My Life as a Teenage Robot

One thin I will always remember is one movie at the end when Jenny is forced to choose to either live with the humans or the robots. It was a part of my childhood and very touching when you think of it.

I've been rewatching recently because I used to love this show and while the plots have yet to really impress me, the art style is SO nice. I especially love when they change all of the colors and Jenny becomes maroon or whatever color depending on the situation.

The plots were really nothing to write home about in the first season or two, but I always felt the humor was pretty solid (for the most part). The show got a lot better as it went on.

The series finale was the biggest misstep because it wasn't really a stand-out ep. either. It had to do with the older X Js turning on Jenny and her mom. Would have worked better as a full hour special instead.

Someone over at the MLaaTR Rebooted forums claimed to have emailed Rob Renzetti, and Rob told him that he sent in some storyboards for an official CG reboot/continuation with Jenny as the leader of 'Justice League'-style team. Apparently Nickelodeon accepted it.

Take it with a grain of salt, folks. But the show IS rerunning again on Nicktoons Network around 4 or 5 in the morning.

edited 24th Apr '15 1:18:39 PM by TheLemsterPju

I actually had an idea for something like that once. A Justice League Nickelodeon type of show, fusing a lot of their superhero characters into one series. Plus a ton of references to other Nickelodeon shows and media.

My idea was having Danny Phantom as the leader, though, with El Tigre+Frida and Jenny being the other members of the team.

edited 24th Apr '15 1:08:21 PM by KnownUnknown

I really kind of hope it's a joke. The idea just sounds like it'd be pretty awful.

Besides, Nick shows haven't had good luck with reboots - excepting Rugrats, but that came about only a few years after it was canceled.

All Grown Up says hi and goodbye just as quickly.

That was technically a sequel, not a reboot.

If you mean the episodes after 1993, that's a different story.

And I have seen the reruns on Nicktoons, AND THEY ALSO ARE RETURNING IRON MAN ARMORED ADVENTURES, so I really can't say that having the reruns will change anything.

I heard about that. I bet they'll take it off again after Ultron is out of theatres, though. If not even sooner.

edited 25th Apr '15 5:25:18 AM by KnownUnknown

The fact kind of remains that the only shows that work after being brought back are those that are brought back maybe a couple years after the show is cancelled. Not a decade.

Ren And Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, anyone?

edited 25th Apr '15 5:29:22 AM by Aldo930

I'd argue that's usually the writers or production staff's fault, not something inherent in the show itself.

Lots of series are blatantly mishandled by new staff, executives, or anything in between, and it often feels like things are brought back for a quick halfhearted grab and then cast aside. In general, I think the industry tends to make making a good adaptation or revival look a lot harder than it really ought to be.

It also depends on what you mean by "revival." I assume shows that are, themselves, adaptations don't count.

Either way, the only way a revival couldn't work is if there's something wrong with the premise that means it wouldn't work in the first place, and we already know that's not the case. In fact, with superheroes becoming such a big thing nowadays, I'm surprised there haven't been more revivals of comedy superhero series.

edited 25th Apr '15 5:38:40 AM by KnownUnknown

Three words: Teen titans GO.

If the cartoon is an adaptation in the first place, no, it don't count.

The problem with revivals is that even if the creator is involved, there are other things that made the show great that definitely won't return. The writing staff, for example.

I'd love to see some original superhero comedies, myself. Maybe a Zucker Brothers-style parody of modern superhero movies.

Maybe the staff will be different, but that doesn't preclude it from potentially being just as good as (if not better than) the original. Like, for example, Johnny Bravo was retooled and rebooted a couple times throughout its history, some seasons without the series creator and some later seasons where he returned, and it had a reasonably consistent level of quality throughout (with maybe some seasons being zanier than others as the only major difference).

The first retool of Johnny Bravo came about two years after the first season, and was probably done expressly because the original was not working out.

The second retool, where the creator returned, was done about three years after that retool ended.

So technically it doesn't disprove the idea that retools are only good if done a few years after the show originally ended.

As far as I've seen, though, retools are most often done after a few years anyway, so I'm not sure that really serves Amy point here.

And hey, I liked the original version of the show. Admittedly, it had a lot more dead air, but at its best it was incredibly witty and funny, and it also had Seth Mac Farlane back when he actually gave a crap enough to put out some hilarious material (or had restrictions on him to keep him grounded, take your pick).

edited 26th Apr '15 5:23:26 PM by Odd1

In this case, though, it's been years since the original show ended.

The original 13 episodes of Johnny Bravo were about as funny as the Kirk Tingblad years, I admit, but back in the day it apparently was the least popular of the Cartoon Cartoons - up until they retooled it.

edited 26th Apr '15 5:26:06 PM by Aldo930

Still better and probably more popular than Mike Lu And Og.

They gave Mike Lu And Og a second season and didn't have to reboot it after the first.

Didn't get any other seasons, though

Which pretty much illustrates the point; Johnny Bravo, when its first season was on the air, was the least popular Cartoon Cartoon after Dexters Lab and Cow And Chicken, and it wasn't until the show was redone with a new creative team that it became a classic.

Hey, you know what never became a classic? Mike Lu And Og.

Okay, I'm done

I love how this just all watered down to a "Retooled Cartoon cartoons thread".

Any real reason why anyone would care for a M Laa TR reboot to begin with?