Teen Titans

Mad Mod

Season 1, Episode 10, Aired 9/27/03

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The Teen Titans awaken to find themselves prisoners of Mad Mod, a madcap bad guy in a psychedelic suit. Mad Mod wants to teach the Titans a lesson, so he's created a massive mind-bending school full of optical illusions and brainwashing hypno-screens. The Titans will have to escape before they lose their minds!moreless

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No other show can make the transition from seriousness to silliness as seamlessly as Teen Titans.

9.5

"Superb"

By macabre190788, Feb 08, 2010 Report Abuse

I knew this episode would be great about 30 seconds into the episode, when I heard Malcolm McDowell, he is my favorite actor. He did fantastic voicework on Superman TAS as Metallo, and here he's back in a DC series, voicing Mad Mod. The villains of Teen Titans are sort of uneven, some are really cool, while others are absolutely ridicilous, Mad Mod is both, he's ridicilous in a good way. A British school teacher-type character with an awesome accent. This is one of the comedy episodes of Teen Titans, these are risky, because they can be spectacular or horrible, thankfully it's the former in this case. I would say this is my second favorite of these "silly" episodes, behind "Bunny Raven".

The now famous chase sequence, in the style of old Hanna Barbera cartoons, is the highpoint of the episode, but there are other memorable moments. Just like in Batman Beyond with George Lazenby, they reference the most famous movie Malcolm McDowell has ever done, A Clockwork Orange, which amused me tremendously. This is one highly creative episode, the design of Mad Mod's world is fantastic with bizarre visuals and tricks. Beast Boy being constantly hypnotized was funny, but the ways they snapped him out of the trance were kind of dumb and not funny, with the exception of Raven recieving a wet willy. "Mad Mod" is an excellent example of how funny and entertaining Teen Titans can be. And Malcolm McDowell is fantastic as usual.moreless

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The first of the funnies!

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By halberdierv2, Jun 22, 2008 Report Abuse

there aren't many episodes of teen titans that would come under funny, but this is one of them. whats the first thing you notice that's different? the music. its not often you hear the intro for the show in japaneese, and whenever you do, you're in for a real treat, as its a break from the norm, with a usually hilarious episode instead of the other action packed ones. also, as an extra, you get to hear Mad Mad's fake-sounding British accent trying to pych out the titans in his mind prison, and the hilarious paths taken to escape, all to the sound of Puffy Ami Yumi!moreless

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This Episode was so exciting! Mad Mod sure is crazy!

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By Captain52, Jun 17, 2008 Report Abuse

So in this Episode the Teen Titans are held Prisoner in a School dimensional Illusional World with all sorts of Mayhem that include Stairways and Doorways leading to Backtracking or someplace else! It also has Wormholes that have you appear from diferent Wormhole Portals! The chase is on when Robin saves Starfire and Beast Boy from Hypno Screens and then they encounter Cyborg and Raven when they escape themselves! Starfire is in a Library and Beast Boy is in Science Class. Beast Boy has the most trouble with the Hypno Screns, as it is hardest to break him out of the Trance, but it looks like Comedy is able to Break Beast Boy from the Trance! So Starfire is thinking of ways to make Beast Boy laugh! Once she does, the chase is on and the whole gang try to get Mad Mod while the music plays that sounds like the same song they play in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi in the Episode where Ami and Yumi try to save a Farm! The Teen Titans Team tries to get Mad Mod in all of these strange places with Dimensional Holes, Very long and High Stairways, and then to a Hallway with all these Doors that transport you to another Door in the Hallway! After they're done chasing him, they stumble upon a fake picture of a tropical pathway, but stumble and find Mad Mod, and they fight him in one last Confrontation! Then Robin Discovers that the Mad Mod is only a Hologram, and sneaks into a Vent and finds the Real Mad Mod, and Robin helps the Team by shutting down this Hologramic System! It ends with the Team climbing out with Mad Mod Arrested, and Raven says "Beast Boy had a Brain?" which breaks Beast Boy's final Hypnotism and says "Hey! that's not funny! Of Course I have a Brain! ...I just don't use it much!"moreless

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One of the funniest villains of the entire series being so persistent in teaching the heroes some manners. Although he is quite silly, his dedication is to be admired.

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By shinkansen1, May 04, 2008 Report Abuse

This episode is not for those who hate repeating gags. However, there is a large and exciting fight scene near the end of the episode. The only drawback to this is that viewers may have sit through watching the titans running through endless traps set by the villain, as well as one of the team members being the only one to constantly get hypnotized, rendering them useless throughout the episode. This episode isn't particularly intended for action and fighting, but rather for immature comedic purposes. The techniques devised by Cyborg to get Beastboy to wake up are rather crude, which include belching and giving Raven a wet willy. Mad Mod is no more bent on fighting than the titans. In fact, he doesn't seem to want to fight them at all; he uses literally hundreds of busts (of himself) hidden behind walls and secretly equipped with missile launchers, tasers, saws, and several other varied weapons that are intended to bring the titans to their doom. Most of this action, however, can only be found in the ending sequence. The constant use of optical illusions in black and white may cause health problems to some viewers. However, for those who are not bothered by this, and have a bit of a taste in random silly acts of messing with the heroes' heads, there's practically no other Teen Titans episode that even comes close to this one.moreless

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Nice episode.

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"Superb"

By titiembe, Jul 29, 2007 Report Abuse

This episode was good. It was humorous and actiony all at the same time. A villain named Mad Mod traps the titans in his school for punishment for doing good things I guess. They break out of course. The action was really good and it was really fun to watch at the same time. I wish they would've shown what Raven did at the gym haha! Beast Boy getting hypnotized was making me laugh so hard and at the end Raven was all like " Beast Boy had a brain? " haha solid. So it was a great episode and very nice.moreless

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Trivia
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- How in the world did Mad Mod get passed the Cyborg security system? He would have set off an alarm if he were to intrude. And how would he set off a knock-out gas bomb inside the tower? It just doesn't make sense at all. Edit
- For a few seconds in the hall of doors during the chase scene, Mad Mod is shown driving Ringo's car from the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine. Edit
- When Mad Mod is talking to Starfire, Robin yells, "Get away from her!!!" Could this mark the first time where he starts to show affection to her? Besides from the "Sisters" episode? Edit
Notes
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- This episode along with "Switched", "Deep Six", "Masks", "Car Trouble" and "The Apprentice, Part 1 and 2" was released on DVD as Teen Titans: Switched. Edit
- On the Season 1 DVD episode guide, it names this episode as "Detention." Edit
- Villain Debut(s): Mad Mod. Edit
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- Starfire: ...it is I, Starfire, your friend. (increasingly getting louder) Please, speak to me! Beast Boy! (Beast Boy bangs his head two times; inhales) BEEEEAAAAST BOOOOOOOOOOOY! (Beast Boy is still hypnotized) Robin: (a little weak) Uh... Starfire, I don't think that's working. Edit
- Mad Mod: (About the hypnotized Beast Boy) Oh, yeah! A model student, that one! Lovely! Sits there, quietly, never thinks about misbehaving, matter of fact, he never thinks at all! Ha ha ha! Edit
- Starfire: Robin, I wish to thank you for rescuing me from... Robin: Don't thank me yet. Edit
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- Starfire: How many Okarans does it take to Hoegee a malfarb? FINBARR! Hoegee is a reference to producer Rob Hoegee, and Finbarr is the last name of a staff artist. Edit
- Mad Mod: Hairstyle Mad Mod's hairstyle is reminiscent of John Lennon, one of the Beatles. Edit
- Yellow Submarine: (Titans running through doors) When the Titans were running through the doors, it was a lot like a similar scene in Yellow Submarine. Edit