Video Game References

"Video Game References" is the 39th episode of the second season of Teen Titans Go!, and the 91st overall episode of the series.

Summary
The Titans immerse themselves in different video game worlds.

Plot
The episode starts with Robin getting excited beside a big steel door and says it's a room full of adventure. Then the others keep saying how he always gets excited over everything. Raven then says to just open the door already so Robin types the password "Imagination" and opens it. They then walk in a room filled with blue squares. Cyborg says it's just an empty room, but Robin states they just need to fill it with their imaginations and adds that it's also designed for training purposes. This annoys the other Titans, as Robin has once again turned something fun into something boring. Robin pulls out a game cartridge, plugs it in before pushing a button. When nothing happens, he takes it out and blows the dust off before reinserting it. The room's blue tiles blink red and everything changes into a pixelated world. The Titans remark how it is just like a video game, but Robin denies this and explains he had set up simulated missions for each of the Titans. Starfire sarcastically expresses her excitement, so Robin allows her to go first, and takes out a controller to select her. Starfire appears in a game called "Starfire's Quest: The Legend of the Legendary Quest". She appears on a cliff near a waterfall and then flies into a cave. An Old Man is there and says it's dangerous to go alone. A sword appears and Starfire says she will be fine without the wooden sword. The Old Man reminds her that she would be alone, but she points out he's alone. The Old Man agrees and states how lonely he. As he begins muttering about how his wife left him, Starfire invites him to come along. When they walk outside of the cave, four land squids surround them as they squirt ink in the Old Man's face. Starfire then scratches them lovingly and they all dance. One of the squids joins her party and they come across a house with a woman and a chicken. The woman asks them to help catch it so the Old Man tries to attack with his wooden sword but the chicken pecks him. Starfire scratches it and the woman and the chicken join their party. As the Old Man remarks that Starfire will surely slay the villain, she says she only wishes to dance. Her party continues dancing across the path as they get joined by several globs of slime, five skeletons, and three big knights. However, a new screen comes up and showing an evil wizard, with the message "While you were dancing, the evil wizard took over the world!"

The game then changes to Beast Boy's game, called "Cross the Street". Beast Boy stands on the sidewalk with lots of traffic. He complains that the people think he is incapable of doing the hard tasks. He then turns into a frog, but repeatedly gets run over by the cars, as well as a snake. Down to his final life, he remembers the objective was to "cross the road", so he turns into a chicken and easily avoids all the cars. Finally making it to the other side, he gets eaten by a gator!

Another game appears called "Circle Guy", which is Raven's game. She appears with three of her emoticlones, as ghosts in the game. However Raven spots Circle Guy eating all the balls, so Raven tries to stop him. The other Raven ghosts scatter everywhere disorderly and are unable to capture Circle Guy, so Raven has them line up to surround Circle Guy. As they are about to approach Circle Guy, he eats the big ball and powers up, eating Pinky. Raven becomes furious and the remaining three Ravens surround him, but then a second big Circle Girl comes and eats them all. The two circles kiss, while Raven (now a pair of eyes) is disgusted.

The screen then displays "Pie Hunter", with Cyborg driving down a road in the T-Car. The other cars all speed pass him, with Cyborg retorting that he's going the speed limit and they should steer around him. However one of the cars hits him and both cars slide onto the grass. The other driver, the Pie Hunter, gets out and starts arguing with Cyborg. Cyborg blames the Pie Hunter and states he had better have insurance. The Pie Hunter explains he doesn't have insurance and would pay in cash, but Cyborg refuses. The Pie Hunter reluctantly gets back in his car, but then starts shooting Cyborg. Cyborg gets back in the T-Car with the Pie Hunter in hot pursuit. After a chase, the Pie Hunter swerves off the track and Cyborg arrives at the pie place where he starts singing "I Love Pie" to celebrate. However the Pie Hunter returns in a helicopter and destroys the T-Car along with the pie place.

The next game is "Save the Princess", where Robin makes his way to rescue a princess (via Mario style), jumping on a turtle along the way. He kept hitting a block to get money until he got dizzy as he jumps down into a sewage pipe while he was disgusted by the miserable environment that was inside the pipe leading the game to show up a screen saying "Game Over!" in the end.

Characters

 * Robin
 * Starfire
 * Cyborg
 * Raven
 * Beast Boy
 * Raven's Emoticlones
 * Old Man (debut)
 * Circle Guy (debut)
 * Pie Hunter
 * Princess (mentioned)

Songs

 * I Love Pie (reprise)
 * Scratch Song

Trivia

 * This episode aired one year after "Más y Menos".
 * Raven and Cyborg play as characters who are antagonists in their respective game parodies, with Raven and her emoticlones being the ghosts, while Cyborg is the spy.
 * Once again, Silkie does not appear in this episode.

Continuity

 * This episode is similar to "Dreams," as it features each of the Titans having their own separate plots irrelevant to each other. Also, Starfire is once again shown first and has the longest focus.
 * Robin states he has started taking therapy, which is consistent with several past episodes where his sanity has been questionable.
 * Beast Boy complaining about how he never gets the hard tasks is similar to what he said in "Brain Food."
 * The Pac-Man ghosts for Raven's game represent three of Raven's Emoticlones from "Colors of Raven."
 * This is the third time the Titans appear in an 8-bit game. Cyborg did in his dream during "Dreams," and Robin did in "Serious Business." From Cyborg's perspective, this is the second time his dream/imagination appeared in video game style.
 * This is the third time Cyborg has sung "I Love Pie". ("Pie Bros," "Let's Get Serious")
 * This makes it the most frequent appearing song to date.
 * This is also the second time Robin has been in a Mario game. ("Serious Business")
 * Robin's love of money is shown again. ("Missing," "Two Bumble Bees and a Wasp")

Errors

 * Beast Boy is given seven lives in his game, but dies more than seven times.
 * The person chasing Cyborg in Pie Hunter was talking with a Russian accent, not an Asian accent.
 * When Robin jumps on the snail in his game sequence, a second later the snail's shell disappears.

Running Gags

 * The episode continues the gag from previous episodes of Robin ruining something that the other Titans would find fun.
 * The Titans losing their games.
 * Starfire dancing after succeeding at something in their game.
 * Beast Boy getting killed while crossing the street in their game.