Oil Drums

"Oil Drums" is Teen Titans Go! Season 2, Episode 19b (45b), and the 90th overall episode of the series.

Summary
Cyborg is looking forward to a marathon of 80's television shows, but the remote appears to be lost.

Plot
The episode starts off with Cyborg announcing to all of the Titans that the night was all to be described in three letters. Robin guesses BLT, Beast Boy guesses VIP, Starfire guesses UFO and Raven guesses LOL. Cyborg responds to them all no and says it is VH and S. He announces that he has VHS's for days. Raven and Starfire both respond with some of the shows they would like to watch. Robin also replies that he wants to watch Alf, and claims, creepily, that he wants to see Alf eat cats. Beast Boy also replies, saying he wants to watch a show Manimal, a show about a human turning into animals. Cyborg then says they are watching The A-Team, with Starfire is happy to hear, since she thinks that A is the first letter in the alphabet, it must be good. Cyborg then explains what happens in the show, and mentions that the van that the A team rides in has a stripe. Robin then says that he loves stripes, then finishes by saying that they are crime fighters. Raven then responds by saying how they are like them by being crime fighters.

Cyborg replies by saying that instead of being lame, they make weapons out of oil drums, which Beast Boy finds awesome. Cyborg then puts in the tape and asks where the remote is, which the Titans all responds with they don't knows. Cyborg then just thinks it is within the couch cushions and starts to search. He then pulls out Sticky Joe which Robin asks if he knows where the remote is. He only says "Howdy!" which makes Robin think he is useless and throws him out. Cyborg then starts panicking and searches everywhere in the couch and starts crying. Robin then suggests they just use the buttons on the TV, which Cyborg agrees to. However, there was a lot of buttons, so Cyborg worryingly starts hitting them all, which doesn't work. He started to cry again, and Raven tells him to relax and says that they can just watch The A-Team another time. Cyborg says it isn't about that or all of the other 80's shows but it is that without TV, he doesn't know what to do with himself. Robin says that it's just TV which makes Cyborg visit his past by saying that all of his best moments in his life was watching TV. Robin then say that he sounds like a crazy person and should just take a break from TV.

Cyborg asks why he should do that and Robin replies that TV rots the brain. Cyborg doesn't believe this and says that TV keeps his brain active and strong. Beast Boy agrees by saying if a parent says it, it must be true. Robin then says instead of watching TV, they are going to hang around with each other, which all of the Titans except Cyborg are excited about. However, they all wind up being bored. Raven then breaks the boring silence by saying without TV, no one knows how long a second is. Cyborg asks how many seconds are there until they go to sleep, and Starfire replies approximately 32,000. Cyborg then gets annoyed and says he isn't going through seconds 32,000 more times. Robin then says they should have a meaningful conversation. Beast Boy then asks how they do that and Robin replies that they just speak how they feel. Robin then starts by saying "Good afternoon. These are a nice day. For things." Beast Boy then replies by saying "Uh, hi. I'm a person." Cyborg then says "I know when I do things." Starfire lead off from there by saying "One time, I saw." Raven responds to that by saying "Eeehhhhhhh." From there they just say "Ha" until Cyborg snapped and said that they needed to find the remote. Robin says they should just do something that people did for fun before TV. Beast Boy says a parade so the Titans all go to a parade. They all find it quite boring and boo at the parade. Cyborg then says he is tired of seeing parades and doing terrible conversations and just wants to watch TV.

Robin says that it will just rot his brain, so he tells the Titans things that they have been wanting to do. He tells Beast Boy to play the keyboard, Raven to do body building and Starfire to help the poor. It then shows them doing all of these things, along with Robin doing carpentry and Cyborg cooking. Cyborg then makes everyone tapas, which they all enjoy. However, they all start to feel empty inside and Raven wanted to know why. Cyborg says that no of the things that they did were beneficial, an said that TV have all of those things and that TV is the real hero. They then notice a foul smell an Cyborg states that it is their brains rotting. Raven wonders how their brains are rotting even though they weren't watching TV, which Cyborg states that TV keeps your brain from rotting by feeding it info an good times. Beast Boy then notices how Cyborg's brain wasn't rotting, which Cyborg states that it was that he watch so many good shows that his brain was stronger than everyone else's.

Characters

 * Cyborg
 * Robin
 * Beast Boy
 * Starfire
 * Raven
 * TV (debut)
 * Sticky Joe (cameo)

Trivia

 * This episode aired one year after "Uncle Jokes".
 * It is revealed Cyborg used to wear braces as a child.
 * The reason why the episode is called "Oil Drums" is because Cyborg mentioned how he likes how The A-Team makes oil drums.

Continuity

 * Cyborg's love for 80's popular culture and television marathons returns from "Tower Power".
 * When Beast Boy and Cyborg look at each other at the start, they are in the same pose aa when they sung I Love Pie.
 * The Titans once again take activities randomly suggested by Robin, much like how he did in "Multiple Trick Pony".
 * This is the third time a Titan's real name is mentioned, in this case Starfire's which is revealed to.be Koriand'r. ("Hot Garbage", "Robin Backwards")
 * This is the eighteenth time that Raven is seen unhooded.
 * This is Sticky Joe's second appearance. It seems he has survived the trash avalanche in "Hot Garbage".
 * Raven's romantic feelings for Beast Boy are shown once again. The initials "R" and "BB" with a heart in between them are craved in her R letter shaped chair.

Running Gags

 * Robin, Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire's brains rotting.
 * 8-bit styled graphics appearing.

Errors

 * Beast Boy wanted to learn how to play the keyboard even though he was shown playing a keytar in "Girl's Night Out", which is almost the same as a keyboard.
 * It is possible that this episode takes place before it.
 * It shows in Cyborg's memory that he was fully human when he started watching television and was still fully human when he was an older kid. This further supports his true origin from the old comics stated in Tower Power and Real Boy Adventures, while disproving his comedic, false origin first mentioned in Dog Hand.