Boys vs Girls

"Boys vs Girls" is the twentieth episode of the second season of Teen Titans Go!, and the seventy-second overall episode of the series.

Synopsis[]

The male and female Titans compete against each other to prove once and for all which gender is better-boys or girls?

Plot[]

The story starts at the Titans Tower where Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin are eating pizza while discussing boy stuff such as football, race cars and begins to burp in front of Raven and Starfire rudely. While they're enjoying themselves after singing about their famous gender, Raven calls off the annoyance by smashing Beast Boy under a meteor. The boys start to mock the girls for they believe that boys are better than girls. While Starfire does not know why they're judging genders, Robin explains that girls can never compete with boys because they busily lie around thinking about having looks and being emotional. However, his theory turns to be vice-versa when the girls claim that they are the ones who are lazy and spending more time tidying their hair than them.

Raven begins to shout angry at Cyborg and Beast Boy, making them crying for they might attempt to show up their emotional feelings. Still believing that boys are better than girls, Robin can go on and on about all the reasons to prove it, but he can summon up just one word: cooties. As Robin claims Raven and Starfire have cooties, The Titans get shocked, making Cyborg and Beast Boy get on his side. However, Raven believes that cooties aren't real, and if she thinks that boys are better, she and Starfire challenge the boys to a contest of speed, smartness, and strength between genders, which they accepted eventually. The girls easily won all three rounds, while the boys lost all of them.

Meanwhile, the boys return to the Tower, all drenched from being thrown into the air by Raven and Starfire in the previous round. Cyborg and Beast Boy are now confident that girls are better than boys and how Robin lied to them about cooties. Just in case, Cyborg checks on them with his eye-scanner for cooties, and they are all cootie-free. Except for Robin, the boys were confused and wondered what they were doing most of the time. Raven tells them that she's reading spell books while fighting evil demons, while Starfire makes glorbnog pudding with a giant klatar's saliva. The boys are amazed at their actions and decide to join the girls, leaving the living room, while Robin plans to bring up real cooties for the girls.

During the nighttime, Robin infiltrates the Top Secret Government Laboratory, mainly in the hazard labs, by stealth without being detected by security. He finds the cooties container and snatches a sample from it in his tube. After he returns to the Tower, Robin spills the sample right below each Titan girl's room doors for the night and starts his evil laugh loud enough to wake up Cyborg, shouting at him that he's trying to sleep. Robin stops laughing.

The next morning, the Titans are having breakfast and start again mocking Robin for he's a boy, as Cyborg and Beast Boy are still enjoying Raven and Starfire while singing the female gender song. Suddenly, their song was interrupted when Starfire and Raven started to scratch themselves repeatedly as they don't feel alone in their clothes. When Robin states it, Beast Boy and Cyborg believe him, now that the girls have cooties when they appeared on their faces, scaring off the Titan boys. Raven and Starfire both blame Robin for his major mistake while he admits it. And only he can get rid of cooties with his cootie catcher if they also admit that boys are better than girls. Raven and Starfire refuse, leading Robin to let them be contaminated. However, Raven states that if they touch the boys, they will be contaminated with cooties too. The Titan boys shriek in terror and escape the Tower. The Titan girls are chasing them downtown, but no matter where the boys tried to find a place to hide, the girls were always a step ahead of them. The boys are cornered in a bank vault and had touched by the girls, who contaminate them with cooties as they scratch repeatedly. Finally, Robin admits his defeat and uses the cootie catcher, decontaminating themselves back.

After they get out of the vault, Robin admits that girls are superior to boys in every way while apologizing to them. Anyhow, Beast Boy claims that only a boy can make such an amazing speech in the end, just like how Robin did as they attempt to sing their gender song again until Raven shuts their mouths up with her demonic tentacles. The episode ends with a "Show'z Ovah!" backdrop scene.

Characters[]

Robin
Cyborg
Beast Boy
Starfire
Raven
Superman (cameo, abstract)
Batman (cameo, abstract)
Wonder Woman (debut, cameo, abstract)
Police Officer #2 (cameo)
Crab

Songs[]

Trivia[]

This episode aired one year after "No Power" and 10 years after the original Teen Titans episode, "Can I Keep Him?".
This is the first appearance of the Top Secret Government Laboratory.
- Its exterior has an appearance similar to the Juvenile Correction Facility.
After the girls win the competition a picture of Wonder Woman is seen shredding a Batman shirt.
This episode was critically panned because of alleged sexism.
Strangely, according to Cyborg's door, the Titans' room doors somehow have the ability to emote when the Titans emote. This is shown when Raven and Starfire's doors have frowny face when the cooties chemicals are poured into their rooms, and when Cyborg shouts at Robin twice that he can hear hime laughing evilly.
Irony: Since Cyborg and Beast Boy joins Raven and Starfire to become girls, they should've just dressed and act as girls; Cyborg and Beast Boy became boys again since Raven and Starfire got cooties (thanks to Robin).
As of March 2020, this episode has been paired with Season 3 episode Wally T, due to the fact that this episode's sister, Body Adventure was removed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its similarities to the coronavirus.

Continuity[]

The Titans' sport outfits, which they're wearing during the competition between boys and girls, are the same ones from "Artful Dodgers" except that they don't have the "T" emblem anymore, and each team has a different color.
Robin's obsession with his physical appearance, most notable his hair, is displayed again.
This is the second time Robin gives an evil laugh. The first time was in "Power Moves".
This is the second episode that Beast Boy referred to Raven as "his girl". The first episode was "Pirates".

References[]

When the boys and Starfire are down in the sewers, something that looks like Beast Boy's werebeast transformation from the original Teen Titans series, seems to be lurking in the background.
The music playing during the Titans' contest start references the intro song of Thunderstruck by AC/DC.
The music that plays while Robin infiltrates the Government Laboratory is from the Mission: Impossible franchise.
During the chase between the Titan boys and girls in downtown Jump City, it shows a reference to the Pacman game series.
The knowledge train that goes downtown to the corner of science and all facts is a parody of Soul Train, the longest-running, first-run nationally syndicated program in its 35-year history and the hippest trip in America from 1971 to 2006.
The "sugar, spice, and anything nice" quote being mentioned by Robin is a reference to The Powerpuff Girls.
Rat Fink is referenced when Beast Boy is seen driving a car in a surreal fashion.
Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy make a reference to a "selfie", a popular internet term used when you take a photo of yourself or a group of people.

Errors[]

During the song Boys Boys, the symbol used to describe the male gender (a circle with an arrow pointing upright) is shown as a circle with an arrow pointing downright, however in the song "Girls Girls", the female symbol (a circle with a cross underneath) is shown the right way.
- However, the necklace may simply be obeying gravity.
Some channel guides mistakenly call this episode "Girls vs Boys".