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Good Old Sheldon is the second half of the seventh episode of season 3 of My Life as a Teenage Robot.
The episode was produced in 2005 and premiered worldwide on December 6, 2005 in Canada and on Nicktoons Network in the United States on November 1, 2008.
Synopsis[]
Turns out, poor Sheldon was stuck on the comet aliens' ship when Jenny hurled it into the sun’s orbit (in the previous episode), and he's been spending decades trying to get back to Earth (even though it's only been 24 hours on Earth since he left). Hopefully, Jenny can get him back to his proper age.
Plot[]
Starts with Jenny finishing explaining to Tuck of where babies come from, leaving him and his brother, Brad shocked face. As they headed to their schools, they notice a mysterious breeze, and each give their description of what it is. Just then an elderly man with white thinning hair, an eye patch and a cane arrived and shouted out Jenny's name while he runs towards her (which is really him walking slowly), which after making it, tells her that she ruined his life and when she doesn't know who he is, he revealed himself as Sheldon.
At first, they thought he was a crazy old man and that they should leave but he explains that he is Sheldon but only a bit older since Jenny abandon him 75 years ago. Jenny doesn't believe him as she remembers seeing him just yesterday when she threw those aliens who worshiped her around the sun. Sheldon explains what happened when he was in the ship. After Jenny sent him and the aliens into space, Sheldon tried to get them to take him home but rather the fly their space back to earth, they just dumped him, where he spends most of his teen and adult years in space while finding numerous jobs in order to make a living.
Brad is confused as he wondered how is it that one day has gone by for them, but 75 years has gone by for him. Sheldon explains using the Theory of Relativity that when Jenny threw the ship and Sheldon into space at the speed of light, Time moved slowly and what became 75 years for him only became a day for her and the others. Not believing that he is Sheldon, Jenny and the others all headed to school.
Upon arriving, she sees Sheldon (still not convince that he is) in class, who revealed that he has his homework that he held to for the last 75 years, only for it to be destroyed due to it being 75 years old. Later as Sheldon went into his locker, Jenny run up to him and told him that even if he does believe himself to be Sheldon, he can't go into his locker, only to learn that he can open the door and photos of Jenny are shown but is unable to blush. During a game of Dodgeball, Sheldon told everyone that the way they played is wrong, only for them to hit him instead.
As Jenny carried Sheldon to the nurse's office, she finally believed him to be Sheldon when he mentions an event that only she and Sheldon knew and answering a few Sheldon questions. Jenny (now knowing it's her fault for making him old) than came up with an idea that involved them going back to space, only for Sheldon refuse as he continues his tale of his space adventures. After 35 years of saving enough money (and selling his spleen), Sheldon made enough money for a trip back to earth.
Unfortunately, the bus was hi-jack by a group of space pirates, whose captain orders the passengers to walk the plank (not knowing that there's no gravity and simply fall off the ship) but upon meeting Sheldon, instead made him the new cabin boy. Throughout his time with the pirates, they began to lose more captains until Sheldon was made the new captain and had his crew steal comics and games, and while he did enjoy the life, he missed his old life on earth. So, while the crew were sleeping (and Sheldon gave his hat to one of the crew members, making him the new captain) he stole one of the mini ships and headed back to earth, to get revenge on Jenny for putting him up with this probelm.
As the flashback ended (and Sheldon prepared to hit Jenny with his cane) Jenny realize that in his story, he was in his early or late 50's when he joined the crew and left and yet he looked like he's in his early 90's when he arrived back on earth. Sheldon explains that the reason for the extra 40 years is that it took him longer to find the milky way and return to earth since he didn't know where it was. Jenny revealed the plan is to use a black hole to make Sheldon younger, but Sheldon revealed that reason why he can't go back was because according to Pirate Law, if a captain abandons his crew, they can kill him, but Jenny told him that since the pirates are on the other side of the galaxy, they won't be able to find him.
At Jenny's home, she places Sheldon in a rocket and flew him into the Black Hole, where using her thrusters as a added boost, hoping to make him young again. However, Nora called Jenny and informs her that the hole wasn't going to make him younger but rather make him much older, causing her to stop the process and return back to earth. With Sheldon now so old he needs an iron lung to breath; Jenny asked her mother if there's anything they can do to make him young again. Nora revealed that she did invent a machine that allows to her shave off at least a year (or five) from her body, keeping her a bit young, but it takes a large amount of power to active it. Knowing now they have a way to help Sheldon, Jenny and Nora place Sheldon into the machine but since it take at least the whole house's power to only remove a small bit of years, Nora made a suit for Jenny that allows her to create enough kinetic energy to power the machine when she moves.
As Jenny started to make enough moment to help Sheldon regain his young, the space pirates arrived and plans to capture Sheldon to kill him. Jenny then started to move so much that after she defeated them, discovered that the battle caused Sheldon to age back to a five-year-old. However, each time Jenny moved, the machine would make Sheldon younger, to the point where he is now a one-year-old baby. Now a stilled Jenny must figure out how to get Sheldon back to his original age, the pirate notices how cute he is, and this gave Jenny an idea.
The Next Day as Jenny, Tuck and Brad were walking to school, Sheldon (now back to his original age) approach Jenny and is angry as it turns out that Jenny's idea was to have the pirates take Sheldon back into space and (using the Theory of Relativity) age him back to his original age. Sheldon however was angrier that Jenny would make him live through 90 years of his life and vowed to never forgive her, but he decides to let it go when Jenny gave him a huge hug, but ended with him getting with dodgeballs, ending the cartoon.
Characters[]
- Jenny Wakeman
- Tuck Carbunkle
- Brad Carbunkle
- Sheldon Lee
- Don Prima
- Pteresa
- Space Pirates
- Nora Wakeman
Trivia[]
- Like most episodes of the series, this episode premiered in a handful of countries before the United States.
- This episode premiered in Canada on December 6, 2005.
- This episode premiered in Japan on January 13, 2006.
- This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2006.
- This episode premiered in Australia on February 24, 2006.
- This episode premiered in Mexico on August 25, 2006.
- This episode premiered in Germany on September 2, 2006.
- The Gobblin from the McDonald Land commercial makes a cameo appearance.
- Jenny's suit scheme, used to power Nora's age-regressing machine, is a self-reference to TRON.
- In the beginning, Tuck says to Sheldon (Old Sheldon, not knowing he's the real Sheldon), that he, along with Brad and Jenny saw him yesterday with the Tiny Aliens, though this can not include Tuck seeing Sheldon yesterday with the aliens as Tuck is never seen with Brad and Jenny previously in Teen Idol (2005).
- According to calculations, Sheldon was 91 of age after 75 years in space considering him mainly to be 16 of age in the series. Then since he was sent back into space for another 15 years (one day Earth time) to return him back to normal after Jenny accidentally turned him into a baby. This made his age 106
- In this episode Jenny can smell clearly as revealed after reacting to Sheldon's old man smell when hugging him.
- This episode is titled "Sheldon's Other Life" in the credits of the cast.
- In the beginning, while Jenny, Brad, and Tuck were walking to school, the wind breeze in which both Brad and Jenny commented on to be unusual, was sure to be from Sheldon landing in his space ship (though not shown at first but later in his story tell), as he reveals himself seconds after and seems to be dropping down from something as he first comes in frame.
- When Jenny interrogates Sheldon to confirm his identity, he answers her in the form of questions, akin to how contestants must answer on the trivia game show Jeopardy! (1964-present).
- In the comic book shop Sheldon and the pirates raided, on one of the shelves is a Darth Vader helmet.
- This episode premiered worldwide before The Legion of Evil (2005), although The Legion of Evil (2005) is chronologically before Good Old Sheldon (2005).
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the USA in 2008, it was actually produced in 2005 according to the credits. It was also the last episode produced in 2005.
- This episode was finished in November of 2005.[1]
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