Jam

"Jam" is the 23rd episode of the seventh season of Teen Titans Go!, and the 335th overall episode of the series.

Summary[]

The Gotham Sirens villains - Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman - recruit the Titans girls Starfire and Raven for their roller derby team to win the biggest roller skating race against the brawlers!

Plot[]

On this very fateful night out, the Teen Titans girls Raven and Starfire, who both get to ditch the boys, decide to spend some quality time with each other in the Jump City Rollerway. After sniffing the wafts of sweat encased in the shoes in the atmosphere, they immediately get into skating action with their slick movements and their combos! However, the Gotham City Sirens have caught sight of their sick and beautiful moves, so Poison Ivy coils the two girls with her vines to force them to meet up with her cohorts. Both girls initially are shocked to see themselves being targeted by a trio of Batman's villainesses, but Catwoman blocks their way when Raven tries to bring herself and Starfire away from them. Starfire soon gets enticed by the prospect of being at a cool roller derby team, while Raven is still sort of skeptical at their villainess's intentions.

The two girls later meet up with Louie the hyena, who's Harley's pet hyena and self-proclaimed manager, that crashes several other parking cars outside of the Rollerway, and Starfire actually finds him adorable, even though he looks bizarre to norms. Almost immediately, he drives the Sirens and the female Titans to the sketchy-looking derby arena. At first, both girls are suspicious of this place, but soon as the door is swung open by Harley, they are soon fascinated by its competitiveness and join in. The two are soon being given a bunch of convoluted rules from Harley, and the only role Starfire understands is about being the jammer, but both aren't given more time to digest the rules, as they are soon thrusted into the arena by the Sirens.

With the Sirens all armed and ready with their fancy titles and rollerblading gear, they are soon pit against the powerfully fierce brain power users...The BRAINY BRAWLERS! The bunch of ladies aren't the most equipped against these brainy ruffians, but they still have to confront them head-on, which...makes them humiliate themselves badly, as not only is Starfire gets hit by a literal "butt to the gut", but her four teammates also gets flung away by a bar of rails from the Brawlers via their telekinesis. At first, the Sirens are dejected by their seeming disadvantage against their challengers, until Harley is enlightened by the physical gesticulations from Louie that only she can understand, and the Sirens decide to change their strategy. By pulling out the big guns (aka permitted cheating), the Sirens manage to have their scores caught up with the Brawlers despite a few hiccups, until there are thirty seconds left...

The Brainy Brawlers then merge themselves into a seemingly impenetrable wall! But this doesn't deter the Sirens for long. They soon gauge a plan to throw Starfire up to score the last points for themselves, or more like Harley's idea, to do the "Roller Vault" as their last resort, because Harley herself calls her own middle name "Dangerous" (even though Poison Ivy just has to point it out as "Frances"). With a vault made by Poison Ivy, the Sirens give it their all as they swing Starfire up, and with two starbolts from her, the Brainy Brawlers are down! Despite sustaining some injuries, the Sirens are just proud that they are the victors.

After the thrilling derby race, the five ladies give one another a huge hug to celebrate their victory. However, they soon find out that Louie has gone and Harley starts crying about him getting kidnapped upon reading a left-behind note, so they have to get into a vault to save him. Both Raven and Starfire are unaware that the Sirens possibly have ulterior motives, so they assist them to take down the guards, and Starfire even destroys the wall of the vault for the Sirens to enter...until they realize the three women are just using them as part of their elaborate scheme to pilfer as much money and gold as possible, and that Louie has been fine as their getaway driver the whole time!

Feeling angered and hurt by the Sirens' manipulation, Raven and Starfire decide to give chase to the three women to avenge for their pride with their slick rollerblading. Of course, the Sirens don't like being caught up easily, so they decide to retaliate. Poison Ivy tries to charge at them via her vines as gliding tracks, but Raven manages to effortlessly send her slammed onto a tree with a single portal. Then Starfire manages to intimidate and outwit Catwoman by using a spraying bottle to catch the feline woman off guard. Harley finds the two girls rather versatile, but still orders Louie to get away faster. Nonetheless, Harley has forgotten that the two girls have learned to outsmart her with their newly gained roller derby experience. With Raven conjuring a giant jar of jam for Starfire, who proceeds to toss it right in front of Harley and Louie, the harlequin is humiliated by her defeat as Louie cheerily licks her after both of them get straight into the heap of jam.

Finally, both Raven and Starfire tie the three Sirens up, and Raven declares that she and Starfire are taking them to prison. However, both girls decide to be a little more lenient on the Sirens when Harley begs them to have another roller derby together when she and her two cohorts have a jailbreak, and they promise to have fun again next time as they all cheer "SIRENS FOREVER!!!!", with a photo of the five of them cheering after the race as a conclusion.

Characters[]

Major[]

Teen Titans Girls
- Raven
- Starfire

Gotham City Sirens
- Poison Ivy (speaking debut)
- Catwoman
- Harley Quinn (speaking debut)

Minor[]

Louie (debut; only appearance)
Brainy Brawlers (debut; only appearance)
Luke Cormican (cameo)
Guards

Trivia[]

This episode premiered on the same day as the DC Fandome event.
This is the fourth time to not feature the full Titans cast. The previous ones were "That's What's Up!", "Crab Shenanigans", "Brobots", "Brain Flip", "Magic Man", "Various Modes of Transportation" and "Space House - Part 3".
- This is the first time Beast Boy doesn't appear in any way, shape or form. Robin and Cyborg are also absent in this episode.
  - As of this episode, all of the main five Titans have been absent in at least one episode.
Harley Quinn receives another redesign in this episode after her classic design of the court jester on The Joker's side, which makes her resemble her appearance in the Suicide Squad (2016, Rated PG-13) and Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) (2020, Rated R) films.
In the original storyboard, Louie was originally tied up with the three Gotham villainesses by both Starfire and Raven. He, however, was later excluded in the final cut.
In the credits of this episode, Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy were listed to the credits despite not appearing in the entire episode.
- Technically, this is NOT an error. The voice actors' contracts have a clause to be credited in all episodes, regardless if their characters technically appear or not.

Continuity[]

Starfire wears the same outfit she wore in Season 6 episode's "The Mug", except her hair is down and her boots are teal instead of yellow.
Raven wears the same outfit she wore in Season 5 episode's "Nostalgia is Not a Substitute for an Actual Story", minus the bow, and with different-colored pants/skirt and shoes.
Raven is seen unhooded for the 139th time in the series.
- This is also a rare occurrence for her to go throughout the entire episode as such, and it's also the fourth time she is seen unhooded without wearing her normal outfit with her cloak. The first time this happened was in Season 2's "Halloween".
  - This is a rare occurrence to not feature any of the Titans wearing their normal outfits. The others being "The Art of Ninjutsu" and "We're Off to Get Awards", which both also have Raven without her cloak throughout their courses.

References[]

Starfire's devilish looking smile at the burning car when she was being introduced as "Carfire on the 405" is a reference to the 2005 "Disaster Girl" meme.
Raven being introduced as "Grapes of Azarath" is likely a reference to the title of the American realist novel that is written by John Steinbeck and its 1940s movie adaptation of 20th Century Studios The Grapes of Wrath.