History Recap / TeenTitansS1E10MadMod

The Titans find themselves trapped in a school run by Mad Mod, and must escape it before he brain-washes them.

* IdiotBall: Beast Boy on multiple occasions: At the beginning, why he didn't turn into something too small for the bonds to tightly hold him or too large for the bonds to stretch. Then there's the hypno screens, if you know a hypno screen is coming, turn into an animal that doesn't need eyes... like an earthworm!
** If recollection recalls, the chairs were designed to neutralize the Titans' powers - all of them. Ergo, Beast Boy probably ''couldn't'' transform.

* ScoobyDoobyDoors: During the song sequence. Bonus point for frequently messing with the perspective.

* TheLudovicoTechnique: Mad Mod's method of brainwashing.

* ScoobyDoobyDoors: During the SongSequence

* SadistTeacher: Mad Mod fills this role.

* ActorAllusion: The multiple ''[[Film/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]]'' references in the episode (most notably the hypnosis chair that holds Beast Boy's eyes open) connect to Mad Mod's VA, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, starring in that film as Alex [=DeLarge=] in his youth.

* BizarroEpisode

* FakeBrit: Averted; Creator/MalcolmMcDowell is really British (which is ironic, as Mad Mod is an exaggerated stereotype).
* GeniusBonus: All of the Elements seen on the Periodic Table are real, and with the exception of La and Ac, in the correct location. (Zr is Zirconium: element #40.) Though there is a minor case of ArtisticLicenseChemistry within said GeniusBonus.
** Also all of the artworks shown (with the possible exception of one) are parodies of real-life famous works of art. From left to right in the chase scene: There's the Richard Avedon pop-art photos of the Beatles, a pastiche of AndyWarhol, PabloPicasso's ''Guernica'', the obligatory parodies of Leonardo's ''Mona Lisa'' and Michaelangelo's ''David'', and a parody of Rene Magritte's style of painting.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell as Mad Mod.
* IdiotBall: Beast Boy on multiple occasions: [[spoiler: At the beginning, why he didn't turn into something too small for the bonds to tightly hold him or too large for the bonds to stretch. Then there's the hypno screens, if you know a hypno screen is coming, turn into an animal that doesn't need eyes... like an earthworm!]]
** [[spoiler: If recollection recalls, the chairs were designed to neutralize the Titans' powers - all of them. Ergo, Beast Boy probably ''couldn't'' transform]].

* OffscreenMomentofAwesome: Although they are shown to have escaped by themselves upon meeting with Starfire and Robin, Cyborg and Raven's escape is not shown at all.

** [[spoiler: If recollection recalls, the chairs were designed to neutralize the Titans' powers - all of them. Ere go, Beast Boy probably ''couldn't'' transform]].

* IdiotBall: Beast Boy on multiple occasions: [[spoiler: At the beginning, why he didn't turn into something too small for the bonds to tightly hold him or too large for the bonds to stretch. Then there's the hypno screens, if you know a hypno screen is coming, turn into an animal need eyes... like an earthworm!]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: Subverted; Mad Mod is actually an old man, but uses his illusions to portray himself as a hip young man (who still sports the fashions of the 1960s).

* EvilBrit (Mad Mod)

* ActorAllusion: The multiple ''[[Film/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]]'' references in the episode (most notably the hypnosis chair that holds Beast Boy's eyes open) connect to Mad Mod's VA, MalcolmMcDowell, starring in that film as Alex [=DeLarge=] in his youth.
* AlliterativeName: Mad Mod (and his VA, MalcolmMcDowell).

* FakeBrit: Averted; MalcolmMcDowell is really British (which is ironic, as Mad Mod is an exaggerated stereotype).

* HeyItsThatVoice: MalcolmMcDowell as Mad Mod.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Incredibly in the midst of their GeniusBonus
** When Robin and Starfire fall from the Zr tile, if you look closely at the column to their right, (with Y as an element), the column goes Y, La, Ac, Ce, Th. (Yttrium, Lanthanum, Actinium, Cerium, Thorium)The current positions of La and Ac are not referring to the elements, but are merely placeholders for the Lanthanide and Actinide series. The proper places for the elements (each box to the left for both Cerium and Thorium) are instead both blank.

* GeniusBonus: All of the Elements seen on the Periodic Table are real. (Zr is Zirconium: element #40.) Though there is a minor case of DidNotDoTheResearch within said GeniusBonus.

** When Robin and Starfire fall from the Zr tile, if you look closely at the column to their right, (with Y as an element), the column goes Y, La, Ac, Ce, Th. (Yttrium, Lanthanum, Actinium, Cerium, Thorium)The current positions of La and Ac are not referring to the elements, but are merely placeholders for the Lanthanide and Actinide series. The proper places for the elements (each box to the left for both Cerium and Thorium) are instead both blank.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Simultaneously with GeniusBonus: when Robin and Starfire fall from the Zr tile, if you look closely at the column to their right, (with Y as an element), you can see a column (from top to bottom): going Y, La, Ac,Ce, Th. La and Ac in that position refer to that as the location of the Lanthanide and Actinide series (the two rows at the bottom of the table)

* GeniusBonus: All of the Elements seen on the Periodic Table are real. (Zr is Zirconium: element #40.)

* [[ActorAllusion Actor]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon Illusion]]: The multiple ''[[Film/AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]]'' references in the episode (most notably the hypnosis chair that holds Beast Boy's eyes open) connect to Mad Mod's VA, MalcolmMcDowell, starring in that film as Alex [=DeLarge=] in his youth.

* ADayAtTheBizarro

* [[ActorAllusion Actor]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon Illusion]]: The multiple ''[[AClockworkOrange Clockwork Orange]]'' references in the episode (most notably the hypnosis chair that holds Beast Boy's eyes open) connect to Mad Mod's VA, MalcolmMcDowell, starring in that film as Alex [=DeLarge=] in his youth.

->''I am happy to see her. But Blackfire rules the video games and she is able to share very depressing poems and she knows the cool moves and she always knows when people are not talking about shovels.''
-->-- '''Starfire'''

-->''I am happy to see her. But Blackfire rules the video games and she is able to share very depressing poems and she knows the cool moves and she always knows when people are not talking about shovels.''
--->'''Starfire'''

! Tropes:
* AlliterativeName: Mad Mod (and his VA, Malcolm [=McDowell=]).

* FakeBrit: Averted; Malcolm [=McDowell=] is really British (which is ironic, as Mad Mod is an exaggerated stereotype).
* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [[AClockworkOrange Malcolm]] [[{{Heroes}} McDowell]] as Mad Mod.