There are plenty of great superhero cartoons, but for kids growing up in the early to mid-2000s, Teen Titans was the best one around. Based on the early 1980s New Teen Titans comics by Marv Wolfman and George Perez, the show followed a group of teenage superheroes--Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven and Starfire--as they fought supervillains while getting into regular teenage shenanigans.

Teen Titans differentiated itself from other superhero shows like Justice League and X-Men, which focused largely on adult superhero teams in action scenes and reenacting dramatic storylines from comics. While Teen Titans also had plenty of action, they blended it with plenty of humor and combined that with an anime-inspired art style that led to plenty of hilarious sight gags.

Teen Titans also featured plenty of dramatic storylines, including Terra's betrayal of the Titans and Raven's apocalyptic birthday, many of which were lifted straight from the comics. Of course, this being a kid's show, much of the violence and mature themes from the comics had to be toned down or removed. They couldn't even call Slade by his supervillain name--Deathstroke--as the name was considered too scary for kids.

Here today, we present a list of moments you probably never noticed in Teen Titans as a kid. Some of these are funny, and some are kind of alarming, but all will make you wonder if the censors we're even paying attention the day they watched the episode.

15 Anatomically Inaccurate

In the season 1 episode "Switched," the Titans receive an anonymous package in the mail. Instead of checking the box for any bombs or traps like sensible superheroes, they open it, revealing a set of puppets, each resembling a member of the Teen Titans. Ignoring the common rule of fiction that all puppets are evil (or at least creepy), they decide that they must be gifts from a fan.

Robin expresses his admiration for the fans' craftsmanship, remarking that they are very accurate. Beast Boy decides to see just how accurate his puppet is by looking down its pants. Disappointed, he tells Robin that the fan missed a very crucial physical detail: Beast Boy should be taller. That's one heck of a bait-and-switch.

14 Music, Lyrics, And Cartoon Chase Sequences

In the season 1 episode “Mad Mod,” the Titans are imprisoned in a labyrinth-like school by the titular villain, a 1960s reject that would make even Austin Powers upset. The school Mad Mod has trapped the Titans in is filled with hypnoscreens, illusions, and other physics-defying tricks. The episode is filled with some really trippy sequences, and it even includes a chase scene reminiscent of old cartoons like Scooby-Doo, complete with an upbeat pop-rock song by Puffy AmiYumi, the Japanese band that does the theme song.

It’s a pretty catchy tune and it’s in Japanese, so it can be forgiven if the censors didn’t know that the lyrics to the song may not be entirely suitable for a kid’s show.

13 Batteries Not Included

In the season 3 episode "X," the Titans end up facing off against someone who's adopted Robin's old villain identity--Red X--from back when he was trying to go undercover and find out Slade's secret plans. Not convinced that Robin hasn't gone back to his old tricks and left his team in the dark again, Starfire pokes him to make sure he isn't a hologram like last time.

Still not convinced, Beast Boy believes Robin could be a robot, and tells Cyborg to check him for batteries. Cyborg is all too willing to do so and snaps on a white latex glove, ready to go all "TSA selected screening" on Robin. Robin is very quick to assure them he's not a robot.

12 Don't Beat Yourself Up

The season 3 episode "Haunted," as great as it is, is easily one of the most disturbing episodes of the entire show. Even long after having defeated him, Robin still wonders if Slade really is gone for good. He soon finds Slade once again plans to destroy the entire city, and it's up to the Teen Titans to stop him. There's just one problem: none of the other Titans can see him, and it becomes increasingly obvious that something's wrong with Robin's mind.

Not only do we see Robin going through some pretty serious paranoia and post-traumatic stress, but it all culminates in a basement beat-down in which Slade mercilessly kicks Robin around. Sure, it's all happening in his mind, but hearing Robin begging Slade to stop is one of the most unexpectedly disturbing moments in the show.

11 Come To The Dark Side

In the season 3 episode "Spellbound," Raven is feeling more angsty than usual and starts isolating herself in her room. Hoping to find someone who can understand her, she comes across Malchior, a powerful sorcerer trapped in one of her ancient books. Malchior then begins teaching her some powerful spells to free him, and becomes a confidant for when her teammates are annoying her. Eventually, Raven falls in love with him.

However, it is soon revealed that not only was Malchior teaching Raven dark magic, but that he was never really in love with her and was just using her so she could free him.

10 Junior Prom

In the season 2 episode "Date with Destiny," the villainous Killer Moth threatens to destroy the city unless Robin gives in to his demands. Having no other choice, Robin goes along with his evil plan to... escort his bratty daughter Kitten to her junior prom. Seriously. As bewildered and unwilling as Robin is, no one's more upset about the situation than Starfire.

We get to see a more territorial side to Starfire, as she does everything she can to stop mean girl Kitten from digging her claws into Robin.

9 Raven's Weird Stranded Scene

The season 4 episode “Stranded” is a favorite of fans who ship Robin and Starfire. After the Titans end up stranded and separated on an alien planet, they must find a way to reunite and go back home. They also have to face individual obstacles, like Beast Boy’s struggle to repair Cyborg. The meat of the episode, though, is the tension between Robin and Starfire, and whether or not they’ll ever confess their true feelings for each other.

We’re not going to be focusing on that, though. Instead, we’ll be looking at Raven’s strange encounter with a tribe of miniature aliens. For some reason, the aliens start pampering her and treating her like some sort of queen.

8 Starfire Has A Rough Time

In “Sisters,” the second episode of the series, we are introduced to Blackfire, Starfire’s older, cooler, and all-around worldlier sister. Though Starfire is happy to see her sister, she starts feeling insecure that her friends prefer Blackfire, as she’s somehow more attuned to Earth culture than she is. How does that make sense, anyway? Hasn’t Starfire been living on Earth for quite a while now? Blackfire shows up once and suddenly knows what is and isn’t a figure of speech.

At one point Blackfire invites the Titans to a cool party, during which the rest of the team ditches Starfire, leaving her alone and feeling socially awkward. She soon gets approached by two guys at the party who end up trying to get close to her and laughing at her.

7 He Probably Uses This Power All The Time

There are plenty of recurring villains in Teen Titans, but probably the only well-known team to routinely face off against them is the H.I.V.E. Five. Serving as sort of a polar opposite to the Titans, the H.I.V.E. Five are a group of villainous teenagers with a rotating cast. One of the members, See-More, is a boy with one large eye who has pretty much all the vision-related superpowers (heat vision, x-ray vision, etc.) who uses them for all sorts of mischief.

In the season four episode "Mother Mae-Eye," Starfires fights See-More while wearing an ugly sweater. She fires her eye beams at him, quipping that she has powerful eyes as well. See-More responds with, "But I bet I'm the only one with see-through vision!" Upon hearing this, Starfire immediately tries covering up.

6 Ever Heard Of Personal Space?

Going back to the episode "Stranded," the tension between Robin and Starfire starts when Cyborg teases Robin by calling Starfire his girlfriend. It seems that "no romantic relationships" was part of Batman's training, as Robin firmly denies this right in front of Starfire. Of course, Starfire misunderstands the term, and believes that Robin doesn't consider her his friend (or a girl), and begins acting coldly toward him.

But as the One True Pairing of the show, they couldn't stay uncertain of each other for long, so the writers decided to give Starfire a little push... off a cliff. Due to her emotional turmoil preventing her from flying, Robin swung into the rescue. The two end up landing safely into a cave.

5 Gets His Motor Running

In the season 4 episode "Employee of the Month," Beast Boy gets a job at a fast-food joint called Mega Meaty Meat. Why would Beast Boy, a staunch vegetarian, ever agree to work at a place where he has to handle food made from animals that he at one point or another has been? It's all for the shot at winning the Employee of the Month prize: a brand-spanking-new moped.

Beast Boy is so in love with the moped, in fact, that at one point he flips through the pages of a motorcycle magazine called Hot Rides and starts drooling over the centerfold. As Starfire points out, it's just "a land vehicle." He apparently just has an unhealthy obsession with mopeds.

4 I Think You've Had Enough, Cyborg

In the season 1 episode "Car Trouble," Cyborg builds himself a hi-tech and very shiny car: the T-Car, or as he likes to call it, "my baby." Unfortunately, his happiness doesn't last long, as during the T-Car's very first test drive it gets stolen by a couple of street racers, H.I.V.E. Five's resident gadgeteer Gizmo, and the machine-possessing villain Overload. Not wanting to damage his pride and joy, it seems the villains have made off with his car.

Cyborg ends up feeling so dejected by the whole thing, it seems he's decided to drown his sorrows with some hard drinking. Raven eventually finds him sitting on a curb surrounded by empty cups, to which she notes, "Fourteen milkshakes. Not a good sign."

3 Didn't Learn That In Spanish Class

Along with memorable villains, Teen Titans had introduced plenty of other great teenage superheroes who would go on to become honorary Titans. Two of the more memorable side heroes are the twin speedsters from Guatemala, Mas y Menos. Introduced in the season 3 finale "Titans East" as part of the title team, Mas y Menos are known for two things: running really fast and exclusively speaking Spanish.

This provided fun little inside jokes for those of us who understood Español, as the twins were prone to making funny comments. One of their more shocking lines, though, comes from their introductory episode, in which they say of Brother Blood in Spanish, "And this old guy is [redacted] us over!" I could understand them not catching the lyrics in the Japanese song, but Cartoon Network really should've caught this one.

2 In One End And Out The Other

The season 3 episode "Bunny Raven... or ...How to Make a Titananimal Disappear" is sometimes considered the funniest episode in the whole series, and it's not hard to see why. Take joke villain Amazing Mumbo (voiced by Tom Kenny) and have him trap the Titans inside his funhouse pocket dimension. Throw in some hilarious musical numbers, sight gags, and of course, Raven as a grumpy bunny.

Mumbo turns the other Titans into animals as well (with Beast Boy morphing into various inanimate objects) and has them perform in wacky circus acts. During Starfire's act in which she's been transformed into a tiger, Mumbo takes the old "putting your head in the tiger's mouth" trick a step further by climbing inside her mouth. He then pops out right below her, implying he went all the way through her. It might have just been a trick, but Starfire was clearly disturbed by it.

1 Freaky Friday Shenanigans

During the episode “Switched,” Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin have had their souls trapped in puppets by the Puppet King. The same thing almost happens to Raven and Starfire, but due to some mishap, their souls get switched around instead in some sort of Freaky Friday scenario. Since both girls’ powers are emotion-based, they have to learn to understand each other if they want to rescue the boys.

It takes some getting used to for Starfire to remember that she is no longer in her own body, though. When she and Raven find the boys, Starfire gets so excited she squeezes them right up against her, except that's not her body, it's Raven's. Considering how closely guarded she tends to be, it’s safe to say Raven was not happy about what Starfire was doing.