Smile Bones (Teen Titans Go!)

"Smile Bones (Teen Titans Go!)"
This episode is not worth smilling for.
Part of Season: 2 Episode Number: 29 Air Date: February 5, 2015 Writer: Marly Halpern Glaser Director: Peter Rida Michail Previous episode: Crazy Day Next episode: Real Boy Adventures

Smile Bones is the 29th episode of the 2nd season of Teen Titans Go!.

Synopsis

When Cyborg and Beast Boy teach the others to wolf down their food, the group must battle their own obesity when they follow Cyborg and Beast Boy's lead of eating too fast.

Why It Deserves To Turn Into Skeleton

1. This episode is very disgusting as it deals with eating fast, beer bellies, and teeth. It feels like writer Marly Halpern Glaser is venting a weird stomach fetish.
2. The way Cyborg and Beast Boy eat their food are weird, which in this case, feels more like competitive eating or wolfing down food.
3. To get the other Titans to eat as they do, Cyborg and Beast Boy force their friends to starve so they can teach them how to eat like the two, despite Cyborg and Beast Boy being friends with the Titans.
4. Watching Cyborg and Beast Boy inhale food like Kirby is too much.
5. Cyborg and Beast Boy are also mean spirited and very unlikable in the episode because as mentioned above, they literally starve the Titans by eating all their food, which is also a bad lesson in its own right.
6. For seemingly no reason other than the fact that Marly Halpern Glaser clearly wanted it to happen, the Titans have dentures in this episode. It’s so disturbing. They also have to remove them just to eat like Cyborg and Beast Boy.
7. The Titans gaining beer bellies is disgusting.
8. The gross close-up stock image of the inside of the horse's mouth, enough said.
9. The scene where Cyborg and Beast Boy’s stomaches come to life after consuming too much food, and grow into a massive statue during a montage of eating everyone’s food in Jump City feels like the writers are really venting a strange fetish they have.
   • There was even one part of the montage where they inhale a goat alive, causing a little girl to run away screaming.
10. Cyborg and Beast Boy using Robin and Starfire’s teeth is cringey.
11. The right moral at the end is overshadowed by the wrong moral, making the correct moral useless.
12. Overall, this episode is hard to watch, especially while eating.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Although lost in the story, this episode does have a good moral, to not eat too fast and actually take your time to eat because apparently, eating fast strains the digestive system and you’re prone to overeating because when you eat fast, the brain can’t tell when you’re full. So, it does teach good eating habits. Also, eating fast (especially junk food) can be a very potential risk of choking hazard.
2. Beast Boy and Cyborg do learn their lesson at the end.
3. Robin is the only likable character because he tries to change Cyborg and Beast Boy’s eating habits. He isn't flanderized like he usually is.
4. The montage of Beast Boy and Cyborg’s bellies inhaling food is somehow kind of funny while Beast Boy and Cyborg are unnerved by the situation.
5. The food Cyborg and Beast Boy are given at the end of the episode actually looks pretty good.

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