Line #1 Recap/TeenTitansS4E10MotherMaeEye


1	Using an enchanted pie accidentally brought back to the Tower by Cyborg, Mother Mae-Eye manages to put all the Titans under mind control, mentally regressing them into obedient, sweet "children" who regard her as their mother.
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4	* ActorAllusion: Mother Mae-Eye is voiced by Billie Hayes, who is most famous for portraying another [[Series/HRPufnstuf twistedly maternal wicked witch]].
5	* AdorableEvilMinions: Mother Mae-Eye brings a bunch of cute, human-sized gingerbread men to life to use as her minions. However, when the Titans break them to pieces and Mother Mae-Eye magically puts them back together as gingerbread zombies, they’re no longer cute.
6	* AlmightyMom: Mother Mae-Eye is a powerful RealityWarper who poses as the Titans’ mother.
7	* AntagonistTitle: The episode is named after its main villain, Mother Mae-Eye.
8	* AnthropomorphicFood: Mother Mae-Eye's mooks are sentient, human-sized gingerbread men. They're as weak as they sound, however, with the Titans defeating them en masse after escaping.
9	* ApologeticAttacker: Starfire does this when she hits the Titans with a giant rolling pin to get them to regain their senses.
10	-->'''Starfire:''' Forgive me.
11	* BabyTalk: How Mother Mae-Eye addresses the Titans, and it's as embarrassing as it sounds.
12	* BackstoryInvader: Due to being hypnotized, the Titans act like Mother Mae-Eye has always been around taking care of them.
13	* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: The mind control wears off after a while if Mother Mae-Eye’s victims stop eating her magic pie. However, the mind control can also be made to wear off early by knocking some sense into the victim. Starfire is freed from Mae-Eye’s control when a streetlight hits her on the head. She then frees her teammates by whacking them on the head with a giant rolling pin.
14	* BerserkButton: Out of all of the Titans that are pissed off at Mae-Eye, Cyborg and Robin are especially livid. Cyborg doesn't like anyone messing with the Tower he worked so hard to build and Robin hated that someone so evil tried to be his ParentalSubstitute. Considering that this is the second time that happened to him, it's a double whammy.
15	* BigEater: Robin, Starfire, and Beast Bot all eat a bunch of pies in this episode, and Cyborg and Raven eat ''several'' of them. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in Starfire’s case, since she reveals that she has nine stomachs.
16	--> '''Robin:''' Lady, you are not my mother.
17	* BitchInSheepsClothing / FauxAffablyEvil: Mae-Eye. She pampers each of the Teen Titans like babies, speaks to them in a motherly tone, tells them that she loves them... and tries to bake them into a giant pie and eat them.
18	* BizarreAlienBiology: While Starfire is a HumanoidAlien, it's revealed in this episode that she has [[MultipurposeTongue a long, prehensile tongue]] and ''nine stomachs''.
19	* BizarroEpisode: InUniverse. Definitely one of the weirdest episodes.
20	--> '''Robin:''' Why am I in a giant pie?\
21	'''Beast Boy:''' Why am I in a bunny suit?\
22	'''Raven:''' Why am I in a ''dress''!?\
23	'''Cyborg:''' Who's been redecorating my tower?!\
24	'''Starfire:''' Uh ... Perhaps I could explain later.
25	* BolivianArmyEnding: For the H.I.V.E. Five it is, as they're in the same danger the heroes were in, but it seems they managed to handle it eventually.
26	* BreatherEpisode: Definitely one of the silliest, most light-hearted episodes of the show, that serves as a calm before the storm that is the incredibly dark 3-part finale.
27	* CapeSnag: Or in this case, Skirt Snag. While Raven fights Jinx wearing the Shirley Temple dress Mother Mae-Eye put on her, Jinx fires energy blasts at her and Raven makes a shield to block them. The blasts push Raven back until her floppy skirt gets caught on the knob of a cart, causing Raven to fall and land on her butt. Jinx then blasts the cart to send it flying, taking Raven with it.
28	* CatchingSomeZs: When the Titans are given their "5:00 beddy-bye" by Mother Mae Eye, Robin, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy comedically fall asleep the instant she leaves their bedroom and start snoring very loudly as white "z"s rise from their heads. They appear again after falling asleep a second time after Starfire's failed attempt to convince them that Mae Eye's an evil witch.
29	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Mother Mae Eye's pink and white polka-dotted bloomers are visible twice; once when she is startled by the tower's alarm and once when she is fighting the Hive. Her true form's white and black polka-dotted bloomers are briefly seen as she is being resealed into her pie.
30	* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Said verbatim by Mother Mae-Eye chasing the Titans.
31	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Robin uses hair gel to style his hair into its usual spiky shape. Mother Mae-Eye sees this and believes he was trying to “tame his unruly hair”. She then uses a comb to restyle his hair into Golden Age Dick Grayson’s hairstyle.
32	* ContinuityNod: The flashback where Cyborg first bought the cursed pie housing Mother Mae-Eye from a gypsy have a few references towards previous episodes. Notably a cut-out of the "Wicked Scary" monster, a poster of the Tidwell 3000 scooter, Control Freak's remote, and a still-depowered Puppet King.
33	* CrapsaccharineWorld: Mother Mae-Eye's world is a SugarBowl that hides the fact that she uses her magic to entrance her victims and make them suggestible to the point of allowing her to turn them into pies.
34	* CurbStompBattle:
35	** The Titans take a beating from the H.I.V.E. Five, due to being put at a disadvantage by Mother Mae-Eye putting them in restricting outfits and replacing Robin’s gadgets with baby items.
36	** Mother Mae-Eye then shows up and quickly beats the crap out of the H.I.V.E. Five with her purse.
37	* CurseCutShort:
38	-->'''Robin''': Let us go, you crazy---\
39	'''Mother Mae-Eye''': Sorry, dear. You didn't say "Mother Mae-Eye"!
40	* CuteOversizedSleeves: Starfire’s giant sweater has these.
41	* DefeatByModesty: See-More distracts Starfire by mentioning he’s looking through her outfit with his X-ray vision, then attacking her while she uses her arms to cover herself.
42	* EmbarrassingPyjamas: Beast Boy is forced to wear a pink bunny pajama onesie by Mae Eye after she places him and the other Titans under mind control. This is no ordinary pajama suit; Mae Eye made it so he "didn't have to turn into all those ugly animals" since he would already look like an animal. When he tries to change anyway, he finds that the suit is so tight that it keeps him from transforming. Not even his T-Rex form could break the suit.
43	* EmotionEater: Mother Mae-Eye stays alive by feeding on other people’s love for her, using her magic pies to brainwash people into thinking she’s their mother and then taking care of them so that they’ll love her.
44	* EndOfEpisodeSilliness: Taken seriously, the Titans dumping Mother Mae-Eye on the H.I.V.E. Five is [[OutOfCharacterMoment uncharacteristically cruel and irresponsible]], as she would eventually try to ''kill'' them, and could well move on to someone else. As is, it's played as a slightly mean-spirited prank, and nothing comes of it.
45	* EvilLaugh: Mother Mae-Eye laughs with a loud, evil cackle like a stereotypical witch. She does this three times throughout the episode.
46	* EvilMatriarch: Mother Mae-Eye ''could'' be seen as one.
47	* EvilVsEvil: When Mother Mae-Eye sees the H.I.V.E. Five attacking the Titans, who she plans on eating, she beats up the other villains and sends them running.
48	* EvilerThanThou: Mother Mae-Eye easily defeats the H.I.V.E. Five in battle, and by the end of the episode, she’s put them under mind control and plans on making them her next meal.
49	* {{Expy}}: Mother Mae-Eye's matron-like tendencies towards the Titans while engaging in evil acts gives her something of a similarity to Granny Goodness.
50	* TheFaceOfTheSun: After Mae Eye alters the tower and island, a grinning sun with a face on it and teeth takes presence over the island.
51	* FlyingCar: With her magic, Mother Mae-Eye makes the T-Car fly on a sparkly, pink, magical cloud.
52	* FoodSlap: Shortly after the Titans - all of them - broke free from Mother Mae-Eye's control, one of the first things Robin did when she tries re-feeding them her pie is to knock a slice of pie back into her face. One that's presumably still hot, since it's freshly-baked...
53	--> '''Mother Mae-Eye''': [[EyeScream Ow, my eyes]]!
54	* ForceFeeding: When Starfire tries to break everyone out of the mind control, Mother Mae-Eye straps her to a chair to force feed her pies to get her back under her control. Luckily, Starfire's alien digestive system means it doesn't take.
55	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Even before missing her pie when Mae Eye tried to give each of the five Titans a pie in the operations room after they questioned her forbidding them to fight crime and later getting hit on the head, Starfire is shown to be more resistant to the mind control than the others; when Mae Eye is cleaning Starfire's nose, her eyes are their normal green instead of pink, and she is clearly much more confused about what is going on and Mother Mae-Eye has to feed her another spoonful of pie to get her eyes to turn pink. It's then revealed later in the episode that she has nine stomachs—a digestive system that complex would mean she'd need to eat a lot more pies before they'd be fully effective the way they are on her teammates.
56	* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
57	** When the H.I.V.E. Five is terrorizing the mall, a guy can be seen riding down an escalator. He then sees the villains and jumps over to the upwards escalator.
58	** When Robin is smiling at Mammoth, Beast Boy (still in his pink bunny suit) can be seen behind him, getting chased by Gizmo and fleeing by hopping like a bunny.
59	** When Mother Mae-Eye slowly drives the Titans back home, with the T-Car floating on a magical, sparkly, pink cloud, a couple of men fishing in a boat see it and do a JawDrop.
60	* GelatinousEncasement: While fighting the Titans, Mother Mae-Eye zaps Beast Boy with her magical wooden spoon and traps him in giant green gelatin.
61	* GiantFood: Aside from turning Titans Tower into a giant gingerbread house, Mother Mae-Eye also fills the tower with gigantic pies.
62	* GingerbreadHouse: Shortly after brainwashing the Titans, Mother Mae-Eye states that she dislikes their “drab, dreary tower” and magically transforms Titans Tower into a giant T-shaped gingerbread house. When Starfire gets Mae-Eye’s magic wooden spoon, she turns the tower back to normal.
63	* GirlishPigtails: Raven gets her hair tied into two braided pigtails tied with yellow bows. These are pulled so tight that they stick straight out of the sides of her head.
64	* GlamourFailure: Starfire is able to see through Mother Mae-Eye's magic when she gets hit on the head.
65	* HandbagOfHurt: Mother Mae-Eye defeats the H.I.V.E. Five by giving each of them a whack with her purse.
66	* HereWeGoAgain: This happens once the Titans drop off one of Mother Mae-Eye's pies to the Hive Five HQ, with the Hive Five about to go through the same thing the Titans went through.
67	* HumiliationConga: Mother Mae-Eye forces the Titans to wear ridiculous, childish outfits to a battle with the H.I.V.E Five, which leads to the villains laughing at them and making fun of them. Then, due to the childish outfits getting in their way, the Titans get their butts kicked in the fight.
68	* IdiotBall:
69	** Cyborg being fooled by Mother Mae-Eye’s PaperThinDisguise, buying one of her enchanted pies, eating it, and sharing it with his teammates.
70	** Gizmo falling for the ShmuckBait mentioned below.
71	* ImAHumanitarian: Mother Mae-Eye’s end goal is to eat the Titans.
72	* InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation: The Titans sport large mindless smiles while under the effects of the titular villain's mind-controlling pie.
73	* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Cyborg says this word for word after explaining how he got the enchanted pie.
74	* JabbaTableManners: When the Hive Five eat the pie Mother Mae-Eye is trapped in, they quickly gobble it down and the boys all eat with their hands.
75	* JawDrop:
76	** Gizmo has an EPIC one when he spots the Teen Titans show up to face them in battle in such ridiculous clothes.
77	** Two fishermen on a boat do this when they see the T-Car slowly float by on a sparkly, pink, magical cloud.
78	* LaserGuidedKarma: The H.I.V.E. Five rob the mall, make fun of the Titans’ ridiculous outfits, and beat them up. Mother Mae-Eye then shows up and gives them a beatdown, and the episode ends with the Titans tricking the villains into eating the magic pie Mae-Eye is trapped in, putting them under her spell and freeing her to make them her next victims.
79	* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Cyborg buys the enchanted pie from one of these.
80	* LuminescentBlush:
81	** Starfire and Raven blush when the H.I.V.E. Five laugh at their ridiculous outfits.
82	** Starfire blushes again when See-More uses his x-ray vision to look through her outfit.
83	* MamaBear: Mother Mae-Eye acts as one when she sees The H.I.V.E. Five beating up the Titans.
84	* {{Manchild}}/{{Womanchild}}: One of the effects of eating Mother Mae-Eye’s magic pie is that it makes the Titans act like little kids, despite being teenagers.
85	* MindControl: Anyone who eats Mother Mae-Eye’s magic pie will be brainwashed into thinking she is their mother, see her as an old human woman, and act like a little kid.
86	* MindControlEyes: While under Mother Mae-Eye's control, the Titans and the Hive Five have pink eyes. Since Robin's eyes are covered by his mask, the eye patches turn pink. Jinx's eyes are already pink, so when she gets brainwashed at the end, they get ''even pinker''.
87	* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: A brief glimpse of Mother Mae-Eye's reflection in the bathroom mirror displays what she really looks like.
88	* MythologyGag: Mother Mae-Eye keeps restyling Robin's hair in the same style as Golden Age Dick Grayson.
89	* NeverGetsFat: Despite eating ''several'' pies in this episode, none of the Titans seem to put on any weight. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in Cyborg’s case, since his body is mostly metal, but it doesn’t explain how the rest of the Titans stayed skinny.
90	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mother Mae-Eye’s plan to infiltrate Titans Tower and brainwash the Titans was all made possible by Cyborg buying one of her magic pies from her and sharing it with his teammates.
91	* TheNicknamer: Mother Mae-Eye gives each of the Titans a cute, childish nickname.
92	** Robin’s nickname is Robby-Wobby.
93	** Cyborg’s nickname is Borgy-Bear.
94	** Beast Boy’s nickname is Beasty-Boo.
95	** Raven’s nickname is Ray-Ray.
96	** Starfire’s nickname is Twinkle-Star.
97	* NoEnding: The episode ends with Mother Mae-Eye brainwashing the Hive Five and scheming to make them her next victims. It’s not show what happens after that, but since all the members of the Hive Five appear in later episodes, it can be assumed that they somehow got freed from her mind control and defeated her or escaped from her.
98	* ObliviouslyEvil: When Starfire tells Mother Mae-Eye her evil plan will fail, Mae-Eye replies “What evil plans, sweetie? Everything Mother does, she does out of love.”
99	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Of course, there's [[MindManipulation a reason for that...]]
100	* OutdatedOutfit: Mother Mae-Eye puts Raven in a Shirley Temple dress.
101	* PaperThinDisguise: Mother Mae-Eye disguised herself as a gypsy woman to sell Cyborg one of her magic pies, but her disguise did nothing to hide her green skin, yellow eyes, warts, witch nose, or misshapen mouth, only hiding her third eye. Despite this, [[IdiotBall Cyborg doesn’t realize she’s a witch and buys a pie from her]].
102	* PayEvilUntoEvil: Robin decides the best thing to do with the Mother Mae-Eye pie is to give it to the H.I.V.E. Five.
103	* PlayingTheVictimCard: When the Titans break free of her mind control and fight her after she tries to cook them into a giant pie, Mother Mae-Eye has the gall to see herself as the victim, calling them “ungrateful little monsters” and ranting about how she treated them like her own children and slaved away to take care of them.
104	* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Mother Mae-Eye gives one before she wallops the Hive Five with her purse.
105	--> '''Beast Boy''': Uh, you think they’d let us call time-out?
106	--> '''Mother Mae-Eye''': These children deserve more than a time-out. They need a good, sound spanking!
107	* PretendToBeBrainwashed: After Starfire gets released from Mother Mae-Eye’s mind control, the witch tries to bring Starfire back under her control by force-feeding her the mind control pies, which seemed to have worked. Once Mother Mae-Eye leaves, Starfire quickly spits out the pies, muttering how she’s glad to have nine stomachs. Later, the whole team tricks her by smearing pie on their faces and pretending to be brainwashed.
108	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: After another Mae-Eye turns the Titans’ island into a SugarBowl, a few adorable, happy woodland creatures with giant eyes can be seen outside, such as a bunny, a squirrel, and a deer.
109	* RollingPinOfDoom: How Starfire managed to break the rest of the team out of Mother Mae-Eye's control.
110	--> '''Starfire''': [[ApologeticAttacker Forgive me]]. [''WHACK'']
111	* SafetyWorst: Before letting the Titans go out to fight the Hive Five, Mother Mae-Eye makes Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, and Starfire wear ridiculous protective clothing that hinders their ability to fight. She also replaces Robin's gadgets with baby rattles & pacifiers and makes Raven wear a frilly sundress.
112	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As mentioned above in “Funny Background Event” a random dude jumps from the escalator going down to the escalator going up when he sees the Hive Five are on the floor.
113	* ShmuckBait: When Beast Boy knocks on the door of the Hive Five’s lair and Gizmo answers and finds that someone has left a pie at their doorstep, he and his teammates stupidly take the bait and eat it, freeing Mother Mae-Eye from inside it and putting them under her hypnotic trance.
114	* ShoutOut: Mother Mae-Eye straps Starfire into a chair with a conveyor belt depositing pies into her mouth to force-feed her in an homage to the iconic force-feeding sequence from ''[[WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs1937 Pigs is Pigs]]''. Thankfully, Mother Mae-Eye isn't trying to fatten up Starfire, who also has nine stomachs to call upon that prevent her from getting stuffed.
115	* SizeShifter: After tucking the Titans in for bedtime, Mother Mae-Eye turns gigantic and stays that size until the Titans trap her in a pie.
116	* SlowerThanASnail: When Mother Mae-Eye is driving the Titans home, she drives so slow that they’re passed by a bunch of ducks swimming in the water below them.
117	* SoapPunishment: Mother Mae-Eye does it to Starfire after Starfire breaks her conditioning and attempts to tell the other Titans what Mother is really doing.
118	* SqueakyEyes:
119	** Raven does an audible blink after Mother Mae Eye puts her in a dress.
120	** Starfire also does an audible blink after first being freed from mind control.
121	* ThirdPersonPerson: Mother Mae-Eye often refers to herself as “Mother”.
122	* UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy: Mother Mae Eye forces Raven to wear a yellow Shirley Temple styled dress with a large white bow in the back and her hair tied into GirlishPigtails tied with matching yellow bows. Because Raven is being mind controlled, she raises no complaints and even ''giggles'' when Mae Eye puts her in it and proceeds to pinch her cheek while telling her she can still dress pretty. After the spell is broken, however, Raven is ''furious'' to find herself in a little girl's dress with her hair done up so girly, and uses her powers to change back to her usual look.
123	* VillainousRescue: Mother Mae-Eye fights off the H.I.V.E. Five before they can finish off the Titans.
124	* VisualPun: Beast Boy distracts the giant Mother Mae-Eye by turning into a bear and hugging her face. He’s giving her a literal bear hug.
125	* {{Wedgie}}: Mammoth gives one to Robin during their fight.
126	* WickedWitch: Mother Mae-Eye seems to be a supervillain parody of the one in ''Literature/HanselAndGretel''.
127	* XRayVision: [=See-More=] stares through Starfire’s outfit using his X-ray vision, causing her to cover up her private parts.

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