Teen Titans Go! Canceled

Anonus

So I decree.

Haven

Thank you

Anonus

You're free, Warner Bros. Animation

Free to make all the Looney Tunes revivals I want you to make

Anonus

That aren't Wabbit

SF_Sorrow

Section42L

Odradek

I oppose this decision, because I hate people on youtube, and enjoy their suffering

Anonus

But I needed to free Warner Bros. Animation to work on my projects

Klinotaxis

is this show bad now

Section42L

Klinotaxis said:

is this show bad now

This show's always been bad.

You're probably confusing it with the original Teen Titans cartoon, which is decent.

Yarrun XIX

Teen Titans was a bloody work of art

Klinotaxis

i'm not. i saw a bit of the new show and it seemed fine. i wouldn't watch it but whatevs i'm an adult

Salix Babylonika

the issue people have with it is more that it's like half of CN's schedule.

Section42L

Yeah, understandable.

It didn't seem proverbially awful to me either.

I think people here (including myself) are sorta annoyed at how it clogs up Cartoon Network's schedule, at the expense of shows that we like.

Odradek

This is the life of a boy named Johnny Test

Anonus

Teen Titans Go! is at least completely owned by Time Warner, whereas they shared Johnny Test with Cookie Jar/DHX Media

Klinotaxis

oh. that does sound bad. i don't watch the televisions, you see...

Yarrun XIX

I've watched a good chunk of it. It's more bad in the way that late seasons of Simpsons/Family Guy are bad than Johnny Test. There are nuggets of good comedy in there, but the characters are paper-thin and obnoxious to a fault (except Raven, who's only marginally better), the comedy's aggressive and relies too much on cutaways, and the whole thing is so foreign from the original source material that it'd make more sense if it wasn't a Teen Titans show

The opening is pretty good though. I like the bit where they dance

Yarrun XIX

I mean, say what you want about Batman Brave and the Bold, but that was still very much a Batman show. 

Klinotaxis

the teen titans comics look stupid anyway, i'm not sure that's a real factor

well, not just that. i don't care about fidelity, i doubt the intended demographic does either, etc

Yarrun XIX

The soccer episode is pretty good though, but that might just be my anti-sportism talking

Yarrun XIX

And it also has a weird leg fetish?

Odradek

Klinotaxis said:

the teen titans comics look stupid anyway, i'm not sure that's a real factor

well, not just that. i don't care about fidelity, i doubt the intended demographic does either, etc

Someone post comics Starfire talking about her boobs or whatever she does

Yarrun XIX

Like, seriously, it's frigging weird. 

The whole thing is like one of those Abridged Series that spirals into completely unrelated plots from the original. In fact, it's exactly like Ultra Fast Pony.

Klinotaxis

abridged series are real popular

Yarrun XIX

Not everything popular on the Internet should be adapted to TV

I mean, the Annoying Orange got a TV series and Fred got a TV Movie, and everybody agreed that was a bad idea.

Odradek

What's that Fred kid doing now

Yarrun XIX

Like, I feel

I feel like if Teen Titans Go was an actual abridged series, or if it was a series of youtube shorts, it wouldn't feel that wrong

Tre

Baldanders said:

What's that Fred kid doing now

Anonus

i was so upset when CN ran the Annoying Orange series

Tanya

Yarrun XIX said:

 whole thing is so foreign from the original source material that it'd make more sense if it wasn't a Teen Titans show

This is about how I feel about the show. 

Tre

Yeah, Yarrun is pretty spot on with this one

It very well may have been better received if it weren't attached to the existing property but as it is it's got too much character derailment to really fit with the previous incarnation

Yarrun XIX

Like, I'm watching through it to remind myself of why i don't like it

"Head Fruit"

Beast Boy spontaneously has his head rattle, and it's explained as 'brain shrinkage'. He's told to use his head more, which goes into a minute long exploration of the obvious joke. Then it segues poorly into Beast Boy taking up farming as a brain-stimulating hobby and somehow this leads to a tree growing out of his head, complete with fruit. And no one takes any issue with this besides Beast Boy until his brain gets so strong that it stages a breakout via the tree and escapes, forcing them to replace it with a maraca.

It's slightly better composed than that, but frigging look at that. That's "Kill the Alligator and Run" levels of plotting there.

Yarrun XIX

Well, this is it. Today's the day that I summarize all of Teen Titans Go

"A Cat's Fancy"

Starfire's reaction to nearly getting killed by a bomb is to fall in love with a kitten. So Robin (who's hopelessly in love with an oblivious Starfire in this timeline) decides to embrace his inner furry and gets a catsuit so Starfire will fall in love with him. Apparently Starfire is secretly furry trash, because this works 100%. There's a brief but extensive Garfield reference. Everyone else objects to this on the grounds of Starfire being a cat lady, which is the worst thing, which leads to Starfire and Cat!Robin leaving the Tower, moving into a motel for months and Starfire devolving into your typical nervous wreck of a cat lady and getting a bunch of cats. The solution to this problem is for Robin to change from a cat fursona to a dog fursona, which drives away all the extra cats and forces Starfire to go outside

Obā-san

sounds like sredni and i

Yarrun XIX

"The Dignity of Teeth"

Beast boy makes a stew that gives everybody terrible bad breath, leading to the reveal that nobody knows about oral hygeine. Beast Boy has a cavity, gets a tooth pulled, and gets paid big bucks from the Tooth Fairy, leading to the rest of the Titans save Raven losing their teeth in increasingly cartoonish ways. Once they start preying on Raven's teeth, she tracks down the Tooth Fairy (who's creepy as hell), who reveals that he's been eating the teeth he collects. He then forces Raven into a teeth-eating contest for her friends' teeth, which Raven wins because it turns out she likes eating teeth. Everything goes back to normal, and we all ignore that the Powerpuff Girls did this plot better a decade and a half ago.

Anonus

"Moral Decay" was the fucking worst episode of that show, at least to me

lee4hmz

...Cartoon Network, if you want Ren & Stimpy, you know where to find it 😖

Anonus

That doesn't even sound as well-executed as "Ren's Toothache" though

Yarrun XIX

"Oil Drums"

Cyborg digs up some old VHS tapes and leads the Titans through extensive references to cancelled shows (Raven apparently likes the Golden Girls, Starfire likes Bill Cosby and Robin has a creepy obsession with Alf eating Cats). But they can't find the remote and nobody understands how the TV buttons work, so Cyborg goes into a spiel about how good and educational TV is (yeah, laying it on thick there, writers). Remote-less, they try to adjust to a life without TV. One awkward conversation, an impromptu diatribe against parades, a reference to sitcom intros, and another shout out to leg fetishists later, it turns out that all those concerned parents were wrong: TV doesn't rot your brain; TV keeps your brain from rotting. So the Titans turn into zombies and turn on Cyborg, who's watched enough 'quality programming' to stave off the rot, until the anthropomorphic ideal of TV comes into save him. And then they still have to go find the remote because the TV doesn't know how its own buttons work.

I

HOW

Tanya

Yarrun XIX said:

" And then they still have to go find the remote because the TV doesn't know how its own buttons work.

I

HOW

Not everyone touches themselves Yarrun. >_>

Yarrun XIX

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