Thanksgiving

"Thanksgiving" is Teen Titans Go! Season 2, Episode 12a (38a), and the 75th overall episode of the series.

Summary
When Raven’s father Trigon shows up for Thanksgiving dinner, Robin’s seating plan isn’t the only thing that gets ruined.

Plot
The plot starts off with Robin setting the living room into Thanksgiving Mode, by decorating it, placing the dishes on the table with all sorts of food including a delicious turkey dinner. The Titans poped out when they see Robin's preparations for Thanksgiving holiday and eventually they were about to dig in. However Robin stops them from eating all the food until he says so, waiting for a special guest to arrive which is Batman. He reminiscences the old days when he worked with him as a team which is why Robin needs to keep everything under control until Batman arrives. When he checked again on the food, he notices also Starfire's traditional Tamaranean cauldron of soup which Robin destroys it.

The elevator rings as Robin was expecting to be him already, instead it was Trigon, an uninvited guest for he wasn't even on the seating plan. However Trigon didn't came in as a demon, he came as a dad to make sure that her daughter has a perfect turkey day, while Raven isn't amused of his presence for she's expecting him to ruin the holiday. But Trigon promises that he will never devour any souls this year, only the succulent turkey. Robin added him on the seating plan after all while Beast Boy tells Robin that he invited some extra guests too which they were rats. Robin is horrified of his precious turkey dinner being devoured by the rats as he got rid of them leaving the turkey dinner destroyed. Trigon offers to help him with another turkey dinner to replace it for he needs the biggest, strongest, meatiest Titan to join him in the kitchen. Cyborg accepts it since he's the fitting Titan for it and they are off to the kitchen. When Cyborg asked how is he going to cook the turkey, Trigon tells him that its a secret family recipe by turning Cyborg into a turkey which allows Trigon to cook him and eating him. He summons an axe while Turkey Cyborg fears him.

Meanwhile, Robin is still waiting for Batman to arrive and sees the table invaded with even more homeless rats after Beast Boy explained that the rats invited their own extended family. Robin demands him to get rid of them for he doesn't have enough food nor seats.Beast Boy tells him that they won't eat much, just only enough to fill their little rat bellies as the rats started to do the belly-dance. Much to Robin's stress, he lets them to stay but no more excessive rats to join. Starfire pops out of nowhere in a football outfit knocking Robin down on the floor with her ball for she's giving out a traditional Thanksgiving game by kicking the ball along with Robin away.

Raven enters the kitchen and she sees Trigon attempting to chop down turkey Cyborg's head with his axes. Much to Raven's despair she stops him for she knew that her father will do anything to ruin her holiday. However Trigon only wanted for her daughter to have an actual turkey, but Raven states that eating one of her friends wasn't a part of the deal. Trigon grabs the turkey with him believing that he tossed what she liked the least, while Raven likes Robin the least for being her teammate taking with her the turkey back. Trigon says that they can eat Robin too and that was the last straw for Raven making her mad while they both tried to grab the turkey Cyborg, but it escaped from their powers allowing the turkey to fly away. Trigon goes after hunting it while Raven is chasing her father.

In the meantime, Robin is checking again on the decorations while Batman almost arrives, and surprisingly Turkey Cyborg passes him by along with Trigon and Raven, that made Robin to spin around. He then sees a whole bunch of rats dancing together with Beast Boy. Robin yells at him that he shouldn't invite anymore rats while Beast Boy claims that it wasn't by his hand for it is the miracle of life by making baby rats. However Robin is worried of how Batman would react if he sees as well the rats, for he knows that Batman likes only bats and not rats. Turkey Cyborg runs away again around the living room followed by a lot of axes thrown, and when he got cornered, Trigon was about to throw another axe at him but he got stopped by Raven that changed the direction of his axe making Robin to shriek in despair.

The turkey chase along the hallway has been finally ended when Trigon summons a giant axe to chop down Turkey Cyborg and he punches Raven on the ground while she attempted to stop him. Much to Raven's failure, he eventually lets her father to eat her friend for he never listens to her anyway leaving with a sad expression on her face. However when Trigon was about to stab Turkey Cyborg with a knife, his will has been stopped when he saw Raven about to cry. That made him to give up on the turkey for only he wanted was to make her a perfect Thanksgiving Day as he finally admits that eating one of her friends doesn't include in this holiday in order to have a decent turkey dinner. Raven thanks him and tells him to transform Cyborg back to normal so they can return back to dinner. However Trigon can't do it, as his magic upon Cyborg is only effective until Christmas.

In the living room, everybody including the rats are at the table waiting to eat but before that, Robin is checking again on everything to be prepared for Thanksgiving. When Starfire asked where he will sit, Robin forgot to put a seat for himself. But Beast Boy told him that they saved for him in one of the kid's table while its chair wasn't even stable that even made Robin to fall. Starfire commence the Thanksgiving feast while Robin stops them from eating again until Batman arrives. But when Raven asked him where is he going to sit, Robin answers that Batman sits wherever he likes and suggests them to say what they are thankful for while they wait instead. Robin starts first by claiming that he's thankful for he was able to put together a perfect Thanksgiving, even though some people tried to ruin it, while Beast Boy is thankful for his cool new rat friends. Raven is also thankful in a sarcastic way, that her father turned Cyborg into a turkey, while Trigon is thankful to be there with her daughter even if she doesn't appreciate his gifts to her. Turkey Cyborg tried to speak as well but only in "gabble gabble" language while Trigon agrees with him after complimenting enough to make him maniac again by attacking the turkey.

The Thanksgiving dinner table has been ruined for sure when turkey Cyborg ran on the table and splashed Beast Boy's and Raven's faces with food which that engaged a food fight. Starfire joins the fight as well as they hit each others faces with all sorts of food, while Trigon chases the turkey again with axes and the rats are dancing in joy while Robin watches the fight and goes berserk as his face gets also hit with a pie. Beast Boy laughing, has made Robin to throw a pie at him, but he dodges and hits Batman in the face when he finally arrived after opening the elevator doors. Horrified to see him and to see his reaction, Robin shrieks as he runs away to his room. While eating his own dinner in his room, Starfire enters for she was worried about Robin. Believing that he ruined the Thanksgiving Day, Starfire agrees with him, however she thinks that everyone's terrible actions has helped her to understand the true meaning of a celebration and that is why she is thankful that Robin is their leader, and her friend by her truly passion. Making Robin happy, he is also thankful that she always make him feeling better for himself. He asked if she wants to help him cleaning out his mess which she accepted.

Back in the living room, Robin and Starfire sees it all cleaned up with its all preparations and decorations reassembled. He cannot believe his eyes but wondering who did it. As Beast Boy poped out from under the table he says it was the rats for they don't have a place to go or food or even had a chance to see their family. Them being generous, they decided to bring everything back to normal for they had the best Thanksgiving Day ever along with a new feast, which Trigon, Raven and Turkey Cyborg are thrilled to see it again on feet. Amazed, Robin was wondering about the turkey, but Raven told him that she and her father took care of that by turning Batman into a turkey.

Characters

 * Robin
 * Starfire
 * Cyborg
 * Beast Boy
 * Raven
 * Trigon
 * Batman
 * The Rats

Trivia

 * This episode aired at a special time, Wednesday night at 5:30 PM Eastern Standard Time.
 * Hints were dropped in "Dog Hand" and in "Caramel Apples" that Trigon would return for Thanksgiving.
 * It is revealed Robin is Raven's least favorite teammate.
 * It revealed that Cyborg's birthday is on June 29.

Continuity

 * This is the second time we see Trigon's "innocent" side.
 * This is the third appearance of Trigon.
 * This is the sixth holiday episode. ("Second Christmas", "Be Mine", "Money Grandma", "Caramel Apples", "Halloween")
 * The quick sight gag that Robin showed to Beast Boy to show that "Batman likes bats, not rats" included Robin's Batman appearance first seen when Robin lost control of himself in "Sidekick".
 * Just as he said in both "Dog Hand" and "Caramel Apples", Trigon does return for Thanksgiving.