10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About The Teen Titans Cartoon
4. There's Actually A 'Lost' Episode
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One thing that's become increasingly apparent over the course of writing these articles on the superhero cartoons of the nineties and early noughties is that there are a lot (like, A LOT) of 'lost' episodes; episodes that weren't broadcast as a part of a typical season, and were instead told in different forms, like video games, for instance.
Teen Titans has a similar example, but its 'lost' episode isn't from a video game, or even a basic plot outline that never materialised into a full-length episode. No, Teen Titans' lost episode was actually delivered via an online promotion on the site 'Postopia', and wasn't broadcast as a part of the show's usual schedule.
The basic premise of the episode involves a rowdy, punk-like supervillain - fittingly called Punk Rocket - who uses his musical skills (read: weaponised electric guitar) to disrupt serene concerts. The Titans are called in to deal with him, which leads to the usual back-and-forth battle where the team have to regroup and figure out how to take him down.
It was later included as a DVD extra in the Trouble in Tokyo film, but that was two years after the episode first surfaced.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
