Hilarious In Hindsight / Teen Titans Go!

• Several years ago, a fan wrote a Teen Titans fanfic about the gang watching Enchanted and comparing themselves to the characters from the film. Starfire, of course, is compared to ditzy Princess Classic Giselle. Fast forward to the episode "Laundry Day", in which Starfire makes a beautiful dress out of scratch, something Giselle did in the movie.
• In "BBBDay!", the Titans avoid using the Birthday Song because they can't afford the right to use it. While the song was believed to be under copyright at the time the episode was written, by the time it aired, a judge had ruled that the copyright was never valid in the first place.
• This show depicting the Young Justice version of Aqualad as a prolific skirt-chaser is rather ironic following DC Rebirth, where he comes out of the closet.
• A crossover with The Powerpuff Girls (2016) was announced a year after Tara Strong caused a stink over being replaced as the voice of Bubbles. It could be seen as being Harsher in Hindsight if you feel bad for Strong.
• All the jokes about Young Justice being cancelled, following the announcement of its renewal.
• How Cartoon Network kept claiming about how it's "your new favorite show!", has since lost a lot of weight, since as of lately, The Amazing World of Gumball and Steven Universe have been surpassing Teen Titans Go! in ratings. CN actually stopped using the tagline a few months after it was introduced, after significant backlash over the network's Blatant Lies.
• In "Missing", Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy are given a check for billions of dollars. They fantasize this in a parody of the DuckTales opening sequence, with the song "We're Rich (Whoo Hoo)". Guess which show got its own reboot announced less than a year later?
• In "Second Christmas", the Titans trick Starfire into making another day of Christmas to enjoy it more, with a whole new Santa even helping them celebrate it. It's a good thing that they didn't wait until July 25th to celebrate it. Otherwise, they would've just been robbed.
• In "The Academy", Batman: The Brave and the Bold was featured in the In Memoriam section of the ceremony. 10 days after the episode aired, the series was announced to be getting a DTV movie where the Caped Crusader would be reteaming with Scooby-Doo.
• "Let's Get Serious" pokes fun at the idea that a Darker and Edgier take on the Titans would be inherently superior to the lighthearted comedy of Go. Following the reveal of Titans (2018) and the significant Broken Base the show has created over a Darker and Edgier take on the material (this was at the time when "fuck Batman", a line Robin said in the initial trailer, was making the rounds), "Let's Get Serious" feels far more apt than it originally did. In fact, Kaldur himself agreed that maybe there's such a thing as "too serious". (Mostly averted in this case thanks to Titans' positive reception in season 2.)
  • For an earlier case, the episode was aired on February 26, 2015. Following this, we got the introduction of the DC Extended Universe, where most of the movies within were actually criticized for being too needlessly dark (the infamous scene in Man of Steel where Superman breaks Zod's neck is a good starting point). In addition, there's the animated adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke which received mixed to negative reception for its desire to be more edgy than the source material in, let's say, less than kid-friendly ways. In a sense, "Let's Get Serious" arguably came out right before a time where it would be at its most culturally relevant.
• In "The Return of Slade" the Never Trust a Title aspect kicks in once we get a time card noting "Three episodes and a made-for-TV movie later" to cover the Titans' offscreen fight with Slade. While it wasn't exactly a made-for-TV, the Titans would later get a full blown theatrical movie (actually) covering an encounter with Slade.
• The "Stakeout" song features Cyborg and Beast Boy next to Shaggy and Scooby-Doo in the Mystery Machine. Come LEGO Dimensions and people can have them team up once again!
• In "Let's Get Serious", Teen Titans Go spoofed Young Justice. When Young Justice got revived for a season 3 they got to return the favor with their own Teen Titans Go parody.
• A common nickname for the show among its detractors in its early years was "Toddler Titans", named such as many felt it was pandering to a younger audience than the 2003 show. An episode of season 6 was released years later called "Toddler Titans... Yay!", which is a parody of shows aimed at preschoolers.
• In "Mas y Menos", a DCU Tube video is titled "Lobo VS. Space Jam". Seven years after this episode aired, an actual DC crossover with Space Jam is announced, featuring the cast of Teen Titans Go!.
• Anytime the show makes a Shout-Out to Super Mario Bros. has become this with the announcement that Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic will be serving as the directors for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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