Line #27 Trivia/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot


1	* AccidentalDownerEnding: The final episode, "[[Recap/MyLifeAsATeenageRobotS3E13 Turncoats]]", centers around Wakeman having to fight her XJ robots after being hijacked by Dr. Locus. Jenny and Wakeman defeat Locus, but the final shot of the episode, and [[GrandFinale consquentially the entire series]], is of Wakeman being swallowed by a tiger. [[SequelInAnotherMedium Web novel]] that continued the series came out in 2023 ... ''[[SequelGap 17 years later]]''.
2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** Creator/JaniceKawaye voices Jenny and Tammy the Space Biker, while Quinton Flynn plays both Don Prima and Sheldon Lee.
4	** In the Russian dub, Jenny and Tuck have the same voice actress, even after the voices were replaced in some season 3 episodes.
5	* AdoredByTheNetwork: The show was a staple on Nicktoons Network throughout the mid-to-late 2000s, where it used to air pretty much everyday on the network. The show was later aired in mostly watershed hours after the network began shifting to original action-oriented programming and reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', and Creator/ButchHartman cartoons during the 2010s until it was removed from the network in 2016.
6	* ApprovalOfGod: [[https://twitter.com/RobRenzetti/status/1282770815570735104?s=20 Rob Renzetti]] is supportive of the transgender community resonating with [[{{Applicability}} Jenny's struggles.]]
7	* TheCastShowoff: Creator/JaniceKawaye is naturally fluent in English and Japanese, which ends up playing in her favor when "Speak No Evil" revolves around Jenny being stuck in her Japanese voice setting.
8	* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Or a teen in this case. In the Latin American Spanish dub, Jenny's voice actress Leisha Medina was also 16 just like her character when recording for the show began.
9	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Among people unfamiliar with which show was made by which channel, there seems to be a recurring belief that Cartoon Network created ''My Life as a Teenage Robot'' rather than Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. This may be derived from confusion with CN's own [[WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones robot]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}} shows]], and the fact that creator Rob Renzetti is best known for his role in a number of early CN productions - most notably ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''. Not helping is that [=MLaaTR=]'s ArtDeco-inspired style is comparative to the minimalist Creator/{{UPA}}-style of those series, although [[ThickLineAnimation that animation style]] was prevalent on many late 1990s and 2000s cartoons in general.
10	* CrossDressingVoices:
11	** In some episodes of the Russian dub of season 3, Sheldon is voiced by a woman, while XJ-4 through XJ-8 are voiced by a man.
12	** In the pilot, Brad is voiced by Melissa Denton, but was [[TheOtherMarty Marty'd]] by Chad Doreck in the series proper.
13	** Audrey Wasilewski voices Brad's little brother Tuck.
14	* FakeNationality: The Crust Cousins are voiced by actresses opposite their nationality (The black Brit is voiced by a white actress, the white Tiff is voiced by a black actress).
15	* TheOtherDarrin: In the episode "Around the World in 50 Pieces", Vexus is voiced by Creator/CreeSummer (who also voices Tiff). Eartha Kitt voices her in every episode before and after, so this was probably because they didn't want to contact her for such a brief speaking role.
16	** There's also a few episodes where Cree Summer voices Vexus, but only in teenage forms, and would most likely be her replacement had the show continued or had a revival after Kitt's death.
17	** In the Russian dub, some of the episodes of season 3 have almost everyone's voice replaced, with Tuck and Nora Wakeman sounding closer to their English voices, while Jenny's voice was made high-pitched and squeaky.
18	* TheOtherMarty: See CrossDressingVoices above.
19	* OutOfOrder:
20	** Season 2 was supposed to end with the TV movie ''Escape from Cluster Prime'', but thanks to the [[SarcasmMode solid]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork treatment]] Nickelodeon gave to the series, it was aired as the 9th episode of the season, resulting in a massive continuity error were Vexus is still the ruler of the Cluster [[spoiler: despite Jenny and the residents of Cluster Prime overthrowing Vexus's tyranny, with her daughter Vega taking over her reign.]]
21	** Averted with Season 3 as, while the episodes were still not in their correct production code, don't have a single continuity error as the prior season.
22	** The episode listing on Paramount Plus, now the series' only proper viewing place, plays "Escape from Cluster Prime" as Season 3 episode 14; the de facto series finale. Presumably, the episode was already finished and set to air before Season 3 was fully greenlit.
23	* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: When there was a debate on Facebook over some fan-art of Jenny, Rob stepped in and offered his views, saying that while he doesn't find outright porn of his characters as tolerable, simple "sexy" pinups were A-OK.
24	-->'''Rob Renzetti:''' "Let me say that this particular piece of art is okay with me. It is 'sexy', which is okay with me. What I object to is 'Sex' images where things range from very suggestive to completely explicit. I hope that is clear enough for everyone but, if you aren't sure whether an image might be appropriate or not, then don't post it."
25	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: After doing fairly well during its first season, the show later suffered some of the most horrific treatment in Nickelodeon's history afterwards.
26	** The first season was produced and finished in 2002, and [[ShortRunInPeru began airing in foreign countries]] that year. However, it didn't premiere in its home country until August 2003, [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment almost a year after production of the season had finished]].
27	** Nickelodeon once ran a poll between this show and ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' to determine what would be shown next. Despite ''My Life as a Teenage Robot'' [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/clash-of-fraud.html having a clear lead]], Nickelodeon declared ''Invader Zim'' the winner, even though both shows got screwed over by Nickelodeon, making the entire poll a farce.[[note]]Though the show ''did'' air on said network, albeit as a 4 episode mini marathon in the wee hours of Thursday morning each and every week.[[/note]]
28	** The second season was [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment delayed for many months]]. A combination of a very inconsistent schedule and a lack of adverts all resulted in its cancellation in 2005. The third season, produced from 2005 to 2006, [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment didn't air for three years]] until 2008 to 2009 on Nicktoons Network[[note]]Though it did [[ShortRunInPeru air in Asia and other countries between 2006 to 2007.]] [[/note]], a channel which less people own, and was only seen on the main Nickelodeon channel on Sundays at 6AM with no advertising, a time where the majority of Nick's target audience are still asleep.
29	** The show was treated ''worse'' in Canada. On Creator/{{YTV}}, the show often air in rather shoddy timeslots, with the third season not even finishing. (It was replaced without notice and never re-aired). In January 2014, the show would resurface on the Canadian feed on Nickelodeon, albeit [[FridayNightDeathSlot after midnight on weekends]], but the show was gone again by September, once again screwing over Canadian fans. It currently airs on a daily basis on Nickelodeon, albeit still in an after-midnight time slot, possibly due to the Canadian rights of the show being owned by Creator/{{Nelvana}}, who are also owned by YTV's parent company Corus Entertainment.
30	** Many countries, like the UK and France, never finished the show beyond its first or second season.
31	** Now here's the real kicker, no matter how much Rob Renzetti, let alone ANY of the cast & crew, expressed interest in continuing the show, neither Nickelodeon nor [=ViacomCBS=] are willing to revive it for their networks or streaming services. Therefore, this show's fate is now in a very bleak position.
32	* SequelInAnotherMedium: [[MilestoneCelebration In celebration of the show turning 20]], Rob Renzetti announced on his newsletter that the show would be returning... [[BaitAndSwitch as a serialized web novel]]. Considering Nickelodeon's apathy towards the series that is ''just'' recently being reversed given the greater exposure in merchandise and games, fans sees this as a "good enough" situation.
33	* SequelGap: ''Literature/{{Alternaversity}}'' the brief WebSerialNovel continuation of the series, was made 17 years after the cartoon ended.
34	* [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment The Shelf of TV Languishment]]: Although the series didn't premiere in the United States until August 2003, the entire first season was produced in 2002 according to the end credits of every episode. Although, the first season did start airing in 2002 [[Main/ShortRunInPeru in countries like the United Kingdom and Australia]].
35	** [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840909/locations According to IMDb]], season 1 was finished in November 2002, nine months before the series premiered in its home country.
36	** The third season was produced between 2005 and 2006, but didn't air in the United States until three years later (from 2008 to 2009). Although, similarly to the first season, it aired in some countries between 2006 and 2007.
37	* ShortRunInPeru: The series premiered in Australia, the UK and Latin America in late 2002 and early 2003 before debuting in its home country in August 2003.
38	** The entirety of season 3, which aired in America from October 2008 to May 2009, was first aired in Asia and [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Latin America]] from 2006 to 2007, resulting in most fans watching the Latin American rips of the episodes on torrent sites like [[Main/DigitalPiracyIsEvil The Pirate Bay and LimeWire]] without waiting for two years to watch them in America.
39	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
40	** The show itself came about as a result of Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} deciding they didn't want a sixth ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'' short. The original concept was a teenage girl whose boyfriend was a robot, but Renzetti merged the two characters into a teenage robot girl (after Fred Seibert reminded him that unusual male-female relationships was the exact reason why Nick passed on more ''Mina''), and the rest is history.
41	** Supposedly, Creator/StudioGainax (of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' fame) had interest in creating an anime reboot of the series due to [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff how popular the series is in Japan]], not unlike what [[Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ actually happened]] to ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
42	** The show's production blog contains early concepts of the [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/01/brit-and-tiff-beginnings.html Crust]] [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/01/crust-crazy.html Cousins]], [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/03/dawn-of-xjs.html XJs 1-8]], [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/03/biker-makeover.html the Space Bikers]], [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/02/misty-memories.html Misty]], and [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/01/pre-prehistoric-jenny.html Jenny]] [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/01/jenny-that-never-was.html herself]].
43	** There was originally going to be a character in the show called [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.ca/2006/03/thats-old-spirit.html the Polterguest]], a ghost who suffered from the same [[IJustWantToBeNormal problems]] as Jenny, but rejected by Nickelodeon for being too similar to WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom.
44	** [[https://twitter.com/RobRenzetti/status/1396201674809614336 There was supposed to be]] a third "Raggedy Android" episode with the human exoskin kidnapping Brad and threatening to kill him unless Jenny merged with her. It was scrapped because Nickelodeon felt it was too disturbing.
45	** One scrapped episode ideas would have seen Jenny travel through time and team up with a young Dr. Wakeman in Skyway Patrol.
46	** In general, the creator wanted the show to have more of an overarching plot than it did, but since it was made long before the streaming era, it stayed mostly episodic to avoid alienating casual viewers.
47	* WordOfGod: It's probably a great comfort to Jenny[=/=]Sheldon shippers that Rob Renzetti said in an interview that he and his team would've loved to see [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Sheldon and Jenny as a couple]]. Though this comment may have been taken out of context, as a later Q&A session had Rob clarify that there were no official plans to pair Jenny with anyone in particular.
48	* WriterConflictsWithCanon: In a tweet by creator Rob Renzetti, he stated that the show is set in the present day (I.E. 2002 to 2006, when the show was in production). However, while the set year is never explicitly stated in the show, it is implied to be in the future. In the episode [[Recap/MyLifeAsATeenageRobotS1E8 I Was a Preschool Dropout]], Jenny tells Brad she was only born five years ago (from their time) and Brad then begins to list a number of events that all happened at that time. One of these was "Super Bowl 100". Given that 2002, the year the series and episode were made, was also the year of the 36th Super Bowl, and in-series five years had passed since "Super Bowl 100", this would make the show take place in 2071. Add 64 to 36 to get Super Bowl 100, which makes the year 2066 (2002 + 64), plus five years since Super Bowl 100 makes it 2071.

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