Episode Guide: Season Two Episode

"Her name is Kitten - and you will take her to prom."
- Killer Moth

Originally aired: February 14, 2004

Written by Rick Copp
Directed by Ciro Nieli

A creepy criminal known as Killer Moth threatens to destroy the city with a flying army of mutant moths, unless ... Robin takes his spoiled-rotten teenage daughter Kitten to her junior prom?!? So while the other Titans are scouring the city in search of Moth's secret hideout, a reluctant Robin has no choice but to go along with the villain's bizarre demand. Can Robin survive his date with destiny?

Thomas Hayden Church as Killer Moth
Tara Strong as Kitten
Will Friedle as Fang

Will Friedle - voice of Fang - also provided the voice of Terry McGuiness on "Batman Beyond."
Killer Moth's house is an exact replica of the house from the "Brady Bunch" - complete with the same decor.
Starfire's eyeblasts manifest in the NEXT episode, "Transformation"; She should not have that power in this episode.
One of the prom kids - the one with brown hair and glasses - is modeled after character designer Derrick Wyatt

Producer/Story Editor David Slack on DATE WITH DESTINY: "That episode had a very winding road to your television screen. That premise was written by Rick Copp - who eventually wrote the episode. That was in the pipeline since season one. It changed a lot from the original - but the initial idea of Robin being forced to go the prom was an idea we all liked. We thought there was something that resonated about that. But after the script for SISTERS came down, we thought we might be hitting romance too much for our audience - it's a boy's action show. Don't get me wrong, I love that girls watch it. But that first season we wanted to make sure we hit our core audience. So in season one, that episode got bumped."

"Then season two came around and we decided to do it. We brought Rick back and he did a hilarious script. And then our storyboard artists got a hold of it. We wrote some of the jealousy stuff with Starfire, but I was thrilled when the animation came back on that one. Like the part where she jumps out of her boots. Or when she incinerates into a match. All that stuff is our excellent storyboard artists and directors. And Kitten came out to be tremendous fun. Tara Strong did the voice on that. She had a great time with it. I think it's one of our funniest episodes. So we did our romantic comedy episode. "

Producer/Story Editor David Slack on Robin & Starfire's relationship: "Well, there's the Sam & Diane problem from CHEERS. Once you let the relationship get too far, it suddenly isn't interesting anymore. We have some episodes coming up that take that a little further. BETROTHED took it a little further. And we'll definitely be hitting on that thread again."

Killer Moth is actually a Batman foe, not a Titans foe. He's a low-level criminal that dresses like a giant moth. He is later transformed into a disgusting half human/half insect creature by the demon, Neron.