Cartoon Network Sets Novemberlong 'Teen Titans Go!' 400th Episode Celebration
Cartoon Network Sets Novemberlong 'Teen Titans Go!' 400th Episode Celebration
Actually by the time it airs it’s going to be 406 and 407 but that can be forgiven
It looks like November on Cartoon Network is going to begin with stop-motion animation and end with stop-motion animation. While the social media gets the tenth anniversary Over the Garden Wall short made with Aardman Animation and the main cast trio reprising, the linear channel is getting its own as Teen Titans Go! marks 400 episodes with a special global rollout.
Technically, it’s doing so twice, because the actual 400th episode to air was “Bookyman” which aired Saturday, October 19. That was one day before executive producer and showrunner Pete Michail plus the entire voice cast, consisting of Scott Menville (Robin) Tara Strong (Raven), Greg Cipes (Beast Boy), Khary Payton (Cyborg), and Hynden Walch (Starfire) held a panel at New York Comic Con that featured a special early screening of the actual 400th episode, likely in production order and was probably intended to air sooner. It is a two-parter called “Four Hundred” that will air as 406 and 407. A clip of it was released online, with the Titans boasting through song to an audience of DC heroes how they’re DC’s longest-running animated series. Interestingly, the metric they use for Justice League episodes isn’t for the combined total of the 2001-premiering cartoon and the Justice League Unlimited animated series, it’s Super Friends that is the source of the 93 half-hour count, made of 174 segments. The former combo had two fewer episodes at just 91 (52+39). Personally it feels odd to not do all Justice League cartoons together for a more accurate total, as the two combined plus Justice League Action’s 52 episodes for a much narrower 236 count. Upon seeing the total he was presented, Superman becomes so enraged he banishes the Titans to a stop-motion dimension they must survive and escape from.
Teen Titans Go! recently returned from a 7 month hiatus on October 5, and will continue to air new episodes every Saturday until “Four Hundred” premieres on November 30. Not-so-fun-fact: In the year since the show’s "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary" episode, the show had only aired Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes, and then episodes each Saturday in March before the ten segments across October and November that it’s currently in the midst of premiering. The series is still in season 8, which premiered in October 2022, but there has been some precedent of seasons doing SpongeBob-level prolonging and overlapping before the Discovery regime.
November as a whole will see the domestic and EMEA Cartoon Network feeds dedicate themselves to Teen Titans Go! with an Every Episode Ever takeover. Sure, it might bring back memories of the days when the show’s schedule dominance was a regular occurrence, but that was also when the Cartoon Network side of things had three more evening hours to play with. The event features all-new custom promos, bumps and idents on-air. In addition, the United Kingdom will be first to get Beast Boy: Lone Wolf, an all-new short-form action-comedy animated series, both linearly and on its YouTube channel this month, before hitting EMEA in 2025. Whether it hits the United States has not been announced. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, Beast Boy: Lone Wolf follows Beast Boy, another iteration voiced by Greg Cipes, as he begins his first solo adventure to prove he can be a superhero without the Teen Titans. Every episode is dedicated to a new villain for Beast Boy to fight. Check out its poster and first-look images above and the full Teen Titans Go! clip below.
They still keep backing the old horses instead of bringing in new ones.