Teen Titans

Car Trouble

Season 1, Episode 13, Aired 11/11/03

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Cyborg has just finished building the vehicle of his dreams: the T-Car! After a brawl with the electrical menace Overload at an electronics superstore, the Titans emerge to find the T-Car gone! A wild adventure unfolds as the T-Car changes hands from bad guy to worse guy... with Cyborg racing all over town, trying to catch up.moreless

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Eh, nothing special at all.

4.0

"Poor"

By macabre190788, Feb 16, 2010 Report Abuse

Cyborg builds a car, car gets stolen twice, then possessed and he ends up destroying it, then building a new one. That's it. It wasn't funny, I hated Gizmo who was really annoying. Overload was just there so Cyborg would have no choice but to wreck his own car. And Cyborg, as cool as he is designed, is just not interesting enough to carry an entire episode by himself, unless it has great action like in "Only Human". Luckily Raven shows up in the third act, but she doesn't do much. So what worked? I loved the brief moment with Starfire pushing the buttons in the car like crazy, starting the windshield wipers exclaiming "They're dancing". I loved that, the brief battle with Overload was mildly entertaining I guess. The final car chase was...okay. I just can't find anything to truly recommend it, ultimately this is one boring episode with little to offer. It is watchable, but nothing more.moreless

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Cyborg builds a new car and someone steals it.

10

"Perfect"

By TitanFan1, Mar 18, 2007 Report Abuse

The episode starts out with Cyborg building the car and the other four Titans come. Raven is bored to death and the other three Titans are interested. They get an alert and they decide to go in the T-Car. They go to Cook's Electronice Store and a villain called Overload is causing havoc. But Cyborg is staying outside and these two people named Sammy and Cash come. Raven pulls Cyborg and takes him to the battle, and Sammy and Cash get an idea. Meanwhile, the Titans are fighting Overload and they find his weakness, water. They go outside and find nothing in the parking lot. He finds out that his car was stolen and he decides to go look for it. He then finds a person and they tell him where Sammy and Cash went. Meanwhile, they are racing and they race against this car. They win but soon discover that Gizmo is in the car. Gizmo steals the car and Cyborg comes and finds Sammy and Cash. Cyborg eventually finds out Gizmo stole it and decides to find him. He catches up and Gizmo doesn't want to give it up. They go to different places and Cyborg falls off bridge. He is at the diner and Raven comes up and tells that the other three Titans went across the city to find his car. They soon find Gizmo and Sammy and Cash escaped but Raven caught them. Raven and Cyborg 'borrow' their car and chase after Gizmo. They eventually stop him and Overload takes over the car. Cyborg destroys it and Overload, Gizmo, Sammy, and Cash go to jail. Later, Raven and Cyborg build a new car and after they are done, Raven gives Cyborg a big smile. Overall, a really, really, good episode. It was also very funny.moreless

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Cyborg finally built the T-Car, his dream vehicle. However, it gets stolen by worse criminals each time.

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By herculehastings, Nov 03, 2006 Report Abuse

Okay, my conclusion: Cyborg episodes are... indescribable. They lack in substance, are too mechanical for the enjoyment of mankind- those who are not cyborgs, that is. Car Trouble narrates an adventure of a mechanic wanting his car back. I know it shows the human side of him and all, but it makes me feel like withering. For goodness' sake make a good show out of Cyborg please! We can see how he saves the technological world or something, just nothing to do with his humanity, ever! I sometimes forget he's an extraordinary robot boy, his episodes are so mediocre and feeble.moreless

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A bit weird, considering "The sum of his parts" was the episode you should watch before it.

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By Ziomster, Aug 06, 2006 Report Abuse

PLOT IN SHORT: Cyborg builts a car from scratch and in extremely proud of it. No wonder that after it gets stolen, he's obsessed with finding it. The journey will deffinately be long and not an easy one, but it'll help the "man of steel" learn a thing or two...
I'm a bit confused by this episode... I mean, after watching "The sum of his parts" which clearly stated that Cyborg valued his human side more then the iron one, he goes crazy about losing (not even this much really) some of his metal side.
Cy fans can treat this episode as one showing his view about the non-organic parts of his body, but the real story is about how people can get attached to things they put a lot of work into and how important they can become.
This episode gives a quite interesting lesson (the issue is rarely mentioned in other TV shows I've watched) however except that I find this one a little bellow other.
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HUH? WHAT IS THIS!

2.7

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By totalchaos0, Mar 11, 2006 Report Abuse

Till now, this is the worst episode of Teen Titans! I mean, what does a car have to do with kicking the villains butt? And I think I almost fell asleep! Really, really bad Titans! I got to like the series more when I saw the Aprentice 1, and 2! That is Teen Titans! But how can this be a season finale? And I really didn't get it. It was about Cyborg recovering his new car, who was stole by some street punks, and then by Gizmo. And there, I got lost. I hope that the next Titans episode is way better than this one!moreless

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Trivia
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- Raven could have used her magic to stop the T-Car that Gizmo was driving. Edit
- When Cyborg tries to "buff out" the scratch on the side of the T-Car after Gizmo gets it scratched, the passenger-side mirror broke off, but later reappears on the T-Car. Also, the scratch is gone -- even before Overload rejuvinated the car. Edit
- Gizmo ejects from the car in a vertical ejection seat without making any sort of hole in the roof. Edit
Notes
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- This is the only appearance that Sammy and Cash make throughout the series. Edit
- This episode along with "Switched", "Deep Six", "Masks", "Mad Mod" and "The Apprentice, Part 1 and 2" was released on DVD as Teen Titans: Switched. Edit
- You can see Raven and Cyborg beginning to bond in this episode. Edit
Quotes
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- Overload: Only way to stop Overload is to destroy your precious car! Cyborg: It is not my car anymore... (Blows up the T-Car) Edit
- Sammy & Cash: But then we totally escaped before the cops showed up! (They are suddenly surrounded by Raven's forcefield) Raven: Escape from THAT before the cops show up... Edit
- Cyborg: I'll take you to any place you want to go! Beast Boy: The beach! Robin: The movies! Starfire: The swamp moons of Drentax IV. (All the others faint) Starfire: (Blushing) He said any place... Edit
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- Cook's Electronic When fighting Overload above the shop he was robbing was a sign that says Cook's Electronic. This is an allusion to Fry's Electronic. Edit
- Tail Light: After Images The tail lights show an after image trail on a few shots, specifically when its first stolen. This is similar to the tail lights of the motorcycles on the movie Akira. Edit
- Music The music which can be heard when Cyborg repairs the T-Car in the beginning and in the end, is the same which can be heard in Justice League episode "Eclipsed (1)" after Flash confronts the talk show host, Glorious Godfrey. Edit