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Dancing With My Shell

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 207a

Original U.S. air date: 1/28/2005

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The one with the school dance.

Jenny takes Silver Shell to the school dance, and he wants everything to be perfect, so he may reveal his true identity - Sheldon. However, his plans might be ruined when Letta and the Space Bikers crash the dance.

"Dancing With My Shell" contains examples of:

  • Bittersweet Ending: Jenny defeats the space bikers and saves the dance, but she is upset the Silver Shell ruined the dance and sends him away, thus his identity is kept secret once more. However, Sheldon is happy after Jenny tells the Silver Shell that he makes Sheldon look like Prince Charming, and Jenny cheers up after the hall monitor asks her to dance with him.
  • Get Out!: Jenny delivers this to the Space Bikers for crashing the dance.
  • Give Geeks a Chance: After dumping the Silver Shell, the short, chubby, bespectacled hall monitor asks Jenny if she wants to be his date and she hugs him.
  • Insult Backfire: When Jenny calls out the Silver Shell for ruining her first dance, she comments aside he "makes Sheldon look like Prince Charming". Sheldon takes this as a compliment and flies the Shell away to parts unknown.
  • Loophole Abuse: Dr. Wakeman allows Jenny to go to the dance, but only if she doesn't bring any boys with her. Sheldon gets around this by going with Jenny as the Silver Shell.
  • Sequel Episode: The third episode of the Silver Shell story arc, after "Shell Game" and "Saved By the Shell".


Around the World in Eighty Pieces

Year produced: 2004

Production code: 207b

Original U.S. air date: 1/28/2005

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The one with the search for Jenny's body parts.

Bungling Cluster inventor Krakus successfully disassembles Jenny and tosses her parts across the globe, so Brad, Sheldon, and Tuck go on a world voyage to get them back.

"Around the World in Eighty Pieces" contains examples of:

  • Funny Foreigner: Several of them when the gang travels around the world to retrieve Jenny's body parts.
  • Gotta Catch Them All: The episode is about Jenny being scattered to pieces and those pieces being sent all over the world. Brad, Tuck and Sheldon all race to reassemble her before the Cluster can invade.
  • Shout-Out: The episode title is an obvious reference to the book, Around the World in Eighty Days.
  • Team Rocket Wins: Krakus is normally a crackpot inventor who's gizmos either do not work or have extremely obvious design flaws. This is the first time he invents something that actually works with zero drawbacks, and that is a device that forcible disassembles Jenny. The only reason why he ran out by the end was because Jenny and her friends had to trick him into thinking she was re-assembled.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Upon finding the last piece needed to keep Jenny assembled at an arcade, Sheldon fights and wins a claw game machine against another patron, only to lose the piece at the last second by the arcade closing and the manager kicking the group out.

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