Jimmy, Kimmy, & Timmy

Jimmy, Kimmy, & Timmy is an animated series created by Brandon Greene for HBO Max. The series centers on the misadventures of three siblings named Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy Rollin who are the kids of a famous rock star and their family and friends. It was released exclusively to the HBO Max streaming service on July 9, 2020. The series has received positive reviews, many of whom praised its humor, voice acting and writing. The series' cover of the KISS song "Rock and Roll All Nite", was also met with critical praise and a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2034 During its run, Jimmy, Kimmy, & Timmy also received an Annie Award nomination for its character design.

2040, during the show's fifth season, the series' animated film, Jimmy, Kimmy, & Timmy in: The Rock N' Roll Adventure, was released on HBO Max. The film was directed by Richard Linklater and featured the Rollin siblings in a contest traveling around the world while also trying to find a pick belonging to Satan that allows its users for their family world tour.

The show will be renewed for a sixth season is in 2041.

Premise
Jimmy, Kimmy, & Timmy follows two brothers and a sister named Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy Rollin who are the kids of a flamboyant, rich, lively celebrity rock star named Rock N. Rollin. The family resides in a mansion in the suburban metropolis of Beverly Hills. Jimmy is the nerdy and cautious but cool, organized and responsible leader of the siblings who tries to be successful at his talents. Kimmy has an ambitious and adventurous personality and aspires to become a rock star like her father. Timmy is sweet, gullible, and naïve who loves playing baseball and is a good pianist and writer. The siblings are together in a Kiss-esque rock band known as "The Fantascious Rollin Four" (Which became a virtual band in real life). Their approach to life often suffers unexpected consequences that puts there selves in jeopardy, as they often follows their own impulses although they go against the rules or each other. However, they ultimately learn lessons, which was one of the core themes for the show's conception.

The siblings attend a junior high school called Bregy Academy with Kimmy's best friend Raina Jones (who is also in their band), Jimmy's two best friends Alexa and Quintin, their arch rivals Sean Carpenter and his sister Dawn, and the school bully Butch. The school's staff include the sneaky Principal Pendrin, pompous Mr. Bucknall, gruff Mrs. Wingrave and musical genius Richard Starr.

During the first season, the show included live-action clips of bands singers such as, KISS, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Tenacious D, and André 3000 making childish commentary at the beginning and end of each episode. They only performed short clips at the beginning of the show during the second and third seasons. Starting with the second season, KISS is sometimes shown holding title cards introducing the cartoon segments.

The series is stylized as a mock reality show featuring confessionals of the characters in between scenes. The show heavily relies on slapstick humor, and makes a lot of satirical and parody references to other TV shows and movies.

Main

 * James "Jimmy" Rollin (voiced by Drake Bell) - The titular main protagonist of the series, the oldest of the siblings, Rock and Sapphire's eldest son, Lar's eldest nephew and Kimmy and Timmy's older brother. Jimmy is considered the normal person in the family and tries to be as successful as his siblings. He aspires to be a musician like her father and sister and has inherited their musical talent. Jimmy's music of choice is jazz, and plays the bass guitar in the school band.
 * Kimberly "Kimmy" Rollin (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) - The titular deuteragonist of the series, the second oldest of the siblings, Rock and Sapphire's daughter, Lar's niece, Jimmy's younger sister, and Timmy's older sister. Kimmy dreams of being a famous rockstar like her father and plays often on her pink double neck guitar, and she even bend the rules to make her dream become reality. She has a taste in "funky fashion and extreme music".
 * Timothy "Timmy" Rollin (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) - The titular tritagonist of the series, the youngest of the siblings, Rock and Sapphire's youngest son, Lar's youngest nephew and Jimmy and Kimmy's younger brother. Timmy loves playing baseball and plays the piano in the school band and loves having fun with his siblings and his pet wolf Fangs. He is an expert at photography and songwriting and has a big sweet tooth.
 * Rockford "Rock" Nathanial Rollin (voiced by Gene Simmons) - Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy's father, Sapphire's wife, and Lar's younger brother. Rock has loved rock n roll since birth. Even though Rock is the father of the family, he is very immature and behaves like a teenager. His own father is a famous classical cellist who still does not quite understand him. Despite this, Rock cares for his family very much and goes out of his way to be a decent father.
 * Sapphire Rollin (voiced by Kathy Laskey) - Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy's mother, Rock's wife, and Lar's sister-in-law. Sapphire is a blue-haired spiritualist.
 * Laramie "Lars" Rollin (voiced by Paul Stanley) - Ex-driver of the Rollin tour bus, friend/band member/manager of the family, Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy's uncle, Rock's older brother, and Sapphire's brother-in-law. Lars is often the voice of reason for the Rollin's. He uses the tour bus, permanently parked on the mansion's grounds, as his apartment.
 * Raina Jones (voiced by Cree Summer) - Kimmy's sassy best friend, although Kimmy often break promises, because of Kimmy's selfish intresets. Raina always finds flaws in Kimmy's plans, even if her plans are even more crazy, but they are often nearly impossible to complete. Raina is often annoyed and uncomfortable when Jimmy has a crush on her, but deep down has feelings for him as well.
 * Alexa (voiced by Sarah Gadon) - Jimmy's sarcastic best friend. She is an environmental activist.
 * Quintin (voiced by Martin Villafana) - Jimmy's other best friend. Prefers to be called "Q". His father is an accountant and is often known to be narrow-minded.
 * Sean Carpenter (voiced by Jack Griffo) - One of the two main antagonists/anti-hero (alongside his sister Dawn) of the series, Dawn's older brother and Jimmy's rival/frenemy. Sean and his sister are a pop duo "The Magic Carpenters" and is always tries to succeeded better then Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy. He is sophisticated and egocentric and has an idea to steal the spotlight and sabotage the Rollin siblings but fail. Sean and Jimmy would often get into a feud over their superior success and who's better, but would find themselves putting aside their differences and working together to deal with their similar problems.
 * Dawn Carpenter (voiced by JoJo Siwa) -One of the two main antagonists/anti-heroine (alongside her brother Sean) of the series, Sean's younger sister and Kimmy's rival/frenemy. She lives a very posh lifestyle in an attempt to outshine Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy. She is portrayed as vain and arrogant and is not above deceit Sean to attain what she wants. Dawn is also clumsy, and her plans to sabotage Kimmy often backfire. Along with Kimmy, she is often able to end the feud between Sean and Jimmy to work together when they face the same problems.
 * Butch Scarborough (voiced by Rob Stefaniuk) - The secondary antagonist of the series, Liam's son and Jimmy's school bully. Although brutish and violent, Butch often speaks in the manner of a Shakespearian actor, making long-winded speeches and monologues. Butch has a crush on Alexa, which is not reciprocated.

Supporting

 * Fangs - The Rollin's lovable grey wolf. Meant only to be a stage gimmick for Rock's performances, the family could not bear to send him away when it didn't work out, and so adopted him as the family pet.
 * Austin Thompson (voiced by David Kaufman) - The school's popular star athlete. As the star jock in many sports, but mostly in football, he sometimes becomes vain and selfish. He works part-time at a local fast food restaurant called Big Burger. Austin often let's Jimmy know that he's going to fail but would give him ideas.
 * Percival "Percy" Awdry (voiced by Thom Adcox) - Timmy's best friend and classmate. He is an expert at photography and tattling.
 * Steven "Steve" Pérez (voiced by Jeff Garcia) - Timmy's other best friend friend and classmate. Steve is hyperactive and addled, characterized by his unhealthy obsession with Superman and the television series, video games, and merchandising inspired by Superman.
 * Marcy Kelley (voiced by Lara Jill Miller) - Timmy's feisty, compassionate and happy friend/love interest. She is a sweet, gentle and generous person. She always finds the best in people and avoids fighting whenever possible. She always puts other people before herself.
 * Principal Pendrin (voiced by Jeff Bennett) - The principal at Bregy Academy. He puts himself and his needs before the school. Pendrin has three pink poodles.
 * Mr. Bucknall (voiced by Curtis Armstrong) - Jimmy, Kimmy, Alexa, Quintin and Raina's history teacher.
 * Richard Starr (voiced by André 3000) - Jimmy, Kimmy, and Timmy's music teacher. He is a musical genius who left Georgia to become a recording artist.
 * Mrs. Wingrave (voiced by Candi Milo) - Jimmy, Kimmy, Alexa, Quintin and Raina's regular teacher, also in mathematics and science. Mrs. Wingrave has a strict application of the rules and gets easily angry.
 * Maria Miller (voiced by Tara Strong) - Jimmy and Kimmy's classmate and friend. She came to Beverly Hills because her father was tired of the whole South America to North America-thing. Maria later became the most popular girl in school, after Kimmy and Raina gave her a make-over.
 * Dexter and Erwin (voiced by Jess Harnell) - Two genius students. The only difference between them is their ties; Dexter's blue and Erwin's red. They are good friends with Jimmy, Kimmy and Timmy and they often helps them with their plans.
 * Liam Scarborough (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - Butch's father and the head of the school board. Also a loyal fan of Rock's music, and has all his albums.

Production
Brandon Greene wanted to create a cartoon series with a loud rock star. The idea of the cartoon started when he drew a rock star that closely resembles KISS bassit Gene Simmons with three triplet kids. He called on Gene to work with him on his series. Greene drew inspirations from Gene's cartoon show "My Dad the Rock Star".

Before becoming a series, it became a comic strip called "Rock N. Rollin" in 2030. Because Gene loved Greene's strip, he called him for a cartoon idea. It was originally going to be titled "Rock N. Rollin", which is supposed to be about the title character himself, but since his children stole the show, it was later changed to three rock-star siblings, which were based on Gene's kids. Rock N. Rollin is actually a fictionalized version of Gene Simmons himself, counting his signature "long-tongue". Jimmy is based on Gene's son, Nick, and Kimmy was based on Gene's daughter, Sophie and Timmy is a mixture of both Nick and Sophie. Sapphire was also based on Gene's wife, Shannon Tweed who, being Canadian, helped Gene to get Greene to make the show.. Gene wrote the music and songs and served as the executive producer, while the rest of the production was done in Canada. Lars is based on KISS rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist Paul Stanley.

Release
Jimmy, Kimmy, & Timmy premiered on HBO on June 1, 2033 with two back-to-back episodes. Each half-hour episode consists of two different segments.

Critical response
Jimmy, Kimmy, & Kimmy received positive reviews from television critics. Jeff Hidek of Star-News viewed it as "The Buzz on Maggie meets My Dad the Rock Star" and named it "by far the most entertaining of this summer's new offerings". Roger Catlin of Hartford Courant wrote that it stands out from other shows on HBO Max by "being a little sassy and sharp, and a whole lot funnier than most of [the channel's] stuff". He wrote that the channel "gets back into the race dominated by Cartoon Network offerings ... and a Nickelodeon roster ... with an offering just as hip and well designed". Catlin commended the voice acting and the "sharp" writing, stating that the former factor "hit[s] the humor home". The Philadelphia Inquirer critic David Hiltbrand noted that although the show includes "a little" gross-out humor, "it's reasonably tasteful by adolescent standards". He concluded, "The animation ... is a little substandard, but the premise is nicely maintained." AllMovie's Hal Erickson deemed the fly concept unoriginal, but said that the show "set[s] itself apart from such earlier endeavors". Erickson regarded Maggie's "strong, forceful attitude" a positive role model for kids. A critic for Observer-Reporter deemed it "suitably silly", and Robert Lloyd of Los Angeles Times called it "delightful".

Awards and nominations
In 2033, Jorge Gutierrez was nominated for the Best Character Design in an Animated Television Production award at the 33rd Annie Awards, for his work in the episode "Beverly Hills: Most Wanted". The next year, Bob Thiele Jr. and Dillon O'Brian received a nomination for Outstanding Cover Song for the theme song "Rock and Roll All Nite" at the 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards, but lost to the song "Sunshine" from The Young and the Restless.

Trivia

 * Jimmy's design is based on Green Day lead guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong.
 * Kimmy was inspired by Avril Lavigne and Maggie Pesky from The Buzz on Maggie.
 * The siblings color scheme is based on Alvin and the Chipmunks.
 * The lightning bolt on Jimmy's face paint is a reference to David Bowie.