Pest Control

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“Pest Control”
My Life as a Teenage Robot episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 1
Written by	–
Original airdate	–
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Pest Control is an episode of the Nickelodeon television series My Life As A Teenage Robot, where Dr. Wakeman's mutant lab rats seek revenge on humanity... by using Jenny as the vehicle for their revenge.

[edit] Characters

Jenny Wakeman
Nora Wakeman
Brad Carbunkle
Tuck Carbunkle
Vladimir the Rat (AKA, Mr. Scruffles)

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The episode begins with Brad and Tuck playing with their RC Car, while Jenny uses her body as the ramp for the car. However, their fun comes to an end when Dr. Wakeman walks outside and sees the boys "misusing" Jenny's body. She drags Jenny inside and berates her, telling her that her body is not a plaything. Jenny screams at her mother, and runs up to her room, extremely upset. Meanwhile, a mysterious creature is watching the scene. The creature is Vladimir the Rat, one of Dr. Wakeman's early experiments. Angered by the experiments conducted on him which mutated him (giving him human hands, allowing him to walk upright, and speak), Vladimir has vowed vengeance against Wakeman, along with his rat bretherin who were also mutated. He claims that Jenny's body will be the weapon of their vengeance. After Vladimir rants to his comrades about how Wakeman wronged them, he sets them to work putting Jenny to sleep, ordering them to play "Lullaby and Good Night" through the speakers in Jenny's room, while re-wiring the monitors in Jenny's room to show relaxing scenes. Jenny falls for the ploy and falls asleep. Once Jenny is comatose, Vladimir orders the rats to swarm towards Jenny. They open up a compartment in Jenny's stomach and begin pouring inside. Halfway through the rats invasion of her body, Jenny wakes up and tries to get them out. However, her resistance proves to be futile, as the rats succeed in infiltrating her body. A moment after the invasion is complete, the rats screw Jenny's head off of her body. Suddenly, Vladimir's head pops through the gap left by Jenny's head, and he begins manipulating Jenny's body, saying that he will use it to wreak his vengeance upon the human race. Jenny vainly tries to stop him, but Vladimir throws her against a wall, and knocks her out. He then marches out of Jenny's room. As Vladimir walks out, Tuck appears in Jenny's window to make sure she's alright, but sees her comatose head on her bed and panics, thinking that his antics have led to Dr. Wakeman disassembling her. He guiltily tries to make Jenny more comfortable, but his attempts are cut short when Jenny awakens and speaks to him. He drops her and screams, causing Brad to appear in the window. He asks Jenny what happened and Jenny explains how her mother's mutant rats took her body, and when Brad asks how she's going to get around, she comes up with an idea. Meanwhile, downstairs, Vladimir stomps into Dr. Wakeman's workshop. Dr. Wakeman's seems pleasantly surprised to see Vladimir (who she refers to as Mr. Scruffles), but when she sees how belligerent he is, she tries to assauge him, but her attempts fail. Just as Vladimir is about to take his revenge, Brad, Tuck, and Jenny, who has taken Tuck's RC Car as her new body, appear to save her. Jenny distracts Vladimir long enough for her mother to get away. After getting away from Vladimir, Wakeman tells Brad and Tuck to bring Jenny back to them. They comply, and Wakeman tells Jenny she has a plan. Jenny listens and agrees the plan might work, and tells them to put her on auto-pilot. After being given control of the car, Jenny leads Vladimir outside, and jumps over a ramp for the RC Car, and lands on the other side of the pool in her backyard. Vladimir follows, but is tripped up by Brad and Tuck and falls in the pool. The rats panic and begin pouring out of Jenny's body. Meanwhile, Vladimir resolves to go down with Jenny's body, and salutes Wakeman and the others as he sinks. However, Dr. Wakeman decides to save Vladimir, and jumps in the pool after him. After a moment, she reappears, carrying him in her mouth. A short time later, an exterminator takes Vladimir's mutant comrades away. Tuck feels sorry for the rodents, but Jenny is much less compassionate, claiming that they got what they deserved for turning her body into their "plaything." After she says this, Vladimir (now imprisoned in a cage in the Wakeman household) begins ranting about how he shall have his revenge against Jenny, Dr. Wakeman, and all of humanity. But he shuts up when Dr. Wakeman appears with a pair of red trousers, a "present" for the rat. The episode closes out with Jenny, Brad, Tuck, and Dr. Wakeman chuckling about Vladimir's predicament.