Mad Mod steals the youth from Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Robin, turning them into Raven's favorite type of people: salty codgers. Instead of helping the Titans get their youth back, Raven teaches them how cool old people are.
Plot
The episode starts in the middle of the street with some young children enjoying themselfs and starts to mocking old men like Mad Mod. And as revenge he uses his emerald cane after stealing the youth from the Titans to turn them into old people and the rest of children and teenagers, making him younger again. The Titans shows up to stop him but Raven seems to like pretty much old people as she kisses them and hugs them. After a wild chase to catch him, the Titans except for Raven gets stuck under a giant foot statue. Robin orders Raven to get the cane before Mad Mod reaches it but she kicks it back to him accidently on purpose allowing him to turn the Titans into old people and gets away, except for Raven who dodged the laser attack.
Meanwhile at the Tower , the old Titans arrive slowly and starts to think a plan about catching Mad Mod to make them younger again , but due to their olderness , they can't hear, see or feel properly as they used to. And Raven seems to enjoy pretty much with them since she claims that they aren't annoying anymore like they used to when they were young. And then again she makes them to understand how good and mature it is and with that part of it comes wisdom. After a very long senior fun time with old-men activities, Raven prefers to be like this forever , but not for long at a late night when the old Titans were about to sleep ,Beast Boy was in a aquarium in fish form and just kicked the bucket , making Raven to be terrified and decides to make their last moments even better with the remaining Titans.
Later night, in a storm weather , the old Titans had their last breath by olderness , as Raven drowned her sorrows in tears at their gravestones. While she was all alone in the Tower along with Cyborg's grandsons , she realizes that she misses her own friends. After last slight of tear on her eyes, she finally makes a decision by bringing the Titans back to life with a contact from Death himself. Her interdimensional journey towards Death's fortress was quite easy knowing that she's used with horrifying stuff, and when she finally reaches to Death, she sees him playing a game of pool and starts to sing after a little conversation with Raven. Since he is her own uncle , Death knows that Raven came on to bring his friends souls back but he only accepts that, if she trades her soul in exchange. The deal has been compromised when Raven ordered first her part of the deal and didn't gave him her soul because she doesnt have one for being half-demon, leading for Death to get tricked and curses her, allowing Raven to escape along with the Titans's souls.
Back at the Tower , when Raven arrives with the Titans's souls, she sees her friends being turned into zombies knowing that it was a part of Death's consequences. And suddenly she starts to love them even more than being just old people as she kisses and hugs them again.
This is the first appearance of Mad Mod, one of the Titan's adult enemies from the original series.
In the original series, Mad Mod is actually an elder and uses either illusions or his cane to turn himself younger and more energetic, but at the expense of his victims. This does not seem to be the case in this episode, as he is already young, but that could be he regained his stolen youth elsewhere.
Starfire is apparently extremely self conscious about her appearance, unlike her original series counterpart; not only does she react violently if anything bad happens to her hair (i.e. Legendary Sandwich, Nose Mouth), but also her face in this episode (and in Dude Relax).
It is shown Raven has a strange obsession over elderly people.
References
The gigantic foot that steps on Cyborg, Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy is a reference to that of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The boatsman in the underworld is a reference to the movie "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief".
Continuity
The elderly forms of the Titans-- except for Raven's by unknown reasons-- are first seen in Super Robin.
Errors
Continuity Error: Strangely, Raven didn't care so much for the elderly back in Hey Pizza! as she does in this episode. However, it could be because it's her friends who are old or that those in "Hey Pizza!" weren't salty codgers.
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