My Life as a Teenage Rabbot


 * Not to be confused with My Life as a Teenage Robot, a Paramount Global owned television show that aired on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2009 prior to its cancellation.

My Life as a Teenage Rabbot is a computer-animated action comedy television series created by Rob Renzetti and Chris Meledandri. The show is directed by Jimmy Hayward and Sergio Pablos, produced by Meledandri and Janet Healy. It first aired on NBC on August 2, 2009 until September 24, 2011, when it switched to the streaming service Peacock on September 25, 2011, then it switched over to Cartoon Network, where it still airs today in simulcast form on KTRB's .2 channel, digital channel 54.2.

Overview
The show is set in the real life city of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in the United States. In the Rose House located just 200 feet across from the Bunny Burrow, is an 11-year-old intelligent ginger-haired girl, named Penelope Atchison, who mainly spends her time with both her adopted family and birth family in Rhode Island. In her adoptive family, is her older sister Ami Morrison, and her many other siblings, including Gwendolyn Sherwood , Zooey Fitzpatrick , Kate Anderson , Amelia Wilberson , and many more of her sisters, and whom of which all live with her British doctor and mother Katherine Milton.

Main characters

 * Liz Callaway as:
 * Penelope Atchison ; the 14th final adopted daughter of the Rose family. She’s a down to earth child around the Rose house. Penelope was born in Coventry, Rhode Island and was put up for adoption at the age of 3 by her birth parents. She occasionally has a hobby of making clever and funny jokes when the situation calls for them, but she only does this in moments of happiness. She is an extremely kind, kind, and loving person to her friends and siblings. Furthermore, she also cracks up when she comes across a funny scene while reading one of her books in the upstairs bedroom. She enjoys gardening since she occasionally helps Katherine with her garden in the front yard, but she can also be a chatterbox with her siblings to the point that it drives them crazy. Penelope is a Brownie Girl Scout and a Rose Scout who has a severe parsnip allergy. Penelope is a Dungeon Master of her own campaign in Dungeons and Dragons. She's also a writer now because of an idea from a buddy of hers at school. She fawns over the most recent books she doesn't already own in her ever expanding library, likes cute lads at school, talks excessively about esoteric TV shows, and likes to chat about cute boys in general. She calls it an “encyclopedia” with great enthusiasm, which is especially appropriate given her tremendous understanding of science, history, technology, and mathematics.


 * Grey DeLisle as:
 * Kate Anderson, an overaly customized Apple Watch with an integrated A.I. that Katherine Milton programmed is Penelope Atchison's smartwatch and helpful companion. Penelope finds Kate to be a significant contrary nuisance, but she doesn't say anything about Kate finding Penelope to be a contrary nuisance. Even though she is a programmed artificial intelligence, Kate would lash out in rage and will go as far as trying to murder her.
 * Tress MacNeille additionally also voices Kate's smartwatch, robot, and hologram forms.


 * Carey Mulligan as:
 * Katherine Milton the Rabbit, Penelope and her siblings' mother ; Katherine, who grew up in Great Manchester, North West England, is a proud owner and operator of her own small company, which she started from scratch, in addition to being a successful adoptive mother of the Rose Scouts. Rose Systems Company, LLC is the name of a business that is situated in Milwaukee County's eastern suburbs. In her spare time, Katherine herself frequently engages in intense exercise and encourages her adopted girls to do the same. Even Ami participates in this, despite the fact that she is fit and healthy, she doesn't want to to participate at all and would rather read comic books in her bedroom upstairs. She still engages in this activity despite the fact that it will make her mother pleased, and also to prevent her from being badgered by her due to the fox being overweight. Because of her powerful build, she can also almost shatter a watermelon with only her thighs. This was made possible by Katherine deadlifting for two weeks straight, uninterrupted for five months, a total of over 250 pounds, almost 400 pounds . She received the “Mama Rose” as a result from her husband, her adoptive kids, and her biological family in England. She is the mother of the Rose Scouts and the Rabbots, and she is also the only designer of the RS Series, a line of robots. Rose Systems is the name of the company behind the RS series of robots, made by Katherine, which she dubbed them by the initials, that being “RS” for short.


 * Jane Alexander as:
 * Gretchen Milton the Rabbit ; Katherine Milton's mother and she is from Greater Manchester, North West England in London, England. In a family of five, she was born there and raised there with joy until the age of thirty-seven, when she gave birth to Katherine in Great Manchester, North West England. When Katherine was just 24 years old, she emigrated to the United States, leaving her mother behind in England. Her mother occasionally makes a trip to the Rose House to check on her only child, her daughter's adoptive children, and the rabbots Katherine made. Gretchen is also referred to as "Aunt Milton" by Blizzard and "Aunt Gretchie" by the little Rose children. The identity of Gretchen's spouse is unclear. She does have a habit of pampering Katherine through having her feel embarrassed and embarrassed when she sees the kids and the rabbots in the United States every so often and over during the holiday season. That is accomplished by Gretchen lavishing Katherine with attention, praising her daughter, and acting as a loving adoptive parental aunt-like figure to the Rose children. As a result, much like other mothers, she has an unfortunate habit of making Katherine feel embarrassed even though she's proud of her and for being a devoted and loving adoptive mother to the rabbots and the Rose kids. Gretchen can drive, just like Katherine. Gretchen has a 1955 Volkswagen Beetle with a Doctor Who motif, since she is British, despite the fact that she weighs 500 pounds and is a big woman. It is constructed and shaped precisely like a T.A.R.D.I.S. from Doctor Who, and it performs precisely the same purposes. Because of this, it enables her to move between Greater Manchester, North West England, London, England, and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, in the United States, earning her the moniker “Doctor” and her preferred moniker, “Doctor/Gretchen.”


 * E. G. Daily as:
 * Ami Morrison the Fox ; the tough, strong, and mean tomboy and backbone of the Rose family. Deep within of herself in accordance to a rumor at her middle school, she does appear to have a concealed sweet spot of hers, and that sweet spot is that she loves mint candies and chocolate. Aside from this hidden candy spot of hers that was once sooner or later exposed in Season 1, Episode 7B in the episode, “Ami Comes Out of Her Fur!“. Ami regularly goes out with her five friends from the neighborhood middle school, that being Littlewood Middle School, when she isn't busy. She does, however, have a deep, dark sensitive place hidden behind that tough, strong tomboy attitude she takes very seriously and passionately. Even though she doesn't express it to everyone, she loves her family and friends, and it is her soft spot. She belongs to the Girl Scouts as a Cadet Girl Scout and is the family's middle daughter. Due to the fact that she and Miles "Tails" Prower were separated from their mother at birth, she is actually Miles' long-lost sister. Regardless of being the tough and rough tomboy type, she struggles with body image issues because of her size and is sensitive to how her body looks.


 * Ashley Johnson as:
 * Zooey Fitzpatrick the Rabbit ; the twelfth adoptive daughter in the Rose household and due to her being a smarty-pants to her sisters in the Rose House; she has the voice of Gretchen Grundler from the show “Recess“ due to her temperament and a little bit about her personality. Despite this, she may be a touch demanding and sarcastic among her sisters and the rabbots. No one ever wants to witness Amelia's wicked and crazy "Rosy the Rascal" side, which Zooey may unintentionally enter. She may occasionally be a huge goof ball around her siblings, which is the opposite and whole opposite of her being arrogant, snooty, snarky, and bossy towards everyone. Due in large part to her autism not helping, she occasionally has a tendency to be exceedingly forgetful about stuff, let alone herself. To what the Rose Scouts have discovered, she apparently likes carrots so much that once she cleaned up the family refrigerator one time, leaving absolutely nothing behind. In order to give the Rose Scouts something to do when school is not in session, Zooey, a Brownie Girl Scout, is enrolled in the local Girl Scouts program. She's a terrific individual to mingle with others and generate money for non-profit organizations, in addition to helping to improve the neighborhood. She participates in the Rose Scouts, Amelia's own official Girl Scout troop. Since genuine rabbits are known for their cleverness in nature as real-life rabbits are known for this in reality, she exhibits this personality characteristic occasionally.


 * Lynn Harris as:
 * Amelia Wilberson the Hedgehog, ; an ex-damsel in distress from Sonic CD, currently known as “Amelia Wilberson the Hedgehog CD”, thanks to the support she gets from her community. The popularity of video games stems from the fact that Amelia took over from Sonic as the new mascot of the Sega Corporation of America, Europe, and Japan after his departure from the company. Without a trace, he vanished from the Sonic Scene. She used Gwendolyn to help her dimension-jump from her world to Earth during this incredibly lengthy period of his absence back when she was a little portable gadget known as the “Dimensionator.” She was able to access other dimensions with ease because to this equipment. Years later, after being adopted by a lone mother, Amelia began attending school full-time and had become a Girl Scout long after Sonic left. Nearly ten years later, she founded and is the head of her own official Girl Scout troop, known as “The Rose Scouts”.

RS Prototypes

 * Jennifer Hale as:
 * Gwendolyn Sherwood the Rabbot, RS-9 ; the oldest of all her younger sisters and the ninth and “supposedly last” RS Prototype in the RS Series. Whenever she laughs, giggles, or perhaps even chuckles, she does seem to snort a lot at times. This is because when she was a newborn, she developed a little, innocuous birth defect in her nostril. She protects Earth and the city of Milwaukee from all evil during her free time. However, when she has a moment of solitude and is alone, she peruses magazines and tabloids in her bedroom, despite how terrible they are. Even now, Katherine, her adoptive mother, still uses the name “Gwendolyn” that she was given at birth by her birth mother, Molly Sherwood the Rabbit.


 * Kate Burton as:
 * Samantha Hopkinson the Rabbot, RS-5 ; the fifth RS Series prototype, and is not only a pretty rational young girl, but she is also a naturalist at heart, to say nothing of a highly bright young child. She is a member of the Rabbot Brigade in addition to being a naturalist at heart. She is frequently observed in the library room on the second level of the Bunny Burrow when performing rabbot-related tasks, or in any other circumstance. She may be spotted studying chapter books inside the library and spending her free time reading a ton of Junie B. Jones books. Samantha hangs around in the Bunny Burrow library only when she is free from her chores and has nothing to do, or even while Amelia is occupied with Girl Scout meetings or homework. However, she prefers to eat old RAM sticks with WD-40 engine oil lightly poured on them as a snack at lunch in the Bunny Burrow's cafeteria downstairs on the main floor.


 * Ami Foster as:
 * Addison Schneider the Rabbot, RS-4 ; the fourth RS series prototype. When she is with unfamiliar people, she is the awkward but occasionally excessively bashful sister in the Rabbot Brigade. She does, however, occasionally appear to cause difficulty for herself with her siblings owing to her tendency to play practical jokes and be mischievous. She plays practical jokes around the Bunny Burrow, mostly on Kamiko, Andrea, and Allison, and she eventually finds herself in the timeout room with Gwendolyn, the oldest of the Rose sisters. In contrast, Addison converses for two hours with the elder rabbit about what she has previously done to the other younger rabbpts. Additionally, Addison may occasionally be a challenging but extremely cunning and crafty little rabbot in the Bunny Burrow. Due to the way Addison was brought up, it might be assumed that she was involved in some sisterly pranks for that reason. She was reared and eventually developed into the crafty youngster she is within the Rose family itself for many years, coming for herself quite soon.


 * Emily Bauer as:
 * Kaitelynne Dougherty the Rabbot, RS-7 ; the seventh RS series prototype. She and the other rabbots didn't have any programming or anything else connected to them at all, so they couldn't be connected to anything. This is because, on April 1, 2011, when they all initially developed to become rabbots, they each had their own genuine brains inside themselves and specially made bodies. Almost ten to fifteen years ago, when RS Units were only knockoffs of Nokia smartphones, this was the single accomplishment that had been made. To the other rabbots at the Bunny Burrow and occasionally in public, Kaitelynne, on the other hand, may be a little bashful, a smart Alec, and a full smarty-pants. She may also be a simple-minded child who is unassuming for girls her age at other times.


 * Janice Kawaye as:
 * Kamiko Yokoyama the Rabbot, RS-3 ; she is the third RS series prototype and is native to Japan, where she speaks only Japanese. Kamiko utilizes an English OS disk to communicate with her siblings and mother in English despite being born and nurtured only in Japan by her parents and ancestors who date back five centuries. The Operating Software System Disk that Katherine created for Kamiko to enable her to speak English fluently is included on this unique and highly customized disk. Without this very disk, she wouldn't be able to communicate in English without the English OS disk she has, which may force her to speak in broken English or very broken form of badly translated English that is known as “Engrish.” It may be that Miss Kamiko Yokoyama speaks only Japanese, which is her native tongue, or it may be that she speaks extremely broken English. Either way, this language barrier might cause problems, rage, and irritation for Miss Yokoyama in particular.
 * Janice Kawaye voices both the English translated and original Japanese versions of Kamiko.


 * Gillian Anderson as:
 * Allison Vineyard the Rabbot, RS-6 ; the sixth RS series prototype. She is outgoing and passionate with her other sisters, but she can also be a little sarcastic when it comes to her. This is mostly because she is next to Samantha, who is the genuine middle child of the RS Series because Samantha is RS-5 and she is RS-6, in the middle of the RS Series Model quantity line. Along with her general disposition and feelings of jealousy toward the other rabbots. In contrast, she may be a pretty upbeat little rabbot at the Bunny Burrow from time to time given that she is a small lady of her age and that the other tiny rabbots are also occasionally small children.


 * Natalie Palamides as:
 * Isabella Callahan the Rabbot, RS-8 ; the RS Series' eighth prototype, which is well-known worldwide Dr. Noreen Wakeman helped Katherine grow by supporting her in growing and building. She occasionally behaves like Isabella Shapiro from Phineas and Ferb since she is the eighth and almost final prototype . Isabella frequently asks "What are you doing?" while at home and at the Bunny Burrow, even at Katherine's lab when Isabella is scheduled for a checkup every month. The Rose siblings believed she was gradually becoming insane since she asks "What are you doing?" so frequently. When she and the Rose Scouts were playing baseball in the front yard one day, Amelia's Piko-Piko Hammer accidentally struck her in the head, causing her to suffer a concussion. The outcome was that the ball struck her in the head so forcefully that she was knocked out and had to be transported to the Bunny Burrow's emergency department. She stopped acting like Isabella Shapiro for good for the sake of the rabbots and the entire Rose family's sanity when she woke up days later, understandably bewildered and confused, and without knowing what she had done that day.


 * Nicole Byer as:
 * Andrea Hatfield the Rabbot, RS-10 ; while the other rabbots and siblings in the Bunny Burrow refer to her more commonly as "Andi" because of this. In the RS Series of robots, Andrea is the tenth and last prototype. She was planned to be the ninth and last RS Series prototype, taking Gwendolyn's position as the "hero of Earth" and sparing her from having to perform all the arduous, challenging job. She puts forth a lot of effort every day, but the other rabbots at the Bunny Burrow are seldom recognized for what they accomplish there. In contrast to Gwendolyn, Andrea eventually resigned a few days later after realizing how difficult it was to manage both her personal life and the mission to save the earth. The reason for this is that, in contrast to Andrea's mistakes, she can balance it beautifully. Whereas Gwendolyn finds it quite easy to juggle her life—which includes saving the world from extinction and delivering pizza throughout the city—much alone the universe. Andrea enjoys going outside with her sisters when she has free time from her job at the Bunny Burrow and listening to music as a pastime. She is known as "Andi" in the Bunny Burrow, and the other rabbots chose that name as it is a wonderful yet endearing moniker she goes by there.


 * Catherine Janet "Cathy" Cavadini as:
 * Mandy Maynard the Rabbot, RS-1 ; the first prototype and beginning point of the RS series, a group of machines that Dr. Katherine Milton the Rabbit developed, created, and manufactured. Due to the fact that she was the first RS Series robot prototype, even though she occasionally acts like a very joyful and upbeat girl toward her brothers, even she occasionally makes mistakes and blows up. She also serves as the commander and leader of the "Rabbot Brigade," a Girl Scout-like group that she founded. She is a highly proud but resolute individual. This group of RS Units was established in the early years after Stephanie Faulkner finished creating them in the middle to late 2010s.


 * Tara Strong as:
 * Maxine Atwood the Rabbot, RS-2 ; the second prototype of the RS Series, which was thoroughly built and developed by Dr. Katherine Milton the Rabbit for her series of robots, the RS Series. They’re best better known all around Milwaukee County and their very own neighborhood at the outskirts of town by their troop name that most of the neighbors within the Rose’s neighborhood know of by heart. Maxine, consistent with the other rabbots and her flesh-based sisters, is different from everyone else. She is a big snitch who spreads information about her elder siblings and the other RS Units in the Bunny Burrow. She has been referred to as "Max the Snitcher-bot" at the Bunny Burrow as an inside joke aimed at the younger rabbots. Furthermore, she's commonly referred to as "Bubbles" inside the Bunny Burrow as a joke because of how loud her voice can get while she's screaming. A few weeks later, the young rabbots changed the name of the Rabbot Hole to the Bunny Burrow. When they were pondering names for their home, which is a one million plus square foot, seven-story tall warehouse, one of Kaitelynne's strange proposals really came true for them. But out of everyone else in the troop, Maxine has an odd preference for pickles.

Development
My Life as a Teenage Rabbot's creation process started in 2009 when Rob Renzetti and Robfee discussed a possible television project. An “action/adventure” series centered on a robotic rabbit girl with a tragic backstory that was more detailed and in-depth was reported as being in the series. It was reported to be much more detailed and realistic to a degree, when compared to the main character, Jenny Wakeman's plotline and initial character development. After developing the concept further, followed by its character designs for the show's cast, world, and overall development, Renzetti sold it to Cartoon Network Studios. Cartoon Network approved its development into it becoming an animated television show after it flopped with Nickelodeon later that year in the same year. This occurred when the show's network was still airing My Life as a Teenage Robot in rerun form on Nicktoons Network before turning its lights off later that year.

The program was proposed to George Chialtas, who was working at Nickelodeon Animation Studios as a storyboard artist on The Fairly OddParents. Robles was chosen as the showrunner for the project, and he immediately brought in Jhonen Vasquez, creator of the comic series Johnny the Homicidal Maniac , to be the supervising director, as well as visual head designer.

The writing staff for the show was assembled by Vasquez, Robles, and Vasquez. Renzetti chose several writers, animators, story editors, and directors for the show, including Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick , Chris Reccardi , Rosearik Rikki Simons , Katrina Hadley , and Rebecca Parr Cioffi. Several freelance writers were also hired to write episodes, which included Erik Wiese, Charles Harvey Greenblatt , Tom Tataranowicz , and Mike Kubat.

Vasquez then set up a small music team under the direction of Eric Robles and sought out a sound design team. Robles chose a voice actor for the program throughout production and worked with the crew to rewrite several scripts to make them acceptable for television. Rob Renzetti and Vasquez established the show's visual style. He made use of his own skills as an animator to carefully choose the show's visual aesthetic in order to set it apart from other cartoons. He was able to produce a wide range of visual styles to fit the many scenarios and emotions of the program by utilizing a wide variety of palettes, including them being bright, muted, and dull hues. Buildings were constructed, for instance, via 3D cell-shaded computer generated imagery, but not have it be unrealistic, or badly managed computer-generated imagery can result in the Uncanny Valley effect.

My Life as a Teenage Rabbot premiered on August 2, 2015 until September 24, 2011 when it switched streaming services, plus television networks, as it moved to Cartoon Network soon after. As of August 28, 2024, the show is a huge success with critics and audiences alike, and is well-received for its art direction, writing, and voice-acting. It garnered numerous awards, including an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. The show was also recognized for its positive representation of female characters and multiple cultures being represented properly, unlike another show , that being Disney's Primos that gathered widespread media attention, albeit the worst way imaginable.

The success of My Life as a Teenage Rabbot allowed its creators to continue their collaboration on other iconic projects, such as Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents and Cartoon Network’s The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. The show also inspired remakes and parodies, such as Futurama parodying a segment of the show as "My Friend isn't a Teenage Robot".

Casting

 * Lynn Harris as Amelia Wilberson
 * E.G. Daily as Ami Morrison
 * Liz Callaway as Penelope Atchison
 * Carey Mulligan as Katherine Milton
 * Niki Yang and Grey Griffin  as Kate Anderson
 * Jane Alexander as Gretchen Milton
 * Gary Schwartz as Marcus the Hedgehog
 * Catherine Janet "Cathy" Cavadini as Mandy Maynard
 * Tara Strong as Maxine Atwood
 * Janice Kawaye as Kamiko Yokoyama
 * Ami Foster as Addison Schneider
 * Kate Burton as Samantha Hopkinson
 * Gillian Anderson as Allison Vineyard
 * Emily Bauer as Kaitelynne Dougherty
 * Natalie Palamides as Isabella Callahan
 * Jennifer Hale as Gwendolyn Sherwood
 * Nicole Byer as Andrea Hatfield

Animation and visual effects
After writing several scripts for each episode for its first, second and third season, the animation process began. The animation took place at Illumination Mac Guff, the animation provider for Illumination.

Like Illumination's previous films, the animation was produced to be hyper-realistic, reminiscent of films ranging from The Lorax (2012) up to The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019).

Second and third seasons
Season 1 wrapped up on March 12, 2018, after it was switched to streaming on Peacock. Its second season aired on September 15, 2018, and concluded on March 25, 2019.

Broadcast and home media
The show's first 5 pilot episodes were aired on August 1, 2015, and from October 29-December 21, 2015. The show's first season debuted on August 1, 2017 with the episode "Stranger things in Milwaukee", and concluded on March 12, 2018 after 32 episodes. The show's main network was on NBC, while it also aired on YouTube as part of Illumination's deal with Universal Kids. Its second season aired on September 15, 2018 with "Fourteen Bouquets of Roses", and concluded on May 25, 2019 with "Stephanie's Revenge".

Season 3 aired on November 7, 2019 with the episode "Ho-Ho-Oh No!", and concluded on July 8, 2021 with the episode "Doodle Zooey", with a pause from March 5, 2020 to April 29, 2021, due to the effects from the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic for production on motion pictures and television shows.

Season 4 debuted on January 4, 2011 with the episode "Kaitelynne's Memory Mix-Up", and concluded on August 19, 2011 with the episode "Ami's Staying at Home Special". The episode "Ami's Favorite Day" was among the most popular of the series, with a total viewer count of 1.02 million upon its release on August 5, 2011.

On September 24, 2011, with the platform switch of the American soap opera Days of Our Lives, My Life as a Teenage Rabbot was switched to the streaming service Peacock, and its episodes from all four seasons were streamed on the platform, starting on September 25, 2011.

The show's four seasons were released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on February 28, 2012 by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Warner Bros. Television distribution rights
After Warner Bros. Discovery paid $56.1 billion for Illumination, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment received the distribution rights. The show debuted on Cartoon Network, where it still airs today, and in simulcast form on KTRB-DT's.2 channel, digital channel 54.2. The episodes of the show will begin airing on the streaming service HBO Max on May 23, 2012, as they do plan on to stream on both HBO Max at the moment and on Cartoon Network.

On June 11, 2012, the DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release will have a new release through Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

Critical response
My Life as a Teenage Rabbot received widespread acclaim from critics. Joly Herman of Common Sense Media wrote a positive review, stating that "As a spinoff to a classic '00's show on Nickelodeon, My Life as a Teenage Rabbot doesn't drag, and improvises creativity from the perspectives of Michael Rubiner and Rob Renzetti." The first season currently holds a 95% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with 94% for Season 2, 91% for Season 3, and 98% for Season 4, as of August 28, 2024.