Teen Titans, Season 3, Episode 7: Revolution
It's interesting to go from the more serious Justice League with its more mature storytelling (which affords to be funny every now and then) to something as zany as Teen Titans that runs on rule of funny and rule of cool and throws the logic handbook out of the window if it suits a gag, but can deliver some powerful feelsy punches if it wants to. And there are several villains that are just created for the show that really wouldn't feel out of place if the Silver Age happened in the 2000's. Mumbo? Control Freak? Mad Mod? Mother Mae-Eye? Killer Moth? (Okay, Killer Moth was actually a canon DC villain, but still)
The Mad Mod episode on the first season was... nowhere as funny as the first one, mostly because it tried to tack in some patriotistic 'MURICAH FUCK HYEAH and pitting it against 'oh hello you jolly good chap would you like a spot of tea?' which... doesn't work all the time. Mostly because Mad Mod himself just doesn't really work this time around, with most of the funniest chuckles from this episode coming from Beast Boy instead. The British/American jokes aren't insulting, for sure -- you need to be the most bullheaded social justice champion to be offended by this episode -- but it's just... bad. A good portion of the jokes just fell flat, even the visual jokes that I got.
Also the sheer toughness of Mad Mod's tank robots just makes the action scenes seem dragged out for no reason, and so much of the action sequences are so... utterly repetitive. And yeah, it's meant to show how ineffective the team is with Robin turned into a geriatric old man, but still it's a bit much. And when you have a character that can transform to any animal ever, it's no excuse. The ending which is the silliest Wile E. Coyote style plan ever, kind of alleviates this but honestly not by much.
So yeah. It's by no means a bad episode -- I don't think any Teen Titans episode is outright unwatchable -- but it's definitely one you can skip.
The Mad Mod episode on the first season was... nowhere as funny as the first one, mostly because it tried to tack in some patriotistic 'MURICAH FUCK HYEAH and pitting it against 'oh hello you jolly good chap would you like a spot of tea?' which... doesn't work all the time. Mostly because Mad Mod himself just doesn't really work this time around, with most of the funniest chuckles from this episode coming from Beast Boy instead. The British/American jokes aren't insulting, for sure -- you need to be the most bullheaded social justice champion to be offended by this episode -- but it's just... bad. A good portion of the jokes just fell flat, even the visual jokes that I got.
Also the sheer toughness of Mad Mod's tank robots just makes the action scenes seem dragged out for no reason, and so much of the action sequences are so... utterly repetitive. And yeah, it's meant to show how ineffective the team is with Robin turned into a geriatric old man, but still it's a bit much. And when you have a character that can transform to any animal ever, it's no excuse. The ending which is the silliest Wile E. Coyote style plan ever, kind of alleviates this but honestly not by much.
So yeah. It's by no means a bad episode -- I don't think any Teen Titans episode is outright unwatchable -- but it's definitely one you can skip.
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