The League of Villains (episode)

The League of Villains
The title card for The League of Villains
Episode	20-21
Season	3
Airdate (US)	June 18, 2005
Previous	Lady Sings the News

The League of Villains is a two-part episode in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius in the third season. In production order, this is the series finale.

Plot

King Goobot from the original film sends invitations to a collection of Jimmy's adversaries from the past so they can join together to destroy him. These villains are; Professor Calamitous, Beautiful Gorgeous, The Junkman, Baby Eddie, Eustace Strych, Grandma Taters, Zix, Travoltron, and Tee. The villains spend most of their time squabbling among each other; in particular, Tee is disrespected by everyone and Beautiful Gorgeous and the Junkman can't stand each other.

Meanwhile on Earth, Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, Libby, and Sheen are in the lab. Jimmy is showing off the newly upgraded wormhole generator and wants his friends to test it for him, not caring that they'll never return home. Cindy notices a containment chamber in which Jimmy keeps his dangerous experiments which are; the love potion and the N-Men packets, which would temporarily restore their superpowers for thirty minutes. Jimmy's friends show interest in regaining their superpowers, but Jimmy refuses to let them do so -- after what happened last time, Jimmy's decided that the packets should only be used in the case of extreme emergencies (like a literal "life or death" situation). Jimmy believes that people cannot change and that they would still go out of control with their powers.

The League of Villains arrive, and, acting in teams, they disable Goddard, seal off Jimmy's lab, and incapacitate Jimmy's friends by playing music that is impossible to not dance to. Once this is done, they kidnap Jimmy with ease. Unbeknownst to the villains and Jimmy, Sheen manages to sneak onto the ship before it exits Earth's orbit despite being stuck in dance position.

The villains laugh evilly at Jimmy once they abduct him and hold an unfair trial, without giving Jimmy a chance to defend himself, and hatefully declare him guilty. Sheen breaks into the courtroom in a poorly thought-out plan to rescue Jimmy, which doesn't go much further than breaking into the room. Jimmy and Sheen get taken to a prison cell, where Tee guards them, while the villains argue about what the best way to kill Jimmy is. After thinking of complicated and silly ways to get rid of Jimmy, Eddie suggests simply blasting Jimmy and Sheen into deep space and they all agree.

Meanwhile, Sheen starts making friends with Tee, even though Jimmy warns him not to. Jimmy stubbornly believes that Tee is evil and cannot change, as Jimmy said earlier about the N-Men packets. However, Tee warms up to Sheen because the other villains have been disrespecting him and the two become friends. Tee loans a PDA-like device to Sheen (which contains Tee's diary), which Jimmy uses to contact Carl, informing Carl about the kidnapping and what to do. Carl, following the instructions, takes Cindy and Libby to the lab, grabs the N-Men packets (unknowingly taking the Love Potion), and unknowingly drops Jimmy's packet. Cindy sees Jimmy's pictures of Betty Quinlan, which Carl quickly takes away from her. The three shoot off in Jimmy's rocket to save Jimmy and Sheen from the League of Villains. Cindy flies the rocket instead of leaving it on autopilot like Jimmy asked. Cindy finds another picture of Betty Quinlan on Jimmy's rocket and they almost get hit by a plane.

Jimmy's parents see the kids take off and try to see if there's anything they can do to help. They head to Jimmy's lab (which Hugh still thinks is a disco); while there, Hugh plays around with Jimmy's wormhole generator, and accidentally sends the town back to the Cretaceous Era 75 million years in the past.

Tee, wanting to help his new friends, helps Jimmy and Sheen escape. The three of them use a small escape pod to get off the ship. The villains discover this plot, but they are too late to do anything about it. Fortunately for the villains, Carl, Libby and Cindy arrive. The villains bomb them, and they crash on Mercury and Cindy agrees to put the rocket on autopilot next time. The villains chase after Jimmy's friends, knowing that Jimmy will turn back to help them, which is exactly what Jimmy does.

As Jimmy shows up to help his friends, the villains arrive as well. Jimmy and his friends take the N-Men packets and drinks them, all except for Jimmy, who realizes he got the Love Potion. They immediately realize that the packets were mixed up, as each of them has someone else's superpowers: Carl and Libby get each other's powers, Sheen and Cindy get each other's powers, and Carl had given Jimmy his love potion by mistake instead of the packet containing Jimmy's N-Men powers.

Because they're not used to the different superpowers, they mess up the attempt to defeat the villains (which are Libby accidentally burps at Cindy that blast her in the distance and Sheen and Carl gets into melee over Cindy's superpower), much to Jimmy's embarrassment and the villains (except Tee's) amusement. The villains then have Junkman put them into a pit and have him pick up a boulder to throw on them. Cindy, stuttering, tries to confess that she loves Jimmy. Realizing what she's saying, reminds Jimmy of the love potion, and kisses Cindy on the cheek as he runs off to save them. Cindy tries to him that that wasn't going say love, before she admires over Jimmy's kissed spot on her cheek. Jimmy pours the love potion into a funnel-shaped rock and, with Tee lifting him up, uses the rock as a makeshift to blow the love potion at the villains causing the Junkman and Beautiful Gorgeous to fall madly in love with each other to the point of becoming so distracted that the Junkman throws the boulder aside to make out with Beautiful Gorgeous. The two then start kissing nonstop, much to everyone’s disgust and Professor Calamitous tries to push them away from each other, telling his daughter to stop it, but fails. Jimmy and his friends then take advantage of the distraction to escape.

Jimmy and his friends think about hiding on the moon, but change their minds when a message from the very annoying Brobot comes up on the rocket monitor, so they ride back to Retroville to face the villains. The League of Villains (now only Grandma Taters, Calamitous, King Goobot, Baby Eddie, Eustace, the Junkman, Beautiful Gorgeous, Zix and Travoltron) follow them. On their way back to Retroville, Carl notices the wormhole that Hugh created. Jimmy tries to figure out how to reverse the wormhole while his friends use their superpowers to try to protect the townspeople from the various dinosaurs. Zix and Travoltron ultimately side with the heroes in the process after the kids rescue them from the snake. The rest of the villains show up to complicate matters.

Fortunately, Jimmy finds a way to fix the force field, but does not want the villains to return. He gets a force field generator from the Junkman's ship and traps the League of Villains (excluding the Space Bandits) in the Cretaceous Era, while Cindy disables the wormhole, after Jimmy promises to throw out all of his pictures of Betty Quinlan. At the end, Sam opens the Candy Bar and invites everyone in, and the redeemed villains offer to pay for the milkshakes. Jimmy takes Cindy by the hand as they walk in after she asks him about the villains.

Meanwhile in the Cretaceous Era, the other villains are cornered by a T-Rex and Baby Eddie drives it away with a 5 day old dirty diaper.

Quotes

Nick: WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME?!

Carl: (still dancing) Somebody do something!

Cindy: (still dancing) Libby, smash the boombox!

Libby: I can't!

Cindy: Well, then you have to try tripping!

Libby: What?! You have to be tripping!

Cindy: Libby, we have no choice! Dance towards that banana peel!

Libby: Oh, all right.

(Libby slips on the banana peel and the boombox explodes)

Libby: Oh, my leg!

Carl: That was horrible! Although, by the end I feel I was git-pivot-slide!

Libby: Actually, it was more like slick-slide-pivot.

Carl: Well, you're probably putting too much hip into it.

Libby: Oh, really? Well maybe you don't know how to dance.

Carl: You're the one who fell!

Libby: I tripped to save us, you little twerp.

Carl: Don't call me a little twerp!

Cindy: HEY! HEY! Can it, you guys! we have a situation here. Jimmy's been nabbed by a alien space ship.

Carl: Oh yeah. I wonder what they'll do to him?

Zix: Tee, did you help those prisoners escape?

Tee: Yeah, fool, and I'll do it again!

King Goobot: You won't be getting that chance! I hereby banish you from the League of Villains!

Travoltron: Tee, you broke my heart.

Tee: I'm gonna break your face!

(Jimmy and Judy snoring)

Hugh: And that's how I fell in love with pie.

(Jimmy and Judy wake up)

Jimmy: Great story, Dad.

Cindy: Jimmy, there's something I always wanted to tell you. I lo- I lo...

Jimmy: Love potion. That's it! (Kisses Cindy's cheek) Thanks, Cindy.

Cindy: I- I- I wasn't gonna say "love"!

Calamitous: Daughter, Stop kissing that smelly creature this instant!

Baby Eddie: Hey! They're getting away!

King Goobot: Junkman! Start your ship! Junkman.

Beautiful Gorgeous: You stink, you're ugly, and I love you.

Junkman: You’re spoiled, obnoxious, and all mine.

Eddie: I may throw up.

Eustace: Yes that’s good lad. Give the other hand a rest.

Professor Calamitous: Stop it! Stop it! He’s not even our species! Children.

Grandma Tators: They’ll break your heart every time.

King Goobot: Villains, we've got to get Neutron! To the ship!

Jimmy: I can't make top speed! My rocket must've been damaged when it landed! I wonder who was driving?!

(Cindy laughs nervously)

Jimmy: We've gotta hide somewhere so the villains don't find us!

Libby: There's the moon! We can hide there!

Jimmy: Good idea.

Brobot: Hi Jimmy! I miss you! Wanna play a game? I can make moon castles! Wanna hear a song I wrote? It's called "I Love Jimmy"! (singing) I love Jimmy, I love Jimmy, I love Jimmy, I love Jimmy.

Jimmy: I'd rather take my chances with the villains.

Sheen: Good call.

Cindy: Agreed.

Carl: Can't blame you.

Libby: Word.

King Goobot: Faster! We got to catch them!

Zix: Keep your shell on! I've gotta get a lock on their vapor trail.

(The Junkman and Beautiful Gorgeous are dancing and giggling)

Beautiful Gorgeous: Oh, you...

Grandma Taters: I'm going to take a little nappie. (snores loudly)

Baby Eddie: CHANGE THIS DIAPER OR WEAR IT, RICH BOY!

Eustace Strych: NEVER!

King Goobot: Oh. They just don't make good villains anymore.

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Trivia

• As this is the series finale of Jimmy Neutron in production order, the second and third Jimmy Timmy Power Hour specials were produced after Season 3 making them unknown from the series while the first one was produced during season 2.
• This is the second special that does not have a custom opening after The Eggpire Strikes Back.
• Flashbacks from Clash of the Cousins, Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion, One of Us, The Great Egg Heist, The Junkman Cometh, and The Incredible Shrinking Town were used in this episode.
• Ooblar, Evil Jimmy, Dr. Moist, Meldar Prime, Gortox the Irritable, Bueford Lee Stormshuckle, The Nanobots and Seymour and the other villains are not part of the League of Villains. Unlike the other villains not being present at the League of Villains, Ooblar had a reason for not being present; King Goobot mentioned that he traded him to the Bulgozians for sulfur butter.
• This episode takes place after One of Us, My Big Fat Spy Wedding, The Incredible Shrinking Town and Clash of the Cousins, but Nickelodeon aired this episode prior to these ones in the U.S., with the episode Best in Show being the last episode to air in the U.S..
• Due to airing out of order, this episode is commonly believed to be the first appearances of both Baby Eddie and Grandma Taters. However, the two villains' first produced and chronological appearances are "Clash of the Cousins" and "One of Us" respectively. Ironically, they ended up being paired together when defeating Goddard.
• Contrary to popular belief, this is the actual series finale, as opposed to Lady Sings the News.
• Not counting any of the shorts that premiered prior to the original movie, the only characters to appear in every single episode in the series are Jimmy, Carl and Sheen.
• The Imperial March from Star Wars plays many times in this episode.
• The scene where Hugh said when he was seven years old he “sat on a banana” is actually considered a "Gay" joke.
• While Jimmy is showing the N-Men packets, a Twonkie can be seen behind one of them.
• The music that plays when Sheen tells Jimmy and Cindy to "agree to disagree" the same as the music that plays at the end of Lady Sings the News.
• This episode shows that Nick has lost his popularity, due to constantly breaking his leg.
• It's revealed that, despite his obvious feelings for Cindy, Jimmy still hasn't completely gotten over his crush on Betty Quinlan, to the point of having numerous photographs of her in his lab (and at least one in the manual for his rocket ship).
• When the villains are discussing Jimmy's sentence, one of the suggestions was to freeze him in carbonite, like Han Solo is in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Calamitous does this to Hugh, Judy and Goddard in Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide! when he was in Jorgen Von Strangle's body.
• Originally, this episode was supposed to be a foreshadowing of many elements to come in season four. Unfortunately, DNA Productions went bankrupt due to the failure of The Ant Bully before any episodes could be produced. As a result, the staff moved to O Entertainment (opening a subsidiary named Omation), which would later produce Planet Sheen and Back at the Barnyard. There are four scripts finalized for season four, but two of them were never released to the public.
• The last time this episode aired on NickToons was on May 5, 2014.
• It is unknown how the Space Bandits returned to normal size or how they retrieved their spaceship after the events of The Incredible Shrinking Town.
• Although this episode was released in 2005, "Copyright 2003 Viacom International, Inc." can be seen at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2003, 2 years before its air date.

Goofs

• There are several inconsistencies between Goobot's actual invitation letter and his monologue.

  

  Goobot's invitation letter for League of Villain's first meeting

  • While in his invitation it's stated "... We will meet in Great Hall of Villainy, Gamma Quadrant 6.", the monologue states "... We will meet in The Giant Chicken Ship, currently docked in Gamma Quadrant 6.".
  • In the invitation letter, it's "... An organization devoted to helping us better understand...." while in monologue it's "... An organization devoted to helping us to better understand...."
• When the villains we're giving suggestions on how to eliminate Jimmy and Sheen, Tee is seen among the rest of the villains when he was actually guarding Jimmy and Sheen in prison.
• It is unknown why Goddard didn't go with Carl, Cindy and Libby to rescue Jimmy and Sheen.
• The love potion was referred to as Love Potion 976/J (pronounced "Love Potion nine-seven-six-slash-J") in its original episode, but in this episode it's referred to as Love Potion 976-J (pronounced "Love Potion nine-seven-six-dash-J")