The Titans want to be the scariest trick-or-treaters in town, so Raven casts a spell to turn them into real monsters.
Tropes:
- Asinine Alternate Activity: The Titans are excited to finally have scary costumes for Halloween, but when they put them on they end up being cheap cardboard versions of classic monsters.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Raven says they won’t be wearing costumes this year, she’s implying that they will be real monsters. However, the Titans think she means they’ll be trick-or-treating naked.Beast Boy: Huh! Naked butts style...I likes it!
- Cuteness Overload: The ghosts find the Titans’ lame costumes so cute that they literally explode.
- Evil Laugh: Cyborg does one when he’s talking about how scary their costumes are going to be.
- Gone Horribly Right: The Titans accidentally summon ghosts during their trick-or-treating and must resort to using their cheap costumes to stop them.
- Halloween Episode
- Halloween Songs: “Scary Scary”
- Halloween Trickery: In their monstrous forms, the Titans spend Halloween causing mischief around Jump City including scaring trick-or-treaters and stealing their candy.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: When the Titans think they’re going to go naked for Halloween, a scene is shown of them covering up with only trick-or-treat buckets.
- Invisible Streaker: Raven turns herself into the Invisible Woman and strips to show the Titans her new invisible form.
- Magic Cauldron: Raven uses one to cast the spell that turns the Titans into monsters.
- Monster Mash: The Titans all go as classic Universal monsters for Halloween:
- Cyborg as Frankenstein's Monster
- Beast Boy as The Wolf Man
- Robin as Dracula
- Starfire as The Mummy
- Raven as The Invisible Man
- Ocular Gushers: The Titans start crying because their costumes are going to be lame again and tears gush through the tiny eye holes in their masks.
- Shout-Out: The title "Monster Squad" may be a reference to the 1976 television series of the same name that was about monsters fighting crime and super villains. It could also be a reference to the 1987 horror comedy film The Monster Squad, which was about a group of kids who go up against Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
- Spirit of Halloween: Because they didn’t uphold the tradition of wearing lame costumes that people have to pretend to be scared of, the Titans release the spirits of Halloween and start the ghost apocalypse.
- Vampire Vords: Robin as Dracula, of course.
