Hahathna
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In the second installment of tonight's (11/21) "My Life As A Teenage Robot", entitled "Once More With Feeling", XJ-9 (Jenny to her friends) learns about tickling. The episode starts with the two brothers next door, Brad and Tuck, getting into a tickle fight. When Jenny comes over to see what they're doing, they try to tickle her, but she isn't capable of feeling touch. She goes to her mother/creator, Dr. Wakeman, to find out more. It seems that at one point, Dr. Wakeman tried to give XJ-9 tactile receptors, but all she was able to work up were the sensations of ticklishness and pain. And as those didn't really seem to be necessary functions for a teenage robot superhero, the receptors were never installed. When Wakeman refuses to install them, Jenny takes the receptors and sneaks away.
The next scene has Jenny at school, trying her new receptors. She asks Brad to poke her, which immediately gets her laughing. She asks him to do it again and again, until she is giggling helplessly on the floor. Then she goes to class and is taking a test, but her newfound ticklishness is causing her problems. So she has another classmate switch off her ticklishness... turning on the pain setting. And once again wackiness ensues.
Anywho, Jenny winds up fighting a villain named "Himcules", who actually gets stronger from the pain he causes his victims. He's doing a real number on Jenny, until she's able to get her receptors switched back to "tickle." From then on, no matter what the bad guy does, it only causes Jenny to laugh hysterically, which eventually robs the baddie of his strength and turns him into a 97-lbs. weakling.
In the end, Jenny has to give back the receptors, but does manage to keep one of them. Now she has a ticklish spot on her right underarm. ^_^
If I can get screencaps of the episode, I'll post them.
Hahathna
The next scene has Jenny at school, trying her new receptors. She asks Brad to poke her, which immediately gets her laughing. She asks him to do it again and again, until she is giggling helplessly on the floor. Then she goes to class and is taking a test, but her newfound ticklishness is causing her problems. So she has another classmate switch off her ticklishness... turning on the pain setting. And once again wackiness ensues.
Anywho, Jenny winds up fighting a villain named "Himcules", who actually gets stronger from the pain he causes his victims. He's doing a real number on Jenny, until she's able to get her receptors switched back to "tickle." From then on, no matter what the bad guy does, it only causes Jenny to laugh hysterically, which eventually robs the baddie of his strength and turns him into a 97-lbs. weakling.
In the end, Jenny has to give back the receptors, but does manage to keep one of them. Now she has a ticklish spot on her right underarm. ^_^
If I can get screencaps of the episode, I'll post them.
Hahathna