History Recap / YoungJusticeS3E12NightmareMonkeys

* SubvertedSitcom: "Nightmare Monkeys" briefly dips into this. Garfield has been hallucinating allegories for his past traumas throughout the episode, and at one point imagines himself inside his dead mother's sitcom, Hello, Megan! When he tries to talk to the characters, they unsettlingly tell him that he isn't supposed to be there, before morphing into their adult forms, shocking him.

* ShowWithinAShow: This episode is notable for featuring ''two'' of these: ''Hello, Megan!'' (which Gar's mother Marie worked on in the late seventies) and and ''Space Trek 3016'' (which Gar works on in the present day).

* ArtShift: Beast Boy has a hallucination in the style of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''. Later, Miss Martian appears in his dream drawn in style similar to her appearance in ''[[Recap/TeenTitansGoS2E32LetsGetSerious Let's Get Serious]]''.

** On that note, Creator/ScottMenville sounds like he's channeling his inner Creator/AlanRickman (especially Rickman's portrayal of [[Film/HarryPotter Severus Snape]]) in voicing Steve Dayton.

** It's unsure if the implication that Mento was the only survivor of the Doom Patrol because of his cowardice or this was a projection of Beast Boy's anger towards him for shamefully abandoning him before.

** The monkey. He freely admits that he's Gar's brain interpreting... [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith something]], hints that Beast Boy's powers are more complicated than a combined metagene/Martian blood transfusion, and something must have interfered with the Goode goggles for them to go off like that.

* TakeThat: The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' feels like the production team throwing shade at Creator/CartoonNetwork for screwing over the original ''Young Justice'' (as well as ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and the entire ''DC Nation'' block in general) in favor of going all-in on the former.

*** One particular oddity that can't be easily explained by the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mundane]]: During the scene with all the dead heroes on the starship, we see Wally's death scene played right down to his last words. But Gar couldn't know that. The only people who witnessed that were Barry and Bart (and Wally, obviously). Gar was at the Arctic, but he only arrived near the very end with the other heroes and wasn't inside the speed vortex to witness Wally's 'ceasing' (and none of the heroes could see or hear from outside of it). So his mind alone wouldn't be able to recreate that scene. InUniverse, it's perfectly possible he heard the details of how Wally died and spent a lot of imagining the scene.

* AmbiguousSituation: Most of the A-Plot. As a reflection of Garfield's life and thoughts, how accurate is it? Was it distorted in any way by the Goode Goggles?

* CallBack: Two of Marie Logan's costars from her ''Hello, Megan!'' days- Paul Sloane and Rita Farr (both of who were featured in the ''Hello, Megan!'' title sequence shown in Season 1) - appear in this episode, both as teenagers and as adults. Rita is said to have been dead for some time, and thus only features prominently in Gar's hallucinations. Paul is now Garfield's costar in ''Space Trek 3016''.

* {{Expy}}: Fittingly, Captain Tom Bender in [[ShowWithinAShow ''Space Trek 3016'') speaks like [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]].

* CallBack: Two of Marie Logan's costars from her ''Hello, Megan!'' days- Paul Sloane and Rita Farr (both of who were featured in the ''Hello, Megan!'' title sequence shown in Season 1) - feature in this episode, both as teenagers and as adults. Rita is said to have been dead for some time, and thus only features prominently in Gar's hallucinations. Paul is now Garfield's costar in ''Space Trek 3016''.

*** One particular oddity that can't be easily explained by the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mundane]]: During the scene with all the dead heroes on the starship, we see Wally's death scene played right down to his last words. But Gar couldn't know that. The only people who witnessed that were Barry and Bart (and Wally, obviously). Gar was at the Arctic, but he only arrived near the very end with the other heroes and wasn't inside the speed vortex to witness Wally's 'ceasing' (and none of the heroes could see or hear from outside of it). So his mind alone wouldn't be able to recreate that scene.

* AmbiguousSituation: Most of the A-Plot. As a reflection of Garfield's life an thoughts, how accurate is it? Was it distorted in any way by the Goode Goggles.

* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: M'Gann and Connor are discussing how their new houseguests are making it difficult to spend time together, and M'Gann comes up an idea and asks the trope question:
-->'''Connor:''' Secret base!\\
'''M'Gann:''' Date night!\\

* ContinuityNod: The crew in Gar's mental version of his show's ship are the holograms of deceased League and Team members, including Ted Kord/Blue Beetle II, Jason Todd/Robin II, Tula/Aqua Girl, and of course, Wally West/Kid Flash I.

* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: When M'Gann and Connor botch their AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering moment, Wolf just hangs his head in shame and walks off.
* {{Expy}}: The captain of the spaceship imitates [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]] in his line delivery, appropriate for a Star Trek parody.

* AmbiguousSituation: