Recap / Teen Titans Go S 2 E 29 Halloween

It is time to celebrate Halloween, but the Titans have lost interest due to growing up. So Raven tries to bring back their Halloween spirit by turning them into little kids!

Tropes:

• Bait-and-Switch: Raven putting on her costume is portrayed as very dark and serious, until it’s revealed that she’s actually dressing up as Sparkleface from “Pretty Pretty Pegasus.”
• Be Careful What You Wish For: The Titans want Halloween to be scarier and Raven gives them exactly what they wish for.
• Bed Sheet Ghost: Starfire’s Halloween costume.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Robin says he's had to change his pants three times throughout the night.
• Company Cross References: All three of the male Titans dress up as other DC heroes for Halloween:
  • Robin as Superman
  • Cyborg as Hawkman
  • Beast Boy as Martian Manhunter
• Easily Forgiven: When Raven finally admits to being the one to summon the Halloween Spirit, the Titans aren’t mad at her as this was the best Halloween they’ve had in a while.
• Eye of Newt: Some of the ingredients for Raven’s spell to summon the Halloween Spirit include a witch’s eye and a dragon’s scale.
• Face Your Fears: The young and easily scared Titans must overcome their fears and brave the Halloween night in order to defeat the Halloween spirit.
• Fountain of Youth: The Halloween Spirit turns the other Titans into little kids after Raven asks for his help in making them enjoy the holiday again.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The picture of the group of villagers in Raven’s spell book looks suspiciously like the Teen Titans.
• Halloween Episode
• Incredibly Lame Fun: The Titans, minus Raven, see Halloween as this.
• Literal Genie: The Halloween Spirit takes Raven’s statement that the other Titans are too old for Halloween literally and makes them young again.
• Monster Mash: The Halloween Spirit makes several Halloween decorations come to life to attack the Titans including a witch, Frankenstein's monster, a werewolf, a skeleton, and a giant spider.
• Rhymes on a Dime: The Halloween Spirit
• Running Gag: Raven’s costume getting misidentified as different animals and her having to angrily correct people.
• Scary Flashlight Face: Raven does this to try to get the other Titans in the Halloween spirit. It doesn’t work.
  • However, when she brings this gag back at the end of the episode it works on the now-normally aged Titans after the terrifying night they had.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Titans' costumes from Halloween the year before reference the characters from ThunderCats.
    • Robin as Lion-O
    • Starfire as Cheetara
    • Beast Boy as Tygra
    • Cyborg as Panthro
    • Raven as Mumm-Ra
    • Silkie as Snarf
  • One of the trick-or-treaters is dressed as Michael Jackson from the “Thriller” music video. There’s another reference to this song as a Musical Pastiche of its instrumental version plays as the Titans carve pumpkins and make their costumes.
  • The moments when the Titans are being chased by the monsters is a reference to the chase sequences from Scooby-Doo.
  • The way the Titans retrap the Halloween Spirit pays homage to that of ghost-trapping in Ghostbusters.
• Slow "NO!": Raven after Robin kicks the pumpkin containing the Halloween Spirit, consequently letting him loose to terrorize the city.
• Spirit of Halloween: Raven calls on the help of a Halloween Spirit to help get her friends to enjoy Halloween as much as she does.
• Tome of Eldritch Lore: Raven reads from her spell book to tell the young Titans the legend of the Halloween Spirit.
• The Triple:
  Robin: Why are you so big?
  Starfire: Why are we so little?
  Cyborg: And why am I so adorable?