The Quest (Teen Titans 1001 Animations)

Writer: Amy Wolfram

Date: January 29, 2005

Synopsis: "After losing a fight of martial arts with the villain Katarou, Robin travels to Asia to find an unusually skilled and powerful master of much more skillfully advanced martial arts, known as Chu-Hui, to train him. In the meantime, the other Titans try to fill in the gap left by Robin in a rather unusual fashion."

This particular episode of Teen Titans is special. It follows what I call "The Michael G. Stern type episode". With Michael G. Stern's Sofia the First episodes, he writes a pretty serious main plot and a more humorous subplot. This is that type of episode. Anyway, what I like is that main plot sort of plays around with your expectations with some clever foreshadowing. You'd think Robin's training would be at the top of the mountain, but no. His training happens when he fights a bear, a snake, and a monkey, all guardians of the mountain. He uses what he learned in his rematch with Katarou, which is awesome! The humor comes mostly from the subplot with the other Titans. With Robin gone, they essentially have some fun by pretending to be Robin, right down to wearing his clothes. Don't worry. They're just in the tower. It's really funny watching Beast Boy, then Starfire, then Cyborg, and then Raven acting like Robin. That ending was pretty funny. This is a good episode.