I'm really enjoying the Saturday morning cartoon of Teen Titans.

[xiphias]

In case you were unaware, Kids WB broadcasts the anime-influenced Teen Titans cartoon on Saturdays. While the original comic book of TT had teenagers around eighteen or nineteen, this seems to have teenagers around thirteen or fourteen. And it's anime-ish, and tones down the angst slightly. But still, all the characters are recognizable: Beast Boy deals with stress by making stupid jokes, which really gets on Cyborg's nerves; Raven does her best to be emotionless, while Starfire is entirely ruled by emotion; everybody really relies on Robin to keep the team together. That's all there in the comic.

But they do more with the fact that Starfire is an alien. Specifically, they've decided that this means that she has a somewhat different biochemistry than everyone else. . .
At a picnic:
"This yellow beverage is delicious! What is it called?"
"Umm. . . . that's mustard, Starfire."
"Is there any more?"

Arguing about pizza toppings:
"I think we should have a pizza with marshmallows, bananas, and mint frosting."
"Um, Starfire, not everything on the menu is a pizza topping."

After Titans Tower has been trashed in a battle, and cleaned up so that it's actually CLEAN for the first time in a while:
(dismayed) "Oh no! Someone has taken all our blue fuzzy food!"

Comments

Mustard . . . haven't seen that one yet.

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

They also show it in the afternoons now on Cartoon Network. I never get home in time to watch it.

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of the explanation of why Beast Boy is a vegetarian.

"Dude, I've been most of those animals."

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

"Let's get pepperoni!"
"I won't eat meat!"
"There's no meat in pepperoni!"

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that's a good one. Wolf got me watching it on the Cartoon Network.

A.
who is going to call you on the phone soon, as she hasn't seen enough of you and Lis recently.