Cool Uncles

"Cool Uncles" is the 41st episode of the sixth season of Teen Titans Go!, and the 304th overall episode of the series.

Summary

The Titans take a trip to Whack-A-Doodles, but Trigon makes Raven babysit her baby triplet half-brothers instead. The Titans decide to take the demon triplets with them, where chaos ensures to keep them happy.

Plot

The Titans are exhilarated for a visit to Whack-A-Doodles due to their anticipation of wanting to ride the amusement park's latest addition: The Stratosfear!

However, Trigon untimely shows up and asks Raven to babysit her baby triplet half-brothers Russ, Lyle and Suge. No matter how she declines his request because she is going to Whack-A-Doodles with her friends, he insists on taking them with her as he claims that he has a serious business meeting. After Trigon leaves, Raven's friends become fascinated by her brothers and Beast Boy and Cyborg immediately become cool uncles. With Robin trying to be cool but instead upsets the baby brothers with his hideous face. They start crying and energy comes from them, resulting in Robin getting hurt. At the same time, Raven explains that when they get upset, their demonic powers grow uncontrollably, and warns her friends about that after Robin nearly gets his finger bitten by Suge as well as stating that taking them to the amusement park is a dangerous decision. However, her friends ignores her warning, and after Cyborg's missile hits Robin, they all head to Whack-A-Doodles.

After arriving at Whack-A-Doodles, Raven's triplet half-brothers are quite interested by their surroundings. However, they quickly get frightened by the mascot of the amusement park, so Raven has to punch the mascot away when they are on the verge of losing their control. Raven's four friends are soon attracted by the Stratosfear, but there is a setback- the queue is too long. To compensate, Raven suggests going to a nice baby ride instead. At first, the three babies are happy to ride on the wacky world ride, but soon everything descends into chaos after Starfire panics upon looking at the mechanical dolls and starts shooting starbolts everywhere. With the three babies on the brink of getting uncontrollable, the Titans have to get an emergency exit through Raven's portal after she orders Cyborg to propel the boat forward.

Upon leaving the wacky world ride, the Titans find out that they are now at the front of the Stratosfear queue. Raven decides that her brothers have enough excitement for the day and declines going on the ride, so her friends quickly rush to ride it without her. Raven then watches them getting horrified by the experience and they all end up being scared and thrilled simultaneously after getting off it. With the four promising her to look after her brothers, Raven teleports herself to the ride so she can enjoy the thrill, only to realize that her friends have tagged along and also bring her brothers too. But there is no way she can take her brothers off the Stratosfear, and after experiencing such a thrilling ride (which involves Robin being repeatedly hit by birds), Raven is afraid that her brothers are going to freak out, but to her relief they thoroughly enjoy it.

Unfortunately, things starts getting rough after the Titans and the babies leave the ride, because the babies keep getting upset after losing their ice cream and balloons. The last straw finally snaps when Robin grabs the Whack-A-Doodles mascot, which upsets the babies and they merge into a gigantic demon baby. They begin destroying everything in the amusement park and scaring all the visitors, and proceeds to punch and about to kill the mascot. Raven orders them to stop, only for them to breathe out fire at Robin who ends up being burned. The others realize that Robin getting injured can calm down the merged babies, thus they proceed to torture him, which actually does cheer up the babies. After Robin ends up getting crashed onto the moon, Raven's brothers are finally reverted to normal, though the Titans also end up facing the consequence of being evicted from the amusement park for causing so much damage.

After returning to the tower, Raven shows much affection to her brothers and admits she has a great time with them. The other Titans also shower the babies with their affection, such as giving them ice cream, though Robin's gets rebuffed. When Trigon returns nonetheless, it turns out that he actually went to play golf and was merely shirking his responsibility as a father, much to Raven's anger as she hates him for deceiving her, but he justifies himself that she shouldn't expect him to be honest as he is a demon himself. Karma soon comes to him though after he slaps his sons' ice cream to the floor, causing them to cry uncontrollably. Raven decides to let him deal with her brothers alone much to his chagrin as the three babies merge again, and she gives the audience a thumbs up after punching her father into his portal.

Characters

Robin
Starfire
Cyborg
Raven
Beast Boy
Trigon
Russ (in-person debut)
Lyle (in-person debut)
Suge (in-person debut)
The Whack-A-Doodles Mascot
Sea Turtle
Teen Titans Go! Crew (cameo)
Security Guard

Song

It's A Wacky-Wacky World

Trivia

This episode premiered two days before Hynden Walch's fiftieth Birthday.
Various Teen Titans crew members, including Luke Cormican, Anand Duncan, Careen Ingle and Peggy Regan, can be seen in the background at Whack-A-Doodles.
At end of the episode, Raven breaks the Fourth Wall by looking at the audience and giving them a thumbs up.
Hynden Walch and Tara Strong provided the sound effects for Russ, Lyle and Suge.
This episode bears many similarities to the Teen Titans episode "Hide and Seek." In that episode, Raven must protect three young children, Melvin, Timmy and Teether, with superpowers from Monsieur Mallah while frustrated with having to deal with childcare. In both episodes, Raven is frustrated with having to care for the children, but displays deep affection for the children in her care. Furthermore, "Cool Uncles" shows that Russ, Lyle and Suge become a major, destructive force when agitated; Melvin, Timmy and Teether displayed the full extent of their developing powers when in Mallah's capture and when Raven was threatened.
It is possible that Raven's brothers were inspired by Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Donald Duck's nephews, considering there are three of them and wear color-coordinated suits.

Continuity

Russ, Lyle, and Suge, who were first pictured in "Baby Mouth," make their official in-person debuts in this episode as infants. This marks the very first time we see a multiple demon birth; triplets instead of twins.

References

The MLG Airhorn is played when the Titans are excited to go to Whack-A-Doodles.
Beast Boy and Cyborg's "Cool Uncles" hair and outfits resemble those of Full House's Uncle Jesse and Uncle Joey, respectively.
The Wacky World ride appears to be a parody of Disneyland's "It's a Small World" ride.
The Wacky World ride features depictions of Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Sinestro.
While riding the Stratos Fear, multiple birds hit Robin in the face, mirroring a 1999 incident in which well-known romance novel cover model Fabio was struck in the face by a goose while riding a roller coaster.