The Titans take a vacation on the world's most action-packed cruise ship.
This episode includes examples of:
- Air-Vent Passageway: The Titans use an air-vent on the roof to lower Robin into the Impossible Buffet.
- Alien Invasion: Part of the cruise is being attacked by aliens, and Robin booked this vacation for the Titans knowing this so that they could fight the extraterrestrials.
- All Girls Like Ponies: Starfire immediately falls in love with the unicorn, calling him Sugarcone.
- Chekhov's Armory: Everything that was seen in the episode gets used against the aliens.
- Cyborg launches his car at one.
- Raven throws the vampire dancer at an alien who then bites into it
- Starfire rides in on Sugarcone, with one of the aliens overtaken by his majesty until he blasts him with a rainbow laser.
- Beast Boy flies in with Robin to do a "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop to plant a time bomb on the last two, but just ends up using him like a human wrecking ball between the two aliens, and then the bomb just blows up on him.
- Cruise Episode: Pun aside, the Titans go on a cruise vacation.
- Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: When Beast Boy and Cyborg ask Robin for some money, he pulls out his wallet and hands them a bill, only for them to take his wallet instead.
- Fun with Acronyms: The Trans-Oceanic Magical (T.O.M.) Cruise is one for the episode's obvious inspiration.
- Jaw Drop: Starfire’s reaction to seeing a unicorn in the Legendary Petting Zoo.
- "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop: Robin does this in order to get the food from the buffet. The Titans, predictably, fail not just because of Robin's baby hands, but because of them getting greedy with the controls.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Inverted with "Interview with a Bloodsucker" since it's literally about a vampire having a job interview.
- Nutritional Nightmare: Cyborg says he’s going to have a cheeseburger lobster rib steak apple pie at the Impossible Buffet.
- Only One Finds It Fun: While the rest of the group is bored with the very literal “Interview with a Bloodsucker” show, Raven enjoys it and stays at the theater to continue watching.
- Rain of Something Unusual: The episode ends with one final Tom Cruise reference - Magnolia-shaped clouds raining frogs down on the ship.
- Rainbows and Unicorns: Sugarcone, Starfire’s unicorn friend, is able to help the Titans take down an alien by blasting it with a rainbow from its horn.
- Shout-Out: Everything in this episode is one big reference or another to something Tom Cruise did.
- The ship is called the S.S. Risky Business complete with Cool Shades.
- Serving up some Last Samurai Sushi is an Afro Samurai Expy.
- One of the stores is A Few Good MensWear.
- Two of the stage shows that are advertised but not shown are Bored on the 4th of July and Sock of Ages.
- There's even a Legendary Petting Zoo, which has a unicorn that comes out to the same sounds as well.
- There's even a Need 4 Speedway.
- While Robin is telling Cyborg and Beast Boy he wants to use the cruise to get with Starfire, they agree to get lost, but only if he shows them the money. Robin even tries to get a "You complete me," only to get stomped on by the unicorn.
- The last minute is a flurry of references. Beast Boy says he could have beat the aliens with his Eyes Wide Shut. Raven says they kicked their alien booties Far and Away, with Starfire saying straight into the Edge of Tomorrow. Suddenly there's a Tropic Thunder, when just a second ago it was a Vanilla Sky, the difference being Knight and Day. After Robin says they need to get below deck, Starfire says no need to be so The Firm, while Cyborg says it's just a little Rain Man. It's not rain coming from those Magnolia shaped clouds...but frogs!
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Suspiciously Similar Song: While Cyborg and Beast Boy are having their race, the song sounds rather similar to Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone." - X-Ray Sparks: We see Robin’s full skeleton when he gets electrocuted by one of the Impossible Buffet’s security measures.
