My Life as a Teenage Robot -- Episodes 303-304

First Aired: 12 October 2008

"No Harmony with Melody" (Episode 303)

Directed by: Robert Alvarez, Rob Renzetti

Plotline

An all-female audience was screaming, excited for the Brad concert. All the girls fought over him. This was what Brad fantasized about as he was preparing for his Friday night with Jenny. Since Jenny was taking Tuck to a cockroach fight, Brad thought he was lonely. Melody showed up at Brad's door, wanting to be away from her father. She and Brad explored the town and talked all night.

As Melody and Brad were about to kiss, Brad kissed Carol the Cockroach, the champion of the cockroach fight. Jenny and Tuck had returned from their trip. Jenny thought Melody was going to do evil when all she wanted to do was spend the day with Brad. This made Jenny jealous so she discreetly followed the couple to assure Brad's safety. It seemed that everywhere Brad and Melody went, destruction ensued. Jenny thought Melody's evilness caused this.

After saving Brad from getting crushed, it was revealed that Melody was a robot. Melody's reason for coming back to town was to be a normal girl, like what Jenny wanted. To save Brad and the city from Dr. Locus' evil plan, Jenny and Melody fought, robot vs. robot. Tuck concluded that the reason they were fighting was that Jenny was jealous of Melody being with Brad. Melody eventually decided that being a normal girl was not to be so she flew off.

If Melody didn't cause all that destruction but only saved people from it, who was causing the jinx-like events? Carol the Cockroach was also jealous for Brad. Brad graciously told Carol that their relationship wouldn't work but Carol accepted the reality. Though Brad thought this day was weird, he would always remember his moments with his dear Melody.

Trivia

• The title card is similar to the "Merrie Melodies" logo and title card. "Merrie Melodies" was a series of animated shorts produced by Warner Bros. during the golden age of American animation.


• This is the second and last appearance of Melody. Her first appearance was in "Bradventure" (S2).


• How close could Tremorton be to Dallas? Depends on to which Dallas Jenny and Tuck were going. Not only there's a Dallas in Texas but there's also a Dallas in the following states: Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Apparently, it's not too far as Jenny and Tuck returned the next morning, not exhausted (it wasn't said how they made it to Dallas).


• When Brad was showing Melody the toy store, in the background was a display for the "Betti" doll which would be the "Barbie" doll in our universe.


• Carol the Cockroach's laugh is a stock sound effect - the chipmunk laugh.


• Skimpy (or Skippy(?)) the Evil Wonder Puppet was mentioned once again in this episode with the first time being in "Humiliation 101" (S2). An image of him was shown but was not a formal villain anywhere in this series.


• This was the second time we see Brad after he had taken off his black vest, showing only his shirt with smaller buttons for the button-down part. The first time we saw this was in "Around the World in Eighty Pieces" (S2).

Goofs

• Pardon me for being such a band geek (as I did play in the band in school), but when Brad was playing the trumpet, be put the entire mouthpiece in his mouth. You vibrate your lips inside the mouthpiece without puffing your cheeks (that he also did). Brad's a trumpet player? From where did he pull out that trumpet, from out of his...


• I know, it's a cartoon where people pull things out of their butts and gain skills from nowhere.


• Jenny, as a submarine sneaking up on Brad and Melody, can speak underwater without choking on the water or other underwater critters?


• Also while snooping, Jenny holds onto a sky cloud. In real life, she'll just fall right through.


• When Brad was about to kiss Melody, he instead kissed Jenny's shiny head. Has Jenny's paint always been that shiny? I always thought her paint job used matted paint on normal days.


• When Jenny and Melody fight over Brad, how did gravity not pull down Brad like he was hanging?

Quotes

Brad's song

[at the fantasy concert]"It's Friday night and I'm feeling alright! Gonna...[sprayed in face with removable shower head, now in the shower] Gonna spread my wings and let my mood take flight. If you wanna come, you just grab on tight, and let the Bradster TAKE YOU OUT OF SIGHT!"

Brad: [leaving the bathroom] "Ladies, Brad has left the building."

Brad pushes Melody on a tree swing

Melody: "Higher, Brad, higher! You're so strong!"

Jenny: [to Brad about Melody] "She's evil, just like her father."

Melody: "NO I'M NOT!" [causes loose outdoor items to fall up and crash down] [high-pitched voice]"I mean, I'm not."

Brad: "Look, Jen, Melody would never hide anything from me and she is not certainly not evil. Come on, Melody."

While walking away, Melody saves Brad from rolling logs by zooming upwards, revealing she's a robot.

Brad: "This has been the weirdest day of my life."

TLDR

Melody returned and went out with Brad. Jenny became jealous and assumed Melody had an evil scheme.

"Tuckered Out" (Episode 308)

Directed By: Greg Miller, Rob Renzetti

Plotline

Second grade was almost over! Everyone was on their way to the next grade level except for Tuck. Tuck was given one last chance to pass by doing an assignment on the person to whom he looks up. He decided to make a movie.

When making the movie, Tuck got really controlling and wanted everything done his way. He worked with Brad, Sheldon, and Jenny to make a movie that portrayed Jenny's life rather inaccurately as well as demean the actors. Their motivation for staying on the project was to help Tuck pass the second grade. Even when a real monster fight broke out, as Jenny fought in it, Tuck continued recording so his movie could be more epic.

As Jenny, Brad, and Sheldon thought Tuck's movie was only being shown to his classmates, it was actually being shown to the entire town. When Tuck's movie was shown, instead of showing his masterpiece, Jenny switched it to home videos of Tuck as a baby doing embarrassing things. His classmates thought of him as a laughing stock. His teacher thought otherwise.

The teacher loved the idea of the movie subject and gave Tuck a passing grade. Tuck was excited to move on to the third grade. He was glad Projector Jenny showed the embarrassing compilation movie.

Trivia

• This was the first time in the show's entire 3 seasons and 4 segments Jenny's full Full name was mentioned (by Tuck). The originally stated full name in the character guide of the Nick.com "Teenage Robot" page was "Global Robotic Response Unit XJ-9." This was the only time the full name was mentioned. Not even Mrs. Wakeman used this full name. Ever.


• Tuck pulled a game out of his closet called "Scribble," similar to our "Scrabble," the word game.


• While shooting the movie, some parodies from iconic movies were included:


• A scene similar to the iconic scene when we see "Godzilla" climbed on a skyscraper.


• "I'm king of the world!" -- "Titanic"


• Black and White stockings underneath a house while music sounding similar to "If I Only Had a Brain" played during the scene -- "The Wizard of Oz"


• "Here's Jenny!" -- "A Nightmare on Elm Street"


• Brad wore a football helmet with his monster costume. The football helmet was in the same style as the one he wore in "Grid Iron Glory" (S1).


• At Mezmers, Jenny drank WD-40, a multi-purpose household spray.


• There was a book that was titled We All Poop. The actual book title is called Everybody Poops (1977) by Taro Gomi.


• We found out the name of Tuck's teacher in this episode: Miss Angotti.

Goofs

• On the horse chart, from afar it looked like Tuck's horse was farther behind from the others. Up close, his horse was still far behind but closer to the others.


• Also, why did Tuck's paper horse look holey and torn? Shouldn't it look newer and untouched as it had been practically unmoved throughout the year?


• I'm not sure how much a goof this is but how come there was a tutu in Tuck's closet?


• There was a static picture of Tuck with his pants down, bottom exposed toward the end of the movie reel. It stayed there for a few seconds while Miss Angotti talked to Tuck. Shouldn't that be a moving picture?

Quotes

Lorelei: "Oh, Tuck, you can get an F without doing the presentation."

Tuck: "F? Try Triple-A+."

After throwing Mrs. Wakeman out of his production

Tuck: "Now what? Who'll play the scientist?"

Brad: "You tell us, Mr. Director."

Jenny: [patting Tuck on the head from under a sheet] "Don't worry, Tuck. You can do it."

Jenny's pat on the head caused Tuck's hair to stand up

Tuck: "I can do it? I CAN do it! Lights, camera, action!"

Jenny, Brad, and Sheldon quit the production

Tuck: "But if I mess up on this, it means getting left back. Scholastic humiliation, a failed attempt at trucker college, a life as a data entry clerk. [on Jenny's head] I've learned my lesson! I promise."

Jenny takes Tuck off her head and drops him

Brad: "I'm not sure what's worse: Tuck, the crazed director or Tuck, the crybaby."

Tuck sniffles

Jenny: "All right, we'll help you with the rest of your project but no more Tuck, the dictator."

Tuck: "I'll be polite, I promise."

Little Tuck in home movie: [singing country song] "She crushed my heart, when all I did was fart, in front of mother."

Miss Angotti: "Tuck...an autobiographical project is the most original idea I've seen in years. So few students have the confidence to admit that they are their own heroes."

TLDR

Tuck tried to make a movie about his hero so he could pass the second grade.

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