When Starfire is the only Titan invited to the Titans East Annual Dance Party, Beast Boy teaches her how to lie so that she can spare the other Titans' feelings, but her lies turn all of the Titans against each other. Meanwhile, Starfire forgets to feed Silkie, so he goes into a feeding frenzy and enters each of the Titans' rooms, eating their stuff.
Plot[]
Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Robin are all practicing their dance moves for the upcoming Titans East party. When Robin asks what time the party starts, Raven suggests checking his invitation.
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However, the Titans realize that no one invited them to the party. They find this odd since they were the life of the party last year, at least from their perspectives, leads to a flashback of that time, where they ruined the party in multiple ways, which include accidentally hurting people and playing spooky music that
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freaked out the guests.
Starfire reveals to Beast Boy that she was invited to the party and plans to inform the others of her popularity. Beast Boy knows this would hurt the other Titans' feelings, so he tells Starfire to lie to them. She doesn't understand lying, so Beast Boy tells her how to do it. He claims that as long as she winks, they'll know she's just kidding. Of course, this is not true.
Starfire then lies to the Titans. At first, everything seems to be going well, but soon the lies go wrong, and the rest of the Titans get mad at each other. Beast Boy and Starfire must then choose between going to the Titans East's party or admitting to the Titans that they had lied. Beast Boy and Starfire decide to go to the party, assuming that everything will be fine. As they are dancing, you can see the sadness on Starfire's face, showing that she seems to feel bad about lying to the other Titans.
When they come back, Cyborg, Raven, and Robin were fighting
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with each other brutally, and have demolished much of the Tower. They continue fighting until Starfire tells them to stop. Starfire confesses to the Titans that she lied and clarifies that she was the only one invited to the Titans East Party. She feels really ashamed for what she did and she says she'll have to quit the squad because of her actions. Robin halts her from doing so, dismissing the trouble she had caused, and they forgive her and themselves. The episode ends with Starfire winking at Beast Boy after informing him that she signified everything she had said. This hints in that Starfire was possibly lying about being sorry in the first place.
This episode marks the first time multiple Titans have cried together in the series, as Raven cried when she found out she wasn't invited to the Titans East party.
In this episode, it's revealed that Starfire never lies. However, even though she regretted it just after, she lied to Robin in "Ghostboy".
Starfire's fibs and their outcomes are as follows:
Cyborg believes that Raven thinks he chews his chips quite loudly (Cyborg deliberately chews chips obnoxiously loud).
Raven believes that Robin thinks she is a lazy slob for not cleaning the fridge (Raven destroys the fridge).
Robin believes that Cyborg hates his body odor (Robin forces the latter to smell his pits).
It's revealed that Robin uses yellow bombs with robins on them. This is shown at the end of the episode when Starfire interrupts the Titans' fight.
Starfire breaks the fourth wall by winking at the camera near the end of the episode
This is the second time the title is a pun of one of the titans. The first was "Ghostboy".
Continuity[]
This is the second episode to have two major plots in one episode. The first one was "Hey Pizza!".
This is the second time Starfire has lied on Beast Boy's request, which she previously did in "Ghostboy". However unlike the first time, she learns how to lie, and seems to enjoy lying.
This is the first time Silkie's eyes are seen open.
This episode contains various music from previous episodes:
Music that was previously heard in "Legendary Sandwich" is heard in this episode when Starfire is about to feed Silkie pet food.
Also, music from "Double Trouble" is heard while Silkie goes around the tower looking for things to eat.
Finally, music from "Dude Relax" is heard when Robin, Raven, and Cyborg all start to get mad at each other as a trio.
Aqualad is seen as a DJ for the Titans East Annual Dance Party. This was alluded later in "Missing".
The R2-D2 vacuum cleaner from "Tower Power" appears again, which Silkie ends up eating.
References[]
The subplot, which is Starfire neglecting to feed Silkie while lying, may be a reference to the episodes "Crash" and "Can I Keep Him?" Where Cyborg's system has a virus due to Beast Boy and thinks everything is food, (including his teammates), and where Silkie eats many things, constantly getting bigger (respectively), and eventually exploding.
Furthermore, Silkie's eyes even briefly have a "digital scanner", referencing Cyborg's vision.
When Cyborg is trying to pick which movie to watch, in his hands can be seen "The Dark Knight Snoozes" and "Plastic Man 3", a parody of The Dark Knight Rises and Superman III.
Silkie barfing up the tofu box and showing that he clearly did not like tofu is a nod to the Silkie version of the original Teen Titans in "Can I Keep Him?" when Starfire offered him tofu and he was more verbal about refusing it vs refusing the other foods she brought him.
The vacuum cleaner Silkie eats has a striking resemblance to R2-D2.
Robin hitting Cyborg over the head with a metal folding chair is a reference to professional wrestling, most likely WWE.
Errors[]
Just before Silkie jumps off the table, Starfire leaves the can of food on a corner. But, when Silkie jumps, the can of food disappears. However, after Starfire shakes Beast Boy's hand, she grabs the can of food as it reappears in her hand. Then later, when talking to Beast Boy, the can of food is gone again. This animation goof would be addressed in "Attention to Detail".
In the part when Starfire lies to Robin about Cyborg thinking he has a bad smell, Robin was seen with his staff, even though Silkie ate his staff earlier in the episode. However, Silkie could have spat it out at one point, hence why Robin was polishing/cleaning it.
Running Gags[]
Starfire lying throughout the episode even after she is told to stop by Beast Boy.
Starfire causing rifts between Robin, Cyborg, and Raven by lying to them.
Robin Cyborg and Raven all fighting with each other.
