My Life as a Teenage Robot is an American

United States

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 animated television series, created by Rob Renzetti

Rob Renzetti

Robert "Rob" Renzetti is an American animator and director who created the animated television series My Life as a Teenage Robot and is currently story editor on the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.-Background:...

 for Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

. The series follows the adventures of XJ-9, better known as Jenny Wakeman, a female robot designed to protect Earth

Earth

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, who is excessively addicted to teen-related activities, which are almost always interrupted by Nora Wakeman, her creator.

Of the three ideas Renzetti chose, he conceived the series unusually, and hired a small team to make "My Neighbor was a Teenage Robot", the short that the series originally came from the second season of Frederator's cartoon shorts incubator, Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera...

 in 1999.