This week on Boomb Tube, we continue to only cover Teen Titans Go! as Robin experiences two morality plays. Spoilers ahead!
In this episode’s first segment, Robin can’t relax because he takes his team’s work way too seriously. His friends tell him that Jump City is probably fine because there hasn’t been a disaster in a week and wow I really wonder what it would be like if real-life government agencies followed the same logic. When a tentacle monster attacks the city, everyone forces Robin to stay back while they fight the creature. Everyone except Beast Boy, who revealed that he just has a collection of animals he paints green to take his place at battles. Genius. Beast Boy teaches Robin to be one with the couch and Robin does so, meeting the spirit of The Couch who tells Robin to have the day off. Robin does so and everyone back at the tentacle monster fight presumably dies. But at least Robin got to kick back and watch some Extreme Couponing.
Over in the other segments, all the Titans have to do laundry and now I’m completely certain of the Teen Titans Go! writers’ process. If you tell me that the segments about being lazy and not doing your laundry weren’t written by writers who were being lazy and not doing their laundry, your tongue will burn off for lying. Anyway, Robin doesn’t want to do everyone’s laundry after a battle with a gigantic goo monster so he tells everyone to have a staring contest to determine who wins. They also hold a hot dog eating competition in which Beast Boy breaks his whole vegetarian deal for the second time this series, even though it’s brought up later how much he loves tofu. Raven ends up doing everyone’s laundry but the laundry comes to life do to the alien goo and the writers shrugging. The Titans fight their laundry which is defeated when Raven was just trying to get Robin to do his own laundry. Lesson learned, they go off to fight another monster in each other’s costumes.
So far, this show still has no reason to exist. Sure, it may be hard to capture the glory days of an earlier show, but no one here is trying. The plotting is done like how Nintendo creates Pokemon. “Oh hey, a laundry! Yeah we can have a laundry one! That’s a wrap, boys!” Granted, the animation is still pretty rough though it’s hard to tell if that’s a stylistic choice or a budget restraint mandated from Cartoon Network. Either way, Teen Titans Go! is still just a weird distraction of a show. There’s nothing to really engage anyone, it’s just there. Doing it’s laundry, learning to relax. No one’s writing this like a superhero show, it’s just your typical kids’ sitcom which is so disappointing when compared to what the original Teen Titans was.
Review Score: 5.5. – There’s a few chuckles here and there, but it’s still just a weirdly lazy show.
