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Victim of Fashion is the first episode of season 2 of My Life as a Teenage Robot.

The episode was produced in 2004 and premiered worldwide on September 17, 2004 in Australia and on Nickelodeon in the United States on September 6, 2005.

Synopsis[]

Not to be outdone by each other, a fashion war erupts between Jenny and the Crust cousins. Brit and Tiff employ psychological warfare by making Jenny feel self-conscious about her weight, so she urges Sheldon to make her as light as possible, which results in giving up her weapons and armor.

Plot[]

Same Old, Same Old[]

Victim of Fashion (2004) begins as Jenny is in the middle of fighting the Space Bikers. After the fight she notices how dirty she is suddenly and states that at the school this will never do. It's then the Crust Cousins show up as the center of attention, like usual. When they suddenly hear the nearby car wash beeping, Jenny comes out very shiny and pretty and everybody rushes over to enjoy her wax job.

Tiff comments that Jenny wears the same thing every day, which ends up with everybody else mocking her due to this, which leads to her feeling down about herself as she realizes she always wears the same thing.

Fashion War[]

On the way home she promises that she won't let such an error happen again. She's going to destroy the Crust Cousins. Tuck tells her instead of stupid clothing, she should just "crush" them literally. Brad insists that Jenny instead crams for fashion, like she would for studying. Sheldon gives them all of the magazines he has and they insert page by page into Jenny before using some flash cards on changing her hairstyle and what not. Jenny then learns how to walk in heels, which she takes a liking to within a matter of seconds until she falls through the floor.

The following morning the Crust Cousins arrive with a disco themed outfit. Everybody is of course impressed until Jenny shows up and transforms herself into a groovy robot girl which captures the attention of everyone.

As the three males watch this, Tiff and Brit run away and the following day at noon in school they return with a Western theme in attire. Jenny challanges them with ease, then uses her "gun guitar" and shoots holes into her cowboy hat, much to the anger of the Crust Cousins.

Later at a bug and flower greenhouse, they are once again outdone by Jenny who transforms into a butterfly. They slink away and later on try to outdo Jenny at the pool. In response Jenny transforms herself into a giant fountain like piece while she stands in the center. The proceeding day the cousins have now try to outdo Jenny by using a blue and pink themed Victorian style. After insulting them Jenny transforms into a very pretty Victorian themed dress before tearing their outfits to shreds.

Tiff states that it seems they can't win against Jenny when Brit suddenly gets an idea. Stating that with each outfit, Jenny has to keep adding more and more weight. After she whispers her idea to Tiff the two cousins go on to plot their final move against Jenny and laugh evilly for moments to come.

Skinny Jenny[]

The following day, everybody is awaiting the arrival of Jenny to get autographs and ask for photographs. As she signs an autograph, she hears the Crust Cousins and turns to see them suddenly having taken on a slim and skinny appearance. She mocks them, then goes to show everybody that she can easily accomplish a thin look. Unfortunately she has trouble, so instead she tries to make a striped outfit until it messes up suddenly. She ends up looking like a fashion error but keeps trying. Unfortunately she can't and she demands to be turned "thin". Jenny asks Sheldon to remove every single one of her weapons.

After sometime, Sheldon manages to remove every single weapons in Jenny's body, including accidentally her head during one moment.

Sheldon, Brad, and Tuck are rather unsure about this when they see how "thin" Jenny exactly is. The following morning the Crust Cousins appear in biker themed attire, stating it shouldn't be hard to beat her in terms of transformation. Jenny suddenly shows up with everybody in a mixture of shock, and amazement by her slim look as Jenny suddenly falls into a man hole. Suddenly a building nearby explodes.

Revenge of the Space Bikers[]

The Space Bikers are back. Jenny tries to attack but she is informed that every single item she tries to use has been taken off of her, since she demanded they be removed. Jenny can only keep dodging the space bikers and try to fight the best she can without her weapons. Tiff and Brit get jealous as they cheer for Jenny in this fight and go inside to try and show her up once more. As Jenny is tossed around carelessly, they burst in as the leader of the Space Bikers try to take the cousins' bikes from them.

Tammy grabs onto Brad and Sheldon and forces them on a hook and into a vat of oil. Suddenly Tuck shows up with his own mecha of Jenny's parts! He proves to be too strong for them however and the space bikers are forced to run from him after being tied up, as they also took Britt and Tiff with them. Tuck gets complimented on the way he transformed Jenny into a mecha-robot-like thing and Jenny angrily storms off after telling the guys to come with her as the episode ends.

Quotes[]

Brit: Bigger is not always better.


Tiff: (about Jenny's transformations) Now she has fashion growing out of her floppy drive? How're we supposed to compete with that?

Brit: Don't fret, Tiff. We've been the fashion divas of this school for too long.


Brit: (laughing about Jenny's failed transformation) Poor thing! Didn't she ever learn not to mix polka-dots and gun-powder?


Jenny: Being up on the latest trends is useless unless you can fit the look! And right now the look is thin.

Sheldon: (to Jenny) But removing your weapons system? Are you sure that's such a good idea?

Brad: Yeah, Jen. Sounds pretty risky.

Jenny: (very certain and determined ) I don't care!!! It's better to be fashionable than functional. I want a slim-down look that will make Brit and Tiff look like stuffed sausages. Take it out! Take it all out!


Tuck: Are we done yet?

Brad: Tuck, you're too young to be handling weaponry.


Sheldon: (to Jenny) That's all I can remove without compromising your structural integrity.

Jenny: I simply must give props to my design team.


Jenny: (about the weapons being gone) There's nothing left?

Brad: Pretty much.

Sheldon: I believe your exact words were, "It's better to be fashionable than functional."


Tuck: Well, boys. It looks like we got ourselves a down and dirty fashion war.


Tiff: (about their shredded outfits) Girlfriend, I hate to admit it but our goose is done well cooked! There ain't no way to win against that funkadelic fashion freak. What ever we do, her version is bigger AND better.


Brit: I never get tired of the lime light. Do you, Tiff?

Tiff: Can't say that I do, girl.


Brit: I must say I'm impressed. You've taken yesterday's fashion disaster and turned it into today's fashion catastrophe!

Jenny: Oh this old thing? I just wear this so I don't freak the locals.


Brit: (charging up to Jenny with Tiff) These gowns are Jean-Phillipe originals. They haven't even debuted in Paris. At this moment it is impossible to be more fashionable than us!

Jenny: Oh, looks like Jean-Phillipe is repeating himself. I think I saw those potato sacks in the second-hand store last year.

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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 September 17, 2004.
    • This episode premiered in Canada on October 4, 2004.
    • This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2004.
    • This episode premiered in Mexico on March 25, 2005.
  • Tammy's attraction to Brad could possibly be a foreshadow to Ball and Chain (2006).
  • Tuck's quote "Get away from her you fish!" was taken from James Cameron's science-fiction action film Aliens (1986).
  • One of Brit and Tiff's costumes in this episode resemble Wolverine from X-Men, and Batman from DC Comics, respectively.
  • Ptresa wears a blue and white shirt instead of her usual pink outfit in this episode (when she is seen laughing at Jenny).
  • This is the first of the series' two 22-minute episodes, the second being A Robot For All Seasons (2004).
    • This episode, produced as the second season premiere, was made before A Robot For All Seasons (2004). However, in the United States, A Robot For All Seasons (2004) ended up being the first of season 2 to air instead, and this episode aired nearly a year after.
  • This episode has the longest gap of season 2 between its world premiere and the U.S. premiere, premiering 354 days (just short of one year) in the U.S. after its world premiere (September 17, 2004 and September 6, 2005).
    • This episode also holds the record for the longest gap of season 2 between its completion and the U.S. premiere: about 14 months, or 417 days (July 2004 to September 6, 2005).
  • In the "Top 100 Greatest Moments of Nicktoon History", this episode was ranked #40 and was the highest-ranked episode of this show to make it to the countdown.

Production Notes[]

  • Although this episode premiered in the United States on September 6, 2005, it was actually the first episode produced in 2004 according to the credits.
    • This episode was finished in July of 2004. [1]
    • The previous episode, Call Hating (2002), was produced in 2002 according to the credits, meaning that no episodes were produced in 2003.
    • This episode was ready to air by August 2004, and was initially going to air that fall, but was ultimately delayed for unknown reasons.[2]
  • This episode's production code is 202-027, meaning it was the first episode of season 2 in production order.[3]
  • The first draft of this episode's script is dated January 16, 2004.
    • The second draft is dated January 22, 2004.
      • The script was finalized on January 28, 2004.


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