Albert Jelenic
Carl Sanpedro
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Real Identity: Albert "Berto" Jelenic
Appearances: The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular! Pt 1, The Power of Shrimps, Brobots, Where Exactly On The Globe Is Carl Sanpedro Pt. 1, Where Exactly On The Globe Is Carl Sanpedro Pt. 2, Where Exactly On The Globe Is Carl Sanpedro Pt. 3, and Where Exactly On The Globe Is Carl Sanpedro Pt. 4
Powers/Skills: Cooking
Voiced By: Himself
Robin collected information and the creators of the Teen Titans Go! cartoon, Michael and Aaron, then led the Teen Titans to San Pedro where Michael was from. They knocked on a door and met his father, Albert. Albert introduced himself then his three dogs Puno, Tutu, and Louis and a cat named Zoli and a pigeon. Cyborg asked what the pigeon's name was but Albert questioned why you would name a pigeon. He asked them if they were hungry and invited them in for shrimps and prime rib but they just wanted to know where Michael was. Albert called out for Michael but got no reply then asked what the problem was. The Titans told him they found out they weren't real. Albert tried to tell them about turning make-believe real and talked about how Michael wanted to be a writer and made that fantasy real instead of becoming a longshoreman at the docks but they couldn't understand what he was saying. Albert asked why Aaron's name came before his son's in the credits. Raven speculated Aaron did more work. He mistook Raven calling Michael lazy. He whistled and set his pets after them. They ran away. He told them to come back for shrimp and prime ribs.
Albert Jelenic opened a food shack at the Jump City docks and named it "Berto's, after himself. Cyborg happily chomped away at the shrimp to Beast Boy's disgust. Jelenic tried to force Beast Boy to eat a shrimp but he refused it on account of being a vegetarian. Jelenic told him not to talk about politics. Cyborg was amused Beast Boy almost ate a shrimp but Jelenic took no credit. He believed the shrimp showed you cared and no one could resist it. Aqualad arrived and was aghast. The cooked shrimp was his basketball team. Aqualad cuffed Jelenic for crimes against crustaceans. Jelenic complied and went with him back to his Aqua Lair. His arms and legs were shackled but had free reign of the lair. He offered to tell Aqualad the story about the island he came from but Aqualad told him to be quiet and went to his bedroom to kiss Raven's photo. Jelenic followed and realized he was in love. He offered to tell a very long story. Despite Aqualad declining twice, Jelenic told him the story about his pet cat, Zoli, and his attempts to befriend it with food then adopting it after it was hit by a car.
Aqualad realized he could win back Raven with shrimps and prime rib. He arranged for Jelenic to cook the meals for him. The date worked. Jelenic watched from the Aqua Jail and drew a heart on glass with a shrimp. Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire broke into the lair to free Jelenic and thwart Aqualad's plan. However, Jelenic slowed them down with a story about the Battle of Krbava Field in 1493. Aqualad caught them in the act and summoned two sharks, a crab, and a turtle to attack. Raven walked in and realized Aqualad tricked her. Jelenic stated what mattered about shrimps and prime rib was the effort put into it. Raven forced Beast Boy and Aqualad to cook shrimps and prime rib for them back at the Titans Tower. Raven remarked she could really taste the love. Jelenic declared it was a sick burn. Albert Jelenic operated an ice cream stand in Codsville one summer.
The Teen Titans set off for their vacation to Los Angeles. To their chagrin, Robin looked for a good deal with Albert Jelenic. He got them the floor of his son's old bed room in his house in San Pedro rather than a fancy hotel on Venice Beach. To add insult to injury, everywhere they wanted to go was one hour and 30 minutes away from San Pedro. Albert Jelenic reminded them about his famous shrimp and prime rib specialty then went to retrieve his recipe book out of his high-security safe but it was stolen. As part of a plan to get the Titans to visit and appreciate overlooked places around the world, Jelenic made up a story about an evil longshoreman named Carl Sanpedro who stole the book so he could steal the world's greatest dishes. As Sanpedro, he led the Titans on a clue hunt to a ballet studio he frequented, a Gut Gushers, and the maritime museum where the USS Iowa was docked. Starfire saw Carl Sanpedro step out of the museum's gift shop.
They chased him to the pier's shipping container yard but Carl leaped atop one and activated a mech. He blasted them into a container. Robin rallied them to utilize the power of San Pedro. They performed a saute and leaped over the mech to the Iowa. They jammed gut gushers into the turrets and fired the sandwiches into the mech's open mouth. It exploded from the overload of cheese. Carl, however, escaped in the chaos. They returned to Albert Jelenic's home and he pretended to have deduced Carl got away. Beast Boy admitted they learned San Pedro could be a hidden gem. The Titans vowed to travel the world and retrieve the stolen recipe book. After relishing in getting to say "gumshoe" over and over, Jelenic told the Titans about a Carl Sanpedro sighting but made them guess first. Beast Boy hoped it was New York City but Jelenic shot him down. Raven guessed Paris. Jelenic answered the same. Starfire guessed the pyramids of Egypt. Jelenic answered the same. Robin demanded he just them them. Jelenic complied and told them he was spotted in Jamaica.
Carl Sanpedro stole Brian E.S. Jones's famous oxtail stew. After an eight hour trip, the Titans arrived in Montego Bay. After two hours, they learned from a museum curator that Sanpedro's favorite painter was Vincent van Gogh. After four hours, all they learned from a parrot was that mountain climbing was Sanpedro's favorite hobby. Beast Boy turned into cat and chased the parrot away. Albert Jelenic arrived in a taxi cab just to call them gumshoes again then left. A bellhop told them Sanpedro said he was going to the birthplace of reggae music. After five hours, Robin found a passage in the Gumshoe Almanac and told the others birth of reggae music took place in Trench Town. They arrived three hours later and saw one of Sanpedro's henchmen playing a guitar for tips at a fountain. Robin wanted to leave him alone and learn about the city. The others disregarded him and viciously attacked the henchman. He caved and gave them a brochure for Dunn's River Falls.
11 hours later, they arrived. Robin wanted to share some facts about the falls but time was running out. Starfire spotted Sanpedro in some bushes. They attacked but it was just a pineapple dressed as Sanpedro. The real Sanpedro threw spears at them then led them on a chase. They ran right into bear traps. After a spear pierced a shoulder, Cyborg cried he didn't want to be a gumshoe. Robin suggested they chase him back and forth, from left to right about three times. It inexplicably worked and they beat up Sanpedro. Cyborg secured the stolen stew. Two police officers arrived and asked they had the necessary warrant. Cyborg pointed out they had the evidence and showed them the stew. An officer stated that wasn't enough and told them to enter the suspect's personal interests into the computer. Robin signaled Raven to get out her file. She pointed out she was being sarcastic and didn't record anything. Cyborg tried to guess the right answers but the ended up with a warrant for Mr. Jay Walking. The officers released Sanpedro.
Albert Jelenic came out of some bushes and told them Sanpedro struck again. Cyborg hoped for Machu Pichu, Starfire thought about the Great Wall of China, and Beast Boy thought of the Leaning Tower of Pisa but Jelenic shot down all three and kept calling them gumshoes then did some ballet and played calypso music. The Titans refused to guess the next location so Jelenic guessed for them: Slovakia and Montana then bopped Robin with his own staff. He finally revealed they were going to Chennai, India. They learned Sanpedro stole Chennai's cricket team's lucky chana masala from the T. Nagar shopping district. Suddenly, hordes of Sanpedro's henchmen surrounded them. Carl Sanpedro laughed at their predicament. All but Robin saw it as a chance to pull off a Bollywood action sequence. Defying all logic and physics, they took out the henchmen with nonsensical attacks like using wicket keeper hats as projectiles, using flowers as staves, surfing a paddle into henchmen, riding two motorcycles into them, stomping the ground to launch a bus onto them, throwing a book at henchmen on horseback, using a flower to launch a car into three manned jets, riding missiles back into the helicopter, and batting a jet into the Moon – all setting off explosions.
Sanpedro fled the scene but Cyborg noticed a henchman dropped a map to Semmozni Poonga Botanical Park. Starfire noticed some white willow branches were cut down by Sanpedro. Robin deduced Sanpedro was going to the championship cricket game that night. He came up with a plan for the Titans to pose as cricket players so they could spot Sanpedro from the field. They posed as cricket players but made a scene. Robin was mortified. Sanpedro suddenly landed on Robin's back then ran off. The others performed a Bollywood dance to entice Sanpedro to stop and join them. Over the course of the sequence, they wrapped him up in ribbons. They took back the chana masala. Robin admitted Bollywood was amazing. Sanpedro turned to be another decoy, a cricket dressed up like him. Albert Jelenic reported Sanpedro struck again then proceeded with his own guesses after they groaned: Barcelona, Egypt, and Portugal. The Titans lingered atop the bus from the Bollywood sequence until Jelenic's head burst through the roof.
Refusing to guess the next destination they listed off where they weren't going: Rome, Hawaii, and Cancun. Jelenic confirmed and gave them a clue, his hometown in Croatia. The Titans perked up after Robin mentioned Game of Thrones was filmed in Croatia. Cyborg couldn't believe Jelenic never told them there were dragons where he grew up. Jelenic revealed he did not watch Game of Thrones because there was too much politics. Rather than look for Sanpedro, Jelenic asked them to check if the door to his old house in Zdrelac was open and if there was a bird inside, to ask his neighbor Blasko to take it out. He was adamant about Blasko handling it. It turned out there a red bird the size of an adult person in Jelenic's house. They hurried to Blasko's house but saw he left a note saying he left town after a longshoreman stole his octopus salad. Starfire realized he was writing about Sanpedro. Robin deduced he was going to the island of Pag to drench the salad in the region's famous olive oil. The others didn't really care.
Raven touched a magic tree and traveled in time and saw Robin taking embarrassing photographs of himself in a robin bird skintight suit as well as Sanpedro kicking it at Krka National Park. Robin marveled at the waterfalls but Raven pointed out they saw them in Jamaica already. They were ready to chalk it up to missing Sanpedro again and wanted to go to Dubrovnik. They shamed him into agreeing to go. They found a piece of octopus tentacle on the ground and realized Sanpedro was around. They saw him arrive atop an ice dragon then they were surrounded by ice zombies inexplicably led by Mr. Freeze in cosplay as the zombie king. Raven handed Robin the King of the North costume. Beast Boy turned into a dragon then took on Sanpedro and the ice dragon with Starfire while the others battled the zombies. Sanpedro won the aerial battle and sent Beast Boy and Starfire into the waters below. Raven called out to resplendent Croatia for aid.
The big Croatian bird flew to them and defeated Freeze before he could finish Robin off. Freeze then the zombies and ice dragon vanished. Sanpedro landed on his butt and was grabbed by a face tree. They unmasked him and were shocked to learn he was Albert Jelenic all along. Jelenic told him out his plan to make them appreciate the overlooked parts of the world. Robin through the trip was a waste of time. Jelenic opened a door and asked them if it looked like a waste of time. All the dishes from their globe trotting adventure awaited them. Cyborg and Raven admitted it was fun to learn about geography. Jelenic flew off atop the big Croatian bird bidding all goodbye.