My Life as a Teenage Robot -- Episodes 317-318

First Aired: 7 March 2009

"Agent 00' Sheldon" (Episode 317)

Directed by: Randy Myers, Rob Renzetti

Plotline

Every nerd got picked for the baseball team except for Sheldon. Sheldon found Jenny talking to a scoreboard in a robot language and wondered what they were discussing. Soon Sheldon began to feel unwanted until he got called to the vice principal's office.

It wasn't the vice principal who wanted to see him. Some secret agents kidnapped Sheldon because of his skills to make him a member of a best-of-the-best government team. After training, he was given a new name and his first assignment: monitor Jenny. While monitoring Jenny, Sheldon found that she was communicating with other robots in a secret code language, possibly conspiring. Soon he was discovered and Jenny told him her fellow robots were disappearing. She didn't want Sheldon in the way of the situation.

After turning in his overdue report, he was then instructed to eliminate all the robots, the ones Jenny said disappeared, at an outer compound. Sheldon didn't want Jenny to be eliminated which is why he gave his superiors a fake watch and fled to tell Jenny about what he had learned. Despite what the other agents had thought, the other robots were released. The newly freed robots jailed the other agents in the same cells where they were imprisoned.

Jenny was impressed with Sheldon's slick skills but was puzzled that he knew where the robots were taken. She got angry when she found out the agents made Sheldon spy on her and her business. Even though he was blasted to ashes, this didn't change how Sheldon thought about Jenny.

Trivia

• The episode name was taken from the Agent 007 (James Bond) franchise of movies.


• This is the episode that reveals Sheldon's middle name is "Oswald" (Sheldon Oswald Lee). His initials: SOL (S*** out of Luck/Sold Out, Loser. Either meaning seems valid). From all he's been through, it's appropriate!


• The Men in Black and Sheldon alluded to "C-Day," the day Jenny saved Planet Earth from the Cluster in "Escape from Cluster Prime." (S2) The pictures in the C-Day file also showed stills from the special.


• Kenny, from "Love 'em or Leash 'em" (S2), makes a cameo appearance when he is among the other previously shown robots throughout the series to who Jenny gives private information.


• These previously shown robots include:


• Kenny (see above)


• XJ's 1-8


• The Mezmers Jukebox


• After Sheldon (as Baron von Fashionista III) handed the wrong watch to the agents then fled in the tube, the beam-up sound from the original Star Trek was heard.

Goofs

• Why would Brad want to spy on Jenny when they're already friends? Maybe the writers thought episodes like these didn't have enough Brad (or Tuck) in them. They chose what they thought would be the right time to insert him in.


• How did Sheldon know Jenny disliked Mogg? It was true Mrs. Wakeman disliked him.


• On the cover of "Trem Times," when it mentioned the jukebox went missing, Mr. Mezmer was included in the cover picture. I thought something happened to him in "The Return of Raggedy Android" (S1).


• Then again, it was never said that Mezmers went under new management. He probably had a change of heart to allow Jenny patronize his business.

Quotes

Football field scoreboard makes beeping noises. Jenny is communicating with it.

Jenny: "Boop?"

Scoreboard makes various beeping noises

Jenny: [distressfully] "Boop boop BOOP!"

Scoreboard makes various beeping noises

Jenny: "Boop!"

Sheldon: "Hey Jenny. You need help with anything?"

Jenny: "Sheldon, don't interrupt. I'm very busy right now."

Sheldon: "With?"

Jenny: "Superhero robot business. You wouldn't understand."

Fran the Hairdresser: "Oh, hi Marty. Hi Bob."

Agent: "Hi, Fran."

Fran the Hairdresser: "Is the little one here for a permanent, too?"

Sheldon looks at one of the two agents, he nods yes.

Sheldon: "Y-yes."

Jenny: [to parking meter] "Just keep me informed of everything you can find out. We robots have to stick together or soon we'll be..."

Parking Meter [in robotic voice as someone's parking time expires]: "Expired."

Jenny: "Exactly. Watch your back."

Jenny: [while blasting the running Sheldon] "You knew about these jerks? You were spying on me? I'm going to rearrange your face so you don't need a disguise."

Sheldon: "I love you, Jenny Wakeman!"

Sheldon's bottom gets zapped

TLDR

Sheldon got chosen to become a secret agent to communicate information about Jenny.

"Indes-Tuck-tible" (Episode 318)

Directed by: Chris Savino, Rob Renzetti

Plotline

At breakfast time, Tuck found a skateboard in his cereal box. If the skateboard legend on the cereal box could do extreme stunts then so could impressionable Tuck. Tuck almost got hit by a truck before Jenny saved him. He was so traumatized by the whole event that he vowed never to leave his house again.

The next morning Jenny came over to find Tuck being overly protective of himself. To help him, Jenny brought her mom's futurescope so Tuck could see that he would live a long life. With this assurance Tuck then felt invincible, free to do risky, death-defying feats. He wouldn't do it for himself but for the admiration of others.

Tuck wanted his classmates to dare him to do dangerous things. When Tuck dared himself to head-butt into a brick wall, Jenny blasted the wall but he and everyone else thought Tuck himself really did it. Using her "stupid-o-meter," Jenny saved Tuck from doing dangerous and mindless stunts. Tuck thought he was "Indes-Tuck-tible" as he thought he was pulling all those stunts without Jenny's help.

Jenny's final straw with Tuck was when he would do a stunt involving a rocket-powered tricycle, half-pipe, and a tank of sharks. The whole town was there to watch. After a bug bit some sense back into him, Tuck decided to forgo the stunt. However, Tuck and the trike went down anyway causing the stunt to fail and the entire town to laugh. Needless to say, Tuck got injured but he learned his lesson. Thanks to the futurescope, Tuck was assured that he would really live a long life.

Trivia

• "Tony Squawk" is a parody of real life's Tony Hawk, a pro-skateboarder


• This episode reveals that Tuck's middle name is Cornelius.


• In this quote, "Enough with the operatics, Pavarotti," Brad alluded to Luciano Pavarotti, a famous tenor opera singer.


• Mrs. Wakeman's future scope made a second appearance in this series (introduced in "Future Shock" (S2)).


• When Tuck was testing out his invincibility, he took "Rock Pops" (our Pop Rocks) and soda, put both in his mouth, and let the fizz drool out. This is based on the rumor of the mid-'80s that eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coca-Cola at the same time can kill you. Tuck supposedly didn't swallow much, as the crew didn't want viewers to try the experiment at home with their own bodies.


• When Jenny prevented Tuck from doing his cannonball stunt, the cannon fired right above her and she got charred. The way she stood and look afterward is similar to the Teenage Robot intro after the singer sang, "It's enough to fry my braa-aaaa-aain." After getting a rusted appearance from the rain and getting zapped by the alien, compare her appearance in the intro and her appearance after the cannon went off. They almost look exactly the same except for some bluish shading in this episode's version.


• As Tuck was about to do his big stunt, Brad warned, "Once you jump those sharks, the show is over." Brad was basically referring to the phrase "Jump the Shark" where something like a show or movie attempt to keep viewers interest but fail to do so, resulting in the franchise's sharp decline.


• An example of such would be a season 3 episode of "Happy Days" (ABC, 1974-1984) where The Fonz water skiis over a shark enclosure.


• Yet another of many "Jetsons" references: When Tuck realized what could happen had he done that stunt, he cried, "Get me off this crazy thing!"

Goofs

• When Jenny's Stupid-o-Meter went off while she was at Mezmers, what was Brad doing working behind the counter? He quit for sure in the end of "The Return of Raggedy Android" (S1).


• How were the cereal makers able to squeeze a life-sized skateboard into a regular-sized cereal box let alone be able to pour it out with the rest of the cereal?


• During Tuck's big stunt scene, there was someone in the crowd holding a sign that read, "Tuck Yeah!" Isn't that dangerously close to "F**K Yeah!"? Remember writers, this is Nickelodeon and children viewers for who you are making this cartoon.


• When the Stupid-O-Meter went off while Jenny was taking an oil bath...wait...why does Jenny need to take a bath in oil? Also, how could she read a newspaper when the bottom was soaked in oil? Furthermore, when Jenny zoomed off to prevent Tuck's shenanigans, shouldn't the oil have splashed all over the floor as opposed to the minor disappearing drips as demonstrated?


• How was Jenny able to cleanly pick up a condemned building without disturbing or exposing remaining metal piping or other debris? Besides, that building looked like it was in pretty good shape for it to be condemned. Even the landscaping made it look well-kept (she was able to cleanly pick up th building without exposing any tree roots).


• Continuity error: When Jenny's head was accidentally pulled off from her body to be used as a basketball, it was not screwed off the way it was in "Pest Control" (S1). There was no screw nub at the base and it looked like some kind of antenna standing up out of Jenny's neck. What was that?

Quotes

Jenny stares at Brad's hair while he talks about it

Brad: "So 20 minutes with a hair dryer and 20 minutes with a flat iron and it stays like this all day."

Tuck: "My Naïve friend, caution is for the weak, a self-imposed limitation to keep the truly extreme from rocking the world. Now, if you two senior citizens will excuse me, I have some adrenaline to rush. To the extreme!"

Tuck: "Gather round, fellow classmates. I, Tucker Cornelius Carbunkle, shall take any dare in exchange for lunch money, ice cream, or preservative-filled snacks."

Milkweed: "Will you eat a bug?"

Tuck: "Pff, too pedestrian. Think of something dangerous."

Milkweed: [thinks] "Eat two bugs?"

Lorelie: "Pants the gym coach."

Unknown Classmate 1: "Roll around in poison ivy."

Unknown Classmate 2: "Stick gravel up your nose."

Milkweed: "Eat three bugs!"

Tuck: "People, people, you're obviously not getting it so I'll give you one free demonstration."

Jenny: "Well, Tuck, are you sad that you're career as a daredevil is over?"

Tuck [in full a body cast in front of his house]: "Naw, I learned a valuable lesson about using good, old-fashioned common sense. Besides, I think the future-scope was pretty clear on my destiny. [to 2 kids playing in front of the house] You kids are making my bunions burn with your tomfoolery. Now, get!"

TLDR

After being told he would live a long life, Tuck tested his invincibility by undertaking outrageous and unsafe stunts.

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