Weapons of Mass Distraction is the first half of the first episode of season 3 of My Life as a Teenage Robot.
The episode was produced in 2005 and premiered worldwide on November 6, 2005 in the United Kingdom and on Nickelodeon in the United States on October 4, 2008.
Synopsis[]
Jenny has a crush on a new boy in school named Travis, but there's only one problem: Travis is afraid of anything mechanical. As Jenny tries her best to appear less robotic in order not to frighten Travis on their dates, her role as a superhero becomes conflicted — especially when the Old Weathered One, a villain who can control the weather, relentlessly attacks Tremorton.
Plot[]
Trivia[]
- Like most episodes of the series, this episode premiered in a handful of countries before the United States.
- This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2005.
- This episode premiered in Australia on December 2, 2005.
- This episode premiered in Mexico on April 28, 2006.
- This episode premiered in Germany on September 2, 2006.
- This episode premiered in Japan on January 16, 2007.
- This episode premiered in Canada on September 5, 2007.
- The scene with Travis' father in the factory is based on the Charlie Chaplin motion picture, Modern Times (1936).
- The episode title is a pun on the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction".
- This episode premiered on September 2, 2006 in Germany. [1]
- Coincidentaly to the next episode's title, the scene with the hurricane features Jenny saving an old lady on a bicycle (with a black dog on her basket) referencing The wizard of Oz (1939).
- This is the first episode to premiere on Nicktoons Network in the United States.
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the USA in 2008, it was actually produced in 2005 according to the credits.
- This episode was finished in August of 2005.[2]
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