Editing My Life as a Teenage Robot (section)

==Production==
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[[Rob Renzetti]] moved from [[Cartoon Network]] to [[Nickelodeon]] to develop his own ideas as part of [[Fred Seibert]]'s and [[Frederator Studios]]' ''[[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]]'', ''[[Time Squad]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]'', and ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', Renzetti returned to Nickelodeon to start the ''Teenage Robot'' series.

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 vampire 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 teenage girl whose boyfriend was a robot. After further thought, Renzetti merged the two characters to create Jenny, a robot with the personality of a teenage girl.

In March 2002, Nickelodeon ordered 13 episodes of the series. The series was initially called "My Neighbor Was a Teenage Robot" before settling on its final title.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Petrozzello|first1=Donna|title=First 'Rugrats' spinoff among new Nick series|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111997483/rugrats-family-growing-donna-petrozz/|access-date=October 25, 2022|work=New York Daily News|date=March 13, 2002|page=81|archive-date=August 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804033001/https://www.newspapers.com/article/111997483/rugrats-family-growing-donna-petrozz/|url-status=live}}</ref>