Daydream Believer
Year produced: 2002
Production code: 102-021
Original U.S. air date: 11/21/2003 (first aired in the U.K. on 2/16/2003)
Yeah.... it's about as weird as it looks!
The one with Jenny dreaming.
Jenny wants to experience what it's like to dream, so Dr. Wakeman installs a dream chip. But Jenny's joy causes her to abuse its function. She soon gets stuck in dream mode and begins sleepwalking, causing mayhem in the process.
"Daydream Believer" contains examples of:
- Art Shift: Jenny gets a hold of the dreaming software, which she eventually abuses to work while she's awake. Each of her dream sequences has a rather large art shift, from Greco-Roman style to a far more 1920s style to even the style of Dr. Seuss.
- Do Androids Dream?: Referenced by Dr. Wakeman.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: It's not hard to imagine it being about psychoactive drugs instead of daydreaming.
- G-Rated Drug: The Dream Chip, because you can't show LSD Sunday mornings on Nickelodeon.
- Hydrant Geyser: Brad uses this method to short-circuit Jenny and disable the dream chip. He tricks her into zapping a fire hydrant, which she views as a tree stump in her dream mode. The tree stump produces flows of candy, which Jenny tries to eat, resulting in her being short-circuited, as in reality, said candy is water.
- Mundane Luxury: One of Jenny's great joys in dreaming is being able to actually taste orange juice. She's surprised it tasted like apple juice.
- Inkblot Cartoon Style: One of Jenny's dream sequences parodies the art style.
- Shout-Out: As previously mentioned, Jenny's later dream sequences have a very Seussian style.
- There Was a Door: Jenny rushes through a wall to rescue Tuck from a monster; he advises her she could've used the door.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: When Jenny tries to activate her chip during the day, it breaks, causing reality in her eyes to resemble the world of Dr. Seuss crossed with Roman mythology. In particular, she sees Tuck and later Brad as goat men.
This Time With Feeling
Year produced: 2002
Production code: 102-023
Original U.S. air date: 11/21/2003 (first aired in the U.K. on 2/16/2003)
Somebody's ticklish!
The one with Jenny feeling.
Jenny's desire to know what it's like to actually feel physical contact leads her to steal a set of artificial nerves from Dr. Wakeman. The nerves, however, have only two extreme settings: tickle and pain.
"This Time With Feeling" contains examples of:
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The bodybuilders in "This Time With Feeling" have the heads of The Three Stooges.
- Emotion Eater: Himcules's impressive strength comes from causing emotional pain to others. He takes advantage of this by using his strength to act like a total Jerkass to anyone around him, bullying others into giving him what he wants or making them do humiliating tasks. This however proves to be his undoing, as after Jenny's ticklishness allows her to laugh off his attacks, the rest of the city follows suit by laughing at Himcules for losing to a girl, causing his muscles to deflate and reducing him to a "90-pound weakling".
- Feel No Pain: Being a robot, Jenny is impervious to pain, the only time she's capable of feeling it is when she tries on a set of nerves that Dr. Wakeman scrapped.
- First Injury Reaction: Courtesy of the "PAIN" setting on the artificial nerves, Jenny is left practically unable to fight back when Himcules starts laying the smackdown, thanks to her having never felt pain before and its 'freshness' powering Himcules up further. Of course, that doesn't last.
- Indestructibility Montage: After her mechanical nerve endings set to "PAIN" allow her to get pummeled to near-defeat by Himcules, Jenny is finally able to gets them set to "TICKLE". Confused that she can now take a hit and laugh, Himcules tries to crush her with larger and heavier objects, but Jenny is totally undamaged by them and keeps on laughing.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: Enforced and justified. The nerve set only has two extreme settings, "PAIN' and "TICKLE". Even the slightest touch of a paper sheet is enough to set them off.
- Tickle Torture: All three variations are shown.
- Friendly Tickle Torture: After getting her nerve endings installed onto her body, Jenny thoroughly enjoys the sensation of being tickled throughout the episode. Once they're removed by the episode's end though, Jenny manages to keep one tickle spot to herself, under her armpit.
- Additionally at the start of the episode, Brad and Tuck engage in a tickle fight, but when they try this on Jenny, she just stands there confused until they realize that as a robot, Jenny is built without physical feeling.
- Accidental Tickle Torture: Doubles as downplayed Tickle Torture, but during Jenny's rematch with Himcules once her nerve endings are set to tickle, every time Himcules tries to cause her pain by hurling objects at her, all it does is intensify the tickling that Jenny feels (which she doesn't mind...)
- Friendly Tickle Torture: After getting her nerve endings installed onto her body, Jenny thoroughly enjoys the sensation of being tickled throughout the episode. Once they're removed by the episode's end though, Jenny manages to keep one tickle spot to herself, under her armpit.
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Himcules' speech pattern, which may or may not have been a calculated insult.
