Titan Maximum

Titan Maximum
Genre Stop-motion animation
Black Comedy
Created by Matthew Senreich
Tom Root
Starring Breckin Meyer
Rachael Leigh Cook
Dan Milano
Eden Espinosa
Seth Green
Ending theme "Rising Punch"
Composer(s) Shawn Patterson
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 9 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Seth Green
Tom Root
Matthew Senreich
Producer(s) Alex Bulkley
Corey Campodonico
Running time 21 minutes
Production company(s) Williams Street
ShadowMachine Films
Stoopid Monkey
Tom Is Awesome
Release
Original network Adult Swim
Fox
Cartoon Network
The CW
Picture format 16:9 HDTV
Original release September 27 – November 22, 2009
External links
Website

Titan Maximum is an American stop motion animated television series created by Tom Root and Matthew Senreich. The series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim, on September 27, 2009 with its finale airing on November 22, 2009. A teaser premiered during the "Robot Chicken on Wheels" tour and at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International. It is a parody of the "Super Robot" anime style produced using stop motion animation.

Plot

Drafted from the solar system's best and brightest young people, Titan Force Five once defended the capital of Saturn's moon Titan using the heavily armed Mecha Titan Maximum. However, the team was disbanded due to budget cuts after a series of escalating incidents. Two years later, after the team members have long separated and gone to ground in civilian jobs (one of them, Spud, has even died in an accident), their former teammate Gibbs returns as a villain who wants to conquer the Solar System with an army of monsters. Now the three remaining Titan Force Five members have to reform the team to stop him. Along for the ride are Palmer's younger brother Willie (a nerdy mechanical genius) and Leon (their silent monkey janitor), who take on the former roles of Gibbs and Spud, respectively.

Characters

Titan Force Five

Titan

Mars

Mercury

Antagonists

Mecha

Key planets

In the future setting of Titan Maximum, most of the solar system has been colonized and its planets and moons terraformed to support life.

Episodes

Each episode is eleven minutes long, with the exception of the 30-minute pilot.

No. in
series
Title Original air date
1"Pilot"September 27, 2009 (2009-09-27)
After the Titan Maximum team is disbanded due to lack of funds, one of the members goes rogue and attacks the capital city on Saturn's moon of Titan with a robotic lava monster. Titan Force Five, restaffed by Leon the monkey janitor and Palmer's little brother Willie, fights the monster, successfully defeating it at the cost of their robot.
2"Busted"October 4, 2009 (2009-10-04)
Titan Force rallies a gigantic mob to demand that Titan Maximum be repaired after being denied by Admiral Bitchface and President Keith Caylo. After a failed attempt to take out Gibbs with his own team, Admiral Bitchface embezzles almost all the funds allocated to Titan Maximum and allows them to rebuild on a meager $10 million.
3"Tip of the Iceberg"October 11, 2009 (2009-10-11)
Titan Maximum battles a vicious ice monster on the planet Neptune. Gibbs uses the distraction to steal a one-of-a-kind insulated coil from the local steam factory.
4"Went to Party, Got Crabs"October 18, 2009 (2009-10-18)
Gibbs uses a giant robotic crab monster to hold the leaders of both Titan and Mars hostage at the annual Peace Feast on Io, bartering their lives for the codes to a Martian weapon of mass destruction. Titan Maximum battles the crab, but the prime minister gives up the codes before they can stop it.
5"To Eris, Human!"October 25, 2009 (2009-10-25)
Jodi has an encounter with Gibbs while taking a break from her teammates, and the rest of the team discovers an alien spaceship on Eris while investigating a signal associated with Gibbs' robotic monsters.
6"Dirty Lansbury"November 1, 2009 (2009-11-01)
After her encounter with Gibbs, Jodi suggests that he might be hiding on Mercury, the retirement home planet. As a result, Titan Force Five has to spend time with their grandparents (except Sasha, whose grandparents are supposedly dead) to be admitted.
7"Megamum Overdrive"November 8, 2009 (2009-11-08)
When Gibbs releases a tape of him and Jodi having sex, Titan Force Five is disbanded and Jodi is arrested for treason. Meanwhile, Troy Hammerschmiddtt shows up in Titan Maximum's replacement: Titan Megamum. However, he is secretly in league with Gibbs.
8"Mercury Falling"November 15, 2009 (2009-11-15)
Gibbs takes Titan Megamum, intending to use the robot in his plan to destroy Mercury's solar shield and roast every living thing on the planet as a warning to anyone who might cross him. Titan Force Five goes AWOL to stop him.
9"One Billion Dead Grandparents"November 22, 2009 (2009-11-22)

Titan Force Five fights with Gibbs and Claire in order to determine the fate of Mercury.

Note: This cliffhanger episode was originally supposed to serve as the season finale with the conclusion revealed in episode one of season two, unfortunately Adult Swim cancelled the series shortly after this episode aired and so the fate of Titan Force Five remains up in the air.

Home releases

DVD nameRelease dateEp #Features
Titan Maximum Season 1 August 10, 2010 [9] 9 Audio commentaries, Behind the scenes, Deleted animatics, Anatomy of a sequence, Crew mugshots, Table read, Trailers, Design showcase, and Pop-up trivia[10]

References

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