Titan Maximum: Season 1 (2009)

Titan Maximum is Justice Action League meets Robot Chicken -- or smack-talking Transformer pilots with pottymouths worse than South Park. (The DVD has no bleeps.) It's a hilarious low-budget stopmotion series from the sick minds behind Robot Chicken. (Tom Root and Matt Senreich produce and Seth Green voices the turncoat despot wannabe Gibbs.) After losing two crew members in the pilot episode, the slapped-back-together Titan Maximum team fills the empty seats with Palmer's geeky younger brother Willie and Leon the taciturn monkey janitor to save the world "a-gain!" The crack space pilots are constantly fighting amongst themselves when they're not verbally or physically b-tch-slapping the bad guys (or getting wrecked themselves). In each episode, all five ships unite, Transformers-style, to form Titan Maximum, a giant mechabot that generally fights giant monsters or robots with the strategy of "Punch the f--- out of it!" (Palmer's style) or eviscerating its genitals or other vulnerable parts (Sasha's style). With the exception of Willie, the innocent tech nerd, and Leon (my favorite character since his stoic silence suggests more than all the smacktalk and backtalk), every character redefines the brassy egotist: magenta-suited Palmer listens to no one but himself, black-suited Sasha acts like Paris Hilton on crank (she's actually the Mars president's daughter and a perpetual celebrity slut who repeatedly shoots an enemy's knee then crushes it underfoot all while laughing maniacally), yellow-suited Jodi's sunny disposition covers her take-no-prisoners martial-arts skills, and rogue ex-team member Gibbs. Season 1: 1/Pilot (TM, stripped of funds, regroups to fight a lava monster robot attack), 2/Busted (team rallies public demand to rebuild TM as Adm. B-tchface's attack on Gibbs fails), 3/Tip of the Iceberg (TM fights ice monster as Gibbs assembles a WMD), 4/Went to Party, Got Crabs (TM battles giant crab robot that would kill peace envoys as Gibbs assembles a WMD), 5/To Eris, Human! (Jodi reconnects with Gibbs before she returns to TM), 6/Dirty Lansbury (TM seeks Gibbs on Mercury, a retirement home planet chock full of old folks), 7/Megamum Overdrive (Gibbs airs a sex tape with Jodi, TM is replaced with a rival mechabot), 8/Mercury Falling (Gibbs steals rival mechabot to destroy Mercury as TM rebands to thwart him), 9/One Billion Dead Grandparents (TM battles Gibbs and his little-ninja-girl assassin Claire to save Mercury). 5 stars.