The Eggpire Strikes Back

The Eggpire Strikes Back
The title card for The Eggpire Strikes Back.
Episode	15-16
Season	1
Airdate (US)	April 25, 2003
Airdate (CA)	September 17, 2003 September 24, 2003 (aired in 2 parts)
Invention(s)	Burp-Powered Jetpack DNA Re-generator
Previous	Professor Calamitous, I Presume
Next	Maximum Hugh

The Eggpire Strikes Back is an hour-long television special in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius part of the first season. It is the sequel to the original film.

Plot[]

King Goobot and Ooblar are back in Retroville claiming to have reformed, following Poultra's death. However, Jimmy suspects something about the Yolkians and knows that they are up to something evil (in revenge of Goobot's humiliation in his defeat from the film). When he tries to tell people that they are lying, the citizens won't listen, and the townspeople start to mock him. To prove the Yokians haven't changed, he puts a recording of the Yokians through Goddard's lie detector and he finds out it is, in fact, a big lie, only to have the Yokians gain the townspeople's loyalty and have them start turning against Jimmy. He runs to tell Hugh and Judy 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 Yokians' 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 Yokians to listen to him. To Jimmy's surprise, the large egg does not contain a big, scary chicken monster, but a shower of invitations to a party hosted by the Yokians. Goobot and Ooblar pretend to feel rejected to make the townspeople sympathetic towards them and get them to turn against Jimmy more by making them think that Jimmy is a big jerk to the Yokians. When Goobot offers Jimmy to shake hands with him, Jimmy angrily refuses, and this gets him to be despised by the townspeople for being rude to the Yokians and also ban him from the party as Jimmy leaves in anger.

Meanwhile, Cindy, Carl and Sheen are seen at the Candy Bar, and Sheen and Carl are forced to tell Cindy about how to get into Jimmy's lab after she bribed them with a delicious sundae. When they finally do tell her, Cindy tells Goobot about how to get inside the lab, since the latter tricked her into thinking he and Ooblar would build her a lab. Later, Goobot sneaks into Jimmy's bathroom and plucks a piece of hair off of one of Jimmy's inventions. Goobot gets into the lab and steals Jimmy's DNA re-generator to resurrect Poultra from Poultra's toenail, the last piece of her that contains her DNA. Meanwhile, Jimmy is investigating a Yokian freighter which is carrying Poultra's water dish, which confirms that the Yokians are still evil alien jerks.

Jimmy tries to tell his parents about the plan, but they still don't believe him. Later, it is revealed that Jimmy has become the laughing stock of Retroville, as evidenced by a couple who is walking by his house and harshly mocking him and his repeated warnings. When Goobot reveals his plan was to ruin Jimmy's reputation and for him to watch Poultra devour everyone he ever loved and cared for, Jimmy tries to convince his ex-friends that Poultra will show up at the picnic, but as expected, no one believes him. When Jimmy goes back to his lab to investigate the Yokians evil plan, he finds out that his lab has been sabotaged and he can't access his inventions. It turns out that Goobot has stolen all of Jimmy's inventions to revive Poultra. At night of the party, Poultra is resurrected with the DNA re-generator, and she charges towards the town.

Jimmy rushes to the picnic and tries to tell everyone to run for their lives that Poultra is about to attack them and explains what really happened. But everyone still thinks he's lying, and they dismiss his warnings as "the boring and annoying questioning of the program." However, Cindy, upon realizing that it is her fault that the whole town is doomed, gets on stage and stands up for Jimmy as she frantically have the citizens to re-ally with him -- she acknowledges that while Jimmy's caused a lot of problems for the town, he still did everything he could do to fix them (although she leaves out the part where she helped Goobot break into the lab). Hearing this, the citizens decide to trust Jimmy again and listen to him, although Principal Willoughby remains skeptical and tells everyone that he is not believing a word that Jimmy says until that he sees any evidence. Ironically, Poultra, along with Goobot and Ooblar, actually arrives to the picnic and spotted by them. The townsfolk grew receptive at this.

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 are unable to escape the party as it turns out that the party is a trap for the citizens, helps Jimmy into luring Poultra to drink a large tank of soda and eat a dummy made of what is essentially Pop Rocks, which both Cindy and Libby sew it together (with Goddard's help). When Poultra eats the dummy and consumes the entire tank, she cannot release the excess gas created by the candy and soda, she rubs her belly in pain and explodes due to the buildup of pressure. After Everyone cheers at Jimmy, the Yokians (excluding their robot shells) take off from the Earth in a large container mounted on a rocket (the container holds the yolk-like alien bodies, as Yokians possess no evident skeletal structure). Ooblar reveals the gifts the Yolkians gave everyone were made from Octavian weasel vomit, and King Goobot promises Jimmy this is not the last he will see of them.

Then, Jimmy's friends, family and the citizens of Retroville apologize to Jimmy for not believing him about the Yolkians evil plans to destroy Retroville earlier, rejecting him, and mocking him as well. They are then forced to repeat the apology in different languages such as English, French, and Mandarin Chinese, except for the last one as although he was kidding that nobody knew how to speak that language. Jimmy is praised a hero for saving Retroville, and everybody then continues to enjoy the rest of the now-Yolkian less party, Jimmy thanks Cindy for helping him regain everyone's trust, but though Jimmy erases Cindy's short-term memory so she won't remember how to get into the lab.

Home Media[]

DVD[]

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The Complete Series

iTunes[]

• Sheen Estevez Is Here!

Gallery[]

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Quotes[]

Carl: Nothin's comin' out! I think I'm gonna fall!

Sheen: You know this wouldn't happen, if you people would just wear your Ultra Lord Utility Belts!

Hugh: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can talk to Jimbo later, Goobie. In the meantime, come on back and I'll show you my pie eating trophies! Haha! There is a disgusting story for each and every one of them!

Trivia[]

• This special is a direct sequel to the events of the movie as the Yolkians return for revenge.
• This is the first hour long episode of the series.
• The title and the logo used on the title card are references to the fifth Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.
• This is one of the two specials to use the regular intro. The second will be in "League of Villains". Ironically, both feature Goobot.
• Sheen’s “Actually Jimmy,” from "Raise the Oozy Scab" was reused when notices the Yokians ship.
• This is the first episode to have the post-production audio service Salami Studios.
• This is also the first episode where Paul Menichini serves as the sound designer and sound effects editor, Jeremy Pitts as foley mixer, Sanaa Cannella as foley artist, and Re-recording mixer Gregory Cathcart for the rest of the 2 seasons and early to mid-season 3 until Tom Maydeck takes Gregory's position as Re-recording mixer on some episodes of season 3. Instead of Menza Production Group's sound effects editors Dell Little and Deborah Cornish or Re-recording mixer Gary French.
• King Goobot and Ooblar were not played by their voice actors from the film, Patrick Stewart and Martin Short. Instead, S. Scott Bullock and Paul Greenberg reprise their respective roles from the pilot.
• The music that played when the Yolkians invaded Retroville was a parody of the Star Wars theme.
• It's unknown how Ms. Fowl knew about the Yolkians, since she was never abducted due to being shrunken. A simple explanation would be that she was told about what had happened after the events of the movie, and naturally grew to hate the Yolkians.
• For a brief second, when Martha Wheezer says, "Why should we believe you?" she was voiced by Carolyn Lawrence instead of Rob Paulsen. This is also much different from what she regularly sounds like with a deep gruff voice Paulsen used for her.
• Sheen calls Carl "Burp Boy", which becomes his superhero alter ego in "The N-Men".
• Betty Quinlan makes a cameo as Hugh says "Hey look Jimmy's wrong again, the nice Yolkians built us a swimming pool."
  • Not counting "Krunch Time" (as not being fully introduced), this is the first time where story logical characters appear as background cameos.
    • This would occur later in the episodes "Make Room for Daddy-O", "Return of the Nanobots", "Billion Dollar Boy", "Win, Lose and Kaboom!", "Attack of the Twonkies", "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", "Best in Show", and the second and third Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials, with most of them having Betty Quinlan.
• This is the first time a villain pretends to have reformed. The second will be in "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", and the third will be in "The Trouble with Clones".
• When defending Jimmy, Cindy recalls the events from "When Pants Attack", "Normal Boy", and "Substitute Creature". It is unknown how she figured out the meteor was Jimmy's fault.
• Carl playing the empty shells is a parody of the empty storm trooper helmets that the Ewoks used as drums in Return of the Jedi.
• When Jimmy and Cindy were dancing together, the dance a kid was doing in the background was a reference to the Peanuts movie A Charlie Brown Christmas, where in a dance scene, one of the kids was doing the exact same dance.
• The lizard that Sheen found in "My Son, the Hamster" is seen again in this special, and one more time in "The Science Fair Affair".
• Besides the pilot and movie, this is the only time in the series to feature Ooblar. In the series finale, he was revealed to have been traded for sulfur butter.
• This is the only time in the show outside of the movie that Nick is seen holding a purple lollipop, despite that this was actually being dropped for it.
• In the Paramount+ version, unlike the other TV movies, this TV movie was split in two parts like the original airing.
• This episode was not released on Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. This is most likely due to copyright problems surrounding the song “Bust Out the Jams” by 3LW used at the end of the episode, despite being made for this episode.
  • However, it was released on the iTunes as a part of an episode collection titled "Sheen Estevez is Here".
  • It was also eventually made available on Paramount+, alongside the rest of the series.
• Although this episode was released in 2003, you can actually see "Copyright 2002 Viacom International, Inc." at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2002.
• The last time this episode aired on the main Nickelodeon channel was on November 10, 2012.
• This was the first of 2 episodes where the townsfolk ignored Jimmy's warning about aliens being dangerous. The second being "Attack of the Twonkies".
• Jimmy makes the townsfolk say "You were right and we were wrong" in French and Chinese. While they manage with the French translation as "Vous aviez raison et nous avions tort," they do not get the Chinese one. The Chinese translation for "You were right and we were wrong" is "Nǐ shì duì de, wǒmen cuòle."

Goofs[]

• It's strange that the Yolkian guards (who trapped the townspeople when they tried to escape the park) didn't alert King Goobot and Ooblar of Jimmy's plan when they arrived with Poultra.
• When entering the bathroom to steal one of Jimmy's hairs, King Goobot tiptoes across the hall, despite the fact that he's in a floating body and could just fly.
• When Sam says "You know, the annoying blond girl has a point", he was voiced by Rob Paulsen instead of Billy West.
• While the townsfolk were apologizing to Jimmy, Sam is seen with his hair despite losing it when Poultra exploded.
• Sheen's pants were taken to be used for the dummy. But after Poultra exploded, Sheen is wearing his pants again. Then strangely, his pants disappear once more at the dance party.