My Life as a Teenage Robot has been one of my favorite shows growing up. Jenny was always the person trying to fit in and trying to balance different lives with her mom friends and intergalactic robot conquers. But one episode i remember watching as a kid that really stuck with me was “The Return of Raggedy Robot”. It was one of the more serious episodes that really scared me and even gave me a few nightmares. In Season 1 Episode 2: “Raggedy Robot” Jenny’s mom made her a suit to look normal which eventually backfired and her mom promised to make a new one. In “The Return of Raggedy Robot” Jenny becomes insecure from society expectations of beauty and begs her mom to let her test her new exo suit on Jenny. The suit latches on Jenny and possess her body seeming against her will as shes shown unable to breath and begins to squirm in a dark corner eventually making her beautiful. Despite turning her into the magazine covergirl she dreamed of becoming, Jenny’s vanity gets the better of her and turns her into a self-centered bitch. But the scary part of it was when the suit spoke through the back of her neck, forcing her to stay normal. Despite, Jenny managing to overpower the suit and save the day, the exo skin can be seen absorbing the owner of the restaurant and laughing manically. That was the part that scared the fuck out of me because i always had nightmares of the exo-skin slithering by my bed, waiting for me to move and drag me under my bed and take me. The writers even tried to make a part 3, but the producers refused claiming it was too dark and macabre. My theory is the exo-skin represents the evil of society and its expectations, a demon of narcissism and vanity that still haunts us today. Sometimes i want to be normal and i feel swallowed up by societys roles, similar to how the exo-skin swallowed up Jenny. Sometimes i feel like i dont belong in the skin im in. Do you?
