Ok, Teen Titans Go is not TV that is meant to be deep and thoughtful so attacking it for being shallow and stupid is unfair on some level.
The blame is not entirely theirs I could have switched it off after all. Anyway if you want to avoid a "spoiler" turn back and do not pass the squiggle. The choice is yours.
I feel compelled to write about this awful episode for some reason. It wasn't just bad on the level of bad story telling or poor writing. For what it is, it was it was actually mostly fine. So let me begin for those who have no idea what the cartoon network junior super hero show is about.
It is the story of five teenaged super heroes who have formed into a team who live and work together. The stories are as much about their interpersonal lives and relationships as about taking out bad-guys.
Today's episode was very much in alignment with this.
Among their number is Robin (as in Batman and Robin) and each of the other Titans today has borrowed Robin's fighting staff for some silly reason that is sure to bring a laugh and smile to our viewers. Oh look Cyborg is using it to press the buttons on a large screen TV across the room, Oh now that's a HOOT.
So all of them eventually come to covet the staff, so to see to it that the staff is shared BeastBoy snaps the metal staff into four separate sticks. Gasp, they have broken their friend and leader's important item!
Time for some gags in trying to fix it with some tape and how useless the broken staff is to Robin and in turn how useless he has become because of it, at fighting bad-guys.
Raven, the mystical character tells Robin that he should go on a quest to the "Universal Tree" to get himself a new staff so he does.
This quest will involve crossing great gaps and climbing even greater heights. To accomplish this he finds a branch sticking out of the side of a cliff and proceeds to use this simple branch as he would his old staff and quickly over comes all obstacles in his way.
(Thus proving to our young audience that it was never the staff that made Robin a hero, it was indeed Robin and his hard work that were what made him the man he is. Or not.)
Robin asks the tree for a new staff and the tree states that Robin already has his new staff. To which Robin bitches (only word to describe it) that its just a lame root that is soiled with bird poo.
Robin then begins to chop down the wise old talking tree with a hatchet even over the trees objections. When the hatchet fails to work quickly enough he finishes the job with a chainsaw.
Once the tree is felled he breaks off the still speaking and sentient branch that was the tree's nose. Telling it that he would take it and that it will enjoy the adventures the two of them will have.
Thus the branch is won over and comes along seemingly gladly. Meanwhile Robin is telling it how much he likes that as his new staff will actually speak it will be a great replacement to his old staff which he only imagined spoke.
Thus it would seem the two have become fast friends. Or not.
Upon returning home Raven announces she has magically repaired his old staff and upon seeing it he promptly throws his still sentient staff in to a garbage can filled with refuse.
The End.
What the hell is the take away from this, trees are infinitely disposable that loyalty and care are meaningless to any living thing you possess but have grown tired of? Would you want any child you know to learn from this? I don't know maybe I'm just being silly and children don't learn from this kind of stuff; they are too busy with social media.