Talk:The Cape/@comment-30902875-20170610022405

Not sure if anyone is reading these comments anymore but I genuinely found this episode hilarious. It was a great episode idea - kinda reminded me of Bad Lip Reading. When I read that this was supposedly one of the most hated episodes I honestly couldn't understand why; it made some solid jokes that worked on their own or made fun of TT. The "Formation run up walls for no reason", Slade pretending to hold stuff and Robin running around Plasmus bits got me.

As cringey as the show can be  lot of the time, you have to admit it has its moments, and this was one of them. TTG excels in self-deprecating humour and episodes that focus around that are some of my favourites (e.g. The Fourth Wall). If only the show could move away from butt jokes and mostly cringe-worthy dance scenes to focus more on the type of comedy the writers excel at, it would be a much better (and less hated) show. In its current state, the quality varies from meh to above average, with some good jokes here and there but mostly nothing special; it's when the writers actually write jokes instead of ctrl+v-ing butt close-ups and "random" humour that the quality vastly improves.

But the brilliant thing about Go! is that, in the later seasons at least, it acknowledges both its faults and its unpopularity, and nails the self-deprecating humour and jabs at the people who go out of their way to bash the show. It's brilliant that the writers used the show's cult following of "haters" (for lack of a better word) to their advantage. An example of this sort of thing is in The Titans Show - which is a reference to the movie The Truman Show -  when Starfire says, "Why would people who despise us devote so much of the time and energy to watching us?", and Beast Boy shows her a website subtley called DCUmblr with comments like "Dookie show. poo poo dookie" by "nutnbetr2do" and "There so dumb and Your dumb for likng it bing bak th old show [sic]" by "Brainy_yack". I also love episodes like Let's Get Serious, which makes fun of the show's hyperactive and random writing that it is so hated for, while also making fun of serious and over-the-top cartoons.

In a way, TTG's unpopularity is what makes it so good, hence the rise in quality (in my opinion at least) after Season 1. The show has become a platform for the writers to poke fun at those who mindlessly bash it, and also at themselves for their admittedly lazy writing most of the time, and something about that is both fascinating and hilarious to me. That's   the sort of comedy the show needs more of. And more of the flashes of creativity in 40% 40% 20% and other different-art-style episodes. But that's a whole other four-paragraph discussion.

Looks like I just went on a rant about a Cartoon Network children's show called Teen Titans Go! so I'm gonna lie down and think about that for a minute.