wait remember Jimmy Two Shoes it was a show on Disney XD that came out in February of 2009 that
despite lasting for only two seasons ended up having quite a bit of lore associated with it
Jimmy Two Shoes was created by Edward Kay and Sean Scott focusing on the story of a kid named
Jimmy Two Shoes that lived in miseryville the apparent worst place to ever live this show
genuinely surprised me it has unique palette in tone also it has lots of creativity with
the World building of miseryville but another interesting part of the series is found in the
development with its lost pilot and with its troubles and network censorship So today we're
going to talk a bit about that along with what the show itself was all about welcome back to
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don't miseryville is our main setting a place that is home to mutants demons and
monsters alike with weird geography and really fantasy like deadly Landscapes and everything
in miseryville is exactly that miserable our main character James Jimmy Two Shoes is equally
the opposite of miseryville his optimism knows no bounds and he'll stop at nothing to spread
happiness and cheer to those around him Jimmy is a 14-year-old kid and it's kind of implied that
he hasn't been in miseryville very long we as the audience discover new things along with him
experiencing The Fish Out of Water moments with Jimmy but he doesn't seem to be upset that he's
in miseryville in fact miseryville is very much Jimmy's home it's got its inhospitable moments
being surrounded by Lava Pits wastelands and monster infested forests but for the most part
Jimmy is comfortable his life focuses on whatever is Just Happening that day with his friends Beezy
and Heloise and specifically the way that Jimmy's optimism clashes with Lucius heus iith whose job
at reigning wealthy man is to spread misery and pain instead of explicitly being Lucifer
king of hell he becomes Lucius wealthy capitalist owning and operating misery Inc where its workers
are forced to build devices with the only purpose of making their lives more miserable he is often
accompanied by his assistant Samy who is actually inspired by some past peers of Edwards that he
especially didn't like he characterizes Samy as pathetic and desperate on the other hand Lucius
is a villain that Edward seems to respect more in his own words Lucius has quite remarkable Powers
but doesn't use them most of the time because he likes to think that he's so smart that he can
control a situation without using them so I guess that's why he's focused on the emotional beef that
he has with a literal child because Jimmy just kind of unintentionally happens to dissipate
misery wherever he goes we'll be right back to Jimmy Two Shoes now back to Jimmy Two Shoes to
make it more interesting his son beey is best friends with Jimmy and technically eighth in line
to inherit the corporate Throne of miseryville but he doesn't care much about spreading misery like
his dad instead he takes on the role of Jimmy's friend he's characterized as lazy preferring to
eat sleep and play video games but despite him being characterized also as well dumb throughout
the series he shows that he is capable of being deceptive and motivated by selfish desires so I
guess even though their relationship is strained he's not wholly unlike his dad after all Heloise
is a pretty cool character originally she was sent as a killer by Lucius to Jimmy specifically
to torture him Edward cites that he was inspired by some of his ex-girlfriends for her character
but regardless she ended up falling for Jimmy's infectious charm and drops her initial agenda of
torturing him her character went through a few changes and in the series she is known not as
a killer but as a mad scientist who was also obsessed with Jimmy her character was created
by Edward but Shawn is responsible for the look of Heloise giving her the iconic scar on her forehead
while there's no set in stone lore for how she got it Edward speculates that it could have
happened in a number of ways including her just being risky and doing dangerous things or even a
botched labotomy her personality is well-rounded as Edward explained her relationship with Jimmy he
said that sweet innocent guys appeal to the last shred of humanity in her so yeah she does have
humanity and throughout the series I guess Jimmy must bring out that last shred of it because she
expresses a lot of relatable emotions she's loyal and dedicated to her friends she can be sensitive
and kind especially in the second season when we see her personality shift to be more cheery
and bubbly which is pretty hit or miss with some fans because in speaking about the second season
you can clearly see how its dark comedy Roots were sort of abandoned in favor of making the series in
general lighter in tone Shawn Paints the picture of PeeWee Herman in hell as an early idea for what
this series could be he says the show evolved from that concept and evolve it did instead of
opting for a traditional base of the setting they decided to reapo the died in sent toell
Trope in a classy way the answer was alternate reality this way they could one appeal to more
people universally and two go in with a clean slate they could make the rules if it was more
like an upside down World instead of the classic and admitt restrictive Nine Circles of Inferno
and to understand exactly where Jimmy is we have to talk about how Jimmy got there in the first
place Edward says that he views what happened to Jimmy as a misalignment he speculates that before
he was an average boy living in the suburbs with a white picket fence helping an elderly
person to cross the street when he's then hit by a bus you know he wasn't supposed to die type of
thing he's then sent to an upside down Dimension where everything is miserable and unpleasant all
the time initially it was created for Teleton in Canada who at the time according to Edward had a
much more mature audience Teleton was apparently a bit more laxed at least compared to when the
series got involved with Disney in the US this is where they did some tightening up with the bulk
of its changes being later on in its production mainly with airing in the US with Disney they
faced a lot of problems with even lighter humor like toilet humor there was an episode called the
big drip that did not air in the US because of this but in developing the series there wasn't
that much creative suppression Edward says that the series changed slightly here and there as it
was passed around to different broadcasters who all had different tastes and views on the world
and underworld but the possibility of a darker version of the series existing and waiting to
be uncovered is just too tempting for some fans and it's just too hard not to pursue that in fact
the majority of attention on the show nowadays focuses on Jimmy before all of the development
the infamous search for the Jimmy twu's lost pilot has been something fans the series or even just
lost media Hunters have been digging into and I think with lost media searches it's better left
to those who are more qualified and who have done the digging in research already the ones who have
put extensive work into all that and I do not want to discredit that so in the description below I
have linked to a video from L supersonic q that is all about this exact subject and they always
do a great job when digging for And discussing lost media so go check that out we'll be right
back to Jimmy Two Sho now back to Jimmy Two Sho as far as what I think of about the series I truly
appreciate a lot of the darker adjacent things to point out within it it's a truly unique setting
that contrasts with the main character as Jimm's attitude and nature is genuinely cheerful making
the things around him seem so much better than they truly are I just find a lot of that Joy hard
to not like it all I wouldn't say this show is up there with the best of them to come from this era
but there was a lot of fun with this cool premise to be had I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't love
to see this premise done in more of an adult form to really play into the location inspiration a
bit more but since it's not that it wouldn't be fair to compare it to what it never was I think
there is a bit of an older audience skew when it comes to a lot of the references or jokes found
throughout the series but it has a young ate heart nature to it that makes it feel accessible to both
a slightly older crowd and a younger one there's a lot of energy coming from how quick and Spunky
the series is animated and the voice performances all deliver an authentic representation of who
these characters come off to be the second season does come off a lot less exciting in
the fact that it feels forcefully a bit lighter in tone but I wouldn't say that there's nothing
of value there it just feels like overall part of the formula is missing and there is a cool
concept to play around with here that if done in a more mature or even just further explored
in less restrictive way would be pretty fantastic to see this double Fringe Miss is brought to you
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for technically two seasons and it was a solid run at the end of the day there was a lot of
confusion with a potential season 3 which left some Canadian fans disappointed when they sat
down for what they thought would be season 3 and it ended up just being the second half of season
2 so the fans of the show wanted no needed a third season but unfortunately for them no
more episodes of Jimmy 2 shoes were ever made I would love to know your thoughts on on Jimmy
2 shoes if you've ever seen it and what you took away from what the show was at the end of the day
in the comments below I've been Jordan Fringe thanks so much for watching like And subscribe
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