Behold... the New Teen Titans Cartoon...

[The Count]

Ooh! Weird Al as Darkseid? I hope he uses his deeper-sounding voice like when he was Rambo in the parody segment when saving Stanley Spadowski in UHF, rather than his usual high-pitch goofant voice like Wreck-Garr from TFA or The Squid Hat from Grim Adventures.

 

[Drtooth]

Just for fun, I found the Burrito/Burger fight song and I Love Pie dubbed in Japanese.

Love how they say "I Ravu Pie" in English

 

[Drtooth]

UGH. Well, I can safely say I watched an episode worse than Gorilla. It wasn't even juvenile in a trolling creator sort of way. It was just bad. Plain poorly written, lazy and bad. Except for the line about "They hopped on Pop for an hour!" That was surprisingly funny.

 

[Drtooth]

Whatever anyone's feelings on the show and how many bleeding times they run it a day are, I think CN perhaps made the dumbest move possible with this series. Now, I get excuse marathons (how is a marathon of TTG any different than their normal programming, anyway), but... You'll love the irony of this if you're a detractor.

Cartoon Network's Speak Up Anti-Bullying campaign is now using the Teen Titans as their initiative, and showing all the episodes about friendship.

Yeah... a show that, at best, is Dark, Sociopathic comedy is telling kids that bullying is wrong. Yeah. That works. Certainly not the show about the bears desperately trying to find friends, and definitely not about the caring gem-child who sees the beauty of everything. The one show on the network that isn't about friendship.

 

[snichols1973]

Cartoon Network's Speak Up Anti-Bullying campaign is now using the Teen Titans as their initiative, and showing all the episodes about friendship.

Yeah... a show that, at best, is Dark, Sociopathic comedy is telling kids that bullying is wrong. Yeah. That works. Certainly not the show about the bears desperately trying to find friends, and definitely not about the caring gem-child who sees the beauty of everything. The one show on the network that isn't about friendship.

Robin's over-zealous vigilantism stands out like a sore thumb in the "Breakfast Club" parody, as he is so blinded by ambition that he arrogantly fails to recognize that the bully is none other than him, and he even goes so far as to demonstrate a flagrant example of poor sportsmanship when he is named class salutatorian while Beast Boy receives the valedictorian honors....

 

[Drtooth]

Exactly the point. I know this is the network's favorite show and it's somehow popular with kids, but there's no logic to having comedic sociopaths as the poster children for "Speak Up against Bullying" when they're the biggest bullies possible. And I get that's what makes the show "special" for better r worse.

But it should have been Clarence. The show about the little fat kid who wants to be everybody's friend and wants to have fun with everybody. Nope. Another excuse to show the same marathon of TTG on a Saturday, even if it defies logic.

 

[Drtooth]

Have to admit, while I found season 3 weak, incredibly weak even by TTG standards so far (Minus "Return of Slade,' which I loved the middle fingeryness of, Leg Day which was gloriously insane, and even the Breakfast Club parody was better upon the second viewing) the last two episodes were actually kinda fun and an improvement over the previous. I never liked the "Titans act like morons for 10 minutes" episodes, and this season saw way too many of them (Rainy Day was utterly unwatchable and as stupid as the characters became, they became just overly childish). Nice to see they switched it up with a Brother Blood plot and today's actually funny self deprecation of a show at the hands of Control Freak. That totally ruined my "Larry screwed up reality for his own amusement" theory... the show was somehow created by Control Freak who admitted to rebooting the Titans after season five here.

The show works best when it makes fun of DC comics, the TT mythology or at the very least, acts completely d***ish to the audience. I'm well aware it's a troll series, after all. Here it seems to at least make self deprecation humor at the show's faults (though they never point out how the characters are mean to each other, unfortunately).

 

[The Count]

This year's Halloween episode was better than last year's, which was repeated immediately afterwards. Missed out on the majority of the campfire stories episode, though I caught Raven's story which made total sense after she turned all monster and devoured the rest of the team.
But the actual Halloween episode... Titans as ghosts trying to ruin HIVE's Halloween party was well done. Mammoth and See-More got speaking parts.
Loved both the references to Ghostbusters, especially when Jinx tells Mammoth that they're not busting ghosts in spite her knowing busting makes the others feel good.
Séance? Again, why is Madame Leotta's séance chant being ignored? Seriously Disney, you need to allow it to be used in more mass media, like a dramatic reading by a certain phantom dragon Muppet.
And the tombstone topper was the Scary Figure Dance, parody of the Monster Mash at the end when everybody's a part of the plan, and the mash/dance is the hit of the land.

Good spooky fun all around.

 

[Drtooth]

TTG has been experiencing a rash of good episodes lately.

I really rather liked "40 Percent 20 Percent" and Cyborg turning into Optimus Prime (Raven can be Bumblebee). Plus the special fantasy designs of the Titans for his imagine spots. And yes, this Halloween episode was more satisfying than last years. I'd say them not acting like comedic sociopaths so much lately has improved the series, especially after some weak episodes like "Rainy Days."

 

[The Count]

So... Aparently Black Friday has now been conferred full holiday status what with its own figure in the form of Buster, The Spirit of Black Friday. That and it's own special, which just like everything Black Friday is a cheap knockoff of the original product. After Star said she was Uncle Scrooge McDucking the other titans by saying "Bah the Humbug" to shopping like mad with the others, it was her in turn who got Uncle Scrooge McDucked by being visited by the respective temporal ghosts.

That, combined with the fact I saw the Regular Show episode where the park gang joins up with the Happy Ducks to fight off PlayCo's contract to make shoddily produced toys in their non-likenesses I have to say... Commercialism, victory is yours today.