The True Meaning of Christmas

"The True Meaning of Christmas" is the 18th episode of the third season of Teen Titans Go!, and the 122nd overall episode of the series.

This episode is the second Christmas-themed episode of the series.

Summary
Fed up from never getting presents from Santa, the Titans head to the North Pole to take themselves off the Naughty List, by "any means necessary".

Plot
The episode begins with Robin's alarm clock going off at 8:00 AM, and all the Titans run to the living room expecting presents  under the Christmas tree. The past two years (soon to be three) they have gone without presents and today they find themselves receiving no presents again, so the Titans get suspicious. Robin says there is only one reason why they weren't getting presents...they were on the naughty list! So they go to the north pole and sneak into Santa's workshop and disperse. Raven and Starfire ask a gingerbread man where the naughty list, but devour everything in his house. Beast Boy visits Santa's reindeer and ends up upsetting Rudolph with insults, as he drives away in Santa's sleigh.

Then over in the toy factory, Cyborg gets in with the elves and asks where the naughty list is, but the noise makes the leader elf angry. The leader elf asks what was happening, and Cyborg blames another elf, who is then carried away by Jingle and Jangle, as Cyborg gets away.

Meanwhile, Robin investigates in Santa's office, standing over Santa's naughty list, attempting to erase their name from the list. Surprisingly, it doesn't erase as he expected, so he tries rubbing out the Titans name first, uses white out and then a mini bomb, but eventually gives up from the failures. He is then interrupted by Santa's dog that intentionally barks to get Santa's attention. Santa comes over and scolds Robin for his actions, but the other Titans eventually arrive to complain about how they didn't get their wish for presents for the past three years. Santa states that presents is not the true meaning of Christmas, resulting in the Titans blowing up his toy factory. Forced against his will, Santa quickly confesses that the true meaning of Christmas is presents, and ends up taking the Titans in his sleigh, who help him give all nice and naughty people presents.

Characters

 * Starfire
 * Cyborg
 * Beast Boy
 * Raven
 * Robin
 * Santa Claus (speaking debut)
 * Santa's Dog (debut)
 * Santa's Elves (debut)
 * Gizmo (cameo)
 * Jinx (cameo)
 * Mammoth (cameo)
 * See-More (cameo)
 * Billy Numerous (cameo)
 * Red X (mentioned)
 * Slade (mentioned)
 * Kitten (name mentioned on the naughty list)
 * Rose Wilson (name mentioned on the naughty list)
 * The Joker (mentioned)
 * Dr. Light (cameo)
 * Killer Moth (cameo)
 * Gingerbread Man (debut)
 * Gumdrop (debut)
 * Rudolph (debut)
 * Chief Elf Toy Maker (debut)
 * Jingle and Jangle (debut)

Songs

 * Jolly Fat Man

Trivia

 * This episode premiereed the day before the one-year anniversary of "The Best Robin" and the two-year anniversary of "Second Christmas" (both aired on December 4 one year apart).
 * This was the last episode to be premiered in 2015.
 * This is the first time the Titans meet Santa.
 * Strangely, the Titans did not get coal for being on the naughty list.
 * The people on the naughty list were The Joker, Teen Titans, Rose, Red X, See-More, Slade, and Kitten.
 * On the Titans computer screen Robin has a document called "Dolphins".
 * In Santa's workshop there are various toys on the shelf one of them being Kryptonite fists.
 * Coincidentally, Peter Rida Michail both directing this episode and "Second Christmas".

Continuity

 * Raven is seen unhooded for the thirty-first time.
 * The gingerbread house from "Grube's Fairytales" is seen again.
 * The second time the Titans sing "Deck the Halls" since "Second Christmas".
 * Robin was shown wearing pajamas. The others were "Second Christmas, "Slumber Party", "Terra-ized", "Staff Meeting", "Cat's Fancy", and "Dreams". Raven was included in Dreams, Slumber Party, and Man Person. Starfire and Beast Boy both was in Dreams and Slumber Party.
 * If you count Starfire loving the gingerbread cat, this is the ninth time she love and adore cats. The first eight was Dreams, Caramel Apples, Multiple Trick Pony, And the Award for Sound Design Goes to Rob, The HIVE Five, Cat's Fancy, Animals, It's Just a Word!, and Scary Dance Figure.

Errors

 * The episode shows that, for three years straight, the Titans have not received any gifts from Santa, which disregards the continuity from "Second Christmas". In that episode, the Titans received gifts at the beginning.
 * On the third year of Christmas where the Titans are discussing how to get Santa to arrive, viewers can see that on the computer screen there is an document that says "Terra's Drive". That cannot be the case since Terra took out her drive in the episode "Be Mine".

Running Gags

 * The Titans not receiving presents from Santa.
 * The Titans yelling and being mean to each other, hence naughty.
 * Starfire and Raven eating the Gingerbred Man, Gumdrop and it's house.