The Brain teams up with the Lobe, so the Titans enlist the help of Freakazoid to stop them.
Tropes used in this episode:
- Always Someone Better: Robin is openly miffed that Freakazoid's shenanigans are considered funny, while his own attempts at goofing around are considered weird and off-putting.
- Bait-and-Switch: Freakazoid angrily confronts the Lobe and then happily asks what he's been up to since he saw him last.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Joe reminding Robin what he said about not interfering.
- Bothering by the Book: Freakazoid brings along his show's announcer Joe Leahy, and Robin tells him to stay out of their way. When the Titans are in a Death Trap and Freakazoid has left to have donuts with Cosgrove, Robin begs Joe to let them out, but Joe is taking Robin's previous orders about not interfering to heart. Fortunately, Freakazoid returns just in time to deactivate the trap.
- The Bus Came Back: Freakazoid, Cosgrove, the Lobe, and Joe the announcer all return to the small screen for the first time since the end of Freakazoid!
- Crossover: With Freakazoid!.
- Friendly Enemy: Freakazoid and Lobe happily catch up, until Robin yells at them to focus on the storyline.
- Godzilla Threshold: Robin did not want Freakazoid involved in this adventure, due to how crazy and unpredictable the guy can be. He only relents because they need a '90s hero with experience facing the Lobe.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- Robin criticizes Freakazoid's random form of humor and inability to stick to the storyline. The same could be said of Teen Titans Go!.
- Robin tells Freakazoid that their show is far more sophisticated; this is followed by the other Titans starting a farting contest.
- Mid-Battle Tea Break: As is common with Freakazoid. The Titans are in a trap and Freakazoid is about to free them when he gets a call from Officer Cosgrove inviting him to have some donuts. Freakazoid instantly sits down with Cosgrove and the two begin talking about different kinds of donuts, leaving the Titans to sweat it out in the trap.
- Mythology Gag:
- The episode name is also the Running Gag of an episode of Freakazoid! titled "A Matter of Love", which spent its time using the Inherently Funny Words to its maximum.
- Freakazoid greets the Lobe by saying, "Bonjour, Lobey!" This was the name of the Hello, Dolly! parody musical number
from the Freakazoid! episode "Dexter's Date".
- The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The Lobe actually used "Huggbees" as a password for his invention's Self-Destruct Mechanism, which means it goes off when Robin is imitating Freakazoid.The Brain: You used "Huggbees" for a password?
The Lobe: I couldn't help myself. It's just so much fun to say. Huggbees! - Relax-o-Vision: The Trope Namer is used twice. First when Freakazoid goes to the bathroom with Cyborg's phone, then during the fight with the Brain's guards (which is interrupted when the guards break through the screen, which then catches fire).
- Shout-Out: While digging through 90's shows in the Warner Brothers warehouse, the Titans find copies of Batman Beyond and Road Rovers. When they find The Brain looking through the archives, he picks up tape reels of obscurities — Histeria!, Waynehead and Detention.
- Skewed Priorities: When told what year it is, Freakazoid asks if society solved world hunger. Cyborg says no, but he says they did develop phones that one can watch TV on now.
- Take That!: Combined with Biting-the-Hand Humor — when the Titans are alerted to suspicious activity on the WB lot, one of the theories is "the Loonatics got rebooted!" Cut to a picture of the Loonatics shaking while screams are heard.
- Trickster Mentor: In his own way, Freakazoid was teaching Robin to not be so beholden to the story and to have some fun instead.
