Salty Codgers (Teen Titans Go!)

"Salty Codgers (Teen Titans Go!)"
Don’t use your friends for your fetish fantasies, Raven.
Part of Season: 2 Episode Number: 8 Air Date: August 14, 2014 Writer: John Loy Director: Peter Rida Michail Previous episode: Nature Next episode: Knowledge

Salty Codgers is the 8th episode of the 2nd season of Teen Titans Go!.

Synopsis

Mad Mod steals the youth from Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Robin, turning them into Raven's favorite type of people; salty codgers. Instead of helping the Titans get their youth back, Raven teaches them how cool old people really are.

Why It's Salty

1. To get the elephant out of the room, Raven is suddenly a gerontophilile (elderly fetishist) which not only contradicts the episode, Hey Pizza!, which depicts Raven as not liking the elderly and finding them disgusting. It also is disgusting and disturbing because THAT’S PEDOPHILIA.
2. On top of that, Raven is unsympathetic in this episode because she started the whole plot to begin with, by purposefully letting the Titans lose the fight by kicking Mad Mod’s staff to him.
3. Mad Mod disappears right after turning the Titans into elders, meaning that he will still continue turning people into elders.
4. To make things worse, the Titans die quickly after being rapidly aged.
5. The mysterious Cyborg's grandchildren doesn't serve any real purpose nor advance the plot aside from being filler.
6. Lots of jokes are about gross-out and outdated elder stereotypes. The jokes are not funny, they’re disgusting!
7. Raven's playtime with the elder Titans is nothing but boring filler.
8. There are a couple confusing plot holes:
   • How does Cyborg have grandchildren even though he was not married prior?
   • How did Beast Boy get a watch from France despite this not happening in the episode?
9. The depiction of Death being a friendly, happy-go-lucky person is offensive to some people.
10. To make things worse, Raven did not get punished for actions in the episode.
11. This episode is also one of the few episodes that present the infamous running gag of the Titans (or at least one or a few of them) getting killed off of the show, only for the following episode to present them alive and well (meaning they got revived, although they were slightly revived coincidently).
12. Bad ending: Death did bring the Titans back to life but due to Raven tricking him, they come back as zombies.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Beast Boy turning into different animals to take naps when old is the only joke that is actually funny
2. Although nonsensical, Cyborg’s grandchildren are adorable
3. While the Titans insulted the elderly at the beginning of the episode, Raven can be a likable character and she's the only Titan who hates the elders.
4. Robin and Starfire dancing is sweet.
5. The scene of Raven's playtime with the elder Titans, while Filler, can be a heartwarming one.
6. The “I’m Death” song that Death sings is pretty catchy.
7. The scene where the Titans die from old age is extremely heartbreaking/tear-jerking and very well done.

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