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Win, Lose, and Kaboom is a Nickelodeon TV movie based on the popular TV series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. It parodies reality TV in general, especially Survivor and The Apprentice, and for game shows like Wheel of Fortune. The movie was first aired in July 2004 as part of the Nicktoon Summer Film Festival. This movie was originally named You Bet Your Life Form.

Plot synopsis

Jimmy and friends find a strangely marked rock from outer space. After decoding the message written on the rock -- a riddle, with implications of intergalactic prestige for any planet that answers it -- he and his friends (Libby, Cindy, Carl, Sheen, Goddard and Bolbi) sneak onto the military installation holding the rock to inscribe the answer. After being "beamed up" to their destination, they find themselves in an alien television studio, representing Earth in Intergalactic Showdown, a popular alien reality show hosted by a shifty host by the name of Meldar (voiced by Tim Allen). Three other teams are represented in this particular episode: the Brains, an evolved species with only brains and eyes for bodies; the Needleheads, highpitched, neurotic beings that indeed somewhat resemble nerve cells; and the Gorlocks, a warmongering, martial race (and the only humanoid team aside from the Humans).

Jimmy, overestimating his intellect and its usefulness in the games, causes the Human team to lose the first two events: Florgus ball, a strange hybrid of polo, jai-alai and (perhaps) Quidditch, with large mechanoid mantis-like beings named Florguses as transportation, and a test of speed and cunning, in which the team must retrieve a glowing mushroom from the mouth of a cave guarded by a deceptively cute, but powerful beast.

After the Survivor-inspired scene in which the team is forced to vote one of their members off the team (the vote is a 3-way tie between Jimmy, Cindy and Bolbi before Bolbi's misunderstood vote against himself casts him off), April, the small but spry female Gorlock (voiced by Alyssa Milano), colludes with Jimmy, convincing him to work together to overthrow Meldar and the show itself.

In the next event, a Fear Factor-style eating contest, Jimmy (despite having calculated the exact strength necessary to spin the wheel and choose any generally human-palatable food) reluctantly allows Carl (who, given his appetite, could literally eat anything) to spin for the team. After a Needlehead fails to stomach a banana cream pie, Carl tries, and is enraptured with, an odd alien dish known as a "Plutonian gut chunk". After this event, Cindy sees Jimmy agreeing to ally with April and the Gorlocks, an alliance sealed with what Jimmy and Cindy interpret as a kiss, but is in fact a seal of trust to April's people. Both Cindy and April's teammate disapprove of this and stop the discussion.

In the meantime, the parents of Retroville have found themselves receiving the galactic Cable Network that supplies Intergalactic Showdown, and while Hugh Neutron has trouble staying away from the billions of other channels his television set now carries, the other parents convince him to keep watching the game show while they build a contraption to save their children.

Eventually, Jimmy truly learns how to swallow his pride and work as a team to defeat the Brains in an obstacle course (including a false shortcut that leads to a mass hallucination on the part of the children). The children, their parents (who arrive in time for the end of Showdown), and the other three races combine their forces to fight Meldar and his robotic minions, take the gadgets that endowed him with the power to coerce his contestants into playing, and end the show forever, ensuring the safety of all planets involved.

Trivia

For a special goof, see the talk page.
The Junkman made a cameo in this episode.

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