Love 'Em or Leash 'Em
Year produced: 2004
Production code: 204a
Original U.S. air date: 1/26/2005
Doggone it!
The one with Jenny's boyfriend.
Jenny's got a new robot boyfriend: Y-K9 (AKA, Kenny). But Dr. Wakeman and Kenny's creator/Wakeman's rival Dr. Mogg disapprove of the relationship. Things get harder as Jenny finds out Kenny is part dog while Sheldon tries to ruin their relationship.
"Love 'Em or Leash 'Em" contains examples of:
- Animal Disguise: To make Kenny expose himself as being part-dog, Sheldon puts on a cat costume so Kenny will chase him.
- Animal Jingoism: Kenny is a (anthropomorphic) dog-robot, so Sheldon takes advantage of this by dressing up in a cat suit to invoke his aggression and reveal his true nature to all of Mezmer's.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Mogg based Kenny off of Jenny's designs, including the aspect of him being a teenager with rebellious tendencies. Nora does not hesitate to rub it in his face.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Though Kenny is as sentient as Jenny herself, he still displays strong canine characteristics. Jenny is immediately repulsed by it once she figures it out.
- Catapult Nightmare: Jenny has one after finding out Kenny is part-dog, where she's stuck as a housewife making dog-chow for him before getting buried under an endless amount of robot pups as Kenny is hauled away by the dog catcher.
- Eating Machine: Subverted. Sheldon slaps a pizza slice out of Jenny's hands (that Kenny made) while claiming that she doesn't need to eat in a fit of rage.
- Foreshadowing: Kenny's serial is the Y-K9 Unit, which should've been a big tipoff to his true nature, and even Mogg's description of him should've raised some flags.
- Serenade Your Lover: When Jenny says she’ll be grounded until the end of time, Sheldon promises her he’ll serenade her every night. Then there’s a Gilligan Cut to him outside her window in his cat costume, musically meowing to her, much to her confusion.
- There Was a Door: Subverted. When grounded, Jenny was more than ready to break through the roof boasting her super strength... only to realize that sneaking out through the window is as good an option as any.
Teen Team Time
Year produced: 2004
Production code: 204b
Original U.S. air date: 1/26/2005
Move over, Teen Titans!
The one with the Teen Team.
Jenny joins a teenage alien superhero team. However, she may have to quit hanging out with Brad and Tuck in the process. What is Jenny to do?
"Teen Team Time" contains examples of:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Tadpolezilla serves as this episode's Monster of the Week.
- Blob Monster: Squish is a sentient goo-alien with Shapeshifting powers. His suit gives him the closest to a humanoid appearance.
- Dark and Troubled Past: The Teen Team were all outcasts even by their own planets' standards.
- Fantastic Racism: Orion and Squish are the most prejudiced against Muggles out of all the Teen Team members. Misty is more of a Downplayed example, but as later episodes prove, she has her own set of problems if not kept in check.
- The reason for this is because they all faced discrimination on their own planets for being different.
- Flying Brick: Orion has all the stock abilities one would expect from a super hero.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: At the end of the episode, The Teen Team made Jenny choose between abandoning Earth to visit other planets and become an intergalactic hero, or stay with the normal humans on a planet that rarely respects her. Jenny chose to stay on Earth.
- Gang Initiation Fight: Jenny is forced to fight the Teen Team all at once in order to enter their ranks. She succeeds, but as mentioned above her membership is short-lived.
- Idiot Ball: Jenny can inflict this on herself by shutting her own brain off at will, reducing her to a droopy idiot, which she uses to counter Misty's mind-jacking powers during the initiation sequence.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "It's Teen Team Time!"
- Shout-Out: Brad proclaims to be "On top of the squirrel, ma!" during the episode's climax.
- Smug Super: The Teen Team. While they go from planet to planet fighting threats so they can be seen as galactic heroes, they honestly just don't like normal people and shun them.
- Though they are willing to save people when they go to a planet, as soon as they decide to leave for another they outright refuse to help anymore even when it’s happening infront of them. They are even perfectly happy to watch one of their own fight without them. Orion even roots for the FROG over Jenny.
