
After several years of going through the review process, the episode began production in late 1997, and was completed in 1998. Albie Hecht, the then-president of Nick, was particularly impressed- coining him to be "half Bart Simpson and half Albert Einstein," he strongly praised Johnny's blended personality as an adventurous and intelligent character and one grounded in the reality of childhood, which, according to him, made him "the perfect Nick kid." Following positive reception, Nickelodeon commissioned for a 13-minute pilot episode to be created.

In fall 1995, the idea was pitched to Nickelodeon, who expressed immediate interest in the idea.
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He re-worked it as a short film titled Johnny Quasar and presented it at SIGGRAPH, where he met Steve Oedekerk and worked on a television series of the short as well as the movie. He later stumbled upon the idea while moving into a new house in the early 1990s. Davis created the character when he was originally named, Johnny Quasar (inspired by a facetious nickname that his Summer co-workers had coined for him in his youth) who builds a rocket ship and runs away from his parents. Furthermore, Neutron has a perennial rival with Cindy, who usually makes fun of him for his height.Īn early drawing of the character by Paul Claerhout with the original name Throughout the series, he was almost never seen without his companion, a silver-gray robot dog named Goddard and a rocket ship nicknamed the Strato XL which he uses in the opening sequence. However, since the name sounded similar to Jonny Quest, Davis brain-stormed various other monikers before coming up with his current name.Ĭharacterized by his distinctive gravity-defying hairstyle and ridiculously high IQ of 210, Neutron is considered one of the most intelligent people in Retroville. The character originally rooted from the 1980s by Davis and series co-creator Keith Alcorn under the name of Johnny Quasar, with a 13-minute long short film pitched to SIGGRAPH sometime in 1997 with production beginning in that year. Davis, he is voiced by Debi Derryberry since the test pilot premiered in 1998. James Isaac Neutron is the titular and main character from the film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and its spin-off Nickelodeon computer animated television series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. Lara Jill Miller ( Nickelodeon Party Blast)

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius character
