Brain Food

"Brain Food" is the 43rd episode of the first season of Teen Titans Go!, and the 43rd overall episode of the series.

Summary
Beast Boy is tired of being the least intelligent of the Titans. When all his efforts to become smart fail, he uses Raven's spell book to cast a spell-- not to make himself smarter, but to make all the other Titans dumber.

Plot
The episode begins with an asteroid hurtling towards earth, and the Titans are working to find a way to stop it. Robin assigns each Titan with a special job to help take the asteroid down. However when Beast Boy awaits his job, Robin simply gives him a vial of water to hold, telling him it's "science juice". Beast Boy eagerly grabs the vial and begins dancing, but then accidentally drops and breaks it. Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven try to comfort him, only to have Beast Boy confused as to why they're dumb-talking to him. They try to politely explain he's unintelligent, but Beast Boy is unable to understand their explanations, until Robin bluntly states "you're not smart". Beast Boy is angered by this and declares he can be of help, but Robin tells him the most help he could be was to give Silkie a bath.

Beast Boy is determined to prove the others wrong, and tries various methods to make himself smarter. First, he tries to open a door but Raven opens it from the other side and gives him a black eye. Another time he tries to open a book but again tries to push instead of pull. After doing these things, he decides that if he'll use a spell to make himself smarter. So he asks Raven if her spell-book has a spell to make people smarter and if there are more words than pictures or vice-versa. She responds and Beast Boy nonchalantly flies away with Silkie to find the book. He finds it and opens it and finds the right spell. He holds the book above his head chants the words. He ends up putting the spell on Silkie instead of him, which turns Silkie turns into a genius.

Beast Boy walks out of his room believing he became smarter and tests himself with a toy to see if it works, but realizes it didn't and goes back to the spell-book. He decides that if he can't be smarter, he will just make the titans dumber. So he casts a spell and goes to see if the spell worked.He watches Robin and Cyborg try to catch a bird but run into the window. Amazed that the spell worked Beast Boy and the other Titans start dancing while Silkie tries to work out how to stop the asteroid.

The next day, the other Titans can not figure out how to make cereal but Beast Boy shows them how to do it, amazed on how he did it they start to say that he is the smartest. Meanwhile, Silkie is still trying to build something to stop the asteroid with only twelve minutes left.

Later Beast Boy was trying to help Raven with a toy, but Robin keeps saying that he can't find his shoe and that foot is in a bucket. Meanwhile Silkie is trying to stop the asteroid. Later Raven says she can't see as she's put her cloak on backwards, but Beast Boy fixes it, so when the asteroid is getting closer to Jump City, all the Titans depend on Beast Boy to fix it, and after he figures out that he can't do it he regrets what he did. So he puts a banana in his ear to become smarter, and then says "OK we know that the asteroid is coming at us with a little thing called gravity right, and gravity is controlled by the ocean, and that means if we can kill the ocean then then the asteroid will go back home." And then the Titans jump into the ocean.

In the ocean they start randomly punching things, meanwhile it is revealed the Silkie was building a robot that looks like him to fight the asteroid. When Silkie finally destroys the asteroid, but the Titans think they have succeeded and say Beast Boy saved them all, and he says that he still regrets being smarter. And he asked Raven where her spell book was but she thought that he meant to spell book, but she gives up.

Later that day the Titans and Beast Boy still have difficulty making cereal and Beast Boy reveals he cast the same spell he used on himself on the team. Asked him why he didn't just cast a spell to make them smarter, Beast Boy says he doesn't know why. The Titans continue to blunder about the kitchen, then get amazed by a butterfly and try to catch it, but they just hit a window again.

Characters

 * Beast Boy
 * Robin
 * Raven
 * Cyborg
 * Starfire
 * Silkie

Trivia

 * When Beast Boy opens Raven's spell book, you'll see written in the left hand corner 'To Raven from, Dad'
 * In the Montage where Beast Boy was doing "Smart Things," "Smartest" was spelled incorrectly (Smartist)
 * When Silkie obtains the knowledge power, he appears with glasses, this is a stereotypic way to interpret smart people.
 * This is one of the episodes had the most running gags (in one episode) in the series so far. It is tied with "Driver's Ed", and in third is the next episode, "In and Out".

Continuity

 * This is the third time Beast Boy assumes leadership of the team. The first time was in "Gorilla" and the second was in "No Power".
 * This is the third time Beast Boy has used Raven's spell book. The first two times were in Meatball Party (to turn the couch into a burrito) and Double Trouble with Cyborg (to make clones of themselves).
 * Curiously, this time he does not even know how to open a book.
 * This is the third time Silkie has been shown with his eyes open, the other times were "Starliar" and "Dreams".
 * This is the sixth time Raven is seen unhooded.
 * Also when Beast Boy is trying to get in the library, you can see a picture of Raven unhooded.
 * The Riddler question mark is seen yet again while Beast Boy is thinking.
 * This is the second time Beast Boy said "Titans, Go!", which he first did in "Gorilla".
 * The VS. image from the episodes "Laundry Day", "Parasite", and "Terra-ized" is used again for the first time in a long time.

Errors

 * Beast Boy didn't know how to open a book even though he could in "Books".
 * Beast Boy tried to eat a fish, even though he's a vegan.
 * Though as he treated it as "brain food" and ate it by shoving it in his ear, he may have thought of it differently to normal food.
 * Beast Boy apparently does not know how to work the Titan's computer even though he was able to in "Hey Pizza!"
 * Despite having a library, the Titans couldn't find anymore books to read in "Books."
 * Although it is possible that the Titans' love for books influenced the addition of a library.

Running Gags

 * Beast Boy being told to "Pull not push", but continuously forgetting.
 * Beast Boy shoving brain food in his ear.
 * The Titans see a flying animal they want to catch, and run into the window.
 * The Titans accidentally using cereal bowls upside down.
 * Beast Boy being simple minded.