Titan Maximum (claymation), Cartoon Network
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A few years ago, Seth Green (and some other people) started doing a claymation series on adult swim, called "Robot Chicken," which parodies all sorts of things, old toy lines and cartoons and whatever pop culture kinda stuff. In each 15 minute episode, they'd do a bunch of clips that they switched between with the appearance of a channel change. I never watched very much of it. Most of the time I didn't care for it, but some of its clips could be okay, and the Star Wars specials they've done were fairly good, but otherwise... like I said, I just don't bother watching it, let alone writing up a review of the show.

But now, they've started a new, similarly claymated series, "Titan Maximum." This also has 15-minute episodes (aside from the 30-minute pilot), but this time the series is a consistent story, and it looks like something I'll like better than Robot Chicken. It also probably won't last as long, so I don't suppose I'm making much of a commitment here. But anyway, it parodies old giant robot shows like Voltron. In this series, apparently set on and around Saturn's moon of Titan, there was a group of five people who piloted fighter spaceships that could combine into a single giant robot, called Titan Maximum. The group was called Titan Force Five, and they protected Titan from its enemies, I guess. But then there were budget cuts, and the team was disbanded.

The leader of the team was Palmer, who's very self-centered. Then there was a woman named Jodi, an upbeat martial artist. And Sasha, the daughter of Titan's president; she's also conceited and press-hungry and slutty and boozy and whatnot. There was a member named Spud, who was just goofy; he died sometime after the team disbanded. And then there was the second-in-command, Gibbs, who was actually the brains of the team, though he was always overshadowed by Palmer. Now, two years after the team disbanded, he's setting out to take over the Solar System. So, Palmer, Jodi, and Sasha reunite to oppose him. However, they can't form Titan Maximum without two other pilots. So, they're joined by Palmer's little brother, Willie, who's a nerd, and hero-worships his older brother, and has a serious crush on Sasha. Rounding out the group is a monkey named Leon, the stoic janitor from the Titan Force's hangar.

I dunno what else to say right now, except that it's a fairly funny show, with a certain sensibility reminiscent of Robot Chicken, I mean the parts I liked, how both shows can pick up on little things in whatever they're parodying, things that are generally overlooked or just... whatever, they make up sort of normal things as side notes to the main action, and it's just funny, okay?