There is a fan favourite operating gag in Teen Titan Go! about Robin’s “child palms,” but it surely wasn’t all the time meant to be about his palms.

The producers of Teen Titan Go! say that the joke was initially about Robin’s legs.

“It began off within the script as he has skinny legs,” producer Michael Jelenic tells ComicBook.com. “He was embarrassed of his skinny legs.”

He and fellow producer Pete Michail say they modified the joke as a result of it was laborious to disclose skinny legs when the character already wears tights. After they observed how small Robin’s palms are in his character design, they’d discovered their new goal and have run with that ever since.

“It is actually simply one thing that makes us chuckle,” Michail says. “I imply come one, he is obtained child palms?”

Robin’s voice actor Scott Menville famous that the writers of Teen Titans Go! ceaselessly take actual life in-jokes and insert them into episodes.

“These loopy writers will put in stuff from actual life, stuff that they’re going to hear us speaking about when mics aren’t rolling,” Menville says, “or Michael’s dad makes an look. His precise, actual life dad makes an look in our two hundredth episode. His dad’s an superior character in actual life. These guys will take all types of inside jokes from actual life and throw them in.”

Menville says he is all the time blissful when a fan references the joke in actual life or in any other case reveals their help for the present.

“It is a blast to indicate up and see there was an entire household that confirmed up and was sitting on the entrance of our panel that was cosplaying our totally different characters and to see a few of the different individuals cosplaying,” he says. “And yeah, to listen to individuals come up and referencing as a result of I forgot all concerning the child palms…but it surely struck a chord with quite a lot of followers.”

Jokes about small palms have made their manner into quite a lot of late night time monologues not too long ago, however Jelenic factors out that their gag got here first.

“And by the best way, we had child palms earlier than Donald Trump had child palms.” he says.

Teen Titans Go! airs on Cartoon Community.