History Headscratchers / MyLifeAsATeenageRobot

!!Jenny's batteries are getting low....

** It could be more than, anytime anyone picks her up, she's helping them with unseen thrusters or such. She's initially breaking chairs with her weight but learns how to sit on them without breaking them (ie: she's not sitting on them - you could remove the chair and she'd still be in the same position).

** A few good reasons. One notable thing is that Wakeman does see her as an actual daughter, albeit one not as focused as she'd like her to be. As for why she doesn't modify her AI a bit, I guess it's just since that would be like a new person kind of. Related, a robot who thinks like an actual person would be much more efficient when coming up with unconventional solutions to trouble than one coldly mechanical, so maybe Wakeman figured it was worth the trade-off.

** Third, this troper recalls no such buildup to this twist anyway and couldn't buy into it. All these hints support Tuck's Rob Zombie-style fantasy about what kind of world the bikers live on (not to mention the implications of Ball And Chain), and then it just so happens that said world is as organized and tidy as Earth? Try again, writers.

*** She ''does'' seem to gradually soften towards them, however; in later episodes, she's much more open to using them in times of need. She probably doesn't want to have to look after all nine robots at once. (After all, Jenny is more than enough trouble on her own).

* Nora Wakeman constantly complains about Jenny not doing her job well enough and Jenny often screws up big time due to her emotions and teenager tendencies getting in the way. An unstable, emotional teenager wouldn't be a very good hero, as her social life will often get in the way. If Wakeman wanted a daughter so much, why didn't she make two separate robots: a normal RidiculouslyHumanRobot daughter with the mindset of a teenager, and a super-powerful battle robot with an adult mindset as the hero? Nora would then have a daughter and a more efficient robotic hero. Jenny gets to live a normal life and the world has a more reliable hero. Everyone wins.

!!5-year old song?

!!The Christmas special

** Given he's a much, much older series, I'd go with "uncle", but this is all mostly [[FanWank semantics]] considering they're about as disowned as a family can get.
** This ties in with a point brought above: Little Acorn, a wooden puppet that Ms. Wakemen built when she was a child, wanting to [[BrotherSisterIncest marry Jenny]].
*** The terminology for Armegedroid and Acorn one might use to refer to them is that they're "predecessors" to Jenny. That is, they share the same creator but aren't called a "family" nor do they consider each other to have familiar ties [[note]] To cite, Jenny calls Nora "Mom" and Nora refers to Jenny as her daughter[[/note]]. Likewise, they aren't exactly related, either, rather, not in the way that Jenny is related to her "sisters" are (which share the same series).

* In "Escape From Cluster Prime", it was revealed to be a paradise for robots, and was no longer under the tyrannical rule of Vexus. Keeping that in mind, Vega offered Jenny a chance to move there. Even though she's: bullied by kids at school, living with an overbearing "mother", the events of the Christmas special, as well as the beginning of this special, she chooses to stay as Earth's protector. Why? (Besides the fact that we wouldn't have a show otherwise)
** Prolly because, despite what she has to deal, Jenny loves existence on Earth and, maybe, the good outweighs the bad.

** What makes even less sense is that you can't say it's because of her actual chronological age, my sister skipped two grades because of her competence!
** Yeah! [[SarcasmMode The episode where Tuck gets launched into space without a helmet and crashed back into earth unharmed is proof that this show follows realistic logic!]]
** That's the joke. Jenny tries to explain that despite being five years old she has the competence of a teenager, and it doesn't work. Wakeman comes in and explains it, and the teacher immediately accepts this and sends her back to high school. The school faculty was just being stupid. Jenny even points out that she already said that, but the teacher replies that [[RuleOfFunny she didn't have diagrams]].

** That's the joke. Jenny tries to explain that despite being five years old she has the competence of a teenager, and it doesn't work. Wakeman comes in and explains it, and the teacher immediately accepts this and sends her back to high school. The school faculty was just being stupid.

* In the episode "Histrionics" Jenny and the boys are trapped in a (seemingly) deserted island and she's running out of power. She says once her auxiliary power runs out she's "just a 600 pound paperweight". Okay...except in one episode a bunch of kindergarteners picked her up body-surfing style and Brad carried her single-handedly in another.
** I think she was just being sarcastic like "Oh nooo, I'm too ''heavy'' to carry. Do go on without me!!"
** It could be more that, anytime anyone picks her up, she's helping them with unseen thrusters or such. She's initially breaking chairs with her weight, but learns how to sit on them without breaking them (ie: she's not actually sitting on them - you could remove the chair and she'd still be in the same position).

** A few good reasons, really. One notable thing is that Wakeman clearly does see her as an actual daughter, albeit one not as focused as she'd like her to be. As for why she doesn't modify her AI a bit, I guess it's just since that would be like a totally new person kind of. Related, a robot who thinks like an actual person would be much more efficient when coming up with unconventional solutions to trouble than one coldly mechanical, so maybe Wakeman figured it was worth the trade off.

** That's the joke. Jenny tries to explain that despite being five years old she has the competence of a teenager, and it doesn't work. Wakeman comes in and explains it, and the teacher immediately accepts this and sends her back to high school. The school faculty were just being stupid.

** Second - though this is entirely subjective, depending on your view of the Space Bikers - Jenny's solution is a tad overblown. In the scant few seconds shown of the bikers in their teacher jobs, it's made very clear that they are loved by the community and that they are very ''good'' at what they do; they just come to Earth to "blow off steam". To me, it seems that the fact that they are valuable members of society on another planet is a far, far better thing than being criminal nuisances on Earth; if anything, Jenny's exposing them has made the problem even worse, because now they're ''doomed to be bikers for the rest of their lives''. They've lost the respect of an entire town that they worked hard to deserve. Sure, what they did to Jenny was bad and they were unrepentant about it, but there were probably other solutions to the problem, in my honest opinion.
*** Their "relaxation" involves massive property damage, probable injuries, and generally criminal behavior. They rack up indictable offences at a frightening rate every time they show up; why shouldn't they be called to account?

** Third, this troper recalls no such buildup to this twist anyway and couldn't buy into it. All these hints supporting Tuck's Rob Zombie-style fantasy about what kind of world the bikers live on (not to mention the implications of Ball And Chain), and then it just so happens that said world is as organized and tidy as Earth? Try again, writers.

** They are considered "failed models" and Dr. Wakeman probably thinks they'll blow up at the slightest provocation. She doesn't hate them, she just thinks Jenny is more competent. And less glitchy. Seriously, none of those girls have the ability to focus properly on anything for any length of time.

* Nora Wakeman constantly complains about Jenny not doing her job well enough and Jenny often screws up big time due to her emotions and teenager tendencies getting in the way. An unstable, emotional teenager wouldn't be a very good hero, as her social life will often get in the way. If Wakeman wanted a daughter so much, why didn't she make two separate robots: a normal RidiculouslyHumanRobot daughter with the mindset of a teenager, and a super powerful battle robot with an adult mindset as hero? Nora would then have a daughter and a more efficient robotic hero. Jenny gets to live a normal life and the world has a more reliable hero. Everyone wins.

** And there's the fact that Dr Wakeman ''did'' design non-teenager "hero" robots -- XJ8 and Armageddroid, for example. Both were proven to be far less _effective_ than Jenny, whose human tendencies give her things like the ability to think creatively.
*** Not to mention isn't it interesting how the XJ series is based on emotions/quirks, AND made after Armageddroid? For example, XJ-1 was based on a baby, IE a developing sentient being. XJs 2 and 3 were both focused on motor skills involving weaponry and walking. XJ-4 despite being a cleaning maid, was a completely operational and fully mobile machine that was able to function correctly. With each installment of the XJ a new overall quirk is introduced that all culminated to Jenny: a robot crafted to adapt with her own morality and ability to operate on her own accord after being raised by a positive influence, IE, Nora, her creator that raises her as a daughter as more than just a robot who was programmed. IE, more than Armaggedroid was. In other words: why doesn't Nora just program Jenny to be competent? ''Because she saw what happens when you try to '''program''' a robot to be the savior of humanity.'' Humanity needs ''more'' than a robot...and Jenny is definitely more than a robot.

* Jenny often fails tests or has trouble at school. She's a robot. She can just download all the information and knowledge she'll ever need right away. She wouldn't even need to go to school, and can give herself intelligence rivaling that of Wakeman herself. It'd certainly help Jenny do her job better. Jenny has shown that she can download information, so why hasn't she done this already?

** Because failing tests and having trouble at school are things normal teenagers worry about, and if there's one thing she definitely wants, it's to be normal. She's probably doing it on purpose to try and make herself more relatable.

* The episode begins with Brad cycling while singing a REALLY bad song from apparently five years ago. Jenny then proceeds to tell him that she's technically five years old, while looking 16. So, the principal, overhearing the conversation of Jenny and Brad, then calls some kind of elite protection force to bring her to kindergarten. Even going as far to tell Brad that he has to stand down from the toddler and bring her down to the kindergarten by two bodybuilders of caretakers! Now, the second stupid fact here, is that the caretaker in the kindergarten is so blindfolded to not see that there's ''a f*cking girl made out of steel and capable of turning into a f*cking helicopter!!!'' The real stinger is when at the end Nora had to come down and show her a couple of drawings to show her that she's a f*cking robot! Are they just that stupid in this world or is something else happening in this world??!!

* Jenny was built and designed by the clearly not Japanese Dr. Wakeman, which means she's an AmericanRobot. In that case, why is her default language Japanese and her English comes from an extra language pack, instead of the other way round?

* The plot of the Christmas special boggles the mind. No one besides [[UndyingLoyalty Sheldon]] considers that Jenny isn't willingly destroying holidays, instead trying to shut her down permanently. Sheldon's two theories, [[EvilTwin Evil Clone]] and BrainwashedAndCrazy, are both perfectly reasonable in-universe, especially the latter since Jenny is a robot and thus capable of being programmed to do whatever the replacement program tells her to do. Why does no one consider that Jenny could be being controlled by someone with nefarious intentions?

** Given he's a much, much older series, I'd go with "uncle", but this is all mostly [[FanWank semantics]] considering they're about as disowned as family can get.

* Is Jenny's town ''ever'' given a name? At all?
** You meant town Tremorton?
** Apparently you need to watch more episodes.

* I am a die-hard fan of the show. Seriously. But there's one episode in particular that really, truly irks me. That episode is "Voyage to the Planet of the Bikers" from Season Three. The synopsis goes a little something like this; Letta and the Space Bikers fool around with Jenny and permanently weld her into a motorcycle. Instead of going to her mother for help (she says something about her 'warranty'), she decides to take Tuck with her to the Bikers' homeworld...where it's revealed that they're actually schoolteachers and far from the malicious bikers as we've come to know them. Jenny demands that they fix her, but they laugh it off some more; this results in Jenny exposing their biker identities to the entire town, ruining their lives. After she threatens to expose their schoolteacher identities to other villains, they finally agree to fix her.

* The entire premise of the show deeply bothers me. Nora Wakeman constantly complains about Jenny not doing her job well enough and Jenny often screws up big time due to her emotions and teenager tendencies getting in the way. An unstable, emotional teenager wouldn't be a very good hero, as her social life will often get in the way. If Wakeman wanted a daughter so much, why didn't she make two separate robots: a normal RidiculouslyHumanRobot daughter with the mindset of a teenager, and a super powerful battle robot with an adult mindset as hero? Nora would then have a daughter and a more efficient robotic hero. Jenny gets to live a normal life and the world has a more reliable hero. Everyone wins.

* I loved this show for as long as I remember, but one episode really bugs me, both positive ánd negative; The episode begins with Brad cycling while singing a REALLY bad song from apparently five years ago. Jenny then proceeds to tell him that she's technically five years old, while looking 16. So, the principal, overhearing the conversation of Jenny and Brad, then calls some kind of elite protection force to bring her to kindergarten. Even going as far to tell Brad that he has to stand down from the toddler and bring her down to the kindergarten by two bodybuilders of caretakers! Now, the second stupid fact here, is that the caretaker in the kindergarten is so blindfolded to not see that there's ''a f*cking girl made out of steel and capable of turning into a f*cking helicopter!!!'' The real stinger is when at the end Nora had to come down and show her a couple of drawings to show her that she's a f*cking robot! Are they just that stupid in this world or is something else happening in this world??!!

* One thing that bothered me while I watched the show: Brit and Tiff. Why does Jenny have to be so naive when it comes to these two? I mean she should get the hint that they are ''not'' her friends.

[[AC:FridgeLogic]]

* Can somebody tell me, ''please'', why is Sheldon so widely hated? Like, ''really'' hated? I agree that he was a bit of a creep in his debut, but people seem to forget that he mellowed out later on. And maybe it's just me, but when he has an implied perverted interest in robots, Jenny in particular, I only find it hilarious. I can understand why he would be disliked even, but people react like he's the ''worst imaginable pig of a person'' to ever exist because he has a romantic interest in Jenny. Uhmm...Hello? There are tons of characters like him out there who isn't as hated for some reason. Haven't we all had crushes, that sometimes borders on obsessive, when we were teenagers? Why is Sheldon such a damn special hatred target? I swear, my brother who has seen all the episodes (which I haven't), is just as confused at this.
** I'm gonna guess at least some of his haters are evoking DieForOurShip because they want Brad and Jenny to hook up. Other than that...yeah; I got nada, especially after the Christmas special where he was the ''only'' person to believe she was BrainwashedAndCrazy while Brad, Tuck and ''her own mother'' tried to kill her (well, put her offline but that still counts)!
* Sort of responding to the user above, how exactly is Brad x Jenny the FanPreferredCouple? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but the majority of stuff I find supports Jenny X Sheldon. For example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDv4qFPvOu0 the most popular youtube video shipping Sheldon]] currently has 469K views over three years, while the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gsp3ol479w most popular youtube video shipping Brad has 186K views]] over ten years. Most comments I see on reviews of this show that mention romance are pro-Sheldon, sure there are pro-Brad comments but they're rarer. It's possible that Brad x Jenny was the preferred ship earlier, but it seems Sheldon has prevailed.
** Above user responding: you're right that Brad/Jenny was the preferred ship for the longest time. I wasn't aware of the shift but am very pleased that it's occurred; while I have nothing against Brad/Jenny (it can be rather cute when written right), I was displeased with [[DieForOurShip the Sheldon hate]] that often came with it.

* Sort of responding to the user above, how exactly is Brad x Jenny the FanPreferredCouple? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but the majority of stuff I find supports Jenny X Sheldon. For example [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDv4qFPvOu0 the most popular youtube video shipping Sheldon]] currently has 469K views over three years, while the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gsp3ol479w most popular youtube video shipping Brad has 186K views]] over ten years. Most comments I see on reviews of this show that mention romance are pro-Sheldon, sure there are pro-Brad comments but they're rarer. It's possible that Brad x Jenny was the preferred ship earlier, but it seems Sheldon has prevailed.

** There are usually reasons why she's failing. In one episode she gains nerves and is in constant pain and screams so the teacher flunks her for disrupting the class. In another, Killgore annoys her so much she's unable to finish her exam. In another, she stays up too late partying, not letting herself recharge and she sleeps in class. Plus she's often fighting misters which likely eats into her school time.

* Sort of responding to the user above, how exactly is Brad x Jenny the FanPreferredCouple? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but the majority of stuff I find supports Jenny X Sheldon. For example [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDv4qFPvOu0 the most popular youtube video shipping Sheldon] currently has 469K views over three years, while the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gsp3ol479w most popular youtube video shipping Brad has 186K views] over ten years. Most comments I see on reviews of this show that mention romance are pro-Sheldon, sure there are pro-Brad comments but they're rarer. It's possible that Brad x Jenny was the preferred ship earlier, but it seems Sheldon has prevailed.

* Sort of responding to the user above, how exactly is BradxJenny the FanPreferredCouple? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but the majority of stuff I find supports Jenny X Sheldon. For example [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDv4qFPvOu0 the most popular youtube video shipping Sheldon] currently has 469K views, while the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gsp3ol479w most popular youtube video shipping Brad has 186K views]. Most comments I see on reviews of this show that mention romance are pro-Sheldon, sure there are pro-Brad comments but they're rarer. It's possible that BradxJenny was the preferred ship earlier, but it seems Sheldon has prevailed.

** I'm gonna guess at least some of his haters are evoking DieForOurShip because they want Brad and Jenny to hook up. Other than that...yeah; I got nada, especially after the Christmas special where he was the ''only'' person to believe she was BrainwashedAndCrazy while Brad, Tuck and ''her own mother'' tried to kill her (well, put her offline but that still counts)!

*** Not to mention isn't it interesting how the XJ series is based on emotions/quirks, AND made after Armageddroid? For example, XJ-1 was based on a baby, IE a developing sentient being. XJs 2 and 3 were both focused on motor skills involving weaponry and walking. XJ-4 despite being a cleaning maid, was a completely operational and fully mobile machine that was able to function correctly. With each installment of the XJ a new overall quirk is introduced that all culminated to Jenny: a robot crafted to adapt with her own morality and ability to operate on her own accord after being raised by a positive influence, IE, Nora, her creator that raises her as a daughter as more than just a robot who was programmed. IE, more than Armaggedroid was. In other words: why doesn't Nora just program Jenny to be competent? ''Because she saw what happens when you try to '''program''' a robot to be the savior of humanity.'' Humanity needs ''more'' than a robot...and Jenny is definitley more than a robot.

* Can somebody tell me, ''please'', why is Sheldon so widely hated? Like, ''really'' hated? I agree that he was a bit of a creep in his debut, but people seem to forget that he mellowed out later on. And maybe it's just me, but when he has an implied perverted interest in robots, Jenny in particular, I only find it hilarious. I can understand why he would be disliked even, but people react like he's the ''worst imaginable pig of a person'' to ever exist because he has a romantic interest in Jenny. Uhmm...Hello? There are tons of characters like him out there who isn't as hated for some reason. Haven't we all had crushes, that sometimes borders on obsessive, when we were teenagers? Why is Sheldon such a damn special hatred target? I swear, my brother who has seen all the episodes (which I haven't), is just as confused at this.

*** Not to mention isn't it interesting how the XJ series is based on emotions/quirks, AND made after Armageddroid? For example, XJ-1 was based on a baby, IE a developing sentient being. XJs 2 and 3 were both focused on motor skills involving weaponry and walking. XJ-4 despite being a cleaning maid, was a completely operational and fully mobile machine that was able to function correctly. With each installment of the XJ a new overall quirk is introduced that all culminated to Jenny: a robot crafted to adapt with her own morality and ability to operate on her own accord after being raised by a positive influence, IE, Nora, her creator that raises her as a daughter

** And there's the fact that Dr Wakeman _did_ design non-teenager "hero" robots -- XJ8 and Armageddroid, for example. Both were proven to be far less _effective_ than Jenny, whose human tendencies give her things like the ability to think creatively.

*** Sadly Truth in Television, in high school sometimes people are so desperate for popularity they try and hang out with the wrong crowd.

** She may be that desperate to fit in and have a normal teenage life.