Party Machine
Year produced: 2002
Production code: 102-017
Original U.S. air date: 9/5/2003 (first aired in the U.K. on 12/1/2002)
The one with the house party.
Dr. Wakeman has to step out of the house overnight, leaving Jenny to handle the annual Minutian invasion by herself. Jenny seizes this opportunity to throw a house party while her mother is out.
However, the next morning, the Minutians invade the house, and Jenny and Brad have to stop them before Dr. Wakeman gets back.
"Party Machine" contains examples of:
- Wild Teen Party: Jenny and Brad throw a massive party while Dr. Wakeman is away.
Speak No Evil
Year produced: 2002
Production code: 102-014
Original U.S. air date: 9/5/2003 (first aired in the U.K. on 12/1/2002)
The one where Jenny speaks Japanese.
While on a rescue mission in Japan, Jenny loses her English language disc, leaving her stuck speaking Japanese, confusing everyone back in Tremorton. When a fire breaks out in town, Jenny must use the help of others to save the day.
At the end of the episode, Jenny's language disc is returned to her, restoring her ability to speak English.
"Speak No Evil" contains examples of:
- Bilingual Bonus: Jenny's voice actress is Japanese-American, and in the episode, Jenny loses her English disc which has her speaking Japanese for nearly the whole episode.
- Chekhov's Gun: Jenny being stuck in speaking Japanese comes in handy when she was able to communicate with the sponge monster unleashed by Tuck, who can only speak Japanese itself.
- Curse of Babel: Jenny is rendered incapable of speaking English after losing that language disc on a mission in Japan. She speaks Japanese for most of the episode, which her actress Janice Kawaye is fluent in.
- Dub-Induced Plot Hole: The Japanese dub has Jenny losing her language disc in America and only being able to speak English back in her Japanese-speaking hometown. As a result of the language switch, "America" had many more aspects of Japanese culture than "Japan".
- Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with Brad accidentally exposing a sponge experiment of his own to the sun, and it begins to grow and mutate itself...
- Language Barrier: Jenny loses her English disc, making her only speak Japanese through the whole episode. She tried using charades to communicate with mother but she misinterpret "speak" for another. Though it's not stated
why she couldn't write things down. - Non-Verbal Miscommunication: When Dr. Wakeman cannot understand Jenny when she can only speak Japanese, she plays charades to communicate, trying to say "I can not speak English." While Dr. Wakeman gets the first three right, she gets confused when Jenny gets to "speak English", misinterpreting the sentence as "I cannot stop eating cheese in my milkshake" and "I cannot stop petting those cute little puppies". When Jenny becomes so frustrated by this that she complains in Japanese, Dr. Wakeman finally figures it out, but doesn't figure out that this was what Jenny had already been trying to tell her.
