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A Pain In My Sidekick is the first half of the ninth episode of season 2 of My Life as a Teenage Robot.
The episode was produced in 2004 and premiered worldwide on December 19, 2004 in the United Kingdom and on Nickelodeon in the United States on June 23, 2005.
Synopsis[]
Tuck admires the Silver Shell, so he manages to "convince" Sheldon into making him Silver Shell's faithful sidekick, “The Tin Can”. Being a sidekick isn't quite what he expects, though.
Plot[]
It was a lovely day in Tremorton...at least in places where a human can see. Everyone got to go places and do things but Tuck couldn't even leave his front lawn. Jenny, Brad, and Sheldon returned from their outings and Sheldon thanked the Silver Shell for keeping everything calm. Jenny and Brad wondered how Sheldon knew the Silver Shell. Sheldon made up a story about how the Silver Shell saved his life, protecting the Silver Shell's identity. When Sheldon saw the flying Silver Shell suit outside his garage, he scrambled to see who was in it.
Tuck was piloting the suit and wondered what it was doing in Sheldon's garage. Sheldon explained that he used the suit for one of the real Silver Shell's helpers, like Santa Claus, and told a slightly different story. Now that he knew, he told Tuck not to tell anyone else, not even Jenny or Brad. Sheldon offered to build Tuck his own metal costume. Tuck's new secret identity, Tin Can, made him feel invincible; fearless to do anything and help anyone. When Jenny was looking for Tuck, she mistook Tin Can for a villain. Brad wasn't too worried about Tuck missing.
The next morning, Tuck was excited to go "superheroing" and he woke up Sheldon. Tin Can attempted to save people from dangerous situations but the Silver Shell ended up saving the day for them. Upon finding out Tin Can had no special powers, Tuck (in the suit) felt he had to prove himself by defeating the moleverine from underground. He ended up running and was asked by the Silver Shell to hide the abandoned opera house.
Jenny zoomed by to help the Silver Shell fight the moleverine. They needed to find its main weakness; which was bright light. They shined light in its eyes and it shrunk into a tiny mole. The Silver Shell disappeared to find his sidekick. In the rubble of what was once the opera house, Sheldon found a remnant of the Tin Can suit and thought Tuck was gone. Tuck was alive and was informed that the suit couldn't be fixed. Both Sheldon and Tuck vowed to give up "superheroing" and to never mention their past superhero identities to anyone.
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on June 23, 2005, it was actually produced in 2004 according to the credits.
- This episode was finished in November of 2004.[1]
Quotes[]
Tin Can Man (Tuck): "Tin Can Man! Tin Can Man! Super hero megastar, faster than a speeding car. Can says he can when others say he can't. Can goes into toy stores anytime he wants. He's nimble on his iron feet, d-uh...helping seniors cross the street." [to old man] "Hello sir, I'm Tin Can and I'll be your superhero this afternoon. Would you like me to help you across the street?"
Old man [repeatedly hits the Can with his cane]: "Go away! I ain't fixin' to cross no street and I ain't allowin' to buy no tin cans."
Tuck wakes up Sheldon sleeping in his bedroom. Tuck wears his Tin Can suit.
Tuck: "Get up, Silver Shell, it's time for another day of adventure and superheroing."
Sheldon falls back asleep.
Tuck: "I'm sure Jenny will go with me."
Sheldon: [putting on his pants and hops] "I'm up! I'm up!" [bumps into opened door against wall]
Silver Shell saves Tin Can from alleyway bullies. They flee.
Tin Can: "Come back, you cowards!"
Silver Shell: "Look, Tuck, you don't have any special powers. You're just a kid in a suit. It's time to stop."
Tin Can: "I can't stop now. Revealing my identity would put everyone I love in terrible danger and there's still one thing I've got to do: fight a gargantuan super menace. That's what separates the men from the boys and the cans from the cardboard boxes. Bring on the monsters!"
ground rumbles, monster breaks through from underground
Tuck: "...Why would anyone wanna be a superhero? I've never been so scared in all my life and that was just from pretending to be a hero. I could have been mole food. No thank you!"
Sheldon: "So how about we both give up superheroing and never mention this to anyone ever again?"
Tuck: "Sounds good to me."
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 December 19, 2004.
- This episode premiered in Australia on December 31, 2004.
- The episode title is a pun on the phrase "A pain in my sides".
- In pre-production, this episode's title was "Enter the Can".
- This is the Silver Shell's final appearance in the series.
- This is the only Silver Shell episode to not have "shell" in the title.
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