Attack of the Twonkies is the first episode of season 3 and a special two-part episode in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. In this episode, Jimmy visits a comet, and while harvesting dust from the comet's surface accidentally brings a small fluffy alien life-form called Twonkies back to Earth.
Jimmy visits a comet, and while harvesting dust from the comet's surface accidentally brings a small fluffy alien life-form back to Earth. Carl brings the alien, which he calls a "Twonkie", to class, and it produces multiple off-springs. Everyone finds the Twonkies irresistibly adorable and adopts one. However, when the Twonkies hear music they morph into grotesque and vicious monsters. Jimmy and the citizens of Retroville must stop and capture the dangerous rampaging Twonkies and send them back to their comet before it leaves Earth's orbit.
Cast[]
Jimmy Neutron (Debi Derryberry)
Carl Wheezer (Rob Paulsen)
Sheen Estevez (Jeffrey Garcia)
Godard (Frank Welker)
Cindy Vortex (Carolyn Lawrence)
Libby Folfax (Crystal Scales)
Hugh Neutron (Mark DeCarlo)
Judy Neutron (Megan Cavanagh)
Twonkies (Frank Welker)
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Behind the scenes[]
Moral: Although a creature may seem cute and harmless, keeping it as a pet can be dangerous.
This episode was first released in Canada on September 6, 2004.
In the pet shop, with a close look, Leppy can be seen in one of the cages.
Several clips from this episode can be seen in the third season’s intro.
Betty Quinlan and Eustace Strych make cameos in this episode. Betty is seen as one of the people who Libby asked to sign her letter to Graystar, then as one of the kids during the practice Rehearsal until Cindy announced that it had been canceled due to the Twonkies attacking, and then during one of Graystar's songs as she can be seen dancing with all the other kids, and Eustace makes a cameo in one of the movie theater seats watching the Jet Fusion movie.
This is the last episode to be released on VHS.
This is one of the few episodes after Season 1 where Jimmy does not wear his lab coat in his lab. This is likely because he came back from Twonkus 3.
The Ultra Lord theme song that Sheen sings to his Twonkie is a parody of the Spider-Man theme song.
While Jimmy and Goddard on the asteroid, the song that plays on the rocket's radio is the minute movement of "String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5" by Luigi Boccherini.
While not appearing in this episode, Sheen pretends to be Bolbi Stroganovsky when he tries to get another chance to be in the school chorus.
Jimmy and Carl are the only kids in Ms. Fowl's class who are not in the school chorus.
In the video game version, Sheen's singing reverses the evolution process, but here, it just puts the Twonkies to sleep.
Because Sheen's twonkie was not sent back and reproduced, twonkies became a common background sight throughout the town for the remainder of the series.
They would be later seen in "The N-Men", "Who Framed Jimmy Neutron?", Flippy", "King of Mars", "El Magnifico", "Best in Show", "My Big Fat Spy Wedding", "How to Sink a Sub", "Lady Sings the News", and "The League of Villains", which are all the last episodes of the series (Not counting the Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials). However, they are never seen morphing into monsters, even when music plays around them.
Jimmy claims he hasn't seen Sheen in hours when questioned by Carl on why he has to do a dangerous task. However, Sheen was at his house the whole time. You would think for a boy genius that Sheen's casa would be the first place Jimmy would check.
Sheen is shown to be a horrible singer in this episode, but in certain episodes, like "The Trouble with Clones", he sings perfectly fine.
Before the scene where Carl reveals to Jimmy that he brought his twonkie to school, a scene from "Hypno-Birthday To You" was reused.
When Cindy and Libby do baby size classes with their Twonkies, the music playing is somewhat similar to the song "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C + C Music Factory.
While Sheen is strapped to Jimmy's hover car to sing with his horrible voice to the Twonkie monster, the first two songs Sheen sings are to the beat of Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner and the folk song She'll Be Comin Around the Mountain and then finishes off with his own version and rendition of the Kansas state song Home on the Range.
While Carl is singing his bending and stretching song for his Twonkie, you can see many different board games in the background including Family, Bungle, Wild N' Wacky West, Sweetland, Makin Money, I Apologize!, Super Happy Fun Time, 'Wacky Word Scramble, and Anti-Trust. These games are oblivious parodies of The Game of Life, Boggle, Jenga, Wild Wild West, Candyland, Monopoly, Sorry!, Apples to Apples, Scrabble, and Anti-Monopoly.
The frog picture Carl drew from the Movie can be seen in Carl's room when his Twonkie becomes a Stomper.
This is the third episode and last TV movie not to have the theme song. However, the instrumental version of the theme song still can be heard in the end credits.
This is the second episode to feature a character holding up a sign reading “Ouch”, the first was "When Pants Attack".
This is the second instance in which Butch mentioned tree frogs; the first was in Brobot.
According to this video, a deleted scene is revealed where instead of Judy snatching Flippy from Hugh and throwing it to Jimmy to use as fuel to the rocket, there originally was going to be a scene where Flippy insults Hugh so bad, Hugh gets fed up with him and throws him to Jimmy, so he can burn him.
This animated showreel also reveals the episode was produced in 2004.
The song that Hugh has Flippy sing while drinking water is "The Yankee Doodle Boy" or "(I'm A) Yankee Doodle Dandy".
This was the second of 2 episodes where the townsfolk ignored Jimmy's warning about aliens being dangerous. The first being "The Eggpire Strikes Back".
Coincidentally, both episodes feature Betty Quinlan in a cameo.
Note[]
This one-hour episode has a special theme in the beginning.