Mad Mod (Teen Titans)

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Mad Mod
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 10
Guest stars	Malcolm McDowell as Mad Mod
Written by	Adam Beechen
Directed by	Ciro Nieli
Production no.	385–910
Original airdate	September 27, 2003
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"Mad Mod" is the tenth episode in season one of the animated TV series Teen Titans. It was first broadcast on September 27, 2003 and lasts for about twenty minutes.

[edit] Plot

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One day, the Titans wake up to find themselves in a strange large place, a partially lit atrium with several balconies running around the walls, as well as paintings hung everywhere. They have no idea where they are until Mad Mod appears and tell them that they are in school - Mad Mod's Institute for Bratty Teenage Do-Gooders., and he decides to teach the Titans a lesson that they will never forget.

Mad Mod begins with the Black Board lesson, he uses hypno-screens to get the attention and erase everything in people's brains. Robin, however, doesn't let Mad Mod hypnotize him and manages to free himself. He chases Mad Mod through a network of staircases and arches that connect floor to floor, then into a region of black and white cubes, Robin right side up and Mad Mod upside down, approaching from opposite directions. Mad Mod runs into the left set-a tunnel-and does a sharp turn into one of the white bands. When Robin tries to follow, he runs flat into a wall. The chase continues until Robin suddenly hears Starfire calling for help, he immediately comes to her aid and rescues her. Later the two of them found Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg. The Titans chase Mad Mod through a long, wide room whose white floor and ceiling are marked with a lattice of large holes, to a winding staircase, then a hall with many doors on either side, eventually they come back to the atrium where everything starts. The team fight with Mad Mod, all of them with the exception of Robin end up being trapped in the chairs.

Seeing his friends be captured, Robin makes an attempt to attack Mad Mod, but cannot even touch him. Right at that moment, Robin suddenly realizes that the cane isn't real, which means Mad Mod is just as fake as everything else his team have seen at the place. He leaps straight at an image and runs right through it. Soon, Robin discovers the real Mad Mod, a gray-haired man, who appears to be at least twenty years older the the Mad Mod that the Titans have encountered. He is sitting in front of a bank of monitors, which show the team from many different angles, and working a complex array of controls. Robin destroys the monitor, and declares that the school time has finally ended.