Missing (Teen Titans Go!)

"Missing (Teen Titans Go!)"
This episode is messy and we’re surprised Disney hasn’t sued Warner Bros.’s butts for this.
Part of Season: 1 Episode Number: 46 Air Date: March 26, 2014 Writer: Amy Wolfram Merrill Hagan Director: Luke Cormican Previous episode: Little Buddies Next episode: Uncle Jokes

Missing is the 46th episode of the 1st season of Teen Titans Go!.

Synopsis

Killer Mouth offers a reward for Silkie's return, but will Silkie be happier away from the Titans, or will reunite with Starfire?

Why It Should Go Missing

1. This episode's plot is very cliched. It's the "poor person who wins the lottery." Buys everything on their wishlist then become depressed because they liked life better when they were poor” The plot, is very overdone and the way it's done in this episode comes off as forced, the details will be explained below.
2. The episode begins with Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Robin hanging out in an alleyway of a concert and there are more questions than answers and many glaring plot holes.
   • Like Why are Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy suddenly poor? They were shown to be able to afford to do what they wanted to do in previous episodes, it just feels like it's there to set up the story.
   • Why would Robin see a flyer as a "wall Napkin"?
   • Did Raven and Starfire kick Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy out of the tower or did they decided to become hobos?
   • To think the boys eating garbage is disgusting, why didn't they get ill from eating spoiled food? They should've gone to the hospital.
   • The boys are also breaking a law: loitering (which mean playing around in an area without a reason). Why didn't they get fined for doing this?
3. Then the boys find a flyer from Killer Moth in the dumpster, kickstarting the plot.
   • Also, there's an annoying running gag throughout the episode where Beast Boy (and later Starfire) misread the flyer note and read the dollar signs as hissing and think a snake wrote it and another Titan (Robin for Beast Boy and Raven for Starfire) corrects them. It was never funny and just comes off as jarring and stupid.
4. The scene with Starfire’s bedtime routine is disgusting because before she gets ready for bed she “cares for Silkie”. This involves licking him to “bathe him”, much like a mother cat and her kittens, and chewing up food and spitting it in Silkie's mouth to “feed him”, much like a mother bird and baby bird. It is a running gag that is recurrent only in season 1 and it is very disgusting.
   • Raven's reaction perfectly sums up our’s as she repeatedly yells “Ew!”.
   • Thankfully, this running gag dies after season 1 ends so we'll never see this vomit-inducing gag again.
5. Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy become unlikable because they kidnap Silkie and return him to Killer Moth because the flyer asks for him. To make matters worse, they leave the flyer in Starfire's room albeit unintentionally.
   1. Raven can be unlikable too as she treats Silkie as a being with no emotions.
   2. Starfire counts too as she licks Silkie like a cat and feeds him like a bird and when she loses him she becomes obnoxious.
6. After this, the viewers facepalm because Killer Moth gives the boys money and they don't know what to do with it. Cyborg and Beast Boy ask Robin who is the wealthiest person he knows. To our surprise, he says Scrooge McDuck. Why didn't he say Bruce Wayne?
   • After this, we see a poorly photoshopped image of a stock image of a duck with a mustache, monocle, and top hat. While this was likely done to prevent copyright infringement, it comes off as cheap and stupid.
   • Mr. Enter sums this up perfectly: “Why does Scrooge McDuck look like he's from Breadwinners? Why doesn't the richest person Robin know Bruce Wayne? Why hasn't Disney sued them yet? I'm seriously thinking about reviewing, like, every single episode from the series, but as for now, there's only one thing left to do.”
7. After this, the writers parody the Ducktales intro, it comes off as insulting and it makes you wonder why Disney hasn't sued them. They take the musical arrangement and lyrics and change them. It comes off as copyright infringement and plagiarism.
8. When Starfire finds out that Silkie is missing she cries and screams and it's obnoxious to hear. The after that's over, she “bathes” Raven as a mean to replace Silkie. It comes off as weird and inappropriate.
9. Weird ending: Killer Moth turns Silkie into a giant version of himself with butterfly wings and he can talk now and sounds like Marshmallow from The Annoying Orange. He takes Raven and Starfire on a ride and while the boys were trying to give Starfire a litter of kittens they adopted, Silkie almost runs them over and the Boys return to the dumpster Then the episode ends with a narrator saying "And Silkie and Starfire had many other amazing adventures! But that is another story." But since this is Teen Titans Go! the other story gets forgotten.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The shopping montage is fun.
2. Raven realizes she is wrong for calling Silkie an emotionless entity.
3. The joke of Beast Boy and Starfire mistaking the dollar signs on the poster as a snake's hissing can be funny for some people.

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