Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius (2024)

"Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius" is the second segment of the 15^th episode of the third season.

Plot[]

The episode opens up with a big hairy spider with Jimmy looking through it in the park with Sheen. Carl then comes over and says he's got a girlfriend: his Swedish pen pal, Elke Elkberg and she is coming to Retroville. While walking on the street, Jimmy says that Carl is a nerd and she is completely out of his he league. He then asks Carl what she sees in him, so he shows him and Sheen pictures that were actually pictures of Jimmy.

At the Candy Bar, Carl says that he pretended he was a boy genius and had a lab so Elke would like him, basically saying he was Jimmy. He mentioned Elke is coming to Retroville on a way to a tennis tournament and to meet him, and Carl is in a panic. She might find out that he was lying and dump him, so he has Jimmy pose as his lowly assistant and Sheen as a former monkey changed in a lab experiment – and it’s made an impression on Elke. Desperate to keep her impressed, Carl begs Jimmy and Sheen to act in their new roles for the duration of Elke’s visit. When Elke arrives, Jimmy tries to be polite, but Carl rudely tells him to get her bags. When they get in the Hover Car, Carl has no idea how to start it, nearly gets everybody killed and blames it on Jimmy.

Then at Jimmy's lab, Elke asks Carl to bring back her favorite poet, but Carl brings back Attila the Hun, then sends him back with nut brownies. Then, Carl and Jimmy get into a fight and Jimmy and Sheen leave. Elke says she should go, but Carl takes her for a ride in Jimmy's rocket. While Jimmy and Sheen are walking away, they see Carl and Elke in Jimmy's rocket and realize they could get themselves killed in space. So they both get into Jimmy's second rocket, and they go after them then in space. Carl and Elke are about to be hit by a meteor until Jimmy and Sheen save them. When they get back to Earth, Jimmy gets fed up with Carl's abuse and is about to tell Elke the truth but gets restrained by the idiotic Sheen before he can do anything.

Elke tells Carl that she's been lying this whole time; she's a farm girl, loves llamas, and came to America to buy llama feed from her American cousin. Carl tries to tell her he's been lying too; he's not a boy genius and he too loves llamas, but she doesn't believe him until he shows her his Llama Love Society card, and she too has one. Elke accepts Carl for who he is, even if he is just a nerd, and kisses him while Jimmy and Sheen are in shock. They go to see the new baby llama at the petting zoo, while Jimmy questions the events and Sheen quotes a Swedish poet. Exasperated by his day, Jimmy tells him to stop before going back into the house.

Home Media[]

DVD[]

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

iTunes[]

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Season 3

Quotes[]

(A spider up close walks while horror music plays. We see Jimmy looking through a magnify glass with Sheen.)Jimmy: Can you turn the music off Sheen.
Sheen: Sorry! (walks to the radio and turns the music off)
Jimmy: Notice the Miscellana octoria's distinctive tibial spurs and scierotized pedipalps.
Sheen: Fascinating! Can you make it do the hokey-pokey?
Jimmy: Sheen. Go home.
Carl: Guys, guys! I got a girlfriend!
Sheen: Ah! (passes out)
Jimmy: Who is she?
Carl: Well, she's my pen pal from Sweden and she's coming to Retroville and her name is Elke Ekberg.
Sheen (waking up): That was weird. I thought I heard Carl say he had a girlfriend.
'Carl: I do! Here's her picture. (shows Elke's picture)
Sheen: Ah! (this time in a high voice and passes out again).
Carl: She's a teen model, tennis star, gymnast, masseuse and ballet dancer.
Jimmy: Don't take this the wrong way Carl but your kind of a nerd. What does she see in you? (While he says it, Sheen catches up.
Carl: Well I sent her some pictures. (shows Jimmy and Sheen the pictures: Carl mixing a potions for a pill to make his family new, Carl in a rocket ship with Goddard who is sucking the rare ice crystals, and Carl as MacBeth fighting Bolbi as Rangun the Space Pirate in MacBeth in Space.)
Sheen: Man! Where was I when you did all this stuff?
Jimmy: Carl! These are all pictures of me.
Sheen: Ah! (passes out again).
Carl: Yeah, I didn't think she'd like a hefty boy with glasses who's into llamas and sleeps with a blanky and has unsightly spots all over his...
Sheen (interrupts Carl by shaking his head): Too much information.

Carl: So I told her I was a boy genius and I invented cool stuff had a neat lab.
Jimmy: So you said you were me?
Carl: Huh? Oh yeah, kind of. Anyway, Elke has one-day stopover in Retroville on her way to a tennis tournament and I'm afraid when she sees me, she'll find out I've been lying to her.
Jimmy: Because you have!
Carl: Huh? Oh, yeah, kind of. And she won't like me anymore.
Jimmy: And by you, you mean me!
Carl: Huh? Oh, yeah, kind of
Jimmy: If you're looking for help, count me out!
Sheen: Come on, Jimmy, just let Carl pretend to be you. He could show her some, inventions, fly her in the hover car, and she'll never know the difference.
Jimmy: No way! I'm not letting Carl touch my stuff.
Carl: Oh please Jimmy. This maybe my only chance to impress tennis-playing, teen-modeling, ballet-dancing, gymnastics masseuse.
Sheen: Yeah, come on, Jimmy.
(Jimmy looks at his friends and thinks.)
Jimmy: Okay, for one day only you can be Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius.
Carl: Yay, thanks, Jim! You're the best friend in the whole world. Oh, by the way, I told her you're my dimwitted assistant.
Jimmy: What?!
Carl: And then I said you were an experiment that went horribly wrong.
Sheen: Sweet!

Elke: He really use to be a monkey?

Sheen: Monkey! What kind? A flying monkey? Square monkey? A Chunky bunky monkey?!

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Trivia[]

• The episode The Evil Beneath/Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius premiered in the U.S. as the fourth episode in the "5 New Jimmys"-marathon event in January 2006.^[1]
• The photos Carl doctored are scenes from Out, Darn Spotlight, Send in the Clones, and The Mighty Wheezers, respectively.
• The scene where Sheen helps Carl get ready to meet Elke is a reference to the movie Dumb and Dumber.
• One of the hair styles Carl gets is similar to Brittany's.
• This and The Evil Beneath are the only paired ten minute episodes to only feature Jimmy, Carl and Sheen.
• This could be seen as Carl getting even with Jimmy for constantly making Carl his guinea pig.
• This is the second time Carl puts pictures of himself over someone else's. The first was in The Junkman Cometh where he puts his picture in the place of Hugh with Judy.
• Carl forgot the names of Jimmy's inventions, despite going into his lab frequently.
• Music from Billion Dollar Boy is used when Carl brings back Atilla the Hun.
• When Jimmy and Carl start arguing, they appear to be the same height. This is probably because Jimmy is standing on his tip toes.
• This is similar to the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "I'm With Stupid", in which Patrick betrays SpongeBob to impress his folks by making him feel like a complete dimwit.
• At the end of the episode, Sheen quotes whom he believes to be a famous Swedish poet while saying a bunch of gibberish is easily a reference to The Swedish Chef from The Muppets.
• Principal Willoughby was singing "His name was Rico! He was a show boy!", which is like the line "Her name was Lola! She was a showgirl!" from the song Copacabana.
• Running Gag: Sheen passing out from Carl mentioning his relationship with Elke.
• Cindy, Libby, Hugh, Judy and Goddard don't appear in this episode, although Goddard was in one of Jimmy's pictures.
• The title card is a parody of the show's logo.
• Although this episode was released in 2006, you can actually see "Copyright 2003 Viacom International, Inc." at the end of the credits. This means that the episode was produced in 2003.

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