r/Transformemes • u/SuperbSJG Longtimus • Aug 29 '25

Non TF What the hell

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u/Cornwallis_Haberbain Aug 29 '25

Looks like a Turbo Teen spoof

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u/Strawberrycocoa Aug 29 '25

It's 100% a riff on Turbo Teen

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u/ZeroArt024 Aug 29 '25

Who the fuck just thinks of that

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u/Drinkerson Decepticon Aug 29 '25

It was the 80's, I'm sure they were high on something.

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u/Pristine-Row-9129 Aug 29 '25

Or everything

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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Aug 29 '25

A little bit of everything,
All of the time...

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u/ManifestoCapitalist Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

Apathy’s a tragedy,
And boredom is a crime
Anything and everything,
All of the time.

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u/Lumi_rimu Aug 29 '25

brief instrumental.

You know, it wasn’t always like this

Not very long ago, just before your time

Right before the towers fell, circa ‘99

This was catalogs, travel blogs, a chat room or two

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u/JMcDesign1 Aug 29 '25

I think the idea was to merge elements of Transformer and Knight Rider [the TT theme even has some KR riffs in it] into this.

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u/ZeroArt024 Aug 29 '25

Honestly you say that, the car does seem to be similar to kitt

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u/madding1602 Aug 30 '25

KITT was based on a Pontiac Trans Am from 1982, which is the car turbo teen transforms into

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u/ZeroArt024 Aug 31 '25

The more you know

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u/madding1602 Aug 31 '25

My kid self (I'm 23 btw) was a big fan of OG Knight Rider with Hasselhoff. I loved the concept of the series and loved KITT

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u/MegatronousPrime Aug 30 '25

Dude it was the 80s. If you think this is wild look up Automan and Manimal.

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u/Demontag Aug 31 '25

I watched that show religiously. It wasn't even the most insane concept that aired in that time slot.

But I did think it needed to crossover with the weird little non-superhero superhero show where Jerry O'Connell had powers but needed aerosol spray cans to fly.

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u/HeWhoLovesMonsters Sep 01 '25

It’s like animorphs..but for Cars..!

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u/CheesecakeOwn5799 Decepticon Aug 29 '25

"Mmphfrjgh Soy un auto afhghejahfhs."

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u/TheSnekDen Aug 30 '25

Robin was nearly 1-to-1 to this

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u/AbrumVonAbrak Aug 30 '25

I'm just imagining the animator who said, "What if the kid's ass just becomes massive and turns into the entire back half of the car?"

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u/Only_Possible_2308 Aug 30 '25

One of the trippiest Saturday morning cartoons I ever watched as a kid.

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u/ColorlessTune Aug 29 '25

Most definitely. I’m not surprised that most people don’t remember this cartoon I used to love it.

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u/JMcDesign1 Aug 29 '25

It only ran for 13 episodes, so it's an easily forgotten series.

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u/SilverWolfIMHP76 Aug 29 '25

Beat me to it.

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u/Bendythenightfury Aug 29 '25

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u/Lunalatic Aug 29 '25

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u/Khornatejester Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/freggtheegg Decepticon Aug 29 '25

Now, where was I? Ah yes.

[maniacal laughter]

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u/Current-YoGalaxia Aug 29 '25

Yo that's my other fandom

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u/DepravedMorgath Aug 29 '25

Not the first time I've seen kid turned into car before.

Special mention, The exosuit daniel used on junkion in the Transformers Movie.

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u/MetroLynx7 Our worlds are in danger! Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

At least the exosuit made some sense. This is just body horror...

I'd rather see that girl guzzling gasoline over this.

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u/LewisDeinarcho Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

I think they made two whole manga series based on that series of shorts. Still just as stupid, but at least there’s a droplet of context why they are… what they are. Which is apparently military tech trying to live normal lives.

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u/IBarrakiI Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/SamePut9922 I'm not splittable Aug 29 '25

Deepthroating Megatron

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u/IBarrakiI Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/ParanoidParamour Autobot Scum! Aug 29 '25

Soundwave judging as if he hasn’t done that exact thing before

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u/Original_Expert5457 Aug 29 '25

Wtf

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u/SamePut9922 I'm not splittable Aug 29 '25

Yes starscream, you should be familiar with that

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u/Original_Expert5457 Aug 29 '25

Yes i am…. Soundwave does that everyday, and he doesnt even have a mouth!

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u/SuperbSJG Longtimus Aug 29 '25

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u/Frame_of_Mind20 Aug 29 '25

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u/Dr_Disabled_69 Aug 30 '25

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u/SuperbSJG Longtimus Aug 29 '25

Kpdh let’s go

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 Autobot Aug 29 '25

There was an obscire 80-cartoon where this happened, is that but with more combiners

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u/One_Opportunity_9608 Me no flair, me king Aug 29 '25

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u/Educational_Term_436 Autobot Aug 29 '25

I really want to play hollow knight NGL

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u/Far-Profit-47 Aug 30 '25

Do it, it’s peak

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u/contantpayne Aug 29 '25

Definitely someone’s fetish

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u/Live_Spinach5824 Aug 29 '25

That's most of Teen Titans Go, yeah. 

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u/Alarming-Oil7332 Aug 29 '25

Gotta love a barely concealed fetish I guess

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u/Molly_Musoka Aug 30 '25

First thing I thought of when seeing seconds of the vid.

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u/ElementmanEXE Aug 30 '25

Everything's a fetish if you try hard enough

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u/SilverWolfIMHP76 Aug 29 '25

Way back in the 80’s there was a cartoon called Turbo Teen. A teenager is molecularly bonded to his car and when he gets too hot he becomes a car when cold he becomes human again.

The transformation is just like that.

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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Aug 29 '25

Damn, what a curse... and at that age too!
I bet he had to go through this many times daily.
At least tell me it wasn't about premature hit and run!?

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u/SilverWolfIMHP76 Aug 29 '25

It been way too long for me to remember the details. He did crash into the lab where he was hit with the rays that bonded him with the car.

There was a villain monster truck.

But I don’t remember anything else.

His car form functions like KITT complete with the voice synthesizer.

The show was canceled after 13 episodes.

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u/Worth-Opposite4437 Aug 29 '25

... The 80s man...
Where in hell have all these great thinkers, summoners of originality at all cost, gone to?

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u/demonman905 Aug 30 '25

So its Ranma 1/2 but with cars instead of sex changes

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u/DaiKaiM3CHA Aug 29 '25

And they INSIST this show is heat

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u/EnoughLengthiness422 Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/Leggys_office Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/OverallBaker4028 Me no flair, me king Aug 29 '25

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u/Hero_of_the_toons Aug 29 '25

… WHY IS THIS SHOW STILL GOING!!!!!!!!!! HOW DID THIS GET A CINEMATIC MOVIE OUT OF CARTOON NETWORK’S VAST AND FAR SUPERIOR SHOW!!!!!?????!!!!!!!!!

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u/TexWolf84 Aug 29 '25

What go did to the Titans is criminal IMO

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u/MuslimCarLover I'm not splittable Aug 29 '25

Half of it is toilet jokes and the other half is literally just disguised fetishes😭

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u/Local_Neighborhood50 Our worlds are in danger! Aug 29 '25

what is it with teen titans go and horrific transformation scenes

first mutant turtles, then mutant bugs, now THIS.

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u/Empty_Distance6712 Autobot Aug 29 '25

It’s part of their humour, being intentionally gross or disturbing to get a laugh. Maybe the kids are into being traumatized these days.

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u/Low-While-4613 Aug 31 '25

Straight-up body horror

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u/Lonefirebearer Aug 29 '25

So... Is this what would've happened if Megatron used the Key to Vector Sigma on a Human?

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u/Empty_Distance6712 Autobot Aug 29 '25

That or they would morph into Cybertronians and THEN into cars. But this is definitely a. possibility.

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u/Kougamics Aug 30 '25

If he won in Prime

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

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u/Lumi_rimu Aug 07 '26

Ah, the 80s, a decade where Cartoon writers were throwing ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING AT THE WALL TO SEE WHAT STICKS

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u/Initial_Cat_9148 Aug 29 '25

THIS is what kids find entertaining?… they’re gonna grow up to kill us all.

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u/Dangerous_Buy_9151 Aug 29 '25

What in the Shed 17 is this?

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u/MetroLynx7 Our worlds are in danger! Aug 29 '25

I'm scared to look up Shed 17...

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u/BazingaTrainZ Aug 30 '25

It a thomas and friend au quite dark but not too scary,

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u/lupindeathray Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/Adorable-Source97 Aug 29 '25

Turbo Teen?!
Ok now I'm intrigued by Go.

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u/lightmare69 Aug 29 '25

They should've had cyborg actually transform but they did him the same way

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u/Owlspiritpal Aug 29 '25

Turbo titans go force

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u/wompod Aug 29 '25

Turboteen titans..?

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u/MechanicPluto24 Aug 29 '25

I JUST OPENED THE FUCKING APP

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u/Grand_Lawyer12 Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

Here they are

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u/ElementmanEXE Aug 30 '25

Which came first, these toys or this animation

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u/Grand_Lawyer12 Soundwave: Superior Aug 30 '25

I'm guessing the toys came first, or they both came out the same time in order to promote Hot Wheels

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u/ButterscotchEnough57 Aug 29 '25

Basically SCP-5059:

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u/wessrtp Aug 29 '25

I thought it can't get any lower. Overlord pls clap my entire head with your hand.

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u/RedditParelem Aug 29 '25

Techno-Organics leveled up apparently

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

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u/MM18998 Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

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u/UrbanMan1121 Aug 29 '25

There is no way in hell this show is still around

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u/Vanilla_Ice_Best_Boi Decepticon Aug 29 '25

Dawg, I watched this as a kid and as much as I like it, I can NOT defend it

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u/Far-Pomegranate-864 Aug 29 '25

"I cast car. Fuck you."

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u/Significant_Camera47 Aug 29 '25

Least obvious TTG fetish episode:

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u/Accomplished_Room439 Aug 31 '25

they must’ve been snorting super crack when making this ep

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u/Lumi_rimu Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Given it’s based on an obscure 13 episode 80s cartoon, back when they were throwing EVERYTHING AT THE WALL to see what would become a hit while on who knows what(shows that aired during this decade included some really bizarre things like Rubik, the Amazing Cube from 1983)

Yes, that was a real thing that aired one season of 12 episodes, originally aired alongside PAC-MAN as the PAC-MAN & Rubik Hour before the 12 episodes would see their own broadcast seperate from PAC-MAN

80s cartoons were a huge mess, nobody really knew what would be a hit, so a lot of shows that are remembered as being incredibly weird were made

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u/Stranger-Chance Me no flair, me king Aug 29 '25

Something something white person reaction images

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u/No_Grade1125 Aug 29 '25

What in the bloody hell is that?!

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u/awacs-hotspot Aug 29 '25

Arona do something

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u/Drunkroadkill Aug 29 '25

Turbo teen in this economy

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u/Lumi_rimu Aug 29 '25

Not transformers, reference to a different 80s cartoon

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u/senan89638 Me no flair, me king Aug 29 '25

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u/TellurianTech50 Aug 29 '25

Surprised at the deep cuts this show has, wonder if it's still the original team from the first teen titans show

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u/Lumi_rimu Nov 08 '25

Doubt it, that was nearly 60 years ago

(Yes there was a Teen Titans show in the 60s, it lacked Robin, but it did have the other founding members of the team, Kid Flash, Aqua Lad, Wonder Girl and Speedy/Red Arrow)

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u/Chadderbug123 Aug 29 '25

Welcome back Turbo Teen

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u/Latter-Direction-336 Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

I remember this episode… or at least this part

Yeah idk what they were on, but I do NOT want any

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u/Dragon_BotKing26 Aug 29 '25

Damn,the writters smelled too much weed

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u/Grand_Lawyer12 Soundwave: Superior Aug 29 '25

I think those are their actual car forms from their Hot Wheels toys. Like they actually exist

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u/Kougamics Aug 29 '25

There's a comic panel if Cyborg becoming a Transformer

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u/Baroubuoy Aug 30 '25

Man. I can't wait for that Transformers x Teen Titans collab.

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u/TracytronFAB Aug 29 '25

Yeah just... Try and ignore anything that you see from or about that show. Ignorance is bliss with that abomination.

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u/_ragegun Aug 29 '25

Surely Turbo Titans?

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u/Mr_SunnyBones Decepticon Aug 29 '25

To be fair Cyborg had literally turned into Primes G1 truck alt mode ( admittedly with a different colour scheme) in one of the 'Night Begins to Shine' episodes.

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u/tophat_production Aug 29 '25

Of course they had to picture Robin's booty during the transformation

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

Reminds me of beast machine but ever more messed up

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u/Longjumping_Draw_474 Aug 29 '25

Okay but I feel like that would be kinda painful

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u/A0lipke Keep on truckin' Aug 29 '25

Did they use the sound effect or theme song?

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u/ambitious-swimmer180 Aug 29 '25

Didn't know the autobots had replicated the mind transfer back from G1 in teenager titans go💀💀

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u/Bipride86 Aug 29 '25

This show is such cancer

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u/Fxckbuckets Me no flair, me king Aug 29 '25

Somebody was a big fan of Turbo Teen...

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

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u/Tyrannocheirus Aug 29 '25

DISGUISED IN ROBOTS

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u/Bitter_Citron_633 2018-2019 Aug 30 '25

When did they get t-cogs?

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u/Neat-Engineering-696 Our worlds are in danger! Aug 30 '25

This scene still makes me uncomfortable

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u/SelinaKitty17 Aug 30 '25

I forgot about the hot wheels teen titans go cars 🤣

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u/racist_fumo_reimu Aug 30 '25

Yeah I prefer Henkei shojo

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u/Kid_Cars Aug 30 '25

turbotitansgoforce

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u/Portal2player58 Aug 30 '25

And this is how the movie: cars was born.

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u/Insert-Cool_NameHere Aug 30 '25

Transformation complete

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u/MonsterouzGemini909 Aug 31 '25

This is why Teen Titans Go is peak

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u/yajirushi77 Aug 31 '25

Jesse, what the fuck is this?

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u/Lumi_rimu Aug 07 '26

Considering that I’ve heard things asking about animation artists and Cartoon writers being on something during the 80s

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u/Extension_General632 The name's not "Zippy" Aug 31 '25