from Poultra's toenail, the last piece of her that contains her DNA
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
. At the night of the party, Poultra is ressurected and Jimmy tries to warn everyone, but is still rejected. Suddenly, Cindy who in the film has been envious of Jimmy's genius knowledge and was bribed by the Yolkians into telling them how to get into Jimmy's lab making the excuse that she'll be a new genius, stands up for Jimmy, after realizing she has been tricked, reminding the townsfolk of everything he's done for them. The townsfolk grow more receptive, just as Poultra arrives. With all the help Jimmy can get, he saves the night using the fact that "chickens can't burp". The citizens, who are alerted of Poultra's arrival, but unable to escape the party, help Jimmy into luring Poultra to drink a large tank of soda and eat a dummy made of what is essentially Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks
Pop Rocks is a carbonated candy with ingredients including sugar, lactose , corn syrup, and flavoring. It differs from typical hard candy in that it creates a fizzy reaction when it dissolves in one's mouth.-Background and history:...
. When Poultra consumes the entire tank and eats the dummy, she cannot release the excess gas created by the soda and candy, and explodes due to the buildup of pressure. The end of the movie reveals that all the Yolkians (excluding their robotic shells) take off from the earth in a large container mounted on a rocket (the container holds the yolk-like alien bodies, as Yolkians seem to possess no evident skeletal structure). Everybody is forced to apologize to Jimmy in the language of English, French, and Chinese (though he was just kidding for the last one because no one knew it). Then there is a celebration.
Themes
This special deals with the theme of "children" not being "believed" by "adults", even when the "children" in question know and try to tell the truth about any given situation. Jimmy knows that the Yolkians are trying to destroy Retroville, but even before the townspeople were turned against him, they still didn't believe him. It wasn't until the citizens actually saw Poultra that they began to realize that Jimmy was right after all.Characters
- Jimmy Neutron- The main protagonist who tries to warn everybody the Yolkians' real plans.
- King Goobot- One of the main villains who lies to the townspeople that the Yolkians come in peace so that he can be able to resurrect his one-time God, Poultra.
- Cindy- The rival of Jimmy who is so envious of Jimmy's genius knowledge that she starts off as an antagonist with the Yolkians when she is tricked by King Goobot into telling the Yolkians how to get in Jimmy's lab. She later reforms after finding out she has been fooled.
- Sheen- The Ultralord obsessive friend of Jimmy's.
- Carl- The animal loving friend of Jimmy's.
- Judy and Hugh Neutron- The childish Duck-loving father and mature jewelry loving Mother. They fall for the Yolkians' tricks.
- Libby- The friend of Cindy's who is turned against Jimmy with the townspeople
- Ooblar- King Goobot's assistant and the secondary antagonist.
- Sam- The owner of the Candy Bar who is turned against Jimmy and makes peace with the Yolkians because they give him a hairpiece.
- Poultra- The God of the Yolkians.
Cultural References
- The ending celebration has some homages to the one from Return Of The Jedi, such as the fireworks and Carl playing drums on the Yolkian 'shells'.
- Jimmy's failed attempts to convince the townspeople of the Yolkian's true intentions mirrors sci-fi films from the 50s, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- The title itself is a reference to The Empire Strikes Back.