Kicking a Ball and Pretending to Be Hurt

"Kicking a Ball and Pretending to Be Hurt" is Teen Titans Go! Season 2, Episode 21a (47a), and the 93rd overall episode of the series.

Summary
Robin teaches the Titans how to play soccer. They quickly become obsessed, and accidentally uncover the secret reason why the sport is so popular.

Plot
The plot starts off at the Titans Tower, where Robin announces the Titans that it's Sports Day but they didn't about it however Robin yells at them to know better for he even printed fliers all over the living room and they'll be playing the world's most popular sport "fútbol". The Titans got all excited they thought they'll be playing American football. Robin corrects them that its fútbol also known as soccer which it disappoints the Titans thinking that nobody cares about soccer and it's just a game where people are kicking a ball and pretending to be hurt.

Neither Raven doesn't like soccer but she prefers "sock him" by punching Beast Boy. Robin understands her pun and he tells them about the passion of fútbol which it can bring the nation together or tear it apart and being the benefit of life. Cyborg's wondering if they are still talking about soccer but Robin tells him to stop calling it soccer since it is called fútbol. Raven always thought something sinister about that sport of how could people get so worked up already over a ball and Starfire thinks it does seem unlikely a game could inspire such intense emotions, but Robin reminisces her about Cyborg when he played Duck-Duck-Goose confirming his theory about fútbol game. They all attempted to pronounce fútbol with passion without confusing with football and Beast Boy nailed it leading Raven to "sock him" again.

The Titans are outside on the field as they are amazed of their sports outfits. Beast Boy decides to test out his shin armor by letting Cyborg to kick his shin hard enough leading Beast Boy in agony of pain. Starfire joins and kicks his shin armor too, not for long before Raven joins too as she thought they were playing "sock him". She starts punching Beast Boy repeatedly in the same time when Cyborg and Starfire are kicking him as well, much to Beast Boy's painful situation. Robin calls off their horse-playing and shows them the ball he brought for game play. He tells them the rules to put the ball in the goal. Beast Boy's first as he picks up the ball and throws it into the goal field with his hands instead of feet and he gets a yellow card from Robin. He informs that he can't use his hands and the meaning of fútbol is by using feet just as Beast Boy thought eventually. Raven claims she doesn't have feet but Robin lifts up her cloak revealing her feet which she forgotten. He shows them a proper demonstration of kicking the ball into the goal field and with that it comes with a celebration by shouting "Goal!" as long as possible. Raven's shout was too short, Starfire went overboard like an opera singing, Beast Boy almost got it but it wasn't longer enough and finally Cyborg nailed it longer enough and loud which Robin congratulates him.

After a wild training on the field by playing fútbol, even Silkie trying to kick the ball, and them pretending to be hurt, the Titans we're feeling full of energy and intense of the emotions for Robin was right about the spirit of the game thanks to their magical ball which unlocked the key of their passions. Still Raven can't argue her feelings due to so much emotions leading her to say "Goal!" longer enough for like 20 seconds.

Back in the kitchen, Robin was eating his cereals and tells Raven to pass some milk out of the refrigerator which she does it by passing with her feet and Robin does the same thing back to refrigerator after he poured some milk in his cereals making the Titans saying "Goal!" again. Beast Boy hits Cyborg a little bit and Cyborg starts to pretend like he was hurt while he's down on the floor and for that Beast Boy receives a red card from Robin. Beast Boy claims that he barely even touched him, but Robin doesn't want to hear his excuses and he's out of the game, meanwhile Starfire is running around like in the field while Raven claims that they never lived their lives with such emotions. Robin agrees with them thanks to their magical ball which invigorated themselves as he holds up the ball with his hands. The Titans gasped to see him holding it with his hands making Robin to drop his ball and cracks it on the floor unleashing a unusual magic wave. Robin opens up the cracked ball with his staff only for them to see a little Soccer Troll that was hidden inside the ball. The troll introduces him and explains about his job of bringing magic to soccer knowing that kicking a ball and pretending to be hurt is boring. No wonder why the Titans felt the excitement of joy and magic, and because of that Robin tells the troll to take them to their leader.

Deep in the underground, a huge soccer field arena filled with an audience of little soccer trolls are waiting for the game to begin. The Titans arrived as they uncovered the troll's secret lair of distributing trolls hidden inside each soccer ball. King Soccer welcomes them as Robin tells him to give up on making magical people to like the soccer game but the King refuses cause that's how they keep themselves alive out of everyone's love for sport and pretending to be hurt. One way or another, the Titans are going to take him down which King suggests a game of soccer with one goal score. If the Titans win, the King must call back all the soccer trolls and if the Trolls win they'll summon death upon them. The Titans starts playing soccer once they kicked the ball, it didn't reached far away enough to the goal field making the King to kick it back right in their goal field scoring up a goal for the trolls.

Them losing, the King was about to kill them but not for long until Robin reminds him that the Titans are sore losers as they started to destroy the soccer arena along with its audience making the King to think twice as he'll call back the soccer trolls much to his fear. The Titans are beating up King Soccer until get bored defeating the King. Cyborg suggests a game of bowling ball instead which the Titans agreed as he brought up his bowling ball but drops it accidentally and cracks it. It revealed a magical Bowling Turkey but Cyborg blasted it since they didn't want to get into a similar trouble as they went already.

Characters

 * Robin
 * Starfire
 * Cyborg
 * Raven
 * Beast Boy
 * Silkie (cameo)
 * Soccer Troll (debut)
 * Bowling Turkey (debut, cameo)
 * King Goal (debut)

Trivia

 * This episode aired one year after "Grandma Voice", and two years after "Driver's Ed" and "Dog Hand".
 * To date, the title of this episode has the highest amount of letters, breaking the record with 33 letters.
 * The seagull and crab that are usually on the rock in front of the tower have gone on a vacation, as the rock shows a sign saying "On vacay!"

Continuity

 * This is the second episode revealing all of the Titans doing an official world-wide sports game, the first time being in "Artful Dodgers" by playing dodge-ball against the H.I.V.E. Five.
 * Starfire is seen wearing her football helmet that was first seen in "Thanksgiving".
 * Beast Boy's and Cyborg's soccer uniforms resemble their other uniforms from "Artful Dodgers" and "Boys vs. Girls".
 * This is the second time the Titans play "duck duck goose" which they first did in "Pie Bros".
 * It appears Starfire has now learned how to correctly play the game, and no longer uses real ducks and geese.
 * This is the third time a joke is shared that only Raven and Robin find funny. ("Uncle Jokes", "Hose Water")
 * Cyborg is wearing the same shirt as he did in "Artful Dodgers".

Errors

 * Raven claiming herself by not having legs, even though she does have.

Running Gags

 * Robin yelling at the other Titans for saying "fútbol" wrong.
 * Saying "Gooooooaaaaaaaallll!"
 * The Titans playing Sockhim.