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Teen Titans Go!

Cartoon Network, when are you going to stop milking this show just to add even more big bucks to WarnerMedia's giant room of money?!

Genre:	Action Comedy Adventure Science fiction
Running Time:	11 minutes
Country:	United States
Release Date:	April 23, 2013 — present
Network(s):	Cartoon Network
Created by:	Aaron Horvath Michael Jelenic
Distributed by:	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Starring:	Scott Menville Hynden Walch Khary Payton Tara Strong Greg Cipes Lauren Tom Kevin Michael Richardson
Seasons:	6
Episodes:	308
Previous show:	Teen Titans

Teen Titans Go! is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics fictional superhero team. It premiered on April 23, 2013 and continues to this day.

Plot

Teen Titans Go! is an animated series that follows the adventures of the young Titans, residing in Jump City, when they are not saving the world while living together as teenagers without adults who intrude. Unlike most of the other superhero series, the situations are comic, crazy and parodic - for example, juvenile jokes that reach new heights of danger, obtaining the license to drive after destroying the Batmobile or washing the suits after staining them when fighting their enemies. The show regularly features characters who have appeared in the original series, albeit with reduced roles and/or exaggerated personalities. It also features greater attachment to the DC Universe at large, with more references to other characters in the Justice League, plus a few appearances by Batman and Commissioner Gordon in lighthearted moments.

The show is littered with in-jokes regarding the whole of DC's library, many of them in blink-and-miss moments, as well as numerous jokes at the expense of the show itself. The show has also several cameo crossovers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise; specifically the 2012 series, in which Greg Cipes and Scott Menville also participated as voice actors. Particularly, the episode "Truth, Justice, and What?" and Teen Titans Go! To the Movies feature guest appearances by the Turtles.

Why It Sucks

Mediocre flash animation with easily noticeable animation errors in various episodes, such as character's eyes disappearing, or frames where someone stands still like a statue or characters switching places from time to time, characters emotions not matching what they are saying especially compared to the original, which was released ten years prior and voice acting pauses as you can see from here.
Out of cartoons such as The Amazing World of Gumball, this one had the most censorship alongside Regular Show & Adventure Time. Due to the "It's made for kids" excuse, the most infamous censorship is when during Raven's "hate it" montage in the episode "Real Magic", the scene where it has a trail of rose petals leading to Beast Boy, who was laying on her bed in only his underwear, gesturing Raven to come closer was cut out in some countries such as the UK, Australia and Southeast Asia due to sexual content and complaints from parents.
Some episodes have deceptive titles, notably "Dude, Relax", "Caramel Apples", "I'm The Sauce", "Croissant", "Hey You, Don't Forget About Me in Your Memory", "The Return of Slade", and "Smile Bones", just to name a few.
Many villains aren't much of a threat. Trigon, once an embodiment of evil in the comics and the Teen Titans series, is portrayed as a sitcom father rather than a demonic and antagonistic.
The creators and writers cannot handle even the slightest form of criticism, going as far as to purposely making episodes made specifically to mock either the criticism they get or critics, Internet reviewers, and even fans of the original Teen Titans, with "The Return of Slade" being the worst offender. In 2015, there was an ad saying it's "your new favorite show", when it's clearly not the case.
The Titans have been flanderized to the point where they scarcely behave anything like themselves from the original 2003 series and comic book series:
- Robin went from a strict team leader to a dominant and severely mentally ill jerk. He barely ever gets any respect by his own team and they often don't listen to him, even if he doesn't do anything wrong or mean to them.
- Starfire went from the perfect romantic love interest for Robin to a more child-like and immature. In the episode "Breakfast Cheese" she acts like a hypocrite, as she tells the Titans to make peace with the H.I.V.E. Five, even thought they fought them in previous episodes. She also adds "the" in almost every sentence she says and it gets annoying really quickly. Not to mention that she screams a lot that it sounds like Hynden Walch is yelling at the top of her lungs. Though she is at least more likeable than Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy.
- Beast Boy went from a childish yet serious shapeshifter to an immature, whiny, destructive party animal and a lazy couch potato who barely gets up to do something simple and has gross habits.
- Cyborg went from having likable comedic traits to being an annoying, idiotic slacker like Beast Boy, with his giraffe neck gag being annoying and irritating at times.
- Raven, despite being the most likable out of the five, went from a gothic short-tempered, yet caring girl to a hypocritical fan of Pretty Pretty Pegasus (a parody of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic). She has also been turned into an emo, depressed, and disastrous teenager.
Attempts at humor are often either rude, disrespectful, or contrived, consisting mostly of extremely low-brow jokes and toiletries, twerking, gross-out, and other very inappropriate humor.
- There are even pop culture references.
It's overly random and excessively out-of-place with no explanation.
Due to its annoyance, laziness, randomness, and stupidity, most episodes can essentially be an eleven-minute long "It's made for kids" excuse, and even a huge insult to the fans of the original Teen Titans since Teen Titans Go! disrespects the content and characterization from its predecessor.
Bad dialogue which requires more work.
It almost seems it was intended to be bad.
Inappropriate moments in a series that is rated TV-PG (the original show was rated TV-Y7), notably when characters are seen twerking in some of the episodes, as seen in "Booty Scooty", and "The Fourth Wall", and whenever the Titans are shown worshiping Raven's legs as "Lady Legasus" in "Legs".
Annoying and repetitive songs such as "Waffles", "I'm a Hot Pepper", "Pee Pee Dance", and the short remixed title theme by Mix Master Mike.
It is often insulting many other franchises of every type among other stuff, especially other DC properties as well as some film franchises like The Matrix, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Indiana Jones. Two episodes, "Let's Get Serious" and "Money Grandma", even insulted the Young Justice fan community and George Washington, respectively, as well.
There is little-to-no continuity, and so many episodes aren't even connected. This is because Michael Jelenic confessed that he’s stressed about the idea doing episodes that are all connected because he worked on Young Justice and admitted it was difficult to keep up with the whole story.
- One notable continuity error is when "Vegetables" establishes that Beast Boy is a vegetarian, even though he was seen eating meat in prior episodes.
- The Titans get killed off in some episodes and get revived in later episodes, which is an overused gag.
- In addition, it barely stays true to the source material at all.
Many episodes in the series have a lot of padding, despite each of them having a regular run-time of eleven minutes.
It became self-aware of how bad it is and is proud of that, as shown in the Episode: "The Fourth Wall" where the Titans tell this to Control Freak in the end.
The Titans behave more like villains than heroes and are far more annoying and unlikable than the villains themselves.
- In "The HIVE Five", the Titans continuously torment the H.I.V.E., even though no one in the latter group was doing anything bad throughout the entire episode.
- In "Finally a Lesson", the Titans deliberately and harshly kick out the villains from their apartment homes.
- In "Movie Night", Robin attacks Control Freak and steals his television, even though he was innocent at the time.
- In "Caged Tiger", Dr. Light tries to redeem himself and join the Titans, but Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy refuse to accept his redemption and instead mercilessly beat him up for no apparent reason.
- In "Snuggle Time", to get more free time with their cats and drink hot cocoa, the Titans straight-up become villains, build an evil lair, and remorselessly slaughter Batman, Batgirl, the Titans East, Aqualad, and Aquaman.
- The Titans are constantly gunning for Robin's position as leader to near-Starscream levels.
- Mostly, justification of their destructive behaviors to "protect" Jump City and causing more collateral damage than any of the villains. The Titans treat it like their playground and are disrespectful towards citizens and even villains on their day off, intentionally creating enemies through ridiculous insults and inflicting harm on individuals such as the Mocking Birds, Zan (one of the Wonder Twins), Aqualad, etc.
In the series, Darkseid is voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic, who never once sings.
It completely ruins the relationship between Robin and Starfire, because in this series Robin is either psychotically obsessed with Starfire or really violent towards her (especially in "Hey You, Don't Forget About Me in Your Memory"), and Starfire states in no uncertain terms that she doesn't love Robin at all.
The scary and/or dramatic music from episodes in the first season are basically recycled from videos on YouTube.
False morals in several episodes. These include, but are not limited to:
- "Pyramid Scheme" and "The Dignity of Teeth" encourage being greedy.
- "Smile Bones" encourages gluttony.
- "Staring at the Future" states that responsibility is bad and that if your friends are responsible members of society, their lives are horrible and you absolutely must screw them over.
- "Artful Dodgers" encourages cheating, basically saying that "cheaters always prosper".
- "Mas y Menos" encourages glory-hounding and showboating.
- "The True Meaning of Christmas" and "Teen Titans Save Christmas" state that Christmas is all about the presents and nothing else; the Titans even blow up Santa's workshop when he preaches the true meaning of Christmas.
- "Books" states that books are bad.
- "Knowledge" states that intelligence is bad for you; It makes you an insufferable, judgmental, and overly-critical person who no one wants to be friends with.
- "Boys vs Girls" is about accepting sexism. It teaches kids that gender equality is for wimps and that cooties exist, neither of which are true.
- "Hot Garbage" encourages hoarding, a serious psychological problem.
- "Accept the Next Proposition You Hear" states that you shouldn't think and act for yourselves, but instead depend on others.
- "Hey You, Don't Forget About Me in Your Memory" boils down to "If you fail to live up to your label, take it out on your friends."
- "Think About Your Future" says that you should make bad life decisions and live your lives up to the shortest.
It spawned two bad crossover episodes with The Powerpuff Girls (2016) and ThunderCats Roar titled "TTG vs. PPG" and "Teen Titans Roar!".
The later seasons don't have anything to improve over the earlier seasons.
There's a 6th Teen Titan named Bumblebee, who appeared in the "Flashback" episode before she began to be part of the Teen Titans of "Forest Pirates" "to "The Viewers Decide".
In "Toddler Titans... Yay!", Robin upset the children when he counted the rest of the logs by himself.
Whenever the Justice League characters make an appearance in any of the episodes, they never speak but make minor human noises such as laughing and crying! That's because the creators couldn't pay to hire the voice actors who voice the characters when they could've just hired new ones to replace the original ones!
The main problem is that the series has been going on for way too long (it started in 2013), as the show now has 6 seasons and over 300+ episodes and counting. The show will often jump the shark because of this.

Redeeming Qualities

The art style, from backgrounds to character designs, while mediocre compared to in the original, are nice to look at.
Despite the horrible characterization for the Titans, they have more personalities than the original.
The Titans admitted that the original Teen Titans is better than them, as mentioned in the episode "The Fourth Wall".
- The same can be said in The Cape, where they watch an episode of the original Teen Titans, and actually enjoyed it.
The flash animation is okay in some aspects and improved slightly after the third season.
Some good morals every now and then, these include but are not limited to:
1. "Pyramid Scheme," although it encourages being greedy, encourages kids not to enter pyramid schemes.
2. "Spice Game" states that you should live life in the middle; not too bland, but not too dangerous.
3. "Vegetables" encourages staying on a balanced diet.
Every now and then (to be fair), there are good episodes, such as "40%, 40%, 20%" and the four-part miniseries "The Night Begins to Shine" or "The Day the Night Stopped Beginning to Shine and Became Dark Even Though it Was the Day", as well as the episode "Cartoon Feud", a crossover with Scooby-Doo in which the Titans and the Scooby Gang play Family Feud, even Huggbees, which is a crossover with Freakazoid! as well as the DC Super Hero Girls crossover episode "Superhero Feud".
The movie is considered to be an improvement.
The voice acting (for the most part) is at least decent, compared to the original, despite all the wasted talent. This is because most of the voice cast from the original still retain their respective roles. For example, Hynden Walch still reprises her role as Starfire, while Tara Strong still voices Raven.
It contains lesser-known corners of the DC canon.
Although flanderized like the rest of the Titans, Starfire still remains as the nicest member of the Titans for the most part, and Raven is at least the most tolerable.
Fall Out Boy appeared in this and they are actually based on the real-life members. They also have a pretty decent role in one episode.
Some funny moments here and there.
There are catchy songs like the credit music and "The Night Begins to Shine" (not to be confused with the miniseries of the same name). Puffy AmiYumi (the J-pop duo who sang the theme song for original Teen Titans) even did a cover of "The Night Begins to Shine".
- To add to this, the remixed theme song can be catchy despite being short. The theme song was remixed by Mix Master Mike.
The action scenes can be entertaining.

Episodes With Their Own Pages

Reception

Teen Titans Go! has been met with a mixed reception. Almost immediately upon the series' release, fans of the original Teen Titans complained that the show was not as well written or animated as the previous show. However, most media reviewers had a reaction to the contrary, believing that this was a well done reinvention of the classic series. Most negative feedback from the fans involves the change in tone, as many complained that the series should be dramatic, not comedic. Interestingly, children have apparently taken the series very well, as it has performed positively far beyond expectations. The series has garnered record ratings among children, with it currently being the one of the most popular shows on Cartoon Network.

However, the show has been universally panned by Internet reviewers and fans of the original Teen Titans and is often considered to be one of the worst Cartoon Network shows of all time. It has below average ratings on TV.com and IMDb. WatchMojo has criticized the use of irony in the show, fearing that kids might not understand it. It was ranked #1 on their "Top 10 Worst Animated Superhero Shows" and number #4 on their "Top 10 Worst Cartoon Network Shows." WatchMojo has also created lists for the show's worst episodes, why the show is hated, and awful lessons it teaches kids. The show was usually around the top of PhantomStrider's bad shows dealing countdown videos back in 2015-2017.

Trivia

Between 2014 and 2017, it dominated the network as episodes aired non-stop and took up a lot of the schedule, just because it was pulling in better ratings than other shows. In 2018, however, the series' ratings began dipping significantly due to the target audience becoming fed up with the lack of diversity in the network's non-Adult Swim schedule; not helping was the fact that Nickelodeon and Disney XD were actually outright beating Cartoon Network in ratings (Nickelodeon due to The Loud House and massive improvements to SpongeBob SquarePants, and Disney XD due to putting out shows like Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and the DuckTales reboot. As of 2020, the series now only has four hours of airtime on weekdays, five on weekends, in an effort to return diversity to the schedule and reverse the falling viewership trend, however a day long marathon still airs once and a while, but thankfully it's not as frequent.
The creators of this show claimed that they only seen a couple of Teen Titans, but they do admit it was a pretty good show.
Some of the crew members of the 2003 series returned to work on Teen Titans Go!.
As of 2021, the show has over 300 episodes and counting.

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Snesboy12

8 months ago

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Woah, I think this show has the most episodes to have their own pages on this wiki out of all of the shows on this wiki.

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 # In "Toddler Titans... Yay!", Robin upset the children when he counted the rest of the logs by himself.
 # Whenever the Justice League characters make an appearance in any of the episodes, they never speak but make minor human noises such as laughing and crying! That's because the creators couldn't pay to hire the voice actors who voice the characters when they ''could've just hired new ones to replace the original ones!''
+#The main problem is that the series has been going on for way too long (it started in 2013), as the show now has '''6 seasons''' and over '''300+ episodes''' and counting. The show will often jump the shark because of this.
 ==Redeeming Qualities==