Teen Titans, Season 4, Episode 10: Mother Mae-Eye
It's a pretty zany episode that ends in a very, very dark note with the Teen Titans basically mailing the HIVE kids the cursed pie containing Mother Mae-Eye, dooming them to being brainwashed and eaten alive... which is absolutely the darkest, most sinister thing that the Titans ever does in the show, short of Cyborg accidentally eating the tofu alien a couple of episodes back. Mind you, though, this kind of black comedy is literally daily routine over in Teen Titans Go, the show's spiritual successor only in terms of character models and voice actors, and done in far more tasteless sense than this one.
Anyway, this is a bizarre episode. Mother Mae-Eye (ugh the pun) is this weird, deformed evil cartoon witch that does this sinister plot where she makes all the Titans think that she's their mommy, and we have a combination of Mother trying to fatten them up and acting oh-so-overprotective... which honestly got old after a while. This, on the other hand, is offset with some absolutely hilarious visual gags, as well as the fight scenes with the magical demonic gingerbread cookies.
I really think Mother Mae-Eye is a badly-written villain with a decent, wacky concept. The creepy mama vibes are suitably creepy at times, the weird bakery theme is hilarious... it's just that a combination of a horrible visual design, blah voice acting and a poorly scripted dialogue just makes her scenes a bore and I cheer when she leaves the scene and the Titans fight the gingerbread demons.
The HIVE trio also make a return in this episode, and this time they are the HIVE Five! Mammoth, Gizmo and Jinx are joined by two new buddies that make short cameos during the HIVE academy scenes in season three, the absolute yes-man Private-HIVE who's a Captain America knockoff... and See-More. Or Seymour. He's just this weird dude with a single eye that he can click around to use different eye powers. Eye beams, X-Ray vision (he saw Starfire naked, totally) and all that shit... I don't know why, but I really like See-More. I honestly really think that the HIVE trio (well, HIVE Five) should've been utilized more during the third season as Brother Blood's flunkies, but seasons four and five does try their best at spotlighting HIVE as a recurring villain.
That said, I really like See-More. Why couldn't he have had an entire episode all to his weird wacky eye powers? Certainly a lot more interesting than Mother Mae-Eye, who has my vote of most irritating Teen Titans villain ever.
DC Easter Eggs Corner:
- The Bottle City of Kandor, an important piece of Superman lore, has a short cameo during Cyborg's flashback to the gypsy shop.
- Robin's new hairstyle bears more than partial resemblance to how the second Robin (Tim Drake) wears his hair in The New Batman Adventures.
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