Tired of 90's sitcom reruns and having already binged through more recent television shows, the Titans decide to go pitch their own animated cartoon. However, they have to make a deal with the Toymaster, as cartoons are the best way to market toys.
Tropes:
- Conspicuous Consumption: When the Titans get funding for their show from Toymaster, they end up spending all but twelve cents of it on luxury goods like fancy chairs and scooters, and end up having to animate their show themselves.
- Gilligan Cut: When the Titans finally get their show greenlit, Toymaster is rather dismissive, saying "It probably won't last more than a season." Cut immediately to a year later, and the show has been such a huge success that a glad-to-be-wrong Toymaster can afford to build his own army of action figures.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Toymaster manages to claim 100% of the show's profits and uses it to build an action figure army, claiming it's legal because the contract they signed means that he's the boss. Beast Boy then points out that their show is based on video games, and there's nothing a video game character loves to do more than beat the boss, leading to Toymaster getting pummeled by his own merchandise.
- Literal Metaphor: The Titans' "pitch" requires them to crumple up the paper their ideas are written on and pitch them at a stack of bottles to knock them over.
- Take That!: There are a few jabs made at modern media creation, such as claiming that cartoons based on video games (the idea that the Titans decided to pitch) is the most overpitched idea in Hollywood, and compares actually getting a show greenlit to spinning a wheel of chance.
