We All Make Mistakes In the Heat of Passion, Jimbo
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About
We All Make Mistakes In The Heat Of Passion, Jimbo is a fake quote attributed to Hugh Neutron from Jimmy Neutron. The phrase has been used with an image of a closeup of Neutron's eyes, and the result has been used as a reaction image.
Origin
In early 2013, Tumblr user ducklover, now deleted posted an extreme close-up of Hugh Neutron's eyes, captioning the photo, "WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES IN THE HEAT OF PASSION, JIM-JAM," gaining over 15,000 notes. The post was reblogged on April 28th, 2013 by user daenishlove[1] (shown below).
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The post survived on the internet for several years after it was posted, appearing sporadically in Reddit[2] and iFunny.[3] The text of the post changed the nickname at the end from "Jim-Jam" to "Jimbo" as What's Poppin, Jimbo grew popular. On September 22nd, 2019, Reddit user Zyliksboi posted a fake text message conversation using the image macro of Neutron saying the phrase, gaining over 7,200 points on /r/dankmemes (shown below, left). Over the course of October, the format grew more popular as a reaction image in the subreddit. On October 22nd, user A_unique_us3rname posted an example that gained over 23,000 points (shown below, right).
The popularity continued into November. On November 10th, user A_Wild_Blobfish posted an incest joke in /r/dankmemes, gaining over 37,000 points (shown below, left). User Benowako also made an incest joke in the subreddit on November 2nd, gaining over 2,500 points (shown below, right).