Speak No Evil is the tenth episode of season 1 of "My Life as a Teenage Robot."
The episode was produced in 2002 and premiered worldwide on November 22, 2002 in Australia and on Nickelodeon in the United States on September 5, 2003.
It is the second episode in the Sense No Evil trilogy, preceeded by Ear No Evil (2002) and followed by See No Evil (2002).
Synopsis[]
While on a mission in Japan, Jenny winds up losing one of her language system discs for English speech. Unable to switch off from speaking in full, unsubtitled Japanese, she encounters problems in speaking to people. She uses this to her advantage, however, to make peace with a Japanese creature that grows with and is hurt by water.
Plot[]
Trouble in Tokyo[]
Speak No Evil (2002) begins with Jenny arriving in Japan in response to a crisis. Using one of her language discs to communicate with the citizens, she has everyone stand back as she deals with the threat; a horde of fanged goblins. She easily dispatches each one with a single hit, bats away a big fat goblin and bowls over the rest with a boulder. However, the boulder comes back around and hits Jenny in the back of the head, causing her English-language disc to fall out. A young girl finds the disc, but an oblivious Jenny departs before she can return it to her.
Japanese Jenny[]
Arriving back home, she gives Brad and Tuck gifts from Japan, but when Brad invites her to the mall, she finds herself continuing to speak Japanese and is unable to switch back to English. Panicked, she runs to Wakeman for help, but she can't communicate her problem clearly, so Wakeman has her open her oral drive, and that's when she realizes Jenny's missing a language disc. Before she can do anything about it, the alarm goes off and Jenny goes to stop the threat, despite her predicament.
Downtown, a building fire rages through the city, causing everyone to panic. Jenny arrives and tries to help the people, but, due to them not understanding Japanese, they continue to panic. The fire department even leaves to look up the language at the library, leaving Jenny alone to fight the fire.
Double Trouble[]
Meanwhile, Tuck tries out his new gift from Jenny; a small hydrophilic sponge creature in a test tube, but misreads the instructions and gives it water, which causes it to grow into a giant monster, while also inflicting great pain to it. The monster ends up chasing Tuck into town and absorbs him.
While struggling to hold up a burned-up building, Jenny tries to get two passing bystanders to attach her hose to the fire hydrant, but ends up knocking one out, and the other keeps misinterpreting her words. The building eventually burns to a crisp and a boulder on top, similar to the one before, falls off and bounces towards the sponge monster, knocking the town's emergency supply of water onto it.
Jenny battles the enormous sponge creature, but, upon learning that it too can speak Japanese, converses with it and convinces it to release Tuck. The monster explains that the water inside itself hurts to Jenny while a touring Japanese man translates the conversation to Tuck. Realizing that she can help the monster and extinguish the fire at the same time, Jenny uses the water inside the monster to put out the fire, reducing it back to its small size.
All's Well That Ends Well?[]
Afterwards, the touring Japanese man and his family, familiar with hydro creatures, offers to bring it back home. Their daughter also happens to be the same young girl from Japan who found Jenny's missing disc, which she returns to the robot. With her English restored, Jenny assures Tuck and the others that there will be no more misunderstandings.
Sometime later, Brad is having trouble with his own sponge creature, which is vulnerable to the sun. He ends up leaving it in the sunlight, in which the creature begins to grow and break the test tube as the episode ends.
Trivia[]
- Like most episodes of the series, this episode premiered in a handful of countries before the United States.
- This episode premiered in Australia on November 22, 2002.
- This episode premiered in the United Kingdom on December 1, 2002.
- This episode premiered in Mexico on June 6, 2003.
- Janice Kawaye, Jenny's voice actress, doesn't just speak English, but also Japanese herself, as she is of Japanese descent.
- Swapped in the Japanese-dubbed version of this episode, Jenny loses the ability to speak Japanese and can only speak in an English language.
- Translation from Japanese to English:
- Jenny: "What's wrong?"
- Japanese Man: "Look over there!"
- Jenny: "Don't be scared!"
- Jenny: "Everyone, hide!"
- Jenny: "Throw a pipe!"
- Jenny: "Thanks!"
- Japanese Kid: "Homerun!"
- Japanese Kid: "Strike!"
- Japanese Kid: "Yes, here you go!"
- Jenny: "Thank you very much!"
- Japanese People: "Are you okay?"
- Jenny: "I'm okay. I'm okay."
- Japanese Kid: "Excuse me! Excuse me!"
- Jenny: "I'm okay! Well, bye!"
- Japanese Kid: "Hey robot!"
- Jenny: "Hello!"
- Jenny: "Yeah."
- Jenny: "Okay!"
- Jenny: "What? Do you have garbage stuck in your ears? I love shopping. I can't stop speaking Japanese! Why can I only speak Japanese? Why?!"
- Jenny: "Something's wrong! I can only speak Japanese! I can't speak English at all! I've become a Japanese robot! This is bad!"
- Jenny: "I can't speak English!"
- Jenny: "I can't speak English!"
- Jenny: "I can't speak English!"
- Jenny: "No! What are you doing?"
- Jenny: "This is troublesome!"
- Jenny: "Well, see you later."
- Jenny: "Don't be scared!"
- Jenny: "Hide!"
- Jenny: "Hey! Please help! Please help everyone pass!"
- Jenny: "Thank goodness! I was about to give up!"
- Jenny: "I need water!"
- Jenny: "Hey! Please connect this hose to the fire hydrant!"
- Jenny: "Darn it…"
- Jenny: "Please connect that to the fire hydrant!"
- Jenny: "Wrong! Wrong! The hose! The hose!"
- Jenny: "Yes! Yes!"
- Jenny: "Wrong! Connect the hose please! To the fire hydrant!"
- Jenny: "Yes!"
- Jenny: "You fool!"
- Jenny: "Hey! Please come back!"
- Jenny: "Déjà vu…"
- Jenny: "Why? Why?! What do I do?"
- Jenny: "I've already done this!"
- Jenny: "Put the bus down!"
- Monster: "What? You speak Japanese?"
- Jenny: "You're the one who speaks Japanese. Please let go of my friend."
- Monster: "Yes!"
- Japanese Kid: "Excuse me! Excuse me! Robot! Here is your disc!"
- Jenny: "Thank you!"
Production Notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in the United States on September 5, 2003, it was actually produced in 2002 according to the credits, as with every other season 1 episode.
- This episode was finished in August of 2002.[1]
- This episode (and every episode up to This Time With Feeling) was added to the United States Copyright Office on December 13, 2002.
- This episode was finished in August of 2002.[1]
- The first draft of this episode's script is dated June 14, 2002.
- The second draft is dated June 18, 2002.
- The script was finalized on June 20, 2002.
- This episode's production code is 102-014.[2]
- The finished master of "Speak No Evil" was delivered to Nickelodeon on August 9, 2002.
Gallery[]
Credits[]
Party Machine/Speak No Evil (credits)