Talk:The Return of Slade/@comment-7891699-20180212034634

The Return of Slade will always stand out as my favorite episode of the series. Whether you like the show or hate it, you gotta admit, they did a bang-up job, tossing the original fans a fishing lure and jerking it away from them. The overall moxie of this episode is brilliantly humorous and very well-played.

The way this episode goes through great lengths to build up to a huge fight with Slade what great, and the fact that thousands of real-life fans were successfully suckered by this, makes it all the more perfect.

The Return of Slade mocks their critics in a way that doesn't come across as insulting or pandering per se, but rather in a way reminiscent of your annoying friend, joking about your deeply embarassment-rooted feelings for your school crush, just giving you a hard time, before you elbow him in the arm to shut him up.

It'd be no stretch to call this episode's social commentary "enlightening" to those it's reaching out to, but there's no doubt none of those people ever listened to it. Either way, their reactions never fail to amuse, even to this day. The basic teaching of this episode is simple. "Children's media should be critiqued on different merits than regular media." A reasonable request for any critics of that kind of media, yet still going in one ear and out the other, with the same thing happening 4 years later.

Nevertheless, this episode was funny and I enjoyed it. With that all being said, I give this episode of Teen Titans Go! a 10/10.