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My Life as a Teenage Robot is an animated television series, produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon cable channel.

MLaaTR (as abbreviated) stars a 6-foot tall robot girl named XJ-9, but she likes to call herself "Jenny". "Jenny" lives in the town of Tremorton, in the year of 2072. "Jenny" likes to go to the mall, fit in at high school, and hang out with her friends Brad and Tuck, instead of saving the world. Her creator (a.k.a. mom) Mrs. Wakeman wants her to stay away from the human race, even teenagers. Brad likes what "Jenny" does, but his brother, Tuck, doesn't care for action. When "Jenny" is at high school, she would chill with the Krust Cousins, Brit and Tiff, who secretly do not like her. Also, a boy named Sheldon would stare at "Jenny" for hours, (he's in love with her) but "Jenny" loves a robot named the Silver Shell (he was created by Sheldon, who controlled him from inside like the Power Rangers' Zords), but then later disliked him for being a spy. Brit and Tiff Krust also do not like "Jenny" for being what she is. "Jenny" also has a problem with the Cluster (an evil robot clan ruled by another robot named Vexus, voiced by Eartha Kitt), because they want to get "Jenny" to be part of the Cluster. So "Jenny" can't get her life evened out, but she does what she can.

The series was based on the Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "My Neighbor was a Teenage Robot" and was created by Rob Renzetti. This show first aired on August 1, 2003. It has never come to DVD on its own, but was often paired with other Nicktoons, like Danny Phantom on compilation DVD's.

Characters

Jenny Wakeman, AKA Global Robot Response Unit XJ-9

"Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman (Janice Kawaye) is the teenage female superhero robot created by Mrs. Wakeman, and called Jenny Wakeman at her high school. She was built to save the world from evil. However, she has free will and frequently rebels against her creator, in a manner typical of modern teenagers.

• Actual name: Global Robot Response Unit XJ-9
• Age: She was built 5 years ago, but she's designed as a teenager.
• Description: She is 6 feet (1.82 m) tall, she has blue pigtails, with bolts connecting from her head to pigtails, blue hair, white skin, blue clothes, she has a tank top and bottom, a belly bolt (a bolt that simulates a belly button), feet that mix with the shoes, arms with lines in the middle, hands with 4 fingers that have holes in the center, no ears, and a "false nose".
• Lives: Tremorton, USA
• Likes: Brad, Tuck, teenage stuff, Sheldon (a bit)
• Dislikes: Having to save the world, Mrs. Wakeman (at times), the Cluster
• Family: Mrs. Wakeman (mother/creator), XJ1, XJ2, XJ3, XJ4, XJ5, XJ6, XJ7, XJ8 (all sisters, A.K.A. prototypes)
• Friends: Brad and Tuck Carbunkle, Sheldon Lee, Vega

Nora Wakeman

Nora Wakeman (Candi Milo) - Jenny's creator and overprotective mother figure. The relationship is assymmetric: Nora repeatedly calls the robot "XJ-9", whereas Jenny always addresses her as "Mother" or "Mom". She is most disapproving of her daughter's attempts to 'fit in' with society, and would rather the family keep to themselves. She is literally "with Jenny every minute" as Jenny has a computer screen in her chest that allows communication with Mrs. Wakeman. Sick of this, Jenny has since found a way to screw up communications between her and her mother.

Brad and Tuck Carbunkle

Brad and Tuck Carbunkle (Chad Doreck, Audrey Wasilewski) - Jenny's next door neighbors, and best friends (Brad is the older brother, Tuck the younger). Brad is voiced by Melissa Denton in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons pilot.

Brit and Tiff Krust

Brit and Tiff Krust (Moira Quirk, Cree Summer) - The popular kids at school (Brit is the tall black one and Tiff is the short white one). They are the Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier and Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch of Tremorton, so to speak, as they too like to mess with the unpopulars like Jenny and Brad. They like Don Prima.

Queen Vexus

Queen Vexus (Eartha Kitt) - The evil former ruler of the Cluster. Like Jenny, she is a robot. She has the seductive appearance of a queen bee or a wasp. She wants to make Jenny a part of her kingdom, but most of her plans fail. She has a daughter, Vega.

Sheldon Lee

Sheldon Lee (Quinton Flynn) is a 5 1/2' tall teenage techno geek who has a hopeless crush on Jenny. He is often seen thinking of ways to make Jenny recognize his love for her. One notable way was creating the Silver Shell, a narcissistic, egotistical, robot superhero that belittles Jenny and gets all her glory (he made him in an attempt to get Jenny to realize that robot males are not at all right for her). She doesn't find out his real intentions until the episode Saved by the Shell, where he lies to Jenny saying that he is Don Prima's best friend. She has since disliked him, but many days later, instead invited him over to the school prom in Dancing with My Shell. That, too, didn't work out too well, even after he gives her a corsage made of metal.

Smytus

Smytus - An egotistic military general of the Cluster.

Vega

Vega (Thora Birch) is the daughter of Queen Vexus, and thus the Princess. She has, so far, only appeared in the movie Escape from Cluster Prime. Vega becomes friends with Jenny with whom she finds out about a conspiracy involving her mother stealing gold computer chips that enable all robots to become liberated from Vexus' control. She invites Jenny to come live with her on the newly-dubbed Vega Prime, but Jenny declines, saying that she belongs on Earth for now.

Episodes

Season 1

• 1: It Came from Next Door / Pest Control 8/1/2003
• 2: Raggedy Android / Class Action 8/8/2003
• 3: Attack of the 5 1/2 Ft. Geek / Doom with a View 8/15/2003
• 4: Ear No Evil / Unlicensed Flying Object 8/22/2003
• 5: Party Machine / Speak No Evil 9/5/2003
• 6: See No Evil / The Great Unwashed 9/12/2003
• 7: Return of the Raggedy Android / The Boy Who Cried Robot 9/19/2003
• 8: Sibling Tsunami / I Was a Preschool Dropout 10/3/2003
• 9: Hostile Makeover / Grid Iron Glory 10/24/2003
• 10: Dressed To Kill / Shell Game 11/7/2003
• 11: Daydream Believer / This Time With Feeling
• 12: Saved by the Shell / Tradeshow Showdown 1/23/2004
• 13: The Wonderful World of Wizzly / Call Hating 2/27/2004

Season 2

• 14: Robot For All Seasons 12/8/2004
• 15: Future Shock / Humiliation 101 1/24/2005
• 16: Last Action Zero / Mind Over Matter 1/25/2005
• 17: Love 'Em or Leash 'Em / Teen Team Time 1/26/2005
• 18: Sister Sledgehammer / Pajama Party Prankapalooza 1/27/2005
• 19: Dancing With My Shell / Around the World in Eighty Pieces 1/28/2005
• 20: Armagedroid / Killgore 3/25/2005
• 21: A Pain In My Sidekick / Crash Pad Crash 6/23/2005
• 22: Victim of Fashion 9/6/2005
• 23: Designing Women / Robot Riot 9/7/2005
• 24: Bradventure / Mama Drama 9/8/2005
• 24: Toying With Jenny / Teenage Mutant Ninja Troubles 9/9/2005

Season 3

• Escape from Cluster Prime (TV Movie) 8/12/2005

The Cluster

"Jenny" was first invited to The Cluster in a very friendly way. Now, she is ambushed by its queen, Vexus, to join The Cluster. Vexus is not easy to point out, she comes in forms of humans and other robots. When she comes out of her disguise, she is a robot that looks similar to a queen bee and she always addresses "Jenny" as Jennifer. When she is defeated, Vexus slashes something (usually electronical) and turns into the portal to Cluster. When "Jenny" opens it again, it is no longer the portal to The Cluster. The Cluster is a place where robots live and make plans to make the human race their slaves, as she feels the robots of the universe have suffered "discrimination" and "unequal treatment" by humans. And one of the uses for human slave labor is to make "Clustard", a frozen yogurt treat concocted by the Clusterians. So far, they only took control of Jenny twice. Many more attempts to ensnare her will occur.

External links

• My Life as a Teenage Robot at IMDb
• My Life as a Teenage Robot at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Teenage Roblog

• Nicktoons
• Fictional robots
• Teenage Robot
• 2000s TV shows in the United States
• Programs broadcast by YTV
• Television spin-offs
• Animated television series