In the episode "Histrionics" Jenny and the boys are trapped on a (seemingly) deserted island and she's running out of power. She says once her auxiliary power runs out she's "just a 600-pound paperweight". Okay...except in one episode a bunch of kindergarteners picked her up body-surfing style and Brad carried her single-handedly in another.
I think she was just being sarcastic like "Oh no, I'm too heavy to carry. Do go on without me!!"
It could be more than that, anytime anyone picks her up, she's helping them with unseen thrusters or such. She's initially breaking chairs with her weight but learns how to sit on them without breaking them (ie: she's not sitting on them - you could remove the chair and she'd still be in the same position).
Related - Dr. Wakeman probably had to reinforce the whole house so Jenny wouldn't tear it apart every day.
That episode with Brad... I suppose you're referring to the one where Melody Locus helped him to escape with Jenny?
If that is the case, then he was far from single-handedly carrying her. It was already established that he couldn't lift her without help, and it was outright shown that Melody was helping him along the whole way.
Vexus' daughter
How does Vexus even have a daughter? Because I’m pretty sure robots can’t reproduce.
Maybe she was built? Like how Nora built Jenny?
Perhaps, Vexus and the other Clusterbots (IDK what to call them) function kind of like the Transformers (the ones from Transformers Animated, specifically) or the robots from Casshern Sins, in that they're robots but they have some "organic" like functions or they're not fully robot.
Vexus and The Cluster's existence
Since they're an alien race of robots How come it's never been explained how they came to be? There must've been a superior organic race that built them long ago, so how come we've never seen them? Perhaps they went extinct because The Cluster Turned Against Their Masters?
You built her this way, Nora!
Why is Dr. Wakeman always complaining about Jenny wanting to be like other teenagers when she intentionally made her that way?
A few good reasons. One notable thing is that Wakeman does see her as an actual daughter, albeit one not as focused as she'd like her to be. As for why she doesn't modify her AI a bit, I guess it's just because that would be like a new person kind of. Related, a robot who thinks like an actual person would be much more efficient when coming up with unconventional solutions to trouble than one coldly mechanical, so maybe Wakeman figured it was worth the trade-off.
It would also give her a sense of reason, and take care of those pesky paradoxes.
The episode where they dragged her off to preschool just because she was built three years ago. Shouldn't her competence in high school prove that she was designed to be a teenager?
That's the joke. Jenny tries to explain that despite being five years old she has the competence of a teenager, and it doesn't work. Wakeman comes in and explains it, and the teacher immediately accepts this and sends her back to high school. The school faculty was just being stupid. Jenny even points out that she already said that, but the teacher replies that she didn't have diagrams.
Shouldn't we tell Nora, Jenny?
In "Voyage to the Planet of the Bikers" from Season Three. The synopsis goes a little something like this; Letta and the Space Bikers fool around with Jenny and permanently weld her into a motorcycle. Instead of going to her mother for help (she says something about her 'warranty'), she decides to take Tuck with her to the Bikers' homeworld...where it's revealed that they're actually schoolteachers and far from the malicious bikers as we've come to know them. Jenny demands that they fix her, but they laugh it off some more; this results in Jenny exposing their biker identities to the entire town, ruining their lives. After she threatens to expose their schoolteacher identities to other villains, they finally agree to fix her.
First of all, her mother is far from the only person that can fix her. Sure, getting Sheldon to rearrange her anatomy may be a little embarrassing, but at the very least it would work. Plus, whatever happened to the biker shop that gave her the bitchin' hot rod makeover? Those guys would have gladly helped her out.
Second - though this is entirely subjective, depending on your view of the Space Bikers - Jenny's solution is a tad overblown. In the scant few seconds shown of the bikers in their teaching jobs, it's made very clear that they are loved by the community and that they are very good at what they do; they just come to Earth to "blow off steam". To me, it seems that the fact that they are valuable members of society on another planet is a far, far better thing than being criminal nuisances on Earth; if anything, Jenny's exposing them has made the problem even worse, because now they're doomed to be bikers for the rest of their lives. They've lost the respect of an entire town that they worked hard to deserve. Sure, what they did to Jenny was bad and they were unrepentant about it, but there were probably other solutions to the problem, in my honest opinion.
Their "relaxation" involves massive property damage, probable injuries, and general criminal behavior. They rack up indictable offenses at a frightening rate every time they show up; why shouldn't they be called to account?
If a real schoolteacher spends her vacation days trying to beat the hell out of people in another jurisdiction, we don't go that much easier on her just because she's not an asshole on her workweek.
Third, this troper recalls no such buildup to this twist anyway and couldn't buy into it. All these hints support Tuck's Rob Zombie-style fantasy about what kind of world the bikers live in (not to mention the implications of Ball And Chain), and then it just so happens that said world is as organized and tidy as Earth. Try again, writers.
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Why does Dr. Wakeman dislike the other XJs so much, to the point that she forces them to stay in the basement ('Sister Sledgehammer') and refuses to turn them on to help in 'Escape from Cluster Prime?'
They are considered "failed models" and Dr. Wakeman probably thinks they'll blow up at the slightest provocation. She doesn't hate them, she just thinks Jenny is more competent. And less glitchy. Seriously, none of those girls can focus properly on anything for any length of time.
She does seem to gradually soften towards them, however; in later episodes, she's much more open to using them in times of need. She probably doesn't want to look after all nine robots simultaneously. (After all, Jenny is more than enough trouble on her own).
There's no winning with Nora
Nora Wakeman constantly complains about Jenny not doing her job well enough and Jenny often screws up big time due to her emotions and teenage tendencies getting in the way. An unstable, emotional teenager wouldn't be a very good hero, as her social life will often get in the way. If Wakeman wanted a daughter so much, why didn't she make two different robots: a normal Ridiculously Human Robot daughter with the mindset of a teenager, and a super-powerful battle robot with an adult mindset as the hero? Nora would then have a daughter and a more efficient robotic hero. Jenny gets to live a normal life and the world has a more reliable hero. Everyone wins.
Well, ignoring the obvious answer of "There wouldn't be a show" What if the Hero robot still just wanted to be normal? And the Teenage one might look up to the hero and want to be like her. That should answer your question. Maybe.
And there's the fact that Dr. Wakeman did design non-teenager "hero" robots — XJ 8 and Armageddroid, for example. Both were proven to be far less _effective_ than Jenny, whose human tendencies give her things like the ability to think creatively.
Not to mention isn't it interesting how the XJ series is based on emotions/quirks, AND made after Armageddroid? For example, XJ-1 was based on a baby, IE a developing sentient being. X Js 2 and 3 were both focused on motor skills involving weaponry and walking. XJ-4 despite being a cleaning maid, was a completely operational and fully mobile machine that was able to function correctly. With each installment of the XJ, a new overall quirk is introduced that all culminated in Jenny: a robot crafted to adapt to her morality and ability to operate on her own accord after being raised by a positive influence, IE, Nora, her creator that raises her as a daughter as more than just a robot who was programmed. IE, more than Armaggedroid was. In other words: why doesn't Nora just program Jenny to be competent? Because she saw what happens when you try to program a robot to be the savior of humanity. Humanity needs more than a robot...and Jenny is more than a robot.
Shouldn't she download that info
Jenny often fails tests or has trouble at school. She's a robot. She can just download all the information and knowledge she'll ever need right away. She wouldn't even need to go to school and can give herself intelligence rivaling that of Wakeman herself. It'd certainly help Jenny do her job better. Jenny has shown that she can download information, so why hasn't she done this already?
Because failing tests and having trouble at school are things normal teenagers worry about, and if there's one thing she wants, it's to be normal. She's probably doing it on purpose to try and make herself more relatable.
Downloading information for tests is likely against the rules; if not the school's rules, then something in her programming.
There are usually reasons why she's failing. In one episode she gains nerves and is in constant pain and screams so the teacher flunks her for disrupting the class. In another, Killgore annoys her so much she's unable to finish her exam. In another, she stays up too late partying, not letting herself recharge and she sleeps in class. Plus she's often fighting monsters which likely eats into her school time.
She could but she's probably not programmed to download school info.
5-year-old song?
The episode begins with Brad cycling while singing a REALLY bad song from apparently five years ago. Jenny then proceeds to tell him that she's technically five years old while looking 16. So, the principal overhears the conversation between Jenny and Brad, then calls some kind of elite protection force to bring her to kindergarten. Even going as far as to tell Brad that he has to stand down from the toddler and bring her down to the kindergarten by two bodybuilders of caretakers! Now, the second stupid fact here, is that the caretaker in the kindergarten is so blindfolded to not see that there's a f*cking girl made out of steel and capable of turning into a f*cking helicopter!!! The real stinger is when at the end Nora had to come down and show her a couple of drawings to show her that she's a f*cking robot! Are they just that stupid in this world or is something else happening in this world??!!
They're that stupid. Adults Are Useless is a common trope in shows like these.
Jenny herself points out that she already said that. The teacher responds that she didn't have diagrams.
Why does she want to be around these two?
Brit and Tiff. Why does Jenny have to be so naive when it comes to these two? I mean she should get the hint that they are not her friends.
She may be that desperate to fit in and have a normal teenage life.
Sadly Truth in Television, in high school sometimes people are so desperate for popularity they try and hang out with the wrong crowd.
Foreign language packs included in this model
Jenny was built and designed by the not Japanese Dr. Wakeman, which means she's an American Robot. In that case, why is her default language Japanese, and her English coming from an extra language pack, instead of the other way round?
Out of universe a reference to Astro Boy being her inspiration?
It wasn't that her default was Japanese and English was an extra pack, she had a disc for each language. It's just that she was using the Japanese disc at the time when the English disc got knocked out.
To kind of further simplify this, you have a computer or a smartphone, right? Well, of course, y'all do. See, your devices have a default language set but can include another language (pack, if you're using a computer like Windows) and that's something consistent regardless of where the manufacturer is based.
The Christmas Special
The plot of the Christmas special boggles the mind. No one besides Sheldon considers that Jenny isn't willingly destroying holidays, instead of trying to shut her down permanently. Sheldon's two theories, Evil Clone and Brainwashed and Crazy, are both perfectly reasonable in-universe, especially the latter since Jenny is a robot and thus capable of being programmed to do whatever the replacement program tells her to do. Why does no one consider that Jenny could be being controlled by someone with nefarious intentions?
Aren't they related?
What relation is Armagedroid to Jenny, exactly? Same creator, different series - half-brother? Cousin?
Given he's a much, much older series, I'd go with "Uncle", but this is all mostly semantics considering they're about as disowned as a family can get.
This ties in with a point brought above: Little Acorn, a wooden puppet that Ms. Wakemen built when she was a child, wants to marry Jenny.
The terminology for Armegedroid and Acorn one might use to refer to them is that they're "predecessors" to Jenny. That is, they share the same creator but aren't called a "family" nor do they consider each other to have familiar ties note To cite, Jenny calls Nora "Mom" and Nora refers to Jenny as her daughter. Likewise, they aren't exactly related, either, rather, not in the way that Jenny is related to her "sisters" (who share the same series).
Maybe she should move?
In "Escape From Cluster Prime", it was revealed to be a paradise for robots and was no longer under the tyrannical rule of Vexus. Keeping that in mind, Vega offered Jenny a chance to move there. Even though she's: bullied by kids at school, living with an overbearing "mother", the events of the Christmas special, as well as the beginning of this special, she chooses to stay as Earth's protector. Why? (Besides the fact that we wouldn't have a show otherwise)
Prolly because, despite what she has to deal with, Jenny loves existence on Earth and, maybe, the good outweighs the bad.
Jenny's pupils
What are with Jenny's pupils in "Daydream Be-liever" when she has her dream of 1930s cartoons before being hit by the truck?
Wakeman’s promise
Why did Wakeman break her promise at the end of “Call Hating”? She should’ve just not bugged Jenny. She should’ve listened to Jenny more.
