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Around the World in Eighty Pieces is the second half of the seventh episode of season 2 of My Life as a Teenage Robot.

The episode was produced in 2004 and premiered worldwide on November 19, 2004 in Australia and on Nickelodeon in the United States on January 28, 2005.

Synopsis[]

Crackerjack Cluster inventor, Krackus, has managed to scatter Jenny's parts all over the world, and Brad, Tuck, and Sheldon must put their friend back together before Krackus can call Vexus on his success.

Plot[]

Jenny's in Pieces[]

Around the World in Eighty Pieces (2004) begins as Dr. Wakeman walks in to see Jenny making a huge mess in the kitchen for an event coming up at the school. She leaves, revealing to the others what she made, as they show their work. Suddenly Krackus appears, Jenny feels he wont be a threat to her at all considering how old and unthreatening he is. He asks if she wants to see his new invention, but Jenny calls his bluff and he presses the disassembler button.

It does not work for a few seconds. Suddenly, Jenny flies to pieces and every piece of her body goes flying around the world. Krackus mocks her, then bowls her head down like bowling ball the sidewalk as he tries to call Vexus to inform her that they can now come to enslave the human race.

In order to stall for time Tuck kicks Krackus' phone-like object and Jenny informs they have a tracking device that is attached to contact all of her body pieces. Using a mexican disguise she sneaks into the house and tries to find the device needed in order to find the right object needed. Inside of the machine they blast off and fly around to find all of Jenny's body before Krackus can fix his communication device.

Around the World[]

First, the guys head inside and the woman offers the guys multiple cookies. She tells them how her "cookie cutter" helps her make the cookies. Upon being told it will help she gladly hands it, and a million cookies over to the guys. Then they go to a foreign land and search for Jenny's body pieces. A man has her arm but wishes for a trade, nothing works until Tuck tries to offer Jenny's head. Brad and Tuck argue over Tuck’s ridiculous negotiation while Sheldon manages to get Jenny’s arm by offering the man the cookies they received earlier.

In the next city the group stops a giant creature’s rampage by reclaiming Jenny’s foot when suddenly Krackus calls to inform them that he has found all the pieces of his communicator and is starting to put it back together. Then in another land Tuck is chased by odd birds as they grab the next of Jenny's body pieces. They soon arrive to a creepy mansion and sneak inside trying to find Jenny's leg. Which they locate on a knights armor. Suddenly the man inside wishes for a duel for the piece but the guys all have trouble trying to fight him. Suddenly his mother/wife comes out and tells him that it's bed time.

Another Happy Ending?[]

Meanwhile in the vehicle, Tuck can't figure out why he can't get Jenny's body back together when she informs him they need her belly button bolt, which holds her entire body together. They manage to find it located inside of a arcade's claw machine game. Which Sheldon manages to get after he fights a younger boy for it. Unfortunately, the arcade closes before they can receive it.

Everyone panics as Jenny's body parts land near a tree. Krackus calls Vexus, then tells her what happened before Jenny informs Krackus that she has been put back together. Krackus tries to split Jenny apart but its no use and she reveals that they have stolen an important clip from it. It's then revealed that Jenny really wasn't put back together, they had put her pieces onto the nearby tree.

Having found it fun however, the guys go to re-hide her body as the episode ends.

Trivia[]

  • Like most episodes of the series, this episode premiered in a handful of countries before the United States.
    • This episode premiered in Australia on November 19, 2004.
    • This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2004.
  • This episode marks the debut of one of the primary villains of the series, Cluster inventor Krackus.
  • This is the only episode where Eartha Kitt did not voice Vexus, but she was voiced by Cree Summer instead.
  • The episode's title is a reference to the novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).
  • Godzilla, the famous Japanese movie monster, makes a brief appearance in this episode in parody form. A giant dinosaur-like reptile appears terrorizing Tokyo and makes the iconic Godzilla roar. As Jenny and her friends gather Jenny's scattered parts and arrive in Japan, they remove one of her parts from Godzilla's foot, calming him. He then returns to the sea and swims away.
  • When Brad, Sheldon, and Tuck climb a set of stairs, it is referencing to famous painter MC Escher.
  • It's revealed in this episode that Jenny has a built-in phone in her head when she also has a flip phone that she can shape from her left pigtail that she uses a number of times in the series.
  • This episode re-aired on Nicktoons during the Holladays 2015.
  • The phone booth that Krackus was using to talk to Jenny was labeled "FON" instead of "Phone".
  • This is the first episode to feature the voice of Jim Ward.
GodzillaReference

“Godzilla” as he appears briefly.

Production Notes[]

  • Although this episode premiered in the United States on January 28, 2005, it was actually produced in 2004 according to the credits.
    • This episode was finished in October of 2004.[1]
  • This episode's production code is 202-038.

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