Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy is a 2005 animated television special and the sequel to Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular (2003). It is based on Jill Thompson's second book in her Scary Godmother series, also named The Revenge of Jimmy. Garry Chalk, Britt Irivine, Brit McKillip, Scott McNeil, and Tabitha St. Germain reprise their roles, while Dexter Bell, Alexander Ludwig, Nathan Tipple, and Richard Warke replace voice actors of characters from the first special.
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| Created by | Jill Thompson |
| Based on | Scary Godmother by Jill Thompson |
| Written by | Ian Boothby |
| Directed by | Ezekiel Norton |
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| Composer | Bob Buckley |
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| Original language | English |
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| Producer | Barbara Zelinski |
| Editor | David Tilgner |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
| Production company | Mainframe Entertainment |
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| Release | August 29, 2005 (DVD)[a] |
The story sees Jimmy who, after gaining a fear of monsters the previous Halloween, tries to destroy the holiday althgether, leading his younger cousin Hannah to undo his scheme to save her monster friends. Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy released on DVD on August 29, 2005, before its television premiere on October the same year.
Plot
editMany Halloweens ago, Hannah's older cousin, Jimmy, loved dressing up like a monster until last Halloween when he discovered that monsters are real and fears they will get him again this year. He plans to end Halloween to protect himself while his friends, Daryl, Bert, and Katie, decide to go trick-or-treating with Hannah while distancing themselves from Jimmy due to his monster paranoia.
On the Fright Side, Scary Godmother, Harry, Skully Pettibone, Bug-A-Boo, Max, Ruby, and Orson are planning another annual Halloween party. However, the Fright Side is being affected by Jimmy's actions to end the holiday, such as smashing pumpkins in the pumpkin patch, sneaking into stores and writing “Poisoned” on the candy and “Flammable” on the costumes, and vandalizing the abandoned spook house Hannah met Scary Godmother last time with toilet paper. And as this is happening, he is slowly turning into an actual devil such as growing pointed ears, a unibrow, a scrunched-up nose, a wide grin and sharp teeth. Hannah successfully gets around these hurdles by making the smashed pumpkin holes serve as mouth, making new treats, and imagining the toilet paper on the house as ghosts, putting the Fright Side universe back together and stable. Hannah takes Daryl, Bert and Katie to the house, introducing them to the monsters and invites them to the party on the Fright Side.
Jimmy has one more plan to spoil the holiday, by stealing the party's Best Costume prize. He is initially successful, stealing the prize while all the guests are dancing. However, Jimmy bursts out loud the pumpkin consists of candy, which is noticed by a food-addicted Harry; a fight between the werewolf and Jimmy ensues, before Bug-A-Boo arrives and scares Jimmy, while Jimmy also makes Bug-A-Boo scream. After Jimmy's fright, Bug-a-Boo explains that he looked really scary, so Scary Godmother announces that Jimmy has won the contest. Jimmy is back to his old self again, and the party continues.
Production
editScary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy is based on the second book in Jill Thompson's Scary Godmother series of the same name, which was released in 1998.[1] It was produced in three months by a team of 14 animators using the same keyframe technique as the original special.[2] Five actors from the original special reprise their roles in The Revenge of Jimmy: Tabitha St. Germain as the titular Scary Godmother and Countess Ruby, Britt McKillip as Hannah Marie, Scott McNeil as Mr. Skully Pettibone and Count Max, Garry Chalk as Harry and Bug-A-Boo, and Brittney Irvine as Katie. Four characters had their voice actors replaced, one of them being Jimmy, who was initially voiced by Alex Doduk but in the sequel was performed by Alexander Ludwig.[3] Orson is voiced by Richard Warke replacing Adam Pospisil, Bert is voiced by Dexter Bell taking over Danny McKinnon, and Daryl by Nathan Tipple replacing Noel Callahan.
Release and reception
editScary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment to DVD on August 29, 2005, with bonus features such as deleted scenes, storyboards, and interview segments such as a Fright Side Chat.[4] It premiered on Cartoon Network on October 7, at 7:30 PM, and re-aired on the network that month five times (at a later time on October 7, 10, 18, 30, and 31). Halloween Spooktakular also had five airings on the network that month.[5] Like its predecessor, The Revenge of Jimmy became an annual tradition to run on the network during the Halloween season.[6][7][8][9][10][11] In Canada, it aired three times on YTV on October 25, 29, and 30 the same year.[2] The special was nominated for Best Animated Production by the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts.[12] It and Halloween Spooktakular were included on Lionsgate's 2014 Kids Halloween 4-Pack that also featured two episodes from other cartoon series ("Eloise's Rawther Unusual Halloween" and "Wubbzy Goes Boo!").[13] Both Scary Godmother specials became available on the Canadian streaming service Crave in October 2020.[14]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Later premiered on television in October the same year.
References
edit- ^ Thompson, Jill (September 1998). The Revenge of Jimmy – Jill Thompson. Sirius entertainment. ISBN 9781579890209. Retrieved November 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
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- ^ "Exclusive Feature: Alexander Ludwig". Da Man. May 25, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ "'Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy'". ICv2. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ "New Scary Godmother Special". Comics Continuum. September 29, 2005. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ^ "Scary Godmother on Cartoon Network". Comics Continuum. September 22, 2006. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
- ^ "Scary Godmother on Cartoon Network". Comics Continuum. October 8, 2007. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
- ^ "Briefly". Comics Continuum. October 6, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ "Briefly". Comics Continuum. October 2, 2011. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
- ^ Arrant, Chris (September 28, 2012). "Cartoon Network Celebrates Halloween All October with Brand New Original Specials". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- ^ "Halloween-related TV programming for this week". The Columbus Dispatch. October 25, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ DeMott, Rick (August 10, 2006). "CAEAA Announces its Debut List of Nominees". Animation World Network. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ "Kids Halloween 4-Pack". Amazon. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
- ^ @MainframeAnim (October 30, 2020). "Bringing back those childhood memories! Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular and The Revenge of Jimmy is now streaming on @CraveCanada! Enjoy. #ScaryGodmother #HalloweenMovies #HalloweenAtHome" (Tweet). Retrieved November 13, 2020 – via Twitter.
