My Life as a Teenage Robot

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Background Robert Renzetti was born in the Chicago suburbs in 1967. He graduated with a BFA in Art History from University of Illinois, but immediately returned to school to study animation at Columbia College in Chicago, and then at CalArts in Valencia, California. After leaving CalArts, he took a summer job in Madrid as an animator for Batman: The Animated Series. He moved back to the United States to work for Hanna–Barbera on 2 Stupid Dogs and Dexter's Laboratory before moving to Nickelodeon to develop his own ideas as part of Oh Yeah! Cartoons. At Nickelodeon, he developed a pilot called "My Neighbor was a Teenage Robot" which was the basis for the series. After brief stints working on Family Guy, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack, Renzetti returned to Nickelodeon to start the Teenage Robot series. Renzetti spent two years as story editor for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic before moving on to become a producer for Gravity Falls. [edit]Development Renzetti made 11 shorts during two seasons as a director on Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Five of these starred two characters called Mina and the Count and followed the adventures of a rambunctious little girl and her undead best friend. He hoped that these characters might get their own series, but Nickelodeon rejected the idea. Faced with an empty slot where the sixth Mina short was slated to go, Fred Seibert tasked Renzetti to come up with three new ideas. One of these was about a teenaged girl whose boyfriend was a robot. After further thought, Renzetti merged the two characters to create Jenny, a robot with the personality of a teenaged girl. [edit]Plot Main article: List of My Life as a Teenage Robot episodes XJ-9 ("Jenny" as she calls herself) is a highly sophisticated battle robot created by Dr. Nora Wakeman, but Jenny only wants to live the life of a cute normal teenage girl. Both live in the fictional

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