After a mishap, Cyborg gets plugged into the Titans Tower, causing him to go mad with power.
Plot
The episode starts off with Cyborg excited for a late night TV marathon. The rest of the Titans were going to watch it too, but they were all too tired. Cyborg then wakes them all up rudely, except for Robin, whom he draws a mustache on (and a smiley face on his tongue).
Cyborg then questions why they all can't stay up like he can. He flashes back to when that was also a problem when he was fixing up an old airplane early in the morning and accidentally crushed the other Titans with its engine. They point out that he is half robot, which allows him to have more energy because there's less of him to get tired. Then Beast Boy accidentally spits soda on Cyborg, causing him to malfunction and needing to clean his parts. The Titans offer to help him, even though Cyborg doesn't think they're competent enough with even basic technology (and therefore, not his advanced tech). Despite their efforts, they do terribly, as Starfire points out. They made Cyborg into a toilet with a bunch of extra, needed parts still lying around. Jokingly, they say he's fine and this toilet form is how they remember him looking. Unable to put him back together properly, the Titans plug Cyborg into the Tower. This gives Cyborg complete control and access to all of the Tower's systems. Even after Beast Boy spills soda on Cyborg again, everybody thinks this will be great.
The next day, all the Titans see how annoying Cyborg's complete access to the Tower becomes. He wakes Beast Boy up early, plays inappropriate meditation music for Raven's meditation, and creeps on Robin in the shower as well as sending him out of it by increasing the water pressure too much. It's not seen how he annoys Starfire, but it is assumed he did something annoying to her too. The Titans plan to unplug him, but Cyborg overhears this and attacks them with household appliances, having become extremely robotic. He attacks Raven with a vaccum cleaner, Beast Boy with a coffee maker, Starfire with a toaster, and Robin with a lamp. The Titans end up beating these appliances with some struggle. Cyborg then says he's willing to be unplugged, which throws the Titans off guard and allowing Cyborg to gas them all, knocking them out. When they awaken, they've all become the appliances they were attacked by, but they all seem happy about it.
Strangely, Silkie was not in this episode, despite the entire tower being affected be Cyborg.
Despite the other three Titans being transformed into appliances by Cyborg and his technology, Beast Boy is rather useless since he keeps spilling coffee all over himself.
When Cyborg was talking about how the Titans' flesh and blood were useless and he makes them hold the heavy thing, Starfire would easily have been able to lift it due to the fact that she has superstrength. Also, Beast Boy could have turned into a strong animal or Raven could have lifted it with her powers.
References
Cyborg saying he's "As Excited as the Pointer Sisters" is a reference to their hit song "I'm so Excited" which was also on Cyborg's "Pointer Sisters Mix"
The songs on Cyborg's "Pointer Sisters Mix" are
"Brian's Lament" by ULTRA Squad
"More Than a Woman" by Bee Gees
"Thermos Jam" by Casey's Hat Band
"I'm So Excited" by Pointer Sisters
"No, No" by Jelly Nex
"Bad Girls" by Donna Summer
"Nobody Got Time" by Socko
When Robin was in the shower, he was singing the original Teen Titans series theme song.
When Cyborg becomes more robotic, he becomes a lot like HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's even a part where HAL's viewcam appears.
HAL's view cam appears
Cyborg also stated "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that." which is a famous quote form HAL 9000.
Cyborg becoming more robotic may also be a reference to the original series episode Overdrive where he turned off all of his human functions and his voice became similarily roboitc.
Cyborg unleashing a gas that knocks out the Titans through a vent is a nod to the video game Portal, where GLaDoS kills everyone in Aperture Science excluding the protagonist through the ventilation of neurotoxin gas.
The Titans turning Cyborg into a toilet is similar to the original series episode Stranded where Beast Boy tried putting Cyborg back together and also turned him into things that he looks nothing like.
The ending is a twisted spoof, similar to the desires of Brother Blood from the originial Teen Titans show in the episode "Titans East Part Two". Brother Blood desires to transform the Titans into Cyborgs, Cyborg in Teen Titans Go decides to transform the Titans into appliances ran by him and the T-tower computer system.
The two VHS tapes have the names Cats Don't Dance and The Iron Giant, both Warner Bros. animated movies released during the 1990's.
When Cyborg was talking about how the VHS could record TV shows, it showed something that looked like Batman: The Animated Series from the early 90s.
Behind Cyborg at one point, you could see a Catwoman clock.
Cyborg mentions that he has all 6 seasons of Webster on VHS, meaning that the series must take place after all 6 seasons were released on VHS. He also mentions the episode, "Burn Out".
In the scene where cyborg knocked out the the other titans with neurotoxin gas this is the same way Gutrot deffted both past and future Dr Anmio in the Ben 10 Omniverse episode Anmio Craker.
The vacuum that Beast Boy was using looked and made noises very similar to the Star Wars character R2D2.
Continuity
In the episode, Beast Boy says that Cyborg got his powers from an accident that required him to replace several body parts, which was that actual canon story of how Cyborg is half robot, but in the episodeDog Hand, the flashback of Cyborg as a baby says he is half robot because his dad was a toaster. And also, Cyborg also did not get his powers when he was a baby.
When Cyborg woke Starfire up for the late night TV marathon by using a megaphone, her face was blown back by the intense sound. This is similar to Double Trouble, where the same thing happened to Starfire's face due to intense wind speed from 2 hairdryers.
This is the second episode where Robin is seen naked. (Laundry Day)
Beast Boy states that someday the Titans might have an accident causing them to lose some of their body parts. This happens to him in Season 2's Man Person".
Gallery
The gallery for this episode of Teen Titans Go! can be found here.
