Line #27 Recap/TeenTitansS2E2EveryDogHasHisDay


1	->'''Soto:''' Bad Dog! You should not try to escape!\
2	'''Beast Boy:''' You sure you got the right dog?\
3	'''Soto:''' ...Now we go home.\
4	'''Beast Boy:''' Home?\
5	'''Soto:''' Soto's planet. On far side of galaxy.
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7	Beast Boy, finding no-one who wants to hang out with him, turns into a dog to pick up chicks, and finds another green dog.
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9	! Tropes:
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11	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Soto's dog for Raven, in a way that seemed cute when it looked like he was just a dog but got pretty disturbing after his true intelligence was revealed.
12	* AnimalisticAbomination: Soto's dog looks like a green dog, but he can tear off and devour a car's bumper, has a long prehensile tongue, and can squeeze through grates like a liquid.
13	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Beast Boy just wanted some attention, and he ''got'' attention from Soto. He lampshades that at the end.
14	* BreatherEpisode: A comical romp to come down from back to back heaviness of the "Apprentice" two-parter and "How Long Is Forever?"
15	* CluelessAesop: Soto, a giant baby who treats Beast Boy as a source of endless personal amusement, reflects Beast Boy's impulsive tendency to amuse himself while attempting to hang out with the others, but the opening sequence indicates that Beast Boy ''isn't'' just seeking amusement, he's legitimately lonely and even willing to help Cyborg and Robin while they do their own thing. The episode's failure to distinguish between being lonely and using others for your own amusement makes it look almost like it's also condemning attempts to be with other people when you're lonely, as if you should just be content with solitude. (That Soto appears to be ''a literal baby'' doesn't help, since that suggests Beast Boy's loneliness is childish.)
16	* ContinuityNod:
17	** Cyborg is cleaning the Titans car when Beast Boy interrupts him.
18	** Starfire and Raven are meditating, the way they did at the end of "Switched."
19	* CuteGiant: Soto's infantile proportions aren't just for show--he really is an enormous toddler.
20	* DiabolusExMachina: Beast Boy was mostly just minding his own business in the alleyway when an alien spaceship shows up and abducts him.
21	* DisneyDogFight: Soto battles with the Titans to keep his new "dog", Beast Boy, but it's not until Beast Boy himself joins the fight that Soto realizes Beast Boy definitively does not want to be his dog.
22	* TheDogBitesBack:
23	** After being enslaved as a pet and forced to randomly change into various animals by Soto via shock collar for his own amusement, the freed Beast Boy lays a cathartic beatdown on him as payback.
24	** Soto's dog becomes his master, not that he minds it.
25	* EpicFail: Beast Boy trying to flirt with two girls at a pizza place. He ends up with a water glass on his head.
26	* ItAmusedMe: The reason why Soto's dog didn't just say why Beast Boy was missing until the jig was up.
27	--> '''Raven:''' And you didn't tell us earlier because...?
28	--> '''Dog:''' I was having too much fun.
29	* KarmicShunning: Beast Boy's attempt to hang out with Cyborg comes to an end when he impulsively tries to use tools he doesn't understand and damages the T-Car. His attempt to get Raven and Starfire to be his judges in setting a tofu-eating record is shut down instantly.
30	* TheKlutz: Beast Boy accidentally blowtorches the T-car while playing with Cyborg's tools, and when he approaches Robin he pops up right in the path of Robin's flying jump kick.
31	* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: After learning that the dog is an alien and not Beast Boy, Starfire asks Raven to read his mind to find their friend, but...
32	-->'''Raven''': I'm still getting his drool off my face. I don't want him anywhere near my ''brain''.
33	* MonsterOfTheAesop: Beast Boy's desire for attention and amusement is reflected in Soto, a monster who pays him too much attention and demands his own amusement.
34	* NotHimself: After Beast Boy's extended absence from the tower is noticed, the Titans find a green dog in the park who doesn't respond to them and acts mostly like a normal dog. They realize something is wrong and a ChaseScene ensues when the green dog runs off. It's not Beast Boy.
35	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Beast Boy escapes Soto's inescapable collar ([[HandWave somehow]]) during the final battle, when the camera is focused on the Titans engaging Soto. Given that [[Recap/TeenTitansS3E4Crash a later episode indicates Beast Boy is able to turn into an amoeba]], it's possible he was able to shrink smaller than it could adapt.
36	* RunningGag: During the ChaseScene, the alien dog pins Raven to the floor and licks her face no less than three times.
37	-->'''Robin:''' ''Careful, everybody. We don't want to hurt him.''
38	-->'''Raven:''' ''Speak for yourself.''
39	* SpotTheImposter: Except the Titans don't until they realize that the green dog they've chased regurgitates a large car part. Soto learns immediately when he sees Beast Boy shift back into normal form. Granted, the Titans expect Beast Boy to do things ''almost'' that weird, while Soto is pretty sure his "dog" ''can't'' change into a green human.
40	* SuddenlySpeaking: The alien dog finally begins to speak after being captured, much to the Titans' shock, and agrees to take them to his ship to get Beast Boy.
41	* VagueAge: It's unclear exactly how old Soto actually is. While he has the voice of a grown man and is smart enough to pilot a space ship, he has the emotional intelligence of a toddler, with his ship's controls even resembling various baby toys. So he's either an alien {{manchild}}, or a really deep voiced alien baby.
42	* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Not precisely said, but everyone present ''does'' feel their weirdness meters [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYL0AXVUiaA bury the needle]] when Soto's "dog" starts '''talking.'''
43	-->'''Robin''': Ooohkaaay, am I the only one who heard that?\
44	'''Cyborg''': You ''talk?'' '''Dogs don't ''talk!'''''\
45	'''"Dog"''': Perhaps not on ''your'' planet, my dear fellow.

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