Official art for the episode.
"The Eggpire Strikes Back" is the first special hour-length episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and the show's sixteenth produced and fifteenth aired episode.
Synopsis[]
While testing out Jimmy's new burp-powered jetpack, Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen see a chicken-shaped spaceship in the sky and realize that the Yolkians have returned. After alerting everyone in town to form a mob, Jimmy shoots a tomato at the Yolkian spaceship, causing it to crash down. King Goobot and Ooblar come out of the spaceship, claiming that they and their fellow Yolkians have reformed, and that they were only evil before because Poultra (who has since abandoned them to rule over another planet) forced them to. Jimmy doesn't believe them, but the Yolkians quickly win over the other citizens by presenting them with gifts. Ooblar then informs Goobot that their "you-know-what machine" was destroyed in the crash, so Goobot decides he'll have to borrow a replacement from one of the Earthlings.
Later that day, Jimmy, now being ridiculed by the rest of Retroville because of his distrusting the Yolkians, comes home to find that King Goobot is now living at his house. After school the next day, Jimmy goes into his lab to get an invention that he can use to prove the Yolkians are lying, but is unable to find one. Goddard then analyzes Goobot's "we come in peace" statement through his built-in lie detector and finds that the Yolkians are indeed lying. When Jimmy goes out to warn his parents, he finds a note from them saying that they've gone to the park to see "the giant egg". Figuring that Poultra is being hatched from it, Jimmy rushes to the park where everyone is gathered around a giant egg. However, when the giant egg hatches, all that comes out are invitations to a picnic party the Yolkians will throw tomorrow evening, discrediting Jimmy further.
Meanwhile, Ooblar has taken notice of Jimmy and Cindy's bitter rivalry, so he and Goobot tell Cindy that they could build a laboratory of her own. However, they convince her that they need to figure out how to get in to Jimmy's lab so that they will know how to make Cindy's lab better. Not realizing the Yolkians are deceiving her, Cindy takes Carl and Sheen out for ice cream at the Candy Bar and successfully tempts them into telling her that Jimmy gets into his lab by holding up a piece of his hair in front of the DNA scanner on his clubhouse door. Cindy claims to the boys that she won't tell anyone, but afterward secretly relays the information to Goobot. The Yolkian king, not bothering to discuss plans for Cindy's lab, steals a strand of hair from Jimmy's Robo-Barber machine.
That night, Jimmy sees a Yolkian freighter traveling down from space. When he travels into the stratosphere to take a closer look, he finds that it's transporting Poultra's water dish, convincing him that Poultra really is about to appear soon. The next morning, he confronts Goobot about it. Goobot gloats that he'll soon have his revenge on Jimmy for his previous defeat, since no one will believe Jimmy's word anymore and they'll soon all be eaten by Poultra. Jimmy attempts to warn his friends not to go to the picnic, but just as Goobot predicted, they don't believe him. After seeing that the Yolkians have even taken over the police force and the army, Jimmy returns to his lab and finds that VOX 2000 has been infected with a computer virus. When he asks VOX what happened, Jimmy sees security footage of Goobot entering the lab using the stolen strand of hair and then finds that his DNA regenerator has been stolen. Out in the woods, we then see Goobot and Ooblar using the regenerator to create a clone of Poultra.
Jimmy arrives at the picnic the Yolkians are throwing and explains to everyone that King Goobot broke into his lab and stole his DNA regenerator to clone Poultra, and that she's coming to eat them all. Almost everyone still thinks he's lying, but Cindy then realizes that she's the reason Goobot was able to steal Jimmy's regenerator. Cindy goes up on stage to stick up for Jimmy, telling everyone that after all the times Jimmy has saved them all (albeit from problems he himself caused), they should actually trust him. The townspeople finally decide to trust Jimmy, especially after they hear Poultra roaring in the distance. Recounting how he tested out his burp-powered jetpack the other day, Jimmy figures out a plan. While everyone fills Poultra's water dish with Purple Flurp, Jimmy and his pals construct a dummy in his likeness, made out of pop rocks. When Poultra arrives, she scarfs down the dummy and then consumes the Purple Flurp, the combination of which then causes her to explode. With their plan ruined, the Yolkians escape in an egg-shaped rocket, with Goobot again swearing that Jimmy hasn't seen the last of him. Afterwards, everyone publicly apologizes to Jimmy for not believing him and then continue to enjoy the party. During the festivities, Jimmy thanks Cindy for sticking up for him, but also informs her that Carl and Sheen confessed to him that they told her how to get into his lab, and he then erases her short-term memory.
Trivia[]
- The title and the logo used on the title card are references to the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back. Also, Carl playing the empty shells at the end parodies a similar scene where empty Stormtrooper helmets were used as drums by the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi.
- This and "The League of Villains" are the only hour-length Jimmy Neutron specials to use the show's regular intro sequence.
- Patrick Stewart and Martin Short did not return for the roles of King Goobot and Ooblar in this episode. Instead, S. Scott Bullock and Paul Greenberg, who voiced them in the pilot episode, reprised the roles.
- This is the first time a villain on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron pretends to reform. It would happen again in "My Big Fat Spy Wedding" and "The Trouble with Clones".
- Sheen calls Carl "Burp Boy", which would be the name of his superhero alter-ego in "The N-Men".
- When defending Jimmy, Cindy recalls the events from "When Pants Attack", "Normal Boy", and "Substitute Creature".
- When the Yolkians are resurrecting Poultra with Jimmy's DNA machine, the push-buttons are labeled "Pot Roast", "Bread", "Chicken", "Frozen Dinner", "Baked Potatoes", and "Fish".
- Miss Fowl knew about the Yolkians, despite not being abducted by them in the movie.
- For some reason, this episode is not available to purchase on Amazon Prime Video, except with a Paramount+ subscription.
Home video releases[]
- DVD
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The Best of Season 1
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The Complete Series
External links[]
- Jimmy Neutron Wiki: The Eggpire Strikes Back
- "The Eggpire Strikes Back" at the Internet Movie Database