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''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' features plenty of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]]. Here's the list:
* There are many references to ''[[FLCL (Anime)|FLCL]]'' and ''[[Battle of the Planets (Anime)|Battle of the Planets]]'', as Glen Murakami's a fan of both.
* "257-494" is pretty much twenty-two minutes of references. They even got in the ''[[Star Wars]] Kid''.
* "Fear Itself" is the introduction of Control Freak, as well as some awesome Star Wars and Star Trek references. Not only is Control Freak's sole reason for attacking a video rental store because he found out that they had not made 'Warp Trek 5'(with the original cast from the TV show!) one of their top suggested movies to rent, starring an alien with pointy ears, the sound his remote makes is the same sound the transporter makes. He even calls the salesgirl a tribble! He then goes on to assure that although the Teen Titans are not afraid of him, they will be soon by quoting Yoda.
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* Immediately after the Chewbacca shout-out, he turns Cyborg into [[Giant Robo]] (and himself into Daisaku Kusama)!
* Watch just after the first commercial break in "Fractured"; Larry turns Robin's arm into [[Evil Dead|a chainsaw.]]
* Possibly jumping the line between homage and plagiarism, the episode "Car Trouble" copies the ''entire'' minutes long chase scene from ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro (Anime)|The Castleof Cagliostro]]'', down to the level of detail visible in each shot.
* In "Betrothed", the scene where Robin yells Starfire's name through a glass window is very reminiscent of ''[[The Graduate]]''.
* "The Prophecy" has Slade stopping time using the same visual effect as the ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' [[OA VsOAV]]s.
* What about the fact that ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' made a parody of the show? Then not long after, in "Stranded", Beast Boy accidentally rebuilt Cyborg as a chicken? Even funnier when you know that the creators of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' have credited Cyborg as the basis for their Chicken design.
* The inside of Kitten and Killer Moth's house is suspiciously similar to the house from ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''.
* "Mad Mod" features a plethora of shoutouts; including the Sea of Holes from ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', [[Scooby-Dooby Doors|a door sequence]] ripped straight out of ''[[Scooby Doo]]'', mind-boggling paintings by [[MCM. C. Escher]] and mind control devices not entirely unlike the ones used in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Filmfilm)|A Clockwork Orange]]''.
* "Revolution" has several ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' references, including: shrill old women discussing shopping, the Terry Gilliam look of the illusions he uses, and, of course, [[Giant Foot of Stomping|a giant foot]] crushing all of the team except Robin.
** It is also a constant reference to the "[[The Beatles|Eleanor Rigby]]" segment of ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'': The newspaper cutouts which replace the city mirror those used for Liverpool.
*** Further [[Beatles]] shout outs include an [[Abbey Road Crossing]], a chase scene resembling ''[[A Hard DaysDay's Night]]'', Mod's outfit turning into a Blue Meanie costume, and Mod [[Rushmore Refacement|carving the Fab Four's faces onto Mt. Rushmore.]]
* The opening scene of "Masks" parallels the cave scene of ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
* The design of [https://web.archive.org/web/20120114142503/http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/9116/263886-107891-red-x_super.jpg Red X] is very similar in tone, motif, and look to [http://kofplayer.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/skullman.jpg?w=510 Skull Man.] It's a bit tough to call, though. ''[[Skull Man]]'' does predate this show by a lot, but that specific design didn't come until the 2007 version by [[Bones]].
* Brain's robot body and voice in "Homecoming" suspiciously similar to that of a [[Doctor Who|Dalek.]]
** This was intentional, funnily enough.
* In "The End, Part. II", Robin and Slade [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|both dance like they want to win]].
* In the last episode of the fifth season, "Things Change", a kid who resembles Napoleon from ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'' is also attending Terra's school and can be seen passing by in front of the camera in a few scenes, notably in the library and at the end of the episode in the hallway.
* In the new short "Movies" Control Freak is painted as a Navi from ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'' riding a mecha suit from either the same movie or ''[[Alien|Aliens]]'', which appears to be the movie the Titans are watching.
* The computer virus Cyborg is infected with in "Crash" is clearly Keramon, the baby form of the [[Big Bad]] of the second ''[[Digimon]]'' movie, ''Bokura no Wargame''.
* The title of the first Raven-centric episode, "Nevermore", is a reference to the famous [[Edgar Allan Poe]] poem [[The Raven (Literaturepoem)|The Raven]].
* Ho boy. In the ''New Teen Titans'' short "Turn Back The Clock", Mad Mod is turning back time with a red [[Doctor Who|TARDIS]]. As time goes backwards, the teams' costumes go through their previous iterations from the comics, including pants-less Robin and Stripperific Starfire. When they reach the 70's, they get the costumes from the [[Scooby -Doo (Animationanimation)|Scooby Doo]] gang, complete with B.B. Snacks. When Robin cranks time forward too far, he's turned into "Robin the ''[[Robot Kid|Toy]]'' Wonder" from ''[[DC One Million]]''; the other four titans are replaced with the futuristic heroes of ''Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone''<ref>(an [[Elseworld|Elseworlds]] series by [[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]] author Adam Warren)</ref>, with the designs done by the series' character designer Derrick Wyatt [http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2006/08/titans-scissors-paper-stone.html for fun in 2006] (which helps explain why "Witchie-Poo" [[Self -Plagiarism|looks remarkably like]] a post-upgrade [[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Sari Sumdac]]<ref>(Another series with designs by Wyatt)</ref>).
* The Brain looks like a [[Doctor Who|Dalek]] from the "neck" down.
 
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