If you were born around the 90s, there’s no need for an introduction to the Teen Titans. This show was around from 2003-2006, spitting out five amazing seasons and one movie that acted as the series finale, but was sadly cancelled before a solid conclusion was given to the viewers.

If you’ve never heard of the show or the Teen Titans themselves, they’re a group of superheroes and sidekicks that go around saving Jump City and occasionally the world. Led by Batman’s former sidekick Robin (Dick Grayson), the group consists of Starfire, a beautiful alien who shoots green lasers from her hands and eyes; Beast Boy, a green boy who can turn into any animal he wants to on command; Raven, the spawn of Trigon, one of the strongest and most evil creatures known; and Cyborg, half man, half machine, future member of the Justice League.

This specific rendition of the Teen Titans was made for a pre-teen audience, but quickly gathered a larger and older group of viewers who fell in love with the darker tone of the show. Robin became obsessed with a villain named Slade — who you may know as Deathstroke or Slade Wilson, the character that inspired the creation of Deadpool aka Wade Wilson — and the struggle between the two gets quite dark in the later seasons.

The show continues with Raven’s father Trigon getting a hold of Slade, and this specific story arc became genuinely scary for some of the viewers. When the show was later cancelled, there was some uproar as the reason why was never publicly announced. The cancellation of the show shocked everyone, as the Teen Titans had a large following and had even won awards for its sound design and outstanding original music in an animated television production in 2004.

Let’s be real, I’m wasn’t the only kid to have sat alone and cross-legged in my room quietly chanting “Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos,” right? Right?!

The Teen Titans left many unanswered questions after the fifth season, and even the movie, Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. What happened to Terra? Who’s Red X? Who was that villain in the last episode? What happened between Beast Boy and Raven? What really happened to Slade? Where are all the other superheroes and villains after Season 5? All of us fans of the series still do not have solid answers to these questions, but at least we got to see that Robin and Starfire finally got together in the end of Trouble in Tokyo after five seasons of the show teasing us.

We have the opportunity to have these questions answered. We have the ability to make this show return for its sixth season, something that has been teased and rumored as well for many years. The only problem with this is that it solely relies on everyone swallowing their pride and spending money on something they probably don’t want to… a whole movie about Teen Titans Go!

One cannot talk about the original Teen Titans anymore without mention of its infamous remake, Teen Titans Go! Many fans of the original were excited when they heard of this show coming back to Cartoon Network, but quickly jumped aboard the hate bandwagon when they saw the artwork, and then finally the actual product when the show came out in 2013.

Teen Titans Go! takes the original and turns it on its head, having the Teen Titans become a comedy show about generally nothing, aimed at a younger audience this time around. TTG follows the same five superheroes around, but now they almost never fight crime, usually have potty-humor jokes, and do silly things like spending an entire episode saying the word “waffles” (which I found humorous, for the record).

For the most part, TTG is hated by everyone for its fart jokes and child-like content, or just hated because everyone else seems to hate it. Though the show does fall flat sometimes, I personally do enjoy most episodes and appreciate it for what it is. The actors from the original show return to voice each character again, and they make fun of themselves all the time.

The show is self-aware and knows what it is, even referencing the haters time and time again in many comedic ways (there’s a whole episode about it!). Though I’m not expecting you to enjoy the show, there are episodes you should give a chance. The Season 3 finale “The Cape” is a dub of the original Teen Titans, and Season 3’s “The Fourth Wall” also mentions the original. These are two of the better episodes in my opinion. There’s even an episode where they meet the Powerpuff Girls, and an episode where they joke about Season 6 of the original Teen Titans never happening.

Watching the show will not bring back the original, whether you hate it or love it. TTG is full of Easter eggs, funny nods, and a lot of adult references, but what really matters is the coming movie. Teen Titans Go! to the Movies may have flown under you radar with all the other amazing movies that have been hitting theaters lately.

The TTG movie has had a few trailers in the last few months covering the premise of the story and, of course, a fart joke. If you liked the two Deadpool movies, there may be a chance that you’d like this one. Before you scoff at this in disbelief, give the trailer a chance. Deadpool is full of fourth-wall breaking jokes about himself, Ryan Reynolds and his past movies, and TTG is similar.

One trailer shows the Teen Titans meeting the Justice League, where Green Lantern makes fun of his own movie, an enemy mistakes the Teen Titans as the Avengers, and the Titans mistake Slade as Deadpool himself. Sure, there are fart jokes and other dumb things that could turn you away, but for once the fart joke is actually sort of funny.

Again, the reason I’m pushing Teen Titans Go! so much here is because we’re all going to have to watch this movie in theaters if we want to see a sixth season of the original show.

The voice actors of both shows have stated their interest in the return of the original Titans recently after a picture surfaced of a shot of TTG being drawn in the original show’s art style (by Holly Reed). Greg Cipes (Beast Boy) and Tara Strong (Raven… and literally everyone ever in any show) are both at the front of this movement on Twitter, stating their interest publicly.

Tara is quite the active Twitter user, and once she saw the picture she tweeted that she was told that if the movie kicks butt they will do Season 6 alongside production of TTG. This of course stirred up a lot of interested fans, and Greg Cipes then came onboard and tweeted that if the movie makes $250 million at the box office, the fans will get what they want.

Looking at Incredibles 2, the movie broke records making $180 million opening weekend. I hope we don’t need to break those records because that seems impossible, but if Greg is just talking about box office sales in general over the time the movie is in theaters, I have a feeling we can do this. It’s a lot of money for sure, but spending just a few bucks to watch a movie that will make you laugh a few times, plus giving us the opportunity to finally get a show we’ve been missing for 12 years? I think it’s more than worth it.

Give the movie a chance, even if you hate the show. Teen Titans Go! to the Movies comes to theaters July 27th and features a fantastic cast of voice actors. Will Arnett comes on to play Slade, and we get to see the entire Justice League as mind controlled villains. (Fun fact: The Walking Dead’s King Ezekiel — Khary Payton — is who has played Cyborg in every rendition of the character except live action!)

Until the movie (and after you catch up on the original series, of course) you should give the newer Teen Titan movies a watch if you haven’t already. Justice League vs Teen Titans and Teen Titans The Judas Contract are both fantastic, more mature movies. They look at a newer team with a different Robin (Damien Wayne), and some cool characters like Blue Beetle.