This is a random post about my newest obsession, an awesome (if rather sci-fi) TV show called 'My life as a teenage robot'. It's a random show about, well, a teenage robot called XJ-9 by her 'mother' (inventor), Dr. Nora Wakeman, but she renames herself Jenny in a futile effort to fit in and be like a normal girl. Her best friend Brad, who lives next door, is headstrong, wild, and always wants to tag along in Jenny's extreme battles and daily save-the-world missions into outer space/other planets. He saw Jenny as a great friend from the moment they met. On the other hand, his little brother Tuck was convinced, the first time he saw her, that Jenny was a murderous, unfeeling monster who would kill him or Brad at a moment's notice. As oppose to Brad, he prefers to stay on Earth surrounded by familiar faces than go running all over the galaxy. He also suffers multiple strange phobias. Sheldon, a stereotypical 'geek', is so smart he can do binary functions in his head and invent any robot/high-tech weapon/little random thing under the sun.
He's a little odd-looking but kind of cute, and maybe loves machines a little too much for his own good, and immediately falls for Jenny! While she likes to hang out with him as a friend, the thought of dating him makes her appliances hurt. He doesn't give up though (not by a long shot!) and is constantly showering her with ingenious gifts and little hints showing his huge crush. Sadly, Jenny is usually too busy saving the world to pay any attention to poor Sheldon, and spends any of her 'romance time' chasing after 'The Silver Shell', a mechanical suit actually invented by Sheldon, (episode 10)who sits inside him and uses a loudspeaker as a voice, when he wanted to show Jenny that robot boys are jerks by making Shell be mean to her, in one of the many fruitless attempts to make Jenny date him.
Dr. Wakeman is Jenny's "mom"/inventor, and while she's a genius-great at doing complicated formulas and scientific equations in her head, as well as inventing awesome robots, machines, and high-tech weapons, she's not so good at talking to Jenny about teenager things like boys, cliques at school, popularity problems, etc., and sometimes has a way of making Jenny feel left out, and also even more odd at not only being a robot but-
OKAY!!!!!!!!!! OKAY!!!!!!!!!! OKAY!!!!!!! I think I've blathered about this show and its characters long enough!!!! Sorry. Now is it easy to see how obsessed I am with this?!
I first saw this show three years ago when it was still on TV, at my cousin Pheobe's house the day before her wedding in Pittsburgh. I was immediately hooked! I don't even know why, but anyway, I forgot about it until a few days ago when I was just fooling around on Youtube and a video about it popped up randomly on the sidebar! I found a few episodes, including the first one I ever saw (Victim of Fashion, episode 24) . But there isn't coverage of all episodes on Youtube, and if you stay there you'll be missing some great ones! So what I did was found a list of all episodes on Wikipedia, and then Googled the ones that looked good. I'll post a link of the list in case anyone is interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_My_Life_as_a_Teenage_Robot_episodes
There we go. That contains ALL episodes in all three seasons, descriptions included. I'll also see if I can post a video of the first episode to orientate you guys, and then you can do the rest for yourselves. Hold on a minute.
Okay, I'm really sorry but I can only upload videos from Youtube, and not Veoh where I found the first one. I'll just choose a good episode for you guys.
There we go! Future Shock is a good one (episode 15) and also very funny. My favorite part is where Tuck states that 'He can be a big girl!!" ! Hope you guys watch this and share my obsession!
Okay then...
ReplyDeleteWhat, you have something against robots?!
ReplyDeletei love jenny
DeleteNo, robots are AWESOME!!! As a matter of fact, I AM a robot!!!
ReplyDeleteUm,WHAAT?!?!?!? Oh well, with you who knows? (You could be Peter Pan in disguise, or learning kung fu and I wouldn't know!!) Wait, then do you just not like the show?!?!?!? What the heck?
ReplyDeleteNo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could I not like a show I've never even seen in my LIFE?!? And how did you know I was Peter Pan in disguise???
ReplyDeleteWell if you've never seen it in your life, now is a good time to start!! did you see Future Shock?
ReplyDeleteP.S. Peter Pan-
ReplyDeleteI'm so totally phsycic.
What channel's this show on and at what time???
ReplyDeleteit's turdishly not on TV anymore, but you can find a few full episodes on Youtube, and on Veoh if you Google episode names (there's a list of all episodes in the post, in case you didn't notice!)
ReplyDeleteBy the way- did you watch Future Shock?
ReplyDeleteNo, and I google'd it. Bleh.
ReplyDelete~nogewlnyd