Earlier in the week, Cartoon Network teased another crossover from Teen Titans Go, in which the cast would meet their 'classic' selves. Naturally, a lot of Youtubers who like to bash the show, because it's TTG, made videos thinking that the TTG cast would meet the original Teen Titans cast, and get a total beatdown. Unfortunately, the show does have a reputation of trolling with the viewers and fans of the original Teen Titans cartoon. And because TTG makes a lot of money for Cartoon Network than any other show in their lineup, it doesn't matter how many times people bash the show so long as it makes the network rich.
And in this episode, "Classic Titans", is another troll episode to spite the show's critics. Instead of featuring the original cast of the Teen Titans cartoon, they instead feature the CLASSIC Teen Titans characters from the comics. Despite this, however, I get a lot of feedback from those who have watched the episode and found it to be actually pretty good and funny. Now I did review the crossover episode with Young Justice and I did gave it high marks because it was indeed funny and I loved it. It doesn't mean I love the show, but a good episode is a good episode. So is "Classic Titans" one of theose episodes?
The episode begins with a scene of a talking dog and a baby being assaulted by a horde of zombie burritos, that somehow looks a bit like Rick from Rick and Morty. It's apparently a TV show called "Babies vs Dogs" the Titans are watching, which happens to be a classic show, according to Beast Boy. Enter Control Freak to bash the show when compared to action shows while the Titans defend it. Obviously the scene is another reference to how a lot of people bash TTG when compared to the original Teen Titans and Young Justice.
So to make his point, Control Freak send the Titans into a show featuring themselves as the classic comic book characters, complete with everything that made Superhero shows the way they were back in the 70's and 80's. Now for those who weren't born during that decades, here's what a typical action cartoon from DC (and by extension, Marvel) looked like back in the day.
So the Titans have to play out the entire episode in the classic format in order to restore to their original selves. Of course, Control Freak just wants to see the characters act out like the cartoons back in the day. But because the Titans are, well, 'Titans', their shenanigans get in the way so much that it ruined Control Freak's experience. And when the Titans were having trouble taking down a T-Rex, Raven summons the characters from "Babies vs Dogs" to finish the job. Control Freak realizes the pros and cons of old vs new cartoons, but was ignored by the Titans as they want back to watching "Babies vs Dogs", ending the episode.
Personally, this episode wasn't as funny as the Young Justice one, but it did gave me a lot of chuckles, and the reference to the classic cartoons was a nice touch. I just don't know if kids will ever get the joke, or at least be entertained by it. I was not aware of the references featured in the Gumball episode "The Singing", but I enjoyed it anyway. I'm just not sure if the writers for TTG pulled it off on this one. If I were decades younger, I'd give an honest answer about it.
Aside from trolling the haters and all that, overall, "Classic Titans" wasn't a bad episode at all. It's not the funniest, either, but still a good one nonetheless. Also not something that I would put as a 'must-see' episode, but if you do watch it, you'd be fine and it's not a total waste. On a scale of 1 to 5, I give the Teen Titans Go episode "Classic Titans", a 3 out of 5.
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